The Teaser just came out

Surprisingly good looking. I was expecting a half-assed cash-in.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Surprisingly good looking. I was expecting a half-assed cash-in.

The CGI artists behind it are the people behind Pacific rim and several other movies.

Plus this is their lineup:
Duncan Jones is directing the film from a screenplay that he co-wrote with Charles Leavitt.[5] Producers include Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, Tessa Ross, Charles Roven, Alex Gartner, Stuart Fenegan, and Chris Metzen.[6] The film will star Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, and Toby Kebbell.[7]


Plus their production companies:

Legendary Pictures
Blizzard Entertainment
Atlas Entertainment

Yeah it would of been half arsed if it was produced by Uwe Boll who wanted to direct it but was turned down by blizzard:

"Uwe Boll made a bid to direct, but was turned away by Blizzard, who he claims to have said, "We will not sell the movie rights, not to you… especially not to you. Because it’s such a big online game success, maybe a bad movie would destroy that ongoing income, what the company has with it."[15] The live-action film was set for release in 2009,[12] but was later rescheduled to 2011.[16] On July 22, 2009, Blizzard Entertainment announced that Sam Raimi would serve as the film's director, but in July 2012, he told Crave Online that he had withdrawn, due to committing to the movie Oz the Great and Powerful.[17] At San Diego Comic-Con 2011, Chris Metzen said the movie was not dead, but gave few useful details saying it was still in the "treatment stage".[18] In mid-March 2012, Nethaera said the movie is "still on the radar" with no other update.[19]"

plus:

Wow! That character just ran towards his balcony, and I thought, "Slow down or you'll have an accident and fall," but he just kept going. Then he leaped up onto the railing, and I was like, "No way! This can't end well." And he kept going!! Jumping out into the air!! I was all, "AAAAAAAAAAAHHHhhhhhh!". But then his birdie buddy was there the whole time! Smooth birdie know just how to swoop to catch the hero on his back! It was like they choreographed it! They must have balls of steel, or perhaps meteoric iron, which they display with outrageous and unnecessary death-defying stunts! I have never, ever seen anything like that done before again and again and again until it has become a totally trite cliche that marks this movie out as poorly written, poorly directed, cynical garbage! Never!


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In all honesty, you could have told me this was the next Narnia movie, and from the trailer I'd believe you.

However, hearing the words "Pacific Rim" makes me a bit more hopeful that this movie will actually be fun.

Tell us how you really feel Bob

I think this has the ability to be awesome. I'm hoping it is. I know a lot of people, myself included, didn't play Warcraft. Most of the people I know started with Warcraft 2 (like myself) Warcraft 3 and WoW.

So to see the history of the world in a full film could be excellent. And solidifying that history a bit cleaner than they have in WoW won't hurt either

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Wow! That character just ran towards his balcony, and I thought, "Slow down or you'll have an accident and fall," but he just kept going. Then he leaped up onto the railing, and I was like, "No way! This can't end well." And he kept going!! Jumping out into the air!! I was all, "AAAAAAAAAAAHHHhhhhhh!". But then his birdie buddy was there the whole time! Smooth birdie know just how to swoop to catch the hero on his back! It was like they choreographed it! They must have balls of steel, or perhaps meteoric iron, which they display with outrageous and unnecessary death-defying stunts! I have never, ever seen anything like that done before again and again and again until it has become a totally trite cliche that marks this movie out as poorly written, poorly directed, cynical garbage! Never!


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In all honesty, you could have told me this was the next Narnia movie, and from the trailer I'd believe you.

However, hearing the words "Pacific Rim" makes me a bit more hopeful that this movie will actually be fun.

The guys directing it have the credentials. I am very hopeful. I hope it breaks the curse.

Looks great.

Also, love that Harvest Golem in the distance at 0:06

Don't get wrong. I'm still going to see it in the theaters. Big budget fantasy spectacle is very important to me. I'll just go in with very low expectations.

Remember Eragon? Dungeons and Dragons? Percy Jackson? The Golden Compass? All the other recent big budget fantasy movies that have been completely forgotten? I wish I didn't.

Hopefully Warcraft will be at least as good as Willow. I'd watch the gak out of a high-budget Willow.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Don't get wrong. I'm still going to see it in the theaters. Big budget fantasy spectacle is very important to me. I'll just go in with very low expectations.

Remember Eragon? Dungeons and Dragons? Percy Jackson? The Golden Compass? All the other recent big budget fantasy movies that have been completely forgotten? I wish I didn't.

Hopefully Warcraft will be at least as good as Willow. I'd watch the gak out of a high-budget Willow.

Or stardust.

I always go in with low expectations recently.

They really fethed up earagon. I loved the books, and the movie was just bad period, and even worse compared to the books. Same for the golden compass.

