Haven't seen these people

I have.

I saw it last night and I have never seen anything. A book, game, or comic book adaptation remain so faithful to it's source material. Sure, there are some changes... but all the little things really shined. Elywnn Forest, Deadwind Pass, Dalaran, Stormwind, Iron Forge. I recognised all off these places by the details. Karazhan... OMG!! I cannot believe how accurate the way the movie displayed it's locations was. So much detail. The flight path from Stormwind? LMAO

I played WoW Up until 2010 and I enjoyed the movie from a fan perspective. The film side of me is mixed. I thought the second half was great where the first half was a little lacking. Over all, I had a lot of fun with the movie and my theatre was damn near full. This was the 10:30pm showing which is normally has less viewers than the others. The crowd was cheering and some of the boo'd because they stayed until after the credits and wanted more. This series has a HUGE potential in future films, and I'd love to see the directors cut.


We have 6 MAJOR theaters in our city, and a few dozen smaller ones. At least 4-5 of those big theaters had 3-4 auditoriums playing War craft all Day, Each of the big theaters are doing 9 showings (the least) to 14 showings (most) per day this weekend. So yes. The movie is doing very well here.

The plot... Was something I would expect out of a Video Game. :P It was pretty terrible, but they had to keep it simple to engage new Audiences into an already established, deep lore and characters.

CGI was decent... Loved the fact they played Travis Fimmel/Ragnar Lothbrok from Vikings.

But one criticism of the plot was that for people unfamiliar with Warcraft it appeared that there needed to be a fair bit of prior knowledge in order to engage. 

Looks like opening weekend in the USA will be around $25 million, which is a few million more than initially predicted, but not so much more that it is looking like an unexpected hit. It will avoid flop status (in the USA), but that's as far as it goes. I think for a $160 million budget film the box office in the USA will be disappointing, but worldwide it will do fine.

Looks like a bomb in the US market but a huge hit in China. Really odd situation.

Nah. You didn't need any prior knowledge. It was a simple good vs evil concept, which was easy to grasp, friend that I took to watch it found it easy to catch on and recognized a few of the character names from Hearthstone.

It's interesting how badly it has done in the USA, it's a Chinese-backed film and is doing extremely well in Asian country's. Hoping for a sequel to be honest.

I dunno, seems like a few people/reviewers had some issues with it seeming like prior knowledge is important to really get the movie. And even your friend knows a bit of stuff from Hearthstone, so they are not going in completely cold.

Well. To be fair, Hearthstone doesn't really tell you anything. Only a few character names and creatures, no story or anything.

Sure, but any familiarity at all is going to help put the pieces together. I don't have any real direct connection to anything Warcraft, but because I know the essence of these sorts of things I expect to get this movie more than someone who's only exposure to Orcs and "DnD style fantasy" has been LOTR/Hobbit movies. The fact that someone knows Heathstone exists and is familiar enough with the game to recognise some names is quite a lot really.