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 Nov 29 2004, 02:30 PM
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Chicago Survivor  Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 5,079 Joined: 28-January 04 From: Canton, GA Member No.: 6,033  |
Bourne is easy. They gave you a clue in the Bourne Identity. It's the hypnotic version of P-Fix chips.
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 Nov 29 2004, 04:29 PM
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The Sewer Jockey Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 857 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Kent, United Kingdom Member No.: 1,197 |
It's a terrible confession, but I'm up to it: I'm one of those sadly anal types who arranges his vids and DVDs in alphabetical order. However, I DO have a separate section entitled "Movies that make me feel Shadowrunny..." which is "out of order" with the rest.
A selection of these, in no particular order (many of which have already been done...): -American Yakuza Films (don't think anyone did these yet? Flash pack, shiny guns and sanitary towels...) -Assassins (obvious) -Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever (Banderas and Liu in tat movie... but with excelent bang-bang... and good forward planning... "I'll just stash this G38 here in case I get in a situation..." oh, and Ray Park is SUCH a bad man... acting skills? where?) -Bladerunner (obvious) -Blade & Blade II (and again...) -Broken Arrow (large scale Military heist... and that Park Ranger is GORGEOUS!!!) -Bulletproof Monk (physad mentor and students...) -The Crow (all of them, for obvious reasons) -Cyborg (duh) -Dark Angel (The series kicks SR ass, but I'm talking about the Dolph Lundgren film... tacky shite, but hugely amusing) -Dog Soldiers (Very Military, but logistical, and good use of handy domestic implements as weapons. Also, what do you do when the paranormal throws a surprise at you?) -Dusk til Dawn (and the sequels to some extent) -Equilibrium (some tat, some good, excelent action sequences - kudos to the choreographer) -Freejack (again, duh... decorative ashtray my ass...) -Future Sport (the remake with Dean Cain... sorry, but the urban bits are Runny..) -Ghosts of Mars (I don't know why...) -GROSSE POINTE BLANK (Yes, there's an E on the end of Pointe... as in, the geographical term. Yes, it's a kick ass movie, yes, yes, yes. Mr Cusack RULES, BABY!) -Hackers (juvenile, but fun) -Hudson Hawk -Jackie Brown (when you absolutely have to take out...) -Last Man Standing (out of time scale, but an example of a fallible hard man with great attitude, skill, a double gun rig, and an example of "why movie characters never run out of bullets." Also, who cares about getting dressed when someone's shooting at you?) -Mission Impossible Movies (for the gadgetry) -Ocean's Eleven (as stated already) -The One (Jet Li as Physad? Love the ending, with the Papa Roach overscore...) -Predator 2 (stated already, for similar reasons... also, love Danny's stash of guns in the car boot, and the fight on the tube train) -The Punnisher (guns guns guns... and that CAR!) -The Rock (infiltration of extraterritorial compound... ish. Also, nobody says the word "tosser" better than Mr Connery!) -Ronin (another duh) -Soldier (gengineering at its tackyest) -Split Second (Rutger, Pete AND Alun! Woohoo!) -Steel Dawn (Odd, but a post-apocolyptic hack-and-slash movie with Patrick Swayze. Don't ask me to explain myself on this one, please... it DOES have Brion James in it, though... cool as a cucumber...) -Tank Girl (Fit rigger lass, anyone?) -The Tomb Raider Films (Matched USP's anyone (excuse the pun)) -The Transporter (as already mentioned) -US Marshalls (Lose the Nickel plated sissy-gun and get yourself a glock...) -Vampires (with Mr Woods... organised teamwork, and a crossbow....) There are heaps more, but my fingers are getting sore from all this typing... |
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Nov 30 2004, 06:41 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,144 Joined: 22-September 04 Member No.: 6,690 |
To correct the correction: Dennis Hopper takes the role of Detective Philipp Lovecraft in 'Witch Hunt,' the sequel to 'To Cast a Deadly Spell.' It's unfortuntely a rather lame effort compared to the first one, and includes as one of its plot points, Joseph McCarthy running a witchhunt for spellcasters in the state department. 'Dog Soldiers' has already been mentioned, but it's still a great example of unprepared mundane military taking on the super natural (plus the line, 'There is no spoon!' I can't remember the last time I laughed that hard). Undercover Blues: Phys Ads on vacation? A good inspiration for light hearted runs. Encrypt: Great examples of a dystopian society and run gone stupid (after they get set to blow the outer doors, one member runs up and pulls on the handle, because no one thought to check to see if they were unlocked) and how not to set up security in a place where childrens groups once toured (hey kids, if you step here, knives fly out of the walls!). Might make a great video prop. "This was the previous runner team. Don't be like them.' |
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Jan 2 2005, 01:48 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 216 Joined: 6-August 03 From: Polish Ghetto Member No.: 5,342 |
Blue Thunder - he's a rigger (I forgot the name of actor)
Maybe it was already : Rollerball (combat bikers) I think we should focus on bad characters: In my opinion many movie-hero protagonists are rough shadowrunners. I see Nikoli already mentioned Die Hard. But look at them (especially good its seen in sequel.). Schwarccharacters are merc runners for sure. That's only one example, but there's many more such movies (I think I mentioned Liberator 2 bad guys crew). Boys from Leathal Weapon movies (I can't wait when they produce TV series of it :rotfl: ), Bad boys from "Bad Boys" 8) ... |
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Jan 2 2005, 03:32 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 511 Joined: 30-May 03 From: Tulsa, OK Member No.: 4,652 |
Welcome to Collinwood
It's the best heist film I've ever seen, especially if you're looking for a movie that relates to 'street-level' and isn't fully of a bunch of CIA/FBI/Special Forces badasses. |
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Jan 2 2005, 05:06 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 |
Its not a movie and I'll probably get flamed for even suggesting it, but I must mention that NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives for one reason, Stefano Dimera.
