Critics are out of their element

Rating: 8/10 (15 February 2017)

The world is constantly changing and technology is advancing at an exponential rate. Humankind has been living as civilizations for many centuries and the history of the art dates back to cave wall paintings, some as old as 40 thousand years. And as an art form, cinema is very young compared to other art forms, it's been around for about only a century. And just like cinema, technology as we know; like electricity, cars, telephones has been around for about a century. Then we have video games now, even younger than any other art form(that i know of). We live in a different world now. Everyday, we wake up to a different world. The information is very easy to access for almost everybody. If a question pops into my head, at 2:00 am at night, i don't even have to wait for the morning to go to a library. Google, Wikipedia is on my finger tips anytime, anywhere i like. If I need more, i can buy an e-book online, and read it on my computer screen or on my phone. And Art is both directly and indirectly affected by these technological changes. A film could be based on a novel that was published 200 years ago, for example Pride & Prejudice (2005), but today, it can also be based on a video game. There has been many films, panned by the critics when they were first released. Because they were ahead of their time. I'm not saying Warcraft is a groundbreaking masterpiece, but it's a solid story. And video games, as an art form, are too young for general audience(and critics) to appreciate. This film holds a 20% score by top critics on Rotten Tomatoes. I can totally understand a 50 year-old newspaper critic getting nothing out of this film. I'm not blaming them but this film doesn't deserve such low score. Again, i'm not saying it's a masterpiece. But if it were a lowest common denominator superhero film with a weaker story and plot, it would have gotten a higher score by the same critics.
Video games have great potential to enrich the cinema and art in general with their original ideas and stories. Would you rather watch another hackneyed story based on religion, comic books, classics or would you rather watch an original idea, story? Would you rather watch another remake of spiderman or would you rather watch a story based on Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim?