I saw that yesterday, haven't had a chance to watch the trailer yet.
Does it look like it'll be any good?
I'm sure it'll be terrible, but the Blizzard CGI team (it looks like they're actually getting to do this; the CGI looks good enough to be them) does impressive work, as always.
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Interesting. Raises a lot of questions, actually - when in the timeline is this movie? Are they retconning the mythos (it kind of seems like it)? Does anyone show up besides Orcs and Humans (I heard years ago that Verne Troyer was going to be in this - he'd obviously be a Gnome)? Are they going to keep it classy this time around, or are they going to delve into increasing layers of self-insulting sleaze like World of Warcraft wound up doing?
Just saw it (the trailer) Not sure how good it will be for people like me who haven't plaayed the game
won't need to know anything about the series because it looks like it starts with the first game, so you might enjoy it since you are going in clean with no expectations
Revel in the glory
I couldn't get that Facebook-hosted video to play in full screen, but YouTube has it too, which works better.
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Guuh. Don't know if the incredibly fake looking CGI thing is a stylistic choice or whatever, but to me it just looks awful. I'm pretty darn sure I'm not watching this in the theatres. It just looks really bad.Overly high expectations much?
Not overly high, just expectations. In this day and age movies look better than this, even low budget ones. This looks like an extended cut scene.
I guess that's the whole plot explained in the trailer
Looks interesting, regardless!
Carry on!
--C.
Interesting. Raises a lot of questions, actually - when in the timeline is this movie? Are they retconning the mythos (it kind of seems like it)? Does anyone show up besides Orcs and Humans (I heard years ago that Verne Troyer was going to be in this - he'd obviously be a Gnome)? Are they going to keep it classy this time around, or are they going to delve into increasing layers of self-insulting sleaze like World of Warcraft wound up doing?
It's retelling the story of WARCRAFT I - the movie will actually be called WARCRAFT: THE BEGINNING in some territories - but they have the freedom to tweak things around. The person in charge of the story is Chris Metzen, which is good because he obviously knows the lore but is also bad because he's 1) a terrible writer and 2) is now getting to tweak the backstory to fit the current stuff in the games, which I know is annoying to old-school WARCRAFT fans. Fortunately he's not actually writing the script itself, only the story and outline.
It's a good idea to keep it simple. Apparently the dwarves and elves show up, but not in great numbers, and it sounds like there'll be no gnomes, tauren or other races. The focus is on Orcs vs. Humans and the story will retell the story of WARCRAFT I, although some elements of WC2 and WC3 may also come into play (they're definitely setting up Thrall's story for a potential sequel). WC1 was fairly light on storytelling, so they have a great deal more freedom to improvise and change things when it comes to character and story.
I was never that enticed by the trailers, and have never really enjoyed any adaptation of a video game to a movie.
I finally just watched this on HBO. It was okay. Everything was pretty straight forward. The acting... was okay. Not great, but other than a few scenes, it was all tolerable or even decent. The action was mediocre, but I'm never impressed by CGI action these days. Computer images punching computer images is boring. A couple times though the action was actually married to story development, and those moments were decent.
All in all, not a waste of time to watch for a fantasy genre movie. While fantasy has had a boost the past few years, this reminded me more of an old school movie, and by that standard it was actually pretty good. If you grew up watching fantasy movies in the 70s, 80s or 90s, this isn't that far outside of that wheelhouse. It's better quality than Conan the Destroyer or Krull, but still in the same league.
Also, the movie did poorly in the US, but it did so well in China that sequels are probably going to happen. Counting foreign box office, it's the most successful video game movie of all time.
Yeah, it was a very okay movie. I think it helps if you're versed in WARCRAFT a bit beforehand, but it's not fatal if you're not.