Gross Poine Blank is easily one of my all time favorite flicks. I've stolen so many lines and scenes out of that movie in my games...

"Look, I don't want to get into a semantic argument over it; I just want the protein."

The Dad: "So, Martin, what do you do?"
Martin: "Professional killer."
The Dad: "Do you get dental with that?"

The Big Hit


"What would you do if some scumbag came into your house! What WOULD YOU DO?"

Beat

"I'd bust a cap!"

"BUUST A CAP!"

Avery Brooks so rocked in that.

"They chose wrong!"

Sam - Ronin

"You're worried about saving your own skin."

"Yeah. It covers my body."

But one favorite lines is:

"You wanna talk ambushes!? I ambushed you with a fucking cup of coffee!"

Hehehe.. Gotta love S.L. Jackson in that one.

Deep rising. If you need to know who not to have on your Shadowrun team.

"I saw Lon Chaney Jr. walkin' with the queen"

~J

I believe it was by Lee Ho Fook's in Soho, to be exact. They have excellent beef chow mein there, too. Highly recommended. But you might want to avoid going there in the rain. Never know who you'll bump into.

Pity about that little old lady.

~J

At least he had stylish hair.

Hudson Hawk... A B/E run to muzeek.

To this day I have no idea why that movie gets so much hate.

Maybe it's the nuns bit... Some people can't stand pretty nuns.

I think it is one of those movies that are billed/built up/advertised as one thing and turn out to be drastically different. A lot of people went to Hudson Hawk not thinking it was a comedy, but a straight-forward heist movie with Bruce Willis as the requisite tough guy.

Rules of Attraction was that way. The previews made it look like just another hard-partying college kids movie, when it was in fact probably the darkest movie I had seen in a long time, full of largely unredeemable characters doing despicable things to one another and to innocent bystanders. (I liked it, but I certainly understand anyone's burning hatred if they thought they were going to see Animal House and instead wound up with this.)

I didn't really think people hated it so much as just never saw it.

While I don't want to just endlessly repeat my old axiom of Every movie is a Shadowrun movie, I am going to open with it and try to work it in five or six more times over the course of this and any other thread it vaguely applies to. I hope to wear people down so that they will agree with me out of exhaustion, if nothing else. (I learned this from the tv.)

But beyond that I have found that bad movies, even horrible movies--no matter how otherwise irredeemable in terms of story, character, plot or execution-- will have something that I can cannablize out for my game. A character, a situation, a name, a setting, a quote; something that can be used in a game.

I will even go as far as to watch television shows or movies (or read books) I have absolutely no interest in simply for game inspiration. And when I find myself watching a forgotten made-for-tv movie on the Superstation at 4:30 in the morning starring Daniel Baldwin and Linda Florentino, I know that if nothing else, whatever I steal from it, my players are never going to see it coming because no one-- with the possible exception of Daniel Baldwin and Linda Florentino-- has ever seen the movie.

[edit: I'm an idiot .. this thread is about movies. Funny how you can't just erase a post once you've put it in, hmm?]

You could have just edited in a movie-relevant comment ...

Ok....someone corrected half of the info, but to explain the 4 QT movie thing.

From Dusk Til Dawn an 4 Rooms are not QT movies.
4 Rooms was a collection of people.
Watch the beginning of the movie. QT is but ONE name amongst about...um...5 or 6 names that made that movie, and thus, it is not considered a QT film.

As to Kill Bill being lame because it failed as a satire, or lacked content.
Um...it's not a satire, and go watch magnolia.

This is a movie strictly by QT for the kid in all of us action fans who just want the good old days where Bruce Lee kicked everyones asses and Lu Pei chopped everyones heads off!
We just want to see the great moves, like you would when watching a juggler...you don't say to the juggler, "Hey...you aren't very talkative...you suck."

The camera movements in the movie are a complete bananza of classic 60's flick cinematograhpy, which has always been a passion of QT's.

Besides, Kill Bill 2 was reserved for storyline. Now that you've seen everyone killing, find out who they were if their dead, and why they're doing all this, if they're still alive.

Kind of like how you do a magic trick. FLASH! "oh...would you like to see how that was done?"
Rather than, "If you add this with this and do this then you get..." FLASH!
That would be Drama.

and suspence is "Can you do all of these things to make..." FLASH! "happen in time?!"

Oh, and btw...if you want traditional happiness out of a movie....QT is the last person to watch.

No, it's why Otaku aren't allowed to take filmography as a knowledge skill.

