This movie was missing about 45 minutes of footage that the studio made Duncan Jones cut for "reasons." The footage allegedly adds a bunch of story and exposition that helps out some of the problematic narratives. Shame we'll never get a director's cut, as Jones is a phenomenal director.
Was just about to say the same. It was too early for its time. If this had hit a little later it would have been a bigger success. It was definitely interesting enough and high quality enough to go against some cbms of the past 10 years
because of you Americans the film failed, your country did not appreciate the film, the box office in the US is disastrously low, look at reviews and box office in the US. thank you, I so hoped that the story about Arthas would be released this year! in the end there is no hope!
The pacing of this film is off. The director(Duncan Jones) has stated that he did not have control over the editing, the studio did, and they chose to cut it down heavily leaving approximately 40 minutes of film on the cutting room floor. It shows in the final product unfortunately. Would love to see a Director's cut.
There is even evidence that the entire final act was supposed to be a bit more true to the source material. Some of the early posters had Stormwind on fire in the background, as Stormwind was sieged and was actually lost to the Horde in the lore. So sad they did not get to do the true vision as I think it would have been a much better received movie. This was one of those epics that needed to be long with lots of character development and tragic events, but as the director have stated, it was killed by a thousand cuts.
There is only like 20 minutes of deleted stuff, and it doesn't really offer anything special or that would fix the pacing... its mostly the usual filler or badly acted scenes. Outside the orc campfire banter they offer nothing. It simply boils down to not enough time... They had to squeeze 10 pounds of Azeroth into a 2 pound sack... if they were going to wrap up any part of this chapter of the lore in a 2 hour period, they had to move quickly. Nearly a dozen races, over a dozen locations, dozens of individual characters, and the magical crap, but only 2 hours to introduce it all and flush out the plot, then to wrap it up enough to book end the movie enough to stand alone.
The best and only way to show warcraft universe in right way, is series and not movies. Can you imagine how cool would it be when they will show history of scourge, it's gonna be way better than White walkers in GoT. Not too much magic and less visual spells, and it could be way better than GoT.
@@anonymousfx5254 Doing movies would've been good, but I feel that for this, they tried to cream WAY too much in too little time. It would've been better as a two-parter.
@@eviljbrian Idea to start from Orcs coming to Azeroth was nice one, after this they could've easily made series with all the lore they had, which would've been enough for 5-6 seasons , till the end of WOTLK time line, since after that, it's boring and too much magic, like dragons, demons, etc This first movie would've been good way of starting TV story, but..... they screwed up with too much graphic and spells, which looks like some cartoons Even thought WoW is about magic, spells and dragons, i'd better take those out and leave those of level of First trilogy of Lord of the rings, not too much, not too little and we've seen the end result.
i still hope for a sequel...but so far ...nothing. it's so underrated. well budget issues. and not trusting enough? it has alot of changes from the game. but it did everything right. even hardcore players liked it. it's real action video game cutscenes as a whole movie. too bad it was so short. the franchise makes it's money without movies so they spend just enough to get you hooked i guess.
I absolutely agree this movie feels rushed. but as a guy who knows the lore I kinda get it because man... this lore is so huge you could easily make like 20 movies out of the complete wow storyline. and to be honest. I really wish they would. the rest is so incredibly amazing
I don't know....I kinda prefer for a movie to feel rush but show a lot, rather thn spending 3 hours watching Lord of the Rings while absolutely nothing happens and I feel no connection to the characters.
@@nb6792 I tried to binge the whole trilogy twice, and I still don't get the hype...There's barely any fantasy aspect, there's little to know about the characters, the dialogue is too over the top and theatrical, the scenes drag too much while showing so little... It's just such a bad fantasy in comparison to Harry Potter and Warcraft
hi all ! This movie is fast paced and events don't have time to unfold. I think if you want to make a film that will have several parts and which should be at least 2 hours and 30 minutes long. so that the whole plot fits and this is not taking into account the director's version. you need to contact someone who knows how to make such films, of course it's Peter Jackson! lord of the rings is the clearest example of how to shoot, I knew from the very beginning that Duncan Jones would not make a film that even those who have not seen Warcraft will like! After all, everyone liked the Lord of the Rings! my grandmother, my mother, at the time of the release of the Lord of the Rings, watched this trilogy with pleasure, not understanding what was happening, but with pleasure) pity Warcraft! it's a pity ...
I enjoyed the film a lot but I've had the WarCraft world as a part of my life for two decades now, which is why I think this film is harder to sit naturally with those unfamiliar with the lore. Cuz you are right it was doing everything super fast and not really fleshing it out. It was definitely a movie for the fans who already know these characters, even though many fans didn't like the film. That I think has to do with how some things were changed. Nowadays with how we are much more accepting of retellings and reimaginings, I think more fans who visit or revisit this will enjoy it for what it is.
Garona is half Dranei. The blue prisoners at the beginning that had their life essence taken from them to open the portal were Dranei. And yes I feel like the movie almost required you to play the rts or the MMO to pick up on a lot of the story points that are glossed over.
@Kenneth Actually.......Garona was considered half orc and half human by Metzen for both the non-canon books and the canon single player game during that time. What you might be forgetting is that Metzen changed his mind during the life of vanilla WoW when he was tasking himself with figuring out a narrative and story and lore background to use for his upcoming Burning Crusade expansion.....which is precisely when he invented all the interesting stuff that would make Draenei popular to choose as a new player character whenever that expansion would launch. As such, Metzen then switched his own idea of Garona being half human to being half draenei despite her not being blue and having no horns and having no hooves and not speaking or having any draenei type accent, etc. Essentially, Garona's ability to look more like a green human and to speak human languages made more sense in the non-canon books and in the canon game by assuming she was half human. But wait, there is more. This Warcraft movie has many differences from the real lore. Including no presence of Ner'zhul anywhere ever, and Orgrim Doomhammer being in the wrong clan, and all sorts of things. One of those differences is insinuated and hinted and muttered and implied......when Medivh talks to Garona, and his statements make it seem very much to us the audience as if the movie version of Medivh had already traveled to Draenor a handful of years ago. Before any of the events of Gul'Dan shown here. Medivh implied that he was aware of Orcs, and that he had met a female Orc that he loved....and that he wished it was possible to bring some Orcs to Azeroth if it would protect them from extinction on Draenor. Then he gave a rose to Garona...... all implying, according to the script, that Medivh was Garona's actual Father, and an Orc her mother. As I say, that is only for this movie version. That is totally different lore from the Medivh and Garona of the game.....where among other things the non-canon books have Medivh and Garona creating a child together.
@@filthycasual8187 Chris Metzen literally defined the books as non-canon (except the chronicles books which he helped write before his retirement) .....Metzen defined what canonicity means for this franchise. You can go way back to the blizzcon q&a just prior to cataclysm being launched to see him reiterate and repeat the fact that all the books that have any events happen which are not copied or represented "in game" in wow are officially Not Canon. And in cases where something gets copied or represented in game which also happened in a book.... "ONLY" the thing which is being copied or represented in game is canon... "NOT" anything else from those books. You are simply totally and completely and absolutely and irrefutably and undeniably wrong; full stop. The end.