I loved Stardust. I still watch it from time to time

I'd have higher expectations if we hadn't just gotten the last 3 Hobbit movies but overall I'm hopeful. It's got a solid supporting team to make it work and the budget to do what they need to do.

I'm actually optimistic this might be okay. Legendary has had good success turning 'fandom' into good entertainment, even things that are obscure, campy, cheesy, and seem like they just wouldn't work in a movie.

 Hulksmash wrote:
I loved Stardust. I still watch it from time to time

I'd have higher expectations if we hadn't just gotten the last 3 Hobbit movies but overall I'm hopeful. It's got a solid supporting team to make it work and the budget to do what they need to do.

After those movies, and after the disaster known as Maleficent, my expectations are lower than normal.

shoulder pads not big enough...not gonna like it

 Johnnytorrance wrote:
shoulder pads not big enough...not gonna like it

Dorothy from Golden Girls wore bigger shoulder pads.

Other than that, though, the production looks top notch. On a scale from Wrath of the Titans to Maleficient, I rate these production values at least a Seventh Son.

I'm very excited for this. I really love the Warcraft franchise ever since the first Warcraft game. I think I'll even drag my ass to a theater to watch this.

Is it bad that I really like 7th Son? It's another one, like Stardust, that I think I'll probably watch from time to time.

I'm trying really hard to temper my hopes on this. They need to make it appealable to the masses but that does hurt them possibly with the nerd crowd that grew up on it.

I don't envy them as it's a hard line to walk.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
They really fethed up earagon. I loved the books, and the movie was just bad period, and even worse compared to the books.

You mean Eragon? I was told that it was written by a 16 year old who loved Lord of the Rings. I read the book and it reads like it was written by a 16 year old who loved Lord of the Rings. So I'm not really sure what you were expecting from the movie.

The problem is if people can handle a movie with two sides are at war with neither side being the evil side and neither directly at fault.

In the WC1 story you have humans and orcs both being manipulated to do evil things and causing war which has sympathies on both sides. If anything, showing both sides as right and wrong and never having absolutes is what makes Warcraft so engaging.

I am not sure people will be able to handle anything but 'Humans good, ugly monsters bad'.

Eh, I'll probably go see it, but they're about 3 years too late to cash in on my WoW fanboyism.

 Breotan wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
They really fethed up earagon. I loved the books, and the movie was just bad period, and even worse compared to the books.

You mean Eragon? I was told that it was written by a 16 year old who loved Lord of the Rings. I read the book and it reads like it was written by a 16 year old who loved Lord of the Rings. So I'm not really sure what you were expecting from the movie.

Considering I was a 16YO (probably younger now that I think about it) who loved LotR when I first read it, it held interest to me. I found the characters interesting, and I liked the world he created. You can see the influence of various different fantasy works throughout it. It was a little cheesy, and certainly isn't a work of literary brilliance, but I enjoyed it, and invested in it all the same. It had heart behind it. And it was interesting seeing his work grammatically improve over time.

The move was just gak, plain and simple.

 Breotan wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
They really fethed up earagon. I loved the books, and the movie was just bad period, and even worse compared to the books.

You mean Eragon? I was told that it was written by a 16 year old who loved Lord of the Rings. I read the book and it reads like it was written by a 16 year old who loved Lord of the Rings. So I'm not really sure what you were expecting from the movie.

Sadly, the writing was not the movie's big failure, but rather the directing.

EDIT: The first Eragon novel was better than a lot of popular fantasy fiction. It was pretty much Star Wars with dragons, a very simple, Campbellian story, with an adequate mentor character, a not-too-shabby Vader stand-in, a satisfactory backstory, and the dragon character who made the whole thing worth reading. The magic system was a DnD take on Earthsea, which could have been worse. The second book could have been made readable by a strict editor, but alas. I didn't even buy the third one.

The third one actually evolved into 2 books, as it got so long. I'd definitely say that the 2nd was disappointing. The others were pretty good though.

Good director and a good cast, might be good.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Breotan wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
They really fethed up earagon. I loved the books, and the movie was just bad period, and even worse compared to the books.

You mean Eragon? I was told that it was written by a 16 year old who loved Lord of the Rings. I read the book and it reads like it was written by a 16 year old who loved Lord of the Rings. So I'm not really sure what you were expecting from the movie.

Sadly, the writing was not the movie's big failure, but rather the directing.

EDIT: The first Eragon novel was better than a lot of popular fantasy fiction. It was pretty much Star Wars with dragons, a very simple, Campbellian story, with an adequate mentor character, a not-too-shabby Vader stand-in, a satisfactory backstory, and the dragon character who made the whole thing worth reading. The magic system was a DnD take on Earthsea, which could have been worse. The second book could have been made readable by a strict editor, but alas. I didn't even buy the third one.

