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First TV Commercial for Warcraft Movie Released
SBFord
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First TV Commercial for Warcraft Movie Released
Legendary Pictures has released the first television teaser for this summer's Warcraft movie. The commercial shows off several locations and is a synthesis of the longer trailer shown in theaters worldwide. Check it out!
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"My Fantasy is having two men at once...
One Cooking and One Cleaning!"
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"A good man can make you feel sexy,
strong and able to take on the whole world...
oh sorry...that's wine...wine does that..."
£100 on this one tanking so badly it'll make every prot warrior in the world cry.
mmorpg junkie since 1999
Blizzard are not dumb, it s not late in anyway shape or form. If they re trying to drum up interest in the game , with the movie, now is as good a time as any.
Blizzard needs to go back to its roots, when it was a company that didn't care about short term profits, released the games when they were done - and not a second sooner. That's how they grew from a handful of folks in a basement to an empire of Legend.
It boggles my mind why they broke from that to become just another EA - shying away from innovation, rushing games out for holidays... games like Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm: generic clones of successful games already on the market.
Blizzard is not just trying to reach out to players.
While it will speak to players who are interested, I think the idea is to entice people who like fantasy stories and of course advertise their gaming world.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
Legendary Pictures and Blizzard Entertainment are collaborating on the film - Blizzard is absolutely putting it out, just not alone.
A lot of things are subjective. I know some folks like HoTS - I gave it a fair shake. To me, it's Baby's First MOBA without any depth. Whereas Hearthstone revolutionized MTG, all HOTS did - IMHO - was dumb down Dota 2 and LoL, create a kick-ass cinamatic, and call it a day. And I'm very unenthusiastic for Overwatch. I've put in hundreds of hours playing Team Fortress 2 - I don't need the same game with a slight graphics update and Ultimate Moves.
You're not wrong though - Blizzard is great at promoting. They're very profitable and still continue to grow - just not nearly as fast as they did when they were a one-of-a-kind company that didn't just latch onto whatever was hot. Blizzard of old was the gaming company that knew what you wanted to play before *you* knew what you wanted to play. Now they're just in the business of rehashing safe, popular games in time for Christmas. Nothing special anymore.
"Be water my friend" - Bruce Lee
Never saw a good movie based on a video game.
the mario bros movie was awesome :P hahahaha
the only thing i like about the movie is the scenary ,dalaran looks really cool!
I am expecting mind-blowing CGI and will watch if only just for those + Travis Fimmel (Vikings fan), but the script might just let the movie down. Wonder why they didn't tie it to current WoW events more, or a bridge to Warcraft 4.
Nanfoodle said:
I dont care if its a WoW movie or not. If its good I will go see it. I do hope it does well, as I would love to see video games start making movies that are quality, but so far that has not been the case.
Resident Evil hasn't been a terrible series movies.
First one was a good movie the rest we really bad.
There's a very easy way to make a good game movie:
"People in charge of it need to give a flying faq about the source material."
And I'm pretty sure Duncan Jones and his crew have given it.
This movie was made by him, supported by Blizzard themselves, because he and other members of the team are old fans of the series and they want to see it do justice.
People who claim that CGI is bad and that real actors look out of place, have aparently never seen anything produced by the studio behind the CGI effect, like you know, Avangers? Which is basically ALL CGI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnQLjZSX7xM
Anyway, if good CGI was all it took for a movie to be successful rating-vise, Transformers would be astronimical.
In the end however, the movie will be rated on both visuals and story. So ask yourself, if the "good orcs and humans join against bad orcs" had worked, do you think we'd still have Alliance vs Horde going on these days?
I'd be a lot more excited to see it if it were entirely CG.
I'm not sure you're quite aware of process of Blizzard lvl cinematcis. It takes 1 year to make 5min. So full lenght movie is out of the question.
The week before sees Paramount's new Turtles film; the 2014 release bettered 2012's instalment taking nearly $500M worldwide. Cinema chains will like that. Give them confidence that it will do well.
And Paramount will be pushing it of course because it will be fighting its own battle with both the new X-Men: Apocalypse film AND Alice Through the Looking Glass (follow on from 2010's $1 billion worldwide monster hit).
Then it is the week of Warcraft. And cinema's will still be showing Avenger's, Alice, Turtles.
And then oblivion beckons as Finding Dorey of Finding Nemo fame releases. Enough said. This will be in cinemas all summer. The animation looks stunning as well.
And if that wasn't enough the week after sees the reboot of Independence Day.
Oh and then comes Spielberg's new film (BFG) and Warner's s new Tarzan film.
If it was just Turtles, BFG and Tarzan say life would be tough but - a chance. With what comes just before and just after and the fact that all of these will be being promoted by different studios. Doesn't look good.
Then we move into July with the likes of Ghostbusters, Ice Age, Star Trek and Jason Bourne ..... so no respite.