Stop ignoring Kingsglaive you fools!

I watched twice lol

Spin is a powerful concept. Imagine a movie where this prince has to flee because his father is killed and the assassin has the key to a relic that's also a time machine. That'd be awesome! Or even a movie about the zombie apocalypse caused by this company and a rush to expose the company and save humanity. 

Both of the game movies I just mentioned were terrible. It's easy to imagine them being good, but this movie has been in development hell for somewhere around seven years, with a plot we're just now hearing about in any sort of detail, and standoffish comments by the lead actor. That's merit for concern, even if you want to be optimistic. 

I wasn't expecting this movie to do that well critically, but to see scores that low is a bit of a shame. Blizzard is or rather use to be synonymous with quality, yet it seems like in recent years, that had changed. None the less though, I will end up watching this movie! I love the lore of Warcraft, but I wouldn't be to shocked if I watched it, and it ended up being a film for potentially increase awareness to the franchise, and not for the current fans of the film.

Making a video game adaptation that only gamers will "get" is a guaranteed way to get a financial and critical flop, unless you limit the budget to below $50 million, or so and at least have a chance at get a movie that makes a profit. Resident Evil is pretty much the only financially successful video game franchise because it's relatively low budget and can profit from only really attracting the RE fanbase and a few extras who will more or less see any horror/zombie movie. So if you are looking to adapt a video game you either have to expect a low audience and budget accordingly, or use the name and characters from the video game only and make an original movie which has broader appeal.

The problem with Warcrraft is that it automatically has limited audience appeal because it has "cartoon" Orcs in it, including a sexy lady orc. The general audience who only know orcs from LOTR are going to think the WoW orcs are just lame. So this was only ever going to appeal to gamers in general at best, and Warcraft fans at worst. They should have budgeted accordingly. Problem is, if you want to do the fanservice and do orcs with the look and feel of WoW, orcs then you are locked into expensive CGI, which means budget is going to exceed realistic box office expectations. If someone did an actual analysis of who's realistically going to watch this movie, and how much is it going to cost to make a visually decent movie, then the project would have been refused before it even got started. The numbers just don't add up.

I don't even know what you're trying to say here. No one is going to think a movie will be good based on a one sentence description of a concept. They'll think the concept sounds interesting and maybe promising, but that's about it. I'm not optiomistic about this movie, I just think the direction they went was the right direction if they want to get a broader audience appeal and make a movie that critics will at least give a passing grade. The movie industry is better off pissing off the entire fanbase of a franchise but appealing to non-gamer movie goers than delivering fan service to gamers. The movie was probably in development hell because they probably started with writing a script based in the time of the Assassin rather than the modern world and they couldn't make it not suck. So they had to pivot to being primarily in the modern world and the script at least didn't suck. But I doubt the movie will be much good.

If Kingsglaive doesn't get a wide release in the west and doesn't get more than 30 reviews on RT/MC then it won't count.

Using the name only to just make money and not make a good film is a sure way to push away core fans of franchises they love and of course made those companies where they are today, a sure fire way of putting them fof your future products, but I;m sure none of those people ever truly mattered, only those who just sit in front of the screen and pay up for whatever is thrown at the screen.

Also Resident Evil made some money but it;s still not regarded as groundbreaking or amazing, if anything it has a cult following and nothing more.

If you change the entire concept of WoW just to appeal to people who never once knew nor cared if Blizz existed is just going to make WoW not WoW at all. It may as well be something not even remotely related to WoW because your way is a sure fire way of getting tank reviews and really bad profit along with just confusing people and putting them fof you in the future entirely.

We've yet to even see a *good* video game movie adaptation that's been well recieved the world over by both crowds and actually done by a good team, not just the director, I;m talking the cast, crew, artists etc, the whole team, so far that hasn't happened once.

Also noticed your other reply to Paladin, you have a very narrow and greed driven view of making a good film at the expensive of pissing off others, I really hope you don't go into the movie industry to butcher some beloved video game titles because no offense but you aren't the guy to go to at all.

Angry Birds doesn't even have 30 reviews on Metacritic lol

Looks like a flop