Vindictive Flaw + Unlimited resources = I kidnaped you, made everyone think you are dead, and put a chip in your brain that made you believe that you were the crown princess of [unnamed european country] and my personal art thief because the man who your husband thought was his father did something to piss me off 40 some odd years ago. |
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Jan 2 2005, 06:05 AM
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Wow. I'd never expect someone here to watch soaps.
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Jan 2 2005, 06:47 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,129 Joined: 11-June 03 From: Tir Tairngire Member No.: 4,712 |
Downloading 6th world conversions...
All My Children > All My Spike Babies Another World > The 6th World As the World Turns > As the World Goblinizes The Bold and the Beautiful > The Trolls and the Elves Days of Our Lives > Nights of Our Runs General Hospital > Doc Wagon Shift Guiding Light > My Totem Calls One Life to Live > Damage Overflows The Young and the Restless > Metahumanity and the Horrors (and for the record, I had to do a search to come up with these) |
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Jan 2 2005, 07:22 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,008 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Bellevue Hills 98007.
~J |
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Jan 2 2005, 10:22 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 |
And we're supposd to believe that? |
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Jan 3 2005, 06:51 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,901 Joined: 19-June 03 Member No.: 4,775 |
Soundin' pretty defensive there, buddy. |
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Jan 3 2005, 05:02 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 216 Joined: 6-August 03 From: Polish Ghetto Member No.: 5,342 |
... conversion continues :P
Shaft > Lord Torgo |
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Jan 4 2005, 12:37 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,129 Joined: 11-June 03 From: Tir Tairngire Member No.: 4,712 |
Heh, yes I do love my soaps with my runs. After an all-weekend gaming session, when I really need to unwind, nothing eases my pains like a good episode of All My Children. God... I'm a bit veklempt. :D
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Jan 4 2005, 12:52 AM
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Traumatizing players since 1992 Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,282 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Las Vegas, NV Member No.: 220 |
If you're going to do shaft might as well go:
Dolomite>Trollomite :D |
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Jan 4 2005, 03:06 AM
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King of the Hobos Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,117 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 127 |
Massively. I mean, he's got every munchkins favourite flaw of amnesia. If it wasn't for the serious charisma and social skills he'd probably just another PC cliche. Edit: And if you have SotA 2064 take a look in the spy section some time for a laugh. :) |
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Jan 7 2005, 01:18 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 224 Joined: 6-April 02 From: ab.ca Member No.: 2,522 |
The Big Three:
Spartan It's a fairly recent David Mamet movie that slipped under the radar somewhat, but for it's exceptionally sharp and done almost entirely in trade-speak. SR relevant for small high professional teams. Good examples of trade dialogue, legwork, bluffing, contacts, set-ups, cut-outs, and small team assaults. Heat Follows a team of highly organized robbers and the detectives chasing them. Fantastic for larger groups of ruthless, professional shadowrunners. Good examples of highly organized ambushes, impromptu urban firefights (and preparation for), fixers, double-crosses, and detective trailing/legwork. Ronin Still one of the best for shadowrun. Starts with a group of professionals who don't know each other, gathered together by a johnson to do a job. The opening does a great job of showing the way a johnson can work, how teams get put together and how the roles can flesh together. More double-crosses, urban firefights, ambushes, car chases, good examples of how higher level contacts work. Should be required for those wanting to do professional shadowrunning. Movies that are good for large teams running low-combat face-intensive con jobs: Confidence. Very sharp. The Italian Job (remake). Might be a bit too flashy, but it's inspiring. Ocean's Eleven. Ditto. Movies for character ideas or demonstrations of highly capable individuals: Bourne Identity. The unarmed combat scenes are excellent. Bourne Supremacy. Excellent improvisation. The Usual Suspects. Some good teamwork, but much better for demonstrating cool characters. Grosse Pointe Blank. Not serious, but very funny. The Bit Hit. Same, but not as funny. Underworld. Some stuff about vampires and were wolves in modernish setting, but more important as examples of what physads/sams might move like. The Negotiator. Gives respect to the police teams and shows how they might work. Also shows how they could be foiled. Spy Game. Nifty intelligence shows. To build possibilities for futuristic worlds, also with good some good character demos: Matrix trilogy. Some matrix thoughts, also shows how chromed/physads might move. The Minority Report. Bright and shiny corporate world. Blade Runner. Dark and depressing future world. Good movies for military teams: Blackhawk Down. Heavy urban combat. Tears of the Sun. Excellent green-kit special ops. Except for the final firefight. Grrrr. A Bridge Too Far. Okay, maybe not, but it gave me some good character concepts. Miscellaneous: The Last Samurai. Good for getting the samurai part of the Street Sam down. Narc. Good for getting your grit on. Road to Perdition. Good for the older noir feel. Last Man Standing. So wrong, but really gritty man. Brother. Yakuza! |
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Jan 7 2005, 05:18 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 216 Joined: 6-August 03 From: Polish Ghetto Member No.: 5,342 |
QUOTEDaishi
Hana-Bi Real Yakuza :bs: ! |
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Jan 7 2005, 06:41 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 96 Joined: 7-January 05 From: Ultra wideband Member No.: 6,944 |
Not a movie, but on a recent episode of Spike TV's "The Club" (an "American Chopper"-style show about a bunch of dysfunctional losers running a club in Las Vegas), the principal investor in the club found out some things about the management of the facility that he didn't like, so he took the club over and put a new management team in charge during a nighttime raid.
