‘Warcraft’ Fever Hits China as Advance Sales Reach $20.4 Million

[Pemalite]

binary solo said:

Pemalite said:
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.

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.