Poll: Warcraft Movie

[Zas]

It was recently announced that the upcoming live action Warcraft movie will be directed by Sam Raimi, the famed director of the Spider-Man series. Now when I first heard that the Warcraft movie was going to be done in live action I was less than pleased. I think that if Blizzard was going to make a movie, then they should do it using the cinematics, like they do for the Wow Trailers. But now with Sam Raimi directing, I'm a bit more optomistic. What do you think.

 

[axia777]

It is going to suck. That is prediction. I don;t care if Sam Raimi is directing. Who is writing the screenplay? That is the real question. Even the best director can never polish a turd of a screenplay.

 

[Flying Pilgrim]

Hey atleast it is Sam Raimi,not Uwe Boll.In speaking of Uwe Boll from what Wikipedia say's he actually asked Blizzard if he could direct this film.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe_Boll

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

What could the movie possibly be about?
"Oh, I need some gold to buy a weapon. I'd better go grind enemies for an hour or two."

Games about movies are rarely good, and movies about games are even worse.

 

[Littaly]

I always thought it was a publicity stunt and that there was no movie. Still not 100% convinced.

In any case, putting Raimi on the job at least points it in the right direction. That is, making a serious movie as opposed to some gigantic fan service project. I'm still not getting my hopes or expectations up though, the Warcraft movie is without a doubt going to suck.

 

[ZeroMachine]

It is going to suck. That is prediction. I don;t care if Sam Raimi is directing. Who is writing the screenplay? That is the real question. Even the best director can never polish a turd of a screenplay.

The writers of all of the Wacraft games are working on it. We aren't having some shmuck come in thinking he knows what he's doing. We're getting a story from the source.

 

[Bigsmith]

For thouse who don't know what it could be based on, there are plenty of warcraft books out there and from what i have read about it the time setting is going to be before the first ever warcraft game.

 

[YYZed]

This movie is going to be amazing no doubt, the story for warcraft is completeley awesome and if they do it well there will be sequels.

 

[Hazy]

Sam Raimi, despite being a pretty good director, will not pull it off, without disappointing some sort of audience. That is, without sitting down to play every single game, including WoW, in which case, we won't be seeing him anytime soon.

 

[axia777]

It is going to suck. That is prediction. I don;t care if Sam Raimi is directing. Who is writing the screenplay? That is the real question. Even the best director can never polish a turd of a screenplay.

The writers of all of the Wacraft games are working on it. We aren't having some shmuck come in thinking he knows what he's doing. We're getting a story from the source.

Then it will defiantly suck. Writing a screenplay for a movie is so very, very different than writing for a video game.

 

[ActionDan]

Oh dear. Just....Blizzard are trying to be more money raking ass hats than Micro$oft, soon there will be WoW mugs and WoW phones and all that crap.

 

[Da_Schwartz]

What could the movie possibly be about?
"Oh, I need some gold to buy a weapon. I'd better go grind enemies for an hour or two."

Games about movies are rarely good, and movies about games are even worse.

The warcraft universe to date takes place over about a thousand year span. I could be about just about anything. It's not a "WoW" movie. It's just using the universe, which isn't original by any means but is still a pretty interesting world, with vibrant landscapes and colorful characters. Rami is takign teh whoel ren pictures crew on baord, who are also responsible for legend of the seeker, herc, and xena series. SO this isn't exactly uncharted waters for them. I'll bite..not gonna lie. I'll also wait till at least a script or trailer realease before i go judging a film that is far from having either anytime soon.

 

[Amnestic]

What could the movie possibly be about?
"Oh, I need some gold to buy a weapon. I'd better go grind enemies for an hour or two."

Games about movies are rarely good, and movies about games are even worse.

Warcraft movie, not World of Warcraft movie. It'll be like making a movie of the Extended Universe of Star Wars.

The warcraft universe to date takes place over about a thousand year span.

10,000 years, not 1,000.

 

[Burnoutparade]

If they do A world of Warcraft movie they can just alienate our money even more. I really do not like the warcraft series because it's just something that will take your life away and laugh when you are dead. it will go to your grave and start dancing on it and then it will cry because it'll realize it just lost one more person who pays for their services.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Video game movies always suck. I doubt if this will be different. I wonder why video games movie inherently stink though.

 

[Stormcloud23]

What could the movie possibly be about?
"Oh, I need some gold to buy a weapon. I'd better go grind enemies for an hour or two."

Games about movies are rarely good, and movies about games are even worse.

It'll probably follow the storyline to Warcraft 3 moreso than WoW

 

[Galaxy613]

Meh, it'll probably be ok. They know how to make a story. And movies are just one very long cutscene. I won't go SEE the movie but I bet it would be decent. And 100% CGI

 

[Kajt]

No. This will probably be repeated infinitely, but movies and games are not to be combined.

 

[Yoshi-Pop]

Fuck no. No. No. No. We all know that video games movies suck, and there's no way in HELL this will be an exception. I'm callin' this one right now. If Hollywood does birth this abomination it will be EPICALLY TERRIBLE.

 

[PxDn Ninja]

I voted no, but honestly the story in Warcraft is the ONLY good thing about the series. The gameplay was pure shite, but the story is the only reason I forced my way through it one time. Without putting up with Blizzards inept designs and interface, perhaps something good can come of it.

Of course it is a video game based movie, and those don't have good track records...