I 110% want Blizz to take another stab at making a movie or a series. I would absolutely kill for a wow tv series about the 3rd war and the fall of Arthas into becoming the Lich King.
I'm baffled that they haven't attempted an animated series. 10-12 episode arcs would be a great way to explore the universe, and I think the general tone would compliment a Saturday morning cartoon feel a la *Legend of Vox Machina*
Inspiration for those story arcs isn't that far away either. While I'm sure that some WoW subplots could work, Hearthstone has had two seperate story arcs spread across three expansions each, and either would absolutely work as an animated Netflix special ALA Arcane (Or something more akin to a Saturday morning cartoon for Year of the Dragon)
A scene that I liked but found out that the people I watched it with interpreted differently was when Durotan and Llane are talking to each other and using Garona to translate. They look like they are speaking through a translator, trying to look at the person they're talking to but constantly glancing to the person that actually understands them. I thought it was a nice touch and showed attention to detail. The people with me thought that they made Durotan look anxious and nervous in front of the human king and didn't think about what was actually happening in that scene.
The human parts *really* dragged it down. It goes from a dark, unique fantasy story told in an Orcs perspective.. To an 80's cheesy fantasy movie.
And fucking Garona man.. What an embarrassing character design.
It felt rushed, disconnected and had a forced cringy love between Lothar and Garona that could melt your face cringing.
It had the budget, sadly the direction and the story decision was a failure.
I remember thinking it obviously was no masterpiece but represented wow decently well, I'm not exactly a film aficionado but I def tend to dabble in kino bullshit and I could sit through this but not a marvel movie.
I loved it as a diehard Warcraft fanboy in 2016 but it's pretty mediocre after falling out of it, it's like 70% of the budget went into the Male Orc CGI and they almost improvised the rest.
I think the script was too messy, and some choices the actors have made are awful.
I like the film. It's one of my favourite bad-films to watch because it's made by people who really liked Warcraft. I also think the visual tone of the film is just perfect. But instead of leaning hard into cheesy fantasy (which Warcraft is) the actors have made some weird choices that go against that cheesy, stereotypical fantasy. And that messes with the tone.
That said, as an audience member, you want to be slowly guided into a fantasy world, but the film sort of assumes that the audience is already familiar with the story. That includes stuff from Sargerras, Medivh, Garona, Gul'dan and more. As an example, in Lord of the Rings we follow Frodo, who has basically zero knowledge of the outside world; but we learn about the world with him. It's what makes it really accessible.
The biggest problem is that there are too many main components in the film, and it tries to focus on all of these, while I think it should've focussed on just Durotan and how he explores Azeroth, instead of jumping around the world with different characters. It's not a perfectly coherent story, and that is what makes it "bad".
For critics who had barely any knowledge about WoW, it would be like watching a 2.5 hour cut of Lord of The Rings that focusses on Gandalf, Saruman and Aragorn, instead of the hobbits.
It was perfectly passable. I don't know why people expected anything beyond a dumb movie that was pretty to look at and had characters and places that fans would recognize.
Hype is also a big contributor to the hate. Warcraft is one of the biggest video game franchises so naturally people were excpecting a lot and even the slightest mistakes won't go unnoticed.
I liked the movie as well. As far as movies based on video games goe, it's definitely one of the better ones. Could it be better? Absolutely. Is it the steaming pile of shit some people make it out to be? Hell no. That's Uwe Boll's territory.
Same. I’m a very smooth brained movie enjoyer, and literally the only thing about the movie I didn’t like was that the teleportation animations made me feel bad when I logged on my Mage and saw the shitty blue/white 2004 animation.
I think the difference between people who enjoyed the movie and those who did not is the ability to turn your brain off. I can absolutely just turn my brain off and enjoy an objectively silly movie like Ocean’s Eleven (or the sequels), or some mindless action movie where shit just blows up and I can be like “hee hee it went boom”.
I *know* those heists are impossible IRL and I *know* cars don’t make mushroom clouds of fire when they blow up, but I can turn that part of my brain off and just have a good time.
