Ultramarines

[Arthur_Parker]

ULTRAMARINES Movie - Trailer 1

Ultramarines: The Movie is a 70-minute sci-fi thriller CGI movie set in Games Workshop's fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe and based around the Ultramarines Chapter of Space Marines (Warhammer 40,000). The screenplay is to be written by Black Library author Dan Abnett. Details of the storyline and characters are yet to be revealed.  Terence Stamp, Sean Pertwee and John Hurt head the cast of voice actors.

This looks hilariously bad.

[IainC]

Aargh.

I had some hopes that with the voice talent they'd brought on board and with a writer like Dan Abnett who is as canonical as anyone actually at GW these days it would be a decent bit of nerdporn. That CGI though looks just awful.

[NowhereMan]

Yeah, I'll hold out some hope that the writing and voice acting is decent but that looks like it belongs in a late 90's game's cut scene. At best maybe it looks like a some machinima with a Fallout 3 mod.

[apocrypha]

Oh dear. I've seen better cutscenes and intro movies in games ffs.

Plus, John Hurt voice acting makes me think there's a 50% chance it will suck regardless. He is so unreliable these days, hasn't done anything really good for years. And he's done some utter, utter dross.

[Mrbloodworth]

Its like the star ship troopers series..

[HaemishM]

That CGI though looks just awful.

Yeah, that. Terrible from start to finish.

[Sir T]

You know, this reminds me of a games convention (Gaelcon) one year, I think it was 1996. Anyway on the Games workshop stand they had a contom made video running all the time. the second day they had something different running (tell you what it was in a second) I never got the story as to why till talking with people after the con. This was a custom made short movie by Games Workshop with custom made Fake Terminator suits and other stuff, with actors saying shit like "My life for the Emperor". After awhile the GW guest (I think it was Andy Chambers) asked people what they thought of it. When he got a mixed reaction, he said "Well let me show you what I think of it" and he yanked the video out of the VCR and pulled the tape out of the videos, thrashing them. Then someone said "Uh, you know we are giving those out that as a prise in the Warhammer competitions..." And he went "oops"

So, he sent people out and bought videos of Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness, which they played for the remainder of the con and gave out as prises. So, at least some of Workshops previous efforts at filming are so bad that even the company reps want to forget them.

On the subject of John Hurt... its a sidetrack, but why do they insist these days on getting 'famous' movie actors to play animated roles? The only 2 actors i can think of that are any good at it are Robin Williams and Mike Myers. Everyone else either ads nothing to the role compared with a dedicated voice actor in compensation for their huge salary or are downright distracting.

[Ingmar]

Mark Hamill's Joker says hi.

Seriously though there is a lot of good 'celebrity' voice work out there, it isn't universally bad.

[Sir T]

Lets check out Mark Hamills on screen film career after Star wars.  Oh yeah, the Wing Commander games

Actually Hamill got his start in voice acting from Star wars, where he would go around the set doing a better Yoda than Frank Oz 

[SurfD]

Lets check out Mark Hamills on screen film career after Star wars.  Oh yeah, the Wing Commander games

Actually Hamill got his start in voice acting from Star wars, where he would go around the set doing a better Yoda than Frank Oz 

Hey, He was in a Jay and Silent Bob movie too.

[angry.bob]

Lets check out Mark Hamills on screen film career after Star wars.  Oh yeah, the Wing Commander games

That's some sort of sarcasm or something, right?

Anyway, this is doomed to be corny as shit and take itself way too seriously. GW fluff has always been pretntious shit, and it gets worse with each book/update. This is also making one of the local supernerds go batshit crazy with excitement. Since I've moved here the guy has played his Ultramarines "in character" by "relaying orders" to his "troops on the ground" and this movie is making him even worse since he views it as some sort of affirmation that Ultramarines are ... I don't even know what. I also get a really strong "baby fucker" vibe from him. I love tabletop wwargaming, but god do I hate most of the people involved in it.

[rk47]

I think it's the unique selling point of W40K really. The WAAAAGH of the Orks and Ultra-SRS BIZ-Marines are just some of the examples why the universe had more 'colour' than D&D Elves & Dwarves. I dig it when I played Dawn of War Series TBH.

The in-game briefings delivered with Emperor worship lines while preaching holy xenocide is probably the best part.
But this movie animation could use some work.

[WindupAtheist]

Everytime I see something related to 40k I can feel my neck trying to sprout a beard.

[Arthur_Parker]

Everytime I see something related to 40k I can feel my neck trying to sprout a beard.

[Ironwood]

I suspect that I'm going to use the improper spelling 'prises' from now on.  It just seems more fitting.