Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20150128042633/@comment-6078851-20150201171250

i don't know about what star wars is doing since i've never been a fan, and i didn't know about considering thor as a female or changing cpt. america's ethnicity. i'm aware that the marvel movies are in places significantly different from the comic lore, but the movies have had to compress 70/80ish years of in-depth, convoluted, time twisting, story into a few movies that can cater to both fans and newcomers to the franchise, so i allow a degree of artistic leniency for them.

while the lord of the rings movies do have non-lore throughout, overall it is fairly accurate, but i actually think those movies were too short to provide complete authenticity (not to mention the fact that the end of lotr is completely absent from the movies). whereas three 3-hour hobbit movies i thought would be able to (should've been able to) portray the book perfectly (shawshank redemption is a perfect adaptation of the book and that book is only 70-odd pages), and after part one i had exceptionally high hopes. but then jackson threw in a ton of 'hollywood-blockbuster' crap that had no place in the story at the large expense of accuracy.

it could be that 40k would get the 'politically-correct dumbing-down' treatment, which would ruin any other, potentially awesome, 40k movies - a good example is judge dredd: because the stallone dredd movie was trash and leagues away from what it should've been the recent dredd movie bombed, despite it's story accuracy, because folks got burned by the travesty which was stallone's dredd.

i know it's a long shot but i have high hopes for a big-budget, and good, 40k movie. if done well it could spawn a movie franchise similar to star wars or marvel but with the breadth of 40k lore such a franchise could end up way bigger than any other movie franchise. but as i said, i know it's a long shot, and i can only hope that the inquisitor short is so good that good things will follow :)