With over twentyone million views of their official trailer and mostly voted thumbs-up, I think they're do really good especially if the director didn't take himself to seriously and had some fun with it.
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I think the movie is going to be complete garbage, but then again so were most of the Transformers films, and look how much money those made. Opening weekend alone will be enough to make the WoW film a financial success. There's always a chance more people share my opinion of it than not and the movie failing, but the odds of that happening are barely high enough to even be considered viable.
My best hope is that it'll end up being one of those 'so bad it's good' films. But I really doubt it.
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Well I consider a "huge success" any movie that breaks/will break $1 billion. So in that sense, I'd say only Superman v Batman and Civil War qualify. However those 2 movies were way way more hyped than anything else this year.
As for Warcraft they spent $150mil on it, but I seriously don't see it breaking past $100mil. Warcraft movie will most definitively not make any profit.
As to what impact it will make on WoW, that's another story. It might bring some players back (but they'll quickly realize why they left in the first place), or the movie will simply suck with reviews around 5/6 (which is the most likely outcome) and blizzard will alienate even the rest of it's fans.
Seriously though, this is Blizzard's last attempt at saving WoW's dying population.
PS: so people critic the heavy use of CGI? How do you think one can create living orcs nowadays, with foam latex costumes? If the CGI is just half as good as the one from Avatar, it will be impressive. And it's Industrial Light and Magic who do the effects, that's already an assurance of quality.
It depends on exactly what all they decide to use CGI for. The Orcs would have been very hard to do (as involved in the movie as they are) without CGI, so I wouldn't consider it fair to critique that. However, I would point to LotR's Uruk-hai as proof that you can do damn excellent Orc-like characters and armies without merely drawing them with a computer. CGI should always be the last option.
Animatronics and traditional special effects achieve a much better result in many areas due to simply having an actual physical mass on-screen that can be interacted with by actors and the environment. And these effects, too, have come a very long way from Jurassic Park (which is still considered a great example of how much animatronics and non-computer generated special effects can elevate a movie beyond what merely copping out to CGI wholesale can achieve).
So, if the use of CGI is so prevalent it sends a message that the director used it as an excuse to do less work, it'll deserve critique. If they reserve it strictly for scenes that cannot be told with any other option, it'll deserve praise.
As an aside, I must be the only person in the world who saw Avatar as merely a CGI Pocahontas. I'm still surprised Disney didn't do some saber-rattling when James Cameron released his "original" film.
A lot of short sighted people are hating on it because it's wow or because of a fanboy mindset (my mmo is better than yours and I hate this by association), they fail to see that this might be the kick start the mmorpg market needs to infuse a ton of new players back into it and make the publishers take notice again.
More people are playing MMOs than ever before. I do not believe this movie will change the number of MMO players. The Overwatch Movie will be next if this is a hit.
I would watch an Overwatch movie or TV series for that matter.
How do we know that Blizzard will neither somehow inflate box office numbers or find a way to not publish them?
It's not like both didn't happen in the past
This is something that cannot be hidden or inflated. Theatres are followed closely by a lot of eyes. You can keep things quiet when it comes to video games but when it comes to films it cannot be hidden.
PS: so people critic the heavy use of CGI? How do you think one can create living orcs nowadays, with foam latex costumes? If the CGI is just half as good as the one from Avatar, it will be impressive. And it's Industrial Light and Magic who do the effects, that's already an assurance of quality.
It depends on exactly what all they decide to use CGI for. The Orcs would have been very hard to do (as involved in the movie as they are) without CGI, so I wouldn't consider it fair to critique that. However, I would point to LotR's Uruk-hai as proof that you can do damn excellent Orc-like characters and armies without merely drawing them with a computer. CGI should always be the last option.
Animatronics and traditional special effects achieve a much better result in many areas due to simply having an actual physical mass on-screen that can be interacted with by actors and the environment. And these effects, too, have come a very long way from Jurassic Park (which is still considered a great example of how much animatronics and non-computer generated special effects can elevate a movie beyond what merely copping out to CGI wholesale can achieve).
So, if the use of CGI is so prevalent it sends a message that the director used it as an excuse to do less work, it'll deserve critique. If they reserve it strictly for scenes that cannot be told with any other option, it'll deserve praise.
As an aside, I must be the only person in the world who saw Avatar as merely a CGI Pocahontas. I'm still surprised Disney didn't do some saber-rattling when James Cameron released his "original" film.
CGI is an incredibly deep and iffy subject. You take something like Toy Story animation and it's pretty amazing. However, when you are blending it with real actors and world, it can quickly become horrible and obvious.
And, yeah, I'd much prefer actual orc makeup and costuming(such as in LOTR movies), to CGI. But, it really depends on the type of characters you are going for.
The Avatar characters were incredibly tall and had strange physiques, so even with real makeup and such, they still would have needed to use CGI.
I'm not to up-to-date on the WC movie's requirements(are the orcs supposed to be massive giants or something?), but in general, any time you can use real effects over CGI, that's how it should be done.
Really, with the budget they probably had for this film, there's no excuse for either being a problem. They can afford the highest quality CGI, and they could have afforded full wardrobe and costuming for an entire orc army.
How do we know that Blizzard will neither somehow inflate box office numbers or find a way to not publish them?
It's not like both didn't happen in the past
This is something that cannot be hidden or inflated. Theatres are followed closely by a lot of eyes. You can keep things quiet when it comes to video games but when it comes to films it cannot be hidden.
I get you I was just kidding, because these guys are usually total control freaks and have this obsession with tweaking their numbers.
They must be having nightmares right now about the b/o numbers being beyond their control.
Haven't read the whole thread... but after seeing the first commercials... this is going to be an utter bomb. It's a shame as I thought they would get the resources to make a really great fantasy movie. What we seem to be getting is a large cutscene.
