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As a WoW player I personally fucking loved this movie, yes it wasn't a masterpiece but God I geeked out the whole film

I do want a sequel to this to be made.

One of the best parts of the movie is how the magic was portrait. I especially loved how the difference between a noob and a master was shown, with the drop-out having to grab a chunk of chalk and draw the circle while reciting the entire incantation while the arch-mage only had to wave a hand.

They even placed the Stormwind flight path in the correct place. Just amazing attention to detail :D

"...but I know with my addictive personality WoW would take over my life" looks up from herb gathering and Nobel videos* "what spec is 'life'?"

I love this movie, and want more like it. This is a worldbuilding movie, not everyone likes them, but leads to better and bigger movies

Side fun fact: the "for the alliance" at the end was the audience from the BlizzCon audience from there year before the movie was released. At least that's how they explained it to us at Blizzcon when we were shouting it while watching some early release footage. Pretty cool tie in for fans.

How is that polymorph not a win?

I'll just say it. I LOVED THIS MOVIE

Durotan's sacrifice DOES makes a different, because Orgrim would eventually overthrow Gul'Dan and became Warchief :D I FOLLOW A TRUE ORC!

This movie was great. It didn't follow Warcraft word for word (neither did LotR) but it was very entertaining. I didn't even notice Grom/Kargath at the end. They must be saving them for the sequel (if there is one). One thing I liked about this movie that I didn't like in LotR was that every Orc in LotR was a generic evil monster with no real backstory besides, "They're corrupted elves and now follow Sauron", whereas in Warcraft these Orcs have both a good and bad side.

Hm, just watched it, and I never played a Warcraft game. I just enjoyed it as a well done high fantasy and don't get all the hate. The huge disparity between critics and audience opinions had me thinking that critics still have reservations against high fantasy and don't trust a wider audience with complex worldbuilding.

I read a critic review that said this movie had "Subpar CGI". How exactly is 1:20 SUB-PAR?! I don't understand people sometimes.

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Frankly the CGI looked great, but still had a very distinctive look that ended up leaving the humans seeming more out of place visually than the orcs in this film, ironically.

As an avid Warcraft consumer, I loved this movie. It was a total fan service film and I’m not ashamed to admit that. I’d say it falls in the category of movies that are made for its prime audience, like the new Dredd adaptation. Enjoy it for what it is, load up Warcraft 2 and play a character from level 1 to 120. The world and lore is massive and it takes years to enjoy it.

We all should be glad that this channel exists to explain positive things about the movie or just clarify the whole that we ourselves can't explain to others.

I remember seeing this movie with some friends. I'm the only one interested in Warcraft. After it ended they all said how boring it was while I was in shock over how awsome it was. In my opinion it's the best video game movie ever.

I've played a grand total of about 20 minutes of World of Warcraft and know absolutely nothing about the lore, but I loved this movie! I'm also a huge fan of both the LOTR and Hobbit trilogies. I never compared Warcraft to LOTR while watching it, because I knew it was a completely different take on the genre. This biggest draw of this film, for me, was it's take on the orcs and how they aren't just mindless savages. Seeing depth, heroism, and even nobility from the orcs is something I wasn't expecting in a big-budget motion picture. Also, Warcraft has the best onscreen depiction of dwarves of any film from this genre. Hopefully we will get to see more of the dwarves in future films.

"Murloc!" I have no idea why but I keep laughing at that.

Hidden win: Directed by the late David Bowie's son. David Bowie changed his name from David Jones as there was a famous Davy Jones when he started and it would be confusing or seem like he was copying him. The director of this film is Duncan Jones. I'd like to think that David Bowie would be proud of his son for undertaking such an enormous task. RIP David Bowie.

One thing that really pisses me off about the bad reviews is that I doubt the movie was reviewed fairly. What I mean is that... the reviewer probably didn't even care about video games, fantasy or Warcraft. Had no interest whatsoever. Now, who would you put to review a superhero movie? Obviously you wouldn't put someone who usually reviews a fun childrens movie to review it. No, you put a fan or someone who knows about superhero movies to review. And the same goes for the oppersite! In this case, from what I've heard, most of the critics weren't even into fantasy. They didn't know about Warcraft and a lot of them didn't even seem to care what it was all about. IMO that is a very bad review. And shows why the movie had so many bad reviews overall. At least I feel that way. Its not a perfect movie by any means, but someone gave the movie 0/10. I mean... seriously? How can a movie, thats as beautiful as this one with the scenery and CGI, give it 0/10? Thats not only weird and upsetting. It literally feels rude to me :P

I watched my little brother play the heck out of World of Warcraft because I liked its story so when I heard this movie was being made, I went and shook the life out of my brother out of excitement. I'm mad that it was given negative reviews but I'm glad a lot of people really loved it! (I am new to this channel, and was ecstatic when I saw this EGA.) EDIT: Why did I watch my brother instead of playing it? Easy. I suck at playing it. I can barely last 5 minutes.

