fans are definitely recommended to watch it. For passers-by viewers who are not fans of Warcraft, if they like
my situation, there are 17 friends who went with me and myself, passers-by. 6 players 11, among the players, 3 is a fanatical fan, 5 is a general fan, and 3 is a mild fan who has played the game but has no understanding of the plot. I am a general fan myself, and I gave it 8 points based on my own perception and the comments of passers-by friends, ignoring the fanatical and mild fans.
Non-spoiler part
[The first third of the movie is given 7 points, and the last two thirds are given 9 points. 8 points or more]
The reason for this separate scoring is that I personally feel that the rhythm and friendliness of the entire film before and after the film are not the same. According to the director, 40 minutes of film clips were deleted. From the experience, the first half was obviously deleted. This arrangement may be due to the fear that the background of the orcs entering the Dark Portal is easily reminiscent of the Syrian refugee tide.
The most obvious point, the important footage that appeared in the large number of trailers, is gone! For example, it should play an important role for the audience to understand the situation of the orc tribe, and make the audience familiar with the plot of Orgrim, an important character: Orgrim and Durotan are lying and chatting together, which clearly appeared in the trailer, the movie It was completely deleted,
which led to the first third, which is also the part where the characters appeared one after another, passers-by and audiences would find it messy, but the content of the last two-thirds largely made up for this problem. , the last two-thirds of the plot of the movie is not obscure or difficult to understand. Several passers-by audiences who went with me, after watching it, felt that there were a lot of things that they didn't understand at first, but they understood it after seeing it. The action and music are also top-notch.
The reason for the overall score of 8 is that these passersby said that the mess in the early stage of the plot and the later stage of the story were basically a problem they had when watching many imported blockbusters, and the situation of Warcraft was far from serious.
As for special effects, the evaluation is very different. The standards of several general fans are: special effects do not need to be cool, but they must perfectly restore the game scene. According to their standards, they can give 10 points. Several passers-by's evaluations are varied because of different standards and preferences. Some people think it's average, some think it's good, and none of them think it's super or bad. It can be said that the score is between 5 and 8 points.
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The following is the [slight spoiler] part
that everyone is most concerned about first, the plot is not friendly to passers-by For the part, basically focus on the first third
and write the summary in the front. In general, the following five parts are unfriendly to passers-by, only the fourth part is more serious, which is the main reason for me to give the first half a score of 7 points. The reason, but the improvement of the coherence of the plot in the last two-thirds of the movie and the confusion/dilution of the previous questions have made up a lot of the problems in this article. The first one has a great impact on the passers-by and viewers figuring out the details, but has little effect on figuring out the main line.
As for 2, 3, and 5, the combined effect on passersby is probably not as good as "Who are the elf princes/kings/queens in Lord of the Rings 1?" Look, the most ambiguous part of the entire storyline is the difference between the green orcs and the brown orcs: probably because the orcs before they invaded through the portal have been removed a lot, and the movie doesn't explicitly tell the audience that the orcs are supposed to be brown. The skin, green skin orcs were produced by the influence of the orc warlock Gul'dan's fel energy, but only with the help of a few details to solve the confusion:
1. Thrall was born with brown skin, and after being "blessed" by Gul'dan, he became Greenskin
2, Gul'dan tried to tempt Frostwolf vice chief Orgrim to accept his fel magic. At this time Orgrim was brown skin, and before the final battle, Gul'dan instilled fel energy into the big chief Blackhand. Afterwards, the black hand turns green.
3. In the first encounter, I borrowed a line to mention the poisoning of the orcs by the evil energy (only the green-skinned orcs were instantly killed by magic).
Fortunately, not understanding this part of the content does not affect passers-by's general idea of the whole movie. For example, when Durotan, the chieftain of the Frostwolf tribe of the orcs, negotiated with the human king Ryan, the orcs who ambushed them were all green-skinned, and Durotan’s men were all brown-skinned. Another example is when the orcs were cleaning the members of the Frostwolf clan who "colluded" with humans, all the people who killed were green-skinned, while the killed Frost-wolves were all brown-skinned.
2. The relationship between several main characters of the orcs/clan.
As for the basic structure of the orc tribe [the orc tribe is composed of multiple clans, the big chief is the black hand, and each clan has its own small chief], due to the large number of deletions in the first third, the movie gave Although the audience can infer from the later plot, the same chief, the black hand's status is higher than that of Durotan and other clan chiefs. However, Gul'dan's status in the tribe was not clearly specified, causing many passers-by and viewers to wonder who he and the Black Hand were in the lead. .
3. The problem
of Orgrim As mentioned above, Orgrim probably belongs to the situation where there are not many scenes in the early stage and all of them have been cut off. The first third of Orgrim is completely a famous person. A big passer-by with a few lines, passers-by will think "Who is this person? What position in the orcs?"
And the dialogue between the two, which was supposed to show his friendship and differences with Durotan, moved too fast, and Orgrim's sentence "one person can't destroy a world" came out too early, and many people didn't have time to understand that this was After showing that Orgrim didn't believe that Gul'dan destroyed the orcs' homeland, when he saw Orgrim's opposition to Durotan's alliance with humans, he felt that this plot was abrupt.
