Can you give me some movie suggestions that Metal Gear fans would like?
My suggestion would be "Escape from Pretoria".
Do you know more?
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier, still one of the best things they ever made and the amount of parallels to metal gear scenarios is crazy
The entire movie I was thinking Metal Gear, but most specifically the third act becoming about having to get whatever device it was to the specific place to stop the 3 different death-devices from annihilating large portions of the western world's population while having to confront a former ally who has been mind fucked and experimented on by the enemy into barely knowing who he even is...was kind of perfect.
Escape From New York
The Rock
First Blood (not the Rambo series, just First Blood)
Kong: Skull Island (as a Metal Gear fan the references and influence of Metal Gear is all over that movie)
Captain America: The Winter Solider (the entire 3rd act is a Metal Gear movie in my opinion.)
Those are the ones that come to mind immediately.
Predator
The Guns of Navarone
The Great Escape
It’s a terrible movie but Rambo 3 has some interesting parallels to Phantom Pain, and not just because it’s in Afghanistan.
Don't forget the rainy Tanker Mission at the start
Believe it or not I never made the Tanker Mission connection, but now I'll never be able to unsee it.
MGS4 is a great movie for Metal Gear fans.
Apocalypse Now - the central character Captain Willard is given a mission to assassinate a rogue Special Forces Colonel who has seemingly gone nuts in the jungles of Cambodia during the Vietnam War and has established an army of montagnards with himself as a kind of cult leader. Along the way Willard begins to question his mission as well as understand the true madness of the war. Has obvious allusions to both Snakes mission in MGS3 as well as the adversarial relationship between Solid Snake and Big Boss
100% this movie, I saw it for the first time two years ago. It is incredible. Holds up beautifully.
Tenet maybe 🤔
A lot of the inspirations are anime:
Ghost in the Shell Akira
Both are must watches in general
And Ninja Gaiden for the colourful villains
James Bond No Time To Die.
Probably the closest we’ll ever get to an MGS movie.
Escape From New York is still closer. It has every element of the Metal Gear story, with the two exceptions of a deadly virus/biological weapon which is ultimately replaced with deadly nanomachine type bomb devices in Snake's arteries to ensure he finishes his mission, and it lacks a bipedal tank. Other than that nearly everything is there.
There's a scene in the most recent Stranger Things finale where a main character laments the sacrifice of another character. The scene used so many parallels to The Boss' sacrifice, that I have to wonder if it took inspiration from MGS3.
Lol what?
I'm trying to remain spoiler free.
To the extent that I pointed at the TV and hollered, "THEY BOSSED ME AGAIN, DAMMIT!"
Dude just look up any movie that Kojima has said inspired the series, and other movies he recommends.
The final set piece in Inception always makes me think of Metal Gear Solid.
Thought I was the only one!
The Guns of Navarone would be the OG
I need to watch that one.
I did recently watch The Wild Geese, which has a Metal Gear/2 vibe to it
Can’t believe no one has mentioned Where Eagles Dare. Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton infiltrate a snowy mountain base full of Nazis
Where Eagles Dare is essentially the proto-MGS film with military espionage behind enemy lines, confusing schemes and an ending chase scene that rivals modern action flicks.
Honestly, all it lacks is a giant walking tank.
Exactly! I love that ending chase. Even has a woman reminiscent of Eva! Also the cable car scene which is sort of like the big elevator
I’ve never played MGS, but honestly love Where Eagles Dare and Guns of Navarone so always glad to see ppl finding out about it in one way or another. There’s a lot of great WW2 covert mission films, Play Dirty, Dirty Dozen, Operation Crossbow, Von Ryan’s Express, The Train, or even more b-movie stuff like Commandos, Desert Rats, Sea of Sand, Tobruk. So many great war movies back in those days that I think inspired a lot of great games. They’re just super exciting stories and many inspired by real-life events, like the story of Patrick Leigh Fermor who managed to kidnap a top-tier German general right in the heart of one of the most fiercely guarded islands under occupation, Fortress Crete, impersonating German officers to get by checkpoints with a gun behind the general’s back. Idk many many stories like that, just sad to see them fading with time
Die Hard.
Project Itoh: Genocidal Organ
anime with nanomachine controlled soldiers sooo... pretty close
Escape from Los Angeles and Escape from New York
Another vote for No Time to Die.
And a strong vote for Tenet.
It's got a complex twisty storyline, it's got WMDs, it's got a wonderful brother-type relationship between the two leads, it's got an evil russian that wants to destroy the world. Very strong movie especially the ending, amazing stuff.
Escape from New York is the obvious one, The Rock feels very MGS-y to me, Kanał was one of Kojima's bigger influences and people often mention Captain America: The Winter Soldier.