Didn't knew where to post this(Or if it was posted anywhere) so I made a thread. Sorry for any inconvenience..
Warcraft Movie.(Now with trailer)
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Didn't knew where to post this(Or if it was posted anywhere) so I made a thread. Sorry for any inconvenience.. -
i found this by accident on youtube and i was like: good googly their actually making a movie out of it.
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NP, this is the right place to make this thread ;)
:/ Never played, but I have lots of friends who play, maybe this movie will introduce me to this epic world.
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This is awesome.. oh my days!!!
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So they finally made it. Finally.
Starcraft next please (no Starship Troopers is not Starcraft).
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This is cool and all, but hoping this will turn out well so that there's a possibility for a Diablo movie in the future
I wonder how many other races will have a shot at being in this movie, since it seemingly centers around Humans vs Orcs, some forsaken would be nice
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0 chance of forsaken in THIS movie, along with all the other races not in the lore at this point in the history.
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A movie made after a videogame, what could possibly go wrong? :ninja:
Though, the director also made Moon and Source Code, which weren't half bad, so Warcraft could maybe not terribly suck as well.
On the plus side, if every fan goes to see the movie just once, it will probably make a nice return on investment. I read production cost was 100 million $ (the number probably becomes higher with markting costs). Currently WoW has around 5,6 million subscribers. If you add people who played WoW at some point and people who only played Wacraft RTS-s (like me) the number gets a lot bigger.
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Highly likely this is going to bomb or underperform unless the marketing and promotions and what-not for the movie is very strong next year.
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Whoever is a fan for digital green muscle, this movie is your dream come true.
I played Warcraft 2 back in the day, but the current lore is lost on me. I'm not sure how this will do.
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Errr…yeah wouldn't a Warcraft movie work better if they started out with Warcraft 3's narrative or something (at least in terms of appealing to the general audience)? At least that would give them Night Elves, Taurens, and the Undead to play with. Not to mention, I think more folks are familiar with Warcraft 3's overall lore and narrative due to being exposed to WoW so it would at least appeal to them on that level.
But eh, unless marketing is really strong for this film, I can't see it doing remarkably well. The trailer barely hooks me in at all; and I partially attribute it to fatigue from all these fantasy films in the past decade.
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Yeah, I played Warcraft 2, which this definitely reeks of. I never played World of Warcraft, but even I'm going, "Where's everyone else?" The only reason I can think of them not using the WoW setting/plot and all the other races is money saving. It's enough money to animate ONE race, but to make several would jack the budget up.
Although with Night Elves they could just be classy and try make up.
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One thing is the fans, but non-evil orcs might already be a wild enough concept for the general public who need to get into a new fantasy world, without there also being giant cow-men, purple people, tiny Gimlis, trolls that look quite different from usual trolls, and non-slobbering zombies.
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i was waiting for this for 6 years
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Saw it the other day at BlizzCon premiere out the three trailers this was the one that least appeal to me and i dont even play WoW, but still looks good not sure why so many people complain about the CGI for me it looks pretty well handed.
Seems that Grommash also will appear so hopefully they show a glimpse of the burning legion ( also people keep saying that Nerzhul also appears so there is that to WC 2 and 3)
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I think they're starting from a good, uhm, starting point. Throwing all the different races in there could've worked, if handled well - which little ever is, but limiting it to two factions allows them (they only have to) to focus on said factions' reactions to one another.
Geographically I'd assume they're well separated from where the Elves and The Undead live. And the Dwarves. And the Trolls. And Gnomes. Ugh, clusterfuck.
Trailer is meh, though.
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Well we only got a small glimpse of the High Elves and the Dwarves in the trailer, but they're definitely present. I'm gonna assume if this doesn't bomb, that the ending will introduce the Horde, and the round table scene will be the start of the Alliance.
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Geographically I'd assume they're well separated from where the Elves and The Undead live.
Hehe, semantics.
But for reals, there are no forsaken at this point in the history.
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If this was 2008 i would be super stoked about this. I mean it looks nice and all, but i'm so far removed from warcraft at this point.
