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'Warcraft' Movie Post-Production |OT| 20 months of...hype? Maybe?
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Nah, it's The Prodigy.
Watched it without sound and it looks good. I hope it does well because I love Warcraft but like a lot of people are saying, this is about 10 years too late. Blizzard really should have remastered or remade Warcraft 1 and 2 to get people familiar with the beginning of the series again.
Magic Mushroom
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People calling The Prodigy dubstep. Ffs.
It could be a fun movie, but I have more faith in Assassin's Creed, especially after the CinemaCon impressions.
It could be a fun movie, but I have more faith in Assassin's Creed, especially after the CinemaCon impressions.
I don't doubt that. I just hope they did not miss their window. WoW is dying and no one seems to care about the Warcraft brand any more. Hearthstone is cool but thats not bringing people into the universe I dont believe.
Union Carbine
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The CGI orcs just look too CGI to me-- they don't look physically grounded. I guess nothing will top these guys:
That's not an orc.
Have they been watching eSports tournaments to get in the head of their video game demographic? This sounds like the stuff they play between intermissions of a CS:GO tournament. I like the music fine, but completely misplaced here. They are just ham fisting this so badly.
That being said I liked all the visuals. Of course some things are a little CG, but it looks cool in the trailer. I believe it could look great on the big screen (I hope).
Warcraft orcs are too huge to be played by human sized actors. They actually stuck to the source material. The orcs are the best looking thing about the movie imo.
That being said I liked all the visuals. Of course some things are a little CG, but it looks cool in the trailer. I believe it could look great on the big screen (I hope).
Warcraft orcs are too huge to be played by human sized actors. They actually stuck to the source material. The orcs are the best looking thing about the movie imo.
This isn't supposed to be grounded, this is a high fantasy movie.
Union Carbine
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Dash_Riprock
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And here I thought we had finally moved out of the Dubstep era...
So was LorR, and the orcs there didn't look like cartoons.
So was LorR, and the orcs there didn't look like cartoons.
Union Carbine
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I mean physically grounded-- like existing in the same reality with the actual actors. Being high fantasy has nothing to do with it.
The Books most likely, but the movie didn't give me much fantasy vibes.
That could never happen in Warcraft because:
1. Warcraft Orcs are 8-foot, 600 Lb creatures. You can't do that with prosthetics (or at least not well).
2. Warcraft Orcs are characters, not just monsters. They need to express emotion and the prosthetics (especially with the tusks) wouldn't have allowed it.
It was always going to be CGI or bust.
Are you intentionally being this dense? An LOTR orc is not a warcraft orc. It's not like they're making these guys up for the movie, they HAVE to look like god damn monstrosities.
Jones knows his audience, I'm sure he's been around the blizz forums for a while.
I feel so bad for duncan he knows how to make this movie because well he played all the games and knows the lore inside out but the marketing over there is beyond pathetic. And it is weird they do not ask him for directions on how to approach warcraft fans. I am still watching it though but Universal Marketing is my guess who fucking shit up.
To think that Ryan Reynolds worked on daily basis with the marketing at fox for deadpool just a example they need to do this with the director also or actor in that regard because this movie doesn't deserve bad trailers.
Yup.
On that note, I made my own teaser cut from the footage of all the trailers.
Used more appropriate music. It's not perfect, I'm also not an editor but I think it's more Warcraft then what we have now. It's also not a story teaser just more getting the feeling of Warcraft right.
Nonetheless, I can't help but feel that the movie is coming out at the worst possible time. WoW has lost the influence and notoriety it used to have. Its fanbase is smaller and more cynical than ever. At the same time, WoW hasn't managed to shed its negative association with nerd culture.
If they weren't going to release a movie pre-MoP, maybe they should have just held off and waited until they revitalized the brand with Warcraft 4 / WoW2, or until WoW fell completely out of popular culture and this movie could have been a "reboot" of sorts (similar to how the LotR movies have become synonymous with the modern interpretation of their universe).