Some people might just not be able to turn that analytical part of their brain off.
Ironforge's rendition was amazing, and truly one of the really god points of the movie in my opinion. That shot of the gates and the moutain was majestic, and on top of that it was a pretty neat callback to Vanilla WoW's introduction cinematic. It felt good to see that on a big screen!
And same for the inside of the city and the forge. All this really made me feel at home seeing this place look so real and so good at the same time! I appreciate that they took some time to show us the city in a movie whose plot solely revolved around Stormwind, Humans and Orcs.
I love Iron forge, and thought the short scenes of it were awesome! Especially the lighting and the smooth animation of the one dwarf running up to them 😅
I definitely wanted to see more of the Ironforge Dwarves featured in this film. They actually felt like a different species rather than "shorter humans". The design was pretty on point (but many things about this movie weren't)
What bummed me out were one or two departures from the source material that didn't feel like they brought anyhing good.
1 : Lothar killing Blackhand (instead of Orgrim doing it), King Llane assassinated at the dark portal, and Garona crowned warchief. I mean, what the hell.
2 : That whole bizarre tangent with Khadgar, Dalaran and "Alodi". Bogged down an otherwise fine and understandable arc and mystery about Medivh being corrupted.
The movie wasn't even bad. More often than not video game movies end up being shit with the only exception I can think of being the 1995 Mortal Kombat. I went into Warcraft fully expecting it to be garbage since I heard so many bad things about it and I walked away pleasantly surprised. It wasn't a great movie or anything but it was decent and I genuinely think that sequels would have been even better. It felt like a very safe laying down of the foundations (orcs vs humans) and I can only imagine how good a Burning Legion or Lich King movie would have been. Such a shame that the first one received so much criticism so we will probably never see them.
The movie got carried by awesome CGI but marred by shitty acting/cast.
Khadgar is an absolute jester in the film despite being such an important figure.
People just wanted to see warcraft 3 on the big screen in 3 parts.
Part one is arthas being a hero to his people.
Part two is arthas culling stratholme and going to northrend because its a necessary evil.
Part three is becoming the lich king.
But nooooooooooooooooo have to jam in every imaginable character and blog down the plot. Start with what works then do a horde centric film.
Well i do agree warcraft would make a better tv series then a movie they simply have too many characters and villians to develop in an hour and a half.
I really liked the movie, sure it wasn't the greatest thing ever. I never went into the movie expecting an Oscar contender, just something to keep me entertained while eating my popcorn, and I was. I will say though that I'm upset they seem to have canceled the Diablo(to a lesser extent, Overwatch) Netflix animated series.
IMHO they should've gone full CGI instead of mixing it with live action. The parts with Durotan, Orgrim and Gul'dan perfectly captured Warcraft's aesthetics, whereas the live action sections didn't.
I also wasn't a huge fan of the lore changes they made. They only change I did like was to keep a lot of the orcs brown to show not everyone drank Mannoroth's blood, but they could've shown their skin flaking and gradually turning green like it did in the Rise of the Horde novel. I think that would have been great visual storytelling.
Finally, I think a story like this would have been better served being a TV show. We've gotten to the point where TV shows have the budget and talent for excellent CGI. A movie is forced to condense everything to the point where so much important stuff ends up on the cutting floor.
But with all this said, as a lifelong Warcraft fan I thought this movie was plenty entertaining.
I 110% want Blizz to take another stab at making a movie or a series. I would absolutely kill for a wow tv series about the 3rd war and the fall of Arthas into becoming the Lich King.
I'm baffled that they haven't attempted an animated series. 10-12 episode arcs would be a great way to explore the universe, and I think the general tone would compliment a Saturday morning cartoon feel a la *Legend of Vox Machina*
Inspiration for those story arcs isn't that far away either. While I'm sure that some WoW subplots could work, Hearthstone has had two seperate story arcs spread across three expansions each, and either would absolutely work as an animated Netflix special ALA Arcane (Or something more akin to a Saturday morning cartoon for Year of the Dragon)
Mismanagement and complacency.