Yeah, there comes a moment when you realise that the first book is pretty much the exact plot of A New Hope... but with Dragons! However, the second and especially 3rd and 4th books definitely broke free of that pattern, and were really rather epic. They don't hold up to His Dark Materials, Inkheart, Chaos Walking, or Mortal Engines, but they're still a cut above The Hunger Games, Heroes of Olympus, Artemis Fowl, maybe even Skulduggery Pleasant and The Edge Chronicles in that YA/Teen/Anyone With Some Imagination Left Fantasy/Sci-fi genre.

Not that those others are at all bad, but Inheritance is (in the last 3 books) generally a little more mature and complex, and the writing is fine really,

is that the guy from Vikings?

 Frazzled wrote:
is that the guy from Vikings?

Yes, he's playing the role of Anduin Lothar.

My friend recently tried to get me back into WoW. The lore I missed kinda sucks.....but this might get me back.
I love the lore of the game. I just feel like there is too much of it.

I'm liking the look of it, will be watching Blizzcon on Friday to see the full trailer, but in general I have high hopes.

Got a lot of faith in Duncan Jones for this, the interviews from cast and crew seem to be sounding good as well.

I started playing Blizzard games with WC1. I am tentatively hopeful that this film will be good.

Looks boring.

Wow was at its best in Vanilla when world PVP around Blackrock Mountain broke out during prime time raiding as folks were trying to get into BWL.

Also, Southshore.

Warcraft movie trailer!

EDIT: Nothing to see.

Well it looks better than I expected. I enjoyed the RTS games. Couldn't stand the MMO.

Whilst watching that trailer all I could think of is how awesome a WHFB film would be lol.

That's an entire army of Khal Drogos. Should be entertaining.

It certainly "looks" like Warcraft.

My grand involvement with Warcraft is playing Warcraft 3, um, 13 years ago...

I've got to say, the film looks really off. And, surprisingly, it was the humans that seemed really weird. Maybe it was the armour that just looked daft, or just too shiny but...

Yeah, I wasn't too enthused with it all.

Oh, and "Thrall baby" (which is apparently a big deal), looked like one of Shrek's kids...

 Compel wrote:
My grand involvement with Warcraft is playing Warcraft 3, um, 13 years ago...

I've got to say, the film looks really off. And, surprisingly, it was the humans that seemed really weird. Maybe it was the armour that just looked daft, or just too shiny but...

Yeah, I wasn't too enthused with it all.

Oh, and "Thrall baby" (which is apparently a big deal), looked like one of Shrek's kids...

Footman armor looked pretty on point. Lothar stood out as different, but he was also the big cheese of Azeroth, so he was going to be different.

I'm sure it did look on point in relation to the games.

On actual, real, humans thought... It just looked really daft. It kinda contributed to this whole 'uncanny valley' thing I had with the humans, which really shouldn't have been there, since, well, they're not the CGI ones.

It kinda reminded me of when people do "Space Marine" cosplay and end up copying the miniatures exactly, it just ends up looking wrong because real bodies don't work that way. It's kinda why the only marine costume I've ever liked, was THQ's one ofr 'Space Marine'.

Looks...okay so far from what I can see. Interesting that they're trying to spin some of it off with a different version regarding Durotan and him reaching out to the humans.

Not crazy about pushing the whole "green jesus saviour" aspect to Thrall again, given the Biblical parallels between him and Moses being put in a wooden basket to float down the river.

 Grimskul wrote:
Looks...okay so far from what I can see. Interesting that they're trying to spin some of it off with a different version regarding Durotan and him reaching out to the humans.

Not crazy about pushing the whole "green jesus saviour" aspect to Thrall again, given the Biblical parallels between him and Moses being put in a wooden basket to float down the river.

Durotan did actually try to stop the war with the humans, but he failed in negotiations. (if i remember right) Blackhand was a puppet for gul'dan so yeah....

I've got to say, the film looks really off. And, surprisingly, it was the humans that seemed really weird. Maybe it was the armour that just looked daft, or just too shiny but...

Yeah, I wasn't too enthused with it all.

i actually agree. The helmets look a bit too large. While the rest of it was scaled back.

Gonna be watching this movie for the orcs anyway.

I'm pretty hype for it. Looks like a fun movie.

Maybe someone older than me can answer this since I never got to enjoy WC1, but is there changes of the storyline going on here? I didn't realize there were any encounters with non-fell (brown skinned) orcs until the Burning Crusade storyline, as all those who came over in the invasion had drank the blood of Mannoroth, or descended from those who had.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Maybe someone older than me can answer this since I never got to enjoy WC1, but is there changes of the storyline going on here? I didn't realize there were any encounters with non-fell (brown skinned) orcs until the Burning Crusade storyline, as all those who came over in the invasion had drank the blood of Mannoroth, or descended from those who had.