In the film continuity she's Medivh's daughter. He fathered her while venturing beyond Azeroth during the time when nobody knew where he was. He visited many worlds, Draenor was one of them.
This movie was definitely underrated especially since it has the same dude that played Ragnar Lothbrook in Vikings is the main character for this movie and he basically played the same version in this as he did Vikings just about but it still has a lot of potential they definitely could've taken some more time with some of the characters but I still enjoyed the movie
12:53 Garona was initially presented as half human but that was retconned after the introduction of the draenei she then became half draenei(the ones Gul'dan sacrificed to open the portal).
Great reaction - I actually really liked how fast paced and full of info it was - not needing to spoon-feed us - I liked that I couldn't always keep up - it made me feel like I was really living in this world, instead of having it presented to me - there was a simplicity that reminded me of 80s fantasy - in any case, I'd still love to see a longer version, simply because I couldn't get enough :) Maybe the best aspect IMO is its moral vision - in LOTR (which I love), the orcs and Uruks, etc are evil because they belong to that "race" - in this film, each character is mysterious and open-ended, reacting to the moment, like the audience, and evil becomes more a matter of the path someone takes, rather than a predetermined inner "nature" - some heavyweight actors, but they only only gave their characters a couple of attributes, didn't try to make them too deep, intentionally going for a surface effect that seems to blend with the spectacle and epic register - this was what I liked so much about Galadriel in Rings of Power, esp in Episode 1, these broad strokes - closer to Homer than to Chekhov - Achilles wasn't complicated - - this film was carefully thought through in terms of its sense of vision - I was hoping not just for a sequel, but that this would set an example for how to approach such material
The movie was far better than anyone ever gave it credit for. Sadly because it didn't do as well as expected money-wise, there will likely not be a sequel. Especially as it gets overshadowed by the SOnic Movie that came out afterwards as "the best video game movie ever" despite the fact that Warcraft movie was great on it's own too.
I was so excited for this. I was living in my car at the time going through a divorce and this was a little fun at a s**** time in my life. Very underrated movie in my opinion. Yall keep up the great work.
I wasn't even that big on WoW. But Warcraft 3 was a big part of my younger years. I wanted more of this. The Warcraft lore has some great stories to tell. From the original to WoW and even the books. Some of the books are underrated.
Didnt get a sequel because it was funded by fans and they, including me, hated it. they butchered the lore, killed the potential sequels by completely changing the outcome. And it was rushed af.
the reason it feels so fast paced is because this movie only exists as fan service. they assumed everyone that would watch it knew the characters and the lore, and there's a looooooot to cover without time for introductions.
I think a major reason they went through the plotline so quickly is because there is sooooo much lore involved in the WOW universe and this is basically a prequel to the actual game. They also likely figured that the majority of the viewership would be people who have played the game. Garona is actually half orc and half draenei (the creatures in the cages you saw before the orcs entered the portal the first time). The mount Anduin was riding was a Gryphon. In game it was almost like a taxi to get around places. Though i remember uust how satisfying it was when I first got my first flying mount ooof. So cool
i loved this movie seeing Ragnar aka Travis Fimmel OMG SOOO good, I'm just sad that this movie never got a second film, this was such a underrated movie.
This movie was literally made for the fan of the game, which is why people who played Warcraft and World of Warcraft loved this movie despite some of the changes to the story. Not to mention hardcore fans who read tons of lore books and watched all the videos Blizzard themselves made. People who watch this for the first with no knowledge about the story or games are gonna complain that it moved too fast and wasn't long enough yada yada etc etc. If they tried to flesh out all the lore and background of those characters they would be making dozens of movies at least.
I remember playing Warcraft 3 with my aunt and my grandma (Who was really into RTS at the time), way back when I was little, and I barely knew anything about World of Warcraft up to the release of this movie.... Yet it was this movie that got me to learn more about the game, way back in 2016... It took awhile - But even though I wasn't there from the start, Warcraft universe is to this day one of my favorite universes in all of fiction...Higher than Harry Potter, higher than Marvel, higher than Bioshock... I love this universe, these characters, and to this day I really want there to be a sequel or a remake to this fantastic movie that introduced me to this world. I've red so many official literature based on this universe and can safely say - there's tons of stories to tell in a movie format, that have great potential that would be perfect for a movie adaptation.
@@JuntosXlaLibertadMileyBuIIrich I remember installing Starcraft on her computer two years ago - She was so excited! And still plays like a pro, even though the game wasn't translated from English, and she only knows Russian. She told me that way back in 2000's, she was using a big dictionary to try and translate it herself!
Thank you for reacting / reviewing Warcraft. If I recall correctly, around 40 minutes was cut from the film, with a few of the deleted scenes on youtube (which provided some much needed context). Side tangent: If you're interested in seeing more of Warcraft, Blizzard released a series of shorts for their expansions a while back. Lords of War, specifically, is most relevant to the Warcraft film as it features some of the orcs from the movie.
I think the reason it was rushed is because of the pressure of all the remaining storyline. What you have seen here is a tiny sliver of the story present in the games. Specifically it only covers the main beats of original Warcraft: Orcs and Humans game from 1994. Which is not even 1% of what the story is now.
If you guys like Ben Foster, fantastic actor btw, you should DEFINITELY react to "Hell or High Water" with Chris Pine as well. Excellent movie, written by the guy who wrote Sicario, Taylor Sheridan I believe. Such an underrated movie. I hope you guys seriously consider it and put it on your list
Travis Fimmell was wasted in this movie. He's the main character in 'Vikings'. I would like Andrew and Anthony to do a watch along of that series. It'll be fun!!
Travis fimmel is one of the best actors of our generation....he was the main lead in the show vikings ...he ll always be ragnar to us .... But this film didn't do justice to his talent because it was rushed .....he was also in scott Ridley's sci-fy tv series "raised by wolves"... he was kind of a villain on that ...
I wish they kept making more movies. The Warcraft lore is so huge they could make cinematic universe, And most fans wanted to get at least 3 movies to get to the story of Warcraft 3 that features multiple fan favorite characters like Arthas, Illidan, Sylvanas, Jaina, Thrall etc.
Even more movies I would say :D ! I imagined they would do 3 movies just to reach the establishment of the horde (the multi-race horde that is on the other continent ) Orgrimmar , and Thrall becoming a full blown shaman, with maybe a little tease and the end for the next trilogy that would involve Illidan , Arthas and the others in a story-line leading up to the creation of Lich King. Alas, it never made it beyond the first movie ;(.
Warcraft NEEDS a streaming service to step up and commit to multiple 10 episode seasons. There is soooooooo much lore with so many great characters. The fall of Arthas could be some of the best TV ever if done right.
