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I got all of the delay messages but never the "on the way" one. It's a crazy world.

Well. Mine turned up today and it was worth the wait. The animation isn't Hollywood standard and there are scan lines when the action moves too fast (at least on a computer, not seen it on a tv yet)... but it's well written and a highly enjoyable watch. I'm very glad I ordered it

Certainly a great first step; I hope they do more in the future. To be honest, I'd also like to see a Warhammer one done; I think a Mathias Thulmann story would work nicely.

The main feeling I had was "this truly is 40k"--which, upon even cursory reflection, is pretty astounding.

Agreed. The atmosphere they brought over was brilliantly done. I liked the fact that it is truly done for the fans as it doesn't explain to those who don't know the universe.

"It's still recharging!!!!!!111"

I love John Hurt!. I wonder if they told him to scream every line or if that was his decision. Either way, good choice.

Honestly the price and what I got for the collectors edition was a little on the high side. The story was bland for my tastes but then again it is 40k, and I really got the feeling of it in the movie. Overall I personally give 2 1/2 out of 5 stars, but it was injoyable for what it was. I remember watching inquistor years ago (if you don't know what that is then look it up...live action 40k movie they produced), and all I kept thinking while watching this one was "That sounds like bolter fire, WE MUST GO BACK!!!!".

Yeah, it's not a good movie 40k aside. But, similarly, most BL books would not be worth reading if not for the license. (Even the much-adored Dmebski-Bowden is mostly good because he's good at 40k.) And so you can't look at it just as a movie; that's not its proper context. To me, it's more clearly an experiment about how to approach making 40k movies and I'd say it's a mostly successful one. Do they act like SMs? Yep. Do they sound like SMs (and still manage to be somewhat distinct)? Yep. Do you believe that this is genuinely 40k on the screen? Yep. That's what matters here. The pace-padding and lack of coherent antagonist until late in the plot can be worked out in future projects with bigger budgets or more effective corner-cutting.

Fully agree with you Manchu, and don't percieve that I won't watch it again because well I probably will a thousand times. Heck I used to own a funny spoof movie called "The Gamer" which was horrible but funny because of how it made fun of DND and other such things.

Yeah, every time I hear Terrence Stamp say "The Emperor protects" I get a chill and think "pitch perfect!"

Seeing all these review that are cropping up is really starting to loosen my grip on 40$, Clips on the site look excellent to! Bolter sound, Spot on for my tastes.

Let me set it up for you, DA's forever:

It was 4AM. I had spent the last eight hours trying to assemble a Lord of Change and was still nowhere close to done. Although exhausted with rage, I could not sleep. I put on the UM movie for the first time. Not only did I not fall asleep, I was so pleased that I smiled through the whole movies and went on to watch the disc-two extras (and then fell asleep). In my book, it was a success.

That 40$ just beat its way out of my hands with a sledgehammer.

Got mine today. I got the notice back on the 10th...

Now just have to figure out when I'll get the free time to watch it!

Valete,

JohnS

Question: Would you view this with a wife/partner who isn't at all into 40k? My wife quite likes Sci-Fi type stuff (she loved Transformers and all that clag) however she has remained immune to my 40K overtures. Is this the sort of film that a 40K novice can sit through and get a feel of the background and mythos or would I be sat there with her squirming with embarrassment?

filbert wrote:Question: Would you view this with a wife/partner who isn't at all into 40k? My wife quite likes Sci-Fi type stuff (she loved Transformers and all that clag) however she has remained immune to my 40K overtures. Is this the sort of film that a 40K novice can sit through and get a feel of the background and mythos or would I be sat there with her squirming with embarrassment?

If she likes Sci-fi, I'd say go for it. The animation is decent, the voice acting is great and the story has some nice twists and turns to it. At 70 minutes, the thing is over pretty quickly so even if she hates it she won't be suffering for that long.

But ultimately I do think it plays out pretty straight-forward as a sci-fi tale of super-human monastic space marines fighting against corruptive evil. She won't know who the 'emperor' is they keep talking about or exactly what 'Chaos' is, but the overtures are there enough for her to connect the dots in a general way (that the Emperor is someone who the Marines respect/worship and that Chaos is freaky, evil and corruptive).

Still waiting on my copy :(

Getting on for almost a week since I got a dispatch email too, it's getting difficult to tread around spoilers lol.

yakface wrote:

filbert wrote:Question: Would you view this with a wife/partner who isn't at all into 40k? My wife quite likes Sci-Fi type stuff (she loved Transformers and all that clag) however she has remained immune to my 40K overtures. Is this the sort of film that a 40K novice can sit through and get a feel of the background and mythos or would I be sat there with her squirming with embarrassment?

