Cinema Magic, Movies or TV that have SR magic feel Options

[tisoz]

There is frequently a thread going about what movies and television shows depict SR in some way. But there is hardly ever any that depict the magic aspect of the game (other than maybe an eadept here and there.)

I have been trying to think of shows that involved magic, but none of them reminded me of SR in any way. Bewitched - I think not. I Dream of Genie - hardly. Charmed - maybe, but hardly reminiscent of a SR setting.

Can anyone make some suggestions?

PS. I did just think of a movie that sort of had an aspected mage who showed signs of drain - Firestarter.
[edit]Thought of a good movie for a possession spirit, Fallen. [/edit]

[Medicineman]

Big Trouble in little China

He who dances with Green Eyes
Medicineman

[Malicant]

I have yet to encounter a show or movie that does magic the SR way. Or even good. Most is so terrible, it's like magic in SR-TV shows. Or something (IMG:style_emoticons/default/twirl.gif)

[Degausser]

I know it's not a tv OR movie, but the magic system in the Sword of Truths books are vaugly shadowrun-esque (except for being super-sexist, which I didn't like)

Generally magic fatigues the person, and largely it is dependent on birth and how someone views the world. It allows for fireballs and lightning bolts and such, but not teleportation. And while casting spells can be done with chanting, not chanting but you can get by without chanting if you concentrate hard enough. Heck, you can even accidentally cast spells if you aren't careful, which will, of course, fatigue you.

[darthmord]

I wouldn't call Sword of Truth sexist in the magic department. It clearly delinieates that magic *IS* different for men & women.

Wizards are male. Sorceresses and Witch women are female. The use & application of their powers are different. The stuff that powers their magic is the same (Additive & Subtractive magic).

Magic itself in that world indicates that you always have more than one way to accomplish a task. Need to heal something? Use Additive Magic to add to the person's healing rate. Use Subtractive to reduce the wound.

Wait, you need to hurt someone? Use Subtractive to reduce heart or brain functions. Use Additive to increase blood pressure, body temp, and so forth.

Magic is used to accomplish the same goals in different manners by the user of it. That line tends to br drawn around gender. Gender influences how one's reactions to the world around.

[Synner667]

I'd mention the Dresden Files as not being too badly done for magic.

Big Trouble in Little China is just sooo good !!

How about Buffy ??

It all depends on how you think magic in SR is portrayed, really...
...And I don't think even SR portrays magic the way it used to.

[KCKitsune]

Synner667, the less said about Buffy the better... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/silly.gif)

[hyzmarca]

Ahem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZRSGtLfeTk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPqLimAxNbU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylmJIKHlUsI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svfpOVuypMQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym54kXQ32Gc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2-jflicAD4

Yes, you have to watch all of them.

And, of course,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Z9h5k22tI

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3su6hUqf6CE

Especially the last one.

[Adarael]

Seriously? Scanners.

In Shadowrun, you look at someone, stare at them, and they die. Ergo, Scanners.

[Degausser]

Just remembered, DnD.

No, no, stop, hear me out.

Rastlin, as portrayed in the Dragonlance books, has magic that is less like DnD and more like shadowrun, at least in performance if not in theory. He can cast spells, but it takes something out of him, and can even hurt him if he tries too hard. There is even a dragonlance animated movie out there so this counts s a movie (though, don't watch the movie, production values are very low.)

[Malicant]

The Dragonlance movie looks like a cross from 80's cartoons and early 90's CGI. It is hilarious and entertaining, although still terrible. But he has a point, that Rastlin guy is doing magic more in line with SR than DnD.

I still hate you until the end of the encounter (or up to five minutes) for bringing back those memories. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/twirl.gif)

[Doc Byte]

Harry Potter if you leave out the wands an teleportation? - Hey, wouldn't Lord Voldemort be a nice Aztech Bloodmage? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

[Degausser]

Someone just needs to MAKE a shadowrun movie. Make a good one.

[Draco18s]

Someone just needs to MAKE a shadowrun movie. Make a good one.

And a good game too.

The Half Life Engine might be a good place to start. They've already used it to create things more bizarre than ShadowRun (portals and hoards of zombies).

[Degausser]

And a good game too.

The Half Life Engine might be a good place to start. They've already used it to create things more bizarre than ShadowRun (portals and hoards of zombies).

Actually, I was thinking something along the lines of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, or Wanted: Weapon of Fate, only with a skill system and RPG elements put in.

Is anyone on the boards in the videogame industry? We need to push this! Online petition and all that jazz.

[Draco18s]

Actually, I was thinking something along the lines of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, or Wanted: Weapon of Fate, only with a skill system and RPG elements put in.

Is anyone on the boards in the videogame industry? We need to push this! Online petition and all that jazz.

Haven't heard of either game.

And if you want to go the commercial game route, I suggest only Valve.

EA will turn it into something else (See: Spore), Microsoft already botched it (See: ShadowRun), Nintendo will make it "kid friendly"...

