 Movies with some shadowrun themes......, Name some movies with a little shadow in |
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 May 24 2006, 07:19 AM
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Target  Group: Members Posts: 15 Joined: 21-May 06 Member No.: 8,582  |
I am trying to put together a list of shadowrun like movies. With themes along the lines of the game. Johny Nemonic comes to mind, the headware memory and the monofilament whip screams shadowrun, and well I know there are others out there but I can not think of them :( I saw the skeleton Key a few months ago and it made my voodoo character more vivid, although the movie sucked, Anywho if you know of a movie with some links to shadowrun please add it to the list.
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May 24 2006, 07:38 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
Equilibrium is a good one.
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May 24 2006, 07:42 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 11,410 Joined: 1-October 03 From: Pittsburgh Member No.: 5,670 |
New Rose Hotel, if you can find it. the only Gibson-based movie i've ever been able to watch with a straight face (and even then, i could've down without the fifteen minutes flashback/replay/exposition thing at the end of the movie).
Heat and Ronin are good, in terms of plot, along with any number of gritty crime flicks. there aren't many movies i can think of that deal with the whole loss-of-humanity-to-technology thing. Gattaca, i guess? |
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May 24 2006, 08:50 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,000 Joined: 17-November 05 From: Halifax, Canada Member No.: 7,975 |
Blade Runner comes to mind...
Gone in 60 seconds (for the life on the streets) You could even include - to some small degree: Mission Impossible Sneakers (actually this is a perfect example of a Shadowrun team) Hackers Oceans 11 The Net Umm.. I'm sure there's other's but I can't think of any off the top of my head. This post has been edited by Dranem: May 24 2006, 09:09 AM |
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May 24 2006, 08:51 AM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,156 Joined: 15-March 03 From: Fresno, CalFree Member No.: 4,252 |
Strange Days and Tetsuo: The Iron Man come to mind.
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May 24 2006, 08:56 AM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
Indeed. Nothing screams gritty to me like a Bruckheimer movie. |
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May 24 2006, 11:05 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,401 Joined: 23-February 04 From: Honolulu, HI Member No.: 6,099 |
In an odd way, Aeon Flux was sorta one. Though, personally, during the scene were AF and her cohort were doing a site breakin across the garden/deathzone, I couldn't help but think:
What the hell kinda security setup is that? Your dagger grass is activated, your machine gun trees are activated, and no security rigger NOTICES? Oh wait, no rigger. I woulda had a rigger plus some drones and that woulda been one dead hottie and one dead chick with...hands for her feet? |
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May 24 2006, 12:16 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 903 Joined: 7-February 03 Member No.: 4,025 |
Robocop is a good example of cybermancy and big heartless corporate thinking.
Ghost In The Shell, of course. 28 Days Later is a movie about ghouls. Big Trouble in Little China: backstreet urban magic. Breakaway, (starring Dean Cain,) a straight-to-video crapfest, captures the essence of shadowrunning. Okay, it doesn't. But I'm in it, so take a look. |
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May 24 2006, 02:59 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 142 Joined: 29-March 06 From: Quebec, Canada Member No.: 8,415 |
The two Golgo 13 (and the uber-rare live action thing with Sony Chiba) had something Shadowrunnesque... A perfect sharpshooter and a cold killer. Legal.
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May 24 2006, 03:13 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 24-May 06 Member No.: 8,599 |
I would add Swordfish, w/ Travolta.
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May 24 2006, 03:32 PM
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Man In The Machine Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,264 Joined: 26-February 02 From: I-495 S Member No.: 1,105 |
The Sting, w/ Paul Newman and Robert Redferd.
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May 24 2006, 03:40 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 626 Joined: 1-March 04 Member No.: 6,112 |
It'd take a very unusual group to play a run like The Sting.
I'd love it, though. |
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May 24 2006, 03:42 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 360 Joined: 18-March 02 From: Plymouth UK. Member No.: 2,408 |
There's a very bad B movie called Nemesis, it's fairly shadowrun like.
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May 24 2006, 03:58 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 Search Feature. It's full of Shadowrun movie goodness.
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May 24 2006, 05:25 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,987 Joined: 1-March 05 From: République Libre du Québec Member No.: 7,129 |
There has to be some sort of macro that makes up a "SR movies" or "SR music" thread every month. Anyone keeping track of what number this one is?