You actually made me appreciate this film more, I originally had a "good, not great" feel about it but i think thats because i wasnt prepared for the direction they took it. Also i know little about warcraft lore before 3 aside from key events. I do still feel that those who never played warcraft may have some difficulty enjoying this.

Played wow for over a decade... i adore this movie! I desperately want Trolls and Tauren in the next one.

Regardless of what people say now, when the movie regarding the Arthas story line comes out, this series, and world will become inbued even more so in pop culture, and when they come running claiming this movie series as great, and it's lore as breathtaking, I will say I was here from the beginning.

From all that I've seen from people who have watched it, people kinda split into two groups. There are those who really enjoyed it, and just had fun with it and think it's a good movie. And then there are those who are wrong.

I remember going into the movie and expecting a train wreck and came out amazed. The attention to detail the creators put into it for the Warcraft gaming community was amazing. I am waiting for a sequel, one that shows the events of Warcraft II; although that'll likely have to be two or three movies because of scope.

I never played the game, but I liked and understood this movie

This movie has the best showcase of people using magic I've ever seen in a movie ever. Every magical bit just felt real and practical. I really hope theres more to see. Thank you, China.

Wait holy shit that was literally him leveling up!!! How accurate do you need to be to the games xD xD

"It's too difficult to animate Jon petting Ghost" Warcraft: Hold my beer.

After the Cinema Sins video on this, I needed this one...

Personally, I thought it was really high quality (like cgi, environment and etc), the only problem was that it was too fast-paced (which is understandable since there were so many different stories going on at the same time)

I've never played WoW but I really enjoyed the movie! I would definitely watch a sequel.

When I sat down to watch this movie for the first time and the introduction theme started, I knew I was gonna love this movie.

I believe its Golem, not Gollum. Gollum is the dude from LoTR.

OMG thank you for doing this. The movie was great in my opinion and I was so saddened by the lack of praise. It's not a perfect movie for sure, but most movies aren't. And for a video game movie this was damn well impressive.

Before watching this, I wanted to say: THANK YOU! This movie was so underrated! It has it's faults, sure, but mainly that's having the guts to get all the world building and necessary lore into one movie, and it being a lot to take in. It was a great movie, and on par with other top billing films! I don't know what your personal opinion is of it yet, but still: Thank you for the vid!

Never played Warcraft ever... That being said.. This is one of my favorite movies of all time.

IIRC they profited 200m~ on the movie over 2 months, so it's likely we'll get another :D Also that murloc is 110% blizzard pandering to us, and I'm okay with that.

Fuck it I never played WoW But I adoooooored this movie

3:35 Woah, I didn't noticed Khadgar crying before!

I’m really glad you made this RU-vid channel, just love good vibes for movies

Ok so I watched this, watched the movie, watched this again then watched cinema sins of this movie. And my gosh was he too harsh on this movie. It was good(not the best movie ever but good!) There is some serious hate out there for this movie but WHY?! Its just a fun fantasy movie.

I watched this with the only Warcraft lore I knew being Hearthstone cards and some places (ie. Blackrock) And I thought the first 20 minutes or so were extremely rushed like going from place to place. However it did make me want to go and research WoW lore so that is a plus. I thought it was a decent film.

Ho-ly shit. I never noticed the level up effect! How could I have missed this?

I really loved your cutting in the brutal speed round. Reminded me a little of Matthew Vaughn's in the Kingsman movie with the frameskips

While the orcs were great I could never see the movie as a win....because there are only 3 god damn seconds of Murlocs! They should have reduced the screen time of the humans to 3 seconds (as a cameo) and instead show the epic relationship between orcs and murlocs. 2 hours of mrrrgling (with no subtitles) would be the biggest win ever...for me.

As someone who has NEVER even played WoW I don't understand the lore. I enjoyed this movie, but can a real fan please tell me what was so bad about it?

