{"id":21119,"date":"2016-06-23T20:11:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T00:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=21119"},"modified":"2016-08-21T04:55:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T08:55:42","slug":"warcraft-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/23\/warcraft-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Warcraft (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Warcraft\"<\/a>Boy it\u2019s been a bad year for fantasy cinema in America. Time and time again fantasy films have failed for the most part, and \u201cWarcraft\u201d is one of those casualties. I admittedly have no experience with \u201cWarcraft,\u201d but for those unaware, it\u2019s based on a massive multiplayer role playing game that\u2019s become so popular it\u2019s almost a way of life for most people. It\u2019s a game so terrifyingly addictive, that a cousin of mine even pulled me aside once warning me not to play lest I be sucked in. Now that their Orc world has died, the orc shaman Gul\u2019dan has used dark magic to open up a portal to the human realm of Azeroth.<\/p>\n

Once a peaceful land ruled by man, the Orc army known as The Horde, now plan to populate the world and rule over it as their new home led by the noble Orc warrior Durotan. Teamed with a female half Orc named Garona, the human army of Azeroth plan to go to war with them, led by fierce warrior Lothar, their King Llane, and two wizards. Events spiral out of control though when Durotan begins rethinking the invasion and their leader Gul\u2019dan, while Garona is torn between her loyalties to the noble humans and her people. While I\u2019m still convinced video games just won\u2019t translate in to a good movie, \u201cWarcraft\u201d is still a very good time and a nice bit of escapism.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a mess narrative wise, and is painfully convoluted, but often times I found myself very entertained and intrigued by the conflict of the Orc breed struggling to fight for a new world against a human race. There\u2019s also the themes of religious corruption embedded within the giant walking statues and graphic war scenes, which probably also helped enhance the experience. I won\u2019t argue \u201cWarcraft\u201d is a masterpiece, since it tries and often fails to reach \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d levels of drama and intrigue. In the attempts to be just as adult in its character dynamic and ideas about xenophobia, and warfare, it becomes tough to follow.<\/p>\n

The first half hour has a lot of information to disperse to the general broader audience, and I literally had to sit at attention to hopefully absorb what exposition the writers were trying to relay to people that have never been in to the digital world of Azeroth. Much to my surprise I cared about the characters and conflicts. I wanted to see sword wielding hero Lothar stop the impending Orc invasion, all the while uncovering the rising evil tide of his kingdom\u2019s powerful mage. Director Duncan Jones splits the time of the film between the Orcs and humans and turns Durotan in to a very complex hero with his own ideas about what can be gained by invading Azeroth.<\/p>\n

All the while Jones stages some fun battle sequences, including a showdown between Lothar and a murderous general in the climax. While not everyone\u2019s performances are top notch, Travis Fimmel is great as Lothar, while Toby Kebbell does a bang up job with his motion capture performance as Durotan. It\u2019s up in the air at the moment if \u201cWarcraft\u201d will continue in to a second part of its epic tale; I\u2019m not ashamed to admit I had a good time, and should we be granted a follow up, I just may return to see how the humans win back Azeroth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boy it\u2019s been a bad year for fantasy cinema in America. Time and time again fantasy films have failed for the most part, and \u201cWarcraft\u201d is one of those casualties. I admittedly have no experience with \u201cWarcraft,\u201d but for those unaware, it\u2019s based on a massive multiplayer role playing game that\u2019s become so popular it\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,64,71,302,349,586,622,703,1361,874,1087,1156,1170],"class_list":["post-21119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adaptation","tag-adventure","tag-drama","tag-fantasy","tag-knights","tag-magic","tag-mystery","tag-orcs","tag-romance","tag-thriller","tag-video-games","tag-w"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21119"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21126,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21119\/revisions\/21126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}