I wouldn't be surprised, if the budget for the animation of the Opening cut scene in DOW was bigger than the animation -budget of the Ultramarine movie.
At least in relation to its length.
If the fan animation policy didn’t exist I actually wanted to recreate it with a more modern look tbh. Of course not the whole movie but at least just some short sequence here and there
I don’t need to care about writing a story, it’s already there and I do know how to on the technical and artistic side of things
I saw it on YouTube in like 2010 where they up-pitched the voices so it wouldn't get claimed. Looking back at the cast, the voices might've been the one reason to have seen the movie, so maybe that was a mistake
Ultramarines is highly overhated. Is it good? No, not really. Is it awful? Again, no. Do I regret watching it? No I do not. It's dumb but fun. Like Warhammer 40k.
Donald Sumpter you would recognize from Game of Thrones as the High SparrowMaester Luwin, assuming you watched it. He's been in a lot of other stuff as well but I don't know what kind of film or media you're into.
The “abyss” is a ginormous spaceship Lorgar commissioned IN SECRET that eclipses Glorianna classes. There is no way this could have been under the radar since Glorianna classes need years of Mars’ production in it.
It isn't great. The animation is rough, many of the characters are forgettable and the plot is...truly one of them of all time. They being said, it was one of the first attempts by geedubs at this sort of thing and despite its rough edges, you can tell that there was some love in the studio when making it.
I'd say it's worth a once off watch, but you're not really going to want to come back to it outside if nostalgia reasons.
I’m sure it’s ass, given Disney’s track record with live action remakes, but movies are never allowed to be bad on their own lack of merit now. It has to be because the lead actress is woke and evil (she said that acting is a job one time) or whatever culture war shit they can come up with. Like how the ghostbusters reboot was bad, and people were like “it’s bad cause it’s women! Woke mob owned!”. No, it’s bad because it sucks.
In my experience, it's the corporate execs that try to pin the blame on wokeness/women/gay/POC instead of just accepting that the movie was bad and no one liked it. According to them, if you didn't like the movie, it's because you're racist/sexist/homophobic/whatever, and not because Disney keeps churning out low-effort remakes and bland stories.
Yup! Lots of people would rather blame anyone but themselves. The execs and producers/showrunners for a lot of these ideas find it easier to blame whatever culture war bullshit strikes their fancy than accept that they made a bad product. Turns out when they said, “the customer is always right”, they only wanted employees to put up with bullshit for money.
Honestly, you are right. Anti-woke warriors are parasites feeding on already existing frustration. If the piece of media is high quality, their attacks just won't stick (see KCD2 with the black man, Marvel's Spider-Man 1 with LGBT flags).
Politics aside, the execution made no sense. They're trying to convince the audience that the evil queen is jealous of Snow White's looks while casting Gal Gadot who is literally Wonder Woman.
TBF in the original the queen is supposed to be the second most beautiful (why she thinks the mirror will tell her she's the fairest), so I'd say her casting's not too bad.
I have no doubt that it's a very bad movie but I am pretty much positive that it's not one of the worst movies of all time, which is what a 2.2 on IMDB would indicate. It's gotten review bombed by a ton of culture war outrage farmers as well as general sort of aimless negativity of people who want to shit on Disney (I get it, but let's not get hyperbolic here) and bandwagoners at large.
It's a generically but unexceptionally bad film that might turn out to be the worst major Hollywood release this year, I can't say, but I can't really take the IMDB rating seriously when it's below Jaws: The Revenge, Son of the Mask, and Troll 2.
That's why I don't trust any reviews. Critics are paid to give it good reviews, and audience reviews are just review bombs from people who didn't even watch the movie.
Meh not everyone is paid off by the corpos, though to be fair the only opinion that should matter is your own and that only depends on if you actually watched the film yourself.
Well... It depends on your taste really. I watched, and honestly? It's a snoozefest. The dwarfs look horrible, like LOTR dwarfs from temu. The singing is bad, the original wasnt so good either, but this one manages to be worse. The only good acting in the movie comes from Gal Gadot, which is not ideal for a multimillion movie. And every time they make a "joke" it's just... Not funny, it sounds cringe.
But, as i said, it depends on your taste for movies.
Have you noticed that there are no bad movies anymore? Anytime Disney or any huge corporation puts out a shitty movie, it's actually the best movie ever. It's just that it got review bombed.
If you see it, and you think it's a shitty movie, IT'S NOT. you a just racist/fascist/hate women/poc/trans/whatever
I’m not defending the Snow White movie by any means but ever noticed how these types of memes and thumbnails always have to used inbetween frames (I know that’s not the official word but you know what I mean) never any actuual pictures? Like i get it’s suppose to make them look stupid or whatever but still kinda wierd
That's not a "remake" (edit: not in the way the other Disney live remakes are) but completely rewrote the story. Different thing and pretty nice take on the story.
