After seeing the trailers and judging the reactions I've read, I'm comfortable with choosing The Hobbit as the most apt comparison for Warcraft. Even though Warcraft's budget is much smaller, the look and feel of the CGI seems about the same to me. Also, the fantasy genre and strength of the brand lands it closer to the Hobbit than other heavy CGI action scifi/superhero films.

The Hobbit : An Unexpected Journey scored-
64% from RT critics
83% from RT audiences
7.9 IMDB

I'd be curious to see what you think it will score if you care to offer up your guesses.

The main question I'm looking at is what its reception (relative to the expectations) will mean for the chances are of it getting a sequel.

This post was edited by kayeto on May 20 2016 01:57am

Make this thread in a month and we can have a better conversation.

The Warcraft trailer doesn't make it look phenomenal, but I'm anxious to see it as I've been a fan for a long time. The plot starting point sets them up with an endless amount of sequels.

As much as I enjoyed the hobbit, it greatly trailed behind lotr and the critics made that very clear with their reviews.

This post was edited by stupidkid282 on May 20 2016 04:21am

I was kinda hoping for a before & after comparison here. I was reading up on Avatar and it said that people predicted the movie would flop huge and that massive budget would make it a catastrophe.

Determining whether the film is successful won't be a matter of how well received it is, but also how did it do relative to the expectations.

It's going to flop

expectations prior is just theorycrafting. It's just hype and mostly blind opinions.

The Warcraft movie budget is around 100 million, I can easily see ticket sale revenue going way passed that. I doubt it will flop.


The movie caters towards 12 years of WOW players and even longer for warcraft players. Not only players, but it's a action/fantasy genre that caters towards even more than just gamers. It's going to draw a larger audience than your typical no name medieval fantasy movie.



Whether it's "good" or not cannot at all be determined beforehand. One can only speculate which really doesn't get any where.


The two biggest negatives this movie may have going for it is:

1. The possibility of it being cheesy.


2. The warcraft universe has so much lore, and they are starting at the "beginning." I'm afraid people might immediately want more out of the movie, but not quite understand where they are starting from. The lore could easily account for 10+ movies.

This post was edited by stupidkid282 on May 20 2016 09:08am

The Hobbit was terrible, WoW will be worse.

It was mediocre. The first and third were pretty good. The second lacked, but I still enjoyed them because of the universe and I easily overlooked nitpicking because of that.



And again, don't assume it will be worse, since there isn't much to base it off of. Trailers are hardly a good depiction. Give the movie a fair chance before making such assumptions.

This post was edited by stupidkid282 on May 20 2016 10:43am

I disagree, trailers are usually all I need to form an accurate opinion. I've been wrong in the past ofc, but it's not something that happens often. The Hobbit movies were atrociously bad, only the first 45 minutes of Pt 1 was even watchable. They fucked up on EVERYTHING. I understand changing things from the book to make them more exciting, but when you completely change all of the characters (making them worse), remove all of the actually epic scenes and try to add in odd and unrealistic love stories for extra plot... well, you can go fuck yourself.

I have the ability to separate book from film, video game from film and just judge it for what it is.

But I understand that many people can't and that's completely okay.

You're such a dick, lol... but I agree so much. There's a difference between judging a film as an adaptation and judging a film as a film.