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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.