Pointy Hat Cast 035 - Warcraft

The Pointy Hat Cast

Episode Notes

The Pointy Hat Cast is a movie podcast. I guess you could call it a movie review podcast. We just like movies of all types, genres, and from all time periods and talking about them!

Hosts: Barry, Sam

Topic: Warcraft (2016) was directed by Duncan Jones and written by Charles Leavitt and Duncan Jones. It stars Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, Ben Schnetzer, Robert Kazinsky, and many more.

Warcraft is a decent attempt at adapting a video game into a movie. While the overall production values were great, especially the combat scenes, the film was underdeveloped on many fronts. The characters and their relationships were underdeveloped and required the viewer to fill in many missing elements from the lore. The pacing was plagued with unnecessary scenes and could have been better edited for brevity and to give other, more vital scenes some space to breathe and be digested. Overall, while flawed, there's still certainly a lot of fun to be had for fans of the game or for fans of fantasy in general.

Mail Bag: Which Warcraft character or story line would you want to see turned into a movie?

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