While I'm on the topic of games, I found Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow and Chaos Theory (the only ones I've played) definately gave me inspiration for shadowruns and B&E work. In fact, after playing Pandora Tomorrow, I did a one on one run where a invisible way adept I was GM'ing infiltrated a morgue via the subway tunnels.

Deus Ex is very shadowrun. In particular it highlights what it must have been like for Cyber-monsters on either side of the law when bioware and nanites came through. And then there's all the corporate intrigue and clandestine societies and the idea of approaching your objective many different ways.

Would anyone that played Anarchy Online say that that games was pretty inspired by Shadowrun?

You know it just so happens that I have the latest version of Traveller put out by Mongoose sitting next to my computer. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Blade Runner is absolutley a must see, game generating, sci-fi super fest. I just can't get enopugh of those panoramic veiws of LA.

Jonny Mnenomic is definitly one of my top favorites.

Escape from New York is good.

Death Race was pretty well done IMO.

And last "I Pity the Fool!" who forgets the original team... "THE A TEAM"

Doo do do Doo

Ronin and Heat. Two great DeNiro flicks and the template I use for a lot of the style elements in my games.

After reading the Augmentation, my first thought was that James Cameron did read it before he created Dark Angel. But the dates speak against it. Maybe it would be more correct to assume that some SR writers are Dark Angle fans. - Though I'm pretty sure, James Cameron does know SR. The Seattle setting just can't be a mere coincidence. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/eek.gif)

I'm going to have to add in the movie 'Taken'. The movie covers locating, planning, and extraction rather well. The main character is a face / gun bunny. He calls his profession 'Preventer'. He stops bad people.

Very modern day SR. Lots of use of contacts and people he knows.

Sorry no matrix wizbangs unless you call him contacting a networked buddy for information.

The movie drove home the point of being very well connected around the world.

The premise behind the movie is his daughter goes on a trip to Europe and she's kidnapped to be sold into a human trafficking ring. He warns the BGs that his certain set of skills will let him find them and kill them.

I find it more plausible that the producers read Gibson's Virtual Light as the parallels between it and Dark Angel are uncanny.

SR Denver bears a lot of similarities to Dark Angel's Seattle, I noticed, well, the whole checkpoint system.

Any traditional Cold War spy thriller will cover the East/West Berlin city checkpoint system.

Shadowrun pulls from an amazingly vast number of sources.

I read Ian Fleming's From Russia With Love, the other day. Interestingly enough, I have a "Thrilling Locations" book from the James Bond roleplaying game, which includes the Orient Express.

I'm surprised by how long it took for Equilibrium and Heat to make this list. I'll try to only meantion movies that haven't been on this list.
Really got to thinking about playing SR again after a 6 year break while watching the Max Pain movie.
The new 007 movies have some SR-esque qualities to them.
Smoking Aces
While watching RockaRolla I kept thinking he's an Elf, he's an Orc, oh he's a Troll..
Transporter
ADPolice Files
UltraVoilet
Minority Report (wonder why this hadn't made this thread before?)
Swordfish
the Replacement Killers (while we are talking Fuqua check out Bait and Training Day) (while we are talking Chow YunFat check out A Better Tomorrow, Hard Boiled -best Street Sam/fire fights. Peroid.)
True Romance

and I always wanted to run a SR game that was like Judgement Night.

I thought of a few other films that reminded me the other day (I can't remember if they've been mentioned or not):

1. The recent Rambo film - mercs carrying out an extraction
2. Munich - contacts, teamwork, slight misjudgements with explosives and counter hits
3. Collateral - particularly the way he gets his jobs and the meet in the night club
4. Carlito's Way - for the atmosphere

I just watched Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog. It's about a modern day african american assassin who follows the ancient japanese code of Bushido. Sound familiar to anyone?

One show rules them all for shadowrunness.

The Golden Girls.

Yes sah! Saw it when it came out and I have it on DVD.

Looking at my movie case I've come to realize that (almost) every film I own is good Shadowrun watching. Yes, even The Wizard of Oz. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

A young girl from the CAS OD's on Red Mesc and finds herself travelling with a straw ally homunculus, a full body cyborg and one of Parashield's Cybertooth tigers with a malfunctioning fight or flight response modification?

For my money, there is no movie that would show off the "world" of shadowrun like Johnny Numonic.

Don't flame me yet.

Yes, acting was bad, plot was bad, science was bad. I never said it was a good movie. But it had street sams, razorboys, a megacorp killing it's own citizens for the sake of profit, and it had the idea of a shadowrun (Okay, it's not a GOOD idea to hire Keaneu Reeves to do something for you, but it is still the idea of a Shadowrun.)

Ronin, for the tactics behind shadowrunning. Ghost in the shell, Stand Alone Complex is also pretty much shadowrun. You have cybernetic implants, the matrix, all that stuff.

Lastly, for something that people haven't mentioned too much . . . Hellboy. A lot of people forget that half of Shadowrun is magic, and Hellboy has done a good job of integrating 'runs' (although sanctioned by the government) with magic. Again, not the greatest movies out there, but movies that incorporate shadowrunning elements none the less.

New Rose Hotel because it's about guys getting paid by a japanese corporation to extract a scientist, who finally got crossed. And maybe even more because of the Welsh's line ("We can make this complicated or we can make it simple. Simple means blood. Complicated means money. What we're going to recommand is complicated.")

Nirvana because it features corporate host hacking, SR-style Matrix metaphor, obvious cybereyes and organleggers.

And I challenge anyone to watch the Firefly episode "Ariel" and not think of a run gone wrong/right. Infiltration, theft, assault, escape from the authorities and the bad magic "blue hands guys". Hell yeah!

Also, "The Eraser" had those way cool particle cannons, never mind the x-ray glasses. Not exactly SR, but close to the feel.

Dollhouse seems to be a good fit so far. If that isn't the good example of skillwires than I don't know what is.

Denis Leary was amazing in that. "Sure its got blood on it, what money doesnt?" and "Damn it now you're cutting in to my drinking time."

I'll have you all know that my wife is pretty annoyed at you all, our Netflix queue is up past 100 before any of her movies get here (just don't tell her that the order can be re-arranged (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) ).

New Rose Hotel and Johnny Mnemonic don't count since Gibson wrote it dammit. That's like saying the book that reminds you the most of cyberpunk is Neuromancer. I reject your entries!

Bah, read the short stories then watch the movies and tell me they're even close (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

I just watched Dollhouse last night, yep, it is super-duper SR...