Yes. I'm proud to say I was one of a few American soldiers who never played World of Warcraft 2010-2016. It's all hocus pocus, dorky video games to me and a detriment to our armed forces and I'll fight anyone who says otherwise. It should be banned for the sake of western civilization.
With my bias stated, I must say this movie prevailed in ways I never expected. For one, I am a man who loves a good story with action. I need meaning for me to care about something taking place. This STORY was simple and not too bad. And I mean simple. I mean not too bad. But I cared what was happening. However, I'm excited to see where the story goes. I do remember hearing the 3rd Warcraft game's story was incredible, so I would love to see if the Warcraft movies make it to the third game's story. It would be like Game of Thrones White Walkers and undead mixed with demons, elves, dwarves, men, etc. That's quite a combination!
ACTION: This movie has a lot of it. Especially the largest battle (not saying when it happens). I was reallly blown away by some of the battle scenes, including the largest battle, which probably saved this movie by itself. As a soldier who is ok with fantasy, I really appreciated it. It's not Lord of the Rings epic, which is the best trilogy ever made, but its very satisfying.
The CGI is this movie's greatest strength. It is truly a feast for the eyes. I can't praise it any better. COSTUMES such as the knights armor looks really nice.
BAD: A lot of no-name actors. Travis Fimmel, our famous Ragnar Lothbrok from the marvleous Vikings series, does well, and the main Orc is pretty likeable even though he is CGI (again, well done on the CGI!). But my good gracious, why is Paula Patton a half human half orc baffoon?!?! She was talented in Mission Impossible 4 but her look in this movie made me embarrassed every time I saw her. Think Jar Jar Binks embarrassing moments wrapped up in her appearance. People laughed and mocked her when I saw the movie. In fact, all of Patton's scenes are a negative distraction, which is a good example of what brings this movie down to a 7/10. You get sucked in to this movie's entertaining value and then something stooopid distracts you.
The movie stands very tall with a six pack of abs and arnold pecks and biceps, but then it pulls itself down with some saturated fats from multiple cheeseburgers that complete hides those shredded muslces we want to admire! These bad fats included corny scenes, bad acting, stooopid moments, stooopid looking elves (they need to fix that right away), strange looking dwarves, and the Paula Patton Orc.
Another analogy goes like this: a 15 month girl starts running around the house making her parents proud as she stomps around the world showing those chunky thunder thighs of strength. She has graduated from crawling. What a moment! And then the young girl falls on her face busting her lip and begans to shriek loudly. The parents drop to their knees from the cringe shrieks and they run to stop their child's pain. The glory, the happiness, the cringe, and then the pain, all within a couple of moments! That is this movie. But like a memory, parents will remember their child's glorious graduation from crawling to running more than the cringe moment of the shrieks and the horrid pain. That's how I remember this movie and it deserves a 7/10, which is good, but not great.
That's the best I can do without spoiling anything. It's worth a go through, but it seems females are not interested in this movie, so if your a alpha male like me, or you identify as a unicorn, you might wanna watch this movie alone or with your bros. My wife was not impressed and I had to watch Downtown Abbey later with her to make up for it. The Paula Patton orc had killed her immediately. She could not be revived the rest of the movie...
With my bias stated, I must say this movie prevailed in ways I never expected. For one, I am a man who loves a good story with action. I need meaning for me to care about something taking place. This STORY was simple and not too bad. And I mean simple. I mean not too bad. But I cared what was happening. However, I'm excited to see where the story goes. I do remember hearing the 3rd Warcraft game's story was incredible, so I would love to see if the Warcraft movies make it to the third game's story. It would be like Game of Thrones White Walkers and undead mixed with demons, elves, dwarves, men, etc. That's quite a combination!
ACTION: This movie has a lot of it. Especially the largest battle (not saying when it happens). I was reallly blown away by some of the battle scenes, including the largest battle, which probably saved this movie by itself. As a soldier who is ok with fantasy, I really appreciated it. It's not Lord of the Rings epic, which is the best trilogy ever made, but its very satisfying.
The CGI is this movie's greatest strength. It is truly a feast for the eyes. I can't praise it any better. COSTUMES such as the knights armor looks really nice.
BAD: A lot of no-name actors. Travis Fimmel, our famous Ragnar Lothbrok from the marvleous Vikings series, does well, and the main Orc is pretty likeable even though he is CGI (again, well done on the CGI!). But my good gracious, why is Paula Patton a half human half orc baffoon?!?! She was talented in Mission Impossible 4 but her look in this movie made me embarrassed every time I saw her. Think Jar Jar Binks embarrassing moments wrapped up in her appearance. People laughed and mocked her when I saw the movie. In fact, all of Patton's scenes are a negative distraction, which is a good example of what brings this movie down to a 7/10. You get sucked in to this movie's entertaining value and then something stooopid distracts you.
The movie stands very tall with a six pack of abs and arnold pecks and biceps, but then it pulls itself down with some saturated fats from multiple cheeseburgers that complete hides those shredded muslces we want to admire! These bad fats included corny scenes, bad acting, stooopid moments, stooopid looking elves (they need to fix that right away), strange looking dwarves, and the Paula Patton Orc.
Another analogy goes like this: a 15 month girl starts running around the house making her parents proud as she stomps around the world showing those chunky thunder thighs of strength. She has graduated from crawling. What a moment! And then the young girl falls on her face busting her lip and begans to shriek loudly. The parents drop to their knees from the cringe shrieks and they run to stop their child's pain. The glory, the happiness, the cringe, and then the pain, all within a couple of moments! That is this movie. But like a memory, parents will remember their child's glorious graduation from crawling to running more than the cringe moment of the shrieks and the horrid pain. That's how I remember this movie and it deserves a 7/10, which is good, but not great.
That's the best I can do without spoiling anything. It's worth a go through, but it seems females are not interested in this movie, so if your a alpha male like me, or you identify as a unicorn, you might wanna watch this movie alone or with your bros. My wife was not impressed and I had to watch Downtown Abbey later with her to make up for it. The Paula Patton orc had killed her immediately. She could not be revived the rest of the movie...
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