Man Dude Bro, I love this movie. I always feel sooo good after watching it, or seeing Scenes of it, or listen to the music, or even think about it. The story is really dark, but somehow I feel happy after watching it, maybe because its sooo good to see those characters life in action. Hardcore Warcraft Fan.

This movie was great. I’ve been a Warcraft and WOW fan for as long as I can remember, watching my cousins playing it growing up and then playing myself. God only knows how many hours I’ve sank into my Main, so when this movie came out I was excited and I went knowing they had/wanted to change the storyline I was ok with that. It broke my soul when Weta Workshop had their auction on their props because that told me my hope for a sequel was gone. But I own physical and digital copies so I’ll always have this.

Are you meaning to tell me at Gul'dan's voice actor actually was named Daniel? He's the true Gul'daniel!

Everything great about Spectre please. I'm probably amongst few people that really enjoyed the movie.

Thank you for making this video! People need to stop criticising stuff and actually appreciating the AMAZING work that went into this, just like any other film! Love it!

I love how you do your honest opinion at the end of each video. Nice touch.

One of my favorite movies ever. I admit I am extremely biased, as I've loved Warcraft since I was seven years old, but I really enjoy the movie objectively as well. I think 50% of critics would like it more if they watched it a second time. Yeah, the pace is fast, but everything you need to know (besides who the Draenei slaves are) is explained. And Medivh is Garona's father in this universe! Whaaaat!

I feel that the greatest mistake of the movie was to not spoonfeed all the details and lore. I may be a little biased since as a big fan of the Warcraft lore I already knew the characters and settings, but I feel that if it had more explanations, through the movie it would have been more successful to the critics and majority of movie-goers (that aren't Warcfraf fans already) alike, if it was more like someone telling a great tale about the past or something like that. The subtle format of the movie works more for a tv series ( which sadly would be impossible due to the high cost CGI) than a movie, people would have more time to understand and relate to the characters and story. I personally loved the movie though, hopefully they will make a continuation and I will get to see Arthas and Illidan on the big screen one day.

As someone who has studied the lore for a solid 4-5 years, the story was vastly improved. Garona being brainwashed into killing the king wasn't nearly as interesting as doing it for a Machiavellian reason. Also her being Medivh's daughter instead of lover is way better for their dynamic and doesn't lead to he who shall not be mentioned being born. The only people complaining about the lore being changed are elitists who want to show off they know the lore.

This movie was incredible, in my opinion. The details were there, and I never played Warcraft, only a little of WoW. I really hope they make more of these

I think you've just expressed EVERYTHING I thought about. What a terrible box office in US! in my country(Russia) it did as well as any movie of such genre would do, and it also has a lot of Warcraft fans. But for US the box office is so low, it's incomprehensible. It just feels like it was mostly game fans went to see it and no one else. Overall - an amazign fantasy movie which I'll be praying that the sequels will come out to

I thought this movie was a movie about the first Warcraft games, 1-3, not WoW? I played the first ones as a kid, never played WoW and completely followed the movie, no problem. I think the dorks bitching about this being unfaithful to 'lore' need to calm down. It was a pretty good movie.

Not playing/knowing the game I still loved this game. It was wonderful :3 It wasn’t like... LOTR but it doesn’t need to be? It’s a wonderfully magical world with interesting characters and story. I loved it! And the MUSIC!!

I like how you mentioned the next thing that happens in game continuity while showing stormwind but not directly stating it. Nice shot

I just want this movie franchise to do well so we may get a StarCraft movie one day :/ . Please! I beg you, Blizzard.

Thank you for doing justice to this movie. My dream is to see Arthas become a movie so I can die in peace

I never saw this movie because of past video game adaptations, but I did want to see it. Those locations brought back some WOW memories! It's also great that there were unknown actors, gives them a chance to step up their game and not be overshadowed by big names.

MISSION: to tell, in an absurdly brief time, a portion of a complex fantasy story, including as many of the most essential and popular characters as possible, being as truthful to the visuals (so well known to the fans) of this world, while remaining keenly aware that your audience will include (hopefully) newcomers to the entire experience, who you must entertain, as well as long time visitors of this world (virtual residents, really) who you must enthrall; to employ the best artists available, both performers and technicians, for this adventure and to do all this within not an unlimited production budget of both time and money. MISSION: ACCOMPLISHED Watching Warcraft feels like going home. Bravo, Mr. Jones and your entire team. So many of us long for more.

