The point is people are hyped for Warhammer 40K brought to you by the neck-snapping Superman. The hype is unearned. Maybe it's pity hype after DC did Cavill dirty.
The last video game thing Cavill was in was The Witcher and that was v good
Ergo,
Yeah if Cavill is involved I’m actually hopeful
Dude is familiar with the setting
You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
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I took a half day off so I can get shit done for this party tomorrow. Two more meetings to go.
The point is people are hyped for Warhammer 40K brought to you by the neck-snapping Superman. The hype is unearned. Maybe it's pity hype after DC did Cavill dirty.
The last video game thing Cavill was in was The Witcher and that was v good
Ergo,
Yeah if Cavill is involved I’m actually hopeful
Dude is familiar with the setting
I am not sure his hyperfamiliarity and it being a passion project will create an accessible product
I dont even know how you explain 40K to anyone outside a gaming community. What is gonna run through minds seeing this Amazon ad at the superbowl?
Yeah so its a tabletop game originally
Ah okay like uh Monopoly
Well...no...like wargaming
Oh like LARP?
OK well anyway so its in the future and theres all these aliens
Like Star Trek?
Well,
The thing is that most of the good fiction in the setting doesn't set out to explain the whole thing
Part of the point of the setting as a whole is that it's vast, significant events take place across huge spans of time, and most narrators of those events are unreliable
The better approach is explaining the characters
This guy hunts dangerous rogue psychics
These are grunt soldiers on a backwater world fighting a weird alien threat
This is an alien cult trying to take over a planetary government
Etc.
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the warcraft movie made ZERO sense to someone who hasn't played world of warcraft. They didn't even try to make it make sense.
It reminded me of those live action anime adaptations that get made in japan, where the point isn't to tell a good story or to stand alone as a work of art, but rather to showcase a bunch of professional cosplay and do a quick greatest hits of fan-favorite scenes from the anime.
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
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i didn't really enjoy the Witcher show
it was fine but i felt very much like the fact i never played the games hindered my experience
The point is people are hyped for Warhammer 40K brought to you by the neck-snapping Superman. The hype is unearned. Maybe it's pity hype after DC did Cavill dirty.
The last video game thing Cavill was in was The Witcher and that was v good
Ergo,
Yeah if Cavill is involved I’m actually hopeful
Dude is familiar with the setting
I am not sure his hyperfamiliarity and it being a passion project will create an accessible product
But it might be work for us
Oh I don’t give a shit about newcomers to 40k, the great unwashed masses
This is pure unfiltered nerd on nerd action here
You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
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This is a great use of 20 minutes if you've got it to spare. Very peaceful and relaxing as this wildlife photographer builds a pond and records it.
it was fine but i felt very much like the fact i never played the games hindered my experience
i just enjoyed Cavill growl at things
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WH40K is very much a property where you can make a movie that's accessible to anyone and the fans will hate it or a movie that's impenetrable to anyone but the fans and everyone else will hate it
I dont even know how you explain 40K to anyone outside a gaming community. What is gonna run through minds seeing this Amazon ad at the superbowl?
Yeah so its a tabletop game originally
Ah okay like uh Monopoly
Well...no...like wargaming
Oh like LARP?
OK well anyway so its in the future and theres all these aliens
Like Star Trek?
Well,
The thing is that most of the good fiction in the setting doesn't set out to explain the whole thing
Part of the point of the setting as a whole is that it's vast, significant events take place across huge spans of time, and most narrators of those events are unreliable
The better approach is explaining the characters
This guy hunts dangerous rogue psychics
These are grunt soldiers on a backwater world fighting a weird alien threat
This is an alien cult trying to take over a planetary government
Etc.
I dont disagree but I think the soul of 40K is a really tough sell.
You know, Star Trek has "live long and prosper" and "to go where noone has gone before, explore new worlds"
Warhammer 40k dot com has uh
"In the Grim Darkness of the Far Future, THERE IS ONLY WAR"
And this is me with my studio exec / publisher hat mind, I cant wait to see what madness he gets greenlit.
I had my assistant pull up the IP website and she frowned deeply!
Conversely the really bad 40k fiction (which there is a lot of) is the stuff where someone has tried to work in all of their favourite setting elements and it becomes a sprawling, incoherent mess
Most often manifesting as "and there were space marines for some reason"
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Oh hey, we're back.
So how about the Moon exploding [chat]? Funny thing, eh?
it was fine but i felt very much like the fact i never played the games hindered my experience
I actually loved it, even if I though I haven't played the games or read the books. I felt it stood on its own well and the blend of Hercules/Xena/Monster-of-the-week with a prestige series budget and pacing was really great. It was well made but not overly heavy or serious.
The first season's structure where there were three timelines, scenes mixed, totally unmarked was... I don't think it did the show any favors and it probably would have been more accessible without. But was interesting! I sort of liked piecing together the plot talking to friends after watching an episode.
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
Conversely the really bad 40k fiction (which there is a lot of) is the stuff where someone has tried to work in all of their favourite setting elements and it becomes a sprawling, incoherent mess
Most often manifesting as "and there were space marines for some reason"
I dont even know how you explain 40K to anyone outside a gaming community. What is gonna run through minds seeing this Amazon ad at the superbowl?
