I was honestly expecting around 3 hours. With the huge amount of characters they're bringing in, I'm still afraid its gonna be a free for all with no one actually getting any development or time to shine, or...worst of all, meaningless and emotionally voided deaths like the one in Age of Ultron.
When Rebels started, i had literally 0 expectations from it and thought it couldn't possibly equal Clone Wars. However, after 4 seasons and actual character development for the likes of Ezra, Sabine and Kanan, it actually grew on me quite a lot.
While it is more light-hearted and obviously children oriented, they still managed to make it entertaining and mature enough when it comes to the bigger storylines. I would also like to give them props for bringing one of the best characters ever created in Star Wars into a series (even an animated one) in the form of Grand Admiral Thrawn. If the animated series that comes after this will be at least as fun as Rebels, I'll definitely watch it as well.
@gamingdevil800: I agree with you. Both the original trilogy and the prequel trilogy had extremely good music, and both trilogies were unique in their musical themes and overtures. There are still very memorable pieces even all these years later like Duel of the Fates or the piece from when Anakin duels Obi-Wan.
The new sequel trilogy, while still having a GREAT soundtrack, seems to lack some of the others' magic. I can't think of anything unique from either The Force Awakens or Last Jedi that makes me feel the way Imperial March or Duel of the Fates does.
Yet even if Williams goes away from Star Wars soundtracks, that doesn't mean they'll suck from now on. Rogue One had a great soundtrack that felt like Star Wars while still having its own identity. Ironically I can recall at least 2 tracks from Rogue One that impressed me while I can think of 0 from the newer 2 movies.
Been playing this game today. While fun and entertaining its also absurdly difficult. There were many times when I got pushed into literally unwinnable situations because my 3 units couldn't be everywhere at once, especially when theres like 5 enemies attacking 5 different targets that you're supposed to defend. Also, the "life" bars not resetting from island to island is utter BS.
I think Warcraft had a lot of things going against it from the start. For one, it was a big budget video game adaptation set in a fantasy universe. Adapting something like that without it being silly or out of place is extremely difficult. In fact, to me at least, that was the biggest flaw of the movie. It was too much lore introduced too fast. Also, while I had no issues with the CGI, the sets and props felt very fake. If you look at LOTR, that's how such things need to be done. One look at Aragorn or Boromir or Gimli in FOTR and they are instantly believable. Weapons and armour is worn and never too shiny and such. The props in Warcraft looked like they were retrieved from the 3D printer half an hour before the scene was shot.
Even so, I enjoyed the movie for what it was but wouldn't consider it very good. I agree with other posters saying it should be done as a series like GoT. Unfortunately, the appeal is too small for it to justify the required huge investment.
She wouldn't have been my first choice for Lara Croft, but one's gotta admire such dedication to a role that probably isn't gonna win her any serious awards (video game adaptations are still cursed to be mediocre most of the time). Kudos to Alicia for putting up with such demanding physicality.
Sad days we live in, where a remaster of a good old game is better news than something new alltogether. Those were the days, when even EA's devs put some passion in their games, instead of brainstorming new and devilish ways to implement lootboxes and MT's.
If they officially announce it pretty soon and it looks like they might, it'll probably come out in 2020. I, for one, would look very much forward to Scarlett having her own Black Widow movie. They will undoubtedly pair her with at least another important character, so no one can really say she can't carry the movie either way.
Since she doesn't have actual superpowers, it might be better to tone down the space aliens and magic and have it a more conventional story. And for those who are saying that Black Widow is a bland character and basically nothing more than a hot lady with good martial arts and gun skills, well....they've been doing male protagonist movies of that kind for like 100 years now and they still sell.
Plus there's several angles that can give her even more depth, like childhood trauma, brainwashing, guilt over innocents killed. The opportunities are there. Just takes some careful adaptation. And its not like she's a totally new character that nobody saw before. Like another poster said, if it worked for Ant-Man, it can work for this.
Scarlett is still young, 33 I think, so probably 34-35 by the time this gets made. Better get going while she's still willing to suit up for the role.
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