As a long-time fan of everything produced by Blizzard Entertainment, my response to the first Warcraft movie trailer was far from hopeful.
The trailer looked generic, as if a minimal amount of effort had been put into its creation. I wasn’t able to get a firm handle on the different characters, and whether that’s from my own lack of knowledge or something else entirely is irrelevant to the over arching conversation.
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