Identify the movie, A bit of a competition Options

[Floyd]

A corporate president leads a squad of ruthless corp soldiers to render their most hated enemy destroyed. The Corporate Court, hears of this action, allows the president to commit this illegal act, so that he may become the target of their justice. After the president tricked his enemy into accepting a deadly prize, the Corporate Court broadcast the president's private comcode. The Court then try to instill a new ringer in the the president's position, but is constantly foiled by a true and loyal VP. After being attacked by those tracing his now public comcode, he disables it and must travel from shadowsite to shadowsite working his way back to company headquarters. With the help of of a few faithful friends working in the Corp Court, the president returns to work, kicks out the ringer, and manages to create a reasonable alibi (supported by the VP) that allows him to keep his company

[masterofm]

Clear and present danger I believe? No wait.... I have seen this movie though....

[TKDNinjaInBlack]

A street sam with no name wanders into the worst areas of Tacoma and finds a few blocks contested between the Yakuza and the Mafia. He keeps an eye on the situation from both sides while listening to some of the residents who warn him of the evils of both sides. Using some trickery as he enlists as a bodyguard on both sides, he plays both sides for fools and watches their numbers dwindle. After a few abductions and battles, the Yakuza calls in another street sam to take out our antihero and he's roughed up pretty bad. Recovering from his injuries after he gets away, he formulates a plan to beat the other sam who has a distinct advantage over him. Things culminate in large scale battle where our antihero cuts through everybody super quick and leaves the turf rid of both the Yaks and the mafia.

[Prime Mover]

A street sam with no name wanders into the worst areas of Tacoma and finds a few blocks contested between the Yakuza and the Mafia. He keeps an eye on the situation from both sides while listening to some of the residents who warn him of the evils of both sides. Using some trickery as he enlists as a bodyguard on both sides, he plays both sides for fools and watches their numbers dwindle. After a few abductions and battles, the Yakuza calls in another street sam to take out our antihero and he's roughed up pretty bad. Recovering from his injuries after he gets away, he formulates a plan to beat the other sam who has a distinct advantage over him. Things culminate in large scale battle where our antihero cuts through everybody super quick and leaves the turf rid of both the Yaks and the mafia.

Last Man Standing

[PBTHHHHT]

Last Man Standing

Or A Fistful of Dollars... or Yojimbo
Since Last Man Standing is a remake... I mean an adaptation/update to more modern times... yeah...

[Floyd]

A Samurai, employed by a local mob enforcer, ices one of the family. The enforcer contacts the samurai via pigeon. The under boss commands the enforcer to kill the samurai hit man. The target had messed up but he was still family. The Samurai kills the remainder of the family and makes the enforcer becomes the head of the family. The Samurai also begins to prepare his replacement, a little girl, during the elimination. The enforcer and the samurai have a showdown in the street, and, due to his honor, the samurai accepts his death at the hands of his master, the enforcer. This death is witnessed by the little girl and the samurai's best friend, a man who speaks a different language from the samurai.

(This plot is completely unchanged from the film. All the terminology I typed here was used in the film. If this isn't a modern Shadowrun movie, I don't know what is.)

[hyzmarca]

A Samurai, employed by a local mob enforcer, ices one of the family. The enforcer contacts the samurai via pigeon. The under boss commands the enforcer to kill the samurai hit man. The target had messed up but he was still family. The Samurai kills the remainder of the family and makes the enforcer becomes the head of the family. The Samurai also begins to prepare his replacement, a little girl, during the elimination. The enforcer and the samurai have a showdown in the street, and, due to his honor, the samurai accepts his death at the hands of his master, the enforcer. This death is witnessed by the little girl and the samurai's best friend, a man who speaks a different language from the samurai.

(This plot is completely unchanged from the film. All the terminology I typed here was used in the film. If this isn't a modern Shadowrun movie, I don't know what is.)

Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai

I'll give you a hint for mine: I posted it in an earlier movie thread, with a description.

[TKDNinjaInBlack]

Or A Fistful of Dollars... or Yojimbo
Since Last Man Standing is a remake... I mean an adaptation/update to more modern times... yeah...

Bingo. I was going with the original and best of those three though, Yojimbo.

