This came up as a topic last night when we were watching the second resident evil film and found ourselves comparing 'Alice' to many of the attributes of the shadowrun world....... you know the drill enhanced articulation, boosted reflexes, smartlink ect... in fact we were going on about the fact that she must have some s**t hot bio ware!

so what do you lot think?


torz x

P.S Sorry about spelling Shadowrun Wrong cant type today and dident notice.............

Especially films involving that Reeves kid.

Yes, my group and I also do this. We also have a compulsion to go and play shadowrun right after seeing movies such as Blade 3 and any of the resident evil movies.

dagger with built in monowhip. Bwahahahahahahahaha

Every time we watch TV or a movie, "THAT mofo rolls sixes."

While watching Leon: The Professional...

Two Words: Karma Pool!

My role model for the last ten years has been Neil McCauley.

McCauley was a perfect example of how vindictive should be used as a falaw. It sure as hell got him killed.

it was bigger than that. He was doomed the moment he walked in Eady's door after the bank robbery.

BTW, the Special Edition DVD... It's Plasma Jesus.

I usually enjoy a film for itself.

There have been a few I tracked down because people said they had a shadowrun flavor, but I still pretty much watch it for itself.

I have never assigned stats and skills or edges/flaws or possible cyber/bio or adept abilities to a charater while watching and never interpreted actions as dice results while watching a movie. Maybe later when I'm thinking shadowrun and remembering a movie moment.

I actually just remember this: The last time I watched The Usual Suspects I started to calculate the TN mods for when McManus shoots the two bodyguards in the garage.

Range should be decent, but then you've got something I'd call minimal light (especially since he had shades on), +6 or so for near-total cover, +2 for two weapons (which also means CP split two ways), and a popular house rule is a +2 (for targets being in melee with friendlies). No bio, no cyber, no Adept powers to help him out.

McManus is good people.

I only do this to bad movies, apparently. I guess I need something to keep my attention on the movie.

Nevermind.

Yeah, it infiltrated my way of thinking a long time ago. I daydream and overlay shadowrun stuff on top of my regular life all the time for personal and friend-to-friend interactions. I forgot how sad it was a long time ago and now just think its cool.

LOL ..... when i was your age..........


torz x

Shaun of the Dead is one of the funniest movies to come out in recent years.
I definately have some friends like Ed.
Shaun is clearly defaulting on Rifles in the Winchester...though he might have a fairly decent Clubs skill

Funny. When I start a new game, I have to literally, become one with the rules and the gender, or my wandering attention will lead me to another system or background.

So, when I started playing SR again, and my wife decided to join, we went on watching all kinds of bad cyberpunk movies (there´s a lot of them on my cable movie channels), the whole Ghost in the Shell series and thinking of EVERYTHING in SR terms...

Well, not everything, but you get the idea. Whenever I see an action movie or a good cartoon (or even bad ones - we´ve been watching local releases of those awful american versions of Streetfighter and Mortal Kombat), I make notes to future adventures.

My wife, in particular (who plays a heavily cybered Street Sam), keeps asking "can I have an implant like that? Can I? Please!" I should never have introduced her to Star Trek. Now she wants a fragging Ares Disruptor ("who cares about these puny lasers? It´s REAL firepower I want. Are you sure Klingons aren´t awakened variants of Orks? Food´s on the table. Cold. As my revenge")

Oh drek.

I voted no. I do not compare a film to the SR world.

I think in SR game mechanics. When I play basketball, it is opposed roll Athletics(Basketball). When I shoot, it is a called shot. When I miss, I think,"I would gotten a SL 2 implanted if I wasn't a bookninja. Ninjas are adepts and adepts don't get implants. Damned roleplaying GM will dock my karma if I did." *mumble*mumble*

When I go for an exam, it is a Knowledge Skill TN 8. Oops, no successes! Frag that! I'm spending karma for a re-roll!

When I drive, I think, "Things would be much easier with a VCR."

Wow. (This applies to the two immediately previous posts.)

Well, there is no accounting for taste, I guess. Or a nicer way of saying that: everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I found the comedy/romance elements of it to really add to the movie with juxtaposed with the zed-word stuff. It was all the funnier.

Also, I definately can relate to thinking of things in movie terms: the person who posted about McManus being amazing was certainly right. I watched The Usual Suspects last night, and cringed at the thought of the TN he would have had to hit to kill those guys in garage. I don't really think of that when I'm failing a physiology test or something similar...its usually more of 'why the hell didn't I study for this thing, and stay up all night drinking and playing Tekken instead?'