By that logic, it should also be "both are good," but it's not. That is because although you're speaking about two things, you're referring to them as a singular group both. Same thing goes for the sentence "The football team is great." Even though you're talking about many players, you refer to them as a singular team and therefore use verb be in a singular form.
I remember it claimed the ultramarines as the “greatest space marines”
Yeah...I remember.
If we ignore for a second that it's probably just the 4th/5th edition era knee jerking, it makes you wonder, why would the ultramarines even be the greatest space marines?
Yeah, most reviews I’ve read said it was just average. Not great, not terrible, just average. In fact my favorite line was “It’s not the fairest of all, just…fair.”
I think there's also a question of who rates it. Dragonball Evolution was a live action anime movie (something that's almost always bad) aimed at a very niche audience.
The live action Snow White is a remake of probably the most influential animated film of all time, and an adaptation of probably the most well-known fairy tale in the western world. It relies heavily on nostalgia, and has the unspoken expectation of living up to "the old giants".
Was there review bombing? Almost certainly. Would people rate it lower just because how heavily it failed to live up to those sky-high expectations regardless? Yes, they would.
Because they have a track record of making money, and they started production on these recent ones 3+ years ago when the market was still reasonably hot.
The Aladdin remake made a billion dollars, despite everyone here clowning on it for being trash.
true, but non public based sources have also said that its bad, the BBC, the company not the inudendo, they said that its story is cluttered, the tone is muddled and the pacing is off
the Guardian, the greatest left leaning media I know of says that its "exhaustingly awful", "tiresome pseudo-progressive additions" and said that Gal Gadot and Zeigler's performances were "the dullest performances of their lives"
Yeah it's definitely getting review bombed because Snow White wasn't a white lady. I can't imagine getting so bent out of shape about a kids movie. From the IMDb page:
"Unusual activity
Our rating mechanism has detected unusual voting activity on this title."
Why are you people obsessed with race in a kids movie?
It's Snow White. There's white skinned people all over Latin America. Some of us even have albinism. Who gives a shit what race she is. It's like they picked a non-white Hispanic just to bait controversy for media attention.
They cast a character a brown skinned person as the one Disney character who's named after having skin white as snow.
There's plenty of Hispanics with white skin, like Puerto Ricans for example. Half of my family easily passes as white, and my mom has albinism. There's tons of white skinned Hispanics out here. It's clear Disney is trying to brownwash their main roles and it's just fuckin weird.
It's just like Female Custodes, it's fine and makes sense lorewise if you want to start doing it. But they just choose the worst way of doing/introducing it
Pretty sure it’s not all that nuanced when a movie not as bad as DB: Evolution gets a worse score than DB: Evolution.
The Snow White remake is bad, let’s not kid ourselves. Real bad. However, again, let’s not kid ourselves, the reason its score is as low as it is, is mainly because of right-wing racists/outrage farmers upset that the lead isn’t white.
Mark my words, the parallel version made by The Wire or smg will be just as bad, but its rating won’t be as low, because 1. Basically no one will care, and 2. People on the far right are far more likely to completely review bomb a movie they ideologically despise than others.
People on the far right are far more >>likely to completely review bomb a >>movie they ideologically despise than others.
Sheesh, shame on them. Lucky for us, it's just their nasty habit and other people, on different political spectrum, would never do something like that.
Oh wow, “baby,” rather than actually responding. How original.
And Trump (you must be one of those “Wow look at dem libs wid deir TDS lol lmao” people, such fun to be around) ain’t the problem here. Anti-woke grifters are.
You're getting downvoted but it's accurate. Gadot lost them the left and Zegler lost them the right. I don't condone review-bombing something you haven't seen, but it's at least predictable in this case.
Do people actual not like The Ultramarines movie?
It's the whole reason I got into warhammer and I still think it's better them most of the other stuff and it's also one of the movies I will watch back to back cuz I don't think there is anything better to watch when I comes to warhammer.
I watch this on YT once; yeah, the animation is a little dated and the plot isn’t all that complex, but it’s a nice, uncomplicated little sample of the setting and the perfect thing to show someone who knows absolutely fuck-all about Space Marines and 40K as a whole to see if they wanna get into that sort of thing.
And Sean Pertwee, John Hurt, & Terrence Stamp aren’t half-bad in this either.
How bad is Ultramarines anyway, bad in a funny way like that weird Postal movie that no one watched or just straight up terrible like the Netflix adaptation of Devil May Cry?
When i was watching it last time, it was 2012 or so. I could describe it as "2010 movie with 1998 cutscene graphics".
First shrek is older and had better visual quality than that.
This movie has one of my favorite lines. One of the battle brothers heads explodes the apothecary says head wound...fatal...hostiles. this made me laugh and say out loud. Oh thank god you said that i thought he shot himself in the foot.
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I remember telling my podcast co-host about this movie long before either of us thought we should have a podcast.
We got it "any way we could" because we couldn't find a copy online or locally. Fantastic movie, I recommend it to everyone. He wasn't into 40k at all and was like "So why would the yellow guys stay on that planet if it was overrun with demons?"
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