Duncan Jones' Warcraft - Part 1

[Whiskey Tango]

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Oh I hadn't seen this

 

[Mysteryman]

As someone who has never played the game,
The trailer didn't inspire me to find out more about the world of Warcraft.
But I have not ruled out seeing the film .

 

[NotSoLongAgo]

I had high hopes for this movie.. the trailer squashed those out. I'm not digging the plot choice tbh, and the humans look tiny (in a funny way) with that armor.

It sucks that the warcraft cinematics are more cinematic. And have a more epic, badass scale. Oh well, maybe it'll be better than expected

 

[hafizbat]

Really want this movie to do well. I love the fantasy genre and video games, so I'm rooting big time for this and the AC movie.

I really don't care too much about the critical reception, I just want it to make a boatload of money to open the door to more video game adaptations. I'm a huge sucker for medieval/fantasy stuff and I want as much as I can get of it.

 

[Punisher_MAX]

To answer the question on past WoW players and loyalty...every friend i've played WoW with, some who still do and others who dont, are gonna go watch this movie. Like I said previously, I played from Vanilla to WotLK and sparingly afterwards. Played WC3 mostly as well.

This trailer did exactly what it set out to do, which is to get a long time player interested in the movie, because I'll be there opening day.

If someone doesn't like the trailer for XYZ reason, fine, it's just irksome when someone uses their reaction to the trailer as the general consensus.

 

[jokesonm3]

To answer the question on past WoW players and loyalty...every friend i've played WoW with, some who still do and others who dont, are gonna go watch this movie. Like I said previously, I played from Vanilla to WotLK and sparingly afterwards. Played WC3 mostly as well.

This trailer did exactly what it set out to do, which is to get a long time player interested in the movie, because I'll be there opening day.

If someone doesn't like the trailer for XYZ reason, fine, it's just irksome when someone uses their reaction to the trailer as the general consensus.

100% agreed, the WoW community whether past or present needs to support this film and hope for sequels for the warcraft lore is to rich to ignore.

 

[Drz]

Don't forget the Heartstone, Starcraft, Heroes of the Storm, Diablo and soon Overwatch community. Blizzard will use these channels to promote Warcraft movie via Battle.net

Heartstone and Heroes of the Storm already have heavy emphasis on Warcraft, and people who don't even play WoW are playing Heartstone for its hooked game play, which in return can result in their interest towards all the various characters and races.

WoW might be down to 5.5 million at this moment, but we all know some people will still give the new expansion a shot and will check out the movie.

 

[Zantera]

I liked the trailer, but it wasn't as amazing as let's say the new Star Wars trailer. But I will say that the first trailers are very rarely, if ever the best trailers. When it comes to the first trailer, they always try to cram in too many things and show the audience "we're gonna do this, and this, and this" and it ends up somewhat of a jumbled mess. The second trailer is almost always superior, because you get a more consistent trailer in a slower tempo that let's you take in more what's happening.

 

[Marvin]

It did it's job based on what? As someone looking forward to this film, it did not hit me in that way. Would you like to compare it to how Star Wars has been actually building interest?

Based on the fact that if you compare the amount of people in the GA that were interested or even knew about this film to the amount that do post trailer, you'll probably find a huge discrepancy.
As for comparing something like this to arguably the biggest single property in cinema history in terms or interest built or acceptable approach in doing so, I'll have to pass. Disney could have pulled a title crawl teaser with that nostalgic movie and have some iconic character at the end declare they're back and people would talk/be interested.
Would you however want to compare it to films in it's same lane at the same point in time?

I get it's not for everyone(least of all me), but classic easy to communicate even generic concepts sometimes work best on the GA. Like soldiers vs indians(that one time). As much as I prefer the game cinematics(all game cinematics to be honest) to what was presented here, I'm not sure the GA would.
Getting people like us who live and breathe movies every week is another game imo, but then again, how many of us actually need to sold at the end of the day, really.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

This trailer did exactly what it set out to do, which is to get a long time player interested in the movie, because I'll be there opening day.

If someone doesn't like the trailer for XYZ reason, fine, it's just irksome when someone uses their reaction to the trailer as the general consensus.

Verily.

 

[TheVileOne]

Don't forget the Heartstone, Starcraft, Heroes of the Storm, Diablo and soon Overwatch community. Blizzard will use these channels to promote Warcraft movie via Battle.net

Heartstone and Heroes of the Storm already have heavy emphasis on Warcraft, and people who don't even play WoW are playing Heartstone for its hooked game play, which in return can result in their interest towards all the various characters and races.

WoW might be down to 5.5 million at this moment, but we all know some people will still give the new expansion a shot and will check out the movie.

That's still not enough for the movie to be successful.

 

[TheVileOne]

To answer the question on past WoW players and loyalty...every friend i've played WoW with, some who still do and others who dont, are gonna go watch this movie. Like I said previously, I played from Vanilla to WotLK and sparingly afterwards. Played WC3 mostly as well.

