Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

They were Black Legion, not World Eaters. The script for some reason called on them to make an apparently unarmoured suicide charge is all.

goot

Space marine, the video game had better cinematics than the bloody movie, even ingame graphics were better. Cant imagine why they couldnt make a better graphs engine.
As a fanboi i enjoyed it but objectively speaking from an unbiased point of view it was not a good effort, to prove my point check The Inquisitor movie intro which is fanmade how better it looks than the professional one.

The game had 3 times the funding


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Just checked out the trailer you mentioned, really is better than SM movie cept the voice acting...

I personally really liked the film, I mean it seems to me like you guys are mainly just wishlisting 'THE PURFECT 40K MOOVEE.'
So what it was about Ultramarines, they're probably the most well known 40k army, and so GW had to try to make the movie appeal to the widest audience and so they included them.
The CGI was fine, especially considering the relative obscurity of Warhammer 40k compared to the topics of other movies, I mean seriously, do you think they could afford a multimillion dollar budget just for a movie that will probably sell less than most sets of miniatures?
The voice acting was awesome, great actors, I thought it fitted the marines well.
As for the fluff, most of it lined up fine, I don't see the chaplain using psychic powers as a poster suggested? Do you really think you know exactly what a crozius does?
Also, the actual presentation of the collectors edition, and the graphic novel included, was really nice.
Obviously, it can't be perfect, but then again no movies can, so I don't see how GW is expected to make one.
It was a lot better than many more popular, higher budget movies I've seen.

A solid three stars from me. Not for conventional reasons, though. It has 3 redeeming factors; 1. The voice acting is top notch. Some of my favorite actors from some of my favorite sci-fi films lending their voices. 2. It has an excellent soundtrack. The sound effects are pretty good as well and they combine to create a moody, grim dark atmosphere. 3. You aren't looking at the appalling visuals much while you are painting. This movie makes for great background noise when your eyes are otherwise occupied. The static images that you see while glancing up for seconds at a time look great. This movie, for me, is audio drama/soundtrack with visuals that is some of the best background noise for painting. Other than background noise, it is worth paying attention to one time through. Paying more than 5 bucks for it nullifies anything good I have to say about it, however.

My only real disappointment (because it was a first effort from amateurs) was the lack of scale.

The marines vs marines setting meant you weren't seeing superhumans, even a few guardsman somewhere would have given that sense of scale

It was enjoyable, but only because it was a Thing-in-the-40K-Universe, not because it was actually any good. A conservative 2.5 stars from me.

Don't get me wrong, it was a fun time with some 40K friends but as a (short) film was really quite poor.

Just heard about it recently

I'm so surprised that 34% of people either have not seen the movie or don't know what an Ultramarine is. If you are a 40k player and don't know what an Ultramarine is, that is very sad.

Its very likley that they just haven't seen the movie.

I gave it a 3. I'll agree that the game's fan base was the target audience, and am glad it wasn't handled in the way reboot Hollywood films are done. My biggest issue is that it's another "a day in the life of..." which is all fine and great, and admittedly that could happen to the scale I'd prefer, but I'd want to see a much bigger scale situation. Titans vs. Hive Fleet, epic campaigns like BA vs. Orks, Necron origins...