Oh and I logged in and got my free movie transmog. Which I will never use (though the staff is quite impressive the way the skulls swing).
Warcraft (Film) 2016
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Okay, but back when Marvel Studios first started, in the mid-aughts, they chose to adapt Iron Man's origin story instead of the Civil War comics then being published for good reason.
Warcraft Review (Non-Spoilers)
If this is the first down rather than a touchdown in the video game to movies I am okay with it as long as it is successful enough for more movies that we can get under Duncan Jones.
Ugh can't watch vid reviews. But all the written ones I've skimmed have been less than favorable, though they don't say it's awful.
SO whose seeing it first in this thread? Anyone in Europe watching it in May?
SO whose seeing it first in this thread? Anyone in Europe watching it in May?
I saw it yesterday. Not a Warcraft fan, never played it, only know a few things from my friends. From a non-fan's perspective it was okay, a fairly generic story. There were a few developments that weren't too clear to me and there was a bit at the end that seemed rushed. Garona was the best thing about the film and there was one moment that struck me as a great storytelling decision. The effects were okay, although at first the mouths of the Orcs were a little distracting. Overall I enjoyed it but it didn't strike me as anything special.
It only has a 36 on Metacritic. I was looking forward to this, but with many movies I want to see in theaters more, I'm gonna save this for Netflix.
I already saw it last week. Here's my review:
Even though I had a fair amount of fun with this, it's hard to deny that WarCraft is a disappointment compared to Duncan Jones' previous efforts. Most of the human characters aren't particularly interesting, neither in the acting nor in the writing departments, and the plot feels rushed and often fails to connect on an emotional level. I wonder if there's a longer cut that does more to make us care about these characters. (Although the Orcs work pretty well as is.)
Perhaps the film's biggest flaw is that it doesn't really feel like a complete story and pretty much ends on a cliffhanger for a sequel we may never see.
BUT I still found the film to be quite entertaining and visually arresting. It's a technical marvel, featuring a beautifully imagined fantasy world and some of the most impressive CGI characters ever realized. It's clear that a lot of skill, care and effort was put into every aspect of it. Even if you don't like the somewhat cartoonish look of it all, you have to admit it's quite an achievement.
If you have any familiarity with the games or fondness for the genre, you're going to find a lot to like here. If you're looking for a nuanced story with richly-drawn characters, you may want to look elsewhere.
Even though I had a fair amount of fun with this, it's hard to deny that WarCraft is a disappointment compared to Duncan Jones' previous efforts. Most of the human characters aren't particularly interesting, neither in the acting nor in the writing departments, and the plot feels rushed and often fails to connect on an emotional level. I wonder if there's a longer cut that does more to make us care about these characters. (Although the Orcs work pretty well as is.)
Perhaps the film's biggest flaw is that it doesn't really feel like a complete story and pretty much ends on a cliffhanger for a sequel we may never see.
BUT I still found the film to be quite entertaining and visually arresting. It's a technical marvel, featuring a beautifully imagined fantasy world and some of the most impressive CGI characters ever realized. It's clear that a lot of skill, care and effort was put into every aspect of it. Even if you don't like the somewhat cartoonish look of it all, you have to admit it's quite an achievement.
If you have any familiarity with the games or fondness for the genre, you're going to find a lot to like here. If you're looking for a nuanced story with richly-drawn characters, you may want to look elsewhere.
My only familiarity with the games was one of the earlier strategy ones (or demo thereof).
I had fun with it which is all I expected or hoped for.
I had fun with it which is all I expected or hoped for.
46 Million on the opening day in China
http://variety.com/2016/film/box-office/warcraft-china-box-office-1201791346/
Highest every Thursday box office anywhere..
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/warcraft-box-office-china-record-1201792239/
THANK YOU CHINA WE MIGHT GET ARTHAS BECAUSE OF YOU
Ever hopeful
http://variety.com/2016/film/box-office/warcraft-china-box-office-1201791346/
Highest every Thursday box office anywhere..
