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I just watched it for the first tie and i have to say i was impressed.

the Story was engaging and never dragged or semed rushed. It wasn't predictable at all, in fact the story threw a little curve ball towards the end.


the only area that could be improved was the graphics. they weren't the best, but they certaintly weren't the worst and they gave complete justice to the 40k universe.

the outdoor scenes could have been done better, but it is the only area i see a flaw.


the movie is rated R. for those who are a little squemish about that you should know that it, in my own opinion, would have just barely qualified. it was done solely on violence, gore, and disturbing images.

the long time 40k fan won't be shocked at the gore and disturbing images. it's just another day of grimdarkness, but it definitly shouldn't be watched by younger kids.


if you like 40k you should accuire a copy and show GW and Codex pictures that there is a market for 40k movies.

Here's an idea for the next movie:. The Ork boy who would be Boss.

i would like me some Ork action in the next movie.


as far as the Captain Severus is the current captain of the 1st company Severus Agammon

I'd like to see some of the other legions- namely, SW, Night Lords, Raven Guard, and Salamanders.

I'd like to see anything other than blue marines :(

Prehaps a movie about the Assault on Targus VIII.

get some Captain Shrike and Raven Guard vs Orks.



probably won't be the next movie as they have a planned Sequel to this movie on the proverbial table.

I really enjoyed it. Animation looked good on my laptop. I'll see if my opinion changes on a 42" at home. Story was decent, and there were lots of cool bits. Definitely gets my recommendation.

For folks outside 40K? Not sure, it feels open enough but I'll wait and see what my wife thinks at least.

Yeah, it definitly would be confusing for someone unfamiliar with the universe.

definitly made for existing fans.



the funny thing was that the "Making of" extra bit seemed to have a dumbed down explaination of the universe and the Armory section of the Special features had nothing new to explain for a veteran and seemed targeted at a Newbie.

I want to download it, but no one has pirated yet, so I might have to buy it. I hate being poor.

Like I sated elsewhere - Kind of have a "Phantom Menace" taste to it. Possibly my expectations were to high?

I had been an epic apologist for the film based on the trailers, sadly, not so much now.

Animation is really no better than the machinima on youtube - sands the static Heaving of characters standing around. No weight to characters, and they all look like octogenarian turtles. Looks like the yet to be released space marine game. Frankly their trailer is just as good as the movie.

The movie bored the living snot out of me. Really, 45 minutes of a 4th edition starter box (10 marines and a speeder) walking around in dust, climbing stairs , getting sniped. 20 minutes of the film could have easily seen the cutting floor.

Yawn!!!!!!!! this movie absolutely could not have missed the grand scope of 40K more.

I love Dan Abnett - truly Love him. I have every book, and nearly all of his comic work. This wasn't a bad story - some big plot holes - but not entirely bad once entirly played out. Just simply NOT ENGAGING.

I was really hoping to show this to some of my sci-fi minded friends who are not familiar with 40K. Not now. Going to give them some Guant's Ghosts books instead.
I purchased the movie hoping to support the idea of 40k movies - now I don't really care about future films.

I am hoping in the morning I will not be so disappointed - and hoping you all will (gently) change my mind.
- Cheers all!

P.S. I hope you all watched the movie before my rant - I would feel like a total @$$ if I influenced you to dislike the movie before seeing it.

Grey Templar wrote:Prehaps a movie about the Assault on Targus VIII.

get some Captain Shrike and Raven Guard vs Orks.



probably won't be the next movie as they have a planned Sequel to this movie on the proverbial table.

raven guard vs orks would be good (and not just because I like RG) or some salamander action.
But if the raven guard are as good as they are in chapter's due...it would just be a blur of black, and a squad of boyz drop dead.

@jakebat- personally, I enjoyed it even after considering what oyu wrote in your post, and hey, everyones entitled to their opinions. So I wouldn't worry. I am looking foward to the SM game, tho.

Thanks Asgeirr,
I am planning to rewatch it today (rested), and I am betting I will like it more - once my unrealistic expectations are removed (Mr Abnett warned us about this), and try to enjoy it simply for what it is.

I feel I have waited to long for this to simply not like it. I really enjoyed the comic and some of the extras.

