Warcraft [Blu-ray]

I have to confess, I avoided this film in theaters due to the bad reviews. I was in a bit down financially, so I didn't have the chance to see many movies when it was released. I had to choose, and I let this by, and I did it precisely because of all the low scores it kept getting. But I did purchase it on Blu Ray based on user opinions (and the fact that my financial situation improved), and I finally saw it yesterday. And this is the last straw. I already had bad experiences with professional critics this year (Ghostbusters, Suicide Squad), and this is the final film that convinces me that those guys are full of crap. I didn't want to believe it before, but I can't ignore the evidence, and now I'm forced to realize professional critics are supremely biased and will judge a movie based on preconceptions rather than content. Because trust me, this movie is great. In fact, just about the only negative thing I can say about it is that the ending is too open instead of closing everything. But that's only a negative if you're not interested to see more of this universe and story. But I am, so it doesn't really count. Based on the eponymous classic PC strategy game (note: not actually based in the far more popular MMORPG World of Warcraft, which is set in the same universe but actually acts as a sequel to the strategy games), tells the story of how the humans and orcs met each other and started their conflict. The world of the orcs, a proud race of warriors, is dying, so orc leader Gul'Dan uses the magic known as Fel to open a portal to the land of Azeroth, which they intend to conquer. Since Fel magicworks by absorbing life force and their prisoner supply is limited, they can only send their strongest warriors first, to capture more prisoners and then use their life to bring the rest of the horde. The humans, led by King Llene, discover the presence of the orcs and with the help of their military commander, Lothar, and a retired mage named Khadgar, manage to capture a half-orc named Garona, who can speak both languages and decides to help them against the orcs, as she was treated like a prisoner by them. To this, they recruit the help of the powerful wizard Medivh, also known as The Guardian, whose purpose is to protect the land. Meanwhile, on the orc side, new-father chieftain named Durotan believes Gul'Dan and his Fel magic are responsible for their world's death, and tries to make an alliance with the humans in order to defeat Gul'Dan and avoid the death of this new land. Unfortunately, there might be traitors on both sides. Now this storyline might sound a little complicated when laid out this way, but fortunately the film makes its progression easy enough to understand. While people might have a bit of a hard time with the unusual names at first, it gets easier as the film goes on. The story is interesting enough on its own, but clearly only the first chapter. And while, like I mentioned before, the ending is open for subsequent chapters, the first one has good enough closure that you won't feel cheated of an ending. Of course, the film is also a wonderful visual spectacle, and even though it has to deal with a lot of central characters, you never feel as though any of them is underdeveloped. Which, again, brings to mind those terrible reviews complaining about unexistent things, and makes me believe that they've given the movie a low score based on preconceptions about videogame movies. On the Blu Ray department, the visual and sound quality is top notch, as expected, and there are TONS of extras, including making-of and an exploration of the videogames' story and impact. Most interesting of them all is a 5-chapter motion comic that works as a prequel to the film and helps to develop further a few of the human main characters. And in the deleted scenes section, you can't help but feel that some of them should have left in the final movie. So I implore you, please give this film a chance. It doesn't necessarily need a sequel, but it would be great to have one. Don't let this go the way of John Carter. Let's give the story an opportunity to go on.

I think I'd more accurately give it 4.5 stars, but I'm going to round up. I'll tell you why. I'm not well-versed in Warcraft lore and story. I played the first two games and loved them, but never went beyond that and never really paid attention to the story. With that in mind, the story of this was fairly new to me overall and I felt new coming into it. I didn't have any expectations like a fan might, and therefore I thought the story was enjoyable and understandable: good job. I know Warcraft is a hugely popular game, and I feel like after watching this movie there is way more than what was presented, but there was not enough time to present it all in the detail that was available. That's good and bad. They did a good job at providing necessary information without floods of details, backstory, and world-building. That does, however, naturally come at the cost that you can tell there was more and they intentionally only scratched the surface. What I mean to say is, this was a good movie that wanted to be an epic fantasy, but was held back by the fact that it was only one movie. There's room for a sequel, to be sure, but this will always feel to me like it wanted to be more than it was. And that leaves me wanting more out of this. Again, that's good and bad. That's the 4 stars fighting against the 5 stars. I round up because in the end, I want to watch it again, and whether I want to watch it again and would recommend it are the two biggest factors in determining how I rate a movie. The visuals are great, the CGI is well done and not distracting, and the world of Warcraft is stunning. The orcs seem consistent with their game renderings, though I will always be partial to the Lord of the Rings orcs that carry a much more natural and realistic air about them: more lifelike and human, less chunky and game-ish and fantastical. The winner overall is the soundtrack. This is one of my favorite soundtracks! All in all I'd say that if you enjoy fantasy, you'll enjoy this.

