Appreciated Void.
Wow, that guy in the beginning is a huge tool. "Just one big computer" "like Avatar", yeah you mean the movie that had near flawless photo-realistic CGI? Ugh, typical CGI basher.
Yeah, I don't get that sentiment either. We did not have a single full-CGI movie since Avatar; it's about time someone tries to tackle that "realistic CGI" problem again, after all the Pixar child movies giving animated movies a bad name.
Not exactly though. They've shown that some of them are green, but they're still going against established canon though. It seems like Grom was telling Orgrim and Durotan about the blood of Mannoroth, like they didn't know about it.
I think this is some liberty they took in the movie to make the story exposition more suitable for movie format. Constant time skips just to give an exposition on the taint would be considered bad pacing by critics.
"Show, don't tell!" is the golden rule of storytelling. Durotan being green right from the start would violate that rule, as then we have to tell the viewers "so, orcs weren't always green... here's the backstory on that". I think it would feel lame.
I think merging the taint and the dark portal into the same time-scope is a smart way to make the movie narrative more focused.
I can live with some minor inconsistencies within the franchise for the sake of a better movie narrative.
And I might be making too many assumptions here, but it looks very much to me like Orgrim is part of the Frostwolves here. If he was really Blackhand's right hand man, wouldn't he know about the green skin? I'd think Blackhand would be the first to know - at least he was in the novel. It just seems strange that Orgrim is so surprised at the green skin.
We don't know which part he belongs to in the movie, yet. It hasn't been mentioned. For the green skin, see above.
It matters to me because it goes against established canon. If they make this movie a part of the Warcraft canon, which I'm betting they will after spending so much money on it, it will make reading the books, playing the games etc seem like a waste of time. Because the events have been changed. It kinda belittles what the writers and authors managed to do in my opinion.
And it's so unnecessary. As you say yourself, this is all in the name of cool. Which is total BS. Dalaran could've been amazing without floating. They just decided to make it floating in order to not confuse WoW-players who are used to a floating Dalaran - even though that Dalaran is NOT the same Dalaran as the one we will see in the movie.
Let's not blow this out of proportion. It's a minor detail that nobody cares about except the die-hard Warcraft fanboys. We haven't had a single good realistic CGI movie for ages; let the effect guys have some fun...
Floating Dalaran really doesn't hurt the story.
Even though I don't like WoW lore, I can live with it because it happens later in the canon. But changing already established canon just makes me sad. Because it really is unecessary.
In a way, WoW already changed established pre-WoW canon, especially with the invention of the Draenai race which didn't exist pre-WoW (there were the broken ones in WC3 though, so at least they thought of it).
Also, Garona was retconned into being half-draenai instead of half-human, as the creators noticed it was impossible for Garona to be half-human in the current canon.
On the bright side, the footage looks amazing. Even in low quality. The character designs are awesome, voice acting is great. Gul'dan seems cool. Hopefully he'll get a big role. And also, GROM! Hellz yeah.
Hell yeah! About time to get the hypetrain moving, boys! Show Blizzard that they
better not fuck this up!
We better brace ourselves for incoming feminists complaining about Durotan's protectiveness over Draka.
Half-naked Garona with wonderbra-supported boobies surely doesn't help either.
