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Warcraft - Watch Thread I Rotten Tomatoes - 30% (Avg: 4.2/10) / Metacritic - 32
Posted on 5/24/16 at 7:26 pm
Posted on 5/24/16 at 7:26 pm
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - 30% (Avg: 4.2/10)
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - 79% (Avg: 4.1/5)
Metacritic - 32
Metacritic Audience - 8.5/10
IMDb - 7.5/10
Critic Consensus:
$422.1M Globally
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - 79% (Avg: 4.1/5)
Metacritic - 32
Metacritic Audience - 8.5/10
IMDb - 7.5/10
Critic Consensus:
quote:
Warcraft has visual thrills to spare, but they -- and director Duncan Jones' distinctive gifts -- are wasted on a sluggish and derivative adaptation of a bestselling game with little evident cinematic value.
$422.1M Globally
This post was edited on 7/4/16 at 8:12 pm
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Posted on 5/24/16 at 7:30 pm to CayceCock13
quote:
The final product brings to mind those animated advertisements for iPhone app games.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 7:37 pm to CayceCock13
I couldn't believe when I first saw the trailer for this. It looked like one big advertisement for World of Warcraft. Should be a massive flop
Posted on 5/24/16 at 7:40 pm to CayceCock13
I expect this to be the biggest bomb of the summer
Posted on 5/24/16 at 7:54 pm to CayceCock13
I expect it to be rated rotten. I don't care as long as it pulls in money. China should eat this up. If it hits 200m worldwide we should get a Lich King film, which is all I care about.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 8:05 pm to CayceCock13
I don't know shite about Warcraft but I love Duncan Jones. Moon is one of my favorite movies of all time.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 8:06 pm to CayceCock13
This movie looks like the Dungeons & Dragons film with a higher budget
Posted on 5/24/16 at 8:08 pm to CayceCock13
quote:
Alonso Duralde - TheWrap:
quote:
Imagine Battlefield Earth without the verve, or the unintentional comedy.
My god.
Battlefield earth was the worst film I've ever seen.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 8:19 pm to CayceCock13
quote:
The final product brings to mind those animated advertisements for iPhone app games.
This is why I couldn't be a critic. I felt this exact same way but didn't know how to articulate it (granted I have only seen the trailer).
Posted on 5/24/16 at 8:33 pm to CayceCock13
It doesn't look good at all to me, but I'm tempted to go see it.
Posted on 5/24/16 at 8:57 pm to CayceCock13
Posted on 5/24/16 at 9:55 pm to CayceCock13
The Warcraft 3 and world of Warcraft cinematically are the best in history. The music is some of the best in video game history. The lore is some of the best in video game history. I can already tell it won't live up to my expectations for it. But I'll go see it because I want it to do well so eventually we might see the stories done properly.
Posted on 5/25/16 at 12:01 am to CayceCock13
Couple Tweets that I saw from John Campea and Dennis Tzeng from Collider:
Will add more official reviews as they come, just added these because I respect both opinions and I've seen there names thrown around on this board as well.
quote:
@johncampea
I liked WARCRAFT. Gets a little silly in places, but for me personally, it took me to Azeroth and I just enjoyed my time there.
quote:
@ThinkHero
. @ThatGuyJayiii Both me and @johncampea enjoyed it and @KristianHarloff thought it was just ok #Warcraft
Will add more official reviews as they come, just added these because I respect both opinions and I've seen there names thrown around on this board as well.
This post was edited on 5/25/16 at 12:04 am
Posted on 5/25/16 at 7:42 am to CayceCock13
Looks like it will probably end up being rotten.. but I'm hoping it does well cause I'd love to see some other Blizzard games be made into movies..
Posted on 5/25/16 at 10:23 am to CayceCock13
Steve Rose - Guardian
quote:
Director Duncan Jones, a self-professed Warcraft fan, has clearly put a lot of love and care into fleshing out a story, but it's questionable whether it was ever really merited.
Posted on 5/25/16 at 1:17 pm to CayceCock13
More from the rotten review done by Steve Rose (Guardian):
This is why I cannot take these reviews seriously. I mean really, frick this guy for insinuating that there are racist undertones to fricking Warcraft.
quote:
The prospect of a predominantly white, European realm being invaded by foreign, primitive, darker skinned hordes (they are actually called the Horde) might set alarm bells ringing in our current climate of immigration anxiety. Is this a veiled Ukip broadcast? Or a pro-Trump one? Nobody suggests the orcs are there to steal Azeroth’s jobs or exploit its benefits system, thankfully, though they are intent on overrunning their adoptive country and sucking the souls out of all its living creatures.
This is why I cannot take these reviews seriously. I mean really, frick this guy for insinuating that there are racist undertones to fricking Warcraft.
Posted on 5/25/16 at 8:43 pm to CayceCock13
If it has Enhancement Shaman wielding a 2h mace with Rockbiter, I'm in.
Posted on 5/26/16 at 10:31 am to CayceCock13
This movie arrives in theaters 10 years too late. It really missed its window for when WoW was "hot."
Personally, I think they should have made the whole thing animated. Their cinematic openings for their games were usually incredible. They should have got those guys to make their film.
Personally, I think they should have made the whole thing animated. Their cinematic openings for their games were usually incredible. They should have got those guys to make their film.
Posted on 5/27/16 at 10:05 am to CayceCock13
A few more critics weighed in last night, the film's now down to 25% on the Tomatometer but did bump up a little bit yesterday on Metacritic up to 37.
Kevin Harley - Total Film
Jack Shepherd - Independent (UK)
Olly Richards - Empire Magazine
Appears that people who were/are fans of the game may enjoy as it seems fan responses have been fairly positive, critically won't be a success shamefully. Gotta wonder how it'll do towards the general audience now.
Kevin Harley - Total Film
quote:
Warcraft occasionally manages to feel both rushed and dull, impressively staged and disengaged. True, a few quips in the abyss help to alleviate the lumbering piece. But there aren't enough
Original Score: 3/5
Jack Shepherd - Independent (UK)
quote:
It feels like the fanboy within Duncan Jones got carried away with Azeroth's minute mythology, leading to a film filled with tonnes of references to the wider world but no real soul of its own.
Original Score: 2/5
Olly Richards - Empire Magazine
quote:
At once empty and impenetrable, this brings to mind a mix of John Carter and Dungeons And Dragons, regrettably in both themes and level of enjoyment.
Original Score: 2/5
Appears that people who were/are fans of the game may enjoy as it seems fan responses have been fairly positive, critically won't be a success shamefully. Gotta wonder how it'll do towards the general audience now.
This post was edited on 5/27/16 at 10:09 am
Posted on 5/27/16 at 10:09 am to CayceCock13
I'm really wondering how this plays in the Asian markets. WoW was extremely popular, and while Starcraft was more popular, the WC love was huge. It COULD kill it in Korea/China/Japan.
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