this
the whole backstory could've been explained in a few flashback scenes at the beginning like in the Lord of the Rings and then you could get going with the interesting story of game 3
In lord of the rings their backstory isn't even shown, Sarum just tell the Uruk Hai that they were once elves but we're twisted into orc. That's it. With warcraft you just need 'they were sent here by an evil demon who tricked them into servitude'
I was talking about Galadriel narrating the historical events at the beginning of Fellowship.
It brings you up to speed fast even if you don't know anything about Lord of the Rings.
They could've done the same about the events of game 1 and 2.
So was the casting director actually fucking stupid? Were they trying to make the characters look like cosplayers so fans would relate to them or something?
The art style choice was the right one (even if they could have gone more grim like Wc1 and 2 were). The issue was using live actors for the alliance, the film would have been better if everything was CGI.
i really like this movie. feel like it'll end up like a host of other fantasy movies that were unappreciated in their time (although it did make a lot of money) and develop a nice cult following!
Look at that fucking guy on the left. As someone who gives zero fucks about Warcraft, what does that design do to make me want to see the movie? I don’t care if it’s accurate or not, it looks retarded.
I enjoyed it. It wasn't the best movie ever, but it was enjoyable. I know nothing about the lore or whatever, I stopped playing Warcraft at the second RTS game, which came out....like in the 90's?
- CGI did not mix well with the live action
- the human costumes looked bad, like cosplay
- half the main cast was unconvincing and weird looking
- MMORPG multi racial, mixed sex extras
- the plot was boring
I enjoyed the movie only because I had low expectations.
The mainstream was not ready to admit a world of warcraft movie was good. That's like, the nerdiest thing you could possible watch, a world or warcraft movie? That would dry up a cooch faster than Spiderman comic collection. Release this in the current swarm of capeshit, and maybe it would get the credit it deserves.
guess it depends on if moolah ever gets tight! but i have enormous collections of xmen (and affiliates), avengers, silver surfer (was always a sucker for the cosmic stuff), fantastic four, spidey, thor, ect.. i stopped collecting altogether when they did the onslaught arc, i was tired after age of apocalypse and it seemed greedy so i left the hobby altogether buying neither anything or old since then but i'm still nerdy about it XD
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*buying neither anything new or old...
anyway i liked world of warcraft! never played any of the games though so if something in the movie was upsetting for fans i was blissfully unaware!
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Interesting, thanks for sharing. I enjoyed the WOW movie as well, even as a non player. That said, they wanted to appeal to more than just WOW fans, and I think they did a great job at doing so. I didn't feel like I was watching nerd shit, it felt like..I dunno the word, legit? Like they could of fucked that up easily and they didn't.
I honestly thought it was decent but I never played WoW, I was a RuneScape kid. But didn't this make its money back in China? I thought for sure a sequel was coming.
They tried to make it super serious and gritty and intense, when WoW is some of the silliest shit on the planet, and they should of leaned heavier onto that.
Silent Hill, Warcraft, Detective Pikachu and the first Sonic movie (didnt see the second) are the only good adaptations. Of those, I honestly do think Warcraft is the best, although I really liked Detective Pikachu too.
Mostly shit acting from human actors. Everything else was pretty good. I'd like to see another Warcraft movie, but judging from Blizzard's current state, thats highly unlikely to happen
Came out a decade too late. Recently rewatched it with the kids their first time seeing it, its actually a decent flick. I didn't really remember the large number of characters who die in it, something like 3/4 or more of the characters die.
i never played warcraft and decided to watch it: >>okay simple invasion >>some orcs don't want to but tribe needs to survive >>mean protag is a complete douche >>but still has heart of gold for son >>don't know why mage is treated like shit >>he's trying to give info about invasion, but is told to shut up and put in jail
mage is treated like his shit don't stink
, battles, orc girl, battles
hero is still douche but tolerates mage >>orc girl and douche hero have a thing
hero comes in barefoot and wrecks everyone like he wields the infinity stones
king lets orc girl kill him so fighting can stop >>end
Basing it on Orcs v Humans made the most casual WoW players not able top follow it, and having too much story for 1 movie. The Orcs were fun and interesting, the Humans were, as Warcraft humans are, generic fantasy humans. Lots of people think they should have jump straight into warcraft 3 with arthas and illidan, but given how elfs looked in this game that would have been a mistake and explaining who each of the orcs and elfs were would have confused people more than this one did.
