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I watched the first and second,they were ok if only to waste time.

The book was Awesome. The first movie was alright. Nothing too great but watchable in a turn your brain off kind of way. I have heard nothing good about the other two movies.

The first film is seriously good, though the glaring gap between light infantry weapons and the next stage up - heavy ordnance, with nothing inbetween shows a bit.

It is IG vs nids. However the film did have the balls to attempt to show an obviously a neo-fascist universe in a 'positive' light rather than make nagging warnings on such. The Federation is very harsh, but its propoganda is given free reign shows through and gives the monoculture its life and is seen to be in control, of humanity at least.

From what I heard the film was originally Bughunter, the licence for Starship Troopers was purchased and a few names and parts of the script changed to allow GW no ammo. It bears little resemblance to ther bugs or the Mobile Infantry, of for that matter the Fleet, but it does get the Federatiojn down on target.



SST2 is a disaster. Just stay away.


SST3 goes back to the original format, it is very much lower budget, and it shows but it definately has its moments. There is a return of some of the original cast and some really hookie Federation characters.

You know something is up when a crooner comes on stage with a cheery voice singing, ' its a good day to die, if you know the reasons why'; with cheery flag waving dancing girls in the background. The singer is actually a serving General, a cross between Stormin Norman and Barry Manilow. With characters like that you know you are in for something wierd. Recommended for the WTF value.

Wait the 3rd movie is out already? When did it come out?

LuciusAR wrote:The tongue in cheek camp cheesiness of SST is exalty what makes it such a good film. On the surface its an action movie and if you want to simply take it face value that fine. But its also a clever satire on the whole sci-fi genre. If you look at Paul Verhovens other Hollywood films (Robocop and Total Recall) you will find similar themes throughout them as well.

I can't help but think that has a more literal translation of the book been made it would have been little more than a forgettable war porn movie. I think if there ever was a 40K movie I think it would have to take a similar outlook to work as a film.

I'd have to disagree there, if they did a literal translation of the book, there would be a lot less fighting involved, the book has a few battles, but a lot more of the book focuses on the training and interactions of the soldiers.

Ghost in the Darkness wrote:Wait the 3rd movie is out already? When did it come out?

July 19, 2008 in Japan, August 5, 2008 in the US, and September 29, 2008 in the UK.

Anung Un Rama wrote:

LuciusAR wrote:The 3rd is a vast improvment on the 2nd but cannot, by any strech of the imagination, be described as a good film.

The first however is a sci-fi classic. I dont know of a single 40K player who doesnt think it rocks.

QFT


I really dig the first one. It's a 40k movie, you can't get mich closer without using Space Marines.
ST2 Marauder was....well, a very simple and bland horror movie, which had almost nothing to do with the first one.
3 wasn't what I would call a good movie, but it certainly knew what it had to do to be fun. The CGI Mechs were horrible though.

Marauder was ST3. That's when they introduced the suit.

Found out a few weeks ago about 2 and 3. That "Russian" chick in ST3 needs to beat the crap out of the plastic surgeon who gave her those googly eyed boobs. I mean, you can't even tell which one is looking at you, but if you shake em they move a little bit.

Orlanth wrote:
You know something is up when a crooner comes on stage with a cheery voice singing, ' its a good day to die, if you know the reasons why'; with cheery flag waving dancing girls in the background. The singer is actually a serving General, a cross between Stormin Norman and Barry Manilow. With characters like that you know you are in for something wierd. Recommended for the WTF value.

You do of course mean this song?

I loved the first movie when it came out years ago. I was in my early teens though, so I'd be interested in seeing what I think of the movie now.

I remember seeing a few minutes of part 2 and thinking it had to be a joke, it was that bad.

Replace Federation with Imperium and you got your first 40k popsong

dietrich wrote:If you read the book before seeing the first movie, I don't know how you weren't disappointed. I wanted power armor, jump packs, and nukes.

I went to the San Diego ComicCon the year ST1 came out and Paul Verhoven said there were 2 reasons they didn't go with the power armor, jump packs, and nukes. One was special effects at the time were too expensive to do the PA suits right and they didn't want the humans in the movie to look invulnerable and all powerful.

i watched the 2nd one....I'm not looking for the 3rd.
*shudder*

Better racks in 2.