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Well, in the wake of the Rebel Moon debate and Rogue Hobbies' "Coolest Warhammer Movies you can watch right now [Side note: I'm a simp for pretty gamer girlz.. but with a Scottish Brogue?! How do I make my life all about this?] I thought it'd be nice to have a list of 40k Movies- not official ones, but ones that inspired/ were inspired by. These are my take and please add your own-

Aliens
Tyranids, Obvs- but also Catachans, IG and somewhat Ork Mega-Armor from the power lifter (Maybe a Stretch there).

Space Hunters: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
This is a cheap-o rip off of Star Wars, but it gets down the whole 80's post-apocalyptic Aesthetic that's rampant in Blanche's art. I'd also say there's a lot of Orky type Aesthetics. Ex: the main villian has 2 power klaws and his name is GoreDawg... GOREDAWG!!

Hunter Prey
A T'au fire warrior group sets off to re-capture a criminal that's escaped custody. Okay, not really- but when you watch it, that's what you're thiking! It pays lip service to being in the "Enemy Mine" world by mentioning Draks, but they're absent. We get to see a Blood Axe Merc, though!

Dredd
Legimately, GW had the 2000 AD license to make a Dredd tabletop game in the 80's, and the comic company pulled out at the last minute.. So. Yeah, they had the molds, so why not make Adeptus Aribites? The Stacks also show what life would be like for the average citizen in a hive citizen. Karl Urban is a comic book nerd, and this one is FAR superior to the Stallone one.

Hardware
The Mechanicus would feel right at home with this one. In the post=apocalyptic future, a guy finds the head of a combat cyborg and she uses it in art, not knowing it's intent on killing her dude so it can be with her. This points out why Ad Mech mind-wipe servitors (unless they WANT to torture them, ala ArchoFlagellents).

Mutant chronicles
Yeah, it's based off of a totally different game, but honestly, if I told you this was IG vs. Chaos mutants, would you know the difference? Don't think so.

Super Dimension Fortress macross
Tau battlesuits.

Moving on..

Predator
Catachan jungle fighters rely heavily on this movie, but also the old Necromunda Malcadon Spryer is basically the Yautja.

Rambo First Blood: part II
Sly Marbo. Part I is mostly in civilian America, and it's only in the 2nd part he's in a Jungle, fighting.

Event Horizon
When Chaos takes over a ship, this is what you get.

Terminator 2
Yeah, this could go either way with the Necrons, or the Men of Iron we've heard of, but never seen. I chose the 2nd one as the action is ramped up, as is the apocalyptic fatalism of the war of the machines.

Dune Dune...And, Dune
Speaking of Men of Iron, that's basically the Brulatarian Jihad- plus, Y'know, Emperor of the Galaxy, Navigator Guild. Yeah.

Hellraiser
Dark Eldar Homunculi and/ or Slannesh- take your pick!

Mad Max: The Road Warrior
Again, the post-apocalyptic 80's vibe- but Orks Speed Freeks rely heavily on the junked together vehicles. Which reminds me, I need to do an Ork Warlord named "Lord Humongous".

Priest
This movie is a weird one, being a scifi-western vampire hunter movie based on a Korean comic. (Yes, you live in a world where this exists!) But the whole dark gothic city controlled by the Church vibe is very much the same in 40k. Pal Bettany's titular character also has to use his deductive abilities, so could also be Inquisitor-ish (An Inqusitor's retinue at the least). Also-Karl Urban again!

Stargate
So- this is what the Necron'tyr were like when fleshy? Hmm- they need more C'tan batteries!

Dirty Dozen
Col Schaffer's Last Chancers were a direct 40k take off this classic.

Sucker Punch
I think this movie has so much action imagery in it, it hits a lot of sytlistic buttons. Undead Krieg guardsman, Orks attacking a castle, and the whole WWI/WWII army aesthetic that is part of the IG. Although, this whole movie feels like it was adapted from a comic. Must be the Snyder-ism.

Pacific Rim
It would surprise me if any Titanicus player had NOT seen this film. Kirioth mentioned a 3-legged Titan in Ad Ridiculous and everyone's head immediately went to Crimson Typhoon.

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Good list is good. I'm struggling to think of much to add. Starship Troopers probably ought to be on there somewhere. I'll also toss out the Riddick movies. They're kind of a confusing mess, but I feel like any one of them would feel at home on this list.


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Firefly/ Serenity = Rogue Trader

(They tried to make River a Callidus Assassin, but the Rogue Traders pulled their rescue before her training was complete. Her subliminal Kill Scene in the bar in Serenity was the first thing I thought of when I read the Extremis Trigger Word strat).



   
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What, no Starship Troopers (1st one, thankfully ive never saw the rest of them) on your list?

Action wise that is literally Guard vs Tyranids.

BTW, the power loader in Aliens is not ork Mega armor. It's a FW Sentinel loader.
   
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Sweden

I think "Robot Jox" would be a good inspiration for any imperial knight players out there

And maybe some gundam anime stuff for the tau out there?

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Eh, I was kinda of leery putting Troopers on the list since the book is a MUCH bigger inspiration to 40k (They are wearing power armor!!) And also, there are a ton of sequels now. I saw part of like 3 or 4 on SyFy and was not impressed. But yeah, here ya go:

Starship Troopers- Would you like to know more?