I hope that the sequel will be more to your liking. Who knows?

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candy.man wrote:I quite liked it. I was watching it expecting something lame and I was quite impressed. Some of the slapstick jokes, including the recurring Kharn gag was pretty good. Your interpretation of Abaddon is definitely a good character to work with and I recommend you continue to use him in future episodes.

My only criticism was that some of the jokes were pretty hit or miss (such as the plague marine). I suggest spending some more time on the script before reaching the production stage when working on your next piece.

uuuummm, are you in the wrong thread?

Ok, I work in the film industry. I got to see this to make my own mind up to see if any of these comments are justified.

Downside is I don't want my logical film theory head on when watching it :S

Even though I was hoping for something good, It just failed to deliver.

The visuals are one of the main problems, they are worse than most new games.

As for story... what story? It's just something generic with just one twist that may suprise some (it sure as hell didn't suprise me).

I liked it purely because I got to see some 40k action. But honestly the DoW II intro is more entertaining really...

Enemies were boring and completely without depth. Same for main characters.

Also, it's just to damn short to be anything of substance.

As for those saying stuff about gore and it not being for the squeemish... what gore? You see blood, and hints of the damage inflicted, but really, if you look close, even the most grievous wounds you see are just a hole with some red. So yeah.. not much going on beyond some blood.

Pythos was by far the most interesting character.

Also, hated the veteran's looks. Instead of showing battle scars, etc. they just made them look like everyones grandpa.

So in all honesty, sure, make a sequal, but get a different bloody studio to do it, cause this just ain't up to snuff for today's visual expectations. And make it long enough for anything substantial to be put in.

The "danger" the world in question is in (not gonna say which in case of spoiling) never really sinks in because it's all just to rushed to make any impact.

The "final battle" if you could call it that was also just as predictable.

All in all, if I had to give it a number it would be a 4/10.

I enjoyed it...I mean, there was what I felt was a pretty big plothole with the final battle.



But beyond that, besides the visuals, I enjoyed it. I mean, in some situations I just twinged slightly at the way they were walking, and I would have liked the plot thread to have been more than just a Macguffin, but I did enjoy the movie. Despite it being relatively standard as far as a 40k plot movie goes, I did enjoy it to some extent. To me, there was still a nice twist in the end, and at least a decent amount of character development.

I would also have liked to seen it so that ther protective abilities of power armor were shown...stuff like shells just plain bouncing off their armor, or otherwise them taking hits and then just getting back up and keep fighting.

All in all, I liked the movie. Could it have been better? Hell yes, but not on this budget. To get the scale of epicness that some people WANT from 40k, you'd need hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars in finances. Do you think it's just a coincdence a beautiful (visually) movie like Avatar cost over 230 million bucks? Raise that kind of money from the 40k gaming base, and give it to a film maker and maybe we'll see the kind of epicness we want. If you can't garuntee that kind of money from JUST the fanbase, we'll have to deal with a 40k movie with Biggus Dickus, the clumsy comic relief Space Marine scout, as well as a plot thread about a SoB canoness falling in love witht a Marine and yadda yadda yadda. As has been pointed out, people want to make a 40k movie. But they want to make the universe less grimdark, and make it more paltable for a wider audience.


Edit. For thos who worried about it all just being OMGZ ULTRAMEHREENS ARE THE AWESOME!!!11one!!! it's not. The Ultramarines are the main characters, yes, but they thankfully do not posess a character shield of any admirable quality.

But given the budget in question, I have to admit it was good. WHen I started watching, I expected it to be 100% predictable, and was surprised that it wasn't exactly like I thought it was. Well, it was still reasonably predictable, but predictable in the sense that you have a fair idea what will happen in 5~10 minutes. I wish they had time to put more development in, but with the short time they had, it was still a decent film. I wouldn't praise it as amazing, but I'd still watch it again, and I'd still be entertained by it.

I loved it.

++potentail spoiler++

I did question the Sgt. getting into the speeder. I felt that was alittle weird.

Other than that, I thought it was spot on. Really liked that Chaplain.

Jakebat - that was called "building tension" - it worked for us when watching. Plus it sets the tone - they really didnt know what they were going into.

