Warcraft

You know what would have made this movie ALOT better?

If they had a fucking introduction

>Hey this guy is an orc
Okay, what is an orc?

>Hey this guy can use magic, but this guy can't
Okay, why?

>Hey, this shit is important because of some ancient prophecy or some shit
Okay, what the fuck are you talking about?


I get that this was a movie for the fans, but could you at least take 5 minutes to explain what the hell is going on?
For me and my friends who've never played a Warcraft game, this movie was extremely confusing


LOTR did this great, the prologue explained the world, some important characters and set the tone perfectly

Seriously, that was my biggest complaint, otherwise it was quite entertaining

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oh its out? good to know

I've played Warcraft 2 since I was 7 and played WoW for years and I won't even bother to pirate it.

crash n burn

stop whining, we all wanted this to happen so let it happen

Been out in Yurop for weeks already

Some of the neckbeards in the cinema were creaming their pants through the film, so if you're a fan it's probably great

We had no idea what was going on most of the time

Literally retarded.

It's a nice flick if you're a fan, or just into action/fantasy.
If you aren't biased, it's confusing.

But we'll probably get a 2nd one, with those China numbers.

Git gud

>please spoonfeed me all the details because I am unable to form a crude outline of what is or isn't happening in this fantasy movie

It's going to make NFS or Prince of Persia numbers.

The rest of the world has already dropped it.

Are you that guy who asks "who is that" "what is happening I wasn't paying attention" "why does that character dress that way" every 5 minutes?

>videogame joint is retarded
WOW

Here's how they should have started the movie, Star Wars scroll style or a LOTR type opening.

The Burning Legion, a nearly infinite demon army, led by the fallen Titan god Sargeras. They move from planet to planet,
corrupting the denizens and forcing them to become part of their ever growing army. Those who resist are slaughtered. Their latest conquest, Draenor, has all but been turned from a beautiful planet into a barren one. Here Orcs had lived peacefully for thousands of years but now their leader, Gul'dan has unknowingly been corrupted. With no resources left to
survive they have little choice but to move on. One planet remains untouched by the Legion. Azeroth. A peaceful planet inhabited by humans, dwarves, and other interesting life.
Gul'dan, now corrupted by dark Fel energies, is about to open a portal to this world. Now a War is about to be Crafted.

Probably was in the film utill the cut 40minutes of it because studios are retards

In the scene in OP, Lothar has gone to the dwarves to buy plough blades (known as ploughshares to the literate). This shows that the kingdom is at peace.

This information is communicated by a >1 sec shot of lothar stroking ploughshares in a box.

KINO

*as the text ends, gryphon flies past the camera*
*gryphon lands observed by a hooded figure*
*as Lothar dismounts, gyphon makes a cute sound*
>Don't worry R2, once we have bought these plough blades we will go straight back to our home in Stormwind.

I played warcraft 3 and this movie got me confused.

they should have introduce the world to make it so not confusing to non-fans.

the orcs were top notch though. fuck.

>I played warcraft 3 and this movie got me confused.
well obviously, since the movie took the plot of the original Warcraft game which was decades before WC3

>OP brings up legit faults in the movie
>warcraft defense force calls him a faggot

It's not obvious fan-pandering like the new Star Wars movie did, but if you're a fan you'll still like it. Problem is that you probably need to remember shit from the games or you won't understand some parts.

Don't look at the visuals as realistic. It's from a game and characters look gamey without going full WoW. Overall it's a solid 7.5/10.
8.5/10 if the cut content explains all the shit they skipped.

LotR/SW type opening is actually a brilliant idea for the Warcraft intro.

GOAT
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Literally none of that is important from a storytelling perspective. You are certifiably autistic.

>not fan-pandering
>need to remember shit from the games or you won't understand some parts
Whatever you say, David.

