Dumpshock Forums > Old movies as an inspiration

Birdy

Dec 29 2005, 03:02 PM

Okay, terrorists birthday is the second-worst time of the year for me (carneval is worse!) so I normally hole up with a batch of DVD's and a bottle of Scotch.

This year it included (aside for the last half-batch of SeaQuest with Ironside)

+ Soylent Green
+ Logans Run
+ Colossus
+ The Bronx

Soylent Green/Year 2020 is a classic and more Cyberpunk than 80+ percent of the novels claiming to be Cyberpunk. That's the classic "world going to hell" of SR1/2

Aside from using "The Bronx" as a template for the combat zones (After all SR has already stolen the dialogs), I found Logans Run and Colossus quite useful for an arcology sample, both for "normal" live and for "Deus"

And I wish FASA had "borrowed" SeaQuest as a model for their Undersea habitats rather than Custeau.

nezumi

Dec 29 2005, 03:32 PM

Soylent green was okay as a documentary on cyberpunk life, I suppose. Logan's run was pretty stupid though. I didn't get anything from it. I haven't seen the other two.

I've been using Netflix to wander through good cyberpunk movies. I've been sorely disappointed in most cases. Blade Runner is still all time #1, with a good, long gap before #2 (and I don't know what #2 is yet.)

Mr.Platinum

Dec 29 2005, 03:37 PM

The Warriors. For the gang aspect.

Dead or Alive. for the Yak.

Nemesis. screams SR.

and well i think there is more, can't thin of them right now

SL James

Dec 29 2005, 03:47 PM

Beverly Hills Cop. Axel is a great example of a Face.

warrior_allanon

Dec 29 2005, 04:52 PM

Oh, movies that scream SR or give ideas for SR

Death race 2000
cannonball run
Escape from New York/LA
mad max series
aliens series
blade runner
logans run
soylent green
rollerball, (both versions)

theres a few more that i cant think of the names for besides the obvious Johnny Mnemonic and the like. its just been so long since i've seen them that i cant remember the names

Lazarus

Dec 29 2005, 05:01 PM

Good Movies for Shadowrun:

How to be a good Shadowrunner:

HEAT
Ronin
Spygame
Collateral

PlainWhiteSocks

Dec 29 2005, 05:09 PM

Not really an old movie, but Spartan. The new one with Val Kilmer.

Critias

Dec 29 2005, 05:32 PM

Hey, I was just thinking "Man, we need another movie thread."

The Stainless Steel Rat

Dec 29 2005, 05:38 PM

Followed closely by, What shadow-runny music should we listen to?

nt326

Dec 29 2005, 05:55 PM

haha i hate to admit it, but Johnny Mneumonic. This thing is the tale of a runner, a courier, with gangers (lo-tecs) fighting the corps... people running from the Yak, and the coolest street doc ever, Henry fraggin Rollins! Not to mention the Street Sam girl with sumtin like wired reflexes. Its SR without the magic...

ps... ignore the dolphin part and make him celydyr

Lazarus

Dec 29 2005, 06:00 PM

I think Strange Days is good to illustrate the effects of BTL addiction.

Chance359

Dec 29 2005, 06:10 PM

Way of the Gun
American Ninja series
Hollowpoint
Hard Target

(What can I say, I like cheese)

Mr.Platinum

Dec 29 2005, 06:57 PM

QUOTE (Critias)

Hey, I was just thinking "Man, we need another movie thread."

Yes I know but since the last one, i've seen new movies.

Snow_Fox

Dec 29 2005, 08:50 PM

The Island with Ewan Mcgregor.

Kyoto Kid

Dec 29 2005, 09:33 PM

The Net
Sneakers (one of the best runner teams I've seen in action to date)
The Italian Job (Original 1960s version)
Enemy of the State (just insert your favourtite Megacorp in place of the Government)
Big Trouble in Little China (one of my all time faves)
Telefon (already did a twisted version of this in a previous scenaro)

Birdy

Dec 29 2005, 09:43 PM

QUOTE (Chance359)

Way of the Gun
American Ninja series
Hollowpoint
Hard Target

(What can I say, I like cheese)

Oh no! Not Ninjas again!

(To quote American Ninja III)

Birdy

Dec 29 2005, 09:46 PM

QUOTE (Kyoto Kid)

The Net
Sneakers (one of the best runner teams I've seen in action to date)
The Italian Job (Original 1960s version)
Enemy of the State (just insert your favourtite Megacorp in place of the Government)
Big Trouble in Little China (one of my all time faves)
Telefon (already did a twisted version of this in a previous scenaro)

The Net - yeah, great movie. And it has Sandra Bullock, so it's a great movie

Runners - With that actors, what can go wrong. Now, where can I get a Pinch...

Big Trouble - Not exactly Cyberpunk. If you want Kurt Russel and Punk, well "If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere"

Telefon - I repeat Wladimir Pawlowitsch: "The forrest in his coolness..."

Aku

Dec 29 2005, 09:55 PM

is it time for this thread already again?

PBTHHHHT

Dec 29 2005, 09:58 PM

There's always time for that thread... it keeps coming back like spam.
Oh, an interesting movie... King Kong. For the runners who are into big game hunting. Especially if you're trying to bring them back alive for the zoos.

nezumi

Dec 29 2005, 10:08 PM

I'll go ahead and tack "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels", if you have that sort of team.

