Everyone's done a good job so far mentioning most of my favorites. Have to say that Smoking Aces is one of my new favorites. I love that sniper rifle. I'm just sad that she was done by that point, and DIDN'T shoot down the hilocopter.

However, I don't think anyone has mentioned "The Professional" yet. Leon (I think that was the character's name) is great.

Also, to go with Constantine, I like alot of the "Catholic" movies (not all are really Catholic, but that's what I call them collectively). The Order, and so forth. Gives some good feel for the spirits.

OH! And Kill Bill. Excellent boss fights and wave battles.

how about


God's army I- III

These are all really good examples of what a Shadowrun game should be like. I'd like to add that "Shoot Em Up" is a good example of what a Shadowrun game is actually like.

Sacre bleu!

Although this is film noir, not cyberpunk, "Casablanca" is a decent story about settling for survival vs. taking on the big organizations that usually win, and many people's conflicting and overlapping agendas coming together in hard-to-predict ways. Also, I just can't help encouraging anyone to see "Casablanca" if they haven't.

As for Gun Kata (in Equilibrium), the footwork is a way to avoid counterfire, so it's effectively a bonus to Reaction, just for opposing incoming ranged attacks. The idea that preset routines can keep you out of the other guy's arc of fire seems silly to me, but the idea that you can be constantly moving and still target effectively, well maybe. There's a geneware augmentation which helps one study an opponent's fighting style and then anticipate their moves; it should work well against Gun Kata. GK sure does look pretty, though.

Demolition Man

The plot isn't very SR, but the setting reminds me of it. You've got happy corp land, where everyone plays nice and is pretty docile. Then you've got your shit-hole sprawl (where Dennis Leary lives) filled with angry rat-eaters, without much if any middle ground.

You've also got some simsense VR going on there, as it is much safer than 'exchanging bodily fluids.'

Granted, corp sec in happy land is a bunch of wussy traffic cops with cattle prods. And, you've got Taco Bell as a 5-star restaurant. But I'm willing to look past some things.

I think "Shooter" should go on the list, if it isn't there already. The plot is at once very Shadowrun and unfortunately far too close to reality (as my girl says, "I like playing in the Shadowrun world; I don't want to live in it.").

Posted from my PAN. Seriously.

Lessee. Alot of the usuals I'd have said are listed already
so I'm gonna try to think of specific game styles or moods you might want

1 Kurt Russel "Soldier"
think of being stuck in the barrens with some Megacorp's private army tearing the place up to find you.
2 Shaun of the Dead (or most zombie movies I guess)
same thing but it's ghouls or something else chasing you
3 someone mentioned Max Headroom the tv series,(I loved Blank Reg) incase you werent aware, there was a British movie first, some of the side characters were cast different, and it much darker, if I remember right.
4 Ultraviolet
farther future but good for mood and feel
5 Grosse Pointe Blank
How Mercs and assassins fit into "normal" society
6 The Crow
for runs fueled by vengeance
7 The Warlock Movies
The runners have somehow called down the wrath of the biggest baddest mojo slingers there are

wow, alot of mine have to deal with pissing off the wrong people
guess that shows what my SR experiences have been
lol
I'm sure I have more but my brain has frozen up

oh, did anyone mention "Heat'?

Spartan, with Val Kilmer. The end was pretty good and the middle was okay, but the first half hour moves like gangbusters.

And I have ot put Ghostbusters and Bull Durham on the list, simply because when my group was playing a lot of SR, these two movies were always being quoted.

Also: The Blade Trilogy. For my money, Blade II was the most SR-like. I mean, it was basically a samurai movie with vampires.

And Seven Samurai.

The Big Hit. If for no other reason than the "tool cabinet".

oh I forgot
Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai
interesting view on how Johnson's see runners as expendable

Bulletproof Monk . . . . Adepts and magic scrolls

UltraViolet - the UK TV serise, A look at how mundanes have to deal with the paranormal

I was looking through my HEUG! file archives, and I noticed I still have 5 Shadowrun fan-films.

They are all in German, but..... It's Running. You can kind of make up dialog as you go.

They all weigh in at a combined total of 245 megs, and I can Rapidshare them, if anyone is interested.

Szilard2029_CompetitionCut.avi
SR_Kurzfilm Kurzfilm.avi
SR_Kurzfilm_07_Gyros_und_Banane_vs_Weisser_Ninja_lowres.wmv
SR_Kurzfilm Last Team Standing.wmv
SR_Kurzfilm_07_Access_Denied_lowres.wmv

And the Kurzfilm movies give an URL of http://www.dear-yaoi.de/ , but I really don't read German.

They are for download somewhere, I just have to find it... And at least one of them has english subtitles, iirc.

Ok, here's the URL for all of them (afaik): http://srfilm.tareen.de/

Edit: Btw, there are many more than just the five you mentioned, at least 18

The Seven Samurai remake - The Magnificent Seven. Throw it in with the SR as westerns batch.