Great, way better than expected!

This movie is awesome to watch on a good home theater system! The sound and the visuals are great!

Great movie, great graphics, acting is top notch.

Bevor ich mir diesen Film ansah, kannte ich das Spiel "World of Warcraft" nicht. Ich hatte also keinerlei Vorkenntnisse, was Charaktere oder andere Inhalte dieser Fantasy-Welt angeht. Trotzdem fand ich den Film spannend und verständlich. Die Handlung erschließt sich jedem. Die Protagonisten sind glaubwürdig dargestellt, also keineswegs zweidimensional. Ich war, ehrlich gesagt, überrascht von der Qualität. Zur Handlung: die Welt der Orcs ("die Horde"), ein Volk, das aus kriegerischen Stämmen besteht, ist dem Untergang geweiht. Mit Hilfe eines Magiers verschaffen sie sich über ein Portal Zugang zur Welt der "Allianz", die ebenfalls aus verschiedenen Völkern besteht (Menschen, Elfen...), wobei die Menschen im Film die Hauptrolle spielen. Auch sie verfügen über Magie, um sich zu verteidigen. Um die Welten und die einzelnen Charaktere zu verstehen, sind keine Vorkenntnisse notwendig. Der Film liefert alle nötigen Informationen im Laufe der Handlung. Schließlich entdecken einige Orcs und ein Zauberlehrling der Allianz, dass die Magie des Orc-Zauberers nicht nur tötet, sondern auch nach und nach die Umwelt zerstört und jeden korrumpiert, der mit ihr in Berührung kommt. Einige Handlungsstränge beschreiben Einzelschicksale und Familientragödien auf beiden Seiten, die aber nicht zu sehr ausgewalzt werden, nur gerade genug, um allen handelnden Personen gerecht zu werden. Es kommt zu mehreren spektakulären Schlachten. Der Film endet mit dem Ende der ersten großen Schlacht, ruft aber definitiv nach einer Fortsetzung! Ich hatte mir diesen Film gekauft, weil ich bereits die anderen Arbeiten des Regisseurs Duncan Jones kannte ("Moon", "Source Code" und den Kurzfilm "Whistle") und wurde nicht enttäuscht. Genau wie in den anderen Filmen wird der Spannungsbogen während der gesamten Handlung aufrecht erhalten. Es entstehen keine Lücken oder logischen Brüche. Alles wurde mit viel Liebe zum Detail gedreht. Selbst die (notwendigen) Computeranimationen wirken nicht so technisch und flach wie in vielen anderen Produktionen. Was mir ebenfalls gut gefallen hat: Auf den Einsatz der oft in anderen Fantasy-Filmen verwendeten monochromatischen Düsterkeit wurde erfrischenderweise verzichtet. Statt dessen sind die verschiedenen Landschaften natürlich dargestellt. Laufzeit der DVD: ca. 118 min. Extras: Unveröffentlichte erweiterte Szenen, Gag Reel, Sprachen: Deutsch, Englisch, Türkisch, Hindi, sowie akustische Beschreibung auf Englisch für Sehbehinderte. Untertitel in allen aufgezählten Sprachen. Zur Qualität der Übersetzung kann ich nichts sagen, da ich den Film im Original gesehen habe. Ein kleines Manko: das Menü ist nur in Symbolen angegeben und man darf erst mal raten, was die Symbole bedeuten sollen. Ich habe die einfache DVD, ohne 3 D-Effekt, aber das tat dem Genuss meiner Meinung nach keinen Abbruch.Der Film ist ab 12. Es gibt einige blutige oder gruselige Szenen, aber das hält sich in Grenzen.

Watched it the first day when it arrived. This movie helped me test my 3D glasses I have recently purchased and everything was great. Brought back the memories of the day I watched the movie in the theater. Since I been a WoW player for a long time this movie is an epic in my opinion - I am not sure about the people without familiarity with WoW lore, but I would recommend this movie anyways.

Snabb leverans

Excelente articulo lo recomiendo mucho sobre todo si eres fan de Blizzard.

