not really. they were making more money from wow than ever still at this point, in ways they couldn't have monetized x years earlier, even if the game supposedly was at its peak
>They did the first story. Which newbies didn't understand because they only ever played WoW. >you need to have played the video game to understand the movie
Here's your answer, OP
This honestly. It should have been completely CG or gone the "real actors enhanced with CGI" route ala LotR. Everything looked fine when it was all real or all CGI, but as soon the two mix it's weird and your brain rejects it.
I would unironically pay to see this quality CG in a feature length sword and sorcery movie twice.
And they could cast as many Black folk as they want and just CG them white.
I remember the first half being pretty alright, the plot twist that Medivh actually is the one who opened the portal worked very well imo.
Things I didn’t like, on top of my head: >Human cast has absolutely no charisma >human armors looked ridiculous >battles are a group of morons running towards another group of morons, no sense of strategy or scale, pretty ironic for a movie named WARcraft based on a fricking strategy game >the landscape and nature seemed really off for some reason >garona doesn’t look like a half orc she just looks like a human painted in a different color with fangs, I guess they made it so on purpose so that she’s frickable though
Things I liked: >Gul’Dan is kino >Durotan is kino >Gul’Dan vs Durotan fight is gigakino >Khadgar and Medivh have good chemistry in the first part of the movie
>garona doesn’t look like a half orc she just looks like a human painted in a different color with fangs, I guess they made it so on purpose so that she’s frickable though
indeed she is, but Ihonestly I also prefer a better-looking hybrid look
I watched this again for the first time since release only yesterday and had pretty much the same reaction. It really isn't terrible, but it isn't good either. It's just very bleh, which is probably the saddest thing to say about a film.
In retrospect I reckon you're right. I understand the logic of starting at the start, so I don't blame them for the choice, but given the reaction by so many who had just never played the first two games and didn't even know if their soundcard worked perfectly or not, they should have gone with something familiar.
Shitty sets and costumes
Shitty direction
Human actors were all bad, their dialogue was stilted and mumbled so you could barely understand them
Non CGI garona in the dumbest costume
Asian elves
Hardly any world building
Could barely understand what the orcs were saying
Plot was boring
Real humans up against these 10ft tall hulks just looked moronic. WC humans are gigachads 7ft tall probably 350lbs lean. The human lead is meant to be a ruling class grizzled war hero but looks & acts like a fricking bum, from his unkempt hair right down to his DYEL body.
no, humans in warcraft are canonically huge
I'm not saying it's not stupid and doesn't look stupid, it does, warcraft looks like shit but it's still canon
or at least something they retconned into the lore around the time they introduced the vrykul
they should have done the arthas story instead and played the romance angle between him and vegana Proudmore that would lead into him becoming the lich king in the sequel
it was legit decent for a video game movie. They told the wrong story for sure but the orc stuff was especially kino. I regard it highly because its one of the only high fantasy films with a respectable budget. I'd go see the sequels with Arthas and Thrall for sure
The human stuff was awful. They didn’t look nor act like warcraft humans in a convincing manner. See
Looked stupid
Real humans up against these 10ft tall hulks just looked moronic. WC humans are gigachads 7ft tall probably 350lbs lean. The human lead is meant to be a ruling class grizzled war hero but looks & acts like a fricking bum, from his unkempt hair right down to his DYEL body.
It wasn't. Though I'm biased because Warcraft 3 is my favorite game. It has problems but the writing and drama is more than decent and the film is still enjoyable. Shouldn't have cut 40 mins out of it to flesh out the character and the world more. Also should have committed to a full trilogy from the start. Jones is a competent director who could've pulled it off. But I will blame Blizzard of course.
tried to force in too many references to the game. Didn't use the most interesting part of the lore OR stay true to the original game.
Also the performance captured orcs just didn't look good. They needed to set them up as scary, bloodthirsty monsters so humans could understandably hate them - NOT try to make them sympathetic straight away.
I kinda liked it. There's the whole bunch of problems other anons expresed, like the weird cg/live action mix, but as a fantasy movie it was pretty alright and had an interesting story. I believe a sequel could even work well and lift the first movie so the whole drama and worldbuilding it attempted doesnt fall flat.
They, in their infinite wisdom, decided to focus the movie on fricking disgusting genocidal orcs and portrayed them as good. Warcraft 2 not 1 was when orcs started having a personality. Not only that, the best story by far in the warcraft franchise is that of Arthas. I have no idea how they didn't just skip to warcraft 3 and made the movie out of that. Stormwind is also in flames during the orc fricking invasion yet we se none of that shit in the movie.
Why would it be good? Are you childish enough to believe that the Warcraft games tell compelling stories? It's a fricking video game setting, it substitutes story with ongoing accretions of incidental detail, or "lore." Of course this material won't work in a film.