Not sure if you guys ever found out, but the baby orc that was cast on the river becomes the leader of the Frostwolves/Horde and is still the face of the Horde. His name has shifted to Thrall
Some perspective for all the "main" characters seemingly ending up dead, this was supposed to be the start of a long series. Currently in the timeline of the games Khadgar is an old man. Go'el is grown and regularly referred to as green Jesus. Still hoping for a sequel/reboot focusing on Arthas. His story is at least two movies, maybe three. Would be set 20-25 years after this one. The Third War, Rise of the Lich King and Wrath of the Lich King. The main thing that's so weird about this movie is that they changed a lot about the story, understandably since it's a game from 1994. So why then is it still such a mess!
studios forced director to delete plenty of stuff despite he already make it shorter. there's 14 minutes deleted scene can be found in RUclips but director said he were told to delete 40 minutes scenes
old buddy of mine had never played any Warcraft games and he enjoyed the hell out of this movie. I think it deserved a sequel and I'm sad it didn't get one.
This movie had so much going for it; visually gorgeous, excellent FX, fantastic practical prosthetics, accurate well crafted wardrobe, and a talented cast. I wish the purse holders had more faith in the audience to be engaged by the storytelling. The main flaw of this movie was that it didn't allow space for the characters to breathe and become the familiar, compelling characters the playerbase know and love. I really appreciate the effort to throw Easter eggs to those of us who played WoW, the details made me so happy. Eg: When Khadgar kills Medivh the golden light spiraling around him is the spell effect of a player character leveling up :) . I wish more people had been able to enjoy it, but perhaps it'll have a second life on the streamers.
this is also based on the first warcraft game so its the lore to wow, and garona is helf drenai, the blue people that guldan used as a sacrafice in the begining, and the babys name was goel but was renamed to thrall by his human parents, funnily enough his nickname in the game is green jesus
There's a lot of story they had to cut otherwise they would have had the run time be waaaay too long. They contained what is essentially the entirety of Warcraft 1 the RTS game's story. If they did parts 2 & 3, they could easily cover Warcraft 2 & 3 that adds lot of story elements.
At one point, B-Movie director Uwe Boll was going to direct the film, but Blizzard Entertainment turned him away, telling him "We're not going to give the rights to you, certainly not you, especially not you! Because its a huge online success, a bad movie would destroy the ongoing income we have with it."
Andrew is clearly a DC guy, mixing Batman and Superman references. Plus, Moses was clearly a DC character too! When I went to the theatres to watch this, I wasn't really expecting much... never played the game and didn't know what it was about. It was surprisingly a decently interesting 90 min.
When you're someone who has known the games for decades, going into this movie you know all the names, you recognize the outfits people wore and the weapons they used. They could have used this material in two movies or just made it longer (I wouldn't have complained), and fleshed out the humans more, I think would have helped people who came into the movie with no idea what Warcraft is about. It's really too bad it didn't do as well as it could have, because the actors did great, the effects are solid, and it's a pretty fun movie all around. As someone who loves Warcraft, I loved this movie and didn't mind the errors they made here or there since it just just so amazing to see the game concept alive on a big screen. Seeing Stormwind was amazing. If you want an idea of exactly how much lore they could be using, check out how many books there are, lol. I really hope we get another movie sometime, especially exploring the other WoW races. In the end, I think you guys are spot on. It doesn't quite make it into "amazing" but it's at least a good video game movie that deserved more time to tell its story.
studios demand 2 hours although director already shoots 2 hours 40 minutes. imagine that. it's like watching kingdom of heaven theater's cut which is very bad movie. good thing about kingdom of heaven is director's cut exist but this movie didn't get that. shitty studios
Garona is half Draenei. The other race from the orcs home world that we saw imprisioned at the start of the movie when Gul'Dan used them as fuel to open the Dark Portal.
Here's a fun fact about this movie: At the end, when the crowd shouts "For the Alliance" They recorded that line, using all the attendees of Blizzcon 2014. The movie itself, I feel they tried to do way too much in too little time.
If you guys just played the game from old warcraft to the last one, you can understand the easter eggs that keeps popping around...the lore is so vast and deep that this could be more than trilogy, i would love HBO max to handle this masterpiece, but sadly it wont happen... critics destroyed this movie...one of the underrated movie in 2016...
I do like th CGI effects for the characters! They look amazing! It made $439 million dollars against a $160 million dollar budget, though it failed to break even, as it should have made $500-600 million dollars, and recieved negative Reviews by Critics. A new film is in development, though, its still unknown if it will be a reboot or sequel.
I'm glad to see other people liking this movie too. If nothing else, it would've set up a perfect sequel. Imagine a movie about Thrall becoming warchief. Because the movie version of Doomhammer was close to Duratan, it would've made their relationship all the more meaningful for when he hands down the title of warchief and the doomhammer weapon.
Nearly every scripted scene has a wink or Easter egg of some sort from visuals to sound effects that's an ode to the game/lore fans. This movie really was made for those fans/players already familiar with the majority of what was occurring, as its just a pleasure to just see it live action. It wasn't made for general audiences, and that was its main problem in getting a sequel/enough popularity to justify one. As for the speed of everything, they had a multitude of books to condense into one film (even speeding through and cliff notes condensing everything) as they had to cover a wide array of stuff/characters ultra quickly, just to squeeze the bare bones of this chapter of Azeroths overall lore into one story/movie that could end in only 2 short hours. If they had been given more funding or gone the route of a TV series or trilogy of movies it would have been much better for viewers new to this universe.
Went to see this when it first released and I loved it, even after having played the WC games and WoW. There's A LOT left out but I believe for a solo story, they did what they could at the time. Still holding out hope that eventually the WoW expansions will get live action movies.
Yes this was actually a very good movie and a great adaptation of the game, specifically a version of the game titled Warcraft: Humans vs Orcs. The baby Go'el becomes the character Thrall that plays a huge part in later stories. You are right about the rushed story line. I saw an interview with the Director and this was one of those movies that suffered from a lack of budget and production company tampering and pressure to cut and leave out large amounts of story. I doubt it will ever get a sequel although I would welcome one as i really liked it. And although you seemed to think that it took a lot of inspiration from other movies like LotR, it actually just took it's inspiration from it's namesake...Warcraft. Those that are familiar with the games and books will recognize many many references and eastereggs. A good example is the guard being turned into a sheep...a funny and commonly used spell in the game.
As someone that has played the game for years I enjoyed the movie. Problem is, that they made a movie that the elite players of the game wanted rather than a movie that a film buff would enjoy. It's in a way just like the game when they do a big update rollout. It's loaded with content for players like me (solo, quests) but the die hard players only do the raids and dungeons and start bitching that there's nothing to do after 3 weeks. You were both correct, in that they should have taken more time to develop the characters and story line. Thanks for the review!
Everything is spot on. I mean, the whole thing took place over the course of months or years, but the movie felt like it covered a WEEK's worth of content. If they actually gave it time, if they took the time to cover the little things along their journey to really make you feel the passage of time and allow for everything to sink in, then this would have been a great movie. I love the orcs, Durotan was amazing in this movie, the CGI looks very vibrant which is very representative of the game itself - I love it. What's missing is that extra attention to detail and time to flesh things out that this movie didn't get.
