WoW Moviewatch & World Wide WoW: Azeroth Movie Top 3
by David Bowers 
Jul 3rd 2007 at 12:00PM
You already know that World of Warcraft is a global phenomenon, but did you know that machinima is international too? This show is by AFK Pl@ayers, a group of Taiwanese machinima makers who have done some quality work and earned an exalted reputation in Taiwan. It pokes fun at those "best movie of the week" countdowns that you sometimes see on entertainment shows with a hip young host getting excited and showing you the latest trailers. Most of it is in Chinese with English subtitles, but you'll be happy to see that one of the movies they show a trailer for is actually in English!
Personally, I think this is classic, but I hope you all don't mind subtitles too much. English-speakers are truly lucky to have so much great media produced in our own language, whereas other countries are used to watching dubbed or subtitled Hollywood films all the time. You may not be able to understand Chinese, but I think you may get a sense of their emotions from the tones of voice they use when they talk -- their Chinese voice acting is excellent, and their little bit of English acting is quite good too, considering it's their second language!
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Filed under: Machinima, WoW Moviewatch, World Wide WoW
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Corrodias Jul 3rd 2007 12:15PM
Subtitles are no big thing. They're easy to get used to.
Luclan Jul 3rd 2007 12:26PM
murlocs cannot be trusted
Sargentd Jul 3rd 2007 12:28PM
Kill him now before he grows too big!
Corrodias Jul 3rd 2007 12:43PM
I don't know about you, but i'd like to see a full-length Doras. If you know what i mean. What? The video. No, you perv, the VIDEO!
Bill G Jul 3rd 2007 1:24PM
That is quality.
And it might be even funnier in Mandarin than it would be in English.
Skrilla Jul 3rd 2007 2:51PM
very well done, the last one is fantastic!
Skarlette Jul 3rd 2007 3:43PM
I've seen this before, and although the whole thing is awesome, that Murkilla section is pure, unadulterated genius. So well done! Love, love, love it!
EmperorTuna Jul 3rd 2007 8:47PM
I've seen this before as well, but it's still very, very, very good. I'd forgotten about it too. Very well edited on the last one.
Shintar Jul 4th 2007 7:45AM
That was all kinds of awesome. I also found another video by the same people, called Thrall's Christmas Tree:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8S6eHT1Ek0
Also very good!
Bentley Jul 4th 2007 7:59PM
classic!!! great job by the players from China
Gordu Jul 11th 2007 4:47AM
The parody 'Nerf Actually' is a play-on-words off of 'Love Actually', a very popular (and quite good) musical-drama from Hong Kong.
Just in case some of you didn't know. There's a subtitled version out there.