It’s always difficult to start, but in the process an idea arose. I’m a fan of Warhammer 40,000, although I’ve never played the board game. I was hooked on books, I have already read a lot of fiction on them. The Warhammer 40,000 Universe itself is attractive, it is gloomy, bleak, atmospheric and thoughtful. It has its own history, traditions and customs. An unusual look at hyperspace – Warp. But the juiciest thing is the battles, which usually turn into a meat grinder, when blood literally floods the streets and corpses form barricades. All this makes Warhammer 40,000 an excellent combat fantasy. And the potential of the Universe is such that it can outshine both The Lord of the Rings and the trilogy of the same name by Peter Jackson. All you have to do is film the chronicle of Horus’s fall from grace. But despite the above, with a heavy heart, anticipating the worst, I downloaded this cartoon, realizing how fragile it all is and how easy it is to ruin. And you know, I was left with a double feeling. Both disappointment and viewing pleasure.(There was already a post here about Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie, which I did not read, it’s sinful, and it’s possible that my thoughts will repeat what is written there.)
Hello, I’m an aesthetic asshole and we’re going to talk about Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie.
The first frames evoke a https://eu-casino.uk strong feeling of skipping the screensaver. Graphics. Animation. They’re terrible. They evoke a strong feeling of video on the game engine of a game from 2006-2008. All the faces are the same, now I not only distinguish between blacks in films (if more than one black is starring in a film, then I no longer understand who is who) but also Ultramarines. Even without helmets. Don’t think I’m so stupid. Although the helmets are generally atas. Kohl game If the cartoon is similar to the game, then they would make a green health bar with the name of the Space Marine above each character. Characters move as if they are doing the Robot dance. A broken skull looks like a neat dent in the side of a car, and a trickle of blood looks like ketchup diluted with water. But the developers go to great lengths. With what love and care they draw each armor. And the gray, gloomy color perfectly conveys the atmosphere and fits into the universe. Even fog and darkness, designed to hide the squalor of the graphics, work on the atmosphere. The cartoon still catches you, makes you immerse yourself in the story, and all the complaints about the quality of the picture are the grumbling of an aesthetic asshole trying to show off his rich inner world.I can do it quite well. And this is where the dual perception of the cartoon begins.
Screenwriter Abnett squeezed out everything possible, despite the small budget, although there are also flaws, blunders and questions – “Why?». For example – “Why were a dozen Ultramarines sent there, although they arrived on a huge, no, not like that, on a drop-dead big ship?». Or – “Why do chaosites from the Dark Legion use zombie tactics, running out of the fog in a friendly, mostly unarmed crowd?».There are also flaws in the behavior of the Ultramarines. For example, they hide when shelling begins under the bottom of the car, and one of them completely violates the order, planning to run to save the commander, as in “Saving Fighting Ryan,” as if he were a home recruit boy, just torn from his mother’s breast. So that you understand the impossibility of this situation, this is how a special forces soldier from Alpha, SAS or Delta will violate the direct order of the commander, behaving like an inexperienced recruit. Space Marines are the elite of the elite.
What makes the script so compelling?. The devil knows. He is wretched from beginning to end, a bow-legged freak, an ugly duckling, who after watching turns into a Beautiful Swan. You can, of course, highlight successful fight scenes, just in the spirit of Vakha, but this is not enough. Lacks epicness. After all, the plot in Warhammer 40,000 is usually built on brutal, large-scale battles. Usually, some planet is attacked by the enemies of the Imperium – heretics, alien races, destroy all living things, capture people, then the Imperial Guard and Space Marines fly in (separately or together) and kill everyone.As they say – “Imperium always wins”. But if the planet cannot be recaptured, then the troops of the Imperium can destroy the planet. That’s why you expect epicness from the cartoon, massive carnage, but this is not the case, the whole plot is a quest. And the Ultramarines squad is a party in some kind of MMORPG. They go after the Artifact, get the Artifact. Another question about the plot – “Where did the portal to the Warp go??».
I don’t know, Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie is the most brutal, how can it be without swearing, it’s crazy. According to me, the cartoon sucks. A regular review doesn’t work here, it can’t show the soul. Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie is an ugly, even scary girl with a kind, lovely, angelic character who is loved despite her appearance.
Imagine. Heavy, dense fog, in which the light of a lantern barely breaks through, and the instruments simply go blind. Imagine a field covered with corpses, tortured, desecrated. What a stench the Chaos Marines carry, because the Warp corrodes first the soul, and then the flesh. The ominous darkness of the Imperial Temple, where, somewhere in the darkness, a demon hid. The weight of the sacred Warhammer in the hands and the shaking bolter. The weight of armor and the past. This is how Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie should be described.It affects not the mind, but the emotions, it is a big guy that comes to you and drowns you, forcibly, in a bath of fragrant, sticky, dense, carefully packaged atmosphere of Warhammer 40,000, until you choke and fly through a dark tunnel towards the light, thinking how wonderful, magnificent and cool it is.
The saddest thing is that there was clearly not enough money. Let’s continue with comparisons and metaphors. After all, I’m an aesthetic asshole. The lack of sufficient money to withdraw anything decent can be expressed by these comparisons: This is a supercar crawling at a speed of 10 km/h in a city traffic jam, this is a football player who should shine in the best European stadiums, but due to a ridiculous injury he plays in the second division, a talented chef who has only been given frying pan frying pan, oil and three eggs. These talented guys who made Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie went over their heads, I think someone at Games Workshop should have sold one of their Ferraris or given up some mistress to give them more money. And they would have done, I’m sure, something cooler.
I would not recommend Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie to everyone, but if you wish, you can check it out. You won’t regret it. Unusual sensations. Sayonara.I’m leaving to:
"All night until dawn,
Read poetry to prostitutes
and fry alcohol with the bandits".
