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Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie
Colton Clark
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Landon Turner
A for effort
D- for practice
The thing is a 40k cartoon could work especially if based on one of the comics
Dominic Miller
At least you could find a real cover.....
Lincoln Ramirez
Well, its boring and has no depth, neither to its characters nor to the story-arc. The latter one is really predictable and unoriginal. The animation is really, really bad and it has a lot of errors concerning w40k lore. But I am still glad they tried, was still a bit fun to watch.
Samuel Stewart
>Warhammer 40k
>Ultramarines
>Depicts Black templar
Well, I give a B- for effort.
Evan Gonzalez
How about that Lord Inquisitor though
Jaxon Walker
great soundtrack, movie becomes boring after they reach the planet (10 min in)
Anthony Myers
>40k
>depth
Noah King
Dead Men Walking and 15 hours.
Connor Moore
If you consider those deep you must think a puddle is an ocean.
Hunter Gutierrez
Oh, I'm sorry if All quiet on the Western Front gone 40k is not 2deep4u.
Christopher Brooks
>Well, its boring and has no depth, neither to its characters nor to the story-arc. The latter one is really predictable and unoriginal.
So, accurate to 40k, then.
Jordan Bailey
They hired Dan Abnett to write it, and then threw half the established fluff out just to cover plotholes. It's been a while, but off of the top of my head:
>No such thing as Scouts anymore. New recruits get put straight into power armor (so they can act like complete fucking retards and it can be explained by them being inexperienced.)
>Crozius Arcanum shoots magic blue flames now.
>Chapter standard lights on fire when Daemons are nearby. Because reasons. Also the not-scouts are carrying a chapter standard.
>Apothecary not ready.
Julian Moore
Also:
>The captain giving you his chainsword makes you the new captain.
Justin Cooper
I was sent to the premiere by beasts of war.
All the 40k blogs and big community forums had other neckbeards there to see it too so we could all be interviewed by our respected sites.
Films was okay, they did fine for a B movie with no budget. The makes were pretty humble and did Q&A with us after. Then we got to hang out with free beer.
It was kind of cool and I got to meet the producers. He invited my friend and I to go get dinner, but we had to get back to our Greyhound coach to get the last one home from London to Southampton.
They tried to make something good without it having to have all the Hollywood shit like love interest.
Chase Lee
Could have been better, could have been worse. It has John Hurt and Terrance Stamp in it, which is a plus.
Kayden James
10/10 Movie, God Emperor would approve!
Jack Gutierrez
I dug it. I enjoyed the fact they went for more of a horror-war movie than just a straight up action movie. The CGI could be better, and the lore mistakes are weird, but it's fine.
Soundtrack was GOAT though: youtube.com
David Sanchez
>No such thing as Scouts anymore. New recruits get put straight into power armor (so they can act like complete fucking retards and it can be explained by them being inexperienced.)
It was kinda explained in a comic that came out with Collector's Edition.
James Foster
Post more Redeemer. He's great.
Zachary Perry
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Caleb Jackson
>It was kinda explained in a comic that came out with Collector's Edition.
It still falls on its face that the super elite best chapter of the best soldiers in the universe have no fucking idea what they're doing... because we just skipped all their formative years... so they'd have no idea what they were doing.
It was bad. It could have been worse, but not by much. Waiting a few years and then just rendering a movie in the Space Marine game engine would have been a million times better than this ended up. At least in the game the Astartes felt like they weighed more than three pounds each.
Grayson Morales
>Ultramarines
>Has a Black Templar on the cover
m8 that's uncalled for, we know we're rolled into the ultrasmurfs, just let us be.
Christian Thomas
The actual movie, not whatever you've got a poster of?
Terrible, and I don't even know Astartes lore well enough to see most of the problems in that department. The only likeable character was the Apothecary, who EVERYONE, including the Captain who should have known better, crapped on constantly and who ended up practically fridged.
Plotwise, it was like a half-assed fanfiction where someone was ticking off (stereo)typical plot developments without putting the slightest emotion into them. And the "happy ending" grated HORRIBLY with what had happened over the course of the movie.
The German fanfilm Damnatus has a few glaring flaws, but my gosh it blows Ultramarines out of the water as a labor of love.
John Parker
Whos dick I gotta suck to see all of his glory animated?
Brayden Rodriguez
Never seen the movie, but when ever I though about how neat it would be to see a 40k movie I realize it would be impossible to make, just from the sheer amount of shit you would have to try and explain to audiences, most of whom will know nothing about 40k. Or at least it would be impossible to make something that be pleasing to anybody at all.
Dune had the exact same problem with the movie adaptation. They cut a bunch of shit, half assed a bunch of other stuff and it still came out as a barely coherent mess
John Harris
Look at the Redeemer,Deff Swkadron, and even Damnation Crusade.
A 40k cartoon/movie shouldnt be about past IPs or characters but be their own thing