Duncan Jones' Warcraft - Part 1

[Marvolo]

That is why you scale accordingly.

Warcraft is a world of griffins, orcs, elves, oxen people, magic, and panda people etc. A large sword is hardly out of step with all the rest of the absurdity.

If Final Fantasy ever gets made into a live action american film do you think they should scale its design back and only use realistic size swords and weaponry?

 

[Abudefduf]

The humans in the game are as cartoonish as the world they inhabit though. That's why they look a bit less silly wielding those disproportionate weapons.

I still think this movie should have been either fully CGI, or much less reliant on it. I'm still looking forward to it though.

 

[GR8GODZILLAGOD]

New TV spot. Looks better than the previous stuff, imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvlGM6ikW0U

 

[titansupes]

^ The first part with the guys in the desert was good.

 

[jmc]

I think we're just going to have to accept that CG is never going to get to the stage where it blends seamlessly with real life for certain characters.

 

[TheVileOne]

That was a neat spot. I like how it started.

 

[Hush]

In my gut I can't shake that this movie is gonna bomb, I don't know why.

 

[TheVileOne]

In my gut I can't shake that this movie is gonna bomb, I don't know why.

Hush, I kind of have the same gut feeling. Not that I want it to because Duncan Jones is a good director and I would like some awesome big budget video games to finally happen.

I could be wrong, but I don't get the sense that audiences are all that enthusiastic about this movie and the gamer audience isn't going to translate to box office tickets.

When you look at big budget fantasy epics that became phenomenons, Lord of the Rings looked prestigious and it "FELT" prestigious. I don't get the same sense of grandeur and prestige from Warcraft.

Also, my other problem is that IMHO the trailers haven't done a good job of selling the characters and the story as something audiences will want to invest in. That's why I'm just sensing "bomb" when I look at this as well.

Couple that with the string of bad video game movies and there you go.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Warcraft is a world of griffins, orcs, elves, oxen people, magic, and panda people etc. A large sword is hardly out of step with all the rest of the absurdity.

If Final Fantasy ever gets made into a live action american film do you think they should scale its design back and only use realistic size swords and weaponry?

Yes, I would.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

I think we're just going to have to accept that CG is never going to get to the stage where it blends seamlessly with real life for certain characters.

Agreed, I still think this will bomb.

 

[Drz]

That television spot was great!

 

[Consona]

Yea, this spot was great.

They should put together better trailers, that's all. I still think this film will be great, but they need to show this is not some next average bland fantasy flick, but something with a lot of history and strong story and rich world, etc.

 

[jokesonm3]

panda people

We prefer to call ourselves Pandarens, in honor of the Red Crane of the Vale.

 

[Marvolo]

Yes, I would.

If they aren't going to use the visual designs and in the case of Final Fantasy the eccentricities of the designs they might as well throw all the other absurdities out. And in final fantasy that would pretty much be everything. Why are swords the line that can't be crossed and must be absolutely realistic in the design?

And I really don't think putting a large sword in live action is any different from something like the Assassin's Creed leap of faith and eagle vision both of which will feature in the AC movie. Both are absurd. Actually the sword is less absurd because it's actually possible to use a large sword if the person can lift it and knows how to use it. It's no different from any large weapon.

And looking at the whole thing:

As far as weapons go that sword is no more absurd than a heavy large battle axe. And it doesn't look out of place in the latest tv spot.

 

[OutOfBoose]

Bomb? I doubt it will bomb, but how much money it will make - hard to guess. Can be anything.

 

[jokesonm3]

Hope it's budget isnt like crazy high, like $200M+

If it's a $100M then i could definitely see this film making a profit provided that it doesn't pan with the critics.

 

[GR8GODZILLAGOD]

Hope it's budget isnt like crazy high, like $200M+

If it's a $100M then i could definitely see this film making a profit provided that it doesn't pan with the critics.

It actually is about $100M.

 

[jokesonm3]

It actually is about $100M.

Well then that is good to hear! With something like a 65% - 75% on RT, I can see this going:

OW: 80M
DOM: $200M
INT: $450M (Big boost from China)
WW: $650M

 

[GR8GODZILLAGOD]

New poster.

 

[Grommers]

I'm really stuck on if it will bomb or not. WOW is by far the biggest MMORPG of all time, that alone will drive sales, really and truly it will matter on the reviews though, theirs tons of potential with this series, it's if the movie is as character driven as the video games are, it will do bad if they think the "cool" aesthetics will carry this movie because frankly now a days every movie has cool aesthetics that's not what seperates them.

 

[jokesonm3]

Here's the thing about that new poster.

I like everything about it... apart from the cast between the two main characters and the army, please remove them from the poster, really getting a Dragonball Evolution feel from it.

Now apart from that, i really love the rest of the poster, shows us that two armies, humans and orcs, at war, and thats basically what the first war was in Warcraft, Humans vs Orcs.

 

[2kt09]

So...Paula Patton's character isn't green?

 

[jokesonm3]

So...Paula Patton's character isn't green?

Brown Orcs have existed in Warcraft, basically those Orcs that haven't drank the blood of Mannoroth back on Draenor.

Like Garrosh Hellscream

 

[2kt09]

Brown Orcs have existed in Warcraft, basically those Orcs that haven't drank the blood of Mannoroth back on Draenor.

I'm not that familiar with the lore, but I did realize there were different hues of Orcs.

^ Then I guess she drinks the blood.

 

[GR8GODZILLAGOD]

I'm not that familiar with the lore, but I did realize there were different shades of Orcs.

^ Then I guess she drinks the blood.

There was also this whole piece in the lore how even if they didn't drink the blood, being surrounded by all the fel-energy that the corrupted orcs were using eventually turned their skin green, minus actually being corrupted. Could go either way with her.