I mean, that’s how movie adaptations work. They’re their own thing, not part of the thing they’re adapted from. The Warcraft movie isn’t Warcraft canon anymore than the Harry Potter movies are Harry Potter canon or Lord of the Rings is LotR canon. This isn’t unusual at all.

To be fair, that’s not even the same game that this movie is based on.

Mountains would still cost 3 times as much as Deadpool did.

I’m not the one who said it was similar, Guillermo was.

I was more commenting on the misuse of circa.

Man, I really wish I had a gif of Doug Jones's "Forgive me Guillermo!" in Sockbaby.

Yeah, Tom Cruise doesn't cost *that* much.

Deadpool was pretty damn cheap for a blockbuster, though. I think he said he’d need $150 million to make Mountains right.

Hence the inclusion of the word “vaguely”.

Cold War-era America circa 1963

He gave up on that a long time ago. Too expensive to ever get approved with an R rating, plus Prometheus’s plot is very similar.

To me it was just showing how strong Angel Dust really is specifically because of that.

The choking out I was more accepting of. She could have just been crushing his neck, which is unpleasant even if you don’t have to breathe.

That’s so incredibly stupid on so many levels.

The idea that they have to show as much skin on their female lead as possible.

some other weird clause like the movie just being a poor adaptation of the IP.

Are there any directors or writers known for doing magical-realistic analyses of middle age and mid-life crises?

I still love that they had to crowdfund those.

I’ve actually got an original Death Watch poster.

You’ve got it backwards, Good/Evil is their intentions, Law/Chaos is their methods. A corrupt politician or tyrannical king would be Lawful Evil, for example. A Lawful Neutral character would be more likely to kill a child because the law says they must. A Lawful Good character may find a conflict between the law and…