The Definitive Warhammer 40,000 Recommended Film List

[Gotthammer]

Why watch that, when there's [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV4cgs-bPic]'The Warriors'[/url],

Why not both? (I can dig it)

There's also for old school ridiculousness Surf N*zis Must Die, available in full for free on Troma's youtube:



It's really dumb, but so's 40k so...


Also for Titans there's Robot Jox:




Also also you should watch [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIT4_wncEbc"]Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter[/URL] - the greatest action comedy horror musical about the second coming.

[YorkNecromancer]

Gott, you really have an addiction to bad B-Movie's, don't you?

[Mr Mystery]

Because Warriors is a totes legit and excellent film.

Bronx Warriors is deliberately very, very, very silly!

[YorkNecromancer]

Because Warriors is a totes legit and excellent film.

Hence the recommendation!

I've never been a fan of bad movies myself. I know people love the high camp stuff, and 'so bad, it's good', and I've tried to love them too (oh, how many Troma films I have sat through... I actually paid real-world money to see 'Tromeo and Juliet' at the cinema when it came out. *sigh*)

But I just can't like them. For me, there's just so bad it's bad.

I know this makes me joyless beyond words, but I can't help it. I just can't stand kitsch or camp.

[Mr Mystery]

When there's a known low budget, but you can see the team really working hard with every last penny, it makes any film so much better. From Dredd 3D, to Dog Soldiers via all manner of 'we basically made this for £10' dross, they're so much more enjoyable than 'we just chucked money at this until it looked nice'

[Gotthammer]

Gott, you really have an addiction to bad B-Movie's, don't you?

You picked that up, huh?

Speaking of [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO-YkaXGtLM"]Death Race 2000[/URL] & [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVUxK1mNups"]Rollerball[/URL] (the originals of both ofc) have a pretty 40k feel to them - the Carnivora is thing after all.

[YorkNecromancer]

When there's a known low budget, but you can see the team really working hard with every last penny, it makes any film so much better. From Dredd 3D, to Dog Soldiers via all manner of 'we basically made this for £10' dross, they're so much more enjoyable than 'we just chucked money at this until it looked nice'

It's why early John Carpenter films will always remain superior to his later works. Give the man a budget and you get dross. Give him the change in your pockets, a paper clip, three buttons and a potato, and he'll work magic to deliver a cinematic masterpiece that'll last decades and redefine a genre.

Speaking of [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO-YkaXGtLM"]Death Race 2000[/URL] & [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVUxK1mNups"]Rollerball[/URL] (the originals of both ofc) have a pretty 40k feel to them - the Carnivora is thing after all.

Those are both wonderful films.

[Mr Mystery]

Good point about John Carpenter.

There's definitely directors out there who don't know what to do with a large budget, just as there are those who use them as a crutch. (Looking at you, Zack 'what's a plot?' Snyder. And you Michael 'I think that means ASPLOSIONS' Bay).

Example of one who seems to be able to work with both effectively? Peter Jackson. Early films are anarchic hoots made for nowt, and then of course Lord of the Rings (but not the Hobbit. I blame the dwarfs. And the casting of Bilbo)

[YorkNecromancer]

Example of one who seems to be able to work with both effectively? Peter Jackson. Early films are anarchic hoots made for nowt, and then of course Lord of the Rings (but not the Hobbit. I blame the dwarfs. And the casting of Bilbo)

I did my dissertation on Peter Jackson back in '99, before any of the LoTR films were out.

I still contend that [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_KzpSS6wYg]'Heavenly Creatures'[/url] is far and away his best film, mostly because since he's gotten huge, the man's lost all sense of pacing. I'm sure some people want to sit through four hours of heavily portentous monkey-on-dinosaur action that's so damned slow it'll feel like nineteen, but I am not one of them.

'Heavenly Creatures' on the other hand has all his trademark beauty, but used to deliver a coruscating indictment of insular, stiff-upper-lip culture. The ending is one of the most brutal things I've ever seen, and the use of dramatic irony to build a sense of horror at what is about to occur is almost unwatchably cruel.

As for his LoTRs films, I didn't like or enjoy them, but that's just down to me. They were brilliantly cast, and almost perfectly made - I can't see anyone else ever remaking them with anywhere near his level of success - but Tolkein and his worlds have never once held or engaged my interest. It was nice to see them, but mostly I just felt the went on too long, and weren't really about anything that interested me. And yes, I know I'm the only geek in the world who has ever thought that, but after nearly sixteen years of trying to like something that I responded to about as much as 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding', I've just given it up as a bad job. Middle-Earth just isn't for me.

[Mr Mystery]

Meh. I can't get on with Anime, despite trying various stripes, so I get where you're coming from. Sometimes, through no fault of the medium you just don't take to stuff.