This trailer did exactly what it set out to do, which is to get a long time player interested in the movie, because I'll be there opening day.

If someone doesn't like the trailer for XYZ reason, fine, it's just irksome when someone uses their reaction to the trailer as the general consensus.

Getting longtime players interested in the film isn't good enough for a big budget, major theatrical release like this.

 

[Iceman]

I liked the trailer, but it wasn't as amazing as let's say the new Star Wars trailer. But I will say that the first trailers are very rarely, if ever the best trailers. When it comes to the first trailer, they always try to cram in too many things and show the audience "we're gonna do this, and this, and this" and it ends up somewhat of a jumbled mess. The second trailer is almost always superior, because you get a more consistent trailer in a slower tempo that let's you take in more what's happening.

Ain't nothing gonna compete with that! t:

 

[Drz]

The new Star Wars trailers don't reveal anything about the characters or plots, yet are considered to be good? I'd say that is the fanbase talking.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

At first I was surprised that people would be judging this via comparisons to Star Wars, but then I remembered that the internet just went through a phase where people were actually buying that crap about Disney considering Age of Ultron a failure.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Based on the fact that if you compare the amount of people in the GA that were interested or even knew about this film to the amount that do post trailer, you'll probably find a huge discrepancy.
As for comparing something like this to arguably the biggest single property in cinema history in terms or interest built or acceptable approach in doing so, I'll have to pass. Disney could have pulled a title crawl teaser with that nostalgic movie and have some iconic character at the end declare they're back and people would talk/be interested.
Would you however want to compare it to films in it's same lane at the same point in time?

I get it's not for everyone(least of all me), but classic easy to communicate even generic concepts sometimes work best on the GA. Like soldiers vs indians(that one time). As much as I prefer the game cinematics(all game cinematics to be honest) to what was presented here, I'm not sure the GA would.
Getting people like us who live and breathe movies every week is another game imo, but then again, how many of us actually need to sold at the end of the day, really.

Let's take the first Iron Man trailer then, or the original Avatar trailer. Both were far better imo. I don't even like Avatar, but the original trailer intrigued me. The original Iron Man trailer got me all kinds of hyped.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

The new Star Wars trailers don't reveal anything about the characters or plots, yet are considered to be good? I'd say that is the fanbase talking.

They have revealed they made a fine looking movie, with weight to the characters and the world. The Star Wars trailers are brilliantly cut together. Quite classy.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

The trailer was ok, it made me remember WoW back in 2001, nostalgia did the trick.

 

[NotSoLongAgo]

The thing is that it seems really generic. The visuals are like something between clash of the titans (in a bad way) and the hobbit wrapped in a WoW skin. I was hoping Duncan could make it something fresh

 

[Drz]

They have revealed they made a fine looking movie

How? It shows random scenes with cryptic messages.

You don't know the characters, plot or setting. All you know is that it's Star Wars.

It really is just brand power that speaks, I swear if Warcraft tried to do the same people would be confused.

 

[StarLord]

You got stock in Blizzard or something? Christ. Settle down man.

 

[Octoberist]

How? It shows random scenes with cryptic messages.

You don't know the characters, plot or setting. All you know is that it's Star Wars.

It really is just brand power that speaks, I swear if Warcraft tried to do the same people would be confused.

No it's good editing. The Warcraft trailer doesn't get the heart pumping at all. I've watched the Craft trailer several times already and I've got nothing from it. I'm a huge supporter of this film along with Jones, but the next trailer needs to kick ass or it'll end up being the next John Carter type dud. Hell my brother isn't a huge geek said through a weird mind cloud connection that the movie looks super niche and mentioned John Cater.

 

[pr0xyt0xin]

The trailer was ok, it made me remember WoW back in 2001, nostalgia did the trick.

Ahh, 2001 WoW, prior to the game's existence? I see what you did there.

 

[Drz]

You got stock in Blizzard or something? Christ. Settle down man.

Lol I'm simply stating the truth. I mean, we can agree to disagree but i'll say this one last time:
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- I know there's some woman
- I know there's some dude
- I know there's some Old dude and his hairy monster dude, and I recognize them as Solo & Chewbacca because of previous movies.
- The Sith wants to continue something that Vader started, again I know this because Vader was in the previous films.
- The Force is calling someone? Does it make housecalls?

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- Orcs are attacking the Human settlements
- The Orcs planet is dying and they have to leave it for survival.
- There is an Orc and an Human who want to make peace and not war.
- There is an orc female and the Orc male previously mentioned who side with the Humans.


While neither trailer makes the mention of any names, I know more about the movies' plot than I do with Star Wars.

 

[Octoberist]

The SW is just a better trailer dude. Again it's due to the editing and music.

That's why Warcraft still ca my make an awesome trailer next time since this is only their first one.