That episode was a classic, textbook shadowrun on TV and in real life if I ever have seen any. The infiltrators/new management team (the runners) met with their Johnson (the investor, Greg), went through a detailed planning session about mission objectives, physical security and electronic security in the facilities they were infiltrating that night. They even had the old sys-admin for The Club's website/overall computer system on the team, and were discussing how to break into and reconfigure the computer's security system so that they could access it, but the old management could not (can anybody say "decking"?). They even flimed the operation as it occured. The only things missing were the guns, mages, random Hellhounds and Lone Star. Well worth it to catch and record a repeat of it, especially if you GM a game. LordHaHa |
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Jan 7 2005, 10:35 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 993 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 313 |
This came out in the US as The Nest It was alright, the mask was very cool. Did anyone mention the Returner? |
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Jan 7 2005, 11:34 PM
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Great SR movie, except for the fact that it's two hours of professionals screwing up. |
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Jan 8 2005, 02:03 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 224 Joined: 6-April 02 From: ab.ca Member No.: 2,522 |
Screwing up? It seemed a lot more like professionals adapting to a huge chain of snags and snafus. |
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Jan 8 2005, 03:09 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,088 Joined: 8-October 04 From: Dallas, TX Member No.: 6,734 |
Yeah I saw that one. Definately cool, definately SR. I could imagine my runners doing that while the idiots were playing baseball...*laugh* You know, that might be a fun run to start a underworld campaign (mafia vs. mafia, I would think) |
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Jan 9 2005, 08:35 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 637 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,528 |
Roy Scheider plays "Officer Murphy" (Vietnam Vet turned "I dislike the military" in the original movie. Judge Reihold (from Beverly Hills Cop) played the JAFO. in the Blue Thunder movie. (German title: Das fliegende Auge - The flying eye) While the movie had a lot of elements (Corporations and the Military working together to provoke an uprising so they can sell helicopters and go for tougher laws) of Punk, it is more a late 70s / early 80s critique on the power of the military-industrial complex in the USA. Otherwise "Airwolf" and "Knight Rider" are rigger shows too. Rollerball (the old one with James Caan even more than the new one) is classical Punk. With the man against the system and all. The new one tones the conflict down to a more local fight against one corrupt person but still has nice elements (like the protected life of the stars, clearing the road etc) Birdy |
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Jan 9 2005, 09:17 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 586 Joined: 22-November 02 From: Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A. (or C.A.S.) Member No.: 3,630 |
Birdy: With all due respect, Judge Reinhold is the wrong actor. According to The Internet Movie Database, the part of "Officer Richard Lymangood", a/k/a "JAFO" ("Just Another Fragging Observer" in SR parlance) in the 1983 film BLUE THUNDER was played by Daniel Stern. He went on to star in such films as HOME ALONE (1990) and HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK (1992) (in the role of "Marv Merchants"), as well as CITY SLICKERS (1991) and CITY SLICKERS 2: THE LEGEND OF CURLY'S GOLD (1994) (in the role of "Phil Berquist"). Incidentally, although it was a good flick, I always thought that Roy Scheider's "Officer Frank Murphy" in BLUE THUNDER was a pale imitation of Clint Eastwood's "Mitchell Gant" in 1983's FIREFOX--both characters are excellent pilots, Vietnam veterans, and have psychological problems related to their war service. Both are excellent films, however, and I recommend them if you're into high-tech suspense thrillers. --Foreigner |
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Jan 10 2005, 04:49 AM
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Many of which are self-created. |
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