The Frostwolves never drank Mannoroths blood (why Orcs turned green), but they still came threw the portal because Draenor was breaking a part. Clans weren't really a thing until Warcraft 2, and the Frostwolves didn't really have a roll in that game, since they were just trying to find a place to live, not conquer.

I've always been curious why Thrall had green skin, when his parents didn't.

Is this Pre-wow? Like Warcraft one?
Cause the main reason I left is because the lore got dense. So this might make for a good intro.
Im just afraid it might make me want to go back, but im too busy with ff14 lol.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Is this Pre-wow? Like Warcraft one?
Cause the main reason I left is because the lore got dense. So this might make for a good intro.
Im just afraid it might make me want to go back, but im too busy with ff14 lol.

Yes, this is the story of the original invasion. When Medivh and Guldan opened the Dark Portal, and the Horde came through and I spoiled that bit since it seems a lo of folks aren't to familiar with the lore of the world.

Ok cool. I always understood that part, So It will make a good movie for me to still see.

 djones520 wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Maybe someone older than me can answer this since I never got to enjoy WC1, but is there changes of the storyline going on here? I didn't realize there were any encounters with non-fell (brown skinned) orcs until the Burning Crusade storyline, as all those who came over in the invasion had drank the blood of Mannoroth, or descended from those who had.

The Frostwolves never drank Mannoroths blood (why Orcs turned green), but they still came threw the portal because Draenor was breaking a part. Clans weren't really a thing until Warcraft 2, and the Frostwolves didn't really have a roll in that game, since they were just trying to find a place to live, not conquer.

I've always been curious why Thrall had green skin, when his parents didn't.

Ah that makes sense, thanks. I thought the break-up didn't happen until WC2 (with Ner'Zul's 'ima summon a bunch o' portulz' antic) but it looks like Draenor wasn't in good shape before that anyway.Good question about Thrall though. Maybe proximity corruption? Will probably explain it in the movie.

The movie is a separate canon but the WoW team considers it an 'enhanced version' of the WC1 story. Back in the day, video game storytelling wasn't what it is now, and they regret many decisions they now feel they can remake.

But no, it's as said a separate canon. The orcs are mostly brown and reasonable rather than the green berserkers of the usual canon WC1.

Still, Color me excited. As said, wows lore is great.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Still, Color me excited. As said, wows lore is great.

They just ribbed off Games Workshop

*puts on hipster glasses from 1995*

Honestly, with how much the Bronze dragonflight has meddled around with the timelines, who can even say what the real timeline is? Humans become monsters, monsters become humans, and before you know it even Ogres and Naga are good guys, and half of Azeroth personally flicked off Guldan, rescued Thrall from captivity etc, etc before they were born.

 Gitzbitah wrote:
Honestly, with how much the Bronze dragonflight has meddled around with the timelines, who can even say what the real timeline is? Humans become monsters, monsters become humans, and before you know it even Ogres and Naga are good guys, and half of Azeroth personally flicked off Guldan, rescued Thrall from captivity etc, etc before they were born.

Not to mention the widespread genocide of all Orc players parental generation in Warlords... quite honestly, I don't think even the main game has a canonical timeline anymore...

 Gitzbitah wrote:
Honestly, with how much the Bronze dragonflight has meddled around with the timelines, who can even say what the real timeline is? Humans become monsters, monsters become humans, and before you know it even Ogres and Naga are good guys, and half of Azeroth personally flicked off Guldan, rescued Thrall from captivity etc, etc before they were born.

No, there is quite clearly a 'main' timeline in the setting, and characters in the actual lore (Timewalkers and the Bronze Dragonflight) do acknowledge this.

Most of their actions in Caverns of Time etc. has been to keep that main timeline on its intended road.

Besides doesnt Warlords take place in a parallel world?

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Besides doesnt Warlords take place in a parallel world?

Close!

But it is a Parallel Universe!

Alternate timeline, yes.

Yeah, there comes a moment when you realise that the first book is pretty much the exact plot of A New Hope... but with Dragons!

That's because A New Hope is the plot of a gereric fantasy adventure...but with spaceships!

 AegisGrimm wrote:

Yeah, there comes a moment when you realise that the first book is pretty much the exact plot of A New Hope... but with Dragons!

That's because A New Hope is the plot of a gereric fantasy adventure...but with spaceships!

Indeed. George Lucas was not original with the original trilogy, but thats probably a good thing as he clearly can't write a good story from scratch.

Its just that prior to Star Wars we hadn't really ever had a mass media portrayal of the classical fantasy genre, it was relegated to books which not many people were reading at the time. It was the 70s, reading classical literature wasn't exactly the thing to do.

