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Watch The Warcraft Movie Trailer

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So in among the anniversary congrats and the esports chat of the opening BlizzCon ceremony Blizzard has unveiled the trailer for its Warcraft movie, Warcraft: The Beginning.

You can watch it after the jump:

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My main response upon first watching was that the biggest problem with videos nowadays is they keep starting with eagles and other winged things soaring over mountains and then NOT becoming the video for Kanye's Bound 2. Disappointing.

Why would you do that?

ANYWAY. It seems I was wrong about the movie being a rom com and it's more about orcs and humans and trying to get along but maybe also not getting along. WORLDS WILL COLLIDE and so forth and there's a lot of CGI. The latter seems decent(??)* in general but this particular scene is really bothering me:

What do you reckon? Are you going to go watch it?

Also here's Bound 2. It's NSFW:

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*the more I watch it the more patchy it looks

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Philippa Warr: Pip wrote for Rock Paper Shotgun between 2014-2017, covering everything from MOBAs, hero brawlers and indie curios. She also had a keen interest in the artistry of video game creation, and was very partial to keeping us informed of the latest developments in British TV show Casualty.
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