Maybe if i started playing it a little casually again i'd get more in the mood to watch it.
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Still better than BvS. -
I saw this yesterday, I was super bored watching it(the characters nor the story engaged me). Too many storylines crammed in with not one given the time to really work out. At certain points I went "when did this happen?". I felt like there were moments of oh I could see this working but overall just meh. I was left wanting for more build up characters and stronger more developed relationships and in general a movie that started smaller and build up during its running time.
My background played WoW till Wrath and the strategy games.I think the discussion after the movie was pretty interesting though within my group of friends opinions differed wildy. 1 friend who was super into warcraft lore and read the books but never played WoW hated the movie. He praised the visuals though.
Another one didn't know anything about the universe and movie and had pretty much 0 expectation and went away liking it.
The last one who was exclusively a WoW guy loved it, but he said he was just so into seeing certain things out of the game on the big screen.Edit: Also I was kind of into how the movie looks from pictures and trailers I felt it looked kind of cheap and toy like but your eyes get used to it and then you begin to appreciate the general Warcraft(Warhammer inspired) design of things(weapons/armor/etc).
It has a certain charm with this comical aspect because in the back of your mind you know how unpractical it all looks.Kind of like the Sword Gun from FF.
Edit2: Rumors are that there's been a good chunk that got left in the editing room from what the director envisioned by the studio. If that's true I can certainly see how with a few more character scenes this movie could become way more engaging for me.
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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/warcraft/
And 2016 is three for three in shitty video game movies (with Angry Birds the only one that could be argued as being decent).
Man, I really thought one of them might pull through and finally give us a good video game movie, but…WHY IS THIS SO HARD, PEOPLE?!!
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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/warcraft/
And 2016 is three for three in shitty video game movies (with Angry Birds the only one that could be argued as being decent).
Man, I really thought one of them might pull through and finally give us a good video game movie, but…WHY IS THIS SO HARD, PEOPLE?!!
I agree, Angry Birds was really reasonaby good. Standard story line case, but ok nonetheless
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Still better than BvS.
Is it now ?
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/warcraft/
And 2016 is three for three in shitty video game movies (with Angry Birds the only one that could be argued as being decent).
Man, I really thought one of them might pull through and finally give us a good video game movie, but…WHY IS THIS SO HARD, PEOPLE?!!
Ratchet and Clank is a particuarly intresting case where the movie crashed but pretty much
everyone liked the video game. As for why it's hard simple some of these things just don't
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Maybe better luck with Assassin's Creed?
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Weird, I just wish we had more feedback from general oldschool Warcraft fans since a fair number of RT critiques seem to presume that the movie is made mostly for the fans in mind in that the content material is fairly faithful to the franchise.
I still think they should have found a way to tweak WC 3 into a movie rather than starting RIGHT at the beginning with WC 1.
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I saw the movie an hour ago. I definitely don't think it deserves the low rating that it currently has on Rotten Tomatoes. It might just be the best video game movie I've ever seen, even though that's not saying much since the majority of them are "so bad they're good".
Yeah, some parts of the movie are definitely rushed through and not given enough focus, and some of the scenes are just awkwardly executed, but they don't break the movie. If those rumors about cut scenes are true, then I bet they'll fix the problems if they're ever released on the home video release.
But, I've played WoW since Vanilla and played the older games as well, so that's probably a big factor to my enjoyment of the movie.
I fully expect and want this to continue as a franchise in order to get to the arguably more captivating stories of the later games. The amount of money this movie is going to make in China alone will ensure at least one sequel.
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I agree with Galaxy. It was a way better movie than glancing at some reviews would have me belief. I mostly played Warcraft II back in the day, some of 3. So I probably missed a lot of references but I got some and that was fun. And ever since I'd seen the first trailer I had been looking forward to
! somebody getting turned into a sheep and I was not disappointed. Some cuts were strange and the ending was particularly wonky but I enjoyed the plot and the execution in general.
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Movie critics completely shitting on some movies which don't deserve so much hate while completely hyping up other movies which are just okay as the best thing since sliced bread? No way… xD
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It's not so much that the film was awful, but that it was unnecessarily awful.
