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I really like The Prodigy, and even this song in particular.

It's so out of place here. Complete tonal disconnect from the actual film, and just makes this seem inaccessible as hell to anybody who isn't a 17-year old boy from the year 2007.

Hoping the trailers are just a bad hackjob. Also hope China picks up the inevitable slack that will be left by the domestic market. I want this to do well, if only to inspire studios to try and adapt more game IP.
 
Dash_Riprock said:
Sounds like the same shit to me.
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People like this never cease to amaze me.

It's like saying that Kurt Cobain and Sammy Haggar sound like the same shit.

If this trailer is guilty of anything, it's the awful cuts they made to "The Day is My Enemy". "We know this song doesn't fit but it'll make for a great trailer, so keep looping the same 2 seconds over and over again at the end to pair our action sequences".

Also this movie doesn't look very good.

ElBoxyBrown said:
I will weep the day someone calls Chemical Brothers dubstep.
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I've heard that before. Those people haven't heard a chemical brothers song since Setting Sun though.

I swear, put a dat beat under a song and suddenly "EWW DUBSTEP". I should start saying that everything with a guitar is country.
 
Still going to watch it as soon as possible, but holy shit the marketing for this movie is so bad. Were the guys responsible for this somehow bribed to make it as bad as possible?
 
Sölf;201373264 said:
Still going to watch it as soon as possible, but holy shit the marketing for this movie is so bad. Were the guys responsible for this somehow bribed to make it as bad as possible?
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It's still legendary at the end of the day. Their marketing people are stuck in the early aughts, feels just like the marketing for the original resident evil.
 
Mesoian said:
People like this never cease to amaze me.

It's like saying that Kurt Cobain and Sammy Haggar sound like the same shit.

If this trailer is guilty of anything, it's the awful cuts they made to "The Day is My Enemy". "We know this song doesn't fit but it'll make for a great trailer, so keep looping the same 2 seconds over and over again at the end to pair our action sequences".

Also this movie doesn't look very good.



I've heard that before. Those people haven't heard a chemical brothers song since Setting Sun though.

I swear, put a dat beat under a song and suddenly "EWW DUBSTEP". I should start saying that everything with a guitar is country.
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Thatonemoor said:
The Prodigy is awesome and isn't dubstep. Trailer still sucked though.
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Yeeeeah. I love The Day Is My Enemy, and this was just an awful choice.
 
I think the real problem this movie has is that the trailers are all over the place with tone, it's almost like they're going for a marvel movie set in the warcraft universe.

But this is a period of time in the games that are represented as being fully of treachery, fear and just generally dark and lots of unknowns on the horizon. Then you get all sorts of wise cracking comments and ill fitting music.
 
I'd hate to say it but I'd prefer to see Beowulf-style humans in this movie. The orcs look great but the humans look like they're wearing Halloween costumes.
 
Calling The Prodigy dubstep is a fucking crime against humanity. This is probably the most offended I've ever been over a simple GAF thread.
 
I have no issue with the music. My gripes are the following:
1. Female half-orc makeup
2. Poor fight choreography
3. Bad modern generic quippy dialog
4. CG art style that doesn't mesh well with live action
 
I love how the takeaway for like half of this thread is people arguing about what is or isn't dubstep.

It's like, great. We get it. You like dubstep (or you don't but do like prodigy). Move along.
 
This thing is gonna be destroyed by critics. Holy shit.

Also it doesn't look like a good movie at all, super generic and still completely unappealing. I'll happily eat crow, but goddamn. Way more D&D movie than LotR.
 
Anoregon said:
I love how the takeaway for like half of this thread is people arguing about what is or isn't dubstep.

It's like, great. We get it. You like dubstep (or you don't but do like prodigy). Move along.
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Well I'd say it says a lot about the general interest of this film
 
I kinda feel like humans and orcs have to work together at some point...maybe. Not sure. Probably have to rewatch the trailer a few times and listen to them stating how they really have to work together about 20 times.

AGAINST WHOM?! I mean, I know that but if i didn't know the game's storyline I would have no idea what the fuck this trailer is trying to tell me. Apparently Orcs and Humans live on the same planet and fight each other but also have to work together because...they will die? Of something? Does this thing have a villian? Are there any actual characters in this?

All of these trailers only consist of really, really bad one-liners that don't actually mean anything and they utterly fail to give me any grasp of this universe and its characters. I mean, you could do that, if you'd go for a atmospheric trailer that's not about the story but more about the feeling this movie should give you, but then there is a new meaningless one-liner the second the one before finishes and I get to listen to the motherfucking Prodigy, making it absolutely impossible to actually get a feel for the movie.