[wageslave]

A black-clad gunslinger adept, known only as The Hedgehog, rides through the Southwest with his son, encountering a town that has been destroyed, and its inhabitants all murdered, by a gang led by a rogue Aztlan colonel. The Hedgehog tracks several members of the gang, killing them, and eventually finds the main portion of the gang at a monastery - the gang members are holding the monks hostage for forcing them to perform humiliating tasks. The gunslinger rescues the monks, as well as Mara, a woman kept as a slave by the gang, and kills The Colonel. The, he leaves his son with the monks and rides off into the sunset with Mara.

Mara convinces the gunslinger to become the best shooter in the world by tracking down and killing four great gun adepts known as the Gun Masters. He agrees. The first Gun Master is a blind man who is immune to bullets and is served by a man with no legs riding a man with no arms. The Hedgehog wins by setting a trap for the master, causing him to lose his concentration - and thus his invulnerability - while Mara slays the two half-men. At this point they meet an unnamed mute woman, who decides to accompany them.
The second Gun Master is a Gypsy who lives with his mother and a lion, and makes things out of toothpicks. The Hedgehog defeats him by injuring his mother and shooting him in the back while he attempts to treat the elderly woman.
The third Gun Master is a rabbit farmer who can kill anyone in a single shot, and thus only uses a single shot pistol. The Hedgehog learns that this Gun Master always shoots his opponents in the heart, and armors himself there. After the armor stops the Master's single bullet, the black-clad gunslinger shoots the helpless man dead.
The final Gun Master, however, cannot be defeated simply because he does not value his own life. Before the protaginist can find a way around his awesome powers, he demonstrates the unimportance of life by shooting himself in the head, denying The Hedgehog any chance at victory.

At this point, the mute woman shoots the black-clad gunslinger multiple times, as does Mara, who has become the mute woman's lover, and they both leave the failed gunslinger for dead.

He is, however, rescued by a group of underground-dwelling Changelings. They nurse him back to health and he spends several years in a meditative coma, simply pondering the meaning of his adventure. When he awakens, enlightened, he chooses to rescue these people, who are trapped in their underground home because the cave entrance has collapsed and the only other way out is a hole at the top of a wall too sheer for any of them to climb.

The Adept climbs out, along with a young dwarf woman, and finds the nearest town, which is run by a pagan cult. His son is a Catholic priest there, having taken up the vocation after having been raised to adulthood by the monks. The hero does several odd jobs to earn money for dynamite to blast the cave open, including performing in a sex show with the dwarf woman, who becomes pregnant. Eventually, he blasts open the cave and frees the people trapped within, but the jubilation is short lived because the cultists of the town kill each and every one of them. The Hedgehog then takes up the gun ones more, and kills every single person in the town before pouring lamp oil over himself and setting himself on fire.

At first I thought it was Six-String Samurai, but this is El Topo! That was one wacky movie...

Umm... former military weapons designer, looking for non-lethal solutions, is troubled that street gangs are acquiring his tech. Using his immense Armorer skill, he makes himself a suit of Full Body Armor but refuses to seal the helmet for some unknown reason. Also creates a tricked-out metal Club, which he places on the handlebars of his cycle, which is also customized. He beats up the enemies or something, and it culminates when the hero uses reverse-psychology on the villain which causes the villain to press the button on the amazing Club, causing some magnetic field which disarms all the villains. Also, hero's girlfriend also has an awesome Armorer skill, takes the Paraplegic Negative Quality during the opening of the movie, but ends up with a Walker Mode wheelchair.

[MYST1C]

I heard he was dead.

And I thought he was taller.

[hobgoblin]

Umm... former military weapons designer, looking for non-lethal solutions, is troubled that street gangs are acquiring his tech. Using his immense Armorer skill, he makes himself a suit of Full Body Armor but refuses to seal the helmet for some unknown reason. Also creates a tricked-out metal Club, which he places on the handlebars of his cycle, which is also customized. He beats up the enemies or something, and it culminates when the hero uses reverse-psychology on the villain which causes the villain to press the button on the amazing Club, causing some magnetic field which disarms all the villains. Also, hero's girlfriend also has an awesome Armorer skill, takes the Paraplegic Negative Quality during the opening of the movie, but ends up with a Walker Mode wheelchair.

steel

[Blade]

