Planet Sillicon

So very uninteresting

By blog on Jul. 23, 2009.

I heard about a week ago that there is going to be a World of Warcraft movie, and as if that wasn’t enough to set my mind boggling at the badness of that film, I have just learned that Sam Raimi, director of the Spiderman films and a few blegh horror films, is set to direct.

To me, there is little less appealing than a film about a really crappy game by a director who has done films that I have disliked. I haven’t played more than five minutes of WoW, and here’s why. I got into the game, a game which lacked all semblance of a storyline, a game that has graphics woefully inadequate by today’s standards, and a game that has the biggest player-base of morons that I have ever heard of, one of which I ran into in the starting area, by the name of ‘Oldfartdude’. Now, not only did Oldfartdude have a really, really, crap name, he was jumping around repeatedly in the same little area. The stupidity displayed by the name and the action could only remind me one of those mechanical monkeys clapping symbols together, but this was a cheap knock-off version so only one of the arms moved and his symbols never clapped, but that one arm was still clapping away to the silence of his own stupidity.

After seeing that particular little Petri dish of the gaming world, I felt the need to run, run away and delete the trial version of the game off my computer. Now onto the other half of this oh-so-unappealing combination is the directing of Sam Raimi. Now, I’m not here to say that the guy can’t do a good job, I’m just trying to say that the films he has done have been, to me, highly meh. The Spiderman films were so utterly uninteresting, and I felt that they really could have been. Spidey’s not the greatest Super Hero, but nor is he the lamest, but these films… they were just so… uninspiring. Raimi’s other films have largely been in the horror genre, and whilst I like thriller movies, horror is generally very poor viewing for me. I don’t like to see the rampant indulgence in other people’s pain, and the gore associated with said pain, that tends to be in these films. Raimi was one of the directors rumoured to have been considered for the upcoming Hobbit movie, and I am so very, very, glad that it was Guillermo del Toro, but I plan to talk more about the Hobbit movie in my next entry, so I’ll leave that one be.

Back to the topic at hand, the marriage of these two forces leaves me so uninterested… I really can’t see a storyline worthy of film coming out of WoW, but hey, I bet it’s still going to get huge ticket sales, just because it’s WoW.