Your sound card works perfectly... Hail to the King - by EvaUnit02
Koki on 23/7/2009 at 05:13
Weren't you the one giving Wall-E an Oscar the other day?
nicked on 23/7/2009 at 05:16
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I'd rather see this movie bomb so horribly Blizzard goes out of business.
Sadly they'd recoup Lord of the Rings' budget in just over a week from WoW subscriptions.
june gloom on 23/7/2009 at 05:29
Yes well, a man can dream, can't he?
Nameless Voice on 23/7/2009 at 08:48
Looks like a generic action film trailer with no shots of any actual length.
I don't see that the medium has much to do with how good or awful a film is - that has far more to do with the quality of the script (or lack thereof).
Martin Karne on 24/7/2009 at 19:18
Hail to the king baby!
That's no duke nukem movie, dammit.
Stitch on 25/7/2009 at 00:52
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
Looks like a generic action film trailer with no shots of any actual length.
I don't see that the medium has much to do with how good or awful a film is - that has far more to do with the quality of the script (or lack thereof).
And pacing, storytelling, directing, and cinematography. All of which Wall-E possessed in spades and that Final Fantasy pile of shit lacked.
As such, PERFEKT KOKI KOMMENT
Fafhrd on 25/7/2009 at 03:03
He's talking about the animators and modelers, not writers and directors. Final Fantasy's problem was that it was
written by Square who aren't exactly bastions of good storytelling in the medium that made them.
june gloom on 25/7/2009 at 04:00
I dunno, I liked FFs 6, 9 and 12. The stories aren't the problem (unless you're talking about 8, and 7 is a bit nurr), it's the jRPG gameplay.
Spirits Within's story sucked, though, I'll grant you that. I think people were expecting something related to one of the games, like FF7 or something.
Aerothorn on 25/7/2009 at 04:15
Yeah, and The Spirits Within is a literary masterpiece compared to Advent Children.
oudeis on 25/7/2009 at 05:04
Quote Posted by Blizzard
GameSpy: Warcraft will be a live-action film. Don't you feel like your in-house cinematic team could have made a great movie?
Chris Metzen: What I'd say is I'm one of the biggest fans of our cinematic department, and I love what they do and I love getting to work on that stuff too. But at the end of the day, for a movie,
we really want something that's going to capture the imagination of the world, and I think you need living, breathing actors, to some degree, to really bring out that accessibility and that emotion. So I'm really excited to see the live-action take shape. But I'm a huge fan of our animation, and who knows what we'll do with that down the line.
The highlight is mine so that I can draw your attention to the part I want to ridicule.
"Capture the imagination of the world"...
They've got to be kidding themselves. The background story for WoW couldn't be less imaginative if they'd tried. The parts that they didn't lift entire from the Warhammer world are feeble derivations of Christian, Greek, Egyptian, Lovecraftian, and Norse mythology, all mashed together with a hydraulic press. The 'stories' they post on their website to accompany major content pushes read like insipid fan fiction. Christ, they can't even keep their own fucking continuity straight.
As for using live actors... Well, LotR was a career boost to those who starred in it because it was very well done and made gigabucks. The reason they were able to do it so well was because it was a powerful, cohesive story rife with classic (classical?) themes of heroism, sacrifice, and destiny (although the film made a point of substituting choice for destiny), set in a world so deep, complex, and well-crafted that it felt real. Warcraft has none of these. Also, unlike the creatures of Middle-Earth, the non-human races of Azeroth look fucking stupid. What actress is going to want to put on the foot-long purple ears of the (
http://www.diii.net/gallery/data/609/medium/blizzcon-cosplay1.jpg) Night-Elves? I for one pity the poor bastard who signs up get himself smeared with avocado-green pancake makeup and don the inverted vampire prosthetics necessary to play the proud Orcs.
Ah, whatever. If they do it well it could be enjoyable. If it gets decent reviews I might even see it. I just don't think that either will happen.
(Maybe they can get Ron Perlman to play Thrall.)