BLEH...
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It'll be average, and turn out to be like Masters of the Universe, with crappy acting and plots. It'll be panned by critics, deservedly so. The mixture of live-action and CGI characters is going to be horrible. For instance, Garona. She just looks terrible, as if she belongs in a B-rated flick from the 1980s.
The only people that will probably enjoy it, will be comic-con enthusiasts, comic/manga/anime audience, sci-fi/fantasy audience, video gamers, blizzard fanboys/fangirls. It won't capture interest from the mainstream public.
Haven't read the whole thread... but after seeing the first commercials... this is going to be an utter bomb. It's a shame as I thought they would get the resources to make a really great fantasy movie. What we seem to be getting is a large cutscene.
BLEH...
I have to admit, even though I'm interested in seeing the movie, I really wasn't impressed or inspired by the previews at all.
It'll be average, and turn out to be like Masters of the Universe, with crappy acting and plots. It'll be panned by critics, deservedly so. The mixture of live-action and CGI characters is going to be horrible. For instance, Garona. She just looks terrible, as if she belongs in a B-rated flick from the 1980s.
The only people that will probably enjoy it, will be comic-con enthusiasts, comic/manga/anime audience, sci-fi/fantasy audience, video gamers, blizzard fanboys/fangirls. It won't capture interest from the mainstream public.
That's sort of the expectations I have, as well. I think it'll be a successful film just because of how many fans the franchise has, but I don't think it'll be a high-scoring film in the ratings department. They'll make their money back on name alone, but I don't think it's going to have the masses flocking to the theatres to see it multiple times or anything.
Then again, with all the other horrible CGI movies releasing recently, there's always the chance it'll win by simple comparison You know... movies like the TMNT and Transformers, and so on... *shiver*
It'll be average, and turn out to be like Masters of the Universe, with crappy acting and plots. It'll be panned by critics, deservedly so. The mixture of live-action and CGI characters is going to be horrible. For instance, Garona. She just looks terrible, as if she belongs in a B-rated flick from the 1980s.
The only people that will probably enjoy it, will be comic-con enthusiasts, comic/manga/anime audience, sci-fi/fantasy audience, video gamers, blizzard fanboys/fangirls. It won't capture interest from the mainstream public.
Being panned by critics is a bad thing? That is pretty much every summer blockbuster....
The movie will do well for the same reason the game did well, there's millions of brain dead Blizzard fanboys who will eat whatever crap Blizzard puts out with a smile on their faces.
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My best hope is that it'll end up being one of those 'so bad it's good' films. But I really doubt it.
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However those 2 movies were way way more hyped than anything else this year.
As for Warcraft they spent $150mil on it, but I seriously don't see it breaking past $100mil. Warcraft movie will most definitively not make any profit.
As to what impact it will make on WoW, that's another story. It might bring some players back (but they'll quickly realize why they left in the first place), or the movie will simply suck with reviews around 5/6 (which is the most likely outcome) and blizzard will alienate even the rest of it's fans.
Seriously though, this is Blizzard's last attempt at saving WoW's dying population.
Animatronics and traditional special effects achieve a much better result in many areas due to simply having an actual physical mass on-screen that can be interacted with by actors and the environment. And these effects, too, have come a very long way from Jurassic Park (which is still considered a great example of how much animatronics and non-computer generated special effects can elevate a movie beyond what merely copping out to CGI wholesale can achieve).
So, if the use of CGI is so prevalent it sends a message that the director used it as an excuse to do less work, it'll deserve critique. If they reserve it strictly for scenes that cannot be told with any other option, it'll deserve praise.
As an aside, I must be the only person in the world who saw Avatar as merely a CGI Pocahontas. I'm still surprised Disney didn't do some saber-rattling when James Cameron released his "original" film.
A lot of short sighted people are hating on it because it's wow or because of a fanboy mindset (my mmo is better than yours and I hate this by association), they fail to see that this might be the kick start the mmorpg market needs to infuse a ton of new players back into it and make the publishers take notice again.
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It's not like both didn't happen in the past
if the Main character was a Gnome female warrior who Kicked ass and Killed a lot of people
Maybe this movie would do goooood
I don't have much hope for this movie hahaha
And, yeah, I'd much prefer actual orc makeup and costuming(such as in LOTR movies), to CGI. But, it really depends on the type of characters you are going for.
The Avatar characters were incredibly tall and had strange physiques, so even with real makeup and such, they still would have needed to use CGI.
I'm not to up-to-date on the WC movie's requirements(are the orcs supposed to be massive giants or something?), but in general, any time you can use real effects over CGI, that's how it should be done.
Really, with the budget they probably had for this film, there's no excuse for either being a problem. They can afford the highest quality CGI, and they could have afforded full wardrobe and costuming for an entire orc army.
I think it shout do good. Cause I watch movies to be entertained.
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I was just kidding, because these guys are usually total control freaks and have this obsession with tweaking their numbers.
They must be having nightmares right now about the b/o numbers being beyond their control.
BLEH...
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The only people that will probably enjoy it, will be comic-con enthusiasts, comic/manga/anime audience, sci-fi/fantasy audience, video gamers, blizzard fanboys/fangirls. It won't capture interest from the mainstream public.
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That's sort of the expectations I have, as well. I think it'll be a successful film just because of how many fans the franchise has, but I don't think it'll be a high-scoring film in the ratings department. They'll make their money back on name alone, but I don't think it's going to have the masses flocking to the theatres to see it multiple times or anything.
Then again, with all the other horrible CGI movies releasing recently, there's always the chance it'll win by simple comparison
Being panned by critics is a bad thing? That is pretty much every summer blockbuster....