Originally Posted by
Soulwind
Yeah, streamlining books to make watchable movies is horrible. I mean, Lord of the Rings is considered one of the worst adaptations ever, and it did poorly in box office, too. How many characters did it delete or change in order to make three three-hour long movies? He could have made a dozen five-hour long films instead! That would have been faithful and succesful, wouldn't it?
Adaptations have to change things around. Storytelling varies in different forms of media, what works in books doesn't work in movies, what works in movies doesn't work in videogames, and what works in videogames doesn't work in movies. The director and the writers have to take a whole universe and its characters and weave their way through the story in a way that's both entertaining and comprehensible. In this case, they need to make it accessible too. Concessions have to be made.
Now, you've got two options: Suck it up and enjoy the movie for its own merits, like Marvel fans have been doing for a decade. Or complain about it everyday until the movie is released, potentially losing out on a whole new fanbase that may form around the "Warcraft Cinematic Universe", were it to become popular.
The nick makes it really hard to take the guy seriously, to be honest.