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On 2 May 2016 16:57:25 GMT, 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.
>
>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)?
>
>I'm going to see it of course, just out of curiosity.

The launch is worldwide towards the end of May, different countries
get different days (I think we're early June in the UK), so nobody's
seen it yet, but there are a number of trailers that can be found
online, I imagine a quick Google will turn some up. Looks kinda cool,
but the trailers give such short glimpses of scenes that you can't
tell much from them, just get a vague idea of people and places!

It's set in the time of Warcraft 1, where the orcs first invade
Azeroth, but does differ a bit from the known story (not surprisingly
as I believe the original game really focussed on the human side of it
and didn't give the orcs much of a point of view), so it's mainly
involving people like Anduin Lothar, King Llane, Medivh, Khadgar,
Durotan, Orgrim Doomhammer, Gul'dan, etc - I guess many of the same
orcs as we've seen in WoD, the humans are more legendary names of the
past :-)

I never normally watch films but have to make an exception for this
one... not sure I'll get over my dislike of crowds enough to go to the
cinema though, so hopefully it won't take too long to reach DVD or
some kind of online viewing!

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.

> 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.

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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!
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.

>> 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:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0803096/releaseinfo

On Tue, 3 May 2016 03:03:50 -0000 (UTC), Lewis 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?

Really!

> Even people who have never heard of Blizzard know about this movie.
> There's been trailers and teasers and ads for months.

We'll I've obviously heard about Blizzard, I even heard about the film
project a few years ago but not since then. I go to the movies once a week
and have not once seen a trailer.

> > 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.

Maybe in the US. Over here in Europe it seems to launch on May 25 and 26
according to the link Catriona posted. The poster here in Switzerland most
definitely said May 26.

I guess that's my chance of seeing it first then posting spoilers to a.g.w

<evil chuckle>
Urbin

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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).

> 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).

>>> 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.

> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0803096/releaseinfo


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In message <slrnnihq00...@stinky-local.trash.net> 
  Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 May 2016 03:03:50 -0000 (UTC), Lewis 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?

> Really!

>> Even people who have never heard of Blizzard know about this movie.
>> There's been trailers and teasers and ads for months.

> We'll I've obviously heard about Blizzard, I even heard about the film
> project a few years ago but not since then. I go to the movies once a week
> and have not once seen a trailer.

>> > 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.

> Maybe in the US. Over here in Europe it seems to launch on May 25 and 26
> according to the link Catriona posted. The poster here in Switzerland most
> definitely said May 26.

> I guess that's my chance of seeing it first then posting spoilers to a.g.w

I am expecting a solid 3/10 based on the previews.

> <evil chuckle>

I wouldn't mind. I will probably end up seeing it anyway, but it's not
something I'm looking forward to.

Rumor is there supposed to be some sort of tie-in to the game. Free
month? Free WoW 6 with ticket purchase? Not sure, haven't really looked.

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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.

In message <dosf8t...@mid.individual.net> 
  Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote:

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

Not just, the other thing it does is tank a movie that is not very good,
since there will be plenty of reviews from first releases for poepe in
the US to read.

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