WoW Movie Review: DrakeDog8

Well first off I'd like to say "hai". I watch way too many gaming movies, so I decided I'd start putting out my 2 cents on some of the newest releases. A little back info on me: I'm 20 years old and been doing movie editing for 4 years now. I've worked with companies like United5, zEx, Check-Six, and most recently Meet Your Makers. I am currently in talks with EG to possibly start doing constant video work with them.

Now onward with the review..

 

First off I'll say I was personally let down by DD8 just a bit, I really hoped it would have more destro arena like DrakeDog7 did, and apparently a lot of people wanted to see that too but being DrakeDog is the more so " World PvP Type " of moviemaker I let it slide a bit. He did have one clip however, of double Destro lock vs Warrior Druid, and I found that clip awesomely enjoyable. No amount of los and hots could of saved that warrior when spell reflect went on cooldown. For the most part the movie was a lot like all of DD's movies, Shakes on Shadowfury's and Crits, Rock Music, and Big Numbers. The editing in DD8 didn't really advance at all from his previous movie, infact he used the same star sparkle effect when he'd cast his soul-fires like we've seen time and time again. Normally I'd say if it aint broke don't fix it, but it just got really really repetitive here. He had a few scenes that were new breath's of air for DD films however. The demon in the Isle, and his use of its thunderclap ensuing a pretty much flawless victory vs a ret paladin. One of the new things he did implement was his " OH SHI- " Button. A macro that uses his battlemasters trinket, healthone, and Nigh Invulnerability Belt all at once. Not going to lie, I personally stole the idea from him. So he got high marks for that on my end.



IN SHORT:
It's a good movie, but it really let me down. It's not his best, but it's not his worst in my eyes. I liked it, but the same effects time and time again get really repetitive. Sure it's nostalgic in a way because it's DrakeDog, but you could bring in something a bit new. Editing wise, the highlight was the outro ( and no that's not meant to be an insult ) it was clean, and was very fluid through and through. As for the intro, we know your proficient in WoW Model Viewer, but it didn't pack the punch I'd hoped it would with a hard hitting intro song like Dark Age, You could of Easily highlighted some of the crits with some syncing here. The most memorable clips for me were the complete obliteration of the flag carriers in EOTS near the end.

So  thats my first blog/review here and I hope you enjoyed it ( even just a little bit). I'll be doing one for Emo's new movie aswell a lot of other upcoming WoW movie releases. If you have a movie you'd like me to review or have any questions about Vegas/Movie Editing in general go ahead and shoot me a message or email me at Nickhvk@gmail.com.

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