Why did Warcraft flop in the US?

Terrible marketing for the movie, too many stigma against WoW and video game movies, no name cast, unpopular director, stigma against heavy CGI movies etc. those are mostly the reasons

Here in the UK Warcraft has quite a negative stigma attachted to it with general audiences.

One point I really think is worth mentioning is that Warcraft is the only big summer movie of the year that wasn't a sequel, remake or reboot. I really think this played a stronger roll in the box office than people often give credit too.


My Warcraft review
https://youtu.be/cZrOEg2kUj4

Because 'Muricans are idiots, LOL :D I saw it in IMAX 3D...INCREDIBLE! JUST! INCREDIBLE! Your loss, 'Murica! 'Muricaaaaaaaaaa! _____, _____!

Because Americans are retarded, duh.

Just look at their pathetic election. They spent an entire year electing who's going to move them forward for the next 4 years, and they choose a douchebag with bad hair. Clinton wasn't any better either. All this money wasted and they didn't even get a good qualified candidate who's not corrupt. Sad.

Starving children in Africa could have eaten that money.

I thought Americans were huge Warcraft fans

See Trump election.

There are lot of warcraft fans all around the world.

But the movie didn't really hit it's audience. Like there are millions of fans waiting for years but it wasn't all that great.
It had great cgi that wasn't for the mere spectacle of it but was sometimes a little cartoony. The editing is weird and too jumbled or not well paced. You didn't get to know most of the characters. The main human characters were okay sometimes weird but some of them just said exposition or didn't left much of an impact. The orcs were well written and acted but they looked too clean (for the amount of smashing and dicing they do they should be way more bloody).
It was too short showcasing a rather long story. You couldn't get a feel for this world. It's not really the lot of names and locales(for me anyway) but you didn't get the sense of who's who. The general audience needs someone to cheer for. The bad guy (Gul'dan) was okay but not much of an impact, he came of 2-dimensional (and he's not supposed to be, he used to be a mistreated creep on Draenor and they didn't show any of that.) They could have shown a lot more of the orcs' getting to know Azeroth. The story felt like it took not months but 7 days.
I say all the creators' intention and understanding of the world was on point, no doubt, and this story is hard to adapt. The movie was just a weird, messy, unfocused product that cared way more for sounding and looking epic and fan-service moments. I actually like to call it fan-service-placement "Look, there's a Murloc! That's in World of Warcraft! We spent 20 hours on that one murloc!" (Seriously, what was the point of that one Murloc in the foreground?)

"But they knew they f**ed up." James Rolfe as AVGN

Unfamiliarity with it and the stigma of a game film. For most non-gamers fantasies such as this based on a game does not have the same respect/weight as LOTR.

I didn't watch it when it first came out tbh and I watched it later which I thought was just ok. For some reason, I decided to rewatch it just now and found myself liking it much more the second time than the first time.

If a sequel or trilogy does come out, I will certainly see it in theatres now.