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On Tue, 3 May 2016 18:14:36 -0000 (UTC), Lewis
<g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>In message <dorokg...@mid.individual.net> 
>  Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 3 May 2016 03:03:50 -0000 (UTC), Lewis
>> <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>
>>>In message <slrnnif1nl...@stinky-local.trash.net> 
>>>  Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On the weekend I walked past one of the big multiplex cinemas and saw that
>>>> they had a huge poster out for the warcraft movie, supposedly coming to
>>>> cinemas here on May 26.
>>>
>>>Really? Even people who have never heard of Blizzard know about this
>>>movie. There's been trailers and teasers and ads for months.
>
>> If I didn't follow WoW news I'd know nothing about it; probably same
>> applies to most people who don't follow all the latest film news!
>
>People who don't follow film news, never go to movies (the trailers have
>been in theatres for months), watch TV (the trailers have been on TV for
>months here) or use the web (the trailers have been advertised all over
>the web for months).

Many people who use the web also use adblockers :-P Likewise many of
us skip through the ads on tv (or watch channels which don't have ads
- BBC over here is ad-free), or get up and do something else - and on
the rare occasion I have actually seen ads, there have been no
Warcraft ones on.

>> Maybe I'm unusual in having absolutely zero interest in films but
>> still, it's not been talked about on any news source or site I follow
>> outside of the WoW ones.
>
>That seems odd. I've not sought out any news on the movie and I've still
>seen the trailer several times. (I'm not impressed).

I've seen it plenty of times, but exclusively via MMO-C and the like,
nowhere else.

>>>> After first talking about a warcraft movie everything had gone quiet, so I
>>>> was very surprised to see that it is about to show. Does anyone know
>>>> anything about the movie or has already seen it (or is it launching world
>>>> wide on the 26th)?
>>>
>>>As far as I know, it opens on 10 June, not 26 May.
>
>> It's different dates in different countries:
>
>You'd think large movies would stop doing that. There is no upside to it
>anymore.

Yeah, all it achieves is a) annoying a lot of people and b)
encouraging piracy. Genius.