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chowderhead13 wrote:Looks pretty crappy...

I feel the intro to DOW1 had better graphics. And that was an awful intro.

I believe you are very outspoken.


I wish it had the GFX made by blur, the ones like in the dow2 intro. Thatd make a great movie.

The space marines look nothing like space marines! Their FAT!

Whoa whoa whoa, saying they looking nothing like space marines is a bit harsh. I think the helmets look a little weird to me. Maybe its the mouth vents or something but they just look off. I think the rest looks pretty good. But yea, the movie looking like the DOW2 intro would be some serious badass looking movie.

But Im still holding onto it turning out to be a good movie. Just wait and see. You nay sayers will eat your words

I can't believe i'm saying this. But I hated that Trailer..... I've never seen the worse use of CGI and sound editors. That was abosutely dreadful -.-

I peed a little

Looks like Dawn of War cinematic graphics. Not really impressed with how the marines looked. They were too blocky and cartoonish looking.

That and the Ultramarines being the best? Please, twin-linked meltas/flamers > chapter tactics anyday

But if they make the Horus Heresy movie(s), they wont be able to do the Horus vs Sanguinius scene correctly.

Why not?

they would have 10+ movies to think it out.

Grey Templar wrote:i said "Screw blue. its hard to paint good"

My avatar. but guard look better in blue than ultra smurfs, I mean Ultramarines.

I think it looks great. Animation could have been kicked up a notch tho.

I liked it.

I hope it comes out in theaters, at the very least, the exposure would be good.

And most movies make money via DVD release. A DVD is cheap, a copy of the movie able to play in a theater? Expensive... not to mention the theater and sponsors get a cut of it.

DVD kinda cuts out the middleman.

And idk about doing the WHOLE heresy, that would just take too long. I can see 5 movies.

1. Intro, Horus turns, purges his and other legion ranks.
2. Space puppies v. 1k sons.
3. Istvaan drop site massacre and the Eisenstein.
4. The Schism on Mars.
5. THE MOST EPIC BATTLE EVAR!!! The Battle of the Imperial Palace and the aftermath.

That would be the Horus Heresy series IMO. And then come the End Times. Probably starting with either the 13th black crusade or coming of Hive Fleet Behemoth.

One crit point is faces though, talking looks...off.

So many mixed emotions watching that. Shock, laughter and then that depression feeling when you realise that wasn't a joke.

Iv worked in the 3D industry for a number of years, Iv been a character animator, but anyone watching that trailer has to face palm.

Go watch some Blizzard or Dragon Age cinematic's. The quality is far better and those are just computer game movies.

GW want to create an actual 3D movie? It looks like GW is going cheap and crappy on us again.

As for the HH, GW would really need to pull their act together to pull that giant off.

Ya CGI could use work, it's not horrible, but it's pretty standard fare.

But the actual human faces are horrible... he looks like an old man, not a battle-hardened, steroid-fueled, 7ft tall man in 10ft tall suit of armor, killing machine that we want!

I think the guy at the 1 min mark is a black templar?

Also they look like 2nd company so sicarius might make an appearence.

they are indeed 2nd company, but the Captain is named Severus.

Severus Agamemon, current captain of the 1st.

my veiw is , the DOW intros look better . they cost a lot of money . most video game companies dont do there intros , most of the time there shipped out to movie effects studios and CGI movie effects houses . we all remember mechwarrior 2 amazing mech battle intro on the pc mid 90s . that was done by digital domain stan winstons effects company . so the point is very costaly for 30 sec . this is a full movie . so GW turned to the company that did the lego bioancle movies . a lot cheaper for a strait to DVD release . so ill make do as long as the plots 4ok . but with dan abbnett . we should be good . i love his marine novel brothers of the snake . so i can stomach the CGI until peter jackson comes along and makes the herasy films . LOL . besides its not men in costumes rite? if you've forgotten check out those movies on you tube . and ultra marines will start not looking so bad.....my sons excited! thats a plus for me!he keeps asking me if its appropriate for him . hes only five . im going to sneak this one past the wifey . come on hes got a spacemarine army. its only fair.

I'd say it won't matter, he's only five, he won't understand it, until years later and then it all makes sense.

Trust me, I had the same experience with Titanic and George of the Jungle. As a kid, didn't understand anything, just seemed funny. Except for Titanic, couldn't stomach it, then I got old enough to get it.

My guess is a PG-13 rating.

that or it will be Not Rated.

Read the pages on the website. The people doing the animation are the same ones who did Assasins Creed 2 and GTA. Hopefully, the trailer is just a bit of groundwork.

hopefully


I think they will do a good job.

Why can't they use motion capture and use real actors, just cgi the armor over them? I mean if a movie studio was willing to put money into "Sky captain and the world of tomorrow" 40K should be able to find funding for a movie with good cgi.

I got a little interested in this a while back when they told us who the voice talent was. That talent seemed to hold up pretty well in the trailer but everything else was pretty crappy... not just wooden animation but the visual style - it seems every time 40K is realised it ends up flat and grey.

xxBlazinGhostxx wrote:I hope it comes out in theaters, at the very least, the exposure would be good.

And most movies make money via DVD release. A DVD is cheap, a copy of the movie able to play in a theater? Expensive... not to mention the theater and sponsors get a cut of it.

That has absolutely nothing to do with how the film industry works. Most movies aiming for a cinema release will not make much money on DVD, basically if they don't make it to cinemas they lose money. If they do make it cinemas and don't do well in the first few days they lose money. DVD sales won't save them.

That said, there is a market for straight to DVD movies, these are made for low cost and aimed at a niche market that isn't too fussy about production values. From the look of the first trailer that's exactly the business model Space Marine is following.

Will it be in the US or is it going to be European only

The CGI looked pretty standard. I was kinda disappointed to find out that the movie's only going to be 70 minutes long.

70 minutes is pretty impressive considering it's a first try. if i was starting out i would make a seris of 30 minute films to guage a response level.


@DiRT52: it will be only avaliable on the Ultramarines website at first. i imagine it would eventually be on the GW site and in their stores.

Like you want to watch 2 hours of Ultramarines doing Ultramarine things.

2 hours of ultramarines praying....at four in the morning...Now thats Ultramarines The Movie.

And showing up late to fights

That was pretty good, I thought. Not amazing, but then I wasn't expecting an instant classic. After all, that would be like expecting your average BL novel to rival, say, the Great Gatsby or Catch-22.
I expect this to turn out to be a bit of fun, and a halfway decent action film. I'll be satisfied with that, I think.

Don't forget they will also take the glory!

Guardsmen: oh thank god, the ultramarines, I've been fighting for 3 weeks in this Emperor-forsaken hellhole they call (random planet name)

*goes home*

Ah... nice to be back home

*picks up newspaper, data reader, w.e.*

HEADLINE: Ultramarines save (random planet from before)

Guardsmen: WTH!?