! - Why kill the king? (Or cast someone as likeable as Joxer the mighty)
- Was Durotans death at all needed?
- If killing the king brought about so much honour why did nobody else do it?
- Did Blackhands power-up achieve anything?
- When and how did the guardian ever get overtaken by the fel?
- Why did they have some older guardian show up and dissolve after some obscure message?
- Why did it take an entire world to be destroyed before an Orc figured fel magic was bad?
! You know I'm going to just stop here and do my best to forget ever watching it.
Ducan Jones needs to do the walk of atonement through Hollywood after this tragedy.@Galaxy:I saw the movie an hour ago. I definitely don't think it deserves the low rating that it currently has on Rotten Tomatoes.
I agree, it should probably be lower. Like, I don't know….somewhere between the live action dragonball movie and any horror comedy ever.
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Came back from the film just now.
It was perfectly acceptable 2 hours of entertainment.
There's gigantic swords, hammers, shields, axes and even muskets.
Strange I don't remember arrows. Maybe there was but nobody was a master archer here.Acting is below average for human characters but the Orcs were rather good.
At first their faces are repulsive but they grew on me as the film progressed (they do have their culture and isn't there to be just mowed down).Some plot developments were quite nonsensical but overall it took logical traditional steps.
! There were some surprises for me in this film.
I think it was because the trailers were very misleading.
! The trailers made it seem like the plot was Humans unite with Brown Orcs to fight against Green Orcs.
But nope.
! Quite a few characters hitting on Paula Patton's character. What?
! A lot of characters dying. Did not see some coming.
Unexpected number of casualties made the film's climax quite unpredictable.
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I just hope it's succesfull enough, so that they will make a sequel, cause there are definitely cool stories they can tell and are also more interesting than this first simple humans vs orcs one. Potential is there.
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I can't make an objective statement considering how much of my life was consumed in the world of Azeroth.
Obviously I really liked the film, and it really doesn't mean the movie was stellar, it just gave me what I wanted to see.And the critics are being FAR too unfair about the film, it deserves a "mediocre" score, not abysmal.
This illustrates perfectly the problem and divide of the critics' bias against video game adaptation.
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Saw this movie last week, and since friends have asked me whether it was any good? My take.
! As a fan it was lowercase good, as a general moviegoer, it was uppercase OK. Fans will enjoy it; I myself enjoyed it! But I also think it had more potential than it took advantage of. Warcraft fans like me might forgive that much because we've seen far worse in other movies that don't have the automatic "fantasy movie" & "video game movie" review score stacking debuffs applied.
! It's to Warcraft's detriment that it plays a bit too heavily on genre conventions that all nerds know by this point–it fully embraces that source material, for better or for worse. Some action setpieces look like a big dumb video game and it's fantastically true to form, full of satisfying crunches and thwacks. But the character stuff...... could've been better. Watching it, I felt Warcraft was in a bit too much of a hurry to get where it wanted to be, zipping through locations and transitioning away from scenes without quite telling us what was in that scene that mattered, or who mattered. Characters like Guldan & Medivh are a big vague Tim Allen grunt noise of motivations and not many questions are answered about them or the source of their powers. So more time spent establishing the worlds visually ("oh btw we've got elves & gryphons"), and more time fleshing out the why of its especially major characters would have made for a better film.
! And it's a shame! Because there are some big, cool moments that it does earn and sparks of real potential under all that CGI (I'm not a fan of Paula Patton's acting but if Warcraft really wanted to sell its Orcs vs Humans conflict, Garona--caught between both sides--might've been a better main character).
! It's hard not to judge it as a fan cos I was kind of just excited to be there watching it. Durotan! Khadgar! Hearing the names alone is exciting. And some of them do pretty well with the material. But without the mythos, I can easily see it being hard to get a sense of some characters without vague foreknowledge, so I wouldn't say the critics are all wrong. Especially the villain(s) motivations are very vaguely sketched for the general audience moviegoer. But imo, I think the low expectations for a video game movie colored the reviews a lot. See it for yourself, maybe you'll feel differently!