Why So Blu?

Moon is his only good movie. Source Code is mediocre.

Hokeyboy

Moon is great. Source Code is still very good. Warcraft might end up being his Dune.

Reminds me of another talented young director. Remember that upward trajectory Alejandro Amenabar was on in the late 90s/early 00s, and then he sort of imploded? A shame. What a talent.

Why So Blu?

The Others was fantastic but a complete and uncredited rip-off of The innocents. I thought his most recent film: Regression was ok.

Jones seems to be a one-trick pony.

Osiris3657

Source Code and Moon are the only movies he's made outside of Warcraft, so calling Moon his "only" good movie doesn't mean anything. Your statement makes it sound like he's made more movies.

Also, your opinion seems to be the minority one regarding Source Code.

E Unit

Yeah, I liked both Moon and Source Code. That aside, this may be good, but it's still going to tank. I think most would rather go watch Cap'n 'Merica again than to see this. I hope this does decent, only to keep Duncan Jones' career moving forward.

Why So Blu?

That's fine. I don't subscribe to RT's viewpoint. Source Code is not a good film. Moon is great. Warcraft looks to be garbage.

Osiris3657

It's not RT's viewpoint, it's the audience's viewpoint. RT does not make up a grade based on it's own opinion about a movie. It simply gathers reviews.

lopper

This looked like shit from the get-go, but some recent footage at least looked a little promising, and Jones seemed very confident in the final product being better than the marketing would lead you to believe. Too bad that apparently isn't the case.

Buuut...for every decent bit of footage, there were just as many shots of Paula Patton's fucking stupid looking character to piss away any goodwill previously generated towards the movie.

RichC2

"A flawed but likable adventure that I would happily go on again, preferably as a double feature with The Beastmaster, Legend or Ladyhawke." William Bibbiani
CraveOnline

Seems like something I could watch.

Sorraffy

Facebook is always fun. These people are jumping on these negative reviews because apparently you're suppose to do some homework and learn everything there is to know about the Warcraft universe before seeing the movie and writing your review

one such person:

DaveyJoe

It makes sense that WoW fans would be more into the movie. I played for 10 years and I'm looking forward to it. I don't know what's up with critics this year, but it's an absolutely dismal year for tentpole films that aren't made by Marvel.

d2cheer

I am surprised that Universal didn't learn their lesson after Battleship. That Fast and Furious money must go to their head.

islandclaws

IIRC, Uni acquired this film after striking a deal with Legendary, so the project didn't originate with them. I believe their losses can be mitigated as a result. Internal studio docs (leaked?) showed that Uni considered this to be an "problem" film that was expected to perform poorly.

dex14

Review: ‘Warcraft’ Is The ‘Battlefield Earth’ Of The 21st Century: http://www.indiewire.com/2016/06/war...es-1201683601/

RichC2

Ugh, I want to punch that guy in the head. Not for relating this to Battlefield Earth, I just really hate his writing style.

Jaymole

Currently 22% on RT which is not in the least surprising. I cannot tell the difference between the commercials for this film and the commercials for video games.

inri222

Who cares about the quality, what's important is that the Blu will give my entertainment system a workout.

Why So Blu?

EddieMoney

Indeed. The movie was awful. I'd give it a 1/10.

Blu preordered.

james2025a

100% on point. That guys writing is aggravating to say the least. He is trying to be clever and comes off as pompous. His word choice makes reading actually hurt the eyes and brain. Just horrible. And whilst he might think it was ill advised i don't think so. Sure ill conceived, but i think the lore behind this video game series and characters in the hands of a good writer could have come up with a solidly entertaining movie. So i don't think it was a huge risk for them to take, as long as they got the story right.....which they obviously did not.

Sounds like a terrible movie in any case.

GoldenJCJ

There have been a few ads I've seen recently that literally look as if they were filmed in someone's backyard with a LARPer running around in a cheap looking suit of armor.

I think the marketing department ran out of money.

dex14

Damn... all the major theatres by are running this very limitedly. Some with just two regular showings and two 3D showings. I guess this is really being set up to bomb. Not that it would've done well either way...

Currently 18% on RT: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/warcraft/

Obi-Wanma

Are those numbers for regular weekend days or Thursday night?

dex14

Weekend.

Krayzie

Tmobile gave their customers free tickets for this movie yesterday. I am still not sure this is worth seeing.