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CMV: Warcraft should've been on TV instead of a movie

I thought the movie was okay, but almost to the point of it being painfully average. I think me being a huge Warcraft fan made it more enjoyable than anyone else would have found it. 

I think the biggest issue with the movie, is that it was a movie. The special effects were pretty good, the actors were mostly decent at least, the action was fun to see, where it fails is the story resonating with its audience. 

The problem was that it was stuck to a 1.5-2 hour format so it was always rushing to get more plot explained. There is so much story to the first war that even the simplifications the movie made still made it a hard thing to put on the big screen.

What effect does that have on the audience? Imagine if the first season of Game of Thrones was a 2 hour-ish movie (SPOILERS WILL FOLLOW). Would you have found Joffrey more than mildly annoying? Would Cersei be truly despised? Would Ned's death have truly saddened you? Probably not, because the movie would be so constantly rushed to explain more things and for more plot to happen that we would've developed little to no connection to the character. I get emotional somewhat easily from movies, games, books, etc but I felt nothing at watching Lothar's son dying, absolutely nothing. I felt little for any of the characters, only some for Durotan but even then in a tv format it would've been so much better IMO.

Id argue that not only would it have resonated more, but the plot would've been better in a TV format. I understand the Sargeras inside Medivh thing is WAAY too much to explain in a movie, but 1-2 seasons could've gotten that across and it would've been better than "he just got the fel".  Hell showing the orcs drink Mannoroth's blood, showing the manipulations of Kil Jaeden, giving some backdrop to the Burning Legion would've been better than just "fucking fel man". 

To sum up, I think that the movie was okay but greatly limited by the fact that it's not as fit for movies as it would be for a tv or miniseries.
gpt
I agree that as a story it probably could have been better told as a series.  

The issue is really around expense.  If you look at the CGI and special effects required to create live-action Orcs, there is no way that any television network would have had the budget necessary to fund that kind of series.  GoT is one of the highest budget shows on the air right now and the visuals in it are nowhere near the visuals that were in Warcraft.