Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie?

Re:Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie? by stale2002 on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @03:09PM (#16814429)

It is a cliche to say this, but the movie really was made for fans and not for the general "Normie" audience.

They would just name drop locations and people, expecting you to know what they were. It was just mostly a fan service, "here is your movie, loyal fans!" types.

It still wasn't "great" even if you were a fan, but I can't imagine how bad a lot of it would have come off as if you didn't follow things pretty closely to begin with.

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Re:Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie? by gitgud on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @09:40PM (#16817350)

This is exactly how It felt to me.

I've only got pop culture knowledge of World Of Warcraft, and the way they explained most parts of the movie was really hard to follow. They needed:

- More world-building, geography was hard to follow, jumping around too much.

- Better character introduction, characters would just appear, banking on fans recognising them.

- Less assumed knowledge...

The whole movie came off a bit amateurish in how the story was told...

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Re:Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie? by McRask on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @04:33PM (#16815286)

I'm a fan of the game and even with strenuous efforts to score every possible nostalgia point it was terrible.

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