Chazore said:
That and the majority going to see the film won't have played the MMO let alone all those reviewing the film. The film has to be based off of the MMO's story driven lore, so reviewiwers saying "well it should be able to stand on it's own legs" doesn't even know how WoW works, if it were to tell a completely different story then it simply wouldn't be WoW and like the majority of video game movie adaptations, they all diverted away from the source lore material and they all ended up flopping one way or another. Video game movies for the most part just won't click with the casual audience who don't know nor play any of the games the movies are based on. I expect Creed to also suffer and from the looks of the trailer, the movie itself seems to be stepping away from how the story started with the first game, a sign that already shows of a bad film adaptation. I like WoW and it's world/lore, so bad movie or not I'm still going to go watch it with a few mates. |
Yeah mainstream appeal is what I always questioned with this... I think if they'd focused on something else, such as Thrall's childhood and initial escape from Blackmoore where there was a reasonable set of characters and a relatable story, they could have had a lot more success. Basically, a film adaptation of the book "Lord of the Clans", though maybe only up through the escape.
From what I can see the direction they went is just too much to cover and absorb for the average person who doesn't know the lore. I've been reading the books since I was a kid before WoW was a thing, so it's pretty easy for me to get right into it with the context already understood, but for everyone else... this time period they chose is very nearly the most complex part of the story, with a huge cast of characters, two different worlds coming together through a portal motivated by even bigger baddies I'm not sure the movie will touch on much... There's just too much going, it'd be like if Marvel tried to do the Avengers from scratch without the lead ins.
There's still the potential that we fans will like it, I suppose, but they really chose the wrong time to represent in a film.
