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2011/07/07 19:01:29
Subject: I have a question about the movie "Sucker punch"
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Savage Khorne Berserker Biker
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I just finished watching this movie and I wonder if I'm the only one who picked up on the 40K references in the movie. Check this out, in the first fight scene she was fighting larger than life super soldiers with over the top weapons and guns (Space marines), in the next fight scene she was fighting world war 1 style soldiers with great coats and gas masks (Death corp of Krieg), in the next battle she was fighting a horde of evil, ugly, clumsy, warriors in old suits of armor (Orks), and in the final battle she was fighting a group of shiny, metal, robots with guns (Necrons). Now I know that I probably spend way too much of my time thinking about 40K, but am I the only one who sees this? 
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It is the 3rd Millennium. For more than a hundred months Games Workshop has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Nottingham. It is the foremost of wargames by the will of the neckbeards, and master of a million tabletops by the might of their inexhaustible wallets. It is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with business strategies from the early Industrial Revolution Age. It is the Carrion Lord of the wargaming scene for whom a thousand veteran players are sacrificed every day, so that it may never truly die. Yet even in its deathless state, GW continues its eternal vigilance. Mighty battleforce starter-sets cross the online-store-infested miasma of the internet, the only route between distant countries, their way lit by a draconian retail trade-agreement, the legal manifestation of the GW's will. Vast armies of lawyers give battle in GW's name on uncounted websites. Greatest amongst its soldiers are the Guardians of the IP, the Legal Team, bio-engineered super-donkey-caves. Their comrades in arms are legion: the writing team and countless untested rulebooks, the ever vigilant redshirts, and the writers of White Dwarf, to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from other games, their own incompetence, Based Chinaman - and worse. To support Games Workshop in such times is to spend untold billions. It is to support the cruelest and most dickish company imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of sales discounts and Warhammer Fantasy Battle, for so much has been dropped, never to be re-published again. Forget the promise of cheaper digital content and caring about the fanbase, for in the GW HQ there is only profit-seeking, Space Marines and Sigmarines. There is no fun amongst the hobby shops, only an eternity of raging and spending, and the laughter of former employees who left GW to join better companies. |
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2011/07/07 19:02:56
Subject: I have a question about the movie "Sucker punch"
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Ancient Ultramarine Venerable Dreadnought
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I never noticed.
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2011/07/07 19:05:32
Subject: I have a question about the movie "Sucker punch"
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there are similarities, but these are all fairly generic enemy types.
robots(terminator)
warriors(any barbarian movie)
gas masks(WWI based but look awesome)
super soldiers with big armour and guns(more original)
40k could very well be the basis of these enemy types, but i'd bet they just picked awesome looking enemies.
also, its impossible to spend too much time thinking about 40k!
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6th Edition
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"Those are Regulars! By God!" -Major General Phineas Riall
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2011/07/07 19:05:33
Subject: I have a question about the movie "Sucker punch"
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Renegade Inquisitor de Marche
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sub-zero wrote:I just finished watching this movie and I wonder if I'm the only one who picked up on the 40K references in the movie. Check this out, in the first fight scene she was fighting larger than life super soldiers with over the top weapons and guns (Space marines), in the next fight scene she was fighting world war 1 style soldiers with great coats and gas masks (Death corp of Krieg), in the next battle she was fighting a horde of evil, ugly, clumsy, warriors in old suits of armor (Orks), and in the final battle she was fighting a group of shiny, metal, robots with guns (Necrons). Now I know that I probably spend way too much of my time thinking about 40K, but am I the only one who sees this?
You're imagining it methinks...
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2011/07/07 19:25:28
Subject: Re:I have a question about the movie "Sucker punch"
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Long-Range Land Speeder Pilot
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The 40k background wasn't created by the 1980s GW crew sitting around coming up with completely unique ideas that had never been done before, they just grabbed stuff wholesale from other science fiction, mixed it all together, and called it 40k. Larger than life super soldiers with over the top armor and guns goes back at least to the Lensman series (1940s), where powered armor had battle-ship level protection against energy weapons and sidearms were strong enough to slag a city block. World war 1 soldiers go back to, well, 1915 or so, and putting that 'gas mask and trenchcoat' look into SF probably goes back to just after pictures of the real thing started showing up. Old suits of armor isn't really a distinct thing, and in any case modern orcs come from LOTR (the books, not the movie). Shiny metal robots with guns goes back to whenever the first robot stories were, and this one is really silly since necrons aren't shiny for the most part, but dull black with green glows.
