It's going to be panned on Internet rating sites no matter what. Too many people with axes to grind. They'll swoop in and vote it down regardless of whether it is good or bad.
“Nostalgia was like a disease, one that crept in and stole the colour from the world and the time you lived in. Made for bitter people. Dangerous people, when they wanted back what never was.” -- Steven Erikson, The Crippled God
and thats /thread
just look around mmo-c you can find 100's of people willing to bad mouth blizzard, hell even i do it any time you mention elemental shaman i'll tell you blizzard are the most useless cunts on the planet.
but some people literally hand around these forums to make thousands of whine at blizzard posts, no matter what blizzard do it's bad, it's like blizzard raped and killed their family, they can't wait to slam legion, and this movie even if it came with free blowjobs and a new car.
The thing interesting about the movie is it doesn't matter what the critics say, millions upon millions of people will still go see it! I mean let's think realistically here. You have a massive Warcraft fan-base that will go see it just to see how it turned out. I don't really have an opinion on it yet, but I would be surprised if the movie doesn't do well, even if it was rated a 1/10 by everything everywhere. I don't think they would be able to successfully do a second movie if this was the case, but yeah.
I had a read through a couple of the current reviews out of curiosity. One of them was terrible and didn't make any points other than "it was bad", but the Variety review seemed very articulate in underlining the biggest problem that's always existed with Warcraft as a franchise, and seems like it's made its way over into the movie as well:
If there was anything I'd point at as a big potential problem with a Warcraft movie, it would be this. Warcraft's goofy. If you play it completely straight and sincere, especially when you're doing it in live action, there's going to be a disconnect between the story and its tone for a lot of people.And that goes to the root of the problems with “Warcraft”: it’s an unwaveringly earnest film that never owns up to exactly how campy every character, every conflict and every new realm truly is.
9/10 on IMDb with 2k+ raitings with mostly positive reviews. People just love to hate.
Interesting looking at the spread on IMDB
80% or so voted 10/10
8% voted 9/10
5% voted 1/10
I'm thinking this wave of voters/viewers are largely fans of the warcraft franchise to begin with and want to see it do well
FUCK!
Damn, I had decent expectations, but the more I hear, the worse it seems it is. People are saying it's really no better than the first Resident Evil movie...
If Warcraft can't break the video game movie curse... I don't think anyone can...
Fingers crossed for Assassin's Creed.
Man this thread got all the cast, production staff, and investors out of bed tonight. Impressive!
There's a lot of movies I've really enjoyed which were rated poorly on Rotten Tomatoes. I wouldn't look into it. The same thing on the contrary.
Your avatar is hypnotic...cannot..stop...staring