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/warcraft-box-office-china-record-1201792239/
THANK YOU CHINA WE MIGHT GET ARTHAS BECAUSE OF YOU
Ever hopeful
Around half of current World of Warcraft Players are from China. They and former players would certainly go and watch it. Hence the large box office in China.
Being a former player, i am certainly going to watch the movie. More than twice if i liked it. Thrall is in it as a baby and he was my warchief during my playing days.
FOR THE HORDE !
Being a former player, i am certainly going to watch the movie. More than twice if i liked it. Thrall is in it as a baby and he was my warchief during my playing days.
FOR THE HORDE !
Probably the fact that there have been so few actual serious attempts at high quality, visually appealing traditional fantasy worlds causes more than a few people to just automatically compare it to LoTR, whether the comparison makes any sense or not.
Saw it today; I know absolutely nothing about the game; I thought it was pretty good. It's so rare and pleasant to see an out and out fantasy movie with all sorts of crazy stuff they don't even bother to explain.
I went in with zero expectations and knowledge and was pleasantly surprised. The CGI looked amazingly good. The story and characters had depth and nuance, and the structure went in some unexpected directions. The main human character was interesting and well acted, and the main orc character was well done.
I went in with zero expectations and knowledge and was pleasantly surprised. The CGI looked amazingly good. The story and characters had depth and nuance, and the structure went in some unexpected directions. The main human character was interesting and well acted, and the main orc character was well done.
I know nothing of Warcraft, I'm not a gamer. Having said that, the CGI looks extremely disappointing for such a major film. The major lead actors carried almost no weight whatsoever, and half the time I didn't know what the characters were talking about. Major characters would appear and exit without adding to anything but the confusion. This continues the generally poor adaptation of video games into movies, I really never would recommend this to anyone.
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Finally got to see this today and I have to say, I don't get the reception it's gotten. It wasn't flawless, certainly, but it was beautifully done and a really interesting story. I also don't get the charges about it being too confusing, since my only real exposure to warcraft before this was a frustrating five minute attempt to play the old rts game once more than a decade ago, and I followed everything perfectly. I also absolutely loved the way it set up this grand world, ending on a 'cliffhanger' as some have called it, because I thought it was actually really fun to see a movie of this type that didn't pretend that masses of evil and honest to god clashes of entire cultures could be solved with one big battle (and also refreshing to see a movie that's ok with killing off the main characters when it actually helps the story, despite some obvious franchising desires). The ending we got was more than enough to close this part of the story, and the choice Garona had to make was actually a better, more interesting twist than I've seen in any movie this year except for Civil War. (Garona was in general the best thing about the movie. Drakka possibly the second best thing.)
I will agree that some of the human characters could've been better handled. Lothar's son was extraneous and not interesting. Both the king and the guardian felt slightly hollow and unconvincing at times. And Khadgar did take quite a while to warm up to, though I got there in the end.
I also thought the final battle with the golem/guardian was somewhat underwhelming given the level of power supposedly on display (especially since the golem was so obviously foreshadowed for basically the entire movie), and there were a few moments in the big battle scenes where if you looked in the wrong place it became irritatingly obvious that they were basically nerfing the orcs just to let the human armies have the slightest chance at surviving (I swear at one point I saw an orc just stand there while a human soldier stabbed it in the heart). At the same time, though, I really loved the way they pulled back to those sweeping overhead views that really did remind of that sort of old RTS interface style - like the audience was looking down on a giant game screen.
There were really only two things in the movie that didn't seem to work much for me: first, the moment when Orgrim turns the orcs against Gul'dan only to have them all instantly change their minds again after Gul'dan kills a mere three turncoats (and why didn't he kill Orgrim then?) - if there had at least been a sign of some continuing tension in the ranks that was just being held in check by fear, it would've been fine, but they all charged off into battle like they were filled with glee, so it was jarring. The second was the fight between Blackhand and Lothar. It came out of nowhere with no explanation behind it at all and didn't seem to fit the previous 'mok'gara' scene in any way.