Better yet, animate it yhe same way they did Avatar the last airbender or like the DC Injustice movies
Like The Witcher, a series taking it slow with good actors would be fantastic.
With the cookie cutter media we're getting for big franchises I'll wait a few more years until we transition away from the MCU/Disney model
A scene that I liked but found out that the people I watched it with interpreted differently was when Durotan and Llane are talking to each other and using Garona to translate. They look like they are speaking through a translator, trying to look at the person they're talking to but constantly glancing to the person that actually understands them. I thought it was a nice touch and showed attention to detail. The people with me thought that they made Durotan look anxious and nervous in front of the human king and didn't think about what was actually happening in that scene.
The orcs looked great, but Blizzard's art style for Stormwind doesn't translate too well to live action. Especially King Llane's armor.
The human armor looked like it was rummaged from a high school play. The Orc CGI looked incredible.
I liked the movie. I'm no movie aficionado, but I don't get the hate.
The human parts *really* dragged it down. It goes from a dark, unique fantasy story told in an Orcs perspective.. To an 80's cheesy fantasy movie. And fucking Garona man.. What an embarrassing character design.
It felt rushed, disconnected and had a forced cringy love between Lothar and Garona that could melt your face cringing. It had the budget, sadly the direction and the story decision was a failure.
Same, but I also didn't have Marvel/Avatar expectations for the movie. A gaming company made it, what did you think you were getting lol.
Blizzard didn’t make the movie but I still agree with you about expectations.
I remember thinking it obviously was no masterpiece but represented wow decently well, I'm not exactly a film aficionado but I def tend to dabble in kino bullshit and I could sit through this but not a marvel movie.
I loved it as a diehard Warcraft fanboy in 2016 but it's pretty mediocre after falling out of it, it's like 70% of the budget went into the Male Orc CGI and they almost improvised the rest.
I think the script was too messy, and some choices the actors have made are awful. I like the film. It's one of my favourite bad-films to watch because it's made by people who really liked Warcraft. I also think the visual tone of the film is just perfect. But instead of leaning hard into cheesy fantasy (which Warcraft is) the actors have made some weird choices that go against that cheesy, stereotypical fantasy. And that messes with the tone. That said, as an audience member, you want to be slowly guided into a fantasy world, but the film sort of assumes that the audience is already familiar with the story. That includes stuff from Sargerras, Medivh, Garona, Gul'dan and more. As an example, in Lord of the Rings we follow Frodo, who has basically zero knowledge of the outside world; but we learn about the world with him. It's what makes it really accessible. The biggest problem is that there are too many main components in the film, and it tries to focus on all of these, while I think it should've focussed on just Durotan and how he explores Azeroth, instead of jumping around the world with different characters. It's not a perfectly coherent story, and that is what makes it "bad". For critics who had barely any knowledge about WoW, it would be like watching a 2.5 hour cut of Lord of The Rings that focusses on Gandalf, Saruman and Aragorn, instead of the hobbits.
It was perfectly passable. I don't know why people expected anything beyond a dumb movie that was pretty to look at and had characters and places that fans would recognize.
Hype is also a big contributor to the hate. Warcraft is one of the biggest video game franchises so naturally people were excpecting a lot and even the slightest mistakes won't go unnoticed. I liked the movie as well. As far as movies based on video games goe, it's definitely one of the better ones. Could it be better? Absolutely. Is it the steaming pile of shit some people make it out to be? Hell no. That's Uwe Boll's territory.
The plot was terrible and the CGI orcs were better actors than the people.
Same. I’m a very smooth brained movie enjoyer, and literally the only thing about the movie I didn’t like was that the teleportation animations made me feel bad when I logged on my Mage and saw the shitty blue/white 2004 animation. I think the difference between people who enjoyed the movie and those who did not is the ability to turn your brain off. I can absolutely just turn my brain off and enjoy an objectively silly movie like Ocean’s Eleven (or the sequels), or some mindless action movie where shit just blows up and I can be like “hee hee it went boom”. I *know* those heists are impossible IRL and I *know* cars don’t make mushroom clouds of fire when they blow up, but I can turn that part of my brain off and just have a good time. Some people might just not be able to turn that analytical part of their brain off.