Second comment on this reaction. Actually Jaby, test audiences were shown the 150 minute version which had a very positive reception. Unfortunately like you said, they cut it down to fit more showings especially for China. Side note: the foreign trailers for this were leagues better than the US/English ones.
Long time Warcraft fan and really enjoyed this film. Though I thought the orc side of the story far outclassed the humans in both terms of intrigue of these characters and story but I also thought the orc actors out acted the crap out of the human actors. With the exception of Khadgar I thought all the other actors on the human side of the story felt almost out of place. I also absolutely love the theme. Those drums fit so well.
Watching your reaction, totally confirms something I thought when I originally watched the movie; it would have been better served as a tv series. But like a high-budget series. It could have played out like the campaign in the original RTS games
This movie was for sure aimed at Warcraft players. Each character was already known to us, as well as the lore. There is so much to WoW lore it could easily surpass Marvel and LotR for story depth.
Nearly an hour of footage was cut by the studio to shorten it. Should have been released as a part 1 and 2. The Lich King story line would make an awesome movie series.
The issue is with Warcraft is the scope of the world and all the stories that take place parallel to each other something of this scope was never going to work, they needed to do smaller storys for each movie. Also one cool features for this is if you listen to Garona in the background she's never speaking english because to the Orcs, Human/English sounds basically like gibberish and to Humans, Orcish also sounds like Gibberish.
You can tell they've never played the game due to them not reaction at 4:38... the murloc sounds straight from ingame. While watching this in the theater, we could tell which of the audience mem ers were players of the game by their reaction when this happened. 😅
For what it was, the movie is one of the better video game adaptations, I absolutely love it. The thing that really made it suffer is there’s SO MUCH LORE, even for the first game (which it’s adapted from), that a movie just isn’t long enough for casual viewers to enjoy. I think it would’ve faired better as a tv or streaming series (which I think they are doing for the reboot) so the storyline could’ve been mapped out.
They were probably unsure of a sequel as video game movies rarely do well. They jammed what they could into too short of a film imo. Underrated movie for sure
This movie was alright. The stuff with the humans wasn't as compelling as it should've been, but every moment spent with the orcs was so enthralling. Good VFX and Production Design but yeah generally speaking, not all that great.
@7:47 what you said was truth. Even though, I know the lore, it felt rushed. I knew that people who don't know will think what you said. And rightfully so. @ 22:26 how close you were. We call him "Green Jesus."
if i remeber right back then they were talking about 6 or 8 movies without looking it made a couple 100 millions i wasnt a games of warcraft but i liked
Funny you say the moses references with that baby. You have no idea how accurate that is. He ends up being one of the most important characters. One day we may have a sequel, there have been talkings of one recently actually.
A diamond in the rough imo. I have it on blue-ray here at home actually. Seen it maybe 4-5 times. As a movie-enjoyer I would still think it is, well what I said at the start. As a Warcraft-nerd it's even more disheartening knowing the potential. The whole universe and lore is almost unparalleled in the medium tbh. And it's super hardcore, goofy, fun, deep and serious all at once. If any pre-existing work that has yet to get a big movie series was to get a saga, it should be Warcraft honestly. Sure I like the Eragon books and the Mass Effect game trilogy as well. But warcraft has more to it than something like Star Wars already. Just adapt it!
To make it all work properly, they would've needed a 3-hour prequel for this movie, and divide this in to two parts or something, LotR style. Now we were just dropped into the middle of the story and hopped around like crazy.
Unfortunate they rushed the pace of the movie. Too much story happens in it in too little time, its disorientating. A slightly better pace and screenplay would've made such a huge difference to how this movie was received, and we would have had a sequel by now for the story all warcraft fans yearn for T.T
I feel like the very slow pacing of LotR is much worse....With Warcraft - I get invested in an active storyline full of interesting characters...With LotR, I just watch 3 hours of nothing, with characters I know absolutely nothing about, other than Legolas is a badass archer, Sam and Frodo are two awkward gays and Gendalf is your stereotypical old wizard
I still would love to see blizzard do a full CGI Arthas movie trilogy or TV series.. I love the stories of warcraft 1 and 2 but its history is WAAAAAY to big to force into 2-3 movies and do it justice. There is SOOOO much missing from the story of this film that would give it a ton of context, especially when it comes to Medihv.. not only who he is and why... but why he lets the orcs into Azeroth. Arthas has a much more straight forward storyline, that is much more relatable and the level of tragedy by the time he returns home to Lordaeron is INSANE. I do like the movie, its fun... but it really doesn't do some of warcrafts earliest writing any justice at all.
13:44 You are welcome to subscribe to World Of Warcraft, then you can spend as much time as you like in it. This is definitely a case of a movie made specifically for the fans of the existing property. We need more like this, tbh.
They rushed it and compressed Warcraft 1 and Warcraft 2 into one event so they could get into the lore of Thrall ( aka Go'el, Durotans son) who would play a major role if there ever was a part 2, since hes one of Warcrafts main characters, and it would be awesome... too bad it never happened.
This movie was missing about 45 minutes of footage that the studio made Duncan Jones cut for "reasons." The footage allegedly adds a bunch of story and exposition that helps out some of the problematic narratives. Shame we'll never get a director's cut, as Jones is a phenomenal director.
release the jones cut ...
This movie deserved a part 2
Yea but the team said, there won't be a sequel
Was just about to say the same. It was too early for its time. If this had hit a little later it would have been a bigger success. It was definitely interesting enough and high quality enough to go against some cbms of the past 10 years
Same here
For me, it deserved to be longer so it would do well enough to have a sequel.
No, sorry. It deserves a remake
I honestly really enjoyed this movie
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@@StopReadingMyNameOrElseyeah , as someone who never played the games I really like this movie
because of you Americans the film failed, your country did not appreciate the film, the box office in the US is disastrously low, look at reviews and box office in the US. thank you, I so hoped that the story about Arthas would be released this year! in the end there is no hope!
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The pacing of this film is off. The director(Duncan Jones) has stated that he did not have control over the editing, the studio did, and they chose to cut it down heavily leaving approximately 40 minutes of film on the cutting room floor. It shows in the final product unfortunately. Would love to see a Director's cut.
All the deleted scenes they've showed was nowhere near 40 minutes. Unless they literally made changes before filming even took place.
There is even evidence that the entire final act was supposed to be a bit more true to the source material. Some of the early posters had Stormwind on fire in the background, as Stormwind was sieged and was actually lost to the Horde in the lore. So sad they did not get to do the true vision as I think it would have been a much better received movie.
This was one of those epics that needed to be long with lots of character development and tragic events, but as the director have stated, it was killed by a thousand cuts.
There is only like 20 minutes of deleted stuff, and it doesn't really offer anything special or that would fix the pacing... its mostly the usual filler or badly acted scenes. Outside the orc campfire banter they offer nothing. It simply boils down to not enough time... They had to squeeze 10 pounds of Azeroth into a 2 pound sack... if they were going to wrap up any part of this chapter of the lore in a 2 hour period, they had to move quickly. Nearly a dozen races, over a dozen locations, dozens of individual characters, and the magical crap, but only 2 hours to introduce it all and flush out the plot, then to wrap it up enough to book end the movie enough to stand alone.
