The movie is probably going to be mediocre, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. FIVE REVIEWS. Come on people, once we see 50+ reviews then you can argue about it...FWIW go look at IMDB reviews so far. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0803096/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
I have said it all along, Blizzard should have just made a pure CGI movie for WOW or Diablo.
Their cinematics are amazing.
While I agree and love their games' CGI shorts, do they even make their own CGI clips? I recall hearing once back in the day that those were outsourced, but I don't really know much about that. Does Blizzard do its own in-house shorts?
They're done in-house. The SW:TOR ones and other from Bethesda and multiple studios have been outsourced by BLUR studios, but not Blizzard's. It is totally 100% in-house.
On Topic:
The problem I'm seeing with the reviews is the same from people expecting this to be "World of Warcraft movie". It is not. It is Warcraft; as in the RTS from the 1990's. I swear they were far too late in tacking on either the "Orcs vs Humans" or "The Beginning" labels to try to sell it as a non-WoW movie. The RTS games were about grit and story, and ....they weren't WoW. WoW was set in the universe of Warcraft, but post those events. And the humor in WoW is there to basically make it an enjoyable online experience with friends.
That seems to be the main issue with this movie. It cannot distance itself from WoW enough to try to sell the story of the old games alone. WoW is such a big phenomenon that the game bleeds into the opinions of this movie, whether Blizzard wants it to or not.
Movie reviewers. What can I say? Pretentious, uptight idiots would be a fair description I think. Movie reviewers are useless in my opinion. They always downplay action and fantasy films, the typical big, summer blockbusters. That's not to say that a lot of game to movie adaptations have not been terrible but I'm gonna have to wait on this one and see for myself.
These are the same people that said that Man of Steel was terrible movie and that Gal Gadot was good as Wonder Woman.
I'd rather watch the film and make my own mind up.
Still, a movie based on a game should tell you something... Other movies based on games:
Super Mario Bros. May 28, 1993
Double Dragon November 4, 1994
Street Fighter December 23, 1994
Mortal Kombat August 18, 1995
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation November 21, 1997
Wing Commander March 12, 1999
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider June 15, 2001
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within July 11, 2001
Resident Evil March 15, 2002
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life July 25, 2003
House of the Dead October 10, 2003
Resident Evil: Apocalypse September 10, 2004
Alone in the Dark January 28, 2005
Doom October 21, 2005
BloodRayne January 6, 2006
Silent Hill April 21, 2006
DOA: Dead or Alive September 7, 2006
Postal July 21, 2007
Resident Evil: Extinction September 21, 2007
Hitman November 21, 2007
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale January 11, 2008
Far Cry October 2, 2008
Max Payne October 17, 2008
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li February 27, 2009
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time May 28, 2010
Resident Evil: Afterlife September 10, 2010
Resident Evil: Retribution September 14, 2012
Silent Hill: Revelation October 26, 2012
Need for Speed March 14, 2014
Hitman: Agent 47 August 21, 2015
Ratchet and Clank April 29, 2016
The Angry Birds Movie[90] May 20, 2016
See many good movies on this list? And most of the Uve Boll masterpieces isn't even on it... The thing they have in common is that they all suck, possibly excepted Wing commander.
Movie reviewers. What can I say? Pretentious, uptight idiots would be a fair description I think. Movie reviewers are useless in my opinion. They always downplay action and fantasy films, the typical big, summer blockbusters. That's not to say that a lot of game to movie adaptations have not been terrible but I'm gonna have to wait on this one and see for myself.
These are the same people that said that Man of Steel was terrible movie and that Gal Gadot was good as Wonder Woman.
I'd rather watch the film and make my own mind up.
Still, a movie based on a game should tell you something... Other movies based on games: <big snip>
See many good movies on this list? And most of the Uve Boll masterpieces isn't even on it... The thing they have in common is that they all suck, possibly excepted Wing commander.
The best part is that I haven't watched a single one of those...
I'd like to know if these reviews are comparing the movie to the lore/books or the online game... or based solely on what in their personal view a fantasy warcraft movie should be?
Does it matter? A crap movie is a crap movie. If you have to be familiar with wow's goofy lore to see the movie then they kinda failed at making a good movie didn't they?
Mortal Kombat (the first one) Tomb Raider(The first one) Hitman (2007) Silent Hill (The first one) Resident Evil (The first one)
Good list. I enjoyed some of those too... nothing wrong with watching some trash now and then. We all have our guilty pleasures, critics be damned.