Female Orc, Orc peacemaker, Orc Moses. No, not interested no matter how good the CGI is. Not settling for anything less than IMAX trilogy of the third war for armageddon.

Definitely going to see it, Orc dindu nuffins or not!

dindu nuffins?

'Didn't do nothings'

thenoobbomb is concerned that the orcs will get away without being called to account for their attacks, when peace becomes a possibility.

A valid concern given the plot of Warlords of Draenor, which ends with exactly that.

 Ashiraya wrote:
'Didn't do nothings'

thenoobbomb is concerned that the orcs will get away without being called to account for their attacks, when peace becomes a possibility.

A valid concern given the plot of Warlords of Draenor, which ends with exactly that.

Hahaha. Yeah no. This is the Alliance of Lordaeron, they will not be happy with orcs. I don't know because of the interment camps...

Plus its the first war.

The Horde won the first war, remember that. And it was a demonic Horde, with no brown guys left.

Who knows how the movie will end?

 Ashiraya wrote:
'Didn't do nothings'

thenoobbomb is concerned that the orcs will get away without being called to account for their attacks, when peace becomes a possibility.

A valid concern given the plot of Warlords of Draenor, which ends with exactly that.

Even more so with the Orcs getting away with it all in the eyes of the viewers.

 Ashiraya wrote:
The Horde won the first war, remember that. And it was a demonic Horde, with no brown guys left.

Who knows how the movie will end?

Yeah I remember. Me a warcraft nerd!

Old Horde Badass and awesome. New Horde with Vol'jin bunch of wimps!

Old Horde were demonic slaves, new Horde is independent, multicultural and diplomatic.

That is a better way to put it.

 Ashiraya wrote:
Old Horde were demonic slaves, new Horde is independent, multicultural and diplomatic.

That is a better way to put it.

I think they are wimps and lost the badassness of the new horde under Thrall when they were first come out.

Honestly, as someone who's much more of an Alliance fan, "getting away with BS" is pretty much the Horde's raison d'être. Inexplicable incompetence on the part of the Alliance, beings with immense power that hates the Horde but just sorta lets them live anyway (looking at you, Alexstrasza and Malfurion) and Green Jesus. Plus the disturbing tendencies for major Alliance characters going neutral.

I'm fully expecting the movie to be a massive disappointment from an Alliance point-of-view, because Blizzard has repeatedly proven that they can't avoid screwing up when writing Alliance lore.

Everything just looks so... out of place in that trailler... On top of that, it seemed really boring. But that's my POV.

Well I'll definitely be watching it at least.

I'll echo most experts on it and say that it looks like Lord of the Chronicles of The Hobbit" with Orcs.

Isn't that basically what Warcaft is? Oh wait I see what we're missing;

Age of the Lord of the Chronicles of The Hobbithammer

Saw the IMAX 3D preview tonight. The movie itself looks good, the 3D looks good, but I think it might be a case of just being too much 3D. This moving be a movie that I will see in good old fashioned 2D.

So... Retconning fiesta again?

The slogan "The enemies will unite" doesn't fit well with WC: The Beginning. According to the trailer footage. it sets in the Frist War. Look at little orc baby, I think he is Thrall.

http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/First_war

The actual 'Unite' didn't take place until the events in Warcraft 3.

Warcraft 1 was demonic orc Horde versus human defenders, and the humans lost.

Guess why Hollywood wouldn't like that.

Well duh, the average studio exec is a blithering fething idiot who thinks hes the smartest person in the room. Which is why theres a struggle to get another mad max while we're garaunteed five more bay turtles films...

I want to like this but rewriting the history is annoying. Ontop of wwwaaayyy too much cgi to the point of why do you even have live actors in this?

I honestly don't understand why this isn't a full CGI movie. Have you seen the stuff blizzard itself makes?!

Probably because that would take a ridiculous amount of work. Have you seen how much effort they put into those 3-minute trailers?

Yeah, there is a reason their whol game doenst look like that.

 Soladrin wrote:
I honestly don't understand why this isn't a full CGI movie. Have you seen the stuff blizzard itself makes?!

Blizz made a superb CGI cinematic in their 'craft' series before. With the newer game comes to exists, the cinematics becomes more 'human', (one of their best job is Starcraft 2, through the WoL storyline doesn't really make sense, especially with Crown Prince Valerian Mengsk becomes macchiavellic , arranged meetings with Raynor in not so conventional way... letting him and his buddy unleashed their vendetta only to be rooked later with 'promise')

In this Warcraft game Blizz DOES NOT direct the movie directly. Instead that Blizz assigned Metzen to oversee projects (and canon congruency), in the meantime Blizz wants to make an epic LotR feel to Warcraft franchise, enough reasons why the movie is live action?

