I liked the Warcraft movie and I wish it had been successful enough to launch a film franchise.
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Your cool person card has been officially revoked.
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It was okay. But it would’ve been a lot better if all the characters were all animated instead of Garona and the Alliance cast be all live actors, it would’ve made the movie feel less uncanny and made everyone feel like they fit.
Imagine a whole movie, but it was WoW cinematic quality… that is the dream…
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I enjoyed it. A lot of things about it could have been better done, but it was fun and not bad.
I too wish it had spawned more. Though I think the setting and story would probably be better suited to a miniseries.
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Good, people my age should never be cool. That ends with slouching around the food court asking random teens what’s on fleek.
See, what I liked about it was that it perfectly embodied the “giant ridiculous cartoon” aesthetic of Warcraft. Where they blundered, I think, was not making it an animated movie to begin with.
The Second War was boring, if they wanted to re-launch a cinematic universe with the Third War as a CGI miniseries I would be totally down for that.
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Stay lukewarm.
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I feel like it probably would have succeeded if they had leaned into the goofy cartoon angle.
There was a notable dissonance between seeing some burly orcs ruminate about honor and family and then start juggling horses.
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It was too much shoved into one movie, but not a bad movie as a whole.
Showing Draenor at all was a mistake. It opened that door, and then answered no questions about it. Orcs should have been what they really were at first. Mysterious invaders with unknown objectives and origins, and that could have been revealed partially throughout the movie.
Then down the line you do a Draenor prequel. I’m frustrated. It could have been a huge success.
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I do fully agree with you in liking the Warcraft movie.
For me, however, the biggest glaring issue was that it more or less tossed people in with 0 easing in for those not familiar.
If we ever get a reboot, they should take notes from Detective Pikachu in easing new people in so the casual movie goes are more keen to see it.
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I do remember there was a lot of rumor, confusion, and general back-and-forth for years leading up to it, mostly having to do with Blizzard insisting on getting it “right.”
Knowing what I do now, I suspect that mostly consisted of Blizzard devs making life unnecessarily difficult for competent screenwriters.
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The marketing campaign was also done really, really poorly.
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I thought it was a lot of fun. I’ve watched it probably three times and always enjoyed it.
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My favorite memory of that movie still is when I got it on my PlayStation and was watching it at home, when I lived with my parents. My mom walked past and asked if it was Warcraft, I said yeah, and she stood there for a second, then got intrigued. She ended up watching pretty much the whole movie, and in the mok’gora scene, when Gul’dan rips off his cloak, she goes “Oh my god… I thought those spikes were his costume. What the hell, gross.”
I don’t know why, but I thought that was hilarious at the time. Just out of all the stuff in that movie, Gul’dan’s weird body is what made my mom stop and ask a question.
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Multiple battle scenes also showed it took 3 human soldiers to successfully fight 1 orc warrior.
So Dwarf and Belf players can now also hold that over the heads of humans.
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Well the scaling in the movie was also not what it is in the game. Dwarves were shorter, orcs were WAY bigger. Orcs were about the size of tauren.
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The way they tried to cram as many locations in as possible was neat for someone who already knows them all and can appreciate seeing them in “real life,” but it didn’t do the story any favors at all.
Also, there kind of wasn’t a protagonist.
Furthermore, the Obligatory Romantic Subplot between Lothar and Garona was forced, underdeveloped, and silly.
I kind of wish they’d shipped Khadgar with Lothar’s son. Let Lothar be all prickly about this spell-chucker trying to court his boy, then he and Khadgar bond over their shared grief when the poor guy gets killed by orcs.
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The second War was not boring! It was an apocalyptic struggle for humanity! It saw the original formation of the alliance! The first paladins! Turalyon taking up Lothar’s sword!
I could easily make the second war a super compelling piece, but you’d have to go off script and I do think it should be a mini series.
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I mostly dismiss it because I never had the opportunity to play WC2 and you can’t get that anymore.
You can get WC2 at GOG dot com, same as the other Warcraft games and all sorts of othe old junk that will burn a hole in your pocket.
Anyway, I didn’t see the movie at release because the previews looked really, really bad. But the more clips I see, the more I know it would be a fantastic drunk movie.
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I mean, if I were to break the first 2 Warcrafts up into 3 movies…
Warcraft 1 wound end the fall of Stormwind (Obviously) with the purge of Frostwolves happening literally just before it.
Warcraft 2 I would actually end with the battle of Lorderean with the invasion of Quel’thalas being your sort of mid-point in it all.
Warcraft 3 for story purposes would see some alterations with Lothar’s death and Orgrim’s defeat happening at the Dark Portal so a proper climax can be had for the trilogy.
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