Whatever the reason, video game movies can’t seem to get a fair shake. Since the rise of gaming as a full-fledged cultural forced in the ’80s, Hollywood has tried, and repeatedly failed, to crack the code for recreating the success of games onto the big screen. The results have been, to put it politely, mixed. The annals of recent movie history are littered with groan-worthy efforts that miss the mark, be it from misunderstanding the source material, as with Super Mario Brothers and Street Fighter, or from half-cocked efforts, like Doom.
Warcraft was supposed to be the savior. The Duncan Jones (Moon) directed adaptation of the popular franchise was, from all initial appearances, going to finally get it right and give a video game story the proper cinematic treatment it deserves. We know better now. Warcraft landed with ...
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