However, I didn't go to the theater for any of those B films. They're better at home for free on Netflix or a movie channel.
There are also plenty of good movies that were box office flops. Blade Runner, The Shawshank Redemption, Fight Club and Raging Bull among them.
People get way too worked up over movies they like not being the most successful or best reviewed, Just like with games.
I think now I'll go rewatch Fanboys. RT score 32% and I've enjoyed it every time I've watched it
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I'd like to know if these reviews are comparing the movie to the lore/books or the online game... or based solely on what in their personal view a fantasy warcraft movie should be?
My guess would be that these reviewers have little or no knowledge of lore. Based on what I've seen, however, they lore is utterly butchered in the movie -- I mean Garona and Lothar? O.o She was Medivh's lover. And that's just the beginning.
See, was i wrong when i said this movie would give me heart attack? What a disgrace..
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Man, I really expected it to not be that great but at the same time I wished it would be good.
I kinda liked the possibility on having a trilogy like lord of the rings but in the world of warcraft universe. There's so much lore that could be used in movies.... They even have Diablo and Starcraft too if they even wanted to.
I still think they should have stuck with CGI only. Like resident evil movies, they made no fucking sense whatsoever but the CGI ones where not bad.
They pretty much knew it was crap. Why else would they give away free copy's of the game for anybody who sees the movie. Giving the game away for free costs them nothing, but definitely pads the numbers on the movie if people are going out to spent 20$ on a crap movie to get the entire game.
"The final product brings to mind those animated advertisements for iPhone app games."
"Unconvincing and generic, with nothing to compare to either the dramatic heft of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy or the raunch and gore of Game of Thrones."
The positive:
"A flawed but likable adventure that I would happily go on again, preferably as a double feature with The Beastmaster, Legend or Ladyhawke."
"Dramatically and technically, Warcraft gives the concept of "hybrid" new punch."
So far it's at 40%
How dare he lump Legend in there with Beast Master and LadyHawk
Okay, well then. I was holding onto a glimmer of hope, but I guess it's going to be a pile of fail. Maybe I'll skip the cinema and wait for Netflix. Thanks Obama.
Doing a brief google search to see what others were saying about this movie it does seem to be mostly negative .
Variety's review made me laugh it called the movie an epic fail .
I don't suppose it will damage the game in any way but it may not help it as much as many thought it would either .
I think Duncan Jones would have been well advised to keep away from such a film in the first place . He's a talented director but even he isn't going to be able to polish a turd .
It could have been worse though it could have had Kung Fu Panda's in it ( or does it ? )
US (Memorial Day) holiday weekend. Tough call.
1. Alice through the Looking Glass (sequel to 2010 billion+ hit and Disney are on their A game so far this year). 2. X-Men Apocalypse (next X-Men, previous took $700M+, already $100M+ in non-US weekend launch.) 3. Angry Birds
Ist weekend in June. 1. Alice 2. X-Men 3. TMNT (new turtles movie, 3rd in current series of $200M+ films) 4 / 5 Me Before You / Popstar.
2nd weekend in June. 1. Alice 2. X-Men (will depend on previous 2 weeks, Angry Birds did displace CA: CW this weekend but it had the previous 2 weeks to itself). 3-8 Now You See Me 2, Conjuring 2, Warcraft, TMNT. Me Before You, Popstar
3rd weekend in June. 1 Finding Dorey (remember Nemo) 2. Alice 3. Central Intelligence 4. X-Men or maybe one of the previous weeks new releases. 5 and beyond - see above
4th weekend: 1. Independence Day 2 . Finding Dorey 3. Alice 4. Free State of Jones maybe ....
Last weekend in June - sees the addition of Tarzan and The BFG (and another wide release). Ouch. And the chance of Warcraft being in cinemas in July is slim (Ghostbusters, Ice Age, Star Trek, Jason Bourne and other hopefuls)
And this ignores hold overs from films that launched prior to Memorial Day.
This weekend for example Zootopia took nearly $2M in its 12th week, The Jungle Book $11M in its 6th week and CA:CW $36M So even though Angry Birds managed to be number 1 (hurray) it only took $39M. And the other two wide releases less than $20M. And the chance of Angry Birds doing much this weekend - yeah.
