What I liked in this movie relatively to the LotR is that it's more fantasy stylized, brighter visually and lighter emotionally. LotR director wanted to show reality, while Warcraft creators wanted to show fiction world without any rational or aesthetics limits. So, It's closer to a cartoon, but only visually and emotionally, in the same time the level of details of lanscapes and costumes is incredible.
Fun thing I noticed: magic in Star Wars has no visuals (at least in the classic series), like when Darth Wader chokes the guy, or when they get stuff the telekinesis way - and it looks still convincing, though rather abstract. They relied more on the atmosphere. Oppositely magic visualization in Warcraft performed on a pretty high level, like in games, but movie-better. And therefore it allows to "feel" the magic synaesthetically in most of the senses, like a complex power. Somehow it's pretty entertaining.
Other cgi is a good technical achievement. All those monsters made so noticably better than LotR at graphics level, but slightly miss actor play (Gollum is stil unbeaten), but it simply allows us to forget that it's all graphics and just enjoy the story.
Though, a couple of times it felt a bit nooby, for example lightning when orcs floated in the portal - that looked like "we're doing stuff in a studio, let's add more light on that cheek for more realism!", also at one point in a forest light was so unrealistic, so again I thought about studio routines and electric like sources behind cameras. But those were only two small scenes, the rest has high quality.
So, visually this movie is a masterpiece, really strong grade of fantasyness, it simply teleports us in a sweet colorful dreamworld of magic.
The story is ok, but not extremely good, unfortunately. It's not as bad as sc2 stories. But I could compare it to another fantasy movie, Thor2 - that movie had some nice plot twists, and Warcraft has none. What happened to the Medivh was too simple and artificial. But the script fits some basic dramatic reqiremements, so it's fun to watch, interesting to follow the story, and characters are enjoyable. Even moderate pathos scenes forced me to feel compassion and inspiration kind of emotions.
What I personally enjoyed is that Lothar in mimics looked like an old soviet comedy actor, I even created a more precise version of the poster:
As some internet critics noted, the movie indeed feels overcutted. There's about 40 minutes more will be included in the director's cut, which I'm looking forward for.
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What I liked in this movie relatively to the LotR is that it's more fantasy stylized, brighter visually and lighter emotionally. LotR director wanted to show reality, while Warcraft creators wanted to show fiction world without any rational or aesthetics limits. So, It's closer to a cartoon, but only visually and emotionally, in the same time the level of details of lanscapes and costumes is incredible.
Fun thing I noticed: magic in Star Wars has no visuals (at least in the classic series), like when Darth Wader chokes the guy, or when they get stuff the telekinesis way - and it looks still convincing, though rather abstract. They relied more on the atmosphere. Oppositely magic visualization in Warcraft performed on a pretty high level, like in games, but movie-better. And therefore it allows to "feel" the magic synaesthetically in most of the senses, like a complex power. Somehow it's pretty entertaining.
Other cgi is a good technical achievement. All those monsters made so noticably better than LotR at graphics level, but slightly miss actor play (Gollum is stil unbeaten), but it simply allows us to forget that it's all graphics and just enjoy the story.
Though, a couple of times it felt a bit nooby, for example lightning when orcs floated in the portal - that looked like "we're doing stuff in a studio, let's add more light on that cheek for more realism!", also at one point in a forest light was so unrealistic, so again I thought about studio routines and electric like sources behind cameras. But those were only two small scenes, the rest has high quality.
So, visually this movie is a masterpiece, really strong grade of fantasyness, it simply teleports us in a sweet colorful dreamworld of magic.
The story is ok, but not extremely good, unfortunately. It's not as bad as sc2 stories. But I could compare it to another fantasy movie, Thor2 - that movie had some nice plot twists, and Warcraft has none. What happened to the Medivh was too simple and artificial. But the script fits some basic dramatic reqiremements, so it's fun to watch, interesting to follow the story, and characters are enjoyable. Even moderate pathos scenes forced me to feel compassion and inspiration kind of emotions.
What I personally enjoyed is that Lothar in mimics looked like an old soviet comedy actor, I even created a more precise version of the poster:
As some internet critics noted, the movie indeed feels overcutted. There's about 40 minutes more will be included in the director's cut, which I'm looking forward for.