I enjoyed it
They could do such a great movie universe with all the warcraft lore.
The best and only way to show warcraft universe in right way, is series and not movies. Can you imagine how cool would it be when they will show history of scourge, it's gonna be way better than White walkers in GoT. Not too much magic and less visual spells, and it could be way better than GoT.
@@anonymousfx5254 Uhm. Part of the appeal of WoW is the visual spells. Even if I think they should be less comic-book:y on film than in-game.
@@anonymousfx5254 Doing movies would've been good, but I feel that for this, they tried to cream WAY too much in too little time. It would've been better as a two-parter.
@@eviljbrian Idea to start from Orcs coming to Azeroth was nice one, after this they could've easily made series with all the lore they had, which would've been enough for 5-6 seasons , till the end of WOTLK time line, since after that, it's boring and too much magic, like dragons, demons, etc
This first movie would've been good way of starting TV story, but..... they screwed up with too much graphic and spells, which looks like some cartoons
Even thought WoW is about magic, spells and dragons, i'd better take those out and leave those of level of First trilogy of Lord of the rings, not too much, not too little and we've seen the end result.
i still hope for a sequel...but so far ...nothing. it's so underrated. well budget issues. and not trusting enough? it has alot of changes from the game. but it did everything right. even hardcore players liked it. it's real action video game cutscenes as a whole movie. too bad it was so short. the franchise makes it's money without movies so they spend just enough to get you hooked i guess.
@@Squeekysquid And then there were the warcraft fans who were dissapointed with the movie as it deviated quite a lot from original lore.
@@deather3668 And then there's Warcraft fans like me who thought this movie did the right thing by keeping it simple.
"Take him to Goldshire" hits different when you played on a roleplay server for years...
I absolutely agree this movie feels rushed. but as a guy who knows the lore I kinda get it because man... this lore is so huge you could easily make like 20 movies out of the complete wow storyline. and to be honest. I really wish they would. the rest is so incredibly amazing
I don't know....I kinda prefer for a movie to feel rush but show a lot, rather thn spending 3 hours watching Lord of the Rings while absolutely nothing happens and I feel no connection to the characters.
@almas same. I never watched LOTR coz it was too draggy. This pace is good for me.
@@nb6792 I tried to binge the whole trilogy twice, and I still don't get the hype...There's barely any fantasy aspect, there's little to know about the characters, the dialogue is too over the top and theatrical, the scenes drag too much while showing so little...
It's just such a bad fantasy in comparison to Harry Potter and Warcraft
hi all ! This movie is fast paced and events don't have time to unfold. I think if you want to make a film that will have several parts and which should be at least 2 hours and 30 minutes long. so that the whole plot fits and this is not taking into account the director's version. you need to contact someone who knows how to make such films, of course it's Peter Jackson! lord of the rings is the clearest example of how to shoot, I knew from the very beginning that Duncan Jones would not make a film that even those who have not seen Warcraft will like! After all, everyone liked the Lord of the Rings! my grandmother, my mother, at the time of the release of the Lord of the Rings, watched this trilogy with pleasure, not understanding what was happening, but with pleasure) pity Warcraft! it's a pity ...
@@brightlife2674 not everyone likes LOTR lol
I enjoyed the film a lot but I've had the WarCraft world as a part of my life for two decades now, which is why I think this film is harder to sit naturally with those unfamiliar with the lore. Cuz you are right it was doing everything super fast and not really fleshing it out. It was definitely a movie for the fans who already know these characters, even though many fans didn't like the film. That I think has to do with how some things were changed. Nowadays with how we are much more accepting of retellings and reimaginings, I think more fans who visit or revisit this will enjoy it for what it is.
Garona is half Dranei. The blue prisoners at the beginning that had their life essence taken from them to open the portal were Dranei. And yes I feel like the movie almost required you to play the rts or the MMO to pick up on a lot of the story points that are glossed over.
@Kenneth Actually.......Garona was considered half orc and half human by Metzen for both the non-canon books and the canon single player game during that time. What you might be forgetting is that Metzen changed his mind during the life of vanilla WoW when he was tasking himself with figuring out a narrative and story and lore background to use for his upcoming Burning Crusade expansion.....which is precisely when he invented all the interesting stuff that would make Draenei popular to choose as a new player character whenever that expansion would launch. As such, Metzen then switched his own idea of Garona being half human to being half draenei despite her not being blue and having no horns and having no hooves and not speaking or having any draenei type accent, etc. Essentially, Garona's ability to look more like a green human and to speak human languages made more sense in the non-canon books and in the canon game by assuming she was half human.
But wait, there is more. This Warcraft movie has many differences from the real lore. Including no presence of Ner'zhul anywhere ever, and Orgrim Doomhammer being in the wrong clan, and all sorts of things. One of those differences is insinuated and hinted and muttered and implied......when Medivh talks to Garona, and his statements make it seem very much to us the audience as if the movie version of Medivh had already traveled to Draenor a handful of years ago. Before any of the events of Gul'Dan shown here. Medivh implied that he was aware of Orcs, and that he had met a female Orc that he loved....and that he wished it was possible to bring some Orcs to Azeroth if it would protect them from extinction on Draenor. Then he gave a rose to Garona...... all implying, according to the script, that Medivh was Garona's actual Father, and an Orc her mother. As I say, that is only for this movie version. That is totally different lore from the Medivh and Garona of the game.....where among other things the non-canon books have Medivh and Garona creating a child together.
@@laertesindeed The books aren't non-canon.
@@filthycasual8187 Chris Metzen literally defined the books as non-canon (except the chronicles books which he helped write before his retirement) .....Metzen defined what canonicity means for this franchise. You can go way back to the blizzcon q&a just prior to cataclysm being launched to see him reiterate and repeat the fact that all the books that have any events happen which are not copied or represented "in game" in wow are officially Not Canon. And in cases where something gets copied or represented in game which also happened in a book.... "ONLY" the thing which is being copied or represented in game is canon... "NOT" anything else from those books.
You are simply totally and completely and absolutely and irrefutably and undeniably wrong; full stop. The end.
Garona's backstory is... complicated.
In the film continuity she's Medivh's daughter. He fathered her while venturing beyond Azeroth during the time when nobody knew where he was. He visited many worlds, Draenor was one of them.
I love the magic in this movie. It looks sooooo good and its very true to the game
I'm still hoping for a well deserved sequel!
This movie was definitely underrated especially since it has the same dude that played Ragnar Lothbrook in Vikings is the main character for this movie and he basically played the same version in this as he did Vikings just about but it still has a lot of potential they definitely could've taken some more time with some of the characters but I still enjoyed the movie
12:53 Garona was initially presented as half human but that was retconned after the introduction of the draenei she then became half draenei(the ones Gul'dan sacrificed to open the portal).
