What Movies Inspire Your Game?

[Aris Dragonborn]

Just a few off of the top o' my head:

Star Wars (all 6)
Lord of the Rings (movies and books)
Hellboy
Constantine
The 13th Warrior
Troy
Gladiator
King Arthur
Excalibur
Conan (movies and books)
The Matrix (all)
Indiana Jones (all)
The Mummy I & II


And many more...

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to consider the possibility of using some Middle Earth characters in my upcoming Star Wars campaign (Morgoth and Sauron as Sith Lords, the Nazgul as Sith Warriors or Marauders).

 

[megamania]

Lords of Rings I-III
Indiania Jones I-III
Big Trouble in Little China
Lupin III (any)
Sky Captain

and soon stuff from Fallen

 

[Tuzenbach]

What, nobody here is a fan of Krull or Time Bandits? How about The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen?

 

[Zander]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the following older movies that seem to have influenced D&D and, in turn, influenced my games especially in the early 1980s:

- The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
- The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
- Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
- Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
- Clash of the Titans
- Jack the Giant Killer
- The Thief of Bagdad

 

[Kanegrundar]

Here's my list:

Lord of the Rings (all three)
Big Trouble in Little China
Mad Max
Road Warrior
Mad Max Beyond Thonderdome
Omega Man
Star Wars (all six)
Willow
Indiana Jones Trilogy
Matrix Trilogy
Time Bandits
Sin City
Pulp Fiction
True Romance
Vampires
Hellboy
Constantine
The Mummy (both)
The Terminator Trilogy
Predator (both)
Lethal Weapon (all four)
Die Hard Trilogy
13th Warrior
Gladiator
Fifth Element
Dark City
Conan the Barbarian
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Van Helsing

I'm sure there are more, but these are the ones that have influenced me the most.

Kane

 

[Wombat]

We actually have a set-list of inspirational films for the current campaign:

The Three/Four Musketeers (1970s Richard Lester versions)
Indiana Jones & the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Mission
The Mask of Zorro
The Duellists
The Adventures of Robin Hoon (1930s Errol Flynn version)
The Last Valley
Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Not that we don't allow others, of course, but these are the main ones. We haven't found a film that really depicts magic the way we like it, but at least we get the combination of swashbuckling, high adventure, jungles, and gritty reality checks in there.

 

[WayneLigon]

What, nobody here is a fan of Krull or Time Bandits? How about The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen?

As much as I love the last two movies I can't say I've ever used them as direct influence in a game. Now if I go back and do a Modern Magic-type of game, yeah, I'll use both, especially Munchausen.

 

[fusangite]

I think the only one of mine that hasn't been listed in the thread so far is Erik the Viking.

 

[sniffles]

Our group is inspired by so many movies I couldn't list them all. We have an ongoing superheroes campaign inspired by 'Mystery Men', with a healthy dose of 'The Specials' added in. Our other supers campaign is certainly fueled by 'Spider-Man', the various iterations of 'Batman', 'X-Men', and 'The Incredibles'. The 'Matrix' movies have a lot of good inspirational material for superheroes too, as do martial arts movies like 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon' and 'Hero'.

My D&D characters are usually loosely inspired by the LOTR films. I don't try to imitate any particular character from the films, but I try to imagine my characters as if they were existing in that film world. We also get a lot of mileage out of Chinese martial arts movies for our fantasy games, even though we're not playing in a fantasy Oriental setting.

Any fantasy movie can inspire our other campaigns, but other non-fantasy/sci fi movies do as well. We once had a Star Trek adventure inspired by the movie 'Red Sun', which is a sort of Wester/samurai crossover.

We're definitely not inspired by the D&D movie, though, unless perhaps inspired to laugh at it.

 

[Shemeska]

Given these movies, yeah my campaigns are a tad dark

Anything directed by David Fincher (such as):
Se7en
The Game
Alien 3
Panic Room
Fight Club

Other movies:
Alien
Aliens
Pitch Black
Green Mile
Shawshank Redemption
Spirited Away

TV:
Millennium