The movies great - the reviewers are all bloody idiots
The problem is that the tomatometer is a shitty metric. You can see it right on the main page. The average review score for Warcraft is 4.4/10, but the tomatometer is 21%.
They should also go ahead and start letting the audience scores aggregate as well, since its got over 500 audience reviews. While some people will balk at a low critic score, a lot of more discerning people will check the audience score and its stupid to deny people that information.
Fuck professional critics. Useless people with way too much power.
I trust IMDB more than those douches.
Just came back from the movies and in my opinion i can say critics are wrong.
I give it a 8/10, i am a warcraft player tho for a long time.
As a non warcraft player i would give it 6.5/10.
Only problem i had with it that it switched between to mutch locations to fast on the human side (what was not needed)
CGI is great and i never had problems with humans and orcs in the same shot.
If i would compare it to a movie then it would be the first transformers movie, they set up the universe as good as they can with trying to respect the fans and try to interest ppl that never played any of the game. If you enjoyed the first transformers for the CGi and action you will like this movie aswell.
If you like fantasy movies/series or the game you will like this movie.
Do you hate CGI in every movie, do you hate when not everything is explained in a movie or switching between locations in a fast pace? then stay home.
I can say it is the best videogame movie to date and really dont deserve the heavy negative ratings of the critics at all even for non warcraft viewers the CGI effects and action will entertain you and will hopefully interest you to want to see more of this universe.
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Not really relevant to the discussion, but Tolkien totally did invent orcs for the LotR. Not the movie LotR obviously, but if we are being pedantic.lotr didnt invent them [orcs]
On-topic:
A few days out from seeing it and I think it is an alright movie, about a 7.5. It has even inspired my father-in-law to pick up one of the books. I'm not sure how well that will go since he still has 0 interest in the games, but we will see I guess.
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No, you can't.
You can say you disagree with them. That the accumulation of negative reviews do not match your experience. That your opinion differs. But none of that makes them wrong. It just means that they have a different opinion to you.
And given that they are all professional critics, viewing this as a stand-alone piece of film-making, and you are a Warcraft fan, viewing it as a film of a favourite game, nobody should be the least surprised at this divergence.
A film can have dozens of functional and structural flaws that make it a poor piece of art. Critics will, quite rightly, focus on those. None of them will necessarily stop fans from enjoying it, as we can see repeatedly in this thread. The two points of view are in no way contradictory, and neither of them make the other viewpoint wrong.
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its getting 7.9 out of 10 here
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Most German Critics liked the Film. I don't really get why there's such a gripe against the film in the English speaking realm.
Im starting to think that this is actually a very successful movie if the audience like it, considering everything going against them, and i hope that the sequel will only improve on the mistakes of the first
What an absurd comment lol. What, you're imagining yourself not having played the game or knowing anything? lol, that doesn't work that way.
The movie is mediocre, deal with it guys... it gains extra points from warcraft games fans, since they know the story for 10-20 years and their finally seeing it in a movie... but that doesn't make it a good movie. all those 10/10s on imdb are as laughable as the 1/10s.
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It was at 9.1 with hundreds of ratings before it even premiered in ANY country... so yea, sure.
Fanboys are giving it 10/10 before watching it, just as haters are giving it 1/10 just for the sake of trashing it.
44% of the votes are 10's, lol.
Doesn't matter the Harry Potter fanbase beats both of them combined. Either way SW and Warcraft aren't that far apart in size, just the Star Wars one is more devoted in cinemas, whereas the Warcraft one is more devoted behind the PC.
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Yes because other movies on IMDB don't have this exact same problem.
/sarcasm
Does anybody really care what reviews say or how many tomatoes it has. Will those sites really sway anyone from seeing the movie? If someone wants to see it they'll see it.