Great reaction - I actually really liked how fast paced and full of info it was - not needing to spoon-feed us - I liked that I couldn't always keep up - it made me feel like I was really living in this world, instead of having it presented to me - there was a simplicity that reminded me of 80s fantasy - in any case, I'd still love to see a longer version, simply because I couldn't get enough :)
Maybe the best aspect IMO is its moral vision - in LOTR (which I love), the orcs and Uruks, etc are evil because they belong to that "race" - in this film, each character is mysterious and open-ended, reacting to the moment, like the audience, and evil becomes more a matter of the path someone takes, rather than a predetermined inner "nature"
- some heavyweight actors, but they only only gave their characters a couple of attributes, didn't try to make them too deep, intentionally going for a surface effect that seems to blend with the spectacle and epic register
- this was what I liked so much about Galadriel in Rings of Power, esp in Episode 1, these broad strokes - closer to Homer than to Chekhov - Achilles wasn't complicated -
- this film was carefully thought through in terms of its sense of vision - I was hoping not just for a sequel, but that this would set an example for how to approach such material
The movie was far better than anyone ever gave it credit for.
Sadly because it didn't do as well as expected money-wise, there will likely not be a sequel.
Especially as it gets overshadowed by the SOnic Movie that came out afterwards as "the best video game movie ever" despite the fact that Warcraft movie was great on it's own too.
I was so excited for this. I was living in my car at the time going through a divorce and this was a little fun at a s**** time in my life. Very underrated movie in my opinion. Yall keep up the great work.
I wasn't even that big on WoW. But Warcraft 3 was a big part of my younger years. I wanted more of this. The Warcraft lore has some great stories to tell. From the original to WoW and even the books. Some of the books are underrated.
I was sooo bummed to know that it didn't get a sequel
Didnt get a sequel because it was funded by fans and they, including me, hated it.
they butchered the lore, killed the potential sequels by completely changing the outcome. And it was rushed af.
@@josefplacek4200 it definitely felt rushed.. but as a person who didn't know anything about the lore, i really got hooked & i DO want more
@@josefplacek4200 it was hated by fans because you can’t appreciate it for what it is, the movie is not perfect, but it is enjoyable.
the reason it feels so fast paced is because this movie only exists as fan service. they assumed everyone that would watch it knew the characters and the lore, and there's a looooooot to cover without time for introductions.
I think a major reason they went through the plotline so quickly is because there is sooooo much lore involved in the WOW universe and this is basically a prequel to the actual game. They also likely figured that the majority of the viewership would be people who have played the game. Garona is actually half orc and half draenei (the creatures in the cages you saw before the orcs entered the portal the first time).
The mount Anduin was riding was a Gryphon. In game it was almost like a taxi to get around places. Though i remember uust how satisfying it was when I first got my first flying mount ooof. So cool
i loved this movie seeing Ragnar aka Travis Fimmel OMG SOOO good, I'm just sad that this movie never got a second film, this was such a underrated movie.
This movie came out a few months before Dr. Strange, but you are right some of the spell casting does look close.
This movie is a gem.
Trash.
This movie was literally made for the fan of the game, which is why people who played Warcraft and World of Warcraft loved this movie despite some of the changes to the story. Not to mention hardcore fans who read tons of lore books and watched all the videos Blizzard themselves made. People who watch this for the first with no knowledge about the story or games are gonna complain that it moved too fast and wasn't long enough yada yada etc etc. If they tried to flesh out all the lore and background of those characters they would be making dozens of movies at least.
The composer for the film is Ramin Djawadi who composes the music for Game of Thrones, pretty much explains why it's so good :)
I remember playing Warcraft 3 with my aunt and my grandma (Who was really into RTS at the time), way back when I was little, and I barely knew anything about World of Warcraft up to the release of this movie....
Yet it was this movie that got me to learn more about the game, way back in 2016...
It took awhile - But even though I wasn't there from the start, Warcraft universe is to this day one of my favorite universes in all of fiction...Higher than Harry Potter, higher than Marvel, higher than Bioshock...
I love this universe, these characters, and to this day I really want there to be a sequel or a remake to this fantastic movie that introduced me to this world.
I've red so many official literature based on this universe and can safely say - there's tons of stories to tell in a movie format, that have great potential that would be perfect for a movie adaptation.
What a wholesome comment this one! I never imagined some grandma playing games. What a beautiful experience
@@JuntosXlaLibertadMileyBuIIrich I remember installing Starcraft on her computer two years ago - She was so excited! And still plays like a pro, even though the game wasn't translated from English, and she only knows Russian.
She told me that way back in 2000's, she was using a big dictionary to try and translate it herself!
Thank you for reacting / reviewing Warcraft.
If I recall correctly, around 40 minutes was cut from the film, with a few of the deleted scenes on youtube (which provided some much needed context).
Side tangent: If you're interested in seeing more of Warcraft, Blizzard released a series of shorts for their expansions a while back. Lords of War, specifically, is most relevant to the Warcraft film as it features some of the orcs from the movie.
I think the reason it was rushed is because of the pressure of all the remaining storyline. What you have seen here is a tiny sliver of the story present in the games. Specifically it only covers the main beats of original Warcraft: Orcs and Humans game from 1994. Which is not even 1% of what the story is now.
If you guys like Ben Foster, fantastic actor btw, you should DEFINITELY react to "Hell or High Water" with Chris Pine as well. Excellent movie, written by the guy who wrote Sicario, Taylor Sheridan I believe. Such an underrated movie. I hope you guys seriously consider it and put it on your list
Travis Fimmell was wasted in this movie. He's the main character in 'Vikings'. I would like Andrew and Anthony to do a watch along of that series. It'll be fun!!
Travis fimmel is one of the best actors of our generation....he was the main lead in the show vikings ...he ll always be ragnar to us .... But this film didn't do justice to his talent because it was rushed .....he was also in scott Ridley's sci-fy tv series "raised by wolves"... he was kind of a villain on that ...
I wish they kept making more movies. The Warcraft lore is so huge they could make cinematic universe, And most fans wanted to get at least 3 movies to get to the story of Warcraft 3 that features multiple fan favorite characters like Arthas, Illidan, Sylvanas, Jaina, Thrall etc.
Even more movies I would say :D ! I imagined they would do 3 movies just to reach the establishment of the horde (the multi-race horde that is on the other continent ) Orgrimmar , and Thrall becoming a full blown shaman, with maybe a little tease and the end for the next trilogy that would involve Illidan , Arthas and the others in a story-line leading up to the creation of Lich King.
Alas, it never made it beyond the first movie ;(.
Warcraft NEEDS a streaming service to step up and commit to multiple 10 episode seasons. There is soooooooo much lore with so many great characters. The fall of Arthas could be some of the best TV ever if done right.
"I beg your pardon" if you remember that small scene in this movie you know it was hilarious 🤣🤣🤣
Another solid massive movie, rich in detail worth checking out is, Mortal engines (2018.).
Not sure if you guys ever found out, but the baby orc that was cast on the river becomes the leader of the Frostwolves/Horde and is still the face of the Horde. His name has shifted to Thrall
Some perspective for all the "main" characters seemingly ending up dead, this was supposed to be the start of a long series. Currently in the timeline of the games Khadgar is an old man. Go'el is grown and regularly referred to as green Jesus. Still hoping for a sequel/reboot focusing on Arthas. His story is at least two movies, maybe three. Would be set 20-25 years after this one. The Third War, Rise of the Lich King and Wrath of the Lich King.