>Warcraft grossed $47.4 million in the United States, and $391.7 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $439 million
Damn, Asia really did save this lmao
Because besides the main character, all of the other human characters are way too young and clean looking for their roles.
All the humans look like larpers, it's really bizarre. I assume they were trying to emulate their player base in terms of people, so that fans could see themselves in the roles... But it makes the film feel like a youtuber series.
It wasn't THAT bad but seems like director didn't know should he try catering to normies or to players and in the end choose middle way which sucked. Lore too shallow for fans and too confusing for new audience. Like you have draenei in cages to sacrifice and zero explanation who are they.
Also human costumes sucked. And Garona was green painted human instead on half orc.
Story arc they choose would work good as trilogy - they cut too much for single movie.
Bc pretentious small budget indie films are much easier than large budget large scale productions
It happens all the time. An acclaimed indie “auteur” gets a big scale production, that needs widespread appeal, and they’re no longer working within the confines of a small budget, and it turns out they’re hacks.
Most recently Eternals comes to mind. But there’s loads of examples, Warcraft being a very good one.
Not enough pandaren.
Not enough gnomes.
>video game movies
Works on my tv.
was not
cash grab before the IPs popularity tanks
They missed that by like 6 years.
They did the first story. Which newbies didn't understand because they only ever played WoW.
not really. they were making more money from wow than ever still at this point, in ways they couldn't have monetized x years earlier, even if the game supposedly was at its peak
>newbies didn't understand because they only ever played WoW
>If you didn't start at at least Warcraft II, kys.
>They did the first story. Which newbies didn't understand because they only ever played WoW.
>you need to have played the video game to understand the movie
Here's your answer, OP
>They did the first story
not really
>pick a boring and shitty story when you had tons of better options
>spent all of the budget on the wrong things
Are the top 2 reasons i'd say.
The hybrid thing using real actors.
And using Travis Fimmel as one of those real actors.
>Imma just do what I did on Vikings in this green room.
This honestly. It should have been completely CG or gone the "real actors enhanced with CGI" route ala LotR. Everything looked fine when it was all real or all CGI, but as soon the two mix it's weird and your brain rejects it.
I would unironically pay to see this quality CG in a feature length sword and sorcery movie twice.
And they could cast as many Black folk as they want and just CG them white.
Frick you, I liked it
I remember the first half being pretty alright, the plot twist that Medivh actually is the one who opened the portal worked very well imo.
Things I didn’t like, on top of my head:
>Human cast has absolutely no charisma
>human armors looked ridiculous
>battles are a group of morons running towards another group of morons, no sense of strategy or scale, pretty ironic for a movie named WARcraft based on a fricking strategy game
>the landscape and nature seemed really off for some reason
>garona doesn’t look like a half orc she just looks like a human painted in a different color with fangs, I guess they made it so on purpose so that she’s frickable though
Things I liked:
>Gul’Dan is kino
>Durotan is kino
>Gul’Dan vs Durotan fight is gigakino
>Khadgar and Medivh have good chemistry in the first part of the movie
>garona doesn’t look like a half orc she just looks like a human painted in a different color with fangs, I guess they made it so on purpose so that she’s frickable though
indeed she is, but Ihonestly I also prefer a better-looking hybrid look
I watched this again for the first time since release only yesterday and had pretty much the same reaction. It really isn't terrible, but it isn't good either. It's just very bleh, which is probably the saddest thing to say about a film.
because it was trying to set up a universe and failed miserably so all the pay off that was supposed to come in the sequels never happened.
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I thought it was bretty good for a fantasy flick. Makgorah scene was kino
It was Orc kino and its unfortunate there was no sequel with Thrall as a main character.
it's a decent film though
it was?
>make a movie about WC1 that no body care
Unironnically, they should've start with WC3.
In retrospect I reckon you're right. I understand the logic of starting at the start, so I don't blame them for the choice, but given the reaction by so many who had just never played the first two games and didn't even know if their soundcard worked perfectly or not, they should have gone with something familiar.
My wife and her son loved it, great family film
>Orcs (Black folk) are... LE GOOD
Hordes ruined everything.
I bet you unironically say kek instead of lol.
Glur is the alliance equivalent, horde pig.
we had a good thing going with the people on horde until the fricking blood elves started bring in you b***hes
This. If you weren't there for original BC, then you'll never really understand. Vanilla Horde was the best.
>the peaceful shamanistic species living in tune with nature get corrupted by ~~*demons*~~ into violent bloodthirsty savages
hmmmm.....
