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Looks pretty awful. When a game that came out 6 years ago has better CG and animation in its opening title then a movie today, there is something wrong.

Callousness wrote:Looks pretty awful. When a game that came out 6 years ago has better CG and animation in its opening title then a movie today, there is something wrong.

I agree.
This movie = fail

Delephont wrote:It reminds me of the range of Orange Mobile Phone ads

I remember seeing one with a Lord of the Rings actor last time I was in England, but wasn't aware there were more. Are they on youtube or anything?

Also, I didn't mean to make it sound like they wanted us to make a gay warhammer movie - more like dump 40k and make a completely different movie for a gay audience. I've just realised - dammit - I could've made Brokeback Mountain!

Anyway, to get back to the original subject, while I'm not exactly blown away by the current trailer I'm sufficiently aware of the process to assume (hope?) that there's more and better to come.

And would just say that while he may be a great asset to the film, I don't think John Hurt is the right pick for the trailer voiceover.

Simon

BloodQuest wrote:
gay gay gay gay gay

Please stop using this word so much in your posts. It makes you look really ignorant.

Brother SRM wrote:

BloodQuest wrote:
gay gay gay gay gay

Please stop using this word so much in your posts. It makes you look really ignorant.

Um, no it doesn't. If he was using it as an pejorative, such as "that's gay" it would. Instead he's using it to describe people who are homosexual. Which is a perfectly acceptable use for it. PC has a limit people.

Brother SRM wrote:

BloodQuest wrote:
gay gay gay gay gay

Please stop using this word so much in your posts. It makes you look really ignorant.

Why should the word gay be any more or less offensive than Homosexual? Did you know Ford Motor Company has a company approved social society specifically for its homosexual empolyees, and they officially use the word Gay and Lesbian in the title....

Back on topic though, someone told me not more than 2 hours ago, that its actually cheaper to make a mixed media film than a full on CGI film?!?!? Is this true? I can't believe it is....but they are from the industry (well, computer games industry anyway...)

It looks awfully like part of the trailer for the new space marine fps for xbox 360 that is coming out?

Delephont wrote:someone told me not more than 2 hours ago, that its actually cheaper to make a mixed media film than a full on CGI film?!?!? Is this true?

Broadly speaking it is true, although film budgets and accounting have more lies than statistical reports and campaign promises put together.

Think back to not my favourite film (FF:TSW). The estimated budget was $137M in 2001. When you consider that the actors would only have been paid for a few days voice work, no location costs, etc, that's a huge saving that got spent somewhere else.

Simon

Sarrazon wrote:

Brother SRM wrote:

BloodQuest wrote:
gay gay gay gay gay

Please stop using this word so much in your posts. It makes you look really ignorant.

Um, no it doesn't. If he was using it as an pejorative, such as "that's gay" it would. Instead he's using it to describe people who are homosexual. Which is a perfectly acceptable use for it. PC has a limit people.

PCism has allowed ignorance to flourish. It was the homosexual men who promoted the word gay to mean homosexual male, before that the word meant happy, joyful. The word is widely used by homosexuals, probably because it's easier to say and write; typically in names of groups like 'Gay, Lesbian and Transgender...'
Personally I try to avoid pcisms where possible as if someone wants to take offence at you they will regardless of what words you use.
It's all propaganda, GW does well in this field too. Just look at the rabid responses you see on here and elsewhere when it comes to intellectual property in relation to that company and the paranoia espoused about something as simple as casting your own (non-GW) parts or using GW bits to texture a one-off terrain piece and people wonder how the nazis and the communists were able to turn people against each other, to spy on their neighbours, turn their parents in - it starts with telling people they're ignorant to use certain words because the "State" says so.

Back on topic .... again....Would a space marine getting hit have blood splash out like that? It looks a bit like someone dropping a stone in a bucket of blood rather than what I'd expect. It doesn't seem to take into consideration the armour or the carapace or the fused ribs, just where is all that blood coming from and if there is so much damage then there should be bits of bone, carapace, armour, organs in the mix too. I wonder too at what can shoot through two layers of ceramite armour because if it's that easy to shoot a marine then why are they wearing that extra armour in the first place?
It's like the stormtroopers in Star Wars, their armour appeared to be useless so why did they wear it?

cadbren wrote:Back on topic .... again....Would a space marine getting hit have blood splash out like that? It looks a bit like someone dropping a stone in a bucket of blood rather than what I'd expect. It doesn't seem to take into consideration the armour or the carapace or the fused ribs, just where is all that blood coming from and if there is so much damage then there should be bits of bone, carapace, armour, organs in the mix too. I wonder too at what can shoot through two layers of ceramite armour because if it's that easy to shoot a marine then why are they wearing that extra armour in the first place?
It's like the stormtroopers in Star Wars, their armour appeared to be useless so why did they wear it?

I think you're looking too far into this! Space Marines are tough when it suits the story line, they die in droves when it suits the story line.....its just the way things are! As for the Stormtroopers, well, we know they were originally intended as cnnon fodder....until people thought they looked cool...then George Lucas made them more "badass"....Republic Commandos anyone

cadbren wrote:Would a space marine getting hit have blood splash out like that?

Of course! They've got 2 hearts pumping away and there prolly alot of internal pressure due to all the implants that are crammed in there. I imagine that you'd make a hole and the blood will just shoot right out! That's why they need Laraman cells.

Hordini didn't write:
"Sergeant Cadmus knew in the depths of his pounding double heart that he would always stand behind his battle brothers. The cover provided by his battle brothers had proved crucial in previous battles. This struggle would be no different."

Apparently said cover involves hiding behind stacks of their bodies, at least in this film...