The main thing that's so weird about this movie is that they changed a lot about the story, understandably since it's a game from 1994. So why then is it still such a mess!
studios forced director to delete plenty of stuff despite he already make it shorter. there's 14 minutes deleted scene can be found in RUclips but director said he were told to delete 40 minutes scenes
old buddy of mine had never played any Warcraft games and he enjoyed the hell out of this movie. I think it deserved a sequel and I'm sad it didn't get one.
Garona was originally half human, but her background was reconned. IIRC, it was in the comics.
This movie had so much going for it; visually gorgeous, excellent FX, fantastic practical prosthetics, accurate well crafted wardrobe, and a talented cast. I wish the purse holders had more faith in the audience to be engaged by the storytelling. The main flaw of this movie was that it didn't allow space for the characters to breathe and become the familiar, compelling characters the playerbase know and love.
I really appreciate the effort to throw Easter eggs to those of us who played WoW, the details made me so happy. Eg: When Khadgar kills Medivh the golden light spiraling around him is the spell effect of a player character leveling up :) . I wish more people had been able to enjoy it, but perhaps it'll have a second life on the streamers.
this is also based on the first warcraft game so its the lore to wow, and garona is helf drenai, the blue people that guldan used as a sacrafice in the begining, and the babys name was goel but was renamed to thrall by his human parents, funnily enough his nickname in the game is green jesus
There's a lot of story they had to cut otherwise they would have had the run time be waaaay too long. They contained what is essentially the entirety of Warcraft 1 the RTS game's story. If they did parts 2 & 3, they could easily cover Warcraft 2 & 3 that adds lot of story elements.
At one point, B-Movie director Uwe Boll was going to direct the film, but Blizzard Entertainment turned him away, telling him "We're not going to give the rights to you, certainly not you, especially not you! Because its a huge online success, a bad movie would destroy the ongoing income we have with it."
Honestly that was the best call they could’ve done. I’d rather have this than whatever Uwe Boll would’ve made.
Andrew is clearly a DC guy, mixing Batman and Superman references. Plus, Moses was clearly a DC character too!
When I went to the theatres to watch this, I wasn't really expecting much... never played the game and didn't know what it was about. It was surprisingly a decently interesting 90 min.
The only problem with this movie was for normies it was to dence, for players it deviated to far from lore. All in all though, it was really good.
When you're someone who has known the games for decades, going into this movie you know all the names, you recognize the outfits people wore and the weapons they used. They could have used this material in two movies or just made it longer (I wouldn't have complained), and fleshed out the humans more, I think would have helped people who came into the movie with no idea what Warcraft is about. It's really too bad it didn't do as well as it could have, because the actors did great, the effects are solid, and it's a pretty fun movie all around. As someone who loves Warcraft, I loved this movie and didn't mind the errors they made here or there since it just just so amazing to see the game concept alive on a big screen. Seeing Stormwind was amazing. If you want an idea of exactly how much lore they could be using, check out how many books there are, lol. I really hope we get another movie sometime, especially exploring the other WoW races.
In the end, I think you guys are spot on. It doesn't quite make it into "amazing" but it's at least a good video game movie that deserved more time to tell its story.
studios demand 2 hours although director already shoots 2 hours 40 minutes. imagine that. it's like watching kingdom of heaven theater's cut which is very bad movie. good thing about kingdom of heaven is director's cut exist but this movie didn't get that. shitty studios
32:07 The sync of that smile was dope.. It literally made me smile too😁😁☺️
Grew up watching it and I loved it and wish they would continue it
Garona is half Draenei. The other race from the orcs home world that we saw imprisioned at the start of the movie when Gul'Dan used them as fuel to open the Dark Portal.
Travis Fimmel playing Lothar, also plays Ragnar Lothbrok in tv-show Vikings.
Here's a fun fact about this movie:
At the end, when the crowd shouts "For the Alliance"
They recorded that line, using all the attendees of Blizzcon 2014.
The movie itself, I feel they tried to do way too much in too little time.
If you guys just played the game from old warcraft to the last one, you can understand the easter eggs that keeps popping around...the lore is so vast and deep that this could be more than trilogy, i would love HBO max to handle this masterpiece, but sadly it wont happen... critics destroyed this movie...one of the underrated movie in 2016...
I do like th CGI effects for the characters! They look amazing!
It made $439 million dollars against a $160 million dollar budget, though it failed to break even, as it should have made $500-600 million dollars, and recieved negative Reviews by Critics.
A new film is in development, though, its still unknown if it will be a reboot or sequel.
I'm hopping for a reboot, this one was ok, but I think they could do better.
The break even point was around $450-500 million not $500-600 million
There is no proof there is another warcraft movie in development, it was just a rumour that started a year or so ago.
I'm glad to see other people liking this movie too. If nothing else, it would've set up a perfect sequel.
Imagine a movie about Thrall becoming warchief. Because the movie version of Doomhammer was close to Duratan, it would've made their relationship all the more meaningful for when he hands down the title of warchief and the doomhammer weapon.
Travis Tunnel was the lead in the history channel original series Vikings, Ragnar Lothbrok. He is very good.
Nearly every scripted scene has a wink or Easter egg of some sort from visuals to sound effects that's an ode to the game/lore fans. This movie really was made for those fans/players already familiar with the majority of what was occurring, as its just a pleasure to just see it live action. It wasn't made for general audiences, and that was its main problem in getting a sequel/enough popularity to justify one.
As for the speed of everything, they had a multitude of books to condense into one film (even speeding through and cliff notes condensing everything) as they had to cover a wide array of stuff/characters ultra quickly, just to squeeze the bare bones of this chapter of Azeroths overall lore into one story/movie that could end in only 2 short hours. If they had been given more funding or gone the route of a TV series or trilogy of movies it would have been much better for viewers new to this universe.
Went to see this when it first released and I loved it, even after having played the WC games and WoW.
There's A LOT left out but I believe for a solo story, they did what they could at the time. Still holding out hope that eventually the WoW expansions will get live action movies.
Yes this was actually a very good movie and a great adaptation of the game, specifically a version of the game titled Warcraft: Humans vs Orcs. The baby Go'el becomes the character Thrall that plays a huge part in later stories. You are right about the rushed story line. I saw an interview with the Director and this was one of those movies that suffered from a lack of budget and production company tampering and pressure to cut and leave out large amounts of story. I doubt it will ever get a sequel although I would welcome one as i really liked it. And although you seemed to think that it took a lot of inspiration from other movies like LotR, it actually just took it's inspiration from it's namesake...Warcraft. Those that are familiar with the games and books will recognize many many references and eastereggs. A good example is the guard being turned into a sheep...a funny and commonly used spell in the game.
That baby will be the single most important figure in the history of The Horde.
aside from the hyperspeed pace I loved this movie. Very under appreciated IMHO. I hope there's a part 2.