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Yeah, there is a reason their whol game doenst look like that.

I think that's more of an art style than a cost saving option as it's much easier to identify things that are simpler in design than complex when zoomed out, that's partially why Vanilla and BC transmogs are so popular, as they're generally simple but have cool concepts.

I mean it's why I chose WoW over EQ2 and why I really don't like the Cata Sulf hammer compared to the original from Vanilla. Yes, it looks nicer close up, but when I'm playing I usually zoom out a lot so I can see my environment better for raiding, and that makes the more detailed stuff look honestly blurry.

lonestarr777 wrote:
Well duh, the average studio exec is a blithering fething idiot who thinks hes the smartest person in the room. Which is why theres a struggle to get another mad max while we're garaunteed five more bay turtles films...

For what it's worth, the guy in charge of Legendary Pictures (who are behind this film), is apparently a gigantic nerd.

Update: Second trailer recently released. Like a month ago. Somehow we all missed it, I guess.

So here are the two trailers so far. All I can say is... bleh. The contrast between the CGI and live action actors is so jarring it almost looks like the Toontown sequences from Roger Rabbit.

Anyone looking forward to this one?

I'd like to see it, I love the warcraft universe.. but I'm gonna wait for cable. It takes something really uber like Star Wars to get me to wanna to go to a theater.

Yaaay more Orcs! Because Warcraft fans haven't gotten enough of Metzen's burly (wo)men, amirite?

I'm still excited for it. The CGI, while noticeable, isn't bad to me and orks are properly sized beasts. The CGI is actually much, much better than The Hobbit.

I love the Warcraft Universe too so this makes me more excited than a lot of the stuff coming out this year. It's a big and rich environment and it also helps clean up the story line for the universe.

 Hulksmash wrote:
The CGI is actually much, much better than The Hobbit.

What? Everything aside from the actors is green screen with CGI added in. The Hobbit was at least shot on practical sets mostly. Well, except for that Dwarf city place anyway.

 Breotan wrote:

 Hulksmash wrote:
The CGI is actually much, much better than The Hobbit.

What? Everything aside from the actors is green screen with CGI added in. The Hobbit was at least shot on practical sets mostly. Well, except for that Dwarf city place anyway.

Yeah, but it all looked jarring and terrible in the hobbit.

They were late with the movie for 10-20 years

Or they prepearing for new World of World of Wacraft?

It feels like the WoW movie is more like MeH... I think this will be one of those films where the critics will pan it, but the Blizzard cult following will make them a fortune.

I dunno. I don't mind that they are retconning the first war a bit, because the Last Guardian was trash and the game itself was immediately retconned into oblivion by Warcrsft 2. I mean, how did Durotan even make it past Stormwind, who was on alert, Ironforge, Stromgarde, Lordaeron and parts of Alterac, and then keep his Clan hidden up until Thrall finds it after the Second War? Especially since the Alliance was scouring the continent for the Orcs (Warsongs in particular)!

If they had some sort of pass at the time, or a guide who could get them around these kingdoms, it might make more sense.

 Soladrin wrote:

 Breotan wrote:

 Hulksmash wrote:
The CGI is actually much, much better than The Hobbit.

What? Everything aside from the actors is green screen with CGI added in. The Hobbit was at least shot on practical sets mostly. Well, except for that Dwarf city place anyway.

Yeah, but it all looked jarring and terrible in the hobbit.

What he said. The real "sets" made the cgi actually look worse and stand out far more. They can make things fit better in this because it's all green screen. CGI gets done well in one of two ways. Almost entirely CGI where they take the time and money to make it work or Practical effects with CGI filling in minute gaps. The hobbit didn't do either and suffered for it.

I'm not convinced that's so true anymore.




There's similar videos out there about Mad Max, which is often hailed as the modern master of practical effects.

Think the point being.. the best SFX are the ones you don't notice as being SFX, be they practical or CGI.

I think a lot of the time it just comes down to skilful camera work, you notice the films where it isn't the case.

Well it's out and to no one's surprise, I hope, it is getting horrible reviews and being derided as a lifeless spectacle.

I'm ok with lifeless spectacle and am still looking forward to it. I just love the world as a whole

When I first saw the preview, I lost interest as soon as I saw what they did to the ork female(beautified to us), I rather they didn't have any female ork, and go with the asexual/fungus that the GW orks/orcs.

 Big Mac wrote:
When I first saw the preview, I lost interest as soon as I saw what they did to the ork female(beautified to us), I rather they didn't have any female ork, and go with the asexual/fungus that the GW orks/orcs.

Yes but that's not the way it is in Warcraft.

Saw it today and I hated it. I've nothing against CGI, my problem with the film was that it was just plain boring.