Everything great about Eragon please. I think that is a challenge worth your attention xD

"MRRULUURLLULLGORGLORBAH" - Murloc

I feel like they had a rough time with this one. As someone who knows a thing or two about the lore of Warcraft: If you wanted to explain every race, clan you'd need like 2 movies before this one. And they would be boring as hell to just show you who's who, where are they from, why do they act like they do. At least I think it would not be to easy to make those movies really interesting while giving you tons and tons of information. This movie honestly was made for fans. To know the orcs you would have needed to at least play WoW in Warlords of Draenor. The humans? Harder, most of them don't show up to much in WoW. But then again: if you know a bit about the wars, and know the Orc Clans, you understand this movie just fine I think. But still, if you just look at the movie: the plot isn't to complicated, so this part should be ok even if you don't know to much. You'd not know some of the Orcs from the look, but I don't think thats to important. So for a movie about a video game? I think its still good. Not great, it certainly has issues, but it looks great, CGI and voice acting is pretty good I'd say, and you have calmer moments for character developement but also battles and action, I think the balance isn't to bad as well. Could it have been better? Sure. But some issues are hard to fix since the universe is rather big. But to be honest: it could have been WAY worse. So I think they did a good enough job, there was certainly effort put into the movie. As a fan of the games and the lore? I'd hope to get a sequel, there is SO much to tell after this movie... Rise of Thrall, Arthas and the Scourge... granted, parts of those movies would be really depressing but then again: not every game movie has to be light hearted, fun right?

Never played warcraft, never knew it was a thing and I like the movie. I just watched it yesterday. Wished I did sooner.

I agree, my only problem is how fast it's pace was on the first half, but even then I never felt confused nor do I lost interest. Plus, it is currently the best Video Game to movie adaptation I've seen, so while it isn't perfect, you do have to give credit to the creators whom tried to please two extreme sides or movie goers, and even managed to partially succeed. So yeah, nice movie that was hated a little too harshly.

Medivh's Golem, not Medivh's Gollum. I think Mister Frodo would have had a problem if Gollum was that big. Also I think you meant to say "total immersion" and not "total emersion"?

I'm like 3 years late to this video but I remember watching this in theaters on the weekend it came out and sitting on the edge of my seat with glee and joy. God I love this movie and I don't care what people have to say about it. I really enjoyed it.

I love that you know some lore going into this!

I didn't notice the Murloc until I heard it. Then you said "MURLOC!". That's when I saw it. LOL!

I loved the movie, and as a decade long Troll player seeing how huge and awesome the orcs were i was soooo looking forward to the trolls and tauren, so bummed.

I love that you counter Cinema Sins, because sometimes they sin stuff that they don't understand even though the event were explained earlier in the film. PROVING they don't watch their movies as closely as they should. Liked and Subbed!

I started playing WoW with my dad when I was 7 and so this universe has always had a place in my heart. My parents (who both played this game for years after I was born), although they didn’t understand as much of the lore as I did, loved this movie.

>3d settlers of catan i thought it was heroscape lmao i miss that game

This movie is low key dope. Hope a sequel eventually comes out.

This is by far the best Game adaptation ever, only true warcraft players know that and true warcraft players loved this movie. The credits with the login theme OMG i was so hyped when I watched this. I really want a sequel.

I liked this movie. And I also like how you have a channel that talks about films in a POSITIVE way. Kudos to you.

Unless you have already, you should do Treasure Planet

I loved the movie so much. And i'm a wow player too, so everything was all the more thrilling for me XD

