Duncan Jones' Warcraft - Part 2

[Victarion]

It doesn't seem to be bringing anything new to the table.

 

[DKDetective]

Wohoo I get to see this 1 day before premiere. :b

Also is Anduin Lothar the Bane of Azeroth?

Uurgghh, that armor looks horrible, especially the king's. It just has such a cheap and fake plasticky look to it. Please tell me this isn't Weta Workshop's handiwork.

 

[Logan0327]

yes it was done by WETA

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Uurgghh, that armor looks horrible, especially the king's. It just has such a cheap and fake plasticky look to it. Please tell me this isn't Weta Workshop's handiwork.

It so does look cosplayish.

 

[Drz]

It doesn't seem to be bringing anything new to the table.

Does it have to? The only thing argubely it is bringing new for casuals, is good Orcs.

 

[NotSoLongAgo]

Uurgghh, that armor looks horrible, especially the king's. It just has such a cheap and fake plasticky look to it. Please tell me this isn't Weta Workshop's handiwork.

yeah, it looks way too dull and clean

 

[Victarion]

Does it have to? The only thing argubely it is bringing new for casuals, is good Orcs.

Speaking purely as a fan of the fantasy genre (what attracted me to this initially), I would like to see it branch out a bit more than orcs and all.

 

[Abudefduf]

Those armours are beautiful imho, the problem is that they don't look battle-worn at all.

I know it's a nitpick but that's the kind of attention to details that makes it easier for the audience to suspend their disbelief, even if they don't realize it.

 

[Drz]

Speaking purely as a fan of the fantasy genre (what attracted me to this initially), I would like to see it branch out a bit more than orcs and all.

Once this movie makes a Bilion dollars, it can expand to wider races and factions, Warcraft 2 would introduce Orc souls that inhabit human corpses.

 

[NotSoLongAgo]

Once this movie makes a Bilion dollars, it can expand to wider races and factions, Warcraft 2 would introduce Orc souls that inhabit human corpses.

Keep dreaming

 

[Rowsdower!]

how is this film a bad choice for her a big fantasy epic directed by duncan jones

you guys are already acting like this movie will suck

Well, all the trailers have sucked, so...

 

[TheVileOne]

Whenever I look at Travis Fimmel as Lothar in this movie, he keeps reminding me of Chris Pratt. Anyone else getting that?

 

[TheVileOne]

I think the reason the armor looks the way it does is because they are trying to translate that game aesthetic to the film. In the games, the features of the armor are very exaggerated. The game's art design is very colorful. Characters wear very bulky armor and with big wide shoulders and chests.

In CG and video game graphics that looks really cool and stylized. Harder to translate in live-action I think.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I think the reason the armor looks the way it does is because they are trying to translate that game aesthetic to the film. In the games, the features of the armor are very exaggerated. The game's art design is very colorful. Characters wear very bulky armor and with big wide shoulders and chests.

In CG and video game graphics that looks really cool and stylized. Harder to translate in live-action I think.

Which is exactly why if they couldn't make it look good, they should have adapted.

 

[terry78]

Whenever I look at Travis Fimmel as Lothar in this movie, he keeps reminding me of Chris Pratt. Anyone else getting that?

My dad thought it was him, just doing a british accent.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Yeah, a lot of it looks silly and fake. I think I could live with the armor though if at least the Orcs and the landscapes looked more realistic. As it stands right now though, it all looks like a really serious Pixar film.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Yeah, a lot of it looks silly and fake. I think I could live with the armor though if at least the Orcs and the landscapes looked more realistic. As it stands right now though, it all looks like a really serious Pixar film.

A Pixar movie looks a lot better aesthetically then this. That is the problem. We got fake looking CGI against fake looking practical. It all looks fake.

 

[redhawk23]

I don't know at at certain point complaining that it all looks "fake" just ignores that it is obviously going for a heightened aesthetic which is indeed quite different from things like the LotR movies.


Its fine if it just isn't your cup of tea but its a bit like complaining that Dark Crystal or Neverending Story looks "fake."


I don't know though, I get a lot of John Carter vibes from this, for better or for worse. Much like Stanton with that film, making this movie is an obvious dream come true passion project for Jones that maybe might end up feeling a bit too derivative but also dense. I fear it will have a similar fate but Jones doesn't have a Finding Nemo type film to sequelize his way out of director jail.

 

[Logan0327]

Well, all the trailers have sucked, so...

yeah causes that the benchmark of film quality

BVS had great trailers

 

[redhawk23]

Which is exactly why if they couldn't make it look good, they should have adapted.

Whether it looks good or not is really a matter of taste.

The aesthetic is one of the more distinctive things about the whole franchise. You try to "ground" it and you largely miss the point. I respect them going whole-hog with it.

 

[TheVileOne]

I mean honestly, it's hard for me to find CG in any movie that I am 100 percent happy with.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I don't know at at certain point complaining that it all looks "fake" just ignores that it is obviously going for a heightened aesthetic which is indeed quite different from things like the LotR movies.


Its fine if it just isn't your cup of tea but its a bit like complaining that Dark Crystal or Neverending Story looks "fake."


I don't know though, I get a lot of John Carter vibes from this, for better or for worse. Much like Stanton with that film, making this movie is an obvious dream come true passion project for Jones that maybe might end up feeling a bit too derivative but also dense. I fear it will have a similar fate but Jones doesn't have a Finding Nemo type film to sequelize his way out of director jail.

Are you comparing this to Dark Crystal or the Neverending Story? Because that is clearly not the idea. They have been preaching a revolution in the quality of the CGI, and I doubt they decided, "yep I want the humans to look encased in plastic".

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Whether it looks good or not is really a matter of taste.

The aesthetic is one of the more distinctive things about the whole franchise. You try to "ground" it and you largely miss the point. I respect them going whole-hog with it.

The aesthetic of WoW is not the same as the aesthetic of Warcraft. They went WoW here.

I mean honestly, it's hard for me to find CG in any movie that I am 100 percent happy with.

There is a big difference between moments of spotty CGI, and a film that is mostly CGI that is poor throughout.

 

[TheVileOne]

Well I haven't hated all the footage I'm seeing here. I'm less concerned about the CG for Warcraft than I am about liking the story and characters. That's my greater area of concern here.

I got to be honest though, sometimes I think the visuals of old school 1980s movies that used stop motion and optical effects and miniatures are better than the CG stuff. IMHO nothing beats some good old well done miniatures.

 

[Inhuman117]

Fake Armors Poor CGI looooooooool this movie looks Great i dont Understand The Problem from some People here , The CGI quality is the Same or better as in The Marvel Movies (HULK)