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On 6/14/2016 11:35 AM, Lewis wrote:
> In message <575fb8b8...@News.Individual.NET>
>   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.
>
I haven't played now in years, but I got talked into going with my old 
raiding tank who still lives nearby.  I had no expectations going in as 
not to be disappointed.  It was ok more or less.   I more enjoyed 
picking out things that I know would have no meaning to those who have 
never seen the film.  My main that I raided with was my mage, so I did 
enjoy some of that aspect like the ice block and such.  He managed to 
cast a portal in the middle of a fight without getting interrupted which 
I chuckled at.  I did appreciate the sheeping of the guard and cried 
bulls#!t when he created a portal that exited right where he wanted to 
go in Stormwind...He should have come out in the mage tower and had to 
run his ass off like the rest of us had to do...heh.  As a former player 
I would have like to seen an elaborated Dal, which at the setting of the 
movie should have been at it's old location, and not in Northrend as 
well as an expanded Ironforge....A quick visit to the auction house 
would have been amusing.  Maybe the expanded Blueray set will have some 
extended / cut scenes....Overall, it was an enjoyable trip down memory 
lane for me, but can see how some people might have been "meh" about 
it...Good to see there are a still the few stalwarts posting every now 
and then!  I know your still alive!  :)