I really like this trailer.

Couldn't finish the trailer.

Well if they made it like the original LOTR trilogy with practical effects, real equipment, real makeup etc it would be way better and of course way more expensive.

LOTR is by far the most popular thing in this genre but noone is willing to copy the stuff that works in those films because they cost too much money, it's pretty sad.

sad because it costs a lot of money, or sad because people won't do it because it costs a lot of money?

Remember, making movies is for entertainment, but it's business first.

I don't know what he meant by 'sad'. But for business reasons as you said, LOTR has basically set the ceiling for this genre. It's disappointing for audiences knowing it's not very realistic to hope that something better could eventually come along.

This post was edited by kayeto on Nov 7 2015 03:18pm

medieval fantasy/fantasy is a tough genre to sell to. Unless you have a HUGE franchise as LOTR is, it will always be difficult to compete because it's a niche genre. Big title names tend to draw crowds that usually don't support that particular genre.

The positive thing blizzard has with warcraft is an incredible amount of lore. Most medieval fantasy movies have a very bland/cliche plot, nothing really jumps out to be spectacular or different in a positive way. Warcraft, this movie, it's plot is pretty generic from the trailers, but I hope it leads to many movies because of all the lore available.

This post was edited by stupidkid282 on Nov 7 2015 03:24pm

I'm not critizising the studios, of coruse it's bussiness first for them. All i'm saying is it's sad situation we have on our hands when most people can agree LotR trilogy is vastly superior to Hobbit trilogy but all the studios want to do is make more Hobbit films. I'm not blaming them i'm just saying, as a fan it's not what I want to see.

Movie is very obviously based on wc1, gtfo calling it WoW.

Not sure if I'll watch it wasn't a huge warcraft fan to beging with

Lol, I just called it that because it's the most recent one, so prettiest cinematics. I really don't care which game the Warcraft lore for the film most closely aligns to.