In the game, sure, I agree. In the movie? No. This movie had what, 3 orcs of note? 4 if you count garona who was basically a green human and people had issues following the names. Now add in more orcs, tauren, undead explained, the lich king, the elfs needed AND the humans. The game was easy to follow as it split the campaigns by race, the movie wouldn't come out in 4-5 parts like the game split itself into. This movie, like the first game was Orcs and Humans.
Warcraft 3 has; Humans, Orcs, Elves, Tauren, Undead, Forsaken, Nerubian, Nathreziem. Demons and the outlier in Medhiev. It would be split over Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor and Northrend.
Where does it start? With Thralls dream? How does it handle the Culling of Stratholme? How does it explain the difference in undead and forsaken? What about how it would handle silvermoon to raise Kel'Thuzad? How does it handle bouncing back and forth? What about the Elves fighting the orcs in ashenvale? What about Grom and Thrall vs Mannoroth?
forget Frozen Throne for now
just split the Reign of Chaos movie into two parts: Thrall's and Arthas's story culminating in Arthas killing his father and summoning Burning Legion
part two is the showdown in Kalimdor, focusing heavily on night elves
it's not that hard
you cut the unnecessary bullshit and you're left with a pretty basic story with only a handful of actually important characters: Arthas, Thrall, Jaina, Illidan, Tyrande and Malfurion with Medivh flying about, dumping cryptic warnings and exposition
Lich King, Kel'Thuzad, Malganis etc are just plot devices for Arthas to fall anyway. They don't need a lot of screentime. Lich King wasn't even shown before Frozen Throne.
I'm not saying that it's a great movie but I think people who say that they should've started at 3 are fucking stupid. They just say that because WC3 is their only exposure to the Warcraft universe other than WoW.
If the same guys decided who made the movie made it take place in WC3 instead it would be of the same quality.
There is plenty material in the first RTS game to make a story out of, even if less than the 3rd one.
The issue is how they went about it.
Two things, basically:
Real actors were a gigantic fucking mistake. Especially turbo autistic Fimmel and cringy Garona with cheap plastic teeth.
They chose a wrong game to start with, should have just skipped straight to WC3.
>Post WotLK storyline is the purest cringe
Wrath is pure cringe as well, the Lich King keeps showing up through his retarded portal, yell at you and then disappears like some loony tunes character.
Over and over again.
>never understood trying to tell a serious story in mmos that wasn't just listening to npcs berate you, which is actually most vidya stories
If I wanted to have NPCs berate me I'd tell you about my one rep max
Well, yeah, i meant plot in general outside of MMO aspect. Having major characters being killed by a rabid packs of xxxPussydestroyers69xxx always sucked ass. There are two REALLY fucking good custom campaigns for WC3 based on BK and WotLK where all the raiding is done by an actual characters like Jaina, Lor'Themar, Trall, etc. I'd say it's the real WC4 we've never got.
It's because raid homosexuals wanted to kill the big guy. Vanilla was the best because you were just some guy in a much larger universe, the moment players became the protagonist (with Burning Crusade) it turned to shit.
I actually really like this film, the problems was that the human characters were not that compelling (even though I like the actor for lothar) it makes sense to start with the First War especially since WCIII is way to fucking dense for one movie it even try to adapt one of the campaigns, let alone the whole story. I am glad it died because any sequels would me made in a post 2016 world and would have 3000% increases in naggers and homosexuals
>Such powerful psychics they can just open the window on their space ship to let some air in and it works instead of killing everyone >Can still be beaten by some regular guard troops
???
!!!
The orc scenes were great, the human scenes looked like a bunch of LARPers. I initially thought that it'd be better if they just adapted WC3/Arthas story, but seeing how awful the human scenes were, it's probably for the best.
