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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announced that Sam Raimi would serve as the film's director, but in July 2012, he told Crave Online that he had withdrawn, due to committing to the movie Oz the Great and Powerful.[17] At San Diego Comic-Con 2011, Chris Metzen said the movie was not dead, but gave few useful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.