As someone that has played the game for years I enjoyed the movie. Problem is, that they made a movie that the elite players of the game wanted rather than a movie that a film buff would enjoy. It's in a way just like the game when they do a big update rollout. It's loaded with content for players like me (solo, quests) but the die hard players only do the raids and dungeons and start bitching that there's nothing to do after 3 weeks. You were both correct, in that they should have taken more time to develop the characters and story line. Thanks for the review!
Ya know what's crazy is at one time this game had 12.5 Million people paying them 15bucks a month. 😵💫
Everything is spot on. I mean, the whole thing took place over the course of months or years, but the movie felt like it covered a WEEK's worth of content. If they actually gave it time, if they took the time to cover the little things along their journey to really make you feel the passage of time and allow for everything to sink in, then this would have been a great movie.
I love the orcs, Durotan was amazing in this movie, the CGI looks very vibrant which is very representative of the game itself - I love it. What's missing is that extra attention to detail and time to flesh things out that this movie didn't get.
Second comment on this reaction. Actually Jaby, test audiences were shown the 150 minute version which had a very positive reception. Unfortunately like you said, they cut it down to fit more showings especially for China. Side note: the foreign trailers for this were leagues better than the US/English ones.
Long time Warcraft fan and really enjoyed this film. Though I thought the orc side of the story far outclassed the humans in both terms of intrigue of these characters and story but I also thought the orc actors out acted the crap out of the human actors. With the exception of Khadgar I thought all the other actors on the human side of the story felt almost out of place.
I also absolutely love the theme. Those drums fit so well.
I didn't have a problem with this movie at all I like it
Watching your reaction, totally confirms something I thought when I originally watched the movie; it would have been better served as a tv series. But like a high-budget series.
It could have played out like the campaign in the original RTS games
This movie was for sure aimed at Warcraft players. Each character was already known to us, as well as the lore. There is so much to WoW lore it could easily surpass Marvel and LotR for story depth.
Travis fimmel ❤ Ragnar lothbrok
This should have been released in two parts.
I LOVE this movie, so glad someone finally reacted to it!!
Is he gonna turn out like Moses or the Penguin in Batman returns? Haha loved that question from Andrew
I liked this movie. Im sad it didnt get the love it deserved 💜
Nearly an hour of footage was cut by the studio to shorten it. Should have been released as a part 1 and 2. The Lich King story line would make an awesome movie series.
Wow
I love Travis Fimmel in this.
This movie was amazing, absolutely loved it.They're better be another one
Travis Fimmel was Ragnar in Viking and HBO Raise by Wolf.
I wish this movie had more time, and was longer. I also wish that a sequel had been made (or could be made in the future.
Playing Warcraft while watching this.
The issue is with Warcraft is the scope of the world and all the stories that take place parallel to each other something of this scope was never going to work, they needed to do smaller storys for each movie. Also one cool features for this is if you listen to Garona in the background she's never speaking english because to the Orcs, Human/English sounds basically like gibberish and to Humans, Orcish also sounds like Gibberish.
You can tell they've never played the game due to them not reaction at 4:38... the murloc sounds straight from ingame. While watching this in the theater, we could tell which of the audience mem ers were players of the game by their reaction when this happened. 😅
For what it was, the movie is one of the better video game adaptations, I absolutely love it. The thing that really made it suffer is there’s SO MUCH LORE, even for the first game (which it’s adapted from), that a movie just isn’t long enough for casual viewers to enjoy. I think it would’ve faired better as a tv or streaming series (which I think they are doing for the reboot) so the storyline could’ve been mapped out.
22:22 funnily enough Go'el aka Thrall is in fact a Moses story. Lol
I only wish they would have taken more time to tell the full story.
this needed a trilogy not a stand alone movie.
I can't wait till we get an Arthas movie one day
They were probably unsure of a sequel as video game movies rarely do well. They jammed what they could into too short of a film imo.
Underrated movie for sure
This is a movie I rewatch from time to time.
This movie was alright. The stuff with the humans wasn't as compelling as it should've been, but every moment spent with the orcs was so enthralling. Good VFX and Production Design but yeah generally speaking, not all that great.
@7:47 what you said was truth. Even though, I know the lore, it felt rushed. I knew that people who don't know will think what you said. And rightfully so. @ 22:26 how close you were. We call him "Green Jesus."
That baby grows up to be Thrall the main chieftain and founder of Durotar
if i remeber right back then they were talking about 6 or 8 movies without looking it made a couple 100 millions i wasnt a games of warcraft but i liked
Funny you say the moses references with that baby. You have no idea how accurate that is. He ends up being one of the most important characters. One day we may have a sequel, there have been talkings of one recently actually.
I have never play this game but I enjoy this movie. I love Starcraft wish it had a movie.
A diamond in the rough imo. I have it on blue-ray here at home actually. Seen it maybe 4-5 times. As a movie-enjoyer I would still think it is, well what I said at the start. As a Warcraft-nerd it's even more disheartening knowing the potential. The whole universe and lore is almost unparalleled in the medium tbh. And it's super hardcore, goofy, fun, deep and serious all at once. If any pre-existing work that has yet to get a big movie series was to get a saga, it should be Warcraft honestly. Sure I like the Eragon books and the Mass Effect game trilogy as well. But warcraft has more to it than something like Star Wars already. Just adapt it!
To make it all work properly, they would've needed a 3-hour prequel for this movie, and divide this in to two parts or something, LotR style. Now we were just dropped into the middle of the story and hopped around like crazy.
Unfortunate they rushed the pace of the movie. Too much story happens in it in too little time, its disorientating. A slightly better pace and screenplay would've made such a huge difference to how this movie was received, and we would have had a sequel by now for the story all warcraft fans yearn for T.T
I feel like the very slow pacing of LotR is much worse....With Warcraft - I get invested in an active storyline full of interesting characters...With LotR, I just watch 3 hours of nothing, with characters I know absolutely nothing about, other than Legolas is a badass archer, Sam and Frodo are two awkward gays and Gendalf is your stereotypical old wizard
I still would love to see blizzard do a full CGI Arthas movie trilogy or TV series.. I love the stories of warcraft 1 and 2 but its history is WAAAAAY to big to force into 2-3 movies and do it justice. There is SOOOO much missing from the story of this film that would give it a ton of context, especially when it comes to Medihv.. not only who he is and why... but why he lets the orcs into Azeroth. Arthas has a much more straight forward storyline, that is much more relatable and the level of tragedy by the time he returns home to Lordaeron is INSANE. I do like the movie, its fun... but it really doesn't do some of warcrafts earliest writing any justice at all.
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You are welcome to subscribe to World Of Warcraft, then you can spend as much time as you like in it.
This is definitely a case of a movie made specifically for the fans of the existing property. We need more like this, tbh.
They rushed it and compressed Warcraft 1 and Warcraft 2 into one event so they could get into the lore of Thrall ( aka Go'el, Durotans son) who would play a major role if there ever was a part 2, since hes one of Warcrafts main characters, and it would be awesome... too bad it never happened.