[Degausser]

Haven't heard of either game.

And if you want to go the commercial game route, I suggest only Valve.

EA will turn it into something else (See: Spore), Microsoft already botched it (See: ShadowRun), Nintendo will make it "kid friendly"...

Uncharted: Drake's fortune ----> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUiz2LIGDPI

Wanted: Weapon of fate ------> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWnJjAISxyY
(Note that this game features a 'bullet curving' element that wouldn't be in shadowrun, obviously)

[Malicant]

Hey, wouldn't Lord Voldemort be a nice Aztech Bloodmage? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

No way. That guy seriously challanged a school kid to prove his superiority. Which he failed at. A Bloodmage would have just carved that sucker up. And spared us a few annoying books, to boot!

[Draco18s]

No way. That guy seriously challanged a school kid to prove his superiority. Which he failed at. A Bloodmage would have just carved that sucker up. And spared us a few annoying books, to boot!

Repeatedly we might add.

[Adarael]

Actually, I was thinking something along the lines of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, or Wanted: Weapon of Fate, only with a skill system and RPG elements put in.

Is anyone on the boards in the videogame industry? We need to push this! Online petition and all that jazz.

Yes, but probably doing the wrong thing for the wrong people to have any say in anything.

EA will turn it into something else (See: Spore), Microsoft already botched it (See: ShadowRun), Nintendo will make it "kid friendly"...

The FASA guys got let go or rolled into (I think) the main Microsoft Game Studios offices - and rightly so, because that studio was totally dead. Valve would never make a game that they didn't think up themselves or buy all of the rights for, from the getgo. Besides, there's a lot of smaller studios that could do a good job with it, but most people have never heard of.

If you want something to occupy yourself with that's Shadowrun-like, allow me to suggest Fear 2: Project Origin, by Monolith. It's really similar in mood to how I've been running SR lately - cloned soldiers, Mitsuhama Magical Division 13 research with Shedim, Anthroforms, and even a wired reflexes like mechanic for beating people to pieces. Plus it's really stylish and you'll be supporting some of my friends. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
Alternately, the new mod for Half Life 2, Dystopia! I haven't played it yet, but it looks pretty cool.

[Draco18s]

I'll check them out when I have time and if I remember.

Also money.

[hyzmarca]

In addition to my highly enthusiastic recomendation Supernatural, I'm also going to suggest Lord of Illusions.

For those unaware, Lord Of Illusions is a 1995 Clive Barker movie starring Sam from Quantum Leap, essentially a modern Noir story about a PI who gets caught up in a conflict between real magicians, including one who is obviously a blood mage channeling a high-force spirit.

Some people also suggest Cast a Deadly Spell.

Silent Mobius is one of the few shows I know of that actually combines spellcasting with cyberpunk. So you've got high tech supercomputers, Bladerunner vehicles, cyborgs, and wizards all fighting an extrademinsional invasion.

Wicked City combines magic and extradimensional invaders with a cyberpunkish world, as well. While Demon City Shinjuku is more post-apocalypse + demons + magic, focusing on a weapon-focus using ki adept .

Then you've got Twilight of the Dark Master about a conflict between a very powerful aspected magician and a very powerful free spirit in a cyberpunk future.

And then there is X which takes place in the far flung future of 1999.

And the magic hunting escapades of Witch Hunter Robin which takes place in the present of 2002.

Notice how most of these are anime. It's really hard to find good live action western shows with the modern magic premise and even harder to find them with the cyberpunk magic premise.

If we start listing porn, I could probably find more. La Blue Girl, certainly. But that might not be to your liking.


And, and let me suggest Supernatural again. Just watch Supernatural. It's awesome.
Just ignore the wincest girls, nod, and slowly back away from away them.

[TheOOB]

I should note that shadowrun has had 4 video games made about it. The most resent FPS which is shadowrun only in title, one for genesis which is a pretty good representation of the system(and a good game reguardless), one for SNES which is a love or hate game that gets the setting good but not the mechanics, and one for the Saturn which is japanese and I know nothing about.

[Degausser]

I should note that shadowrun has had 4 video games made about it. The most resent FPS which is shadowrun only in title, one for genesis which is a pretty good representation of the system(and a good game reguardless), one for SNES which is a love or hate game that gets the setting good but not the mechanics, and one for the Saturn which is japanese and I know nothing about.

Yes, that is all true. I was thinking that we need a current-generation Shadowrun game that doesn't SUCK. The SNES one was OK, the Genesis one was good, but the Microsoft FPS was complete bull. They should have called it "An FPS with magic," as it had almost nothing to do with Shadowrun. A true Shadorun game needs to have at least SOME RP elements.

And, I don't know anything about the Japanese Shadowrun either.

[Medicineman]

I was thinking that we need a current-generation Shadowrun game that doesn't SUCK

we all feel the same (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

HougH!
Medicineman