Also the ORCs where far to humanised for my liking. Not to mention some terrible acting, Dominic Cooper in particular was phoning it in.

Reviews are starting to come in...and when you are getting compared to the Doom movie, you got problems.

Warcraft is getting eviscerated hard.

 curran12 wrote:
Reviews are starting to come in...and when you are getting compared to the Doom movie, you got problems.

Warcraft is getting eviscerated hard.

Kind of inevitable. Even just watching the trailers, I knew they were going for far too much than could be reasonably fit into a single movie (plus that much CGI hurts my eyes, even if it is pretty).

And if I may be so bold, the quality of Warcraft story line is so rose tinted the entire movie might as well have been filmed in pink. It's a plot far too cliche and shallow in the year 2016 to fly imo.

They would have been much better off shooting a TV series, which actually could have captured the scope of the kind of story they seem to want to tell.

Yeah, heres to hoping it still brings in enough for sequels

I know it's going to be cheesy. I know it's going to be cliche and super shallow. But I'm part of that group that probably won't care. I'll see it in theatres the first week it's out and just enjoy a shallow and mindless spectacle watching a world I love come to life.

Well, that's the problem with reviews...they aren't saying it is cheesy. They are saying it is something far worse; boring and soulless.

 curran12 wrote:
Well, that's the problem with reviews...they aren't saying it is cheesy. They are saying it is something far worse; boring and soulless.

Sounds like most film reviewers.

My roommate was telling me that Jamie Lee Curtis was at the premiere and screamed "Llllllllllleroy JENKINS!!!!" Before running inside the theater. I got a good laugh out of that, and officially decided she's awesome!

Well that was entirely predictable.

Can't believe the jak and daxter movie I loved, but this one.... Might turn into a piece of crudoila

If you want amazing CGI and good CGI check out CGI Bros. They release student and professional CGI, including breakdowns and tutorials.

First time I've fallen asleep in a theater. I only got through the first part.
The cgi was ok... but with the actual actors in it next to it... made it look so bad and pasted in.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
My roommate was telling me that Jamie Lee Curtis was at the premiere and screamed "Llllllllllleroy JENKINS!!!!" Before running inside the theater. I got a good laugh out of that, and officially decided she's awesome!

she did indeed.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/06/07/jamie-lee-curtis-knows-how-to-attend-a-warcraft-movie-premiere/




http://www.indiewire.com/2016/06/warcraft-review-duncan-jones-1201683601/


" Review: ‘Warcraft’ Is The ‘Battlefield Earth’ Of The 21st Century "


ouch.

I liked Battlefield Earth.....But I know most didn't. And yes, Jamie Lee Curtis is awesome. She cosplayed at the premiere

 Hulksmash wrote:
I liked Battlefield Earth.....

I can't even fathom what would make some feel that way. I don't even think the people involved liked it.

I was hoping WoW would be good because Duncan Jones has shown some skill in the past. It seems like I might be better off just watching Moon again.

 Ahtman wrote:
I can't even fathom what would make some feel that way. I don't even think the people involved liked it.

Except for maybe John Travolta who made the terrible thing as a love letter to his idol

 LordofHats wrote:

 Ahtman wrote:
I can't even fathom what would make some feel that way. I don't even think the people involved liked it.

Except for maybe John Travolta who made the terrible thing as a love letter to his idol

Tim Gunn?

 Ahtman wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:

 Ahtman wrote:
I can't even fathom what would make some feel that way. I don't even think the people involved liked it.

Except for maybe John Travolta who made the terrible thing as a love letter to his idol

Tim Gunn?

L. Ron Hubbard

Of course, that film had a lot more problems that a severe case of running the asylum, what with the fraud and all.

Saw Warcraft. It was alright. Not terribly boring, entertaining enough, but it was no Civil War. Not nearly as bad as Battlefield Earth or even that recentish Will Smith scifi one with his kid.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/holy-crap-does-china-love-the-warcraft-movie-1781513049?rev=1465482959728&utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

but that has not stopped the film from completely storming its way through the Chinese box office, where it’s doing even better than its previous #1 non-weekend launch, Avengers: Age of Ultron.

The news isn’t entirely that surprising. China loves the hell out of World of Warcraft, and Chinese users make up a significant number of the MMORPG’s userbase. After last night’s opening in China, Warcraft took a whopping $46 million, the best non-weekend launch in the country’s history, taking the title from Avengers: Age of Ultron, which brought in $28.3 million when it opened in May last year.

So. low score on RT. High score on IMDB. Medium score by internet critics. All praising the CGI and motion capture, mostly dissing the forced romance and lack-luster plot.

I'm going to the movies soon then

Yeah, I already know I'm going to hate the feed romance between Lothar and Garona. And Warcraft 1s plot sucked anyways, but if I want them to make more I have to give them my $20.