Don't confuse 'references stuff that 40k also draws from' with 'references 40k'.
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2011/07/07 19:29:01
Subject: Re:I have a question about the movie "Sucker punch"
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Savage Khorne Berserker Biker
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I see where you all are coming from, but to have all four of these "references" in one movie... Dare I say that Sucker punch had more 40K in it than the "space marine" movie. har har har
For those of you that have the movie, rewatch the first fight scene and you will immediately think of a Grey Knight terminator with a halberd, then a space marine Terminator with an assualt cannon, and finally a Black Templar emperor's champion.
Maybe I just need to refill my meds.
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2011/07/07 19:38:14
It is the 3rd Millennium. For more than a hundred months Games Workshop has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Nottingham. It is the foremost of wargames by the will of the neckbeards, and master of a million tabletops by the might of their inexhaustible wallets. It is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with business strategies from the early Industrial Revolution Age. It is the Carrion Lord of the wargaming scene for whom a thousand veteran players are sacrificed every day, so that it may never truly die. Yet even in its deathless state, GW continues its eternal vigilance. Mighty battleforce starter-sets cross the online-store-infested miasma of the internet, the only route between distant countries, their way lit by a draconian retail trade-agreement, the legal manifestation of the GW's will. Vast armies of lawyers give battle in GW's name on uncounted websites. Greatest amongst its soldiers are the Guardians of the IP, the Legal Team, bio-engineered super-donkey-caves. Their comrades in arms are legion: the writing team and countless untested rulebooks, the ever vigilant redshirts, and the writers of White Dwarf, to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from other games, their own incompetence, Based Chinaman - and worse. To support Games Workshop in such times is to spend untold billions. It is to support the cruelest and most dickish company imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of sales discounts and Warhammer Fantasy Battle, for so much has been dropped, never to be re-published again. Forget the promise of cheaper digital content and caring about the fanbase, for in the GW HQ there is only profit-seeking, Space Marines and Sigmarines. There is no fun amongst the hobby shops, only an eternity of raging and spending, and the laughter of former employees who left GW to join better companies. |
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2011/07/07 19:39:36
Subject: I have a question about the movie "Sucker punch"
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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lol, i dont know, email the director and ask him. it very well could be
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Frigian 582nd "the regulars" with thousand sons detachment
5th Edition
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23 : 20 : 7
6th Edition
W : L : D
Don't Know...alot of each
Bretonnians
W : L : D
4 : 2 : 0
"Those are Regulars! By God!" -Major General Phineas Riall
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2011/07/07 19:40:44
Subject: I have a question about the movie "Sucker punch"
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Badass "Sister Sin"
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Umm. Yeah, I get where you are coming from, but you are reaching.
Similar =/ derivative.
