10 Redeeming Elements In Otherwise Awful Movies
Finding the diamonds in the rough.
2016 really hasn't been a great year for films. The blockbuster scene has been incredibly weak, and while the indie/prestige corners have still been fairly active, the industry in general has been rather tepid. But let's all be optimists for a moment shall we?
Why not look for the silver linings and celebrate the likes of Suicide Squad or X-Men Apocalypse by reminding ourselves that even truly terrible movies have redeeming qualities?
Luckily, thanks to the smorgasbord of talents that go into making any single film, the odds of something turning out entirely 100% bad are pretty slim. Some of them still try, but even then there can be little nuggets of gold to be found in the sludge.
And therein lies the tragedy: bad films hide scores of great performances, great cinematography, great production design, and great music overlooked because the film they are a part of is dismissed as outright rubbish. But no more should these diamonds in the rough be overlooked so callously...
10. The Orc Half Of Warcraft (2016)
Duncan Jones' Warcraft somehow feels both overwrought AND half baked at the same time, and ironically it has very little war, and even less craft. Once you finish reading this segment, it'll fade back into obscurity along with every single other video game inspired film.
All that said, it is a positive step forward for the genre because there is a good movie buried in this convoluted mess, though it is only ever readily apparent when there is not a single human actor on screen. See, the Orc half of the plot is actually a pretty entertaining and unique (if extremely goofy) fantasy film, and it's a real shame it has to share screen time with the suffocatingly bland human characters.
The story of Durotan is a classic tragedy with stakes and real emotions behind it that somehow gets smothered by a paint by numbers fantasy plot courtesy of the humans. Unfortunately, it is impossible to untangle the two halves of this film, otherwise I'd recommend fans get to work on creating a version of the film with only Orc scenes in.
Not only would it be a more compelling film with fewer odd fantasy names to remember, it would be an hour shorter.