>I played warcraft 3 and this movie got me confused.
Movie took the looks of Wc3 but the stories of 1 and 2. Those who played the first games were already familiar with the main characters and antagonists, though the SPOILERSargeras part was a bit hard to get desu.

That's why you could get some parts but not some others. This movie was a bit "if you played all the games and love the lore you will like it., else it will be an entertaining movie"

I also liked how SPOILER Durotan fights Gul'dan and you think he's gonna pull a Rocky and win at the very last moment or someone is going to save him, but he gets his shit wrecked and dies a horrible death.

I think it was well-made and enjoyable. At the very least it wasn't a traumatic experience like Tekken.

>Star Wars scroll style
Text exposition is literally the worst thing a movie can start with.

They showed the game as it was supposed to be for the most part. It was a dive into Azeroth that people who were familiar with would enjoy the most. They didn't, however, do it in a cheap way like for example SW did.
>Hey, y'know, here's Han and Chewie
>Cheers and claps like it's an 80's comedy.
>Now there's some characters from the previous movies that happen to be there for no reason, oh, and the plot is pretty much the same but MORE explosions and MORE planet busters and BIGGER death stars!!!!!111!"
Bland as fuck, normies loved it and it was acclaimed as the second coming.

I've never seen this movie or played a Warcraft game, but none of those complaints are legitimate.

answer the question OP

Whenever there's one of these threads about how you would """fix""" a movie I'm reminded of how retarded most people on this board are

>I get that this was a movie for the fans

It doesn't even fucking follows basic lore, this movie is shit because the director is a fucking retard that thinks there are asians elves.

> movies shouldn't stand on their own
Hey faggot how about you start your movies half way through, you can make an outline of what happened to that point!

Hopefully, the directors cut will fix some of these pacing issues, because with all the cut scenes, the movie goes from 0-60 in 20 minutes.

>starting a movie with some dull text scroll or a IN A WORLD, WHERE... demon montage
Ill take poopers being confused over the most basic fastasy concepts over some recycled intro

Besides explaining the Burning Legion would spoil the main storypoint of the orc storyline

Warcraft lore is a cartoon, if there's any fantasy world with asian elves it would be Warcraft.

Usually I'd agree with you but normies were too lost to know what was going on and I can't say I blame them.

>Now a War is about to be Crafted.
I would have walked out of the theatre immediately.

They should have just added 10 minutes more of Draenor footage and hade better character development and it would have been a perfect movie

Those 40 minutes they cut would have made a big difference

You'd be perfectly ok with white guy chad looking elves?
Tbh Asians probably look the closest to Warcraft elves.
Adapting ame models to real actors is going to create variety

>There was an actual duel with Sauron
>Isildur, Elrond, Gil-galad, Cirdan, Elendil vs Sauron
>Elendil and Gilgalad perish in the fight
>Doesn't say who gave the killing blow
>Ring was cut off Sauron by Isildur after he was defeated
Maybe someday we will see it in full. Makes sense that they adapted it as they did though.

you godamn retards, duncan jones tweeted about there being different races of elves, now first thing, elves aren't caucasian or asian and for sure they aren't fucking races, there are different species of elves in the warcraft universe and those would be night, high elves and highborne.

I hope director's cut will gave us movie we deserve. Warcraft is not much complicated than LotR and all the flaws just cuz of 40 lost mintues.
Fellowship of Ring - 3 hours (Director's cut is even 4 hours)
Warcraft - 2 hours.
So, give all your money so we could see great fantasy trilogy.

He meant the actors playing the elves you fucking retard

>Now a war is about to be crafted.
Fucking really, Duncan?

You shills are fucking braindead

It follows the lore enough. You're naive and too young for this board if you don't understand every story gets changed for the silver screen. Just the way things are. And I still can't believe people are giving Duncan shit for casting an asian elf in this climate of SJWism. One land mine sidestepped. Who give's a shit, jesus. I'm as racist as most of ya'll but give it a rest and think for a few seconds.

asking things to be explained instead of just thrown at the viewer is a legitimate complaint you cockgobbling retard

>hand-holding for plebs

God forbid viewers actually do some research on the backstory.

