Here is the official trailer for the movie. Looks interesting, I'll definitely end up seeing it when it comes out. Story seems cliche but then again so is Warcraft. As long as they stay true to the lore and have some cool stuff happen I'll be happy. I won't get my hopes up, but so far it seems like it will be a decent movie.
Things that bug me are the main orc has human eyes and it's really weird to me. Also the hot female "orc"... she's literally just green with teeth.
A major problem is that while the orcs look quite faithful to the video games, the video games have a cartoonish aesthetic. So we have actual human beings next to CGI-rendered WOW Orcs. The difference in abstraction is very jarring.
Then there's the fact that this reminds me very much of the trailer for John Carter, which is to say it looks like a super-generic fantasy adventure. Granted, John Carter was an example of the trailer making the movie look far worse than it is, which I hope is the case here. Really hoping the writing for the movie isn't as by-the-numbers as the trailer looks.
Then there's the fact that this reminds me very much of the trailer for John Carter, which is to say it looks like a super-generic fantasy adventure. Granted, John Carter was an example of the trailer making the movie look far worse than it is, which I hope is the case here. Really hoping the writing for the movie isn't as by-the-numbers as the trailer looks.
It's supposed to be the plot of WC1 plus the retroactive backstory of Thrall's father Durotan. Equal time and sympathy given to orc and human characters, with goodies and baddies on both sides. So big-picture, it's a reasonably original twist on the standard fantasy plot. Whether the writing will actually execute this well, only time can tell.
I do agree that it looks rather cartoonish, and wonder if it's going to find an audience. Domestically, anyway. Pretty sure it'll do just fine overseas.
PS: Me, I won't consider it a truly faithful adaptation unless it opens with some endlessly put-upon orc trying to build a barracks and six pig farms in the SWAMPS OF SOORROOW.
Considering the stellar animation capabilities Blizzard has I'm wondering why they'd even bother with live-action actors. I feel this would be better as a pure animated CGI movie. Now it's such a disconnect between the animated characters and the human actors, especially the female orc who looks like she walked off the set of Guardians of the Galaxy. I'm not very hyped.
She's not fully orc. If you see the first orc female giving up the baby, that's a full orc woman who is quite muscular and has more prosthetics on her. The simplest explanation is that the "human looking orc chick origin" is that she's Garona: http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Garona_Halforcen
And apparently looking at that wiki page, we can say for certain that she IS Garona Halforcen. You can see Thrall's mother, Draka, at 1:45, she's more orc looking than Garona who is half-dreinei.
I will wait to see some reviews, of course, as I do not think a film should be judged solely by promotional material, but so far I am completely underwhelmed. I'm fairly certain the film will either bomb, or at least make very little money, and I don't think I have ever predicted wrongly for a film yet. The film's animation does not look good, the story sounds much too generic (regardless of what they are sourcing for it) and so far it reminds me of how I felt when I saw the God of Egypt trailer.
I guess time will tell. Maybe some interesting story elements will come to light closer to release or they will do some more work on the CG (studios often work on it until the last week).
Things that bug me are the main orc has human eyes and it's really weird to me. Also the hot female "orc"... she's literally just green with teeth.
Then there's the fact that this reminds me very much of the trailer for John Carter, which is to say it looks like a super-generic fantasy adventure. Granted, John Carter was an example of the trailer making the movie look far worse than it is, which I hope is the case here. Really hoping the writing for the movie isn't as by-the-numbers as the trailer looks.
I do agree that it looks rather cartoonish, and wonder if it's going to find an audience. Domestically, anyway. Pretty sure it'll do just fine overseas.
PS: Me, I won't consider it a truly faithful adaptation unless it opens with some endlessly put-upon orc trying to build a barracks and six pig farms in the SWAMPS OF SOORROOW.
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She's not fully orc. If you see the first orc female giving up the baby, that's a full orc woman who is quite muscular and has more prosthetics on her. The simplest explanation is that the "human looking orc chick origin" is that she's Garona: http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Garona_Halforcen
And apparently looking at that wiki page, we can say for certain that she IS Garona Halforcen. You can see Thrall's mother, Draka, at 1:45, she's more orc looking than Garona who is half-dreinei.
http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Draka
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I guess time will tell. Maybe some interesting story elements will come to light closer to release or they will do some more work on the CG (studios often work on it until the last week).
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I saw the movie yesterday and enjoyed it a lot. Might go see it again. I feel like they changed the story enough but kept it true enough to the games.