Aunque a día de hoy prácticamente todo el mundo conoce o ha oído hablar del videojuego de rol multijugador masivo en línea "World of Warcraft", el cual se ha convertido en un fenómeno mundial, lo cierto es que «Warcraft: el origen» no esta basada en el exitoso videojuego MMORPG de Blizzard Entertainment del año 2003, sino en el videojuego de estrategia del año 1994 "Warcraft: Orcs & Humans", que como su título indica se centra en el conflicto entre la raza humana y la de los orcos vista en la película. Tan vapuleada por los críticos de cine como adorada por sus fans, «Warcraft: el origen» es una épica y maravillosa aventura que está protagonizada por Travis Fimmel (serie Vikingos), Paula Patton (2 Guns, DéjàVu, Misión Imposible: protocolo fantasma), Ben Foster (X-Men 3, Pandorum, The Mechanic), Dominic Cooper (Capitán América, Need for Speed, Drácula: la leyenda jamás contada), y Toby Kebbell (Un mónstruo viene a verme, 4 Fantásticos, El amanecer del planeta de los Símios). La película está coescrita y dirigida por Duncan Jones, director de dos excelentes largometrajes como son «Código fuente» y «Moon», y que en esta superproducción de Warcraft tiene su primera oportunidad de disponer de un gran presupuesto para una película, en concreto de 160 millones de dólares. Desgraciádamente, en Estados Unidos apenas logró recaudar 47 millones, convirtiendo la película a priori en un rotundo fracaso de taquilla.. pero afortunádamente pudo salvar su honor y acabó su recorrido en cines con una recaudación mundial de 433m$ (gracias al mercado internacional y sobre todo a China, donde su absoluto éxito allí fue indiscutible), convirtiéndose así en la película basada en un videojuego más taquillera de la historia (al menos por el momento, esperemos que tanto de esta franquicia de videojuegos como de otras, haya más buenas adaptaciones que superen dicha cifra). A destacar la música compuesta por Ramim Djawadi, de quien tal vez os estéis preguntando quién es... Pues este tío de nombre y apellido tan peculiares fue el encargado de componer las bandas sonoras de películas como Pacific Rim, Iron Man o Furia de Titanes; aparte de hacer lo propio en series de renombre como Juego de Tronos, The Strain, Prison Break o Vigilados: Person of Interest. ¿A que ya os suena un poco más? Pues este mismo año ha sido el encargado de la BSO de la serie Westworld y del videojuego de Xbox One Gears of War 4... aparte, cómo no, de «Warcraft: el Origen», una película con una gran trama y con unos sorprendentes efectos especiales recreados por ILM (Industrial Light & Magic). Desde luego tanto los personajes recreados con la técnica del motion capture como los bellos escenarios en donde se desarrolla esta fantástica historia son alucinantes, mucho más aún si cabe en formato Blu-Ray. «Warcraft: el origen» en Blu-Ray viene presentada en formato de pantalla 2:40:1 Letterbox y contiene una impresionante pista de audio en Inglés Dolby Atmos, Dolby TrueHD 7.1; además de en Castellano, Francés, Italiano, Alemán, e Hindi Dolby Digital 5.1 (una verdadera lástima, pues en la contraportada de la carátula se informa erróneamente que la calidad de audio en estas pistas es de DTS Digital Surround, y ya os puedo yo asegurar que esto no es así, que su calidad es de Dolby Digital). Incluye múltiples subtítulos opcionales, entre ellos el Castellano. Y sus más de 2 horas de material adicional en HD, en concreto 127 minutos de extras, están repartidos en: -Making of dividido en 6 partes (34min)= · Historia del origen (4'54"). · El mundo del talento (5'35"). · El mundo de los efectos visuales (5'09"). · Equipar un mundo (6'16"). · El mundo de la captura de movimiento (6'50"). · El mundo de las escenas peligrosas (5'06"). -3 reportajes (17min)= · Los fans de Warcraft (6'36"). · Las figuras de Madame Tussauds (7'32"). · ILM: detrás de la magia de Warcraft (2'59"). -Cómic animado dividido en 5 capítulos «Warcraft: vínculos de la hermandad» (53'47"). -11 escenas eliminadas y extendidas (13'57"). -Tomas falsas (3'25"). -Teaser-trailer del film (2'23"). -Trailer de «Jason Bourne» (2'28") (Nota--> es un extra aparte que aparece antes de llegar al menú principal del film).