Warcraft will struggle just like Angry Birds has struggled because of the other films around it. The bad reviews won't help of course.
Usually the critics and the audience opinions are far apart
Not really - usually they are very close - as in bad movies are disliked by both, and good movied are liked by both.
Lets check your theory right now - look at the current Rotten Tomato movie reviews:
Angry birds - Critics 42, Audience 59 - both disliked it - 17% apart Captain America Civl war - Critics 90%, Audience 91% - almost identical Neighbors 2 Sorrority Rising - Critics 62%, Audience 56% - again very cloes The nice guys - Critics 90%, Audience 84% - very close The Jungle book - Critics 95%, Audience 91% - very close Money Monster - Critics 54%, Audience 61% - 7% close The Darkness - Critics 5%, Audience 23% - both hated it, 17% difference Zootopia - Critics 98%, Audience 94% - 4% very close
So I'd say your theory is wrong - usually the critics and the audience AGREE, and rarely are they far apart as you claim
I think the problem is a game movie is something critics just don't like at all. So they are being negative simply because of that one thing. Lets take Avatar for example. Does it have a story that outshines other movies? Was it really that different then all other scifi movies like Battlefield Earth? Other then the fact that the people were blue it really didn't offer that much yet it was overhyped and praised for it as well. The general public just don't like the stuff that gamers like. We liked shows like Legend of the Seeker, Merlin, Firefly, movies like Battlefield Earth, Eragon, Dragon Heart. The general public didn't like these things very much and probably never will. Which is why you really can't listen to critics because they like chocolate and we like Vanilla.
This isn't a World of Warcraft movie, I'm sure people are going to be confused. The way the people speak so far is that the movie is proceeding similar to the Warcraft RTS games in tone.
As for lore, they're probably fixing stuff they wish never existed. Like Me'dan.
Honestly I'm hoping this is more worldbuilding than anything. I want this to be successful enough to warrant more films at least to the scourge storyline.
If you follow up with current lore, medan is useless now, he can no longer use shit load spell from 5 different type of magic school, he failed in paladin training and can barely use some basic level of magic spell previously taught by meryl felstorm. Reason given was that, during comic events he suddenly found out about his power and truth about his mother and etc etc such such you can imagine and power just pour out of him like a horny dog ejaculating all over crib. Now he is no longer that way, he is a normal mage with a few other extra ability which is not OP.
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It’s easy to predict whether Duncan Jones’s take on the world-conquering online role-playing game World Of Warcraft is
for you. If you take delight in names like "Orgrim Doomhammer" and have
a high tolerance for randomly scattered apostrophes and superfluous
"h"’s, it could be your film of the summer. If not, you should avoid it at all costs.
The World of Warcraft online game apparently had 12 million players at
its peak, and every single one of them is going to need to turn up to
see this – with their extended families – if it’s ever going to get past
its first instalment. It’s an expensive, high-fantasy epic reminiscent
of The Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones.
And there’s much to admire in its ambition, its design, even its
politics. But there’s also a whiff of the John Carter about it. Like the 2012 Martian flop,
it’s a complex, jargon-heavy, deadly earnest battle epic, short on star
power and with more than a touch of 1970s fantasy art about it. Its
greatest battle could be against widespread indifference.
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yea but Blur is a tad better than blizz cgi.. http://www.blur.com/work/
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They're done in-house. The SW:TOR ones and other from Bethesda and multiple studios have been outsourced by BLUR studios, but not Blizzard's. It is totally 100% in-house.
On Topic:
The problem I'm seeing with the reviews is the same from people expecting this to be "World of Warcraft movie". It is not. It is Warcraft; as in the RTS from the 1990's. I swear they were far too late in tacking on either the "Orcs vs Humans" or "The Beginning" labels to try to sell it as a non-WoW movie. The RTS games were about grit and story, and ....they weren't WoW. WoW was set in the universe of Warcraft, but post those events. And the humor in WoW is there to basically make it an enjoyable online experience with friends.
That seems to be the main issue with this movie. It cannot distance itself from WoW enough to try to sell the story of the old games alone. WoW is such a big phenomenon that the game bleeds into the opinions of this movie, whether Blizzard wants it to or not.
See many good movies on this list? And most of the Uve Boll masterpieces isn't even on it... The thing they have in common is that they all suck, possibly excepted Wing commander.
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However, I didn't go to the theater for any of those B films. They're better at home for free on Netflix or a movie channel.
