Duncan Jones' Warcraft - Part 2

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I wasn't either.
You can be as reasonable to your utmost ability explaining the technical merits of anything to another, but art nevertheless resonates differently with different people and they'll perceive that technicality differently.
You just described like, which you said you weren't talking about. Using this idea, all art would endure. It doesn't. The vast majority fades.
 
Again, BvS has taught me a lesson. Don't care about reviews until you see the film yourself.

Precisely. It also taught me that those who hate it will hold anything (box office, reviews, etc.) as factual proof whereas film is mainly and mostly subjective. You have a lot of fans and critics hating it, then you have some fans and some professional critics loving it. More hated it, but the fact is that it divided people (fans, g.a., and professional critics at top respected trades) at mainly polar ends. One's opinion isn't fact, everyone's opinion is only subjective. I question more the narcissism in people who have to view their opinion as fact than than anything else, I mean what point do you psychologically need to be at to become that way? I absolutely hate Terminator Genisys for example, but I view that as just my opinion and won't go on rants against anyone who likes it stating my opinion is better than theirs because at the end of the day - it isn't, not even close and at the end of the day why should I care? Why would their subjective opinion threaten my subjective opinion so much to the degree that I need to act like the way I see things and that my opinions are facts? Everyone likes what they like, that's not threatening - to me that's diversity, and to me - that's cool. And to those who might want to stir up conflict by saying this view is my opinion - it is, it's how I view things - you don't and hey, you're more than welcome to that. I just disagree and question certain things, like why people need to see their "art" opinions as fact and come off acting threatened and start spouting off how "factual" their opinion is whenever somebody 'dares' to disagree with them.
 
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You just described like, which you said you weren't talking about. Using this idea, all art would endure. It doesn't. The vast majority fades.
There are other opinion-driven declarations outside of liking something.
Art is dependent on the people's perception.
No people's perception = no art to have meaning.
 
The only thing BvS taught me was to never get too defensive over a movie before you see it, no matter how excited you are for it.
 
The only thing BvS taught me was to never get too defensive over a movie before you see it, no matter how excited you are for it.
I agree 100%, that is one of the massive lessons that I learned from the BvS debacle.
 
There are other opinion-driven declarations outside of liking something.
Art is dependent on the people's perception.
No people's perception = no art to have meaning.
You like art, you don't like art. Come on now. Just because a director has the thought process of a teenage doesn't suddenly make their work modern art.
 
The only thing BvS taught me was to never get too defensive over a movie before you see it, no matter how excited you are for it.
I can't think of the movie that taught me that lesson. It was probably Superman Returns, even though I like it. Watching it get crushed by DMC was a nice reality check.
 
Thats the US embargo, but it's being released this week (from the 25th) in a lot of places
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0803096/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ov_inf


German mag Screen/Read says:
If there wasn't an embargo I'd tweet that @ManMadeMoon made a beautiful, moving, overwhelming film that you must urgently see. But embargo.
https://***********/screenread/status/734869437732540417

And the embargo is up in a couple of days for them.


Interestingly enough, it opens here next Monday and the only showing here is already sold out. It's a small town, but I don't think I've ever seen that for any film.
 
WARCRAFT Featurette - Anduin Lothar
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Lothar having a son is something you'd think they'd have mentioned in the trailers. It would have endeared him to the viewers and gave him a much clearer motivation. Instead they relegate that info to a featurette the general audience probably wont see.
 
One thing I dig in the trailers/tv spots is the magic. Just saw a tv spot during the playoff game, and it looks rather cool (I am a sucker for blue), and a lot like the games.
 
One thing I dig in the trailers/tv spots is the magic. Just saw a tv spot during the playoff game, and it looks rather cool (I am a sucker for blue), and a lot like the games.

Its a nice change of pace from the more minimalist magic in Jackson's LOTR films. The farthest he ever went was in the Gandalf/Sauron battle in DOS, but even it was just white light being berated by a black energetic fog. We havent seen this sort of vibrant large magic in a movie in god knows how long. Maybe never.
 
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Its a nice change of pace from the more minimalist magic in Jackson's LOTR films. The farthest he ever went was in the Gandalf/Sauron battle in DOS, but even it was just white light being berated by a black energetic fog. We havent seen this sort of vibrant large magic in a movie in god knows how long. Maybe never.
One of the things I always wanted in my Tolkien flicks.

Thinking about seeing this kind of stuff on the big screen, probably nothing since "Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix". That was the one that actually puts some magic on display.
 
I think the trick to finding a middle ground between Jackson's minimalist magic and Warcraft's magic would be to start thinking of sorcery as superpowers..when you think about it, that's kind of what we see the X-Men doing, from a visual perspective.

I'd like this to be successful enough that it opens the way to more theatrical displays of magic on the big screen.
 
One of the things I always wanted in my Tolkien flicks.

Thinking about seeing this kind of stuff on the big screen, probably nothing since "Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix". That was the one that actually puts some magic on display.

I was listening to Jackson's commentary of FOTR this past weekend (I like to revisit then occasionally) and during the scene when Gandalf and Saruman are throwing each other around Orthanc Jackson was saying how he doesnt like "showey" magic and thought it'd be much cooler if it was just two old guys that look like they are going to shatter and break a hip were just tossing each other around. And he mentioned how he eanted to emphasize Gandalf's old man qualities. I couldnt help but do a facepalm. Gandalf and Saruman arent old men. They are essentially angles that have takrn the form of old men but they are powerful and strong on a cosmic scale. If they had wanted to they could have obliterated orthanc during their fight. To just have them whipping their staffs around and acting like a couple of geezers knocking each other around with invisible energy always seemed like a big mistep and a poor representation of the characters and their true nature and power. That fight between them could have been so much more. It didnt need to be inssnely over the top, but it could have been much better.
 
I was listening to Jackson's commentary of FOTR this past weekend (I like to revisit then occasionally) and during the scene when Gandalf and Saruman are throwing each other around Orthanc Jackson was saying how he doesnt like "showey" magic and thought it'd be much cooler if it was just two old guys that look like they are going to shatter and break a hip were just tossing each other around. And he mentioned how he eanted to emphasize Gandalf's old man qualities. I couldnt help but do a facepalm. Gandalf and Saruman arent old men. They are essentially angles that have takrn the form of old men but they are powerful and strong on a cosmic scale. If they had wanted to they could have obliterated orthanc during their fight. To just have them whipping their staffs around and acting like a couple of geezers knocking each other around with invisible energy always seemed like a big mistep and a poor representation of the characters and their true nature and power. That fight between them could have been so much more. It didnt need to be inssnely over the top, but it could have been much better.
I love FotR, but that is the one scene in the film were I kind of roll my eyes and inappropriately laugh. It just looks so goofy most of the time.
 
lotr always felt more grounded fantasy compared to warcraft
And then they enter the Mines of Moria:

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Khadgar featurette via USA Today:

https://***********/usatodaylife/status/735100672861822978
 
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