When the story changes unexpectedly and the narrative doesn’t follow what they were hoping for, it becomes an unwelcome surprise that people have to adapt to and accept, or walk away from since it’s not what they wanted. The reason that many people come to see these movies in the theater is that they want to experience the games they’ve been playing on the big screen, with as much recognizable detail as can be given. Video game movies suffer the same fate as those movies that are derived from novels and comic books, stripping too much from the main idea of the story and altering things to fit the intended narrative that’s desired tends to anger a lot of fans and alienate them since they don’t fully recognize the material they’re being given. Movies such as Assassin’s Creed and Tomb Raider were thought to be sure hits, but while the latter was fairly successful in its own way, Assassin’s Creed actually angered a lot of fans since it didn’t feel anything like the game and was actually heavily criticized by the critics and the fans. So many movies that have been derived from video games have gone one way or another in the past that it’s hard to say that any of them are going to be successful until they’re released and the numbers are in. One of the only things working against this movie, sad to say, is the same thing that makes it interesting, the fact that it is an interesting game. There’s a great deal of material to work with still and it would be interesting to see what could be done. It can at least be said that it did manage to capture the attention of a decent number of fans that wouldn’t mind seeing it come back for another go-around that might flesh out the world of Azeroth a bit more and possibly bring the main characters together again. The downside of course is that the movie didn’t exactly play out that well when it came to earning what it needed to in order to break even, making it something of a flop that was there and gone before people really knew what was going on.

After all, the Horde is still in Azeroth and as it was said, the war has just begun. Critics didn’t waste much time in leaving scathing reviews of the movie and telling people just how little they thought of it, but the fans rallied at least when it came to liking the story and finding that they wanted to learn more about it. Right now the only thing that can really be said about another Warcraft movie is that it’s being lauded as a good idea since there’s a lot more story left to be told and if possible it would be great to see what else can be done with the cast since several of those that starred in the first movie managed to make it to the end.

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