The movie looks corny and cheap as hell

[Deleted]

I kind of have to agree. I mean, look at the story. Some humans and orcs on a random world fighting over... Land? I could see this appealing to some fantasy/video game fans in general, but if those people plus Warcraft fans (well, okay, Warcraft fans are included in the first group) are really the only ones who'll see this movie... Well, the return rate will be 1/10.

They really should've gone with an Arthas film from the get-go. Not only would we have seen Arthas and his story on the movie screens (and this way we wont, because the movie will go down in history as one of the greatest fails ever), the whole franchise would probably have had a much stronger footing in the movie world.

Honestly, they probably just wanted to try one film first. We see Nerzhul (later, the spirit of the Lich King in case you don’t know lore) in the trailers so it can’t be so far fetched to see a possible sequel(s) in the future.

[Haloswin]

I kind of have to agree. I mean, look at the story. Some humans and orcs on a random world fighting over... Land? I could see this appealing to some fantasy/video game fans in general, but if those people plus Warcraft fans (well, okay, Warcraft fans are included in the first group) are really the only ones who'll see this movie... Well, the return rate will be 1/10.

They really should've gone with an Arthas film from the get-go. Not only would we have seen Arthas and his story on the movie screens (and this way we wont, because the movie will go down in history as one of the greatest fails ever), the whole franchise would probably have had a much stronger footing in the movie world.

So, you think the movie as is will only appeal to WOW fans while at the same time thinking it would have been a better idea to have them make the movie about Arthas.. ... Because who other than WOW fans know who Arthas is?

Logic fail.

[Romano]

-weapons and armor look fake and bad
-sets look fake and bad
-actors really stand out compared to the cgi
-everything is clean and looks plastic

That's reaching out? All visuals being bad is reaching?

No that isnt reaching out, complaining about the conference room is reachign out.
Let's see the rest now


Weapons and armor look fake ?
The only thing I dislike about the armor is the right shoulder pad the armor Lothat wears has.
It seems to overlap strangely.
Other than that the weapons and armors are decent.
Sets look fine.
Even the scenes with orcs and humans fighting are well done.
The dwarf was too shiny for my taste so there is that I guess.

[ShimmerSwirl]

The issue with that crown is the choice to make it look riveted. The rivets are clearly just tacked on top for decoration with gold paint on top of them. If they had drilled holes and actually put some type of rivet in AFTER the paint job it would help alot.

[Aleksej89]

I like how the dwarf looks like on that picture.
The image is a little blurry but that style really fits into what i expect from warcraft.

The human guy on the right looks like one of those cheap latino actors xD
That lil' beard is straight out of a bad porn movie xD

[Romano]

And they look like metal when made out of metal. That thing doesn't.

I am not gonna throw a fit for that.

But please defend this:




You believe that those pictures are consistent? The left looks like a game trailer and the right like a bad tv show.

The dwarf looks too shiny for me.
Bad tv show?
Please tell me how teleportation magic should look like in a high fantasy setting.

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Honestly, they probably just wanted to try one film first. We see Nerzhul (later, the spirit of the Lich King in case you don’t know lore) in the trailers so it can’t be so far fetched to see a possible sequel(s) in the future.

Where is Nerzhul ?
If you talk about the shaman orc, it isnt certain.

[ShimmerSwirl]

Its pretty clear the crown is plastic. Has that dull plastic finish.

[CataclismicSunrise]

This thread is actually hilarious.

What fantasy film in the history of cinema has not looked corny and cheap as Hell?

Not a single one.

Also as someone who spends an awful lot of time looking at plastic, that crown does not look like plastic. It looks a lot like unpolished metal to me.

[Romano]

This thread is actually hilarious.

What fantasy film in the history of cinema has not looked corny and cheap as Hell?

Not a single one.

[CataclismicSunrise]

Have you seen those movies recently???

I also seem to recall a similar initial reaction to Lord of the Rings as there is to Warcraft. And to Avatar for that matter. All CGI looks like shit 5 years later anyway. Including Jurassic Park. It's a fucking eyesore these days.

[Aleksej89]

I think the major problem is that in EVERYTHING warcraft related we only had cartoon style characters.
All games, trailers and art depict very unrealistic faces and bodies and overall ambient effects.
Everything in warcraft is really over-accented and it is that style that people loved starting with warcraft 3 (or even war2).

