Just because the marketers don't know what audiences want doesn't mean the people making the movie don't.
Even the director made a point to say the marketing has been bad (link). So yes it's very likely the movie will be much better than what we've seen.
LotR was hyped beyond imagination, since the books pretty much made fantasy a genre of modern literature. It also had a stupidly large budget, which showed in the quality of CGI (which, honestly, no movie prior to LotR did better, not even Matrix) and the incredible scale of the world. Add equally stupidly huge marketing behind it - kinda like the recent Star Wars movie - and you have a recipe for like 20 Oscars combined.
Warcraft has nothing going for it compared with LotR. Even if it does have a good reception, the only nomination it might possibly get is for special effects and maaaybe costumes. That's it. 2 nominations tops, no awards.
None. /10char
Depends on whether or not the studio campaigns for it. I wouldn't count on that based on the marketing.
Does warcraft look like oscar material to you? Or more like, does this movie (judging from screenshots and trailers) with its cgi quality look like oscar material?
I highly doubt that. But I don't care either.
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Even if the movie sucks from story viewpoint, it could still get a nomination for visual effects or maybe costumes
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Oscar chance? About 0.000000000000000000001% IMO
This one...
over 70% I would say.
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Lord of the Rings was a very well made and powerful franchise with good marketing and everyone was in bed with the critics. It's extremely rare for a fantasy movie to get anything close to that and Warcraft is a video game movie. Comic book movies only get a tiny bit of recognition here and there due to the retarded amounts of money they rake in.
If it makes a killing and gets sequels, sure. They'll have to accept it then.
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Come on, let's be real here, the chance of Warcraft getting even a nomination is incredibly delusionally far fetched.
I'll be surprised if this movie doesn't instantly flop as soon as it hits.
Not the kind of film that gets nominated.
Maybe for visual effects and even that would be a big stretch