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[Snow_Fox]

Outland for the feel
Alien because that is just SR 2120...
Total Recall because thats the SR char I would make when told to make a normal Joe for starting a campaign. Also, its SR 2084

oh Total Recall-good one, I'd forgotten that but yeah, very good.

[Saint Sithney]

The Invisibles. Straight up.

[ravensmuse]

This reminded me last night, and stay with me here - Over The Hedge.

Say what?

At it's core, this is a heist movie written with animals. Rocky the Raccoon (played by the note perfect Bruce Willis) is "hired" by a Johnson he's personally screwed to pull off a huge heist in under I *think* two weeks. The problem is, Rocky has a rep for screwing almost every single team he's ever worked with. So he comes across this group of neophyte runners, sees them for suckers, and uses them to pull off the heist, not realizing that he's actually found the team he's supposed to stay with. Hilarity and floating bears ensue.

Rocky: Face
Verne: Street sam (not a very good one)
Hammy: Elven physad, geas: caffeine
Stella: Troll bouncer
Lou & Penny: fixer & mechanic
Their kids: hacker, technomancer, rigger

(No, I totally didn't look up the names on Wiki, gosh (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) )

[Draco18s]

This reminded me last night, and stay with me here - Over The Hedge.

Shame the movie was only tangentially related to its parent comic strip. RJ claimed to have started the universe, there's a Tree that Knows Stuff, and various other quirks that are so much funnier.

[Wesley Street]

The Invisibles. Straight up.

Word to that! Perfect reference for SR's new age mysticism. See also Grant Morrison's Animal Man and Doom Patrol. Or The Filth. Or anything he's written for DC's Vertigo imprint.

I know Warren Ellis is the soup de jour for SR influence from comics because of Transmetropolitan, but Morrison was writing about the conceits of modern mysticism that SR uses looong before that or Strange Kiss trundled onto the scene.

[Kovu Muphasa]

Desparodo
Zhohan
Hot Fuz
Soldier
Black Rain
Romanceing The Stone

[ravensmuse]

Shame the movie was only tangentially related to its parent comic strip. RJ claimed to have started the universe, there's a Tree that Knows Stuff, and various other quirks that are so much funnier.

Really? I was reading the comic for awhile and while it was occasionally funny, it just seemed full of non-sequiters and boring observations. Different strokes different folks, I guess.

(or it could be a case of, I saw the movie first before the comic, so I naturally dig how the characters are presented there instead of..you know what I mean)

[Draco18s]

Really? I was reading the comic for awhile and while it was occasionally funny, it just seemed full of non-sequiters and boring observations. Different strokes different folks, I guess.

(or it could be a case of, I saw the movie first before the comic, so I naturally dig how the characters are presented there instead of..you know what I mean)

I grew up with the strip in the local paper, so--like all childhood memories--I might be a bit biased.

I did manage to ruin my liking of Freakazoid, so I've avoided watching old shows that I know were a bit non-sequiter (like Bonkers and Darkwing Duck).

[Stahlseele]

Bonkers was . . no, not my thing . . Darkwing Duck . . i actually built him in SR3 ^^
Dwarf, Surge, Natural Kid Stealth Legs, Feathers, Bill of a Bird.
Gave him basically some close combat, some launch weapons for the grenade launcher and filled out with things like forensics or so ^^

[Wesley Street]

I did manage to ruin my liking of Freakazoid, so I've avoided watching old shows that I know were a bit non-sequiter (like Bonkers and Darkwing Duck).

Darkwing Duck was non-sequitur? I remember it as Disney's take on Batman set in the Ducktales universe. Fun anthro-animal kid-fare and fairly coherent.

Age must be distorting my memory.

[ravensmuse]

How could you burn yourself out on Freakazoid? That's like, completely alien to me. It's like stating that you've outgrown Calvin and Hobbes.

My first thought when I heard that Ricardo Montalbon had died was, "god, what a weenie."

[Draco18s]

Darkwing Duck was non-sequitur? I remember it as Disney's take on Batman set in the Ducktales universe. Fun anthro-animal kid-fare and fairly coherent.

Age must be distorting my memory.

I don't know if it was, I'm afraid of murdering my childhood memories by watching it to find out. Bonkers I know was strait up wacky off the wall non-sequiter humor and know I wouldn't enjoy it now.

I just know I wanted to go find some old 'toons I liked and watch them again. I heard The Tick and Transformers were very good (still haven't watched either), but I did watch Gargoyles--which was good, excepting season 3 which had new writers--and an episode of Freakazoid--which made no sense what so ever, but the intro is still fun for me. I've also tried watching Godzilla:The Series, but oddly, I found it too slow (couldn't sit through five minutes of it).

Gargoyles was so well put together that they did the obligatory social message episode so subtly no one noticed (and it is in fact the only episode to have been cut for modern children audiences because, gasp, Lisa gets shot).

