I just came home from the movie and was surprised no one's talking about it here. I guess it has such a staggered release around the world, who knows where it's out right now.

Well, speaking as someone whose only experience with the world of Azeroth is a brief time playing Hearthstone last year, and reading some of the games' synopses a long time ago, I quite enjoyed it. What I recognized mostly was some of the names, and a "for the horde!" sound bite I'm fairly certain was lifted directly from the games. And the Wilhelm scream. That got a chuckle from the audience, which I think was the intended reaction. I've heard said the movie was impenetrable to general moviegoing audiences, but apart from a single major instance, there wasn't anything you couldn't just infer or just roll with it.

The one thing I didn't get is related to one of the villains motivations. He was clearly corrupted in some way, but it wasn't explained how that came to pass. Maybe a proper Warcraft fan can explain that one. Despite writing "spoilers" in the title, I might refrain from going into it for at least a couple of pages, or until someone else who's seen it shows up to discuss it.

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On the quality of the movie itself:

It has some clunky writing. Some of the scenes end quite abruptly, giving the feel there was a lot more left on the cutting room floor. Overall you can clearly see it's an adaptation, by that I mean it feels like a condensed version of something else. A lot of the human characters are very archetypical, the noble king, the wise mage, the brave hero, but they work as they're supposed to in the story.

The orcs came off as some of the most sympathetic characters. There was a lot of internal conflict in a lot of them and, aside from the big bad Gul'dan, none of them seemed evil. The action was great. Very over the top, like orcs picking up and throwing a horse. Magic seemed appropriately impressive, which is a rare thing in movies. LotR had very little of it, and Harry Potter is just pewpewpew lasers back and forth for the most part. The CGI didn't look out of place. It looks quite cartoony, which I think is much easier to do than trying to emulate something real. The humans were able to fit alongside the CGI characters, which was a concern of mine, no doubt aided by the brightly colored armor.

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In the end, it's a fun pulp high fantasy movie, that's all. It's no masterpiece, it's not brilliantly written or a deep look into the human soul, and that's fine. People sometimes seem stuck in a "best movie ever/worst movie ever" mentality, but there's a place for nuance in between. Once you realize this is a cheesy pulp fantasy story, you adjust your expectations and enjoy it for what it is, and that's what this was, a chessy pulp high fantasy story and a fun time at the movies.

Then again, a lot of people hate John Carter (most without having watched it, I suspect), and I thought that was just a fun pulp science fantasy story, so keep that in mind when I rate this similarly.

P.S.: Sorry for the wall of text. I always try to contain myself and it never works.

Well first off what's the name of the villain and I will ask

You know, I liked that one as well. I may check ou the Warcraft movie when it hits video release markdown, but I don't think I'll cough up the bucks for the theater.

Spoilers? Isn't the plot of this movie just a loose adaptation of the general plot elements from WC I-III?

There are some MAJOR changes and differences like.


SPOILER



Stormwind did not get sacked.



SPOILER ENDS

Well, if you've played any of the originals - screw WoW - you pretty much know the story. Not much to spoil there. Ditto.

I'm still unsure about this movie though. I don't waste money at the cinema for such. I'll just wait for the eventual (and probably sooner-than-usual) rental.

Well, sure, but isn't it just basically, "Brainwashed Orcs come through portal to destroy all humans. Now, the humans and the not-brainwashed Orcs have to work together to stop the oncoming war and save everyone..." ? As mistermumbles said, if you've played through the original trilogy, I don't think there's anything really to get spoiled on.

Edit: Actually, if they do have Arthas/The Lich King in this, I would be interested to see it, just to see him kick the ever-living crap out of everyone else.

This movie looks godawful (and, tiny gods help me, I actually enjoyed that last Hobbit picture!).

From the reviews I've read it mainly focuses on 1&2 with select tidbits of 3 (and possibly cancelled Adventures). No white walkers here.

You enjoyed the last Hobbit movie? Heretic! Infidel! You monster! How often do you kick your dog?

Seriously? To call it egregious use of padding where none was needed is a severe understatement.

Twice daily, when possible. :P

I don't wanna say it in case someone else who, like me, hasn't played the games is considering watching it. But it seems like no one here cares.

It's Medivh. He seems like a cool guy that was corrupted by "the fell", the same death magic Gul'dan uses, and he's the one who called the orcs over and is opening the portal. He says he doesn't even know the extent of the things he may have done under its control.

But how did that happen? Did he dabble in that magic and it corrupted him? In the movie he didn't seem like someone who would.

Maybe if at the very end when he says he just wanted to protect everyone, he said there was a great danger coming and he thought this power could help fight it, it would explain what happened with him and set up a potential sequel.

I didn't say it was a good film, I simply said I enjoyed it. ;D Also, to be fair, I've only ever seen each of those movies once (and have no plans to watch any of them again), so it's entirely possible that that last one caught me in just the right mood. (If it helps my case any, I really disliked the first two!)

The "padding" issue affected the whole trilogy, not just the last film; there was simply never any reason for the series to have comprised more than two movies.

Its a LONG story but here it goes. And I don't care about giving away potential spoilers.

"Fel" is the product of the Burning Legion, an army of Demons born from the Twisting Nether somewhere in the Great Dark Beyond (Outer Space and other planets exists in this universe) And their leader and creator is the Fallen Titan Sargeras. (if you want me to exlain his whole story let me know)

Basically in the lore it was Sargeras himself who possed Medivh and in doing so aided Gul'dan in making the Dark Portals that connects Azeroth with Dreanor. For you see this was an attempt at a invasion of Azeroth of the Burning Legion by first weakening it with the Orcish Horde.