"Warcraft Movie " Topic

To start, I'm a fantasy sympathizer, but I've never played WoW. I didn't much care for the movie I just watched.

If you've played the game at length is the movie more enjoyable? Because you visit well known places in the game or recognize characters, spell effects and other in-game phenomena?

Dwarves and elves were handled only fleetingly. Not sure that was a drawback in an already bloated feature.

Turned the movie off part way through. Not terrible but too much cliche after cliche for me to handle.

The movie is the history leading up to World of Warcraft, as explored in the game Warcraft: Orcs vs. Humans. In the movie, we see much younger versions of characters we meet in WoW. I understand they took a few liberties with the story and characters.

To answer your question: it depends. We enjoyed the movie. Seeing Stormwind City was pretty exciting. There was a certain amount of sadness in seeing certain people die. The ending was meant to have a sequel.

Wife and I played WOW for many years and thoroughly enjoyed the visual effects and the story was good, but for the most part followed the story line. Fun story, as we could be watching movies like Krull. So I try not to be so hard on any fantasy movie produced and enjoy myself.

Duane

Having played the games and loved them up until World of Warcraft I was immensely disappointing with the movie. I mean, they skipped the Siege of Stormwind! They deleted Chogal and Kilrog Deadeye from the plot! Half the Orcs are still brown, and not only does the Oath of Manaroth not take place, but no Daemons appear in the entire film. Only 3 Clans are even named, The Blackrocks, Frostwolves and Laughing Skull Clan! But I digress.

The only good plot line was the Garona, King Lane, Queen Lady plot, and that is still dragged down by being part of the movie.

Well I am back playing the game again.

Though that is due to the new expansion and not the movie.

Do have the movie though.

I thought it was muddled but mildly entertaining. As stated above, it's the storyline from the first Warcraft game, not World of Warcraft 2 or 3 or World of Warcraft. They covered way too much and too quickly. It was hard to care for most of the characters.

However, having grown up with so many crappy fantasy movies as a kid, I was ok with this movie.

Apparently it did gangbuster numbers in China, so a sequel isn't out of the question.

As a WoW player, I felt it relied too heavily on you knowing the background, and it was way too scattergun. Not knowing any background, I think your average viewer will leave scratching their head and wondering what was going on.

Very disappointing :( Pretty, but disappointing.

The CGI was really good, the story and movie meh.

As someone who loves LotR, and really enjoyed the LotR movies, I finally got an understanding of what people who went into those movies 'cold' must have felt.

I could follow the story line of WoW, but I didn't give a damn about the characters, the politics, or who lived or who died.

Dwarfs and orcs were clearly dwarfs and orcs, but I had no idea who most of the other non-humans were or indeed if they had any role other than to let us know that this is a fantasy world.

That said, the fact that the orcs became empathetic characters is good enough for me to be happy to see more movies if any are made (as noted, apparently it did very well in China), but equally I won't be remotely upset if there aren't any more.

Apparently it did gangbuster numbers in China, so a sequel isn't out of the question.

Interesting since being back I have not seen any of the old…

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Chinese Gold Farmers were a big thing back in 2006.

But so was finding those Boars that actually had spleens.

A friend of mine who was a big Warcraft fan was pretty grumpy because while they recreated Stormwind to great detail… it's the Stormwind of WOW, which was rebuilt after it was razed in the wars.

He was also grumpy about the griffins and the talk of "The Alliance" but those are probably things people expect.

The CGI was pretty rough wasn't it? usually I don't mind, but when there's so much of it, it becomes a bit ethereal.

My experience with Warcraft stops at "Lord of the Clans". I really wanted Garona and Ogrim Doomhammer to be backstabbing SoBs, because that's how they were portrayed originally.

I don't know why no one seems to recognize the elves, because their long pointy ears were clearly visible (as was their arrogance). This isn't like the Murgloc, which I had to look up because I don't play WoW.

It was a shame that Blackhand was competely unrecognizable. But that's to tie in to their recent "Return to Draneor" expansion. His iconic helmet was easily recognizable, but they had to completely throw it out.

I did enjoy the fact that they were building in elements leading to the War of the Alliance (Warcraft II).