It was just a bad movie all around.
I really enjoyed it and watch it ever so often. Itâs my sick day movie, the one you throw on while your benched by the latest cold/flu.
Itâs like watching a movie thatâs been filmed in your home town and you recognise the locations and what not.
Itâs not perfect but it doesnât have to be, hoping they do a Witcher style miniseries.
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I think they should make a computer animated series of it.
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I actually liked the movie even though you can tell they cut alot of it out âbecause no one likes 2 hour moviesâ (every marvel movie after avengers would like to speak with the director of movies lol)
The best actors was lothar, khadgar for half his scenes and the orcs. Everyone else acted like they were above making some video game movie
Still use the guldan staff and orc axe from the movie. Would love to use the shield and sword for ally but i dont tank nor play ally all that much ever
If it were me i would have done the WC3 story first and then did the others as prequels later on. If it was good enough to hook me years ago its good enough to grab new and old audiences the same
I thought it was a big miss.
The story seemed made for players who didnât know the in game lore so they did things like having floating Dalaran because thatâs what current players expected. The Draenei genocide was also given short shrift.
I know the books are just crappy beach fiction but I think a better choice would have been to adapt Rise of the Horde to really set up the story if the idea was to start at the beginning. Even better would have be to do the Arthas story and do WC 3.
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Sad to say I never had the opportunity to see it, maybe tonight if I can stream it on like youtube or something.
I love Warcraft and Iain ever even watch it.
Bad movie. The only good part about it was it was interesting to see Warcraft done in movie format. Thatâs it.
Problem solved.
I donât like how it came out. Too much flatline acting and I think Hollyweird intentionally makes flawed game adaptation script for outrage marketing. Youâd think after 300 fails they would eventually hire someone who can find the game wiki to write the script, at least try it once.
I did not like it. They changed too many things and the most annoying for me was Orgrim being a Frostwolf instead of a Blackrock. They removed so much good story, especially back story, with that move.
The Orcs were fine but the humans were terribly cast. I think King Llane was the best cast and Medivh, Lothar and Khadgar being the worst. Medivh was such an unbelievably terrible choice and Lothar was suppose to be a giant of a man not some tiny dude. And Khadgar I just wasnât feeling it.
If they made another movie Iâm not sure Iâd watch it. Maybe Iâd watch it once but that is it the same for the current one. Make it more like the books and cast characters like they are portrayed in the books and I might like it.
I would not watch any Christy Golden books made into movies unless they are the ones with only Orcs which I think she wrote two or three that way. Reason being that she always makes the humans win and in ridiculous ways and it makes me hate those books so I would not want to see that garbage on screen.
To each their own.
I liked it.
Then again I dont mind rewatching shows like xena warrior princess or shows like doctor who or farscape.
I still think they messed up by not just making it an animated movie.
The movie was fine. Though that was pretty much it; fine. Was against more popular / hyped movies and using at the time a director that was still green versus others at the time, though, even with all its faults, the Warcraft universe it too vast for movies. A series, more accurately animated (2D, 3D, Hybrid, even stopmotion) would be the best.
Blizzard already has a well developed media entertainment team to create something (or expand upon it) as others pointed out, like LoL: Arcane, a 2D / 3D hybrid, or even keep their setting 3D - or 2D and move away from their Animatics Shorts (motion comic style) and use the art style they built for those shorts and create an entire series with more fluid animation - that style would bring in massive views if it was cleaner animation.
Issues being, Blizzard needs to be the sole studio creating their own animation series, not to outreach to others if they ever do happen to decide to go that direction. Outside, you get the creative âinterpretationsâ of different directors, writers and artists view of the story and not the actual story.
My thoughts is they stay 3D - they already have their pipeline, artstyle and captures set for it - just need to expand upon it with the right team it would be a huge boon to them.
Their unique 3D artstyle already captures the foreboding dark themes and silly nature of the series.
Or just toss it all to the wind, hire Titmouse Studios and go with a Metalocalypse / Venture Bros. style and go full on ham.
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I did not enjoy it. It was a very broken film, and I think if I wasnât already a WarCraft fan, Iâd have been tempted to walk out on it.
Even knowing WarCraft though, I have to disagree with something a lot of people have been writing here, going all the way back to the OP. People keep writing that they made a mistake to make the movie about WarCraft I, and should instead have made the movie about something in the WoW era. The thing is, it wasnât the WarCraft I story. It was similar to it, but lots of things were changed. For instance, Lothar did not kill Blackhand. Ogrim Doomhammer killed Blackhand near the end of the First War as part of a power grab, as explained in the WC2 manual. Itâs almost like our historical drama films based on real history, like Braveheart being based on a real war that happened between England and Scotland, and while many characters in the film were real people, a lot of what they said and did was changed.
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As a fan I enjoyed it but if I wasnât a fan I wouldnât probably care for it. Holding out hope that they do a second with with Henry Cavill as Arthas
I think it came out during the flight controversy in WoD.
their built in audience gave the movie the finger as a resultâŚ
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The problem with it is it chose what is now arguable the most boring part of Warcraft lore, Warcraft 1.
It should have done Warcraft 2 for the huge battles or Warcraft 3 for Arthasâ story.
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I donât know about that first bit, but the second part seems pretty fair.
I donât think anyone went into it expecting it to be a huge blockbuster, but as the very least it was solid enough as a Summer popcorn flick. It just didnât do well enough to get those sequels.
Not surprised at the number of folks that still think this should have gone straight to WoW.
MAYBE they could have gotten away with Warcraft 3 as the starting point, but at the same time I feel like it would have been a ton of exposition to lead the film off with. When you have only 2-3 hours to work with, youâve got to be selective, and I feel like jumping straight to WC3 and trying to get a crowd of normies and people conditioned to think the monstrous looking big green guys are evil to accept them as the heroes would have been a bit much. Youâve got to keep in mind that WC3 prior to the expansion was as much Thrallâs story as it was the story of Arthas. Ending it with the guy most of them would have seen as the hero becoming who would have been the next major villain might not have sat well with the average film crowd.
All that said, Warcraft is way too lore dense to jump straight to WC3 or later, especially once you get into things such as the Burning Legion, why the orcs are on Azeroth in the first place, etc.
I myself still think the original game was the best starting point as youâre not bombarding viewers who are not versed in the lore with too much all at once, but it seems like more people here wanted a World of Warcraft film as opposed to a Warcraft film. That seems to be a common thing I notice between those that enjoyed it, and those that didnât.