You rule!

And yes, those two episodes were great examples of Shadowruns, especially Ariel (one of my all-time favorite Firefly episodes). "The Train Job" is another good one, I think - a psychotic Johnson and a mission that's a LOT more than it first seems.

Whoever suggested "The Perfect Score," you rock. I thought I was the only one in the world that liked that movie.

I'm surprised no one's mentioned "Ocean's Eleven" yet. That's probably one of the most perfect examples of a run in film.

The Train Job can be done with a aircraft, but then I suppose you run the risk of it being more like Mission Impossible. And in the words of Ned's Newt when they did a spoof on the helicopter and train scene, 'Even in a cartoon, this in unbelievable'.

I get my influences from different places; like the tv show F/X the Series. If nothing else, I recommend watching the episodes: The Ring, The Brotherhood and Thief, but pretty much each of them has some parts that would be great for Shadowrunners. The Ring is about a car jacking ring, and the good guys create their own to catch the bad guys. Brotherhood is about a theft of the Crown Jewels of London, and Thief is pretty much what I can see being a fixer being like as the good guys try and take him down.

I'm even toying with taking some of the ads from the Robocop movies and putting them together on a single video, maybe see about finding some stuff on the net as well and make a SR news channel for my players to watch as a bit of theme. Great way to include some run hints in there. I've been tossing around the idea since I started doing some 3D modeling in my free time, but not sure how it would go over.

Speaking of Robocop, about twenty minutes or so into the second movie, they do a really good street scene showing a low rated neighborhood. It starts with a guy shooting up and scrolls along the street to show a mother feeding a baby, a biker gang and a bag lady. A car runs into her shopping cart, spilling her stuff on the ground. Guy comes over to help and steals her purse, taking her money only to be robbed by a couple of ladies for his watch and money so they can buy drugs. In the background as they walk away, you see homeless people, a couple women beating up another guy and then just after the girls walk past it, a gun store security gate blows off. Three guys proceed to rob the store and then Robocop shows up. Might be a good intro for people who don't know too much about the theme.

Firefly was probably killed by a bunch of Whedon-hating Shadowrunners who blackmailed the network into killing it. And then Serenity rose like a phoenix because Whedon hired some Shadowrunners to make sure his pitch got to the right Paramount exec.

Oh come on, I don't hate his stuff that much.

Not quite that much, at least.

~J

The internet has corrupted me to the point that this implies battling against furries from Second Life or something.

NOT THE FURRIES!!!! DEAR GOD, NOT THE FURRIES!!!

I do hate Second Life with a passion, it has stolen the souls of some of my best friends and left them empty furry loving husks of what they used to be...empty shadowrun loving meat husks...

*bows head in memory of those taken to their Second Life*

Well I have run into a few furry shadowrun loving players.

SURGE and Shapeshifters seems to give them a sort of furry 'in' as well.

"We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neuro-reaction from either patient!"

It's also perfect because it shows the runners getting screwed over by Mr. J (well, one runner).

I use Firefly for a lot of my general ideas about SR. Not to start a "How would you stat Firefly" thread, because I'm sure that's done, but it even covers most of the archetypes, in one way or another (Face, Rigger, Phys Ad, Gunslinger), most folks come from a military background, to explain where they got their skills, one is a refugee from a corporate lab. Hell, Inara's all but an elf in appearance. All of the crew have a mix of skills in addition to their primary (except possibly Wash) and they all have at least a couple points in unarmed.


Edit: Oooh. Some quotes from Ariel that are so very SR:

Mal: “This is exactly what I didn't want. I wanted simple, I wanted in and out, I wanted easy money.”
Zoe: “Things always get a little more complicated, don't they, sir?”
Mal: “Just once I'd like things to go according to the gorram plan!”



Mal: “The next time you decide to stab me in the back, have the guts to do it to my face.”


Jayne: “Nothin' buys bygones quicker than cash! Maybe I'll give him a tattoo while he's out.”


Wash: “So, you're just gonna walk in through the front door?”
Mal: “No, you're gonna find me a way around back.”



And this sounds like the summary of every run I've been in:

Inara: “What's going on here?”
Kaylee: “Oh, let's see, we killed Simon and River, stole a bunch of med'cin, and now the Captain and Zoe are off springing the others got snatched by the Feds. Oh, here they are now!”

Yes! I'm suprised it got this far without mentioning Sin City, everytime I watch that movie, (about every 5th time I get drunk), I always want to play some Shadowrun.

Bought!

Altough I might wait until after unwired...
It's also a nice nod to one of the classic campaigns of our german fantasy rpg .

Both Rollerballs have some that could contribute, I'm sure. Though, I have heard a lot of people didn't like the remake, but me I enjoyed it. Not an all-time favorite, but something I could sit down and watch again. The original though, does get a higher ranking.

There is another movie, that was done in a direct to video release, got some play on TV as well. Future Sport. Starring Dean Cain, Vanessa L. Williams, Wesley Snipes. It's about a world where your 'popularity index' is everything, and Future Sport is a game that started off as a way to keep gangs from fighting and is now the world's most popular sport. It even has terrorists and a number of action sequences, but as for how the movie was received.. It seems to be split by reviews I've seen. Either you loved it or you hated it.

I can see why...