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 Nov 20 2004, 11:43 PM
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Immortal Elf  Group: Validating Posts: 7,999 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,890  |
Gross Poine Blank is easily one of my all time favorite flicks. I've stolen so many lines and scenes out of that movie in my games...
"Look, I don't want to get into a semantic argument over it; I just want the protein." |
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Nov 20 2004, 11:46 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,751 Joined: 8-August 03 From: Neighbor of the Beast Member No.: 5,375 |
The Dad: "So, Martin, what do you do?"
Martin: "Professional killer." The Dad: "Do you get dental with that?" |
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Nov 21 2004, 01:18 AM
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Why oh why didn't I take the blue pill. Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,545 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gloomy Boise Idaho Member No.: 2,006 |
The Big Hit
"What would you do if some scumbag came into your house! What WOULD YOU DO?" Beat "I'd bust a cap!" "BUUST A CAP!" Avery Brooks so rocked in that. |
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Nov 21 2004, 01:40 AM
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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 |
"They chose wrong!"
Sam - Ronin |
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Nov 21 2004, 01:51 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,751 Joined: 8-August 03 From: Neighbor of the Beast Member No.: 5,375 |
"You're worried about saving your own skin."
"Yeah. It covers my body." But one favorite lines is: "You wanna talk ambushes!? I ambushed you with a fucking cup of coffee!" |
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Nov 21 2004, 02:12 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,326 Joined: 15-April 02 Member No.: 2,600 |
Actually, that was the conversation with the best friend. The dad said: "Good for you. It's a growth industry." Minor point, but I had to bring it up. Grosse Pointe Blank is my favorite hired killer going to his high scool reunion movie (much in the same way Deep Blue Sea is my favorite movie about super-intelligent sharks). |
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Nov 21 2004, 03:35 AM
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Chicago Survivor Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 5,079 Joined: 28-January 04 From: Canton, GA Member No.: 6,033 |
Hehehe.. Gotta love S.L. Jackson in that one.
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Nov 21 2004, 10:23 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,512 Joined: 16-August 03 From: Northampton Member No.: 5,499 |
Deep rising. If you need to know who not to have on your Shadowrun team.
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Nov 22 2004, 03:00 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,751 Joined: 8-August 03 From: Neighbor of the Beast Member No.: 5,375 |
Didn't somebody ask him about dental? Either way, I have no problem being corrected about movie knowledge. :)
What? Its not normal for mercs/sams to be giddy about the ROF of thier new (never fired) HVARs? :D Pure class all the way. I did like the Rigger/Smuggler and the nerdy tech guy. (hey--he could recognize "The Girl from Iponema" even in its elevator music form. That's gotta count for something...) |
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Nov 22 2004, 03:22 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,326 Joined: 15-April 02 Member No.: 2,600 |
Yeah, you got the quote right, it was just the wrong character. I was thinking the best friend said it, but now that I think about it, I don't know who asked abut dental. It was either the best friend or Debi, and I'm leaning towards Debi. Maybe in the conversation they have in her radio station. I haven't seen the movie in a few years, but I'm fairly certain about it. And the nerdy tech guy from Deep Rising I call "Beni", since that was his name in The Mummy. He tends to be the best thing about whatever movie he is in (which is easier for him to do in some movies than in others). Anyway, I'll throw the first Mummy movie in with that... But, if I do that it seems like we have to include the original mummy movies, and from there its a short jump to include Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolfman, Nosferatu, and so on. Can anyone deny that cyberzombies are not modernized interpretations of the Frankenstein monster? Or that the loup-garou is Lon Chaney (right down to the picture in PANA)? Or that there is a picture of Max Shrek in PAE? |
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Nov 22 2004, 03:28 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,008 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
"I saw Lon Chaney Jr. walkin' with the queen"
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Nov 22 2004, 03:29 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,751 Joined: 8-August 03 From: Neighbor of the Beast Member No.: 5,375 |
Ha! I had to stop myself from calling him Benni. But its how I think of that guy too. Makes you wonder whats so great about that yahoo that the mechanic chic digs him, huh? |
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Nov 22 2004, 03:30 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,751 Joined: 8-August 03 From: Neighbor of the Beast Member No.: 5,375 |
Would that have been in the streets of London? |
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Nov 22 2004, 03:34 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Validating Posts: 7,999 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,890 |
I believe it was by Lee Ho Fook's in Soho, to be exact. They have excellent beef chow mein there, too. Highly recommended. But you might want to avoid going there in the rain. Never know who you'll bump into.
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Nov 22 2004, 03:35 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,008 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Pity about that little old lady.
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Nov 22 2004, 04:00 AM
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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 |
At least he had stylish hair.
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Nov 22 2004, 04:04 AM
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Canon Companion Group: Members Posts: 8,021 Joined: 2-March 03 From: The Morgue, Singapore LTG Member No.: 4,187 |
Hudson Hawk... A B/E run to muzeek.
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Nov 22 2004, 04:09 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Validating Posts: 7,999 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,890 |
To this day I have no idea why that movie gets so much hate.
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Nov 22 2004, 04:13 AM
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Canon Companion Group: Members Posts: 8,021 Joined: 2-March 03 From: The Morgue, Singapore LTG Member No.: 4,187 |
Maybe it's the nuns bit... Some people can't stand pretty nuns.
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Nov 22 2004, 04:35 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,326 Joined: 15-April 02 Member No.: 2,600 |
I think it is one of those movies that are billed/built up/advertised as one thing and turn out to be drastically different. A lot of people went to Hudson Hawk not thinking it was a comedy, but a straight-forward heist movie with Bruce Willis as the requisite tough guy.
Rules of Attraction was that way. The previews made it look like just another hard-partying college kids movie, when it was in fact probably the darkest movie I had seen in a long time, full of largely unredeemable characters doing despicable things to one another and to innocent bystanders. (I liked it, but I certainly understand anyone's burning hatred if they thought they were going to see Animal House and instead wound up with this.) |
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Nov 22 2004, 04:50 AM
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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 |
Not from me ... I think it's a classic. |
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Nov 22 2004, 05:51 AM
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I didn't really think people hated it so much as just never saw it.
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Nov 22 2004, 06:06 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,326 Joined: 15-April 02 Member No.: 2,600 |
While I don't want to just endlessly repeat my old axiom of Every movie is a Shadowrun movie, I am going to open with it and try to work it in five or six more times over the course of this and any other thread it vaguely applies to. I hope to wear people down so that they will agree with me out of exhaustion, if nothing else. (I learned this from the tv.)
But beyond that I have found that bad movies, even horrible movies--no matter how otherwise irredeemable in terms of story, character, plot or execution-- will have something that I can cannablize out for my game. A character, a situation, a name, a setting, a quote; something that can be used in a game. I will even go as far as to watch television shows or movies (or read books) I have absolutely no interest in simply for game inspiration. And when I find myself watching a forgotten made-for-tv movie on the Superstation at 4:30 in the morning starring Daniel Baldwin and Linda Florentino, I know that if nothing else, whatever I steal from it, my players are never going to see it coming because no one-- with the possible exception of Daniel Baldwin and Linda Florentino-- has ever seen the movie. |
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Nov 22 2004, 06:10 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 803 Joined: 16-March 02 From: The Great White North Member No.: 2,386 |
[edit: I'm an idiot .. this thread is about movies. :D Funny how you can't just erase a post once you've put it in, hmm?]
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Nov 22 2004, 06:21 AM
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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 |
You could have just edited in a movie-relevant comment ... ;)
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