Warcraft: The Beginning (June 10, 2016)

[BadKarma]

The only thing I truly well and hated was Garona and the whole love story thing. Paula Patton is a shit actress and she looked like a low budget cosplay which really stood out next to how good the Orcs looked and how good the human armor was

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[BaneTheBrawler]

well, i mean, in her defense, she's supposed to look like a shitty orc. Because she is a shitty orc. She's half Draeni. Also, iirc, the love story is also canonical.


edit: oh, nope, original canon has it as Garona x Medivh. So we'll see.

[Intrinsic]

Saw this tonight in IMAX 2D, wasn't even near as bad as I was expecting. Playing WoW during BC and Wrath probably helped quite a bit.

[Draylo]

This movie was so bad... I almost left because it was just so boring and cringe-like. I never like WoW but I thought it would be at least interesting lol.

[BadKarma]

well, i mean, in her defense, she's supposed to look like a shitty orc. Because she is a shitty orc. She's half Draeni. Also, iirc, the love story is also canonical.


edit: oh, nope, original canon has it as Garona x Medivh. So we'll see.

like don't get me wrong I enjoyed the movie and want a sequel, but I could do without Garona entirely.

in original canon one of the most heart-wrenching things to happen is guldan controlling her body to kill Llayne while leaving her mind to her own, she murders him while screaming and sobbing for it to stop. It breaks her emotionally and it's fantastic fantasy Faire. so I missed that alot.

maybe I'm salty

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[Dryr]

I was very distracted by Garona whenever she was in a scene. I just kept wondering if the tusks were on rings around her real tooth, if they were caps of some kind, or maybe a bridge...

Anyways, it was pretty bad. If I had any skill, I'd make a meme with the Family Guy scene where Stewie is harassing Lois, "mom, mom, mom, mommie, mommie, mom.. Lois: WHAT! Stewie: Hi (run away giggling)" But I would replace it with
dad" and "for Azeroth!" I wrote that out better than the movie was written!

[Fhloston]

I haven't played WoW in years, so my lore knowledge going in to this was rusty. I can say it was a pretty decent movie. Was pretty cool seeing a lot of familiar names, and the action was enjoyable. Effects were great and I don't get all the hate for Garona. She won't win any Oscars for her performance, but I don't think she was terrible either. I guess if I played the original Warcraft games, I would've been more annoyed with the changes to the lore.

But overall I enjoyed watching this more than I did BvS, X-Men Apocalypse, and any of the Transformers films. Would recommend to at least give it a shot of you've played Warcraft, or WoW.

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[6souls]

Highest Grossing Video Game Movie of All Time at $377.6 million, has only made $37 million in the US
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=warcraft.htm

[Dimmauk]

Highest Grossing Video Game Movie of All Time at $377.6 million, has only made $37 million in the US
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=warcraft.htm

China HuaXia 6/8/16 $65,141,191 41.5% $156,809,077 6/12/16

Damn

[Salodin]

Americans are into MOBAs now =(

[Zetanio]

So is China.

[Delirium]

League of Legends the movie?

[Zetanio]

League of Legends the movie?

Oh they are definitely stupid enough to do it.

[Krandor]

Had to kill some time while my Jeep is in the shop so I just watched it. Thought it was decidedly OK.

[Serra]

The Warcraft movie may have tanked in the United States, but it did much better abroad. Although it never even cracked $50 million in the U.S., the film’s massive success in China accounted for more than half of Warcraft’s $430 million total box office—and yet, Warcraft is still poised to lose money.

Even with a Chinese premiere that was the largest foreign debut in that county’s history and $430 million made, Warcraft is still not going to make a profit. Last month, The Hollywood Reporter estimated that the movie would need $450 million to break even. Its theatrical run has already begun slowing down, leaving it about $20 million short or breaking even right now.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/not-even-chin...vie-1783583506

[Zetanio]

$450 million? Jessssus.

[tyven]

good lord how did they spend so much on this? also i watched it the other day and it was better than i expected it to be LOL. Tho i dont know anything about the lore or anything

[Salodin]

So much CG, but $450 million? Holy shit, I hope that number includes retaining a lot of the talent for the second movie, cause they got screwed on the price.

[tyven]

I've heard promotion costs a ton but i still can't wrap my head around that figure LOL. i thought hollywood CGI studios got paid like shit too, which is why they were always going out of business. I remember a big stink about it a few years ago with the life of pi guys said something.

[Krandor]

Advertising is the reason why it's so high, there was a shit ton of promotion for this movie. According to Wikipedia the budget for the film was $160 mil.