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On Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 12:22:39 PM UTC-6, IYM wrote:
> On 6/14/2016 2:19 PM, IYM wrote:
> >   I more enjoyed picking out things that I know would have no meaning to
> > those who have never seen the film.
> 
> I meant "to those who never played the game"...brain fart...

I went in there kind of the same way. I thought the trailers looked bad and the initial reviews were expected.

It was entertaining enough to spot artifacts from the games amidst a largely isolated WoW-esque plot, which was surprisingly engaging.

You won't see me seeing this much, but I think the film has its advantages in 3D because I think some of the spotty actor-compositing amongst CG that made your eyes itch in the trailer is minimized when you see it through the glasses.

The cinematography was suspect in some parts, jumping around scenes and locations for only moments as if they say "okay, enough here, we really need to plop the watcher out to this event" as if you were literally in the middle of a quest chain in the game. It was like they made a concerted effort to punctuate different scenes as minimally as possible in fear of losing the viewer.

And maybe that was a good thing. The material is anything but mainstream, and they also have to deal with a boulder in terms of appearing to improv a LotR/Harry Potter/Mystical fiction world-type movie experience.

I had seen rumblings that it was on par with Battlefield: Earth, which almost gouged me out of a viewing (my girlfriend actually talked me into it), but I can safely say that it was in no way near that magnitude of failure. The movie did just fine.