Fuck off normie scum.

>Sargeras
>corrupt
>Burning Legion
>corrupt
he he, ha ha, ho ho Sargeras is a dindu now, and the light is evil

Not true in any way you faggot

I don't care that he casted an asian, I care that he's fucking retarded to answer like this showing that he's so fucking dumb that he doesn't even know the difference between race and species, no wonder the movie is shit, had he simply stay shut he would have come off as a more intelligent person.

This. This isn't about ambiguity or non-important things. It's about the basics of that universe.

The new """""lore""""" was enough to go on and you know this

>the director is a fucking retard that thinks there are asians elves.
But you're ok with Native American Elves, I guess.
Also the Kalimdor portal is supposed to be Asia on Warcraft 3, just saiyan :^)

Tbh it wasn't such a big deal for me IN THIS CASE. Black footmen guys seemed to fit as well and they're canon.

It triggered me though when I saw the same thing happening in the Hobbit universe because that's a completely different case purely based on Eurobrit mythology.

But warcraft 3 was always pretty diverse.

They were taking the star wars approach, just do a quick cash grab from the built in audience.

Okay, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and I see where you're coming from, but he clearly said that to appeal to SJWs and in this case I don't blame him, nor does it really fucking matter at all. An excuse to be more diverse, I don't really care. If LOTR was made today they'd get so much shit for not being diverse enough etc.

If they're even gonna make the fucking dwarves cgi, what the fuck was the point in having real humans?

You don't know the story faggot

normies...

Nobody cares about that shit movie.
Second Paul Blart.

Was a bad flick Tbh, if you're a fan, you'll enjoy it.
Don't really care for wow, acting was shit, cgi was awesome, writing was bad.
Bad flick is bad flick, cant change it.
It makes some super hero movies watchable.

>Nobody cares about that shit movie.

Considering it's doing really well at the box office I would say that a lot of people care :^)

It wouldn't, stop falling for this meme you stupid virgin.

I didn't see it because no worgen.

furry go.

I would be perfectly ok with black men playing night elves, asian playing high elves and maybe whites playing blood elves or half elves.

The thing with the asian elf is just telling people that species and races are the same thing.

ITT: people pretending they've seen the movie while pretending they haven't played the games

That's just pathetic. These retard like Angry birds and Neighbourhood 2, but dislkie best fantasy sicne LotR. Soldout faggots. Hope brain canser will clean our Earth from these plebs.

Its a shit movie, you're only saying it's the best cuz you got your biased goggles on. This was shit film, the huntsman was better.

No it wasn't you retarded faggot
go shill for disney somewhere else

ive both seen the movie and played WC3 and WoW

>the huntsman
Dude, you are not even trying

Its okay to have asian elves, just make them all asian, not some amalgmation where the director doesn't understand the difference between race and species.

A black footman is fine, if he is of the black race of the human species. Hell, you could've had moroes or some kirin tor human mage be black, no problem there. The problem is that a high elf is a race of the elven species, see them as night elves are blacks, high elves are caucasian, blood elves are asian or something like this.

Tomorrow we'll see white males claiming they are blacks trapped in a white man body and everyone will take them seriously.

>Tomorrow we'll see white males claiming they are blacks trapped in a white man body and everyone will take them seriously.

Literally give this 5 years and it will happen.

I was born white but I identify as black. Someone pay for my black skin surgery..

>shill
Do you just repeat what everryone else says here? Fucking fat fuck.
It was shit, Huntsman was better. Had better writing, acting, and overall atmosphere.
This shit tier dvd flick was awful. Stop being a fanboy.
No huntsman was better, everything about it was better minus the cgi. Better acting and actors, plot and writing.

Stay mad beta fat virgins.