If she likes Sci-fi, I'd say go for it. The animation is decent, the voice acting is great and the story has some nice twists and turns to it. At 70 minutes, the thing is over pretty quickly so even if she hates it she won't be suffering for that long.

But ultimately I do think it plays out pretty straight-forward as a sci-fi tale of super-human monastic space marines fighting against corruptive evil. She won't know who the 'emperor' is they keep talking about or exactly what 'Chaos' is, but the overtures are there enough for her to connect the dots in a general way (that the Emperor is someone who the Marines respect/worship and that Chaos is freaky, evil and corruptive).

Many thanks for the answer. You have convinced me, Mr Face. I shall order my copy forthwith!

model_bits_matt wrote:Still waiting on my copy :(

Getting on for almost a week since I got a dispatch email too, it's getting difficult to tread around spoilers lol.

I feel your pain I preordered it the day after it went up for order and still havent even had the confirmation that it's been dispatched!

Got the mail that is was shipped last week on the 8th and no movie yet hopefully it will arrive within the net 2-3 days, otherwise I'll start to get worried.

Confirmation on 10th, so hoping its their when I get back in....cant wait for T Stamp, love that guys voice!

Everything i've heard is that the movie is better than expected. I really hope that doesn't elevate my expectations too much

confirmation o nthe 10th, nothing yet, waiting till tomorrow.

@filbert: I've been thinking of watching it with the Missus, who likes scifi just enough to turn on Star Wars once and a while when I'm not around. But my conclusion is, probably better not to. She will see it as a movie instead of a "40k movie" and be totally unimpressed. I once tried to lend a mate the BL anthology "Let the Galaxy Burn." He gave it back in less than a week with no apologies about not trying to get through a story (while berating me for not adoring his beloved George Martin, *barf*) and has never shown the briefest glimmer of interest in 40k since. I think one has to like 40k as a fictional world first to enjoy these sort of things rather than be put off.

Manchu wrote:@filbert: I've been thinking of watching it with the Missus, who likes scifi just enough to turn on Star Wars once and a while when I'm not around. But my conclusion is, probably better not to. She will see it as a movie instead of a "40k movie" and be totally unimpressed. I once tried to lend a mate the BL anthology "Let the Galaxy Burn." He gave it back in less than a week with no apologies about not trying to get through a story (while berating me for not adoring his beloved George Martin, *barf*) and has never shown the briefest glimmer of interest in 40k since. I think one has to like 40k as a fictional world first to enjoy these sort of things rather than be put off.

Oh I agree, but its somewhat of a chicken and egg situation. I mean, how to get someone introduced to and acquainted with the fictional universe in the first place? I figured the film might be a better option since she isn't much of a reader.

Between the missus and your mates, the missus is the more captive audience (not to be all Borat about it). It might do to have her read an especially good short story. As much as I like this movie myself, I can't imagine it being enjoyable to adults who are not already interested in 40k whereas some of the 40k short fiction could turn on mild scifi fans otherwise innocent of the grimdark. My advice is that if she like a short story then show her the film. Of course, this only works if she's willing to read scifi at all.

Arrived this evening. Watched aready. found awsome. Nuff said.

AAAAAAAAaaaahhhhhhhhh!!! rage!!!! i pre ordered this thing ages ago and sill havent received it! i've just read through this entire topic and loads of people have got it, now i have faith that it will turn up at some point but this stinks- its like rolling for reinforcements and getting nothing but 1's!

Rarmah wrote:Arrived this evening. Watched aready. found awsome. Nuff said.

when was yours despatched. I have my email a week ago and still had nothing through the post!

Confirmation e-mail arrived on the 10th. Dvd arrived on the 14th at 5:50pm by DHL

Got mine yesterday. Cant say Im happy with the animation, I understand the feel they were going for but they should have talked to the guys at THQ to clean it up. I did not get the impression the Space Marines were these stalwart, superhumans either. They seemed like regular guys with armor and big guns. More could have been done with that movie.

Enough of my limited complaints. The voice acting was good, story was good and it was nice to see a feature length movie with SM fighting it out. I think the potential is there for the company to either step up their game with another movie release (please flesh out the world instead of wasteland...so bland). Hopefully they will add in regular humans to give a feel for not only size but awe of beiing around SM.