An elf shadowruner (Death) work together with a corporate female elf (Sally) for a run during the summer. After the end of the run, they both go back home. Death goes back to his gang "the T-Rex", in Tacoma. Unknown to him, Sally, who doesn't know that Danny lives there either, has to move to Tacoma for her job. Once there she befriends a group of local girls nicknamed "The Pink Slitches". Both tell the story of their latest run to their chums. They soon realize they both live in the same neighborhood and are still in love with each other, but everything set them apart. Complicated romance, rivalry between the T-Rex and another local gang (the Stingers), and a lot of singing and dancing ensue. Finally Death and Sally end up together (with Sally abandoning her corporate looks for a punkier outfit).

[hobgoblin]

An elf shadowruner (Death) work together with a corporate female elf (Sally) for a run during the summer. After the end of the run, they both go back home. Death goes back to his gang "the T-Rex", in Tacoma. Unknown to him, Sally, who doesn't know that Danny lives there either, has to move to Tacoma for her job. Once there she befriends a group of local girls nicknamed "The Pink Slitches". Both tell the story of their latest run to their chums. They soon realize they both live in the same neighborhood and are still in love with each other, but everything set them apart. Complicated romance, rivalry between the T-Rex and another local gang (the Stingers), and a lot of singing and dancing ensue. Finally Death and Sally end up together (with Sally abandoning her corporate looks for a punkier outfit).

no sure if i should be ashamed or not but: grease...

[Blade]

That's the one. I definitely need to try out my idea of a "Shadowrun: The Musical" game.

[Fortune]

Grease is the word! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Cantankerous]

no sure if i should be ashamed or not but: grease...

There is no way to respond to this but with the lyrics of a song even more ancient than the movie:

Shame, shame, shame,

shame, shame, shame,

shame, shame, shame;

shame on yooooouuu. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)


Isshia

[hyzmarca]

At first I thought it was Six-String Samurai, but this is El Topo! That was one wacky movie...

Yep, El Topo

Grease is the word! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

No, the bird is the word.


-Video Game-

UCAS President Kyle Haeffner is kidnapped and deposed in a military coup staged by the New Revolution.Evil mastermind, General Angela Colloton takes his place as President. They try to kill him, but they fail. Determined to get his country back and restore justice, President Haefner climbs into his Battlemech and kicks ass.

[hobgoblin]

Yep, El Topo

guess i need to see that movie (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

No, the bird is the word.

gah!
did they use that in some kind of war movie?

never mind, found it, good old FMJ...

crap, now want to find myself a off-road driving game of some sort, crank the stereo to 11 and just take the song for a spin...

[Chrysalis]

Dukes of Hazzard and Spinal Tap.

[wageslave]

steel

Great movie, or greatest movie ever? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[masterofm]

All I know is Shaq is awesome in any movie he is in.... excuse me while I throw up for a reason completely unrelated to what I just said.

[Chance359]

A group of fixers decide to clear out their stables of untrustworthy unprofessional runners. All the runners are invited to a soon to be opened prison. they are given 6 hours to kill each other off until there are only 3 left and they will split ten million nuyen between them.

[Fabe]

A group of fixers decide to clear out their stables of untrustworthy unprofessional runners. All the runners are invited to a soon to be opened prison. they are given 6 hours to kill each other off until there are only 3 left and they will split ten million nuyen between them.

Mean Guns

[Link]

Chubby corporate 'shadowteen' sees runners trying to rob a van in the 'plex. One of the runners, X, gives 'shadowteen' nuyen to keep silent. X meets an elf, an upper class civil servant. The elf and X plan to steal a high security van containing loot. X enlists the aid of Y, a terminally ill man who used to drive the loot van. The vehicle has wireless matrix security systems, using signals from the net.

Y discovers a building project in the barrens has created a large dead zone that no signals can penetrate. X locates an abandoned airfield within the dead zone where the van can be taken. His preparations are witnessed by 'shadowteen'. The day before the heist, the dead zone suddenly shrinks when scaffolding is removed from the building project. X recreates the interference with a crane and help from 'shadowteen'. The heist goes as planned. Afterwards X is shot and fatally wounded by the elf, but murders his own killer before dying…

[Link]

Preemptive hint.
Film based on novel first published in 1989, ironically enough.