Yeah so its a tabletop game originally
Ah okay like uh Monopoly
Well...no...like wargaming
Oh like LARP?
OK well anyway so its in the future and theres all these aliens
Like Star Trek?
Well,
Don't explain shit to anyone. Just let them watch the movie? Smother them with a pillow if they insist on talking or asking questions, which is praxis for any movie.
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MaximillianDood has called it Cameron's "Princess Mononoke" and that is almost enough to make me interested.
It’s baffling to me Cameron keeps giving all his biggest roles in this franchise to the most boring, zero-charisma actors and putting all his AAA talent in the blue fursuits
Stephen Lang isn't boring. He's Langtastic.
He’s okay, but he doesn’t put butts in the seats
Lang is p great.
If he was cast as Cable instead of Brolin we'd be seeing him doing a lot more high profile shit.
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40k gives you instant access to amazing action scenes. Perhaps the the #1 40k does well is look cool, the Space Gothic Horror look, the big armors, easily identified factions and big burly men being blasted by bombs booming and surviving due to power armor.
What it doesn't do at all is get you an easy way into its lore. 40K lore is (some would say on purpose) very stupid. And it's also stale on purpose. They took 15 years of writing 40 books to get to a scene everyone already knew the outcome of.
And it has very few likeable protagonist. The only things that resonated are either the downtrodden or the outsiders, the rogue inquisitors.
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what's Paul Verhoeven doing these days?
It’s easy
So you know like Dune, Canticle for Leibowitz, the original concept for Ghostbusters taking place in space, and Event Horizon?
Imagine if someone stirred that in a pot and added meth
Like, wow that’s a lot of meth
That’s 40k
And why is it 40,000?
Well, that's the year it takes place in, and also how much money it winds up costing
Not like this
Yeah if Cavill is involved I’m actually hopeful
Dude is familiar with the setting
I am not sure his hyperfamiliarity and it being a passion project will create an accessible product
But it might be work for us
The thing is that most of the good fiction in the setting doesn't set out to explain the whole thing
Part of the point of the setting as a whole is that it's vast, significant events take place across huge spans of time, and most narrators of those events are unreliable
The better approach is explaining the characters
This guy hunts dangerous rogue psychics
These are grunt soldiers on a backwater world fighting a weird alien threat
This is an alien cult trying to take over a planetary government
Etc.
It reminded me of those live action anime adaptations that get made in japan, where the point isn't to tell a good story or to stand alone as a work of art, but rather to showcase a bunch of professional cosplay and do a quick greatest hits of fan-favorite scenes from the anime.
it was fine but i felt very much like the fact i never played the games hindered my experience
Oh I don’t give a shit about newcomers to 40k, the great unwashed masses
This is pure unfiltered nerd on nerd action here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LvaX748pVI
i just enjoyed Cavill growl at things
I dont disagree but I think the soul of 40K is a really tough sell.
You know, Star Trek has "live long and prosper" and "to go where noone has gone before, explore new worlds"
Warhammer 40k dot com has uh
"In the Grim Darkness of the Far Future, THERE IS ONLY WAR"
And this is me with my studio exec / publisher hat mind, I cant wait to see what madness he gets greenlit.
I had my assistant pull up the IP website and she frowned deeply!
Most often manifesting as "and there were space marines for some reason"
So how about the Moon exploding [chat]? Funny thing, eh?
Still enjoyed it, cause I love me some fantasy and also my standards are pretty low
slippery
Uh
Moistness for the Emperor
https://youtu.be/zXvKIyobJ8E
No I mean plot-wise
Brotato: You are a potato with a Rambo bandana, little blob baddies try to eat you
Isaac:
I was checking the wiki and was not ready for that
man is the real monster
and elves
I actually loved it, even if I though I haven't played the games or read the books. I felt it stood on its own well and the blend of Hercules/Xena/Monster-of-the-week with a prestige series budget and pacing was really great. It was well made but not overly heavy or serious.
The first season's structure where there were three timelines, scenes mixed, totally unmarked was... I don't think it did the show any favors and it probably would have been more accessible without. But was interesting! I sort of liked piecing together the plot talking to friends after watching an episode.
https://youtu.be/WHoOVoqV3aE
where they all break into song and sing
Conjunction Junction
Don't explain shit to anyone. Just let them watch the movie? Smother them with a pillow if they insist on talking or asking questions, which is praxis for any movie.
>:[
BUT LIKE THE FAR FUTURE NOT JUST NEXT YEAR BUT THE YEAR AFTER TOO
Lang is p great.
If he was cast as Cable instead of Brolin we'd be seeing him doing a lot more high profile shit.
he was the witcher
now we get a new one
What it doesn't do at all is get you an easy way into its lore. 40K lore is (some would say on purpose) very stupid. And it's also stale on purpose. They took 15 years of writing 40 books to get to a scene everyone already knew the outcome of.
And it has very few likeable protagonist. The only things that resonated are either the downtrodden or the outsiders, the rogue inquisitors.
Liam Hemsworth
I just looked at Cavill's IG
It just says "Warhammer" and the crest looks like Fantasy Warhammer (not that I'd know) not 40K
*flips table*
*dies under pile of minis*