Shitty sets and costumes
Shitty direction
Human actors were all bad, their dialogue was stilted and mumbled so you could barely understand them
Non CGI garona in the dumbest costume
Asian elves
Hardly any world building
Could barely understand what the orcs were saying
Plot was boring
Looked stupid
Real humans up against these 10ft tall hulks just looked moronic. WC humans are gigachads 7ft tall probably 350lbs lean. The human lead is meant to be a ruling class grizzled war hero but looks & acts like a fricking bum, from his unkempt hair right down to his DYEL body.
I am pretty sure the humans were only so big for the gameplay reasons, anon...
no, humans in warcraft are canonically huge
I'm not saying it's not stupid and doesn't look stupid, it does, warcraft looks like shit but it's still canon
or at least something they retconned into the lore around the time they introduced the vrykul
they should have done the arthas story instead and played the romance angle between him and vegana Proudmore that would lead into him becoming the lich king in the sequel
it was legit decent for a video game movie. They told the wrong story for sure but the orc stuff was especially kino. I regard it highly because its one of the only high fantasy films with a respectable budget. I'd go see the sequels with Arthas and Thrall for sure
The human stuff was awful. They didn’t look nor act like warcraft humans in a convincing manner. See
Didnt came out during WoW peak popularity
It wasn't. Though I'm biased because Warcraft 3 is my favorite game. It has problems but the writing and drama is more than decent and the film is still enjoyable. Shouldn't have cut 40 mins out of it to flesh out the character and the world more. Also should have committed to a full trilogy from the start. Jones is a competent director who could've pulled it off. But I will blame Blizzard of course.
gg blizz
tried to force in too many references to the game. Didn't use the most interesting part of the lore OR stay true to the original game.
Also the performance captured orcs just didn't look good. They needed to set them up as scary, bloodthirsty monsters so humans could understandably hate them - NOT try to make them sympathetic straight away.
Beginning is a bit slow but once you finish it, it was alright
I kinda liked it. There's the whole bunch of problems other anons expresed, like the weird cg/live action mix, but as a fantasy movie it was pretty alright and had an interesting story. I believe a sequel could even work well and lift the first movie so the whole drama and worldbuilding it attempted doesnt fall flat.
Too much humanising of the orcs, imho.
Have the Durotan story, fine, but he was truly the exception; don't skimp on how brutal the orc invasion was.
should have been warhammer
Bad casting
They, in their infinite wisdom, decided to focus the movie on fricking disgusting genocidal orcs and portrayed them as good. Warcraft 2 not 1 was when orcs started having a personality. Not only that, the best story by far in the warcraft franchise is that of Arthas. I have no idea how they didn't just skip to warcraft 3 and made the movie out of that. Stormwind is also in flames during the orc fricking invasion yet we se none of that shit in the movie.
Gnomes are responsible for all the Wars in Azeroth and you YWNBARNE.
ORCS were too OP and they nerfed Humans
>why was this so bad?
Why would it be good? Are you childish enough to believe that the Warcraft games tell compelling stories? It's a fricking video game setting, it substitutes story with ongoing accretions of incidental detail, or "lore." Of course this material won't work in a film.
>Warcraft grossed $47.4 million in the United States, and $391.7 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $439 million
Damn, Asia really did save this lmao
>everybody just wants warcraft 3 series
>blizzard ruins everything like they have been doing for the last 18 years
Because besides the main character, all of the other human characters are way too young and clean looking for their roles.
All the humans look like larpers, it's really bizarre. I assume they were trying to emulate their player base in terms of people, so that fans could see themselves in the roles... But it makes the film feel like a youtuber series.
It wasn't THAT bad but seems like director didn't know should he try catering to normies or to players and in the end choose middle way which sucked. Lore too shallow for fans and too confusing for new audience. Like you have draenei in cages to sacrifice and zero explanation who are they.
Also human costumes sucked. And Garona was green painted human instead on half orc.
Story arc they choose would work good as trilogy - they cut too much for single movie.
Also, they cut the sack of Stormwind. Anyway I don't really care for pre-Warcraft 3's plot. WC2's plot is a mess.
Warcraft 3 ruined the series by introducing the crude potato chunk art style that became the standard and even infected the film adaptation.
They should have done CG animation like pic related. Using live action for videogame movies is moronic.
it was 10 years too late. if it came out around 2006 an resembled LotR rather than the hobbit than it would've been a massive movie
Duncan Jones should have got a SW tentpole (or some SW series work) instead of this turd
it wasnt people are just moronic
Writers knows how to write short scenes. Big coherent story is another thing, so writers fricked up
>Wowgays with 15,000 hours into the game
>expects 2 hour movie to do their experience justice
It was a decent movie for what it was.
Bc pretentious small budget indie films are much easier than large budget large scale productions
It happens all the time. An acclaimed indie “auteur” gets a big scale production, that needs widespread appeal, and they’re no longer working within the confines of a small budget, and it turns out they’re hacks.
Most recently Eternals comes to mind. But there’s loads of examples, Warcraft being a very good one.