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2011/07/07 20:20:44
Subject: Re:I have a question about the movie "Sucker punch"
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Savage Khorne Berserker Biker
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O and I forgot one, they also fight a large creature with chitinous scales and talons (Tyranids maybe) LOL
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It is the 3rd Millennium. For more than a hundred months Games Workshop has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Nottingham. It is the foremost of wargames by the will of the neckbeards, and master of a million tabletops by the might of their inexhaustible wallets. It is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with business strategies from the early Industrial Revolution Age. It is the Carrion Lord of the wargaming scene for whom a thousand veteran players are sacrificed every day, so that it may never truly die. Yet even in its deathless state, GW continues its eternal vigilance. Mighty battleforce starter-sets cross the online-store-infested miasma of the internet, the only route between distant countries, their way lit by a draconian retail trade-agreement, the legal manifestation of the GW's will. Vast armies of lawyers give battle in GW's name on uncounted websites. Greatest amongst its soldiers are the Guardians of the IP, the Legal Team, bio-engineered super-donkey-caves. Their comrades in arms are legion: the writing team and countless untested rulebooks, the ever vigilant redshirts, and the writers of White Dwarf, to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from other games, their own incompetence, Based Chinaman - and worse. To support Games Workshop in such times is to spend untold billions. It is to support the cruelest and most dickish company imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of sales discounts and Warhammer Fantasy Battle, for so much has been dropped, never to be re-published again. Forget the promise of cheaper digital content and caring about the fanbase, for in the GW HQ there is only profit-seeking, Space Marines and Sigmarines. There is no fun amongst the hobby shops, only an eternity of raging and spending, and the laughter of former employees who left GW to join better companies. |
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2011/07/07 20:22:05
Subject: Re:I have a question about the movie "Sucker punch"
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Ancient Ultramarine Venerable Dreadnought
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sub-zero wrote:O and I forgot one, they also fight a large creature with chitinous scales and talons (Tyranids maybe) LOL
IIRC that was a dragon.
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2011/07/07 20:36:42
Subject: Re:I have a question about the movie "Sucker punch"
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Savage Khorne Berserker Biker
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coolyo294 wrote:sub-zero wrote:O and I forgot one, they also fight a large creature with chitinous scales and talons (Tyranids maybe) LOL
IIRC that was a dragon.
Yes, it was a dragon, but it could represent a tyranid.
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It is the 3rd Millennium. For more than a hundred months Games Workshop has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Nottingham. It is the foremost of wargames by the will of the neckbeards, and master of a million tabletops by the might of their inexhaustible wallets. It is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with business strategies from the early Industrial Revolution Age. It is the Carrion Lord of the wargaming scene for whom a thousand veteran players are sacrificed every day, so that it may never truly die. Yet even in its deathless state, GW continues its eternal vigilance. Mighty battleforce starter-sets cross the online-store-infested miasma of the internet, the only route between distant countries, their way lit by a draconian retail trade-agreement, the legal manifestation of the GW's will. Vast armies of lawyers give battle in GW's name on uncounted websites. Greatest amongst its soldiers are the Guardians of the IP, the Legal Team, bio-engineered super-donkey-caves. Their comrades in arms are legion: the writing team and countless untested rulebooks, the ever vigilant redshirts, and the writers of White Dwarf, to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from other games, their own incompetence, Based Chinaman - and worse. To support Games Workshop in such times is to spend untold billions. It is to support the cruelest and most dickish company imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of sales discounts and Warhammer Fantasy Battle, for so much has been dropped, never to be re-published again. Forget the promise of cheaper digital content and caring about the fanbase, for in the GW HQ there is only profit-seeking, Space Marines and Sigmarines. There is no fun amongst the hobby shops, only an eternity of raging and spending, and the laughter of former employees who left GW to join better companies. |
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2011/07/07 20:38:08
Subject: Re:I have a question about the movie "Sucker punch"
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Ancient Ultramarine Venerable Dreadnought
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sub-zero wrote:coolyo294 wrote:sub-zero wrote:O and I forgot one, they also fight a large creature with chitinous scales and talons (Tyranids maybe) LOL
IIRC that was a dragon.
Yes, it was a dragon, but it could represent a tyranid.
No, I think a dragon represents a dragon.
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2011/07/07 20:38:57
Subject: I have a question about the movie "Sucker punch"
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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i actually thought that the dragon reprsented 18th century America...
jk
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Frigian 582nd "the regulars" with thousand sons detachment
5th Edition
W : L : D
23 : 20 : 7
6th Edition
W : L : D
Don't Know...alot of each
Bretonnians
W : L : D
4 : 2 : 0
"Those are Regulars! By God!" -Major General Phineas Riall
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2011/07/07 21:19:57
Subject: I have a question about the movie "Sucker punch"
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Yeah you are out of your mind... It had some scifi robots, giant samurai mecha, world war I/II inspired soldiers (btw 40k invented that) and some textbook tolkien orks.
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