I personally think that the above three problems, if 15 to 20 minutes of the deleted 40 minutes are used to pave the way for the orc invasion, they should be well resolved. Looking forward to the director's cut version
4. For Kenry There are too few introductions of Tuo, which I think has the biggest impact on the viewing experience of the first third of passers-by. Fortunately, compared to the brown skin and green skin of the orcs, this part is more in the last two thirds. Much, diluting a lot of doubts.
A few examples: As soon as Khadgar came on the scene, he used the mouth of the human marshal Lothar to say that he was a member of the Kirin Tor, but what was the Kirin Tor? Why does Lothar know that Khadgar is a Kirin Tor when he sees the magic mark on his arm? What is the origin of the guardian? There was no foreshadowing or confusion on the spot, especially when Lothar brought him to meet the king, Khadgar did not use his lines to introduce his identity to passersby in the first dialogue with King Ryan, and only said a few words. With lines like "I've left the Kirin Tor" that only fans can understand, passersby are basically confused from here.
In the next two-thirds, it is difficult to explain these questions, and it can only be diluted by a large number of scenes from the two roles of Medivh and Khadgar. For example, passers-by audiences show the title of Guardian and Guardian Medivh The powerful mana can basically understand that the guardian is a very powerful archmage who guards the human kingdom. Regarding Khadgar's identity, it is speculated that this kid is a magic apprentice based on his growth in the plot.
But for the Kirin Tor, since its characters and lines are too few, it is difficult to say whether passers-by can infer that this is a mage organization based on the repeated mention of "Khadgar left the Kirin Tor in his early years". The appearance of Dalaran City, the base camp of the Kirin Tor, was a good opportunity to introduce the organization to the audience, but I don’t know if it was cut out or something. Except for the main part of Dalaran’s plot, there is only one more emphasis on Khadgar. Leaving the Kirin Tor dialogue, there is no other puzzle dialogue.
5. The relationship between the Human Storm Kingdom and other countries.
The first appearance of other kingdoms, that is, the plot of the meeting between King Ryan of Stormwind City and the heads of several other countries was a bit rushed, and it was a dispute between several kings and King Ryan. The meaning of the establishment of the Human Dwarf Elf Alliance at the end. Fortunately, this has little effect on the audience viewing experience.
Besides, a few fierce people uploaded on the Internet are actually not part of that
[the reason why the orc tribes invaded the human territory, many film critics say that they can't understand why the orcs want to invade the human territory of Azeroth, the contradictions and conflicts are inexplicable]
from the beginning In just 5 minutes, the plot of the orcs passing through the dark door was finished. The first half of the movie should indeed have deleted a lot of content that paved the way for the orc invasion. In the early stage, some audiences may really feel that the plot of the invasion is a bit abrupt. However, in the second half of the movie, it is repeatedly emphasized from the character dialogue that the invasion of the orcs was because the homeland was destroyed, which is not an incomprehensible contradiction at all.
Regarding [Lothar flirted with Garona immediately after his son died]
I can't tell that it was flirting. There is no problem with the plot. He was so sad about his wife and children that Garona hugged him and comforted him. Any passerby can understand it.
Regarding [the dialogue was inexplicable when King Ryan asked Garona to kill him]
There is indeed a problem with the dialogue itself, and what King Ryan said to Garona was very jumpy. But the follow-up plot explained everything very well: the orcs did not immediately regard her as a hero and held her up to celebrate, but held her up to the black hand, the warchief, to report to the black hand that she killed the human king, and the black hand agreed with Ka Rona's "undercover" exploits allowed her to join the Horde. King Ryan wants Garona to survive as an orc "hero" so that after both he and Durotan are dead, his plan to be the only link between humans and orcs in the quest for peace is a complete success.
Regarding the [narrative angle switching too fast]
the movie tells the story from the perspectives of the orc tribe and the human alliance, the switching speed is slightly faster, but not the kind that seriously affects the viewing experience.
The only thing that I think is too fast is the scene of the orcs in the western wilderness, which cuts from the human perspective to the orc perspective, and then switches back to the human perspective in about 1 minute. The plot was obviously cut, to the extent that even the trailer footage was cut... By the way, the snow charge scene in the trailer, which was suspected to be an orc invading the dwarf territory, didn't appear, so wait for the director's cut.
About [passers-by can't tell the orc character]
at all, several main orc characters
Durotan: the orc protagonist can be recognized by their looks, not to mention the wolf skin and headdress
Orgrim: a little passerby in the early stage, but The iconic bald head and sledgehammer are still a
black hand that is not difficult to recognize: he wears that skeleton cape the whole time, plus the large shoulder armor on his shoulders , it is easy to recognize
Gul'dan: big green leather and hat, a bunch of bone spurs on the back, There is no better recognition than him!
Grom: This person has almost no lines and no plot, and even the lines and plots that appeared in the trailer have been deleted... So not knowing it actually doesn't affect the viewing of the movie at all.
About [After Orgrim instigated a rebellion, Gul'dan just killed a few orcs and somehow suppressed the budding rebellion]
This problem is true. After Gul'dan killed a few rebellious orcs earlier, the other orcs showed fear. There is no loophole in the plot of the successful suppression. The problem lies in the back, Gul'dan waved his hand, and all the orcs obeyed the orders and ran. The loopholes in this plot are obvious. And unlike the other cases before, I can't see whether this plot loophole has been cut or not, and I don't know what the situation is.
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