 Was i BLIND or what?, About a certain movie.... |
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 Sep 11 2003, 07:58 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 400 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 825  |
OK, that's it. Get out. Seriously. |
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Sep 11 2003, 10:21 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 326 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Vigo (Spanish Kingdom) Member No.: 1,446 |
Scamp, it was horrible, admit it! :wobble:
Anyway, as for actors with a Shadowrun feel, I must add Harrison Ford, in Blade Runner he was PERFECT. And Sean Connery can make a real great retired Prime Runner. |
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Sep 11 2003, 10:56 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 123 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,205 |
Mystery Men rocked. Disparage it not!
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Sep 12 2003, 02:18 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 |
Mystery men kicked (and still kicks) ass, I own it on DVD :D
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Sep 12 2003, 12:19 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 400 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 825 |
The only thing I'll admit is that you're retarded. ;) It's one of my all time favorite movies. |
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Sep 12 2003, 12:19 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 637 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,528 |
Actors for Shadowrun:
James Wood as "MISTER Johnson" Denise Richards as "MISTER Johnsons Bunny" Michael Ironside as "Grizzly old corp hitman / security boss" Wesley Snipes as "Slightly mad Physical Adept" Leonardo Di Caprio as "The badly mutilated victim" Lisa Ryder as "The weapons expert" Usefull movies: Oceans Eleven (Cloony version) for the tricks "Soylent Green" for basic athmosphere "Rollerball" (both versions) for the "Bread and Circus" idea Novels: "The Killer game" is the base for Urban Brawl. Just add a sniper... Birdy |
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Sep 13 2003, 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 |
Yeah, I'm throwin' in my vote for Mystery Men too. That movie is way too cool to get bashed without any reason, especially since it's being referenced in regards to the best RPG in the world.. Shadowrun.
I'll forkgive you, if you forkget. mhah, mhah, mhah |
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Sep 13 2003, 10:13 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 17-April 03 Member No.: 4,460 |
Robocop was also obviously equipped with an Invoked Memory Stimulator.
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Sep 13 2003, 11:22 AM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
solidcobra: sure it could be one of those lone star guns but the barrelclimb (or lack of it) can be explained with recoil comps, hell he have cyberarms so whats stopping him from haveing some sort of buildtin gyro stabelizer? (execpt for the fact that in sr that will require visible counterweights that is, maybe he have a experemental one :silly: )
archbishop: damn right he have a invoked memory stimulator, he is a cyberzombie isnt he? |
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Oct 31 2003, 08:17 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 20-October 03 Member No.: 5,741 |
How could everyone leave out both "The Running Man" and "Total Recall?"
Not only do they feature our favorite governor (as prophesized by SR) but they both have quite a SR feel (Except for the Mars part, but that's ok...easily adapted to an orbital habitat or undersea arcology) Robocop was not outfitted with an IMS, as those memories he was having were unexpected glitches in the system. They had intended to erase his memory completely. Also, if you remember the attempted rape from the first movie, you know that he most likely has SmartLink II |
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Oct 31 2003, 08:26 AM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,458 Joined: 22-March 03 From: I am a figment of my own imagination. Member No.: 4,302 |
Just picked up my copy... I mean c'mon, the back's got mention of a street sam right on it... :P Also, Gibson wrote the short story that inspired Johnny Nuemonic... and in Idoru he created a tale rather like Dodger and his love for an AI... |
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Oct 31 2003, 09:05 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 20-October 03 Member No.: 5,741 |
Neuromancer pretty much singlehandedly defined the cyberpunk genre.
It's an excellent book, and the other two in the trilogy (Mona Lisa Overdrive and Count Zero) are good as well, but not quite as good as Neuromancer. Virtual Light is also pretty good, and I've always wanted to stat up a "Chunker" from that book into SR (Most likely it's a machine pistol that is limited to Gel rounds only and has some weird mechanic for the ricochet attack). As for Johnny Mneumonic, not only did he write the short story, he actually wrote the screenplay for the movie...which is why we'll never see another William Gibson movie ever again. |
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Oct 31 2003, 09:19 AM
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The Crow:
More like a man who dies --> Becomes Ghost // Becomes a free spirit --> Gains the Hidden Life Power and stores his life force in a Crow --> Materializes himself and wreaks havok on an unsuspecting community of badies. Gotta love it! -> Does he gain power/energy/karma for all the badies he geeks? Hmm... |
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Oct 31 2003, 09:37 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 305 Joined: 24-September 03 From: Albany, OR Member No.: 5,643 |
I am with you. Thinking about Robocop's gun I immediatly thought about the Thunderbolt and its unique sound. |
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Oct 31 2003, 10:11 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 714 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .nl Member No.: 116 |
For the lazy people among us: The Shadowrun Movies List (once) maintained by Lady Jestyr of Dumpshock and Bulldrek fame! |
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Oct 31 2003, 10:17 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 714 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .nl Member No.: 116 |
You are obviously not right in the head. ;) Neuromancer was overdone. Gibson used that long, almost Tolkien-esque, descriptive prose left, right and center, to the point that it got annoying. In the last two books of the trilogy he dropped that considerably, and made the books ten times more enjoyable without losing the overal ambience of the setting. |
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Oct 31 2003, 02:18 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 280 Joined: 22-October 03 Member No.: 5,757 |
The Crew from Aliens: Ressurection.
