And a Big Love Rocket.
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Well, there it is. Itās tax season time.
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I never watched it. I choose not to cringe in embarrassment until Iām pacing back and forth behind my couch or outright leaving the room in an attempt to avoid my issues with something that was obviously going to be difficult to watch.
If weāre being totally fair, thatās a bar that you can step over due to how low it is.
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It actually had a decent cast, butā¦
You could literally tunnel over it.
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Bar was so low, it found the center of the earth.
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Miss.
They shouldāve started with Arthas as to not mess with the lores continuity.
But thatās Hollywood. They donāt care about source material only what they can bastardise it into.
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The experience was fun, but everything about the film was average at best. I think they picked the wrong story to start with. With the story they chose, they ended up changing key points for seemingly no reason. Aside from Travis Fimmel, every character was completely forgettable. CGI was just ok, though I think collectively, people feel the orcs were done well. I thought the LOTR orcs 15 years earlier were much better.
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My personal opinion was that the film had the wrong characters. I never played Warcraft. I came in, like MOST players now, to World of Warcraft. Sure I had heard about these legacy characters, but those were the old school guard. Currently we had the boy king, Jaina, Thrall, etcā¦
They put this movie out to the masses, but the target audience was super small because they basically made a PREQUEL to the movie they should have made. Arthas would have been good, but hell, even Jainaās story with a bunch of frozen murlocks along the way would have resonated more with the players.
Just my thoughts on why the movie could have done better. Should have used more recognizable , current (at the time) characters imo. That, and a better story and less bad CGI.
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A few of the comments Iām seeing saying the story would have been better as a series, and I really have to agree, trying to tell the whole of the first war including the lead up AND having it show both the Human and Orcish side, it was just too much for one film.
I feel (an animated) series would have given them the room and allowed the characters to develop a bit. Plus I think an animated series has the advantage of having the characters LOOK like they should.
Lothar for example, Travis Fimmel looked nothing like Lord Lothar!
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If they wanted to go all-in on the faction war theme, I think they missed an opportunity to do something wildly experimental and make two versions of the moves, one from the pure orc perspective, one from the pure human perspective and release the two versions at the same time.
The movie they made was a solid B movie, but in tone it ended up a lot closer to the Dungeons and Dragons movie than Lord of the Rings. I enjoyed it and I came out thinking āwouldnāt it be nice to see and explore some of these larger, deeper cities and zonesā.
I find it fascinating how it was such a huge hit in China and such a flop in NA.
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I never saw it. To be fair, 8 bit Zeldas are my favorite video games ever, but you would never catch me watching a Zelda show or movie. I play the games I play for a lot of reasons, none of which are generally speaking that I find the ideas therein worthy of that sort of treatment.
Fun game? Yes. So worldbuildingly compelling I can stand to watch a story passively in the same world? Heck no.
But Iām not one for movies or TV in general. I mourn that I can no longer say I donāt stare at screens at all, because I do, but my attention span is so wrecked something like a 10 minute video on youtube is about the most I can take at once. Iāve never been diagnosed with ADD but if a video doesnāt get straight to the point and wastes my time for even 30 seconds I will not hesitate to back out of it and find something more instantaneous.
I havenāt sat through an episode of even shows and movies I used to like in literal years, canāt do it. I blame medicine, and not the kind you think, the kind that rounds all your edges until youāre a useless blob of nothingness. But at least Iām not quite as mad and depressed, amirite?
My biggest problem is they were afraid to have an old man as a protagonist you know lothar is an old veteran
and kept going.
That honor belongs to āThe Last Airbenderā 
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At least the story wasnāt as cringe as the last of us part 2.
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Dragonball.
Hmmm. Still have the flamethrower ready for that one.
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It was very āmehā for me, but it was fun to watch as a fan of the Warcraft universe and thatās about all I was expecting of it.
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It was better than it has been criticized for, but it wasnāt a great retelling of Warcraft 1. Iād be more fair than most though and give it a 7/10, which is pretty solid, especially for a movie based on a video game.
It was better than Sonic the Hedgehog, but people feel obliged to give Sonic more credit and acclaim than itās really due because of the edits they made to the model, which kinda feels like it was a bait and switch tactic to achieve just that in hindsight.
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