Yeah, I guess I can’t disagree with that at all. Point taken.

When the source material wouldn’t look that out of place painted on the side of a dude’s van, chances are you don’t want to treat it too too seriously.

I find the fact that the MCU actually happened astounding. It was a huge investment over years and years, requiring a team to carefully guide it. In short-term Hollywood, and in a wider sense short-term corporate America, the odds were definitely not in its favour.

A first film focusing on the humans as the heroes, only to then have the sequel/sister film be from the orc point of view but covering similar events - like the campaigns of the games - could have been hugely entertaining.

Something you’ve raised makes me imagine a better Warcraft movie would have more of a “silly” sense of humor or tone. One of my favorite “silly” movies of all time is The Fifth Element - a silly sci-fi/fantasy movie that, throughout, didn’t try to take itself too seriously. It had characters that entertained you…

You would think that movie studios would take note on how Marvel managed to build their world. Introduce a few characters with a good focus on just that character. Throw in a few very minor references to other characters in the universe that only true fans will actually even notice and then release a different movie…

Yeah, and I think this movie in particular suffered from having to juggle a bunch of different stories both in the human camp and in the orc one. I wonder how things would’ve turned out if they’d picked a different, more focused story from Warcraft lore — like, say, the story of Arthas.

Agreed. I’ve always found Warcraft to almost be a mild parody of all fantasy. Sure, it could be serious at times, but most of it was cliche on purpose it seems. And that’s what I’ve loved about it. Even with WoW, Burning Crusade and even moreso Wrath of the Lich King were my two least favourite WoW expansions…

Um, I don’t think his point is nothing should be serious. But silly things shouldn’t try to be serious, and Warcraft is a very silly thing.

You’re right, of course. Plenty of great stories take themselves very seriously and still work quite well. But I would argue that there’s a lot of camp inherent to the Warcraft lore — soul-stealing, two-headed ogres, a character whose full name is literally Garona Halforcen — that makes it far more difficult for…

Does he have progressive support now? His followers keep threatening to support trump or at least not help the democrats win if they don’t get their way.

Bernie and his team wanted—nay, demanded, like it was somehow deserved—the support of a massive political entity that he has, for 26 years, refused to be a part of. He spent a quarter of a century telling the Democratic party to fuck off, and now when he wanted their help and support, no surprise, he didn’t get it.…

There are two things about Sanders’ rhetoric lately that are really frustrating me and both center around the fact that he has openly talked about not being a Democrat and only running as a Democrat because it allows him to reach a broader base than running as an independent:

The really pathetic part of this whole thing is Sanders (and his supporters) railing against Clinton for taking soft money, when he’s doing the essentially the same thing by only using the Democratic party when it’s most beneficial to him as a politician. He could afford to run independently for Senator from Vermont,…

I was wondering when the progressive Tea Party would show up. This may be the nascent stages, where they begin organizing primary challenges to politicians who are viewed as insufficiently progressive. We’ll get our own Sharon Angle, Todd Akin, Richard Mourdocks up there and fuck up winnable seats in Congress.

Nobody every told him that they were going to let the states with black people vote.

Nobody seems to understand that local elections are at stake in this election. If these BernieBros were there to impact the democratic process, not raise sh-, we’d hear a different tone. So they’ll whine about sh- and not bother to get themselves and their community to vote.

This is a reasonable and correct take and has no place in Kinja.

I’m fine with Bernie staying in the race to accumulate votes and show Democrats that there is broad, national support for a progressive agenda. I am not alright with him staying in the race in a desperate bid to win.

Jeez, you’re as a bad as men who start notallmenning you the minute you point out problems among men.