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I look forward to a one or zero-star review from movie-wave.
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How have so many people seen this movie already... Oh, wait...
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This film looks terrible.
It is a real puzzler why director Duncan Jones would want to do such a movie, when he has done far better projects in the past. Paycheck I guess. But this one is headed for a bomb I would guess.
Duncan Jones has described himself in interviews as a big fan of the property, and although that's the sort of thing directors always say I suspect it might genuinely be the reason he took on the project.
Ridley Scott said in an interview that his first choice for director of BLADE RUNNER 2, someone who he thought was perfect for the film, turned it down. Pure speculation, but I have a feeling he was talking about Duncan Jones. Jones had definitely previously turned down what became MAN OF STEEL (more's the pity), because at the time he felt intimidated by and not ready to work on a project of that scale. So I can't imagine he's taken WARCRAFT on just for the paycheque. He must have thought he had something he could bring to the table.
Sadly though, as a massive fan of Jones's first two films, I'm rather saddened that everything I've seen of WARCRAFT so far leaves me completely cold. Hopefully there is more to it and it's just a case of bad marketing. I do wish that film about Ian Fleming's activities during WWII that Jones was attached to had worked out.
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I also think it's great. Can't wait to hear the whole album.
Actually, I like what I'm hearing as well.
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Jun 1, 2016 - 8:18 AM
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I for one have usually been with those who say "Don't judge a book by its cover", ie, movies on their trailers.
Having said that, I agree with those who say the Warcraft looks like Stalecraft, in that it just looks like a big bunch of big, bombastic CGI noise, based on the trailer. I do not play the game but I know enough about it and know several who do play it regularly. They are excited to see it come to screen but they too are even pessimistic about it being a good film. True enough, there are plenty of bad films that look fantastic based on their trailer, which is what trailers are supposed to do. As perhaps the evil Bolton Ramsay(Game of Thrones) would say, they want you to "come and see". But I have no desire to see this.
I took a peak at the reviews posted in Rottentomotoes, sure enough so far it's a dud and while it was interesting to read the positive reviews, including the Hollywood Reporter, leave it to the Irish to make me guffaw, summing it with:
"Imagine a film in which most of the antagonists wear buckets on their heads and you're halfway there."
That almost ranks up there with the Washington Post's film review quote of the century for "Battlefield Earth":
A million monkeys with a million crayons would be hard-pressed in a million years to create anything as cretinous as "Battlefield Earth."
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