1. The story is a mess and hard to follow, even for the initiated.
2. They weren't able to solve the problem of putting Warcraft designs into live action without it looking tacky and laughable. Whenever the humans are on the screen, is like you're watching the most expensive B-movie ever made.
i found it to be enjoyable honestly, not great by any means but it wasn't as terrible as i had been led to believe. I had fun watching it and didn't take it too seriously
the animated orc scenes were great, but the live-action green screen shit took you out of it immediately. People were asking for a feature length blizzard cinematic for decades, i don't think they envisioned some chick painted green with cheap halloween plastic vampire teeth implants and elf ears to be that popular orc character you know from the game
no push for franchise
they didn't base it on Warcraft 3
let's face it, it's the one everyone played, it has the best story and it led directly to WoW
Yes. People don't need the backstory to the orcs.
this
the whole backstory could've been explained in a few flashback scenes at the beginning like in the Lord of the Rings and then you could get going with the interesting story of game 3
In lord of the rings their backstory isn't even shown, Sarum just tell the Uruk Hai that they were once elves but we're twisted into orc. That's it. With warcraft you just need 'they were sent here by an evil demon who tricked them into servitude'
I was talking about Galadriel narrating the historical events at the beginning of Fellowship.
It brings you up to speed fast even if you don't know anything about Lord of the Rings.
They could've done the same about the events of game 1 and 2.
lol, I never played any warcraft games except 1 and 2.
grandpas like you don't count
Duncan Jones didn't say he would do a sequel?
nah he was hopping for a sequel if it performed well which I think it did, (600 mil worldwide) but I guess the gears never got turning for it
F BLIZZARD
>what could have been
I thought it was good till the third act
So was the casting director actually fucking stupid? Were they trying to make the characters look like cosplayers so fans would relate to them or something?
The art style choice was the right one (even if they could have gone more grim like Wc1 and 2 were). The issue was using live actors for the alliance, the film would have been better if everything was CGI.
i really like this movie. feel like it'll end up like a host of other fantasy movies that were unappreciated in their time (although it did make a lot of money) and develop a nice cult following!
Look at that fucking guy on the left. As someone who gives zero fucks about Warcraft, what does that design do to make me want to see the movie? I don’t care if it’s accurate or not, it looks retarded.
I enjoyed it. It wasn't the best movie ever, but it was enjoyable. I know nothing about the lore or whatever, I stopped playing Warcraft at the second RTS game, which came out....like in the 90's?
The only female Orc in a mainstream movie didn’t get naked or have sex with a human male. That’s why it failed.
I would so hard
Made for human men
>get lady-orc blowjob
>fangs puncture your balls
nice
worth
Im willing to risk it
She's only half-orcish
>have sex with a human male
She most definitely did. Was that only on DVD as cut footage?
- CGI did not mix well with the live action
- the human costumes looked bad, like cosplay
- half the main cast was unconvincing and weird looking
- MMORPG multi racial, mixed sex extras
- the plot was boring
I enjoyed the movie only because I had low expectations.
The mainstream was not ready to admit a world of warcraft movie was good. That's like, the nerdiest thing you could possible watch, a world or warcraft movie? That would dry up a cooch faster than Spiderman comic collection. Release this in the current swarm of capeshit, and maybe it would get the credit it deserves.
mfw my spider man comic collection is enormous and not even the awful modern stuff but all the cool stuff from the 90's and long before <-<;;
It was a knee jerk reference. Good for you if you got in and stuck with it long before the mainstream.
-whew-
Do you ever plan on selling your collection? Or is it staying in your family?
guess it depends on if moolah ever gets tight! but i have enormous collections of xmen (and affiliates), avengers, silver surfer (was always a sucker for the cosmic stuff), fantastic four, spidey, thor, ect.. i stopped collecting altogether when they did the onslaught arc, i was tired after age of apocalypse and it seemed greedy so i left the hobby altogether buying neither anything or old since then but i'm still nerdy about it XD
*buying neither anything new or old...
anyway i liked world of warcraft! never played any of the games though so if something in the movie was upsetting for fans i was blissfully unaware!
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I enjoyed the WOW movie as well, even as a non player. That said, they wanted to appeal to more than just WOW fans, and I think they did a great job at doing so. I didn't feel like I was watching nerd shit, it felt like..I dunno the word, legit? Like they could of fucked that up easily and they didn't.
Literally Travis Fimmel was the problem, he's the blandest actor they could have casted other than Sam Worthlesston
I honestly thought it was decent but I never played WoW, I was a RuneScape kid. But didn't this make its money back in China? I thought for sure a sequel was coming.
