WoW Moviewatch: Howl: A Tauren story
by Michael Gray 
Nov 24th 2008 at 12:00PM
Howl: A Tauren story was a solid attempt. It's the story of a Tauren leaving home, growing, seeing the world, and learning to wage war. (And, then, of course, learning the effects of waging that war.) The author is Howl, so he is probably somewhat the namesake of the story.
There's a lot I can get behind in the movie. It's a fairly involved story, that attempts to share a real narrative and growth. In Campbellian language, Howl's a relatively archetypical hero story. But the movie itself had some flaws that could use a new cut. The animation was basic, which is all right, except that the movie involved a lot of action scenes. Given that the audience is familiar with WoW itself, action scenese really need intense cuts and interesting angles to not just view as "Ah, Tauren parry. Tauren attack. Tauren dodge." The pacing was also slow, to me, which can be a problem with a very long film.
Ultimately, I hope Howl comes out with a Redux or a part two. It needs to be much faster and maybe less emphasis on the fight scenes.
Filed under: Machinima, WoW Moviewatch
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Feral Nov 24th 2008 12:15PM
I saw the best cows of my generation
Destroyed by scourge plague, undead hysterical
soccerdude7 Nov 27th 2008 2:54PM
Why doesn't he take the cheap airplane for 49 copper to Org?
syberghost Nov 24th 2008 1:34PM
I only watched the first six hours; what happened in the other 75%?
Khass Nov 24th 2008 4:05PM
Ehehe .. nailed it.
Quitius Nov 24th 2008 1:45PM
this howl thing is garbage. The editing needs the be much better, not to mention cut scenes shouldn't take that long and the lack of actual audio dialog is basically sad. It has potential, but needs quite a bit of work.
... subtitles mixed with in game audio emotes .... really? If you don't want to put in any dialog there are much more effective ways of story telling.