Robocop. Megacorporations, privatized police force, cyber-zombie, actual shadowrun type jobs with Red Foreman leading the shadowrunners.

I'm glad someone added Bulletproof Monk. Magic, dodging bullets, SUVs that explode.

Another I like is Supernatural on the WB. I'm a big fan of mundanes having to deal with magicky stuff.

I didn't see "The Magnificent Seven"; is it manga or real flick? more info please, it sounds cool.

Cheers,

max

It's a real flick. Yul Brenner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Eli Wallach. I liked it okay. I think it suffers in comparison to Seven Samurai, but it would be hard for anything not to.

I picked this up on DVD about a year ago, and it had a recently recorded commentary track with the producer, Eli Wallach and James Coburn, and it was worth it just for that. I'm not a big fan of commentary tracks, because its usually just some guy I've never heard of saying things like, "This scene was tough to film because it was raining..." for an hour and a half, but this one was pretty entertaining in its own right.

You know who else does good audio commentaries? Mel Brooks. I've heard the ones for Spaceballs and Young Frankenstein, and he has interesting antedoctes about the whole process. The Young Frankenstein DVD in particular came with a lot of cool extras.

Speaking of, I'm putting Young Frankenstein on the list.

@WoundedRonin: I've never tried to purchase it; I just happened to catch it on cable. I've seen it before on vhs, but don't know if it's on dvd. I would try cduniverse.com. If it's not there, try googling "budo: the art of killing""dvd" (use the quotations).

Weird Al's commentary was pretty good on UHF, especially how he was rattling off the street addresses of the various filming locations. Just in case anyone wants to go to Kansas for a walking tour of the UHF movie. (Also, Joel Hodgson was supposed to be in the Philo role. How weird is that?)

How could I have forgotten this? "Strange Days". Very dark and dystopian. Also a pretty good representation of of what slotting a BTL would be like. AFAIK, it's the last film Katherine Bigelow directed; I have no idea what she's doing now.

Does anyone thing Aeon Flux would qualify as a SR movie?

@tisoz: That's the one.

Another thing they bring up on the commentary for Mag7 is that its one of those movies that gets talked about for a remake every few years, and that when actors talk about the roles they want to play, as many want to play the Coburn and Bronson roles as the McQueen and Brenner.

Speaking of Steve McQueen I can't believe that I've never mentioned this one: Bullitt. It's a a really cool cop movie

@WoundedRonin: I checked cduniverse.com, and it is there for sale. Enjoy. BTW, I was wrong about the year; it was made in '81. The music still stinks, though.

I saw "Planet Terror". It's terrible; don't waste your time or money. If you like slapstick horror/comedies, I would recommend Sam Raimi's "Army of Darkness" or it's two prequels.

Saw a preview for this movie. I immediatly thought, "Ah, they perils raising sheep in 2070." Watch the trailer here.

EDIT: tried 3 different urls and none will play. Sigh. Just go to youtube and type in "black sheep trailer". Synopsis: a genetic engineer experiments on sheep and turns them into man eating killers. I have not seen this movie myself, but it looks interesting. "Dolly's Revenge", anyone?

There was another one, a English film called Severence about a crazed killer at a corporate team-building retreat. I didn't see it, but I remember it had Tim McInnerny in it, whom you might remember as Percy from Blackadder, and the beserker from Erik the Viking. Always happy to see Tim McInnerny getting work.

Thought of two more.

"Yakuza", with Robert Mitchum and Takakura Ken. Made in the seventies, and not directly SR oriented. But it's got good acting, and some of the most realistic swordplay I've seen on film. It also deals with several sub plots: honor before all else, even unto the destruction of your own family; a man whose ideals and values have long since passed away; and the whole east/west culture clash. Synopsis: an American goes to Japan to save his friend's kidnapped daughter. He must enlist the help of a former Yakuza member whose family he saved back in WW2. Long story short, they get involved in convoluted Yak politics. The former Yak must choose between his "people", or honoring the debt, the "giri", he feels he owes the American.

For secret history buffs, a horror film called "The Washingtonians". I have not seen it, but the plot is...intruiging. It centers around a group of...students, I think...who discover secret papers which indicate George Washington was the leader of a society of cannibals. They read the papers, and decide to form their own "society".

It won't be released in the US until December, but Guy Ritchie's latest Revolver is pretty nifty, especially for the B&E usage.

Best commentaries: Trey Parker and Matt Stone in Orgazmo and Cannibal the Musical.

HEAT.. Perfect movie about a shadowrun from start to finish...

I LOVE the firefight in the middle of the movie.. sooo shadowrun.. =)

I read a small blurb about this in the paper; I don't think it's been released yet. The title is "Teeth". Synopsis: after she is raped, a young woman's body develops a biological defense mechanism. To whit, she grows fangs in a certain part of her anatomy. Watch the trailer here.

Lorena Bobbit had nothing on this gal.