amanojaku Posted January 2, 2011 Report Share Posted January 2, 2011 Could we get a sticky for a star hero movie list? It's the same idea as the reading list, and would apply to good SF movies that may be too obscure or hard to find for a lot of people to know about, but are still good viewing. My recommendations would be "Moon Zero Two" and "Ikarie XB-1", the latter in it's original dialogue with subtitling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted January 2, 2011 Report Share Posted January 2, 2011 Re: A star hero movie list Enemy Mine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted January 2, 2011 Report Share Posted January 2, 2011 Re: A star hero movie list Robinson Crusoe on Mars. Definitively a B-movie, but great man vs. alien environment story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted January 2, 2011 Report Share Posted January 2, 2011 Re: A star hero movie list Lets Start a category for bad Star Hero Movies Darkstar Battle Beyond the Stars Ice Pirates Flesh Gordon Starship Troopers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escafarc Posted January 2, 2011 Report Share Posted January 2, 2011 Re: A star hero movie list Lets Start a category for bad Star Hero Movies Darkstar Battle Beyond the Stars Ice Pirates Flesh Gordon Starship Troopers With the exception of Starship I really liked the others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted January 2, 2011 Report Share Posted January 2, 2011 Re: A star hero movie list With the exception of Starship I really liked the others. That's the difference between So Bad It's Good and So Bad It's Horrible. Although Troopers hasn't yet made tvtropes.org's 'horrible' list. I have no idea why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted January 2, 2011 Report Share Posted January 2, 2011 Re: A star hero movie list I liked Starship Troopers. But I have also developed a raging dislike for Robert Heinlein over the years, so there's that. Night of the Comet. Strictly, Post-Apocalyptic Hero, but fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Long Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 Re: A star hero movie list FYI, I created and stickied the reading list post because it's for ongoing Star Hero research. Once I'm done with the book it will be un-stickied; it's not intended as a permanent feature of the forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaplayboy Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 Re: A star hero movie list I'd suggest breaking the list down by era: pre-50s--e.g. The Shape of Things to Come, Metropolis 50s--e.g., Forbidden Planet 60s--e.g., 2001, Planet of the Apes 70s--e.g., Star Wars 80s--e.g., Aliens 90s--e.g., Stargate, 5th Element 00s--e.g., Avatar, Chronicles of Riddick There have probably been over 1000 science fiction films made and released to theaters over the past century. The number that are halfway decent AND relevant to a Star Hero movie list are substantially less than half that number, imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 Re: A star hero movie list 50s: The Day the Earth Stood Still, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Amazing Colossal Man 60s: Soylent Green 70s: Silent Running, Zardoz, Logans Run, Deathrace 2000, Rollerball, Flesh Gordon is pushing things... but its just so BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD, Rocky Horror Picture Show 80s: It Came From Hollywood... 90 minutes of MST3K style Narrated clips with an all star cast... over 100 bad movies with a complete list of clips in the closing credits next category: Giant Monster Movies: Deadly Mantis, Them, Tarantula, Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Food of the Gods, The Thing. but some of less than halfway decent and irrelevant movies are the best Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 Re: A star hero movie list Soylent Green actually came out in 1972. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rentauri Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 Re: A star hero movie list Star Trek 1 and 2 (late 70's and early 80's) I think can work. Even the newer one could be a more action packed version of the older ones. If you want to inject comedy you got the classic Space Balls but I think it would fall under a parody more or less. The Last Starfighter (with or without the guy from a backwater world saying the universe). Then we got Dune and you can do what you want with it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amanojaku Posted January 4, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 Re: A star hero movie list I don't see why the reading list and this couldn't/shouldn't be stickied, both have good reason to be stickies as they provide good reff material for starhero campaigns. Also, please try to come up with lesser known movies that are good reference for SFRPGs, they're the ones that need to be hyped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaplayboy Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 Re: A star hero movie list Equilibrium, 2002, and to a lesser extent, Ultraviolet, 2006--dystopias, gun kata, dimensional storage, sci-fi vampires, gravity levelers, seriously tricked out handguns, etc. 1990s, Dark City Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick, 2000s Surrogates, 2000s(bad film but some interesting concepts) Pandorum, 2000s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rentauri Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 Re: A star hero movie list Not sure if this works as 'lesser known' or not: The Balck Hole (70's) Outland (80's) Space Raiders (80's) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amanojaku Posted January 4, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 Re: A star hero movie list Well, I'd never heard of space raiders, so it's lesser known. Outland is an oldie but a goodie that deserved a mention. Ditto for dark city, which was not a matrix ripoff as it was out a year before the matrix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathew Posted January 5, 2011 Report Share Posted January 5, 2011 Re: A star hero movie list Starchaser the Legend of Orin - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starchaser:_The_Legend_of_Orin The Green Slime - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Slime Moontrap - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moontrap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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