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crash2029
A few more from me:

Fallout 3-the capital wateland does a good job of showing just how beautiful a feral city can be

Project Snowblind-the Hong Kong police action does a good job of showing futuristic urban combat

The Dresden Files-modern day magic

The Hitman Trilogy-professionalism, planning, patience, the keys to a sucessful contract
tisoz
The A Team because it has the different roles, and the premise where a group of people is working outside the law, but not just a bunch of thugs and criminals. Too bad it was before the internet got popular, or we may have seen a hacker as part of the team. Of course, no magic.

Jake 2.0 (2 links there.smile.gif) for SR4 hacking. This show had its short run just prior to fourth edition coming out, and when I made the comparison back then, I got a firm denial from the powers that be that it had any influence what-so-ever. Riiight, you be the judge. Must have been a case of two people coming up with the same concept at about the same time.
martindv
Any movie written and/or directed by David Mamet. After all, he is the master of the double-cross. But there is inspiration all throughout his films, no matter how opaque it may seem. State & Main has fixers who managed to insert a product placement for a dot-com in a period piece (and cover the ass of a pedophile actor). Redbelt is a great movie to get the feel of "professional" adepts and other martial arts-focused characters. Glengarry, Glenross (aside from being almost perfect as a film) is an office full of faces trying to ply their craft at extracting/datastealing YOUR money for sham real estate deals. Spartan is basically a prelude to The Unit (actually it was when he got the inspiration by reading Eric Haney's book). The Unit is a SR series 90-95% of the way. He also directed episodes of The Shield (where he met Shawn Ryan, who is a co-creator of The Unit).

Also, Mamet did the uncredited (under a pseudonym) rewrite of the script for Ronin which turned it from a piddling piece of A-to-B dreck into the final product.
darthmord
QUOTE (nylanfs @ Feb 17 2009, 08:14 PM) *
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.


I'll have to second this. Dollhouse seems to be an interesting show. I also liked how they referenced Tabula Rasa with the dolls.
O'Donnell Heir
Nightwatch/Daywatch for the "Monsters living among us" feel, even though that's rarely exploited in Shadowrun.

The Punisher, because what runner doesn't rig their appartment with hidden weapons and booby traps?


Any more and I'd have to throw Fifth Element, not because it's exactly shadowrun, but because sometimes a big job just falls in your lap.
Snatch and Smoking Aces, both of which could almost be shadowrun movies, and Aces has almost every single characters aspect I've seen other than mages and riggers.
Blade Runner is of course a shadowrun movie, it can't help but be one.

Serenity and Firefly. They're a bit more space-y but fit the bill of jumping from odd job to odd job perfectly.
Rayzorblades
I just saw Push last night, that new popcorn flick starring Chris "Human Torch" Evans. It was VERY reminiscent of SR, replace Mages with psychics. Hell it even had sonic-screaming-psychic triads for the mob element. And a big TK hurling/mind controlling battle scene for the end.
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