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<blockquote data-quote="evilbob" data-source="post: 6676179" data-attributes="member: 9789"><p>The OP has a fair point.</p><p></p><p>Marvel is already fatiguing audiences on <em>its own brand</em>, so of course the DC Johnny-come-lately movies are going to do poorly by contrast and people are going to be tired of them before they even come out. I think that's why DC is trying to do movies that are much more serious / darker - to differentiate them from the no-one-outside-of-comics-knows-the-difference Marvel movies that people are already getting tired of.</p><p></p><p>Similarly the Hobbit movies were TERRIBLE - but they were also coming on the not-to-distant heels of LotR, which was already a bit overwrought and overdone by the time it was finished, so to do the exact same thing again but worse just really torpedoed the genre. Movies typically take forever to make, so the WoW movie was probably in talks and getting started about the time the first Hobbit movie came out (and before people saw that they would ruin the series). So yeah, it's definitely going to be seen as a derivative humans vs. orcs story - which, as someone already pointed out, is 100% fair since WoW blatantly ripped off Tolkien to begin with - that audiences may be pretty tired of before it even gets shown thanks to the Hobbit debacle. Given that there's also no chance it will be a <em>good </em>movie, this sets the stage for an even weaker stomach for any D&D offering. And this is still all before we all realize that it will <em>also </em>be a horrible movie (Wrath of the Titans? BLEH - currently 25% at Rotten Tomatoes, btw).</p><p></p><p>Both of these movies will ultimately go down as what they are: cash-grabs trying to piggy-back off the success of LotR before the "fantasy" genre goes down in flames again, mostly thanks to these exact movies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="evilbob, post: 6676179, member: 9789"] The OP has a fair point. Marvel is already fatiguing audiences on [I]its own brand[/I], so of course the DC Johnny-come-lately movies are going to do poorly by contrast and people are going to be tired of them before they even come out. I think that's why DC is trying to do movies that are much more serious / darker - to differentiate them from the no-one-outside-of-comics-knows-the-difference Marvel movies that people are already getting tired of. Similarly the Hobbit movies were TERRIBLE - but they were also coming on the not-to-distant heels of LotR, which was already a bit overwrought and overdone by the time it was finished, so to do the exact same thing again but worse just really torpedoed the genre. Movies typically take forever to make, so the WoW movie was probably in talks and getting started about the time the first Hobbit movie came out (and before people saw that they would ruin the series). So yeah, it's definitely going to be seen as a derivative humans vs. orcs story - which, as someone already pointed out, is 100% fair since WoW blatantly ripped off Tolkien to begin with - that audiences may be pretty tired of before it even gets shown thanks to the Hobbit debacle. Given that there's also no chance it will be a [I]good [/I]movie, this sets the stage for an even weaker stomach for any D&D offering. And this is still all before we all realize that it will [I]also [/I]be a horrible movie (Wrath of the Titans? BLEH - currently 25% at Rotten Tomatoes, btw). Both of these movies will ultimately go down as what they are: cash-grabs trying to piggy-back off the success of LotR before the "fantasy" genre goes down in flames again, mostly thanks to these exact movies. [/QUOTE]
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