Beyond the hobby?

[Deadlift]

As for Dune, the movies good but I love the books. All of them. Frank Herbert wrote the main series of books and his son finished it off a couple years ago using his fathers notes. His son has also written prequels to the dune books. 3 based around the 3 main houses and then further back again with a series called the Butlarian Jihad. Depending on how fast you read you have a winters worth of material right there.

As for Sharp, I haven't watched the tv series but I have read all the books. Bloody fantastic they are too.

[Skullchewer]

I think the Tau are too warlike to be compared to the peaceful culture.

The Culture being peaceful is one of the key contradictions of the books.

Yep I'll add another vote for Event Horizon. Basically it is a film about humanity's first ever warp jump and what happens when you do that without a protective field around the ship! It also has the most gothic engine room ever!

As for Dune, go for the Dune and Children of Dune mini series that were done by the Sci-Fi Channel (back when it actually did Sci-Fi!) as they are much better than the terrible movie.

I can also recommend the movie Outlander which is a sci-fi spin on the origin of the Beowulf story. Just picture it as an Imperial Guardsman and Tyranid crash land on a primitive world and it works brilliantly.

See, I enjoyed Lynch's Dune adaptation, and hated Outlander. To each their own.

More movies:
Pandorum (Chaos taking over a ship?)
Mutant Chronicles (Chaos taking over a planet?)
Outland (Imperial mining colony?)
Screamers (IG vs robots?)
The Thing (1982 remake, purely for the hideous warp like monstrosities)
Firefly/Serenity (Rogue traders)
Dredd (The 2012 version, not the awful Stallone crap, though that had a reasonable hive city look. A bit of an Arbites/inquisitor feel)
Hardware (Hive city with a servo skull gone haywire)
Mad Max 1/2/3 (Death world, Gorka Morka, back to a death world).

Oh, and [URL="http://thelordinquisitor.com/"]Lord Inquisitor[/URL] (Maybe)

[Psychosplodge]

The Culture being peaceful is one of the key contradictions of the books.

They didn't even have any dedicated warships before the Idiran-Culture War

[Skullchewer]

They didn't even have any dedicated warships before the Idiran-Culture War

Ok. And nobody said they did.... I think you missed my point.

[iheartgrimdark]

Wasn't Event Horizon originally written as a Warhammer 40k film?

[Psychosplodge]

Ok. And nobody said they did.... I think you missed my point.

Nah, I'm being deliberately obtuse.

[chicop76]

Let's see

Their is an Anime based on Star Ship troopers which is really hard to remember. The people inside are in power armour. I seen bits of it due to not being able to find it for free. If you look up Star ship troopers wilki and look up the different versions than you shoukd he able to find it. If not I can look it up later and post it.

Aliens of course is the media which I think inspired 40k since 40k came out not tooo long after this movie. Halo is a very obvious rip off with the black cigar sarge, the soilder that complains, the lcd on the weapons, motion trackers, etc. Funny when I hear aliens games are rip offs of Halo.

Riddick is a very good example as well. Well the movie with the necromongers.

Not to many movies I can think of where races have huge battles between each other. Star Wars and Star Trek are the main ones.

Serenity may be close as well. Like dark eldar vs guard.

Battlestar agalactica might be another. Necrons vs ig or marines vs ig depending on how you look at it.

[Skullchewer]

Nah, I'm being deliberately obtuse.

Then you'll understand if I just chose to ignore you going forward.

[Psychosplodge]

Then you'll understand if I just chose to ignore you going forward.

There's no need to go that far.

Back to your original point, the Tau are very much join us or die. They certainly aren't written as idealist pacifists in the fiction.
The culture as a rule outside of contact and special circumstances, generally are...

[SaveModifier]

There is a terrible film I saw on Netflix that was basically a Tau and a Human on a planet, i think it was called Hunter Prey.

but its terrbile. So ignore this.