Of course, these movies take several years, and predicting how people are going to feel about your brand in the future is an inexact science. So it's not necessarily anyone's fault, but that doesn't change my feeling that this movie is coming out at the worst time possible.
Or maybe I'm just a jaded WoW player. God, I can't wait until my guild kills M Archi so that I can quit.
Where are the dancing night elves?
On the other continent.
Same kind of people who insisted on using Marilyn Manson's "This Is The New Shit" for Dragon Age.
Discotheque
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Worst marketing campaign since John Carter. It's really hurting the hype for this film.
Boooo! the roof is suppose to be blue...
lore ruined
movie ruined
tickets pre-cancelled
They're gonna cgi in the roof for sure
Yup, I feel like there's a good movie there, it's got everything it needs to succeed, but with this marketing, it's really hard to get excited for it.
Went to watch Jungle Book in IMax yesterday and they had a neat preview of Duncan and some of the cast talking about the film.
But what they should have done is have a first trailer be just for the fans. Show off the locations, characters and just bring the feel of the franchise over, generate a positive buzz with the fanbase so they start talking about it. Then start to go after the more casual viewer. Like now all they're doing is alienating fans while writing this extremely negative narrative. In fact I'm 100% they put the same fucking marketing department on it that marketed Seventh Son. Legendary sees this as a generic fantasy film and it bothers me to no end.
But what they should have done is have a first trailer be just for the fans. Show off the locations, characters and just bring the feel of the franchise over, generate a positive buzz with the fanbase so they start talking about it. Then start to go after the more casual viewer. Like now all they're doing is alienating fans while writing this extremely negative narrative. In fact I'm 100% they put the same fucking marketing department on it that marketed Seventh Son. Legendary sees this as a generic fantasy film and it bothers me to no end.
You guys want to really know how bad the marketing is? This guy is usually correct on this info, but still take it with a grain of salt:
"*I was told by someone (it is a legit source) who had contributed to the translation of the movie to Czech language that according to the dialogue script, there is no indication of Garona and Lothar romantic relationship whatsoever. Apparently, the marketing team basically took few scenes out of context and gave us an impression of something that is actually not there."
If this is true... holy shit.
"*I was told by someone (it is a legit source) who had contributed to the translation of the movie to Czech language that according to the dialogue script, there is no indication of Garona and Lothar romantic relationship whatsoever. Apparently, the marketing team basically took few scenes out of context and gave us an impression of something that is actually not there."
If this is true... holy shit.
Dash_Riprock
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Isnt that true to the games though?
Well, yes and no. Garona is in a relationship, just with Medivh (which was terrible).
Well that's...idiotic...
Pff..
But the way they just throw Garona in there, like at least throw a line in there stating she's half orc explaining why she's not full CG.
Shocked. Not really though. You could tell me anything about their incompetence in marketing this movie and I would believe you.
How did they market Avatar? They should have done it like that. I don't remember at this point. I know the budget wouldn't have been in the same ballpark, but at least in spirit or something.
Dash_Riprock
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Its 2016 and Hollywood STILL thinks you need a romance subplot to attract a female audience?
FFS.
FFS.
Judging by this marketing I don't know what they're trying to attract
NinjaTehFish
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That Ork lady makes me feel.....Conflicted.
Incredible if true, because it is specifically those parts of the trailer that have me swearing I won't go see it.
That said, marketing didn't invent Garona. Whoever wrote the film decided she'd be a good fit, after all. She looks like crap, and I wouldn't be looking forward to any scene involving her.
From what I can tell form the promo-material, neither does the marketing team.
Yeah she has always been a really awkward character. Her origin is strange, because if she is part draenei she has none of those features, and if she is part human it makes no sense in the timeline we know. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
The romance between her and Lothar always seemed shoe horned in so if this is true I think it is for the better.
Dash_Riprock
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Being faithful to the source material is not always a good thing...
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