One that may be a stretch, as it's for but a snippet of lore:
The 6th day
This is basically the Proteus Protocol that the Fabricator General/ Minotaur's chapter master may be using. Something similar was attempted on Cawl in 'The Great Work", but it didn't take.

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It’s a tv show and some tv movies (based on a novel series), but I’d consider including Sharpe as it’s a big source of inspiration for Gaunt’s Ghosts:
https://web.archive.org/web/20050103115404/http://www.blacklibrary.com/interviews/danwhm37c.html

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To me an obvious one that's missing to me is Excalibur . The Primarch story is so "Knights of the Round Table" to start with, and the imagery from the movie clearly made an impression. Mordreds golden armor, steel-studded knights fighting brother against brother, the betrayal by the "favorite" which ruins the kingdom. Great watch!

And They Shall Not Fit Through Doors!!!

Tyranid Army Progress -- With Classic Warriors!:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/743240.page#9671598 
   
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Chronicles of Riddick always gave me sort of "CSM invade a world and the Planetary Defense Force hold out for about as long as you expect"-vibes.

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 TheChrispyOne wrote:
Eh, I was kinda of leery putting Troopers on the list since the book is a MUCH bigger inspiration to 40k (They are wearing power armor!!) And also, there are a ton of sequels now. I saw part of like 3 or 4 on SyFy and was not impressed. But yeah, here ya go:

Starship Troopers- Would you like to know more?


for 40K, i'd recommend the anime version. it's a little closer to the novel (though it also changes a lot), but the big thing is it has the Powered Armor, and they are very Tau. (and they're fighting quasi-tyranids)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0161032/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers_(OVA)









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Event Horizon is probably a 1 for 1 recollaction what happens to a ship if it galler field flickers for a 0,005 mili second while in the process of warp travel.

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Robocop

Mostly because Robo’s armour is akin to the Lorica of the Thallax, and pretty much how I’ve always envisioned Power Armour holding up to small arms fire.

Certainly I can see OCP’s schematics for Robo being resdiscovered, upscaled and boom, bunch of Mechanicus units have their origin.

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Oh yeah- and I'd forgotten that Robocop 2 has the badguy Cain's brain inserted into a robot. So, sort of cataphron, without the tracks. Again, this is why you mid-wipe servitors.... unless crazed, psycho drug-addicted sociopaths are what you WANT (Archo-Flaggents).

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good list so far.

Disney's The Black Hole, it has massive gothic looking spaceship, robots, "robots"
Spoiler:
the crew are lobotomized into servitors, and the black hole has kind of a heaven/hell FTL theme.


The three-story anime anthology Memories: salvage crew exploring a space hulk for archeotech; a dude blessed by nurgle is near-indestructible and causes an expanding miasma of foulness; and what it's like to grow up on an imperial world geared towards war, living in a gun-riddled hive and firing macrocannons.

more techno-barbaian era than 40k proper
Ralph Bakshi's Wizards, also use of the word Necron.
Similarly the old animated Highlander cartoon show.
   
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So pretty much any Sci-Fi movie, at least 1/2 of all fantasy movies, and then some % of just random stuff counts as a 40k movie.....
   
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 PondaNagura wrote:
good list so far.

Disney's The Black Hole, it has massive gothic looking spaceship, robots, "robots"
Spoiler:
the crew are lobotomized into servitors, and the black hole has kind of a heaven/hell FTL theme.



yeah, the USS Cygnus. could easily see it existing as a small civilian vessel in 40K

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ccs wrote:
So pretty much any Sci-Fi movie, at least 1/2 of all fantasy movies, and then some % of just random stuff counts as a 40k movie.....


I interpret this thread more as a collection of movies you can get inspiration from when working on your 40K army .

And on that note, the most inspiring for my nurgle modelling was The Thing (the old one, the new one is quite boring and has bad effects).

Hellraiser 2 still has the best depiction of Chaos that I've seen. 80's horror movies just have something that makes them extra creepy and grimdark so to say.

As a fun note, Slither is an underrated movie, showing nurgle infesting a small town and featuring Nathan Fillion. Everything's great with Nathan Fillion.
   
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ccs wrote:
So pretty much any Sci-Fi movie, at least 1/2 of all fantasy movies, and then some % of just random stuff counts as a 40k movie.....


It’s more seeing commonalities and potential influences.

Dredd for instance shows us a hellscape not dissimilar to the Underhive, where a well armed but ultimately untrained militia can be overcome with sufficient training and superior gear intended for just that task. We also see the Instant Justice both settings present as unavoidable in the circumstances.

Robocop itself isn’t terribly 40K, but the design work is. ED-209 was of course an influence on what we now call the Deredeo Dreadnought. Robocop and Robocop 2 find some expression in other designs, but it’s more commonality in background.

The Black Hole eventual reveals its crew to be what we might call Servitors. As does Flash Gordon

So a lot of it is pop culture equivalencies we can refer to when explaining things to each other, or those unfamiliar with 40K at all.

We can do the same thing with other properties and other films/shows. For instance, for someone wanting to start out in World of Darkness? Suggested viewing would be Supernatural for general stuff. And if doing a Vampire game? I’d recommend watching John Wick. Not only for an idea of how nasty even a low gen Vampire can be with just a couple of carefully applied powers, but to get a feeling there are rules to be followed, and woe betide anyone ignoring said rules.

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