The Question Man

Dec 29 2005, 10:10 PM

SL James

Dec 29 2005, 10:28 PM

Cyborg!

Van Damme rules!

Mr.Platinum

Dec 29 2005, 10:41 PM

Yeah i'm starting to notice the list will not change.

except mine.

nt326

Dec 30 2005, 12:54 AM

QUOTE (The Question Man)

The Fly - Corporate Science gone wild.

Or maybe the science didnt work at all and he is a bug spirit! AHH!!!!

nt326

Dec 30 2005, 12:55 AM

RUNNING MAN! hehe corp wars played out on trid!

emo samurai

Dec 30 2005, 02:02 AM

Nobody say Johnny Mnemonic. That movie sucked.

Mr.Platinum

Dec 30 2005, 02:46 AM

nope some dude did, it was Ok.

nick012000

Dec 30 2005, 03:22 AM

White Noise. You could rip its plot off verbatim, if you wanted, replacing the main character with the group's street sam. Why the street sam? Because that way, he'll get all the more freaked out when he discovers a way to talk to the dead (indirectly).

emo samurai

Dec 30 2005, 03:41 AM

Especially if he's a cyberzombie.

Mr.Platinum

Dec 30 2005, 03:45 AM

Preacher was like a cyber-zombie.

and i some times don't think Zombie is the appropiate word.

RunnerPaul

Dec 30 2005, 03:45 AM

Because I've been around to long to take movie threads seriously any more:

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

Mr.Platinum

Dec 30 2005, 03:48 AM

Jay And Silent bob, yeah i can see it as a Run.

warrior_allanon

Dec 30 2005, 08:44 AM

QUOTE (Mr.Platinum)

Jay And Silent bob, yeah i can see it as a Run.

yeah the entire series

Mr.Platinum

Dec 30 2005, 11:50 AM

oh Harry Potter for the MIT&T aspect.

I guess.

nt326

Dec 30 2005, 04:26 PM

I think Potter is a tad on the fun side for MIT&T, they would be much more serious I assume, though magic would be soo much better if they had teachers like Dumbledor and Hagrid.

nt326

Dec 30 2005, 04:28 PM

Ok, so noone shoot me for this, but I have to say it...
For a good insight of what it is like to grow up as a dragon...

Puff, the Magic Dragon. Imagine what its like being so powerful that all u do is bring harm to your metahuman friends...

stevebugge

Dec 30 2005, 04:40 PM

The Usual Suspects
Reservoir Dogs
Office Space
all of the Austin Powers Movies
I Robot

emo samurai

Dec 30 2005, 04:46 PM

Pulp Fiction! Life should be more like Pulp Fiction, with random acts of gruesome violence that are hilarious in their frequency and unpredictability!

emo samurai

Dec 30 2005, 04:47 PM

You know what? We're kind of getting away from old movies.

stevebugge

Dec 30 2005, 04:51 PM

True, but then "old" is relative isn't it.

Kyoto Kid

Dec 30 2005, 05:31 PM

QUOTE (Birdy)

QUOTE (Kyoto Kid @ Dec 29 2005, 09:33 PM)

The Net
Sneakers (one of the best runner teams I've seen in action to date)
The Italian Job (Original 1960s version)
Enemy of the State (just insert your favourtite Megacorp in place of the Government)
Big Trouble in Little China (one of my all time faves)
Telefon (already did a twisted version of this in a previous scenaro)

The Net - yeah, great movie. And it has Sandra Bullock, so it's a great movie

Runners - With that actors, what can go wrong. Now, where can I get a Pinch...

Big Trouble - Not exactly Cyberpunk. If you want Kurt Russel and Punk, well "If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere"

Telefon - I repeat Wladimir Pawlowitsch: "The forrest in his coolness..."

...and miles to go before I sleep Vladimir, miles to go before I sleep.

As to Big Trouble., I agree, not really Cyber but it is a good plot for a team heavy with shamans & adepts. I'm planning doing an adaptation of it fairly soon.

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Jrayjoker

Dec 30 2005, 06:15 PM

(paraphrasing) "Wait, you can ask for anything, and you want her number?"

Grimtooth

Dec 30 2005, 07:52 PM

Split Second with Rutger Hauer

Year of the Rat
Powerful free or rogue spirit
BIG GUNS

Mr.Platinum

Dec 30 2005, 08:35 PM

Oh by god we cannot forget the matrix.

RunnerPaul

Dec 31 2005, 01:58 AM

No matter how hard we want to.

Actually, the first two weren't that bad. The third one zigged when it should have zagged.

Juggernaut125

Dec 31 2005, 03:23 AM

I finally got around to watching 'Foolproof' starring Ryan Reynolds. It's a great look at Running.

Trax

Dec 31 2005, 03:38 AM

Boondock Saints

brohopcp

Dec 31 2005, 05:15 AM

Legally Blonde

DeadNeon

Dec 31 2005, 05:41 AM

Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Not only can the movie be easily adapted to Shadowrun, but a reference was made to in Prime Runners.

Arethusa

Dec 31 2005, 09:08 AM

Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'old' that I was not previously aware of.