How can you forget the "Replacement Killers"

Cheers

QM

Okay I got a few that are kinda ShadowRun

Shrek: Ogre wants rid of squatters, 'politely asks' local politician to take care of it. Which he will do after some quid pro quo. So he has to do and extraction which of course his team mate louses up. on the way to deliver the good he discovers a problem and of course nothing works out right till the very end

Shrek 2: If even just for the scenes in the fairy godmothers cottage.

DareDevil: for the best example of Physical Adepts I have seen in a long time.

The Replacement Killers

Big Trouble

Total Recall well kinda

Man, Puss-in-Boots was a fun character in an otherwise humdrum movie. That said, I suppose The Incredibles should be added for all the Bond scenes (God, how I love this movie) and the way the media reacted to superheroes (in a fashion similar to the Awakening in general, with lawsuits replacing The Night of Rage and hate groups). I suppose every Bond and Bond-ripoff (XxX, The Man Who Knew Too Little, etc.) movie ever put out should also qualify as a "Shadowrun movie" on general principle, too.

Just saw the movie page for this movie that will come out to a theatre near you!

The Pacifier

It stars Vin Diesel as a SEAL guy who must now defend some children of an assassinated scientist. I'm not sure what to think, but hey, in terms of shadowrun it's a runner who gets a bodyguard job defending some kids that also entails nannying them too I guess...

I can see it now...

Baby: Waaaah!!!

Troll Street Sam: That's NOT in my job description...

Voice over vidphone: Just go and do it! You're being paid for it.

Troll Street Sam: *grumble*

Troll Street Sam puts on the gloves as he moves over to change the diaper...

I don't know about the movie, but in the television show SpongeBob must constantly stop Plankton from stealing the Crusty Crab's secret formula to use in his competeing resturant, the Chum Bucket from where he plans his diabloical plans with his trusty telecomm.

I saw The Tesseract last night and it has enough useful characteriztions to be watched by a GM. I'm stealing the bellboy's "fence" and the drug mule for my game, and maybe the bellboy if I can get my players (with whom I watched the movie) to have their characters stay in a seedy motel ever again.

I tried to watch the Tesseract, but I kept falling asleep. This wasn't totally the fault of the movie, but once I fall asleep during a movie its ahrd for me to go back and watch it again. Pitch Black was that way.

My group has something we call, "The orc and the pie." Its an old D&D joke where the game master can't think of a adventure, so he just runs the most basic scenario: "You're in a room with an orc and a pie. You want the pie. The orc doesn't want you to have the pie, what do you do?" Now when I make up runs, the first thing I figure out is the orc and the pie; what's the opposition and what's the reward. But I guess you could just as easily say, What's the Plankton and what's the secret formula?

Kill the pie, eat the ork.

~J

Well, here's one for a run gone horribly, horribly wrong.

Ladykillers.

Yes, the movie with Tom Hanks.

I just finished it... It is honestly the funniest film I have seen in a good long time.

Trailer
Official Site

(Apologies if it was already brought up. I'm about to head off to play some Fallout for old time's sake and didn't feel like scanning the thread all over again. )

Weird. Ladykillers had everything. A great cast. Great characters. Great story. Great dialogue. Yet when I watched it, it was horrible... it was just off somehow and none of those great elements seemed to click together. I've never been able to put my finger on why, though.

But I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Cowboy Bebop must be the closest thing. Other than that..

I resently saw Escape from New York again, the Z zones in your avarage sixth world sprawl are propably modeled to some extent on that movie. John Carpenter IS the man, like someone said earlier. Big Trouble in Little China also touches on some shadowrunnish concepts despite being silly (who said shadowrun can´t be silly). Chinese magic in modern times and an old evil wizard with some hidden life power thing going. Kurt Russels anti-heroes are great and those movies should be seen again even though they´re old now. Has Equilibrium been mentioned? Gun Kata´s, come on! That´s shadowrun.

I take inspiration from any thriller or sci-fi movie. I´m going to watch a few after dinner. Bourne Supremacy any good?

CountZero:

Raymond Benson replaced John Gardner as the author of the James Bond novels in 1997, I believe. His first novel (the first one in the James Bond series that I can find any record of, at any rate ), ZERO MINUS TEN, was published in hardcover in June of that year, and released in paperback in July, 1998.

Since then, five others have followed: THE FACTS OF DEATH, HIGH TIME TO KILL, DOUBLESHOT, NEVER DREAM OF DYING, and THE MAN WITH THE RED TATTOO, as well as novels adapted from the films TOMORROW NEVER DIES, THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, and DIE ANOTHER DAY.

--Foreigner

Thanks. I liked the first one, so it´ll propably be enjoyable.

What about the Blues Brothers?

Contact in need.
Two runners put together a team of crack professional, umm, er, musicians...

spectacular car chase, the mall is still my favorite car chase scene of all time, and they even make fun of policlubs