These trailers are just so. fucking. bad. Honestly among the worst I have seen in a long, long time.
 
Yup, still looks like shit.

SilentRob said:
I kinda feel like humans and orcs have to work together at some point...maybe. Not sure. Probably have to rewatch the trailer a few times and listen to them stating how they really have to work together about 20 times.

AGAINST WHOM?! I mean, I know that but if i didn't know the game's storyline I would have no idea what the fuck this trailer is trying to tell me. Apparently Orcs and Humans live on the same planet and fight each other but also have to work together because...they will die? Of something? Does this thing have a villian? Are there any actual characters in this?

All of these trailers only consist of really, really bad one-liners that don't actually mean anything and they utterly fail to give me any grasp of this universe and its characters. I mean, you could do that, if you'd go for a atmospheric trailer that's not about the story but more about the feeling this movie should give you, but then there is a new meaningless one-liner the second the one before finishes and I get to listen to the motherfucking Prodigy, making it absolutely impossible to actually get a feel for the movie.

These trailers are just so. fucking. bad. Honestly among the worst I have seen in a long, long time.
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I litterally cringed for like a full minute after the trailer ended. This movie is gonna be a shitshow of epic proportions.
 
CG keeps looking better each new trailer... I hope it works out well for them, I'll definitely check it out. Not a fan of that song though. The end of that song is pretty dope.
 
The biggest fear I have about this film is that it will adopt the boring "unite to fight a common foe" trope that WoW started with Warcraft lore.

Part of the fun of the old RTS games was rooting for the villains. I dont want to see this movie centered around a hippie Durotan.
 
SilentRob said:
I kinda feel like humans and orcs have to work together at some point...maybe. Not sure. Probably have to rewatch the trailer a few times and listen to them stating how they really have to work together about 20 times.

AGAINST WHOM?! I mean, I know that but if i didn't know the game's storyline I would have no idea what the fuck this trailer is trying to tell me. Apparently Orcs and Humans live on the same planet and fight each other but also have to work together because...they will die? Of something? Does this thing have a villian? Are there any actual characters in this?

All of these trailers only consist of really, really bad one-liners that don't actually mean anything and they utterly fail to give me any grasp of this universe and its characters. I mean, you could do that, if you'd go for a atmospheric trailer that's not about the story but more about the feeling this movie should give you, but then there is a new meaningless one-liner the second the one before finishes and I get to listen to the motherfucking Prodigy, making it absolutely impossible to actually get a feel for the movie.

These trailers are just so. fucking. bad. Honestly among the worst I have seen in a long, long time.
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I hate how much they're pushing the "Orcs are actually people too; we need to put aside our differences and work together" stuff. Like yeah, that's one of the main points of Warcraft. Most fans probably expected that any Warcraft movie would involve those themes. That's fine. But it loses any impact it might have had if they've been shoving it in our faces throughout all of the promotional material.

Watching the characters come to terms with each other is going to be super fucking boring when every "Two Worlds - One Home" poster has already spoiled the emotional punchline of the movie.

Warcraft is supposed to be, first and foremost, about war, hatred, fear of the other side, etc. That's what makes it interesting when the two sides work together to stop the greater threat. This is just some carebear crap.
 
The 'love story' in this looks like it's going to be generic and uninspired. I've never played WoW so I'm not hype for this but it looks nice. Hope it's good for the sake of its fans (and video game movies in general)
 
Adaren said:
I hate how much they're pushing the "Orcs are actually people too; we need to put aside our differences and work together" stuff. Like yeah, that's one of the main points of Warcraft. Most fans probably expected that any Warcraft movie would involve those themes. That's fine. But it loses any impact it might have had if they've been shoving it in our faces throughout all of the promotional material.

Watching the characters come to terms with each other is going to be super fucking boring when every "Two Worlds - One Home" poster has already spoiled the emotional punchline of the movie.
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I thinking pushing the standard "Human good, Orcs bad" would have the made the story feel even more generic than it already is.

Having the orcs and humans work together is something that separates Warcraft from other Fantasy stories.
 
Svette Armhuler said:
The biggest fear I have about this film is that it will adopt the boring "unite to fight a common foe" trope that WoW started with Warcraft lore.

Part of the fun of the old RTS games was rooting for the villains. I dont want to see this movie centered around a hippie Durotan.
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Durotan is a protagonist and Gul'Dan is a bad guy, so... prepare for disappointment?
 
Svette Armhuler said:
Arthas too was certainly a bad guy, but he became a legendary one because WC3 kept him as a PoV character for half of the story. I just hope the same can be applied for the Orc villains.
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Medivh will be interesting. They haven't shown him hardly at all in these trailers and it's Ben fuckin Foster playing him.
 
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