[etherial]

I just know I wanted to go find some old 'toons I liked and watch them again. I heard The Tick and Transformers were very good (still haven't watched either), but I did watch Gargoyles--which was good, excepting season 3 which had new writers--and an episode of Freakazoid--which made no sense what so ever, but the intro is still fun for me. I've also tried watching Godzilla:The Series, but oddly, I found it too slow (couldn't sit through five minutes of it).

As a child fan of transformers who owns the whole thing on DVD, I can say with some confidence that it has aged well. Gargoyles is still flipping amazing.

[Draco18s]

As a child fan of transformers who owns the whole thing on DVD, I can say with some confidence that it has aged well. Gargoyles is still flipping amazing.

A friend and old roommate of mine watched Transformers and The Tick, and he's someone I consider to judge things on an objective level, so I figured as much. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Stahlseele]

As a child fan of transformers who owns the whole thing on DVD, I can say with some confidence that it has aged well. Gargoyles is still flipping amazing.

I'm sorry, but no.
I HAVE bought the complete first Series on DVD-Box.
And i TRIED watching it. But in the first episode alone i had so many moments where i was just shaking my head at how dumb it all was that i stopped shortly after . .
Curiously, i still love and adore the very first Transformers Movie with Unicron. i was SO happy when i got it in HD ^^

[etherial]

I'm sorry, but no.
I HAVE bought the complete first Series on DVD-Box.
And i TRIED watching it. But in the first episode alone i had so many moments where i was just shaking my head at how dumb it all was that i stopped shortly after . .
Curiously, i still love and adore the very first Transformers Movie with Unicron. i was SO happy when i got it in HD ^^

It's a Cheesy 80s Sci Fi Cartoon. They weren't that good to begin with. But it's the best of 'em.

[Stahlseele]

In the very first episode, megatron can fly. and he can shoot.
What does he do? a climbing race up a mountain instead of flying.
And instead of shooting Optimus square in the chest? Yes, energy-axe . .
I still like Galaxy Rangers. And Ulysses 31. MAYBE Saber Rider.
But Transformers is too hard to stomach for me i'm afraid ._.
I WANT TO LIKE IT!
And i still love the first Movie. I watch it once or twice a week.
And yes damn it, i still cry when our lord and saviour dies ;_;

[Draco18s]

There's worse than that.

[ravensmuse]

Man, the only Transformers I could ever get into was Beast Wars and Beast Machines. Smarter written, smaller casts, better production (for the time). I was (okay, still am) a huge Silverbolt / Black Arachnia fan, and the redemption of BA and then her redemption of SB was one of those moments for me.

One of my favorite lines from them is surprisingly SR appropos:

SB: "You shot me!"
BA: "You wouldn't shut up!"
SB: "Wait - you shot me in the leg! That proves that you love me!"
BA: "Oh for the love of -"

[Stahlseele]

Judge Dredd and Demolition Man. Also Hackers1. Yes, i know, horrible.

[Saint Sithney]

One low budget movie that was very Shadowrun to me was The Prodigy.

It goes a long way to show just how effective a real pro is in a world of hoods and thieves.

[Wesley Street]

I still like Galaxy Rangers.

Even with the space witches? And a group of space cops playing in a band? Playing their show's theme song? Wow.

Yeah, that's a show that I wanted to like, as an adult, but... no.

I WANT TO LIKE IT!
And i still love the first Movie. I watch it once or twice a week.
And yes damn it, i still cry when our lord and saviour dies ;_;

It's okay if you don't. Set aside for a moment that it was a 30 minute toy advertisement, it was still a ridiculous, nonsensical television show. The animated movie was an entirely different beast.

If you want Transformers Done Right, check out the Simon Furman run on Transformers for Marvel UK.

[Draco18s]

It's okay if you don't. Set aside for a moment that it was a 30 minute toy advertisement

There was some cartoon I watched (could it have been Legendz?) where they made fun of that. The fake show was in fact a 30 minute toy advertisement complete with "give me my sold separately giant cannon!" type phrases.

[Kovu Muphasa]

The Transformers talk is amusing

1] Back in 1998 I started a Modern SyFy/Horror game from the Millitary Point of Veiw and used the SR systems, the Unit was Called NEST-13 [NATO-Emergancy-Strike-Teams] When I was T: RotF I almost fell out my seat. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rotfl.gif)

2] My SR GM has been working on a Transformers RPG for years and the SR4 rules have made it more posible than ever to get a serious system, not a modified Superhero or other type.

[ravensmuse]

There was some cartoon I watched (could it have been Legendz?) where they made fun of that. The fake show was in fact a 30 minute toy advertisement complete with "give me my sold separately giant cannon!" type phrases.

How toyetic.

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