Well the tavern scene where the dwarf tells the guy to forget the skinny elf and get a real dwarf with hair on her chin to hold on to still has me giggling. Thats about all I remember from that movie though.
Honestly it was better than I thought it was gonna be?
I mean. This is Warcraft. The lore is great, the storytelling usually sucks with some shining elements.
The biggest flaw I feel was how much the storyline jumped around- it made it really hard to follow. I will say that the changes they made to Garona’s story arc, giving her more agency in the end, was appreciated though it did have its issues and wtf was with the whole Medieve thing wtf.
I legit like it a lot. Went and bought the Bluray when it came out. It’s clearly not the most amazing movie in the world, but its more than good enough for fans, and I always felt that the complaints about it being too confusing for non-fans were a bit exaggerated.
I mean, I had my parents watch it, and the only question my mother, who has zero experience with Warcraft or gaming, had was “how come only some of the Orcs are green?”
… Which was explained more clearly by the movie sometime after she asked.
The movie hopped around to a lot of LOCATIONS and has a lot of names and titles, and I think people got too hung up on that. You don’t need to know the specifics.
“What’s Goldshire?” Who cares its a town and they went there to talk
“What’s Karazhan?” The Guardian lives there.
“What’s Ironforge?” Who cares the guy was just there to show off a dwarf
“Whats the Guardian?” Literally in the name. He guards. the realm.
“Who is Blackhand?” Who cares, it’s a big scary orc.
“What is fel?” Spooky magic.
Just a bunch of stuff that I feel like boiled down to super simple concepts but people felt like they were supposed to know the whole story behind each item when really it didn’t matter at all in the context of the movie.
Same to me. We made a corporative cinema run on it. There was only me who actually played WoW among whole work crew. I found the movie wonderfully made, had some wtfs about changes to some arcs, but then thought about original ones could be more wtfish in case of static plot rules with to many untied characters and facts. My colleagues found the movie quite exciting and worth their time and didn’t need many explanations from me. I just told them about couple of arcs redone and everyone was fine. I really don’t know why it is so controversal. Guess, just to many haters and lore elitists around.
It was a good film but it murdered the lore and changed the outlook and actions of so many characters.
Eg; Garona originally killed the king due to mind-control sleeper-agent mumbo jumbo, which makes for such a more interesting story arc than death by token film romance…
It’s full title should’ve been Warcraft : An Alternate Interpretation.
Great pun
The WoW movie still hurts me inside.
At least it wasn’t as bad as the Dungeons & Dragon movie
Well the tavern scene where the dwarf tells the guy to forget the skinny elf and get a real dwarf with hair on her chin to hold on to still has me giggling. Thats about all I remember from that movie though.
Dungeons and Dragons?? You really mean: At least it wasn’t as bad as “In The Name of The King” (Dungeon Siege). My god, that thing sucked.
Or that Mario Bros movie. *shudder*
I mean, in D&D, we got to cheer and wootwootwoot when that Wayans guy died. 😉
Honestly it was better than I thought it was gonna be?
I mean. This is Warcraft. The lore is great, the storytelling usually sucks with some shining elements.
The biggest flaw I feel was how much the storyline jumped around- it made it really hard to follow. I will say that the changes they made to Garona’s story arc, giving her more agency in the end, was appreciated though it did have its issues and wtf was with the whole Medieve thing wtf.
I legit like it a lot. Went and bought the Bluray when it came out. It’s clearly not the most amazing movie in the world, but its more than good enough for fans, and I always felt that the complaints about it being too confusing for non-fans were a bit exaggerated.
I mean, I had my parents watch it, and the only question my mother, who has zero experience with Warcraft or gaming, had was “how come only some of the Orcs are green?”
… Which was explained more clearly by the movie sometime after she asked.
The movie hopped around to a lot of LOCATIONS and has a lot of names and titles, and I think people got too hung up on that. You don’t need to know the specifics.
“What’s Goldshire?” Who cares its a town and they went there to talk
“What’s Karazhan?” The Guardian lives there.
“What’s Ironforge?” Who cares the guy was just there to show off a dwarf
“Whats the Guardian?” Literally in the name. He guards. the realm.
“Who is Blackhand?” Who cares, it’s a big scary orc.
“What is fel?” Spooky magic.
Just a bunch of stuff that I feel like boiled down to super simple concepts but people felt like they were supposed to know the whole story behind each item when really it didn’t matter at all in the context of the movie.
It was a great movie and everyone loved it. seems like a sampling error here…
Same to me. We made a corporative cinema run on it. There was only me who actually played WoW among whole work crew. I found the movie wonderfully made, had some wtfs about changes to some arcs, but then thought about original ones could be more wtfish in case of static plot rules with to many untied characters and facts. My colleagues found the movie quite exciting and worth their time and didn’t need many explanations from me. I just told them about couple of arcs redone and everyone was fine. I really don’t know why it is so controversal. Guess, just to many haters and lore elitists around.
It was a good film but it murdered the lore and changed the outlook and actions of so many characters.
Eg; Garona originally killed the king due to mind-control sleeper-agent mumbo jumbo, which makes for such a more interesting story arc than death by token film romance…
It’s full title should’ve been Warcraft : An Alternate Interpretation.
Robin, you’re on a rock-and-roll! Seriously, you’re comics rock my world.
I liked the wow movie. It wasn’t a masterpiece but it wasn’t horrible either.
It was a solid movie, and the Orc parts were the tits.
And not even figuratively.
I agree. It was enjoyable once you take it out of “This is a WoW movie, so it has to be exactly like WoW.”
Poor a.i.
Aww man. This has taken up several hours of a long work day. Now what am I supposed to do?
I really hope they make a sequel. I really want to see whay they do with it. Hopefully all the money they made overseas makes this happen.