tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739588130392043394.post3696948768842231675..comments2024-03-02T23:44:06.835+00:00Comments on Buck Theorem's Hide-out: Warcraft: the beginningBuck Theoremhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15229297104282779341noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739588130392043394.post-89698315722517464362016-06-12T17:03:27.162+01:002016-06-12T17:03:27.162+01:00I feel as if the goodwill towards Duncan Jones - a...I feel as if the goodwill towards Duncan Jones - after all, both his previous films show promise and a serious genre mind - means that people are giving "Warcraft" more ponderance to a film that would otherwise be dismissed far quicker. I'm guilty of this too, but it really isn't much good.<br />Buck Theoremhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15229297104282779341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739588130392043394.post-3042414670435299232016-06-03T23:44:33.723+01:002016-06-03T23:44:33.723+01:00Jones' decline, from a very decent B-movie thr...Jones' decline, from a very decent B-movie through a mediocre A-movie to this, has been sad to watch; even more so than that of Christopher Nolan, who at least managed to make <i>two</i> good films before pretension and the Batflicks overtook him.<br /><br />I played the first couple of Warcrafts, in which the orcs were the bad guys and communicated in such aphorisms as <i>urgh!</i> and <i>grroh hoh hoh</i> and bad-tempered yells if you clicked on them repeatedly, and were all the better for it. For sentient orcs without sentimentality, I recommend <i>Grunts</i>, by the inappropriately-surnamed Mary Gentle, which also includes sex-worker hobbits, <i>Guns and Ammo</i>-reading dragons, the sociology of post-Final Battle race relations, and lines like "Pass me another elf, Sergeant, this one's split."Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18076353733931722397noreply@blogger.com