Yes, why they couldnt just tell the ship to stop - maybe only the Captain could have done that?

Exactly they were brand new marines. Probably no one would listen to them really.

Generally cant relate movies to known characters, as it would A) ruin their persona and B) could possibly harm them (physically or fan-basedly)

ALthough, Ultramarines could be an actual continuation of the 40k universe, and captain Agemman could have actually died in the movie, But i have no idea why Agemman would be leading a squad of newbies, you would expect him to be leading the finest of the finest.

I was wondering when they would get some Ultramarine movie desktops available.

Finally you can download them here.

http://www.ultramarinesthemovie.com/widget

Just finished watching it (finally arrived this morning). I really enjoyed it and felt it finished too soon. The plot whilst simple was effective at driving the film along. The tension built up in the early stages of the film was excellent and the action was suitably visceral.

Obviously the quality of the visual could have been better but for the budget I think Codex pictures did a magnificent job, I sincerely hope they make a decent profit from this and can do a second 40k film with a higher CGI budget.

For me the biggest success of the film though is that despite the main characters being Ultramarines I didn't hate them.

I wouldn't recommend the film to someone who's not interested in 40k but for fans of the game/setting it's definitely worth watching.

Finally saw it last night
I loved it, Sure the CGI wasnt perfect but going by how people were ranting about it I was expecting it to be far worse than it is.

My two complaints were:
You couldn't really see how awesome SM's are (considering they were fighting CSM's and a big daemon), Including some IG would have made them see much more impressive.
The Black Legion were RUBBISH, too many died far too easily.

Other than that (for the production costs) I was really really impressed

I have just seen the movie and thought i would share my thoughts...

BAD
The older marines look like dessicated old men, this coupled with a slightly misplaced head means their build looks incorrect. The other major part is that much of the dynamism of space marines is lost, they do at times move fluidly like a combat team. At others they look like scared puppies, one sequence where they come under fire and they all stand there looking around for 5 seconds. Real troops react, i would expect SM to be instinctive. I know the plot is driven by them being Noobs, but they have been initiate scouts for bloody years. The walking cycle looks off for some reason it "feels" wrong and i cannot work out why! Too much dissent within the characters, Space Marines would be useless if they bickered as much as this especially a bloody Capt and Apoc.

GOOD

The Marines seem very agile in their armour and that was quite cool, climbing and jumping. Awesome sounds for the Bolters, I was listening on BOSE speakers at loud and it was brilliant. Gore and visceral combat is well represented.

Overrall, I like it the story is full of ridiculous tactical guff, that no one even a space Marine would do, but for the purposes of driving the story forward is necessary although it does break from the Canon. An Apoc is a veteran and would have seniority, rant over.

A solid 7.5 out of 10. A few minor tweaks and it would have been a 9. We expect too much i think, but then we are the hardest audience as we have an image in our minds eye.

COPY PASTE REVIEW TIME!

The animation was better than the trailer, but still not what it should have been in 2010, or even 2005. The plot was a little better than I was expecting, but the dialogue was vomitous in many parts (as we have come to expect from more recent SM fluff). That said, what really bothered me was the bolters and the CSM's. The bolters rip through power armor as though it they were guardsmen, just punches straight through. The CSM's are brainless minions attacking in unorganized waves like brainless zerglings, not competent veterans of 10,000 years of unholy war. Lots of ridiculousness on the parts of the SM's that make it hard to take them seriously as a disciplined and experienced military unit, much less amongst the best in the universe.

Overall, a little better than I was expecting from the Trailer, but not by much, definitely not worth spending money on. It feels like an art students Senior project, not a feature film. Too much gak dialogue, terrible misrepresentation of foes, terrible soldiering, and AP2 bolters everywhere.



Next time, give us "All Quiet on the Western Front" in the 40k universe, not mediocre 3D Spehse Mahreenz shoot 'em up Fanfic.

I really enjoyed it. Keeping in mind that the movie was made by the same folks who did the "Bionicle" movies, I felt it was quite good. Just stylized enough so it didn't seem like a bad CG job.

Hey, if we're lucky, maybe we'll get a live action Gaunt's Ghosts movie or something in the far future!

Until then....we'll just have to live with 'ok'.