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Bahahahaha, aha, haha, just got mine.


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Okay, having seen it I can say it has been worth every penny I paid for it. A bit of a slow starter that takes some time speeding up but when you get there:

Still waiting on mine, but I suspect the Missus has intercepted it and I will get it or Christmas. Grrrrrr :(

Mine was delivered to the wrong address last week due to the postal services striking every week now, but I finally have it.

Still no sign of mine! Got the email on the 9th. £8 postage was definately a rip-off! Good job I won't have time to enjoy it until Christmas Day now anyway, if it arrives by then of course

Mine came today. I was pleasantly surprised by how good the animation quality is, with a few exceptions:

When they are just walking down hallways, it looks off in 2 spots.

that both my wife and i cracked up laughing.

But you'd really have to be lookign for flaws to notice them. It was well done and worth the money, I think. The art book on the other hand: well executed, but the art is sort of poor.




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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?

The latter. My wife thought it was terrible, but she hates nearly everything anyway. They also explain absolutely nothing, which I appreciated but she did not. Kind of a difficult watch if you don't know what the warp is, or who the Emperor is, for example.

Finally arrived about 30 minutes ago. Unfortunately in 20 minutes I have to head off to sell little plastic Ultramarines and with today being Thursday won't be home until late. So might watch it tomorrow after work.

Have to say the packaging is nice though, very impressed with the case.

Grrr still no movie! Ordered it ages ago.

It better come tonight... Although my sisters supposed to be coming round for dinner.

Im sure she'll love the film

What might explain the delay is it's been shipped from Guernsey. Not a million miles away, but knowing how bad the post can be in the UK, adding an origin point on an island just adds to the pain!

A little pic to help non UK people.



It's that tiny spec near France.

Not sure why they don't own it but I guess thanks to hundreds of years at war with the French indirectly resulted in the delay.

Sorry

Got the email days ago still not received it grrr

I just wanted to say that I received a private message from Codex on Warseer apologising for the break down in communications and how to sort out my damaged box etc.

It sounds like they are working very hard to rectify the problems, and I get the impression they might make an announcement as to what's happened once they are nearer to sorting it out.

StraightSilver wrote: I get the impression they might make an announcement as to what's happened once they are nearer to sorting it out.

Good call.

Turned up JUST NOW....

Mildly excited

I preordered in September or something... but its still not here. :(

News from Codex site (via Facebook)...

We're very sorry to hear that some of you are still waiting to receive your DVDs, and that some of you have yet to receive an email confirming shipment. Our fulfilment houses have been working flat out getting your orders out to you: all orders placed up to December 14th 2010 have now been dispatched.

Again... we shall see

Mik

Still nothing

My copy arrived earlier today.

Still nothing I have just spied the postlady however...


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And the lovely lady has just brought it hurray!!!!

Mine was apparently dispatched 10 days ago and still no sign of it! Not pleased at all :(

Gorechild wrote:Mine was apparently dispatched 10 days ago and still no sign of it! Not pleased at all :(

Ditto & we paid £8 for the privilage, at least I am not the only one who is still waiting stupid amounts for delivery.


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Ed_Bodger wrote:Still nothing I have just spied the postlady however...


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And the lovely lady has just brought it hurray!!!!

Oh fingers crossed for me then

Well first impressions of the film before I forget them




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Well was that worth the money probably not but it was quite enjoyable.

What did the movie show?

Well, I got mine a few days ago (arrived on my birthday, woot) and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I didn't even mind the slow start because the atmosphere was great.

Anyways, to anyone who has received their movie, is there a paper inside the metal DVD case? Inside, mine had the two DVDs on the right and clips on the left (where there is usually a scene guide or something), but nothing was there.

So is there a vote somewhere with peoples overall impression?

Fiend wrote:Well, I got mine a few days ago (arrived on my birthday, woot) and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I didn't even mind the slow start because the atmosphere was great.

Anyways, to anyone who has received their movie, is there a paper inside the metal DVD case? Inside, mine had the two DVDs on the right and clips on the left (where there is usually a scene guide or something), but nothing was there.

Nope... no insert. Scene guides were very prevalent in the early days of DVD, but have fallen out of favor. No ads or anything else inside either. I think it is very nice packaging and enjoyed the film! I'll be hoping for another 40K film from Codex in the future.

MajorTom11 wrote:So is there a vote somewhere with peoples overall impression?

Start one, yo.

Just watched it, and aside from the slightly dodgy CGI and animation in places, really enjoyed it.