There are also plenty of good movies that were box office flops. Blade Runner, The Shawshank Redemption, Fight Club and Raging Bull among them.
People get way too worked up over movies they like not being the most successful or best reviewed, Just like with games.
I think now I'll go rewatch Fanboys. RT score 32% and I've enjoyed it every time I've watched it
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See, was i wrong when i said this movie would give me heart attack? What a disgrace..
Boobs are LIFE, Boobs are LOVE, Boobs are JUSTICE, Boobs are mankind's HOPES and DREAMS. People who complain about boobs have lost their humanity.
I kinda liked the possibility on having a trilogy like lord of the rings but in the world of warcraft universe. There's so much lore that could be used in movies.... They even have Diablo and Starcraft too if they even wanted to.
I still think they should have stuck with CGI only. Like resident evil movies, they made no fucking sense whatsoever but the CGI ones where not bad.
tis what all fans wanted/wished.
knew tis movie gonna sucks becouse that female orc looks like human.
MMO players are far less forgiving and even more toxic.
How dare he lump Legend in there with Beast Master and LadyHawk
Variety's review made me laugh it called the movie an epic fail .
I don't suppose it will damage the game in any way but it may not help it as much as many thought it would either .
I think Duncan Jones would have been well advised to keep away from such a film in the first place . He's a talented director but even he isn't going to be able to polish a turd .
It could have been worse though it could have had Kung Fu Panda's in it ( or does it ? )
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US (Memorial Day) holiday weekend. Tough call.
1. Alice through the Looking Glass (sequel to 2010 billion+ hit and Disney are on their A game so far this year). 2. X-Men Apocalypse (next X-Men, previous took $700M+, already $100M+ in non-US weekend launch.) 3. Angry Birds
Ist weekend in June. 1. Alice 2. X-Men 3. TMNT (new turtles movie, 3rd in current series of $200M+ films) 4 / 5 Me Before You / Popstar.
2nd weekend in June. 1. Alice 2. X-Men (will depend on previous 2 weeks, Angry Birds did displace CA: CW this weekend but it had the previous 2 weeks to itself). 3-8 Now You See Me 2, Conjuring 2, Warcraft, TMNT. Me Before You, Popstar
3rd weekend in June. 1 Finding Dorey (remember Nemo) 2. Alice 3. Central Intelligence 4. X-Men or maybe one of the previous weeks new releases. 5 and beyond - see above
4th weekend: 1. Independence Day 2 . Finding Dorey 3. Alice 4. Free State of Jones maybe ....
Last weekend in June - sees the addition of Tarzan and The BFG (and another wide release). Ouch. And the chance of Warcraft being in cinemas in July is slim (Ghostbusters, Ice Age, Star Trek, Jason Bourne and other hopefuls)
And this ignores hold overs from films that launched prior to Memorial Day.
This weekend for example Zootopia took nearly $2M in its 12th week, The Jungle Book $11M in its 6th week and CA:CW $36M So even though Angry Birds managed to be number 1 (hurray) it only took $39M. And the other two wide releases less than $20M. And the chance of Angry Birds doing much this weekend - yeah.
Warcraft will struggle just like Angry Birds has struggled because of the other films around it. The bad reviews won't help of course.
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The Telegraph - 2/5 Stars - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/05/25/the-warcraft-movie-is-naff-fantasy-in-shiny-technicolour-armour/
It’s easy to predict whether Duncan Jones’s take on the world-conquering online role-playing game World Of Warcraft is for you. If you take delight in names like "Orgrim Doomhammer" and have a high tolerance for randomly scattered apostrophes and superfluous "h"’s, it could be your film of the summer. If not, you should avoid it at all costs.
The Guardian - 2/5 Stars - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/may/25/world-of-warcraft-the-beginning-review-end-already-nigh
The World of Warcraft online game apparently had 12 million players at its peak, and every single one of them is going to need to turn up to see this – with their extended families – if it’s ever going to get past its first instalment. It’s an expensive, high-fantasy epic reminiscent of The Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones. And there’s much to admire in its ambition, its design, even its politics. But there’s also a whiff of the John Carter about it. Like the 2012 Martian flop, it’s a complex, jargon-heavy, deadly earnest battle epic, short on star power and with more than a touch of 1970s fantasy art about it. Its greatest battle could be against widespread indifference.
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