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binary solo said:
Ultr said:

As the movie itself was funded partly by chinese studios and one of the studios own 1/4 of all the cinemas in China. Does this still apply?

I imagine this makes the break even a lot lower than what it would otherwise be. Probably puts the China returns back at 50% of gross.

I've just seen the Angry Joe review, who was the second video game fan movie reviewer I was looking at as an indicator for the movie. And I'm now conflicted. He didn't outright say the movie was good, as he said there were problems with it, then he gave it a 7/10 and still recommended people see it, but more so it could make enough to earn a sequel. But then he said Mortal Kombat is a better VG adaptation than Warcraft, and I didn't really like Mortal Combat. He was equivocal about the movie, and Jeremy Jahns was also equivocal. So I'm inclined to give it a miss.

well I will tell you this. Do not expect to be blown away by the story. But please be blown away by the orcs because that is unprecedented

:D

I so want to see the movie again because its filled with so much stuff that is so out of this world, its simply great to see such a thing.

But then again its not without flaws.



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The movie looks interesting to me. I'll go see it in the coming weeks. Going to see X-Men today.



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I'm not a fan of Warcraft but I absolutely loved the movie. Simply a great movie. In the future i will be seeb as a classic fantasy movie, revered by many people all over the world.

Totally amazing that it's so popular in China, makes it guaranteed that we will get to enjoy sequels.



Slimebeast said:
I'm not a fan of Warcraft but I absolutely loved the movie. Simply a great movie. In the future i will be seeb as a classic fantasy movie, revered by many people all over the world.

Totally amazing that it's so popular in China, makes it guaranteed that we will get to enjoy sequels.

That was what I was talking about



Has made over $300m WW now. Well $288m as of Friday but with today included it's above $300m. 



Slimebeast said:
I'm not a fan of Warcraft but I absolutely loved the movie. Simply a great movie. In the future i will be seeb as a classic fantasy movie, revered by many people all over the world.

Totally amazing that it's so popular in China, makes it guaranteed that we will get to enjoy sequels.

I doubt that. Too many people, including Warcraft fans, who wanted to like this and for it to be a great movie didn't like it. Perhaps with time people will think of it more fondly, but I don;t see it ever being regarded as a classic.

But with profit from the box office pretty much guaranteed a sequel is a sure bet. And that means a chance to make a movie that will be seen a fantasy classic, and break the video game curse.

Warcraft hasn't broken the critics curse, and it isn't the first big budget video game adaptation to be profitable. But it could be the first big budget franchise to make a successful sequel.



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Nice movie... horrible, terrible, stupid really bad plot...



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