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September 29, 2006, 06:44:00 AM Last Edit: September 29, 2006, 06:46:14 AM by Wrexham3
I was watching 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' last night, when I thought back to the Favorite TV thread.  I dont watch TV but I do watch a lot of films.  I'm just wondering about people's favourite films and full-length anime, and how these influence world-building.  'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' seems to me a very D&D kind of film.  I do like the Lord of the Rings films, but I think the first Conan film is better.  However, my favourite film of all time is 'Bladerunner'; I think the film's theme of monumental decay has probably filtered into a new  setting I'm working on.  

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September 29, 2006, 08:14:32 AM
1. Godzilla (with Matthew Brodrick)
2. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galalxy
3. Spaceballs

Unfortunately, none of these have really been D&D related inspirations to me...
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September 29, 2006, 08:47:40 AM
Batman
Batman Begins
Night at the Roxbury
Van Wilder
The Time Machine
Batman Forever
Sleepy Hollow
The Shining
The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Timeline
Troy
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 & 3

And that's just some of them... :)
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September 29, 2006, 08:49:27 AM
Quote from: Buffy, season 7KENNEDY: I don't care if it's Godzilla. (raises a huge sword) I want to get in this thing.

ANDREW: Godzilla's mostly Tokyo-based, so he's probably a no-show.

AMANDA: Besides, if Matthew Broderick can kill Godzilla, how tough is he?

ANDREW: (distressed, appealing) Xander...

XANDER: Matthew Broderick did not kill Godzilla. He killed a big, dumb lizard. That was not the real Godzilla.
lot[/i] of movies.
Oh, how we danced and we swallowed the night
For it was all ripe for dreaming
Oh, how we danced away all of the lights
We've always been out of our minds
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#4
September 29, 2006, 08:58:46 AM
I don't know about a top 10 list, but some of my favorites are American Beauty, V for Vendetta, and Phenomenon.
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September 29, 2006, 09:09:15 AM
I forgot to mention Backdraft and Ladder 49 (especially Backdraft). Firefighter movies rock.
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September 29, 2006, 09:12:10 AM
Evangelion (because giant robots can and should bleed, disembowel, and eat each other more often)
Akira (I have seen it neither subbed nor dubbed in English, but what I have seen is still...)
Harvey (B&W, nine foot tall invisible rabbit)
Donnie Darko (speaking of rabbits...)
Arsenic and Old Lace (yay killing)
Princess Bride (what?)
Memories (really three movies... but those first two are incredible)
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September 29, 2006, 10:54:28 AM
Among those that have been mentioned, I personally loved Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, The Matrix and Donnie Darko. One film that really deserves a mention here is The Usual Suspect. Kevin Spacey is just generally awesome. Which reminds me that I need to mention Se7en as well.

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#8
September 29, 2006, 12:59:22 PM
lemme think lemme think.

Ferris Bueler's Day Off. I can watch this movie again and again no matter how many times it comes on TV.
In the same vein: Can't hardly wait, Better Off Dead.

Movies I watched 50 friggn times as a kid:
Star Wars
(My parents never taped Empire strikes back, so i only saw it twice ;))
Return of the Jedi
Rambo 2

Superhero Movies:
Spider-man (I/II), Hellboy, Unbreakable -- i don't really like comicbook movies unless they play up the hero bit. a lot. Everything else is secondary to me. Does it follow canon? I don't care. Does it have fastball specials? I don't care. If it has someone with abilities far beyond normal man taking on someone with even greater abilities, despite the odds? I'm sold.

Sci-fi:
Minority Report, Thirteen monkeys,
Chronicles of Riddick (pulpy goodness!)

Momento. Momento is one of the best movies ever made. Everyone should see it. Now.
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#9
September 29, 2006, 01:41:56 PM
Believe it or not, I've actual taken gaming inspiration from all of the following movies (yes, even Munich)

Memento, Twelve Monkeys (you did mean to say twelve, didn't you brainface?), Akira, Donnie Darko, Hero, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill Volume 2 (vol.1 rocked, but vol.2 was Tarantino at full throttle), the anime sequence from Kill Bill 1 (as a standalone feature), Sin City, A Clockwork Orange ("I'm singin' in the rain"), The Matrix (#1), The Animatrix (particularly the Second Rennaissance, World Record and Matriculated), Jacob's Ladder (funnily enough, I haven't actually seen Jacob's Ladder, but it's here anyway), Blade Runner, the opening cutscene of Final Fantasy XII (I know it ain't an actual movie but... it's so fucking AWESOME!!!!!), the original Alien, Predator, Munich, Ninja Scroll, Punch Drunk Love...

The Lion in Winter!  OMFG!  Katherine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole on screen at the same time!  That's like breeding the Tarrasque with a hecatoncheires: the most delicious kind of carnage.  I ain't ever seen old school wordplay quite like that, and I never will again!

And The Point, an animated feature with music and narration by Ringo Star.  That movie has got to be my absolute favourite of all time.  I will be introducing it to my children.

Also, the final episode of Cowboy Bebop, while not actually a movie, is the best series finale I have ever seen.

"Bang."  Classic.

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#10
September 29, 2006, 01:43:12 PM
Here are a few good (and not so good) live-action movies that can provide inspiration for gamers.
(EDIT: Several of these have been mentioned before, but I second their nomination.)

 A Chinese Ghost Story
 Big Trouble in Little China
 Bladerunner
 Bram Stoker's Dracula (with Gary Oldman)
 The Chronicles of Riddick
 Conan the Barbarian
 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
 The Fifth Element
 Highlander
 The Indiana Jones trilogy
 Labyrinth
 Lady Hawk
 Legend
 The Lord of the Rings trilogy
 The Matrix trilogy, parts 1 and 2
 Once Upon a Time in China
 The Princess Bride
 Serenity
 The original Star Wars trilogy
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QuoteSpider-man (I/II), Hellboy, Unbreakable

I forgot all about Unbreakable. That was an awesome movie.
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September 30, 2006, 11:06:23 AM
American Beauty
Batman Begins
Donnie Darko
Quigly, Down Under
Galaxy Quest
X-Men 2
Spiderman 2
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Star Wars Trilogy (original)
Serenity
V for Vendetta
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek VIII: First Contact

There may be more, but any of those, I can generally watch over and over again without getting bored.
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September 30, 2006, 11:53:46 PM
Flyboys (just saw it, and you need to go and see it too. NOW.)
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Ice Age
Minority Report
A Knight's Tale
The Patriot
Princess Bride
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October 02, 2006, 05:58:35 AM
Wow, I'm sensing a lot of hostility against the new Star Wars films (a disturbance in the Force).  I love the Star Wars films as Lucas and his design team created a whole living breathing galaxy in which to set their story.    The only Star Wars film I hate is 'Return of the Jedi'.  First half hour's good, but the rest is a badly paced, total rehash of the first Star Wars film. Crap light-sabre fight.  Major revelation in that Emperor of the Galatic Empire turns out to be Scottish.  Only redeemable feature Ewoks...and that's only because my smuggler character in the old Star Wars game had a cool ewok co-pilot.  Otherwise, awful.    
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