Overall, I honestly think this is mainly a strong indication of how purely obsessed with popular brands the general audience has become, because in terms of writing and characterization, this movie isn't any worse than Jurassic World or the Force Awakens.
I will agree that some of the human characters could've been better handled. Lothar's son was extraneous and not interesting. Both the king and the guardian felt slightly hollow and unconvincing at times. And Khadgar did take quite a while to warm up to, though I got there in the end.
I also thought the final battle with the golem/guardian was somewhat underwhelming given the level of power supposedly on display (especially since the golem was so obviously foreshadowed for basically the entire movie), and there were a few moments in the big battle scenes where if you looked in the wrong place it became irritatingly obvious that they were basically nerfing the orcs just to let the human armies have the slightest chance at surviving (I swear at one point I saw an orc just stand there while a human soldier stabbed it in the heart). At the same time, though, I really loved the way they pulled back to those sweeping overhead views that really did remind of that sort of old RTS interface style - like the audience was looking down on a giant game screen.
There were really only two things in the movie that didn't seem to work much for me: first, the moment when Orgrim turns the orcs against Gul'dan only to have them all instantly change their minds again after Gul'dan kills a mere three turncoats (and why didn't he kill Orgrim then?) - if there had at least been a sign of some continuing tension in the ranks that was just being held in check by fear, it would've been fine, but they all charged off into battle like they were filled with glee, so it was jarring. The second was the fight between Blackhand and Lothar. It came out of nowhere with no explanation behind it at all and didn't seem to fit the previous 'mok'gara' scene in any way.
Overall, I honestly think this is mainly a strong indication of how purely obsessed with popular brands the general audience has become, because in terms of writing and characterization, this movie isn't any worse than Jurassic World or the Force Awakens.
I have now seen it.
It was pretty much w hat I expected. It made me want to play my main (an orc) and Lothar was hot but I was left wondering what the eff anyone who hadn't played Warcraft could see in it? I super appreciated the very brief use of the SW music but it made me want more original game music used which is very good. I dropped my popcorn and only saw .5 seconds of the one second Ironforge was on the screen which.. well.. bleh. Need more Ironforge.
A leeeeeeeeeeeetle annoyed that Garona's race was never clearly stated.
Looking fwd to seeing it again.
It was pretty much w hat I expected. It made me want to play my main (an orc) and Lothar was hot but I was left wondering what the eff anyone who hadn't played Warcraft could see in it? I super appreciated the very brief use of the SW music but it made me want more original game music used which is very good. I dropped my popcorn and only saw .5 seconds of the one second Ironforge was on the screen which.. well.. bleh. Need more Ironforge.
A leeeeeeeeeeeetle annoyed that Garona's race was never clearly stated.
Looking fwd to seeing it again.
Just watched this today. As someone who has never played the game and knows absolutely nothing of the story, here's my two cents...
I was impressed with the Orcs and loved their design, but the film suffers from a slightly incoherent plot. It felt like the movie consists of all the cool cutscenes from the game spliced together and would have made more sense if I could have played the level in between. I did 'get' most of the story, but so much of it felt rushed. I'd like to see a sequel, because it had no real ending. I half expected to see: To Be Continued...
Seems like there's lots of content to be mined in this property, just wish some better screenwriters could have polished the last draft of the script some.
I was impressed with the Orcs and loved their design, but the film suffers from a slightly incoherent plot. It felt like the movie consists of all the cool cutscenes from the game spliced together and would have made more sense if I could have played the level in between. I did 'get' most of the story, but so much of it felt rushed. I'd like to see a sequel, because it had no real ending. I half expected to see: To Be Continued...
Seems like there's lots of content to be mined in this property, just wish some better screenwriters could have polished the last draft of the script some.