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 Apr 9 2005, 01:44 AM
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Running Target  Group: Members Posts: 1,129 Joined: 11-June 03 From: Tir Tairngire Member No.: 4,712  |
This looks pretty cool. Shapeshifters. Vampires. Euro-magic. Old school combat? Hmm... interesting.
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Apr 9 2005, 07:53 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 90 Joined: 26-February 02 From: In the shadows of the SK Arcology Essen, ADL Member No.: 1,934 |
Looks interesting.
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Apr 9 2005, 11:41 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 993 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 313 |
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Apr 9 2005, 01:21 PM
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The King In Yellow Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121 |
Read about this movie a while ago, in an article about Russian cinema. I hope to get this on DVD, or maybe even watch it in a cinema (Berlin has a large Russian diaspora, so it's bound to run *somewhere*). And Russia is a lot like I always envisioned the bulk of 2060s nations. Defunct, corrupt, and remote-controlled by oligarchies. Well, it was until Putin took over and turned it into a police state lite, that is, but anyway. Cool setting.
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Apr 9 2005, 09:52 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 619 Joined: 27-May 03 From: Detroit Member No.: 4,642 |
Seems more like a fantasy/horror Matrix to me than SR. For the record, I don't think the Matrix trilogies are like SR at all. Well, except there are lot's of guns.
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Apr 9 2005, 10:10 PM
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The King In Yellow Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121 |
Matrix relates to SR as Star Wars relates to Dune. Yeah, Star Wars has space ships, secretive 'sorcerer' orders and people in funky body armour too. But that's about it.
Still, it might capture the mood okay. Or it turns into a Matrix/Blade/Avalon hybrid. That'd be cool too, but not Shadowrun. |
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Apr 9 2005, 10:20 PM
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Mr. Johnson Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,587 Joined: 25-January 05 From: Berkeley, CA Member No.: 7,014 |
So far, the movie that best captures the feel of Shadowrun in my mind is "Ronin", but it lacks Magic or Cyberware (I suppose if you think of all the characters as adepts or something...). There has yet to be a decent live-action film combining Magic and Cyberware in a near-future cyberpunk setting. Even Anime seems to stroll into Magic OR Cyberware, but not both.
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Apr 10 2005, 09:53 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 619 Joined: 27-May 03 From: Detroit Member No.: 4,642 |
When someone asks me "What's Shadowrun?" I reply by asking them "Have you ever seen Ronin with Robert DeNiro?" If they want to play SR we watch that movie before they make a character. Sometimes Big Trouble in Little China too.
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Apr 11 2005, 12:45 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,978 Joined: 26-February 02 From: New Jersey, USA Member No.: 500 |
I've never, ever been a fan of subtitled movies (can never see/read the subtitles fast enough), so my list extends strictly to English-language movies.
My SR movies: Sneakers with Robert Redford. A bit cheesy, but not bad. Heat - Oh, why not? |
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Apr 11 2005, 01:02 AM
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Freelance Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 7,324 Joined: 30-September 04 From: Texas Member No.: 6,714 |
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Apr 11 2005, 03:19 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,546 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
The plot is sometimes derived, and the main character regularly is less believable than a cardboard cut-out. Of course, that's none of the games *I* play in ;) |
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Apr 11 2005, 03:44 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,070 Joined: 7-February 04 From: NYC Member No.: 6,058 |
I have to ask, what is the deal with Avalon? (if I'm thinking of the right movie, anyway) I saw a fragment of it on cable a few days ago, and it looks like a Japanese movie with an all-Polish cast, shot in Poland? |
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Apr 11 2005, 05:17 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 527 Joined: 30-January 04 Member No.: 6,043 |
Japanese movie, Polish cast and (basically) setting. It's the guy who did Ghost in the Shell, and the main character and basic theme (am I real?) are pretty similar. |
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Apr 11 2005, 06:14 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 68 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Goettingen Member No.: 1,094 |
AVALON ^^ ;)
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Apr 12 2005, 01:02 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,129 Joined: 11-June 03 From: Tir Tairngire Member No.: 4,712 |
<nods> Hence the "esque" part of the subject line. :P |
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Apr 12 2005, 03:58 AM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,718 Joined: 14-September 02 Member No.: 3,263 |
I think it varies from table to table. Far too often ours tend to end up playing more like Wasabi or maybe Triggermen....only with a touch of 5th Element and rikshas packed with C4. EDIT: Or anything set in an urban environment that has grenades. ;) |
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Apr 13 2005, 12:34 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 139 Joined: 6-February 05 Member No.: 7,059 |
The only motion picture medium that I felt had mixed magic and technology as well as SR was the cartoon "Gargoyles". It blended them both rather well, and it was entertaining, too, even if it wasn't quite the same way Shadowrun made it happen. I loved the Phoenix Gate storyline they did, just outstanding, and, along with the movie "Donnie Darko", has planted the seed in my mind of possibly running a time travel campaign for my players in the future.
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Jan 5 2006, 10:17 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 216 Joined: 6-August 03 From: Polish Ghetto Member No.: 5,342 |
Avalon was shot entiraly in Wroclaw, Poland.
Polish actors, polish tanks (well russian T-72 produced and modified in Poland)... |
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Jan 5 2006, 10:32 PM
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Running, running, running Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,220 Joined: 18-October 04 From: North Carolina Member No.: 6,769 |
holy thread-necromancy....
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Jan 5 2006, 10:54 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 751 Joined: 7-June 02 From: Hamilton.LTG.on.ca Member No.: 2,853 |
I hate to say but i agree with my Arch nemeisis. |
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Jan 6 2006, 01:03 AM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,589 Joined: 28-November 05 Member No.: 8,019 |
He's MY arch-nemesis!! |
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Jan 6 2006, 02:19 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,546 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
But this is about NEW movies, not pre-existing movies.
Avalon is out on DVD already. Netflix delivers it today :) Night Watch is *NOT* on DVD yet, and netflix hasn't given a proposed date for that to change. *sigh* As an aside, apparently Aeon Flux totally sucked. I'll watch it anyway, just not at the theater. |
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Jan 7 2006, 10:47 AM
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Karma Police Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,358 Joined: 22-July 04 From: Gothenburg, SE Member No.: 6,505 |
Iīve seen Night Watch. It is out on DVD... in Russia. And there are fan-subs. Itīs got very good acting for itīs genre, but itīs ultimately a bit too wierd for me. Itīs totally worth watching though. I might see it again real soon, because in the second half of the movie my fan-subs staggered behind several seconds, and that might have had a rather big impact on my enjoyment of the movie.
I concider myself lucky to be from a country were nearly all movies and television programs are subtitled. People who shy from subtitled movies should learn to watch them, I think. Voice dubs always gives a worse preformance than the real actors, if youīre interested in what emotions the original film maker wanted to portray. And if you limit yourself to movies made in english speaking countries for example, you will miss out on some of the best movies ever made (granted, a good deal of the best movies ever have been made in english speaking countries, but far from all). |
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Jan 7 2006, 09:30 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 143 Joined: 28-August 05 Member No.: 7,631 |
I gotta agree with mintcar. There are a lot of great movies and shows made in other languages, and subtitling is the only way to go. I'm an old-school anime snob myself, and "dubbed" is a dirty word to me.
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Jan 7 2006, 09:36 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 11,410 Joined: 1-October 03 From: Pittsburgh Member No.: 5,670 |
gotta disagree. it bore little, if any, relation to the shorts or even the half-hour segments, but in and of itself, it was not a bad movie. i think the reason it got bad reviews is because reviewers aren't supposed to like movie adaptions. it's traditional. |
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