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May 24 2006, 06:36 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 903 Joined: 7-February 03 Member No.: 4,025 |
I'd wager that most threads by this point are repetitions of earlier threads. It's a shame that they die, but I'm kind of resigned to the fact that no one bothers to ressurect them.
The original "Femme Nikita" was very SR. I know there was a TV show made after it, but I never saw that. There's lots about the street-espionage and the techno, but what about portrayals of the more arcane stuff? |
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May 24 2006, 07:01 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 257 Joined: 25-May 05 Member No.: 7,414 |
I'll take that wager. I think it's instead a limited number of threads that repeat ad nauseam:
@ topic : Way of the Gun |
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May 24 2006, 07:05 PM
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Genuine Artificial Intelligence Group: Members Posts: 4,019 Joined: 12-June 03 Member No.: 4,715 |
Don't forget "Agent DOS attack" and "Cyberlimbs - WTF?"
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May 24 2006, 07:24 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 208 Joined: 3-May 06 From: On the Run Member No.: 8,521 |
Replacement Killers - runner double-crosses the Yak and gets into all sorts of trouble.
Transporter 2 - runner hired as bodyguard who loses the protectee then gets into all sorts of trouble. Avalon - think Miracle Shooter but purely in hot VR. |
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May 24 2006, 08:10 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 48 Joined: 21-July 05 Member No.: 7,510 |
Entrapment with Catherine Zeta Jones and Sean Connery was a good example of how shadowruns tend to go...the planning, execution, getting screwed at the end. The part I didn't like was the happy ending. In SR, Connery would have used the chute, and Jones would've been geeked.
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May 24 2006, 08:30 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 142 Joined: 29-March 06 From: Quebec, Canada Member No.: 8,415 |
Taxi (the french original), the two (the oens I saw). Nice something for car freak riggers, maybe.
Jean reno had some rather nice flicks who may inspirate for Shadowrun. |
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May 24 2006, 09:04 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...probably already mentioned these on one of the other movie threads.
Sneakers ("...a burglar, a spy, a fugitive, a delinquent hacker, and a piano teacher... And these are the good guys" Yeah, reminds me of a former shadow team I was once part of, & my character was the piano player.) Hackers (OK so the idea of a "Gibson" MF is a bit passe but Angelina was so "cute" back then) The Net (Corps got power to make anyone SINless - especially when you are deemed a serious threat) Italian Job (The Original, accept no substitutes) The "LA" Job (Italian Job remake, for those who want more up to date tech) Die Hard (the first one in this franchise only) Broken Arrow (actually used part of the premise in my "Rhapsody" arc) Enemy of the State (one of my faves - same as The Net but with the Government as the bad boys. "Damn, I loved that blender...") Taking of Pelham One Two Three. (Classic metropolitan hijack for ransom case. With a few twists could be an excellent premise for a run that is "on the clock".) Telefon (Now use your imagination and think about those mind manipulation spells we have at our disposal "...miles to go before I sleep Dimitri, miles to go before I sleep") As for recent releases... The DaVinci Code. (Heck of a run. If you didn't read the book, you didn't know who to trust. Just like a few Johnsons I've known) |
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May 24 2006, 11:24 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 23-June 03 Member No.: 4,796 |
Ok, horrible...horrible movie. But Mission Impossible III at the beginning when kidnapping the terrorist., resuing the girl, and the team rescuing the terrorist all good shadowrun teams. Hell we got a good rigger at work in that last one.
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May 24 2006, 11:28 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 684 Joined: 8-April 06 From: My dorm room Member No.: 8,438 |
The Fugitive! Half the people in the shadows are there because the one-armed man framed them, right?
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May 24 2006, 11:59 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,556 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Seattle Member No.: 98 |
Just a warning... you may have to know my group to understand why this is a Shadowrun movie:
Beavis and Butthead Do America Seriously. Those two guys are hired to assassinate a woman and later, to smuggle a bioweapon across the country, managing to evade detection via social engineering, shutting down the power on a third of the nation, going on a spirit quest, and in the end infiltrating our nation's capital carrying a weapon of mass destruction... ALL WITHOUT BEING AWARE THEY WERE DOING IT. That's so many of the SR games I've seen, it's scary. |
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