After rewatching the Warcraft Movie, there is so much good about it, it’s cheesy Warcraft, looks good, Orcs are awesome in it.
But the weird Movie retcons are just awful, King lane dying at the portal, frostwolf doom hammer, Medivh being an Garonas dad and Khadgar is just silly in the movie, didn’t even get turned into an old man!
I was thinking even though we many people dislike the plot of BFA it would have made a hell of a movie. It’s pretty much the same plot but
Sylvanas is Gul’dan and Saurfang is Durotan.
We woulda got more spots light for other races and at least it would have been silly and ridiculous. Horde looking evil in a movie mades more sense than horde being villan batted within game.
We even may have gotten a chance of some prequel movies, we all know that a WC2 or WC3 movie would have been sick.
And to those who would say the BFA story isn’t a good introduction to new players or new to the franchise, the only reason the Warcraft Movie made sense to me was because I am a Warcraft fanboy (a positive fanboy at least)
Anyways that’s my mini fourm rant, was instesting hearing Duncan Jones on twitter about his sequel thoughts
The BfA plot was just random events for shock value thrown together without any sense or continuity. Many questions were left open, the bad guys won, a resolution for certain events such as Teldrassil wouldn’t exist at all and many characters acted in a way that was not only out of character for them, but also made no sense at all for reasonable human beings.
It was a mess, a mess that Blizzard is now trying to ignore and pretend that they never wrote it.
In the OG Warcraft 1 lore Garona is half human, then later recon Garona to be half draenei. Then for the movie Canon make her half human again but Medivh tell Garona about a story of him partying with orcs in his space travels shacking up with an lady orc. Nothing wrong with party medivh, just the movie Canon being different for the sake of different that bothers me.
I remember the game Garona being human then Draenei, but as I said, I have yet to watch the movie all the way through but the part about Medivh being her dad sounded way off but apparently its true, so, yeah. There we go.
BFA is almost as disconnected on a story telling level as the Last Jedi the only difference is that Warcrafts reputation decayed much slower than how Star Wars was bombastically ruined by Disney.
Besides the Warcraft movie is a sham, Stormwind should’ve been sacked by the first Horde not given over to stupid humans grieving over a handful of forgetful men when a literal unstoppable Horde is a stepping stone away from knocking on their door.
It ruins the flow of Warcrafts story and demolishes any chance for a meaningful follow up unless those idiots in Hollywood do some major retcons.
Yes, which I actually like as a change. It helps explain why he’s the one opening up the portal for the orcs to come through–at least he knows who the orcs are.
I also wish my spells in the game looked as cool as the ones in the movie!
Correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think this counts as a retcon. It would be a retcon if it had any effect on WoW, but it doesn’t. The movie takes place within it’s own universe, separate from WoW.
That was a deleted scene, so I don’t think we can consider it canon.
I don’t think BfA would have made a better movie than the movie we got, but I do think that part of the problem of the war story was that it was written more like a book or movie than like a game.
Stopping the quote there because, simply put, there was no resolution.
BFA’s plot so terrible, regardless of what medium you wanna format it for.
They tried to put too much into the Warcraft movie, and while I loved all the call backs, they really should have slowed it down. It’s a good story to start new viewers/gamers off with, but it wasn’t well executed.
BFA was full of a lot of incredibly disconnected events, inconsistent characterization, indecision on what kind of narrative it wanted to be (Old Gods or faction war), and unsatisfying conclusions all around. And that was all with everything an MMO can offer within the span of two-years.
I doubt it’d translate well to a, and this is being generous, two hour movie.
A BFA film would be like Rise of Skywalker. It would look pretty but nothing would make sense rushing at breakneck speed and people wouldn’t know wtf was going on.