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  Ashen Shugar <death...@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> I think it was Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> that wrote
> something like...

>>
>>On 6 Jun 2016 15:45:22 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>The only good thing about the movie that I can say is that they really
>>>managed to make almost all of the places instantly recognizable to anyone
>>>who has played vanilla WoW or BC. I also like the little side jokes they
>>>added to the movie (a lonely murloc spearing a fish guuurrrrgling while the
>>>party crosses a bridge; a blue/red fishing bobber floating in a river).
>>
>>My other half downloaded a dodgy copy of it over the weekend, we
>>decided the quality wasn't good enough to want to watch it that way
>>(rather see the details properly!) but we saw enough of the scenery to
>>totally agree there, it looked amazing, and much of it was totally
>>recognisable :-) Karazhan was a bit bigger and more impressive than I
>>imagined, but otherwise pretty much everything we saw while skipping
>>through and not really watching (trying to get an idea of the scenery
>>without spoiling everything) was accurate, and loved the murloc ;-) 
>>
>>Hope the DVD comes out realtively early, I want to watch it now but
>>hate crowds so cinema isn't ideal, plus from the clips we saw half the
>>actors seem to mumble most their lines, so I'll likely need subtitles
>>to actually follow it properly (part of why I don't watch films is I
>>can't follow half of what's being said and I can't figure out who's
>>who... it's hard to enjoy a story when you've no idea what's going on
>>:-P ); I'll very much buy the DVD though, seeing the game come to life
>>is pretty awesome, whether it's a great film or not. I saw a video
>>clip of Chris Metzen wandering around in Stormwind a few weeks back,
>>that must've been amazing for him seeing the world he created like
>>that!

> Howard Taylor gave it a pretty good review.  His point of view was
> from someone whose last Warcraft Game was the 2nd RTS.
> So it sounds like it'd be a fun enough film so long as you're not
> carrying too much baggage from the game storylines.

> I read somewhere that in China it was absolutely massive opening week.

Yes. It killed in China. $144 million of its $305 million has come from
China. The next highest country total is Russia at $19 million.
(Boxofficemojo lists Russia as Russia - CIS, I don't know what CIS is,
unless they are still combining former Soviet states into one box office
number?)

> I'd guess it might let you down if you'd gotten your hopes up for
> something super awesome, but otherwise it sounds like a reasonable
> solid film.  I'm guessing I should be able to go watch it in the
> cinema's this Sunday, so I may have a more accurate opinion next week.

Like I said elsewhere, I saw it with 12 people only 4 of whom had ever
played WoW and everyone enjoyed it. No one said it was great, but no one
hated it.

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