Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Two words- STAR WARS.
I'm quite shocked it wasn't mentioned (as far as I can tell, apologies if it has been metioned) as there is so many similarities. Such as the IG storm troopers and the storm troopers.

They really don't have much in common. The Imperial Storm Trooper is not the same thing as the Imperium's Storm Trooper. The IST is basically their Guardsmen. They just throw them at targets in huge numbers, and really don't care what the casualties are.

Sure, there's a few vague thematic similarities (Jedi=Psyker being one of the most overt), but otherwise, not so much. SW is a setting that is, basically, an Akira Kurosawa movie in space. It's also not at all GrimDark. It's actually a pretty bright, happy galaxy. Also, small, but that's besides the point.


True 40K movie?

The Karl Urban "Judge Dredd". Want to see Arbites in action? Watch that film. Five times.

 Psienesis wrote:


True 40K movie?

The Karl Urban "Judge Dredd". Want to see Arbites in action? Watch that film. Five times.

Yes! This! A thousand times this! Dredd was probably one of the best remakes of a movie. Makes better on the source material and Karl Urban captures what it is to be an actual Judge and to be Judge Dredd. If anything captures dystopian future law enforcement besides 40k, it would be Dredd.

On someone talking about Priest, again the movie was complete gak compared to the original manga it came from. It didn't do that source material any justice.

 Envihon wrote:

 Psienesis wrote:


True 40K movie?

The Karl Urban "Judge Dredd". Want to see Arbites in action? Watch that film. Five times.

Yes! This! A thousand times this! Dredd was probably one of the best remakes of a movie. Makes better on the source material and Karl Urban captures what it is to be an actual Judge and to be Judge Dredd. If anything captures dystopian future law enforcement besides 40k, it would be Dredd.

On someone talking about Priest, again the movie was complete gak compared to the original manga it came from. It didn't do that source material any justice.

Agreed with the Dredd part, I still remeber watching that movie in the cinema with a friend. Oh sweet Emperor divine was it a good eveing after we had seen said film.

And well I never read the Priest manga, but I liked the movie actualy, it was a solid dose of grimness and despair all boiled togetter

 Trondheim wrote:

 Envihon wrote:

 Psienesis wrote:


True 40K movie?

The Karl Urban "Judge Dredd". Want to see Arbites in action? Watch that film. Five times.

Yes! This! A thousand times this! Dredd was probably one of the best remakes of a movie. Makes better on the source material and Karl Urban captures what it is to be an actual Judge and to be Judge Dredd. If anything captures dystopian future law enforcement besides 40k, it would be Dredd.

On someone talking about Priest, again the movie was complete gak compared to the original manga it came from. It didn't do that source material any justice.

Agreed with the Dredd part, I still remeber watching that movie in the cinema with a friend. Oh sweet Emperor divine was it a good eveing after we had seen said film.

And well I never read the Priest manga, but I liked the movie actualy, it was a solid dose of grimness and despair all boiled togetter

The Manga does it in ten-folds and isn't just set in the future but time hops as well. It is a really good manga and suggest it if you liked the movie but you will see the differences right in the first book.

Is that Dredd the newer one yeah?

There's actually been a lot more suggestions than I thought, might have to have a film binge next week when I'm off work, building my Sons of Horus.

The opening scene in Joss Weadons firefly reminds me of a long lost system trying to resist the returning Imperium.

300 was to me what a Space Marine vs Ork battle would look like. Particularly the bit where they send in the huge guy with a 2 metre greatsword in one hand, reminds me of an Ork Nob or Warboss vs SM Captain. Loads of Dakka and Boyz from the Persians, Spartans using tactical position and their own prowess to almost win against insurmountable odds.

The final scene reminds me of what would happen should an Ork Waaagh! Get so powerful as to wipe out a Chapter Master and the First company. The Chapter (and a whole lot more as well) would deploy and smash them apart.

Hands down. Harlock: Space Pirate. Look it up. It's pretty cool.

 Vigilant wrote:
Hands down. Harlock: Space Pirate. Look it up. It's pretty cool.

Just from that name it sounds amazing.

 Furyou Miko wrote:

Experiment 626 wrote:C'mon guys, if you want to see proper Starship Troopers, then look for the animated series Roughnecks - much, much better, and they're wearing power armour, plus they've got some of the various specialist suits such as the Marauders. And the MI really are complete badasses in it, at least as much as they could make them for older kids...

As for other movies, I love Battle Los Angeles. It's pretty much Tau vs. Imp Guard where the "guardsmen" are actual badasses and not a bunch of bullet magnet chumps!

Actually, I saw the aliens in Battle: LA as being more like the AdMech than the Tau. The ground troops and weapon beasts have a lot more in common with Skitarii and Sagitarii than they do Fire Warriors and Battlesuits/

The human army are definitely a PDF regiment though.

The aliens weaponry, their hit-and-run tactics and their high use of drones, plus the look of their helmets honestly make me instantly think of Tau.
Their light artillery walker that fired the clustered missiles instantly made me think of Tau missile pods too! That highway battle scene was pretty sweet.

And no way, the National Guard & Army units were definitely PDF level, but the Marines themselves were more akin to Dan Abbnet Guardsmen as they were actually pretty boss.

Eh, Priest, I annoyed my ex to no end because I kept mentionning 40k during the whole movie.

Okay, a bit of a stretch but watching Dawn of the Planet of the Apes made me think of Orks!

Apes with machine guns screaming and firing wildly into the air! I'm pretty sure I cheered WAAAAAGH! (I also had been drinking vodka every time someone said "Ape" or "Human" on screen)

ImAGeek wrote:

 Vigilant wrote:
Hands down. Harlock: Space Pirate. Look it up. It's pretty cool.

Just from that name it sounds amazing.

It's a Japanese animation. With space pirates that wear Space Marine-esque battle armor. Their ship is affected by some Chaos type smoke that makes it a living demon ship. They recruit from planets they passby. It could literally be a story within the Warhammer 40k universe.

All of a sudden I wanna watch Battle Beyond the Stars for some reason. lol

Ok... for something different, how about the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Think about it. This is a universe where planets are destroyed due to bureaucratic indifference, collapsing hrung disasters (whatever they might be) and shoe related apocalypses. Where people are lynched by mobs of respectable physicists. Where the end of the universe itself is a light evening's entertainment.

That's dark, son.