It was a beautiful film, even those in my family who know.. nothing of warcraft or the lore enjoyed it. the action was well-made, the cgi for both the orcs as well as lothar's gryphon and the small little nods to the games were both realistic and stood apart from the others aspects of the movie. The Lore and storyline itself was actually fairly spot on, sure they shifted garona's relationship with lothar a bit because of the ret-con to her son, and the ending wasn't the mind-controlled crazy uber-garona some might have expected, but it was well done, and was set up for another movie. All-in-all, as someone who has read lore from the very first Warcraft to the current expansion of WoW, I'm happy with this movie. It gives me the nostalgia I wanted without it crushing me, it delivers beautiful world-building and brought to life my FAVOURITE city (ironforge) and it builds up the characters. It introduces Varian very well and makes sure that it is clear where this is all going. It does. The Job! Hell it does it really well! Visually beautiful and story-wise, at least to me and a few others I've talked to, pretty darn spot on. Of course there are going to be differences, with parts of the official lore being ret-conned, or even just being hard to explain in visual form, such as the real reason for Garona killing our lovely gold-clad king, and garona's relationship with The guardian, they did well to change those around into something a bit easier to digest. What seems to be a common thing Warcraft fans don't quite realize is, yes, this is 20 years of lore they're trying to put into a possible series of movies, but the timeline is scewed. The Warcraft team has changed lore to fit WoW, ret-conned things such as Garona's guardian son, changed relationships, killed off people who were originally alive at some period, messed around with the original guardian storyline for Medivh, all of these things can't be fit together because, and I HATE to say this, but some of it makes no sense anymore. Having Garona with Medivh no longer makes sense. having Garona kill Llane the way she did in the movie was a better ending than the long, convoluted mind-control idea originally introduced in lore.

The intro showing frostmourne gave me the most intense chills since first seeing the Lich King in wrath back in 2008.

I'm so freaking sad that we'll never get a sequel :(

11:12 honesty *ding*

IDK how i missed this as ive been a long time sub. As someone who put over 500+ days in World of Warcraft BEFORE quitting the diehard life during Warlords of Draenor. I had also played every single Warcraft game, (Starcraft too, that needs a movie as well) and have read all the books. Other than a few things in the Movie, that I think were done to ponder to the inexperienced, this was all around made for the fans. Which, in my experience, when looking at video game based movies, tend to fuck shit up horribly, Assassin's Creed for example, while still being watchable, but only once. Warcraft on the other hand wasn't that, I watch it at least once a year because it gives me the fuzzies inside. And when I forced a bunch of my friends to go see it with me in theatres, gave me the spark to start playing again casually, and got a few of my close friends to play as well. I jumped up from my chair and shouted FOR THE ALLIANCE during that scene in Stormwind. Even tho I main horde now. Such a good movie for those that knew. Would be nice to see a second but that's highly unlikely.

Are we getting a sequel? I have been following the story (or try to at least... ) and began reading the books and there's so much of the story that I think will translate well into a movie. I enjoy watching this and I really do hope there will be more.

I'm so disappointed..... 12:58 that was clearly a double kill so why only 1 win?

Here's how I view this movie. Revenant won best picture last year. Mad Max won multiple awards for technical feats. This movie shows the natural shots that made Revenant great as well as the technical mastery of Mad Max. While this movie isn't inherently likeable, it's not boring or dull either. It doesn't quite reach the peaks of Lord of the Rings in epic battles. The movie is overall visually stunning though. They have great costume designs, cgi monsters, and world building. This movie isn't for everyone for sure. I'm just surprised the critics haven't sung the praises of this movie. It should be critically good besides being overwhelming in lore. The only reason this wasn't the highest rated movie of the year by critics is Hollywood politics. It's the reason movies like Marvel or Pixar movies aren't nominated for best picture. Critics don't personally understand the movie and aren't told they're supposed to like the movie. To clarify something, my current personal favorite pick of this year is likely Zootopia. The political commentary, buddy cop, comedy is too strong to ignore. It's not my favorite overall, but likely the biggest piece of art.

One thing I loved is how they made using magic a physical ability, like they were pulling the magic from some other space and manifesting it on this plane. That's the work of a top-notch movement director/stunt choreographer.

As someone who wasn’t really into WoW as a kid, I did start to take an interest after this movie.

The action scenes were amazing, but I'm kinda upset they made footmen such useless red shirts. They stand literally no chance at all in a fight against orcs in this movie, and part of it is because they went with WoW interpretation of orcs - basically Hulk - but not with humans, who look like muscle mutants as well. Back in RTS games they were certainly strong and muscular, but not inhumanly so - an army of Conan the Barbarians, versus the equivalent of LotR Gondorians.

The movie didn't trash on lore, After seeing the movie I thought that but then I replayed the first Warcraft game, and all that happens there is in the movie, exeption being the fel and the origin of thrall (he wasn't resurrected by fel), all that being in the expanded lore after the first game, so minor things.

watched first time back in the days and i didn't even know it was made with the game in mind, it was very enjoyable, and indeed THAT WAS TEARFUL.

I really loved the musical scores! I 101% would love to see a sequel!(even if I only played 3) ;p