Warcraft will be panned by critics, and mostly rightly so.
But it will make its millions by its fans.
In other words, its the Twilight Saga all over again.
That's right, I just said Warcraft = Twilight
Warcraft will be panned by critics, and mostly rightly so.
But it will make its millions by its fans.
In other words, its the Twilight Saga all over again.
That's right, I just said Warcraft = Twilight
It could have something to do with the summer release, which wasn't planned from the start.
I think you're blowing the issue out of proportion. Those mentioning the lenght issue or the half-assed character development are those who at least appareciated something of the movie or acknowledged it to be somewhat good at least. The people who shitted on this would have found reasons to shit on this anyway. Longer movie? They would have complained about the long, stagnant sequences indulging in characters not relevant to the plot and so on. I don't mean that it wasn't going to be a better movie in its full version, but I don't think is going to affect the box office. This was a tough sell anyway. We just have to accept it.
I know the "art" critics use because I'm able to use it myself, I just don't like doing it. A "good" critic knows how to turn gold into shit and shit into gold. All it requires is good and "smart" writing. In the end what matters is the mindset with which they decide to review a product. That is what will mostly determine what kind of review you'll see, more than any other reason attached to the actual quality of the movie.
This said, is still probable that a longer version would have benefitted the movie in some way. Not necessarily for the most "general" of the audience (which is probably why such cuts were made) but for those who complained about character development. Fact is, the movie does a lot world building and good chunk of that development got cut. Those complaining about that would hardly do that right now with an extended version (which still doesn't mean that I necessarily think than an extended version was a must, I think they truly wanted to sell Warcraft as summer blockbuster through and through, short and enjoyable).
Did the critics already destroyed the movie?
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Yeah me too. I knew Stormwind wasn't going to burn going in but having no repercussions for Gul'dan and letting him live, and ending the movie at a really awkward time? What became of the orcs that remained? Where did they go? What's Gul'dan going to do now? It's kind of abrupt
If anyone is interested or have a BBC channel in your country, Dominic Cooper is on the Graham Norton Show.
For one, CG characters that are already done don't really cost much to use for a bit more.
And then there's the fact that we know some of the parts were cut just a couple months ago, which means most post-production was already done.
They even made trolls, who didn't make the final cut. We don't know at what point of their development they were cut, but at the very least they had basic models for the mo-cap actors to see while they performed. That's literally wasted money if they don't make any sequels where they can use them.
I don't think budget was the main reason behind these cuts. I think the studio has never had much faith in the film, as evidenced by the terrible marketing team they hired, so they tried to make it as action-focused as they could, and that implied cutting the "boring dialogs" that now the film apparently lacks.
And yeah, we can't be sure most of those scenes were character-building, but if Jones' two previous films are anything to go by, they probably were.
Well. It seems that videogames movies have no way to result good
Better luck next time.
I just came back from seeing this movie and I am so happy to say that I totally loved it! It was great! What annoys me though is that in the end, and this is not a spoiler (if you think it is you are an idiot), they yell "For the Alliance!". Having loved 96% of the movie, it annoys me that the very last thing they do is pull some popular crap like that leaving me twisting from the wonderful feeling of excitement for what could come next, to grudgingly telling my company "but the Alliance hasn't been formed yet!". It's not that it was a big deal. It's not even that I play Horde, hehe. It's that it was completely unnecessary to throw it in there! It was only because it's a popular chant, but it shouldn't be there. So unnecessary. But hey. If this is my review, and that's what I complain about... then you can trust this movie was pretty fuckin' awesome (in this random Internet-forum-poster's opinion anyways). What's more, though, is that this is really the kind of movie you want to go see on the cinema. The special effects. Wow. And I'm not talking about the game. I mean.. wow!
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You're right , i worded that badly. What i meant was we haven't seen all of the missing footage and we don't know how they play out in context or if it actually contributed to building the characters in a meaningful way.
Although i might have to eat my words here, i'm looking through the movie novelization previews again and if they are any indication of the missing scenes i'm sure it would have helped.
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. The less effort they put, the more likely it is to fail, justifying the lack of effort.
The sad part is that some people tried, and they gave it all. I'll respect Duncan Jones, Toby Kebbell, Rob Kazinsky, Paula Patton, Ben Foster and ILM a lot after this, no matter how the movie ends up doing.
I think it probably is your job as director to know such things. It is hard to imagine Duncan made a 4.5 hr movie and it was chopped down to 2. All movies get edited. If director cut only adds 30-40 mins to length, Duncan wasn't aiming for much in first place. If LOTR is any proof, Director cut really doesn't enhance movie that much. You shouldn't rely on director's cut to save a mediocre movie. It should have been average with cuts.