Fuck off you fucking retarded disney shill
I know that you haven't even seen Warcraft

also, it doesn't even matter what you say because Warcraft is gonna make way more money than Huntsman :^)

>mad beta fat virgins
only one mad disneykid here is you. We all know that Warcraft is superior fantasy which will have lots of movies.
and again - The Huntsman is top shit taste

Saw it Saturday with my gf, who plays wow. Even she said she was disappointed. Jokes on you fatty.

>good discussion at first
>thread later devolves into shitposting
Like clockwork

>not denying you're a beta fat virgin.
Fucking kek, no wonder you love warcraft. Might as well, go love my little ponies, you cum stain.

No shit its gonna make alot, doesn't mean it's good. It's another BvsS.

>that projection
Dude, stop embarrass yourself.

Because Disney shills always come and shitpost

sure you did

Why should he defend himself against some cuck on Sup Forums? lmao

Your girlfriend is a stupid imbecil whore who is 100% a moronic retarded shit player failing even in LFR. So who cares what she says

Spoken like a true cuck Lmao, hey dont believe me, enjoy watching porn you fat virgin cucks.

>girl
>still plays wow

of course the movie went way over her head. Not enough skinnerboxes to keep her interested.

>I also liked how SPOILER Durotan fights Gul'dan and you think he's gonna pull a Rocky and win at the very last moment or someone is going to save him, but he gets his shit wrecked and dies a horrible death.

It was certainly unexpected, and I liked it too
I was hoping at some point near the end the other Orcs zerg rushed Gul'dan and killed him, but I guess it would be hard to create a second movie from that.

Also in the fight, it takes him quite a while to suck the life from Durotan, but later on he sucks the life from 3 orcs in like 5 seconds

jesus christ you faggots are insufferable

Yes, let's have a 20 minute lore dump that'll keep the audience interested.

I guess the orcs being infused with Fel magic helped hasten the process.

I read it that once they drink the fel they become dependent on it, so if you magically withdraw the fel from them they just collapse. It's the same as what Medivh did in the forest.

According to new lore

>There's something even worse than Old Gods called "Void Lords"
>Old Gods are actually just their brain farts that slipped into the universe from their realm of non-existence
>Their plan is to take over a Titan made planet like Azeroth because they're actually planet sized embryos storing babby Titans
>If they corrupt one Void Lords can get into reality
>Dread Lords knew of this and warned Sargeras
>Sargeras forms army of demons to wipe out Titan planets to stop this from happening

Sargeras, the literal Satan of WoW, is now a well intentioned extremist protagonist.

It's the equivalent of saying the 4 Chaos Gods of Warhammer are good because they're trying to fight something biggerer and badderer.

>holy dreadlord
wait what? i knew blizzard threw lore out of the window awhile back, but what the actual fuck?

YOU JUST KNOW

sargeras is a pawn you fucking retard, the old gods or azeroth are not needed anymore, the void lords got the corrupted titan they wanted
sargeras went crazy after getting in contact with the nathrezim who lived alongside the old gods, it's not that hard to understand
light aligned beings can get corrupted, why can't it be the other way arround?
the thing that gets me about the new lore is illidan's prophecy that he will turn holy, now that is retarded and I hope they drop it

Sargeras still wants to wipe out all life because he thinks that's the only way to stop the void lords

Giving him a motivation isn't bad

>sargeras is a pawn you fucking retard, the old gods or azeroth are not needed anymore, the void lords got the corrupted titan they wanted
>sargeras went crazy after getting in contact with the nathrezim who lived alongside the old gods, it's not that hard to understand
retard

>retard
nice argument

If the movie went with the same pace as LOTR we could have gotten 2 hour of Talking then the movie ends with the Portal opening and the Orcs getting to Azeroth

Imagine how shitty it was for the humans who were about to enter the portal back home when it closed
I never felt so bad for fictional characters before.

>when the Orcs hesitated a bit before slaughtering them

I don't know what i was expecting.