Problem was not making it a fully animated movie (in addition to not doing WC3).
They tried to make it super serious and gritty and intense, when WoW is some of the silliest shit on the planet, and they should of leaned heavier onto that.
nothing... fwiw it is indeed an above average video game adaptation
Silent Hill, Warcraft, Detective Pikachu and the first Sonic movie (didnt see the second) are the only good adaptations. Of those, I honestly do think Warcraft is the best, although I really liked Detective Pikachu too.
>Silent Hill
the best vg adaptation till data if you ask me
Mostly shit acting from human actors. Everything else was pretty good. I'd like to see another Warcraft movie, but judging from Blizzard's current state, thats highly unlikely to happen
Came out a decade too late. Recently rewatched it with the kids their first time seeing it, its actually a decent flick. I didn't really remember the large number of characters who die in it, something like 3/4 or more of the characters die.
Didnt they set the ending up for a sequel but it bombed hard so they memory holed it?
Too much screen time and focus on humans
>...what went wrong?
I waited over 10 years for that piece of shit? I pos retelling of Warcraft 1 Orcs vs Humans? Terrible choice for Lothar, and Medhiv.
Jesus christ, they made two of these?
No, you are just retarded
>Animated film in the style of their cinematics
>About the story of Arthas
>Made in the 2000s
Would've worked
They made the orc protag Durocuck instead of Chadhammer
Pacing was crazy fucked. Things went by way too fast.
i never played warcraft and decided to watch it:
>>okay simple invasion
>>some orcs don't want to but tribe needs to survive
>>mean protag is a complete douche
>>but still has heart of gold for son
>>don't know why mage is treated like shit
>>he's trying to give info about invasion, but is told to shut up and put in jail
mage is treated like his shit don't stink
, battles, orc girl, battles
hero is still douche but tolerates mage
>>orc girl and douche hero have a thing
hero comes in barefoot and wrecks everyone like he wields the infinity stones
king lets orc girl kill him so fighting can stop
>>end
Basing it on Orcs v Humans made the most casual WoW players not able top follow it, and having too much story for 1 movie. The Orcs were fun and interesting, the Humans were, as Warcraft humans are, generic fantasy humans. Lots of people think they should have jump straight into warcraft 3 with arthas and illidan, but given how elfs looked in this game that would have been a mistake and explaining who each of the orcs and elfs were would have confused people more than this one did.
bullshit, even the biggest brainlets understood warcraft 3 story easily
it's brainlet friendly
In the game, sure, I agree. In the movie? No. This movie had what, 3 orcs of note? 4 if you count garona who was basically a green human and people had issues following the names. Now add in more orcs, tauren, undead explained, the lich king, the elfs needed AND the humans. The game was easy to follow as it split the campaigns by race, the movie wouldn't come out in 4-5 parts like the game split itself into. This movie, like the first game was Orcs and Humans.
Warcraft 3 has; Humans, Orcs, Elves, Tauren, Undead, Forsaken, Nerubian, Nathreziem. Demons and the outlier in Medhiev. It would be split over Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor and Northrend.
Where does it start? With Thralls dream? How does it handle the Culling of Stratholme? How does it explain the difference in undead and forsaken? What about how it would handle silvermoon to raise Kel'Thuzad? How does it handle bouncing back and forth? What about the Elves fighting the orcs in ashenvale? What about Grom and Thrall vs Mannoroth?
forget Frozen Throne for now
just split the Reign of Chaos movie into two parts: Thrall's and Arthas's story culminating in Arthas killing his father and summoning Burning Legion
part two is the showdown in Kalimdor, focusing heavily on night elves
it's not that hard
you cut the unnecessary bullshit and you're left with a pretty basic story with only a handful of actually important characters: Arthas, Thrall, Jaina, Illidan, Tyrande and Malfurion with Medivh flying about, dumping cryptic warnings and exposition
Lich King, Kel'Thuzad, Malganis etc are just plot devices for Arthas to fall anyway. They don't need a lot of screentime. Lich King wasn't even shown before Frozen Throne.
I'm not saying that it's a great movie but I think people who say that they should've started at 3 are fucking stupid. They just say that because WC3 is their only exposure to the Warcraft universe other than WoW.
