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What movies do you watch to get in the Rifts mood or look for research?

Do you go to "Mad Max", "Matrix", or "Walking Dead"? "Pacific Rim", "Constantine", and "The Rocketeer" are always good for visuals.

I wrote a couple short stories about a Coalition soldier who always dreamed about being in the middle of something bigger, kind of a "Walter Mitty" personae.

I usually stay away from animated and anime.
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'Tankgirl's' dumb and ditzy, but it's got outrageous hardware pieced together from old pre-disaster stuff, post-apocalyptic society, and it's got mutants, so...yeah, Rifts-grist.
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taalismn wrote:'Tankgirl's' dumb and ditzy, but it's got outrageous hardware pieced together from old pre-disaster stuff, post-apocalyptic society, and it's got mutants, so...yeah, Rifts-grist.


More ATB, but not terrible for Rifts either.
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Blackwater Sniper wrote:What movies do you watch to get in the Rifts mood or look for research?


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Rifts: Australia - Mad Max: Road Warrior or Fury Road
Rifts: NGR (Operation Sea Storm) - Live, Die, Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow
Rifts: Japan - Seven Samurai for Empire, Ghost in the Shell and Akira for Republic.
Rifts: New West - Magnificient Seven, Firefly and Serenity
Rifts: New Navy - The Last Ship (TV), Top Gun
Rifts: Atlantis - Stargate (TV or movie) portal travel, pyramids and symbiotes?
Rifts: England - Excalibur, Game of Thrones, Transformers: The Last Knight (the first bit anyway)

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District nine good way to picture the burbs and mega damage weaponry
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I'm not a big anime fan, but it's obviously influenced Kevin Siembieda. I've seen a little bit of it, and some of it is alright, but it's just not really my thing.

I'd say the following movies and TV shows would be RIFTSey type entertainment. Now I don't rewatch these (I've seen most of them), but they clearly influenced Rifts quite a bit, directly or indirectly.

1980s sci-fi (and early 90s):
Mad Max: The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome
Blade Runner
Robocop
Escape from New York
The Terminator
Scanners
From Dusk til Dawn

1980s and early 90s anime:
Robotech
Fang of the Sun Dougram
Vampire Hunter D and Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust
Akira

1980s American cartoons:
Thundarr the Barbarian
He-Man (forget the main character and look at the world around him)
Thundercats/Silverhawks (ditto with forgetting main characters)
Spiral Zone
Bravestarr
Visionaries
TMNT

TV shows:
Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future
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With the aforementioned:

Six String Samurai
Book of Eli
Escape from LA/NY

Don't really have to stick with post-apocalyptic or sci fi flicks.
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Anime
Gunnm
Gundam
Robotech
Macross
Guyver
Bubblegum Crisis/A.D. Police/MADOX-01
Armitage
Ghost in the Shell
Xenosaga
The Ultimate Teacher
A-Ko
Ranma 1/2
Akira
Appleseed
Dirty Pair
Dragon Half
Genocyber
Hades Project Zeorymer
Iczer
Valley of the Wind
Orgus
Patlabor
Silent Mobius
Tenchi Muyo
Wicked City
Witch Hunter Robin
Wolf's Rain
Wings of Honneamise
SoulTaker
M.D. Geist
Rurouni Kenshin
Princess Mononoke
Lodoss War
Heroic Legend of Arslan
Inu-Yasha
Wrath of the Ninja

Movies
Robot Jox
Robot Wars
Hardware
Liquid Sky
Deep Star Six
Leviathan
Circuitry man
Crossworlds
Life Force
Trancers
Eliminators
Cherry 3000
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Defiance TV show ( Good Merctown )
Dune movies / TV mini
Tera nova tv show
Shape of water
Pans labyrinth

All of the above comments for sure
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