why does the article say warcrafts home is china...and implies the game is only popular in germany and france
why does the article say warcrafts home is china...and implies the game is only popular in germany and france
Well, the movie was bad, the only way you could enjoy it was if you are already a fan and know the story.
People in the US put so much credence into what critics say that this movie didn't stand a chance. "Worst movie of the year" was thrown around in pretty much every review that I read. This coming from critics comparing the film's story to Donald Trump and current racial tensions. It definitely did not deserve the ratings that it received, and it never had a chance because of it. The film was NOT that bad. Not even close.
TLDR: fuck critics
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It seemed to me that marketing for the movie basically vanished. In addition, its theatrical release seemed extremely protracted and sporadic.
Whoever was in charge of marketing and distribution seems to have fucked up royally.
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Bluray and DVDs are over priced too honestly. I bought deqdpool on the spot cause it was 12 bucks. If it was 19.99, I would have waited. It's weird how prices for everything goes up, but wages stay stagnant while inflation rises. Then people wonder why folks are frugal.
But yes, I see movies rarely and I get a discount most times. 7 bucks is what I am used to as a teenager in the 90s and early 2000s. No fucking way I am gonna spend 17 bucks and get all 3D glamorous for anything less that Star Wars/Jurassic world level films.
A few bubbles need to burst quick cause these prices are getting stupid. And theaters are still botching about how itsbhatdbto turn a profit. Someone is clearly sucking up all the cash, but who?
They wanted to make at least some profit on foreign markets, where people would watch any crap if it is American (tm) and there is something flashy, noisy and blowing up. Also, half of the foreign audience would see the dubbed version, and the other half wouldn't know English and won't judge the abysmal acting. To release it first overseas was a very sound decision.
Surprising it was so popular in China considering that's where blizzard claims they lost the most subscriptions over these last few years.
Even then, only the last 45 minutes or so really gripped me at all. Even knowing the story and characters, nothing really pulled me in and gave me a reason to be emotionally vested in anyone. The bit near the end with Garona was about it, but that should have been a highlight rather than a starting point for caring.
That money gets distributed to all of the groups that had their hands in the cookie jar, so to speak. After everyone else gets their pieces of the pie, you're left with the figures stated in the article...a slight loss.
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You should read the article then. You can see now why it did so amazing in that market, since that country had a lot put into it and now even owns the production company that made the movie in the first place.
I had no idea how it did that great in China until I saw this. Now it makes sense.
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To be fair, my GF forced me to go see it, even tho she thinks wow is a waste of time, she ended up loving it, I think the movie was far better than what I expected and for me the imdb rating seems to be on the mark.
And alot of movies start without a 10 hour presentation of what happened in the past, star wars is a good example, I'm sure you were able to follow the star wars movies very well without reading all the books.
Pretty much. The sheer volume of people who said that it was a WoW game demonstrates how poor their research or even basic knowledge in the area went.
Ultimately, it was a decent movie, by no means epic or groundbreaking but serviceable in the end, and they've given far fairer reviews for far worse movies. And that has a massive impact when so many movie theaters decide they can't take a financial risk. It's pretty damaging for a theater to have empty seats at a big movie during prime time, and poor critic reviews play into that.
Why are people so obsessed with proving it was a failure? It was an ok movie about a specific game. It had a specific audience. They will sell a lot of DVDs to that same audience in the end. I don't think anyone ever thought it was going to be some earth shattering game, including those who made it.
There was a concerted effort in the American movie media to make this film a financial failure and to instill in the minds of potential movie goers that this film wasn't worth their money to see. I don't believe any of these reports.
Shit movie, it made Marios Bros. look like Citizen Kane. Time for you kids to stop living in denial and accept you have horrible tastes
Wait what...? planet is doing what?, something invades someplace...ugh brain is exploding...so complex!!!
Sorry. All (poorly constructed) sarcasm aside, I went to watch the movie with some kids who never played any of the Warcraft games and none of them had trouble following the movie. There was what, 1-2 twists that were pretty straight forward. It's not hard to figure out why the one side is attacking. it's not hard to figure out why the other side is defending and fighting back.
I dunno, this seemed like a very easy movie to follow. I'm astounded by the people who said they couldn't follow it. Feels like they are saying, "me not good at movies", like them not being able to follow the movie is somehow the movie's fault.
It was not OK movie, it was a mediocre one. It didn't show anything fantastic being a fantasy movie; it did not have immersive action being an action movie; it had awful dialogs and wooden acting; and as hard it is to mess up the war story, but it had managed to do exactly that. That shit was not a Warcraft movie I wanted to see, and millions of other players agree with me.
I know WoW fans really wanted this to be a commercial success. I'm sorry it wasn't.
As others have pointed out it wasn't a terrible movie, it was just a mediocre one.
If it makes you feel any better I have a feeling the movie I have been waiting to be made since forever, The Dark Tower, scheduled to be released in 2017 is going to fall into the same boat.
Series like Warcraft and The Dark Tower just simply can't be done right in a movie format, they need to be released in the same fashion as HBO shows, like GoT.
Can you imagine if GoT was released as a movie? It would be terrible.
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