 From the Silver Screen, Cinema Influences for Your SR Game |
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 Dec 18 2006, 11:39 AM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 571 Joined: 9-January 05 From: In the 9th circle of hell Member No.: 6,950  |
Swordfish?
Has the planning of a complex run. |
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Dec 18 2006, 03:02 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,548 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
Heh, you could watch the Jackal for why Disguise should be an active skill rather than knowledge :P
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Dec 18 2006, 10:38 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,577 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gwynedd Valley PA Member No.: 1,221 |
Just watched the shclocky horror "Tamara" an updated version of "Carrie" where after the humiliation 1/2 through the film she comes back with a vengence. Schlocky bad horror but I thought at the time 'Siren' shaman since she causes people to their doom through their worst fears.
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Dec 23 2006, 05:05 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 13-December 06 From: Fairbanks, Alaska(GMT-9) Member No.: 10,354 |
Kind of a "B" rate film...but i always thought of SR when i watch a movie called "Nemesis"...cyborgs and cyberzombies in particular...
Funny thing also is "Starship Troopers"...I was just running my players into Chicago when the "Bug City" thing was happening, and then we all went and saw this, and one of my players go, "Oh...now i know why you saying I couldn't kill all the bugs." |
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Dec 23 2006, 06:39 PM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
For what it's worth...
Episode 9 of Firefly ("Ariel") has got to be the best planning and execution sequence of a Shadowrun I have ever seen. It includes everything - a knocking over of a AAA hospital's medical supplies cabinet, breaking into the hospital to use the facilities, someone betraying the team by calling the feds, a run-and-run-faster sequence running away from the Bluehands, who in all honesty I fully expected that they could have killed if they'd stood and fought. The only non-Shadowrun thing was that the traitor didn't die, even though his treachery was discovered. :) Episode 11 ("Trash") is also kind of good - it deals with how to deal with a known fragging-you-over Johnson, one who insists on accompanying you. |
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Dec 24 2006, 08:08 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,468 Joined: 5-December 06 From: Somewhere in the Flooding, CalFree Member No.: 10,215 |
I just saw Casino Royale last night and I have to agree with you guys, it does make for some very good material. I am very inspired after seeing it and I can see some high stakes poker falling into a game of mine somewhere in the near future....that and someone driving an Astin Martin 8) :D
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Dec 24 2006, 08:17 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,353 Joined: 5-June 02 Member No.: 2,840 |
You rule! And yes, those two episodes were great examples of Shadowruns, especially Ariel (one of my all-time favorite Firefly episodes). "The Train Job" is another good one, I think - a psychotic Johnson and a mission that's a LOT more than it first seems. Whoever suggested "The Perfect Score," you rock. I thought I was the only one in the world that liked that movie. I'm surprised no one's mentioned "Ocean's Eleven" yet. That's probably one of the most perfect examples of a run in film. |
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Dec 24 2006, 08:40 PM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
The Train Job, I forgot about that. Yeah, it is good...
Unfortunately, the Train Job requires having a spaceship and a consience, two things in short supply in the 6th World. That said, Niska makes a good Vory boss. |
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Dec 27 2006, 09:38 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 308 Joined: 1-June 06 From: Nova Scotia, Canada Member No.: 8,631 |
The Train Job can be done with a aircraft, but then I suppose you run the risk of it being more like Mission Impossible. And in the words of Ned's Newt when they did a spoof on the helicopter and train scene, 'Even in a cartoon, this in unbelievable'. I get my influences from different places; like the tv show F/X the Series. If nothing else, I recommend watching the episodes: The Ring, The Brotherhood and Thief, but pretty much each of them has some parts that would be great for Shadowrunners. The Ring is about a car jacking ring, and the good guys create their own to catch the bad guys. Brotherhood is about a theft of the Crown Jewels of London, and Thief is pretty much what I can see being a fixer being like as the good guys try and take him down. I'm even toying with taking some of the ads from the Robocop movies and putting them together on a single video, maybe see about finding some stuff on the net as well and make a SR news channel for my players to watch as a bit of theme. Great way to include some run hints in there. I've been tossing around the idea since I started doing some 3D modeling in my free time, but not sure how it would go over. Speaking of Robocop, about twenty minutes or so into the second movie, they do a really good street scene showing a low rated neighborhood. It starts with a guy shooting up and scrolls along the street to show a mother feeding a baby, a biker gang and a bag lady. A car runs into her shopping cart, spilling her stuff on the ground. Guy comes over to help and steals her purse, taking her money only to be robbed by a couple of ladies for his watch and money so they can buy drugs. In the background as they walk away, you see homeless people, a couple women beating up another guy and then just after the girls walk past it, a gun store security gate blows off. Three guys proceed to rob the store and then Robocop shows up. Might be a good intro for people who don't know too much about the theme. |
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Dec 27 2006, 09:51 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,150 Joined: 19-December 05 From: Rhein-Ruhr Megaplex Member No.: 8,081 |
Firefly was so cool :(.