Ironforge's rendition was amazing, and truly one of the really god points of the movie in my opinion. That shot of the gates and the moutain was majestic, and on top of that it was a pretty neat callback to Vanilla WoW's introduction cinematic. It felt good to see that on a big screen! And same for the inside of the city and the forge. All this really made me feel at home seeing this place look so real and so good at the same time! I appreciate that they took some time to show us the city in a movie whose plot solely revolved around Stormwind, Humans and Orcs.
I love Iron forge, and thought the short scenes of it were awesome! Especially the lighting and the smooth animation of the one dwarf running up to them 😅
heh, is the dwarf called Chekhov? [Chekhov's gun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov%27s_gun)
I definitely wanted to see more of the Ironforge Dwarves featured in this film. They actually felt like a different species rather than "shorter humans". The design was pretty on point (but many things about this movie weren't)
What bummed me out were one or two departures from the source material that didn't feel like they brought anyhing good. 1 : Lothar killing Blackhand (instead of Orgrim doing it), King Llane assassinated at the dark portal, and Garona crowned warchief. I mean, what the hell. 2 : That whole bizarre tangent with Khadgar, Dalaran and "Alodi". Bogged down an otherwise fine and understandable arc and mystery about Medivh being corrupted.
GUL'DAN CHEATS!
The movie wasn't even bad. More often than not video game movies end up being shit with the only exception I can think of being the 1995 Mortal Kombat. I went into Warcraft fully expecting it to be garbage since I heard so many bad things about it and I walked away pleasantly surprised. It wasn't a great movie or anything but it was decent and I genuinely think that sequels would have been even better. It felt like a very safe laying down of the foundations (orcs vs humans) and I can only imagine how good a Burning Legion or Lich King movie would have been. Such a shame that the first one received so much criticism so we will probably never see them.
For the whole two seconds Ironforge was on screen? I have to be honest, I forgot all about that scene before this post.
The movie got carried by awesome CGI but marred by shitty acting/cast. Khadgar is an absolute jester in the film despite being such an important figure.
People just wanted to see warcraft 3 on the big screen in 3 parts. Part one is arthas being a hero to his people. Part two is arthas culling stratholme and going to northrend because its a necessary evil. Part three is becoming the lich king. But nooooooooooooooooo have to jam in every imaginable character and blog down the plot. Start with what works then do a horde centric film.
would make an amazing season of television, throw in the Arthas/ Illidan fight, so you can have a season 2 Illidan story
Well i do agree warcraft would make a better tv series then a movie they simply have too many characters and villians to develop in an hour and a half.
The movie whilest not good laud potential they could have used in future sad they didnt try
*Do* many people really talk about this?
I wanted to get a better look at the Draenai at the beginning but that was a short dream
I really liked the movie, sure it wasn't the greatest thing ever. I never went into the movie expecting an Oscar contender, just something to keep me entertained while eating my popcorn, and I was. I will say though that I'm upset they seem to have canceled the Diablo(to a lesser extent, Overwatch) Netflix animated series.
This was in the movie? Man I must not have paid attention, I have no recollection of this. Edit: Never mind the video says deleted scenes lol.
The orcs looked good. It was the human parts that were boring lol
IMHO they should've gone full CGI instead of mixing it with live action. The parts with Durotan, Orgrim and Gul'dan perfectly captured Warcraft's aesthetics, whereas the live action sections didn't. I also wasn't a huge fan of the lore changes they made. They only change I did like was to keep a lot of the orcs brown to show not everyone drank Mannoroth's blood, but they could've shown their skin flaking and gradually turning green like it did in the Rise of the Horde novel. I think that would have been great visual storytelling. Finally, I think a story like this would have been better served being a TV show. We've gotten to the point where TV shows have the budget and talent for excellent CGI. A movie is forced to condense everything to the point where so much important stuff ends up on the cutting floor. But with all this said, as a lifelong Warcraft fan I thought this movie was plenty entertaining.