Shadowrun Master Movie List, Alphabetized even Options

[ColdEquation]

For a great example of a modern-day shadowrun, you could do worse than see the documentary "The Cove." It's got it all. A greedy corporation. Environmental decay. An indifferent populace. Spiffy surveillance tech. Vigilante black ops.

I enjoyed the hell out of it, and I'm not even an environmentalist.

[Method]

Are you talking about this "The Cove"? Its billed as a documentary?

[Daddy's Litt...]

He means the oscar winning film about how a Japanese community slaughters dolphins. They make all sorts of claims about humanitarian deaths and not killing females or pups but any attmeopt by film makers to record it was brutally shut down. sometimes by muscle bound fishermen, sometimes by corrupt police who could not, when pressed, explain what law forbad filming but they would sieze any camera anyway. The film was an SR op in and of itself as activists slipped into the cove covertly and set up hidden cameras that then had to be equally carefully extracted.

The Japanese have tried to protest that the film should not be shown as it is biased and does not cover the cultural portions of the cull but the visuals unedited, is too strong to ignore.

[ColdEquation]

That's the one. It's worth noting that the filmmakers tried to follow the law at first. When that didn't work, well, what else are you going to do? You can give up and go home...or you can collect a team of adventurers, adrenaline junkies, tech specialists, and the best free divers in the world, and go on a shadowrun.

I'll tell you which one makes a better film. And DLN is right, this film did win the Academy Award for best documentary of 2009. Try not to hold the fact that the guy from Whale Wars is in it against it.

[KageZero]

How could Buckaroo Banzai not be on the list?!?

[Troll]

Cherry 2000

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092746/

Good demonstration of riggers, sprawl, barrens, general apoco-punk. Also, Melanie Griffith with the pink hair.

[Doc Byte]

Does this list really lack Nirvana or am I blind? The only real cyberpunk movie I've ever seen!

Just have a look at this guy who sold his natural eyes and made a profit by installing only cheap b/w cybereyes. Or this girl with her datajack, loading another person's memories. Now, that's pure cyberpunk.

[nemafow]

Eh, I wasn't very impressed with Nirvana to be honest, while it has cyberpunk tendencies, it didn't really feel very cyberpunk to me.

[Kruger]

I liked Renaissance. It moved a little slow and I think the black and white animation was a bit too dark at times (interesting complaint for a cyberpunk film, I know), but its plot was intriguing.

[Traul]

La Zona, for the SINless feeling.

[Doc Byte]

Eh, I wasn't very impressed with Nirvana to be honest, while it has cyberpunk tendencies, it didn't really feel very cyberpunk to me.

Dystopian future
Virtual reality
An AI
Deadly biofeedback
Hackers
Cyberware
Simsense
Asian (Mega)corps
Mr. J
Runners
Talking car threatening to explode at a theft attempt


What do you want more? (Apart from magic and metahumans? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) )

[CanRay]

"Repo! The Genetic Opera" and it's descendant, "Repo Men" (Not to be mistaken for "Repo Man", which also is a nice movie.).

*Bing* "You are past due on your organ transplant. Please wait here while our repossession agents come to claim our property."

[CanadianWolverin...]

The Cove seems to feature a bit of IRL shadow running - [paraphrased?] "We wanted a view from the sky, so we put together an aerial drone, everybody likes balloons."

[Kliko]

HoBo with a shotgun!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nbl78cj5vM

[CanRay]

Eagerly awaiting that movie!

BTW, that's one of the options I give players when making a character, and if I ever play, I'm seriously thinking of making one.

[Laodicea]

I saw "The American" the other night. It was pretty solid as a spy-thriller for your more serious shadowrun games. However, the plot is a little ill-concieved as it's simply not that hard to get an M-14, even in Italy.

[pbangarth]

Try something completely different. Mix Shadowrun with Buster Keaton and a touch of ... I don't know... The Muppets Take Manhattan. Watch "Micmacs".

See here: LINK to Micmacs

[Kruger]

"Repo! The Genetic Opera" and it's descendant, "Repo Men" (Not to be mistaken for "Repo Man", which also is a nice movie.).

Repo Men definitely hit the Shadowrun vibe. However, it's not actually related to R:TGO. Well, at least depending on who you talk to I guess. It was based on a book. The concept similarities are quite suspicious though.

I think the main difference is that while Repo Men was a bit sluggish and certainly way gorier than it had to be, RtGO was almost unwatchable. I tried. I really did. But it's just crap with a gimmick that doesn't hold it together. I made it about half way before I had to turn it off. Repo Men was no masterpiece, but Jude Law and Forrest Whitaker made for good leads and had good chemistry.

I watched the French film Chrysalis the other night because it's on Netflix Instant. The plot was a little murky but it was decent. Some Shadowrunny elements to it. AR type interfaces, cyberpunk themes and locations, etc.

[CanRay]

Repo Men definitely hit the Shadowrun vibe. However, it's not actually related to R:TGO. Well, at least depending on who you talk to I guess. It was based on a book. The concept similarities are quite suspicious though.

The fact that the two are so closely connected, and Repo Men was made by the company that was first offered R:TGO, is why I mentioned them both.

It's basically an extraction job with a script rather than a person. Then again, that's Hollywood for you.

R:TGO is very hard to watch, and oh so bad from a writing standpoint. There's a major Chenikov's Gun (SP?) that is just left lying there, for instance.

[Kruger]

I think it may be more that the author of the book/screenplay stole the idea from the stage production, assuming nobody would ever hear of it and then it got made into a movie as well. Then again, one of Amazon's reviewers for the book said the idea was stolen from an old stand-up comedian, so who knows even who had the original idea. If there were more striking aspects stolen from RtGO, I didn't make it far enough into the film to notice them, heh. According to Wiki (so take that for whatever it is worth), both of them were filmed at approximately the same time in 2007. I did know from reading a review around the time it came out that Repo Men had sat on the shelves for a long time. Probably because Universal didn't know what to do with it when the final film came out as a gory shoot-em/chop-em-up rather than a quirky sci-fi/social satire like they might have imagined.

[CanRay]

I think Larry Niven made the idea of Organlegging popular in the '70s, but probably didn't come up with the idea.

IIRC, he got the idea when thinking about mass murderers sitting in prison and not even donating blood for use in surgeries or some such thing.

[Troysome]

I haven't read the all five pages of the topic nor do I know if we only supposed to keep it to just movies.

Here are two that seem very Shadowrun to me:

1) A TV show called "Leverage". (It is "'hooder" based, has a team (mastermind, hitter, hacker, thief/infiltrator, and face/grifter) that work together, and frequently break the law.)

2) A movie called "The Expendables". A team used as deniable assets.

[StealthSigma]

I'm going to throw The Losers onto the list. The movie plot was kind of lacking, but you got ridiculous plans of action, high tech gear, conspiracy, big guns, a team operating outside of the law, and gratuitous violence.

I will admit, I haven't liked a villain as much as I liked Max.

[Laodicea]

Trailer Park Boys. Worst shadowrun team evar.

[Doc Chase]

The fact that the two are so closely connected, and Repo Men was made by the company that was first offered R:TGO, is why I mentioned them both.

It's basically an extraction job with a script rather than a person. Then again, that's Hollywood for you.

R:TGO is very hard to watch, and oh so bad from a writing standpoint. There's a major Chenikov's Gun (SP?) that is just left lying there, for instance.

Chekov's gun. And if it was just left lying there, then it really wasn't Chekov's gun. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)