If the same guys decided who made the movie made it take place in WC3 instead it would be of the same quality.
There is plenty material in the first RTS game to make a story out of, even if less than the 3rd one.
The issue is how they went about it.
Two things, basically:
Real actors were a gigantic fucking mistake. Especially turbo autistic Fimmel and cringy Garona with cheap plastic teeth.
They chose a wrong game to start with, should have just skipped straight to WC3.
Nobody knows what the fuck Warcraft is about
Racism and all sides justifying it. Until about Cataclysm, then racism bad.
CG looked too real.
should have been animated
I hate that movie because that fucking movie killed WoW. Because of that movie, they made WoD and WoD.
>they made WoD and WoD
hmmm
Come on, let's be real here, WoW died with Arthas. Post WotLK storyline is the purest cringe.
>Post WotLK storyline is the purest cringe
Wrath is pure cringe as well, the Lich King keeps showing up through his retarded portal, yell at you and then disappears like some loony tunes character.
Over and over again.
i never understood trying to tell a serious story in mmos that wasn't just listening to npcs berate you, which is actually most vidya stories
>never understood trying to tell a serious story in mmos that wasn't just listening to npcs berate you, which is actually most vidya stories
If I wanted to have NPCs berate me I'd tell you about my one rep max
Special snowflake theme park design was a mistake
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Generic_name
Well, yeah, i meant plot in general outside of MMO aspect. Having major characters being killed by a rabid packs of xxxPussydestroyers69xxx always sucked ass. There are two REALLY fucking good custom campaigns for WC3 based on BK and WotLK where all the raiding is done by an actual characters like Jaina, Lor'Themar, Trall, etc. I'd say it's the real WC4 we've never got.
*forgot the pic.
It's because raid homosexuals wanted to kill the big guy. Vanilla was the best because you were just some guy in a much larger universe, the moment players became the protagonist (with Burning Crusade) it turned to shit.
The only compelling story in the Warcraft universe is Arthas
this
I lost all interest in WoW when they killed off Arthas
WoW never recovered after that anyway
that's where both warcraft and wow peaked
>...what went wrong?
dumb american audience didnt get it
it was a really fun movie and it looked really good too
I actually really like this film, the problems was that the human characters were not that compelling (even though I like the actor for lothar) it makes sense to start with the First War especially since WCIII is way to fucking dense for one movie it even try to adapt one of the campaigns, let alone the whole story. I am glad it died because any sequels would me made in a post 2016 world and would have 3000% increases in naggers and homosexuals
>...what went wrong?
No emotional character arcs, dumbshit plot
There was an arc for Durotan, he just died right after it lol
Pandered to the WoW crowd and had to bastardize the plot entirely
Dumb.
Bad CGI.
Didn't go for the one cool story that would have sealed the deal for a franchise. The fall of Arthas.
Nothing?
The mistake was not making it a warhammer film about the boyz
>Such powerful psychics they can just open the window on their space ship to let some air in and it works instead of killing everyone
>Can still be beaten by some regular guard troops
???
!!!
You're thinking of 40k
Whoops, my bad.
Can't wait to see my boy Superman knock that out of the park tho
Wow has always had a dogshit artstyle that only deviant art style spergs like
The orc scenes were great, the human scenes looked like a bunch of LARPers. I initially thought that it'd be better if they just adapted WC3/Arthas story, but seeing how awful the human scenes were, it's probably for the best.
1. The story is a mess and hard to follow, even for the initiated.
2. They weren't able to solve the problem of putting Warcraft designs into live action without it looking tacky and laughable. Whenever the humans are on the screen, is like you're watching the most expensive B-movie ever made.
i found it to be enjoyable honestly, not great by any means but it wasn't as terrible as i had been led to believe. I had fun watching it and didn't take it too seriously
the animated orc scenes were great, but the live-action green screen shit took you out of it immediately. People were asking for a feature length blizzard cinematic for decades, i don't think they envisioned some chick painted green with cheap halloween plastic vampire teeth implants and elf ears to be that popular orc character you know from the game
Everything seemed to have been made out of plastic. The movie was simply ugly, unpleasant to look at.
I liked it but my friends thought it sucked
Orcs were done well, but the humans were cringy. Not enough testosterone with them