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Saw Warcraft. Pretty good. It keeps on both sides of the lines, keeping the savagery of the orcs of the original Warcraft and the (uhg) orcs of the Warcraft 3 style. It's important that they don't loose the savagery, they're orcs! I don't care about soulful eyes, you've already got humans AND elves for that. The occasional overhead views and plentiful fight scenes help keep the movie going. Mind you, I prefer the intelligent being the ones who win. I like stories of something beautiful and superior fighting to survive and winning because of guile and intelligence. But that's just not Warcraft. Each of the WC games had a different feel to it. #1 is different than #2 and 2.5, and #3- the MMO. 1 was the invasion, 2 was "cover the lands with troops", 3 was "let's move away from open warfare and try to sissy everything up to bring in more players." sigh. Orcs don't need honor, orcs don't mope like emos, they need more things to kill. Of course, the movie makes a slight storyline to change things from "those guys are preparing their inevitable betrayal, it's probably time to kill them all" to "that's not orky enough, it's time to kill them" actually helps them sell the "kinder, gentler orcs" angle. (orange is the team-colour of traitors in warcraft) The movie is set in #1 and does a good job of it. It's got great attention to detail- like the baby basket being a small version of the orc boat, or all the humans having big armor and swords. It deviates in a few places, but nothing really ruinous. And any Hero deaths can literally be handwaved/magicked away. I'd like to see Alterac- Traitor Nation of Blackadders in the sequel. And we can all agree that the griffon scene was great. No ignoring the established lore, no making everything up _now_ and slapping the name on afterwards, no swearing, no idiocy, the action and exposition scenes were well balanced, the script was smart enough, the FX was realistic but not a spotlight-hog, thumbs up, great movie.
This post has been edited by Zerozero204: Jun 26 2016, 09:14
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Last movie you saw?, Report in all you cinephiles
Jun 22 2016, 02:24