Then suddenly, after almost 20 years of cartoon style characters, you slap on some real live human actors.
And they seem to be literally without any additional effects to make them "warcraft style" of slightly cartoonish.
The live actors look like they came from a TV show like The Charmed or some other fantasy show from 10+ years ago.

[ShimmerSwirl]

The dwarf looks too shiny for me.
Bad tv show?
Please tell me how teleportation magic should look like in a high fantasy setting.
.

Not fluorescent blue. That picture looks too modern because the temperature of the light is something you get out of modern fluorescent tube lights, something people associate with office spaces and CSI lab work. A temp more out of the ordinary like a green or purple would be different in peoples minds and more fantasy like imo.

[Romano]

Not fluorescent blue. That picture looks too modern because the temperature of the light is something you get out of modern fluorescent tube lights, something people associate with office spaces and CSI lab work. A temp more out of the ordinary like a green or purple would be different in peoples minds and more fantasy like imo.

It seemed good for me and fitting for the warcraft setting.
Green and purple are the colours that other types of magic have, not arcane.

[Vorkreist]

I am not gonna throw a fit for that.




The dwarf looks too shiny for me.
Bad tv show?
Please tell me how teleportation magic should look like in a high fantasy setting.

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Where is Nerzhul ?
If you talk about the shaman orc, it isnt certain.

That "teleportation" picture looks like a scene in a third rate harry potter remake.

[Romano]

That "teleportation" picture looks like a scene in a third rate harry potter remake.

If you think so.
But please next time delete the unrelated stuff.
You linked m entire answer to reply to 3 lines.

[Airlick]

I hate to say it but this movie is going TANK hard.

No name cast, the entire fantasy genre is not popular in mainstream now, way too much CGI. And the story sounds incredibly dull and cliche. Outside of current warcraft fans, I fail to see who this movie appeals to.

Travis Fimmel is a no-name? Oookaaay. The rest of the cast, yeah, pretty much, but just because the actors aren't very popular doesn't mean they can't be good.

The story is just bastardized story of WC1, and yes, this is why it will suck. Blizzard keeps victimizing orcs for years, so it's no surprise that they will do so in the movie as well, even though it's a massive retcon of the original story.

You're also right that the movie won't bring anyone other than fantasy and Warcraft fans to the cinemas.

All in all, the movie won't be worth waiting all these years.

[CataclismicSunrise]

Marvel and DC seem to have done a pretty good job at bringing non comic book fans into the cinema. Lord of the Rings did the same for Tolkien. Game of Thrones exposed the world to a fairly unknown series of books. I don't see why Warcraft won't pull in non Warcraft fans.

[Spriggs]

Travis Fimmel is a no-name? Oookaaay. The rest of the cast, yeah, pretty much, but just because the actors aren't very popular doesn't mean they can't be good.

The story is just bastardized story of WC1, and yes, this is why it will suck. Blizzard keeps victimizing orcs for years, so it's no surprise that they will do so in the movie as well, even though it's a massive retcon of the original story.

You're also right that the movie won't bring anyone other than fantasy and Warcraft fans to the cinemas.

All in all, the movie won't be worth waiting all these years.

I think it's an improvement on WC1. Making some of the Orcs heroes and empathetic helps separate the film from other fantasy stories.

[Deleted]

Travis Fimmel is a no-name? Oookaaay. The rest of the cast, yeah, pretty much, but just because the actors aren't very popular doesn't mean they can't be good.

The story is just bastardized story of WC1, and yes, this is why it will suck. Blizzard keeps victimizing orcs for years, so it's no surprise that they will do so in the movie as well, even though it's a massive retcon of the original story.

You're also right that the movie won't bring anyone other than fantasy and Warcraft fans to the cinemas.

All in all, the movie won't be worth waiting all these years.

And that is the biggest issue with the story. Nobody will feel empathy for big muscly CGI orcs that take everything by force and yet that's exactly what they want with the story.

[Aleksej89]

If the movie was done in full computer graphics i would be happy with how it looks.

But nothing in warcraft is done using real live actors - warcraft characters look very different from a real life human face/body.
Even the objects in warcraft are cartoonish, that is a huge part of it's awesomeness.

The movie feels like it is a cheap TV Show about Warcraft.
Yea the characters have the same names as Warcraft ones - but NO live actor looks like he actually resembles a character from Warcraft.
Real life actors just look too much different than the cartoony warcraft characters... and no cgi was used to try and lessen that "real life" effect.