/Rant on

A tip to people going "EH!?" on the plot / squad setup. / whys this happening

READ THE COMIC.

it explains it, but is still a little bit "off" but meh, its a 40k movie. the first of hopefully many. Im quite glad the "graphics" arn't as good as say, Avatar, we have so much more room to expand now and the bigger companys have been shown "thats the way to do grim-dark, now put more £££ in it".

/Rant off

Sorry about that. And before people think im a fanboy - Never collected a Space marine army in my life and now i only play flames of war

Peace out!

Edit: Sorry to hear you guys havent got it yet, but the wether's got royal mail in a hissy fit, heres hoping they arrive soon!

The comic is rather vapid.

I agree. The comic was not that good. Didn't add much to the story, and the art was not very good.

Movie was better than I expected.

Ok, so just finished watching it. What can I say...

Ok, I'll start with the animation. It is better than the trailer had led me to believe. That doesn't make it good animation, but it's certainly better than what I thought it was going to be. The main problem with the animation is that it suffers from what a lot of 3D animated shows suffer from - a frictionless environment with no gravity. What I mean by that is everything moves too fast, and nothing feels like it has any weight. It's evident right from the start with the sparring session between Pertwee's character and the Captain. Movements are slightly too quick, don't carry any impact, and it feels like everything is floating. This is further exacerbated during the final fight, with Marines flying everywhere almost as if it was a low-G environment,a nd then sliding or clattering across the floor as though everything was covered in oil.

But my main issues with the animation were technical - the lighting for one thing. It was very dark in a lot of places, and that obscured a lot of things. Only when they were aboard the Thunderhawk was there enough light to see anything. They also used too many overlays of fire or smoke to compensate for the animation's quality. The faces looked fine - certainly nothing Blur level, probably... a bit better than Diablo II, if any'a y'all remember that.

The story was fine (even if you can make a dozen parallels with Aliens and half a dozen other stories). I liked the build up of tension, even in the instances where the foreshadowing was obvious (the Thunder Hammer, especially - they were never not going to come back to that) and the pacing was fine. The movie didn't feel short (as I feared it would) nor did it overstay its welcome and carry on too long. I liked the characterisation as well. The Apothecary was especially good, with the two good lines he got "The Emperor protects, but it doesn't hurt to check twice" and "The Emperor Protects, but a loaded Bolter helps". The Marines were suitably "Marine-like", equal parts heroic glory hounds, high-speak spouting knights and deadly primitive thugs. The rivalries made sense, and at no point did I feel like they weren't real (animation oddities aside).

I liked the twist. I thought it would turn out to be the single remaining Imp Fist Marine (seeing the Chaplain as too obvious a Red Herring). When he screamed I thought "ok, here we go, transformation scene coming!", but no... it was different to that. And that's good. It meant that the foreshadowing from the very start - even the helmet smash - all got a pay-off. And that's good.

The Bolters felt cool. Probably the best example of Bolters since... Chaos Gate. The main difference between the Bolters in Chaos Gate and in Ultramarines is that it took about about 10 shots to even crack the armour on a Chaos Marine in Chaos Gate. Here they were shooting HE uranium depleted slugs... how else were they cutting through the Black Legion Marines? But, again, it's not a huge issue - the Black Legion were a means to an end, a distraction and not a real threat, designed to whittle the squad down to the point where the real threat could leave without being discovered.

The Flamer guy... I guess he just liked lighting fires. The amount of times he shot that thing while walking down dark hallways was annoying. And the Landspeeder was awesome! It didn't do much, but I loved seeing one zip around on screen.

Overall the single greatest downside to this film is the completely lack of interest GW has shown in it. Maybe now GW will put a little grunt work of their own to cross-promote these things in the future. They're a company with their own chain of retail stores across the world for feth's sake and they think that their only role in such an endeavour is to collect the cheque at the end for the license rights they sold. If anyone in their promotions and marketing department had even half a brain their most recent issue of White Dwarf would have "Ultramarines - The Movie" as it's front cover, have interviews with the makers, the cast, a look at the film, a special movie-based scenario for people to play with rules for the main characters and - because they are a miniature company after all - a Ltd. Ed. boxed set with a metal model for each of the main characters (the exact same thing they should have done with the HQ's from Dark Crusade). But no, for GW all this means to them is more $$$ with no effort, when even the slightest bit of effort (White Dwarf) would allow them to further increase the sales.

Overall I'm giving this a solid 7/10. It's a 6/10, 5 being 'Average' and 6 being 'Above Average', and it gets a 7 because it impressed me far more than I thought it would.