They were so Shadowrun it's creepy. (PS I can't remember character names) The wheelchair dude : Rigger/Mechanic The Female pilot : Rigger Black Dude with Dreads : Pistol Adept Big Apish guy : Weapons Expert Ripley : Athletics / Martial arts Adept (Bug spirit infused?) The synthetic chick : Decker with internal cyberdeck, also Tech wiz and I'm probably forgetting others but whatever you get my point |
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Oct 31 2003, 02:20 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,065 Joined: 16-January 03 From: Fayetteville, NC Member No.: 3,916 |
Walter Jon Williams with:
Voice of the Whirlwind Hardwired George Alec Effinger (p-fix chips) When Gravity Fails -Siege |
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Oct 31 2003, 02:30 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 714 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .nl Member No.: 116 |
That "Apish" guy is Ron Perlman, a highly under-rated actor. He played Dieter in Blade II, he played Jonher in Aliens: Ressurection, and he played alongside Linda Hamilton in the late-80s as Vincent in Beauty and the Beast, a television series. |
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Oct 31 2003, 02:32 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 280 Joined: 22-October 03 Member No.: 5,757 |
Thank you! I couldn't remember his name for the life of me!
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Oct 31 2003, 02:57 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,008 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Disagree. I personally quite like Tolkienesque prose, but that's a personal preference; regardless, I found both sequels far less compelling. Gibson is a good writer, yes, but the only books he wrote that I would call truly great were Burning Chrome and Neuromancer. ~J |
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Oct 31 2003, 03:05 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 27 Joined: 12-July 03 Member No.: 4,912 |
If we're doing cyberpunk book references, then i feel i should point out Lucifer's Dragon.
Havn't got it around, unfortunaetly, so i can't tell you who wrote it, but it also fits very well, with chromed street amurai with (in one case) bright shiney blue skin, a SK as the defense network (Rapidly becoming AI, from the sound of it) and generally lots of other things. Also happens to have vampires, although i think in that book they're technological. But anyway, the entire thing could happen just pre-awakening, or set somewhere metahumans aren't around much. |
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Oct 31 2003, 03:19 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,008 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
The Iron Dragon's Daughter, by Michael Swanwick. I command you all to read it.
Not quite cyberpunk, but a mix of technology and magic with racial issues (fragging dandelion eaters...). Oh, and dragons. Really effing cool ones. ~J |
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Oct 31 2003, 03:37 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 348 Joined: 20-June 03 Member No.: 4,782 |
If you recall the "baby hostage" scene in Robocop 2, more evidence that it is a Smartlink II and not just a Smartlink I. |
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Oct 31 2003, 03:51 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 85 Joined: 30-October 03 Member No.: 5,769 |
I always thought "The Fifth Element" caught a lot of the style of Shadowrun that other movies miss; namely the magical (a blend of hermetic and shamanic concepts really) and metahuman (alien) vibe. Korbin Dallas' apartment was atypical of the Sprawl in my mind, it featured an all-powerful megacorporation, coffin hotel-style plane cabins, and lots of cool stuff. It even had the Rocker archetype and showed how they could be an interesting and fun addition to a runner group to boot. :D
The only thing really wrong about it is that it is set up as a space movie (I could see Shadowrun catching up to it in about a hundred years or so, or at least getting pretty close), a lack of dragons and other non-human power players, and that the metahumans were actually aliens. Otherwise, I thought it captured the feel and style of Shadowrun quite nicely. At least regarding the way I like to protray the world. I hate that whole "grey and miserable" mood that infests cyberpunk. |
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