Warcrsft 2 or 3 would make far better movies. Hell, the fall of Lordaeron campaign and having Arthas be a reverse King Arthur would be a good movie. People like zombies, people like magic, bam.

Though, they'd probably get accused of ripping off game of thrones when they got to northrend.

Saw it in the local cinema last night, it was great!

Saw it last night. As a fan of Warcraft 3 and a longtime player of WoW, I must say they brought the universe to life. Sure it wasn't as action packed as I'm sure people were hoping for, but I actually liked that. They had all the big characters, and a ton of subtle shout-outs to the MMO. All-in-all, I effing loved it.

I saw it last week, and you know what, I enjoyed it

It's no Blade Runner or Inception or Alien, but it's an enjoyable movie, and I can say that as a huge fan of Warcraft 3 and WoW.

I can see why it irks people, but different strokes for different folks and all that.

I just came back from the movie and I enjoyed it. I've never played warcraft so some of the moments were lost on me and the story felt a little clumsy, but it was still fun to watch. I really enjoyed how they made orcs compelling characters rather than mindless bad guys.

Best video game movie I've seen (whatever that's worth).

I just saw the movie earlier today and I enjoyed it. Good action, decent story, and the CGI was not as bad as some people have said it was. One thing that may have helped my enjoyment is the fact that I basically knew nothing of the Warcraft universe before seeing the movie. My only real exposure to it until today was from Hearthstone.

Going to see it late today. Looking forward to it!

I'm seeing it Wednesday with a buddy and I'm looking forward to it.

 ZergSmasher wrote:
I just saw the movie earlier today and I enjoyed it. Good action, decent story, and the CGI was not as bad as some people have said it was. One thing that may have helped my enjoyment is the fact that I basically knew nothing of the Warcraft universe before seeing the movie. My only real exposure to it until today was from Hearthstone.

Spoiler:

They even got a Murloc in there, but no sign of Leeroy Jenkins...

Apparently alot of deleted scenes had alot more content for the fans.

Pity it's bombing at home. But maybe abroad will save it and we'll still get more. It's at almost 300 million and it only cost 160 million to put together.

 Hulksmash wrote:
Pity it's bombing at home. But maybe abroad will save it and we'll still get more. It's at almost 300 million and it only cost 160 million to put together.

It's box office isn't the most encouraging, but I think anyone with a brain can tell there is potential for future films, and anything that was wrong about this one can be learned from. The film isn't a bomb so I think there is hope for more in the future

I personally can't wait for a movie about Arthas Menethil and the Third War.

The first war is a bore, but the second war has a better cast and is better written.

Spoilers below

Yeah, I thought the First War was a strange choice to start out on too. But I guess they wanted to introduce fans to this new timeline.

 TheCustomLime wrote:
Yeah, I thought the First War was a strange choice to start out on too. But I guess they wanted to introduce fans to this new timeline.

Its better than the War of the Ancients which was the other choice.

But they had to introduce Azeroth Somehow. They can't do the background lore of the Nation of Arathor or else it would be too much information.

I think it's doing terrible in the west but absolutely completely and totally rocking in China.

Wife and I watched on Friday, we both enjoyed the movie.

Wife did not like how they modeled the Dwarves, too much face not enough body, and enjoyed seeing their vision of the inside of Ironforge, as that was her favorite alliance race.

I had only one gripe, but after talking it over, it makes sense to change it.

I liked it a lot.
There were some cool shoutouts to the game.
I liked the cgi but I did start to wonder why the orcs were so ham fisted. They looked a bit like wreck it ralphs inbred cousin.

Were there trolls and goblins thrown in there? I saw a few crazy critters but they went by fast.

 Asherian Command wrote:

 TheCustomLime wrote:
Yeah, I thought the First War was a strange choice to start out on too. But I guess they wanted to introduce fans to this new timeline.

Its better than the War of the Ancients which was the other choice.

But they had to introduce Azeroth Somehow. They can't do the background lore of the Nation of Arathor or else it would be too much information.

As much as I like the Kaldorei I would not have wanted to watch a movie just about them.

Saw it yesterday. I enjoyed it. I had fun picking out locations from Azeroth and seeing the world come to life. The CGI was good. I enjoyed the spectacle.

How is the 3D?

The previews made the 3D look unwatchable, and I figure that if I end up watching it in the theater it will be in 2D. But I wanted to get some feedback from others who have watched it in 3D.

I watched it in 2d so I have no idea. I feel like this wouldn't benefit from 3rd.

Just came back from the movie and I really dug it. I've never played a Warcraft game in my life, I just wanted a pretty looking fantasy epic and that's largely what I got out of it. It was a fun movie that didn't take itself too seriously.