Inspirational Movies?

[warrenss2]

I got the Starship Trooper Movie trilogy to watch for inspiration on an upcoming miniatures game.

I paused the second movie 3 minutes & 5 seconds into it just to let you know that it has got some of the crappy-est acting I've ever seen. 

Thankfully I'm looking for painting inspiration... not acting. 

What movies have inspired a game of yours?

Warren

[Hauptgefreiter]

Well, I haven't painted too much, but concering inspiration for Future Wars, it'll be definitely "Aliens"

[Michi]

Well, I haven't painted too much, but concering inspiration for Future Wars, it'll be definitely "Aliens"

I second that.

[Glitzer]

Depends on your

Blade Runner for Cyberpunk
Mad Max III for Postapocalypse
Bubblegum Crisis for Anime

[Hauptgefreiter]

Depends on your

Blade Runner for Cyberpunk
Mad Max III for Postapocalypse
Bubblegum Crisis for Anime

Good choice, but:

Johnny Mnemonic for Cyberpunk
Solarbabies for Post Apocalypse
Saber Rider for Anime
 

[dijit]

Mad Max, Star Wars, Firefly/Serenity, Akira, Æon Flux, Bladerunner, a little Alien, Matrix, etc

[flooglestreet]

Rocketship, Flash Gordons Trip to Mars  and Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe. (Just started priming the cossacks, btw) Also Zombies of the Stratosphere for gangsters and Bob Murches Zombies of the Stratosphere.

[bandit86]

I kinda like Starship troopers 2, now 3, omg what crap

[Unforgiven]

Starship Troopers 1 was so awesome,
2 was crap, but had lots of boobs so I guess that makes up for the crappy acting etc.
3 was even worse, the small budget showed.

[Onebigriver]

I liked the outpost in ST2.

Aliens has always been a big inspiration, I love Serenity and the Reavers will end up in a game when I finish present projects. Escape From New York is a good source of inspiration for future gang war games. Me and a mate are talking about some doing some AVP wargaming but following the comics and having them set at approximately the same time as Aliens. Too many zombie movies to list are influential, but Land of the Dead is a great source of ideas. I like the idea of doing something based on Sky Captain. Not really SF but I've almost finished painting werewolves and squaddies for a Dog Soldiers game.

[Pil]

Ooh, I love these kinds of movies since I was a kid so there's lots of inspiration to be had:

Cyborg movies:
Terminator series
Robocop Series
Cyborg series (haven't seen these ones in a while though)
Prototype (really low budget)
Cyber Tracker 2 (not as bad as I thought)

Big robot series:
Robo Warriors
Robot Jox

Zombie series:
All Romero films and remakes
Boy Eats Girl
28 days/weeks later
Dead And Breakfast
Return Of The Living Dead series
Zombi 2
Zombie 3
Stink Of Flesh
Resident Evil series
Meat Market
The Dead Next Door (love that one for wacky ideas such as a church worshipping the zombies)

SF/post apoc movies:
Escape from LA/NY
They Live
Johnny Mnemonic
Doomsday
Mad Max series (of course!)
2019 After The Fall Of New York
Death Race (love that for anything with Battlecars!)

[Cosmotiger]

"Soldier" is not the greatest movie, but it has some interesting sets, spaceships, vehicles, etc. 

[dexter]

i'm looking forward to ZOMBIELAND looks inspirational
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11HxzyqKqAw&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdawnofthelead.wordpress.com%2F&feature=player_embedded

[dodge]

ST 2 I liked but agreed on the acting

seems like 3 will be a love film rental

but my favourites are

mad max
aliens
blade runner

those are my favourites nice gritty films

dodge

[warrenss2]

Starship Troopers 3 had it's good points...

Introduction of power-armor. (finally)
and
The actress that played T'Pol on Enterprise.