The first season of Dark Angel has a lot of good stuff that lets me think of Shadowrun (don't bother with the second season, it's bad). |
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Dec 28 2006, 05:37 AM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
Firefly was probably killed by a bunch of Whedon-hating Shadowrunners who blackmailed the network into killing it. And then Serenity rose like a phoenix because Whedon hired some Shadowrunners to make sure his pitch got to the right Paramount exec. :) |
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Dec 28 2006, 05:42 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Oh come on, I don't hate his stuff that much. Not quite that much, at least. ;) ~J |
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Dec 28 2006, 07:00 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
The internet has corrupted me to the point that this implies battling against furries from Second Life or something. |
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Dec 28 2006, 09:37 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,468 Joined: 5-December 06 From: Somewhere in the Flooding, CalFree Member No.: 10,215 |
NOT THE FURRIES!!!! DEAR GOD, NOT THE FURRIES!!! I do hate Second Life with a passion, it has stolen the souls of some of my best friends and left them empty furry loving husks of what they used to be...empty shadowrun loving meat husks... *bows head in memory of those taken to their Second Life* |
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Dec 28 2006, 10:12 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 732 Joined: 1-December 06 Member No.: 10,116 |
Well I have run into a few furry shadowrun loving players. SURGE and Shapeshifters seems to give them a sort of furry 'in' as well. |
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Dec 28 2006, 03:22 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,333 Joined: 19-August 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9,168 |
"We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neuro-reaction from either patient!" It's also perfect because it shows the runners getting screwed over by Mr. J (well, one runner). I use Firefly for a lot of my general ideas about SR. Not to start a "How would you stat Firefly" thread, because I'm sure that's done, but it even covers most of the archetypes, in one way or another (Face, Rigger, Phys Ad, Gunslinger), most folks come from a military background, to explain where they got their skills, one is a refugee from a corporate lab. Hell, Inara's all but an elf in appearance. All of the crew have a mix of skills in addition to their primary (except possibly Wash) and they all have at least a couple points in unarmed. Edit: Oooh. Some quotes from Ariel that are so very SR: Mal: “This is exactly what I didn't want. I wanted simple, I wanted in and out, I wanted easy money.” Zoe: “Things always get a little more complicated, don't they, sir?” Mal: “Just once I'd like things to go according to the gorram plan!” Mal: “The next time you decide to stab me in the back, have the guts to do it to my face.” Jayne: “Nothin' buys bygones quicker than cash! Maybe I'll give him a tattoo while he's out.” Wash: “So, you're just gonna walk in through the front door?” Mal: “No, you're gonna find me a way around back.” And this sounds like the summary of every run I've been in: Inara: “What's going on here?” Kaylee: “Oh, let's see, we killed Simon and River, stole a bunch of med'cin, and now the Captain and Zoe are off springing the others got snatched by the Feds. Oh, here they are now!” |
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Dec 28 2006, 10:30 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 26-December 06 Member No.: 10,465 |
Yes! I'm suprised it got this far without mentioning Sin City, everytime I watch that movie, (about every 5th time I get drunk), I always want to play some Shadowrun. |
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Dec 29 2006, 01:46 AM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
Smokey and the Bandit. Two Riggers go on a difficult but rather safe delivery run because of a bet made by a rich fatcat and things go south because one of them decides to be a good samaritan.
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Dec 29 2006, 03:25 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 308 Joined: 1-June 06 From: Nova Scotia, Canada Member No.: 8,631 |
If we're talking riggers, what about Cannonball, The Gumball Rally and Cannonball Run? I could see the premise of a trans-American race being even more interesting when you factor in all the different borders and such that need to be crossed.
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Dec 29 2006, 08:29 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 |
Why not just add Deathrace 2000 to that list?
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Dec 29 2006, 10:00 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 732 Joined: 1-December 06 Member No.: 10,116 |
While it's not at all to do with action/shadowrunning etc.
I was bored at work, and one guy had the 'horror' movie pulse. The scenery got me really thinking of this thread actually. Especially near the end it gives one this reallys ort of good 'feel' for what a bad day in a Z-zone might look like. Especially in the later 2060's after that volcano pops up near Seattle and starts raining down all sorts of fun ash and acid rain. |
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Dec 29 2006, 01:14 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,150 Joined: 19-December 05 From: Rhein-Ruhr Megaplex Member No.: 8,081 |
Bought! Altough I might wait until after unwired... It's also a nice nod to one of the classic campaigns of our german fantasy rpg 8). |
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Dec 29 2006, 05:10 PM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
I was watching the original Rollerball tonight. Although the sets and effects are old and worn, there was some interesting little tidbits that could relate to the Sixth World.
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Dec 29 2006, 10:45 PM
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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 |
Oooh. Logan's Run.
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Dec 30 2006, 01:13 AM
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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 |
While the new one was, IMO, complete trash, it has some fairly interesting tidbits of info to play with. Much like the old one. Both not so good movies, but...
Yeah, Firefly, I had to go watch Train Job just because its so good. |
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