bubba smith Posted November 2, 2014 Report Share Posted November 2, 2014 I think rocketeer was based on commando cody himself based on king of the rocketmen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteelCold Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Inglorious Bastards. The Monument Men. The best I can of what I can come up with for those who wanted a Nick Fury and the Howling Commandos feel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LouGoncey Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Trancers (1985) made by the same company, and with some of the same stars, has a Pulp feel especially in the beginning despite being a Time Travel movie. TRANCERS could be a mini-campaign for Hero System. A lot of the EMPIRE films could be. "Dry hair's for squids," is a line around these parts. The weird retro 50s feel of the future scenes clinch the pulp feel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 I have to recommend one of the seminal pulp-era film serials, the twelve-part Daredevils of the Red Circle from Republic Studios (1939). Besides its quality, one thing that sets it apart is that it features a team of protagonists with their own specialties and fighting styles. You can watch the entire serial on the file-sharing website, Daily Motion: http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x2t78f_Mister_Curious_daredevils-of-the-red-circle-1939/1#video=x13un0v Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the Evil DM Posted February 9, 2015 Report Share Posted February 9, 2015 The High road to China. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecone Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 Isn't Sin City an attempt at noir, not pulp? Toh-mahto, toe-matoh... Pulp, and Noir tend to differ mostly by view point. Pulp looks at heroes, often from their view,Noir looks at victims, normally from their view. But the story may be the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted February 27, 2015 Report Share Posted February 27, 2015 Noir always struck me as rather cynical at its core. Pulp adventure, on the other hand, is almost naively optimistic in its belief that righteousness always wins out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndianaJoe3 Posted February 28, 2015 Report Share Posted February 28, 2015 Expedition Unknown feels surprisingly pulpy for a modern reality series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted March 1, 2015 Report Share Posted March 1, 2015 If you like pulp-era sci-fi, such as Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, is now on YouTube. This is an animated movie created by Filmation in 1979, which was the basis for their watered-down NBC Saturday-morning cartoon series. The movie itself was finally shown in its entirety on prime-time television in 1982. This is one of the most faithful adaptations of the style and characters of the original comic strips ever committed to film, much more mature than the series version. The voice acting is top-notch, and the animation is high quality and ground-breaking for the era. A VHS version of the movie has been uploaded to some websites in the past, but this upload is reportedly from a rare laserdisc rip and is of higher quality. BigJackBrass 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigJackBrass Posted March 2, 2015 Report Share Posted March 2, 2015 Fantastic, Lord Liaden. I'll definitely be settling down to watch that later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeroGM Posted March 6, 2015 Report Share Posted March 6, 2015 I liked agent carter. While not 100%pulp it had some nice weird science. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted March 6, 2015 Report Share Posted March 6, 2015 Agent Carter was great. Genre-wise, I'd say it bridges the gap between classic pulp/golden age supers and cold war espionage/silver age supers. One foot firmly planted on each side of the divide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Shadow Posted March 6, 2015 Report Share Posted March 6, 2015 And it stars the absolutely gorgeous Haley Atwell, what's not to love? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinanju Posted March 8, 2015 Report Share Posted March 8, 2015 Noir always struck me as rather cynical at its core. Pulp adventure, on the other hand, is almost naively optimistic in its belief that righteousness always wins out. In a mystery writing workshop I took, they described Noir (as opposed to other forms of mystery stories) this way: Structure of Noir: Noir is the most realistic of all subgenres of mystery. 1. Urban setting. And it is crime-ridden. 2. It's dark, gritty, sensory-filled and nasty. 3. Character-focused in relationship to the setting. 4. The ending: the crime gets resolved, but it's not pretty and it's rarely uplifting. 5. Voice is off the charts: deep, resonant, powerful, worth listening to. A riveting storyteller telling you a horrible, horrible story. Other things about Noir (not necessarily the case): 1. Often the main character is a vigilante or someone outside the law. 2. It's the anti-cozy. 3. It rarely has a moral compass. Sometime the moral compass is broken. Morals don't exist at all in most noir stories. Morals are for people who have money, time, a "real life." They can afford it. tkdguy and pinecone 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freakboy6117 Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 A movie that doesnt exist but I totally wish did. L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 The anime film Porco Rosso has a significant amount of pulp elements in it (the main character is an independent pilot with his own prop plane). The adventures of "Porco Rosso", a veteran WW1 pilot in 1930s Italy, who has been cursed to look like an anthropomorphic pig. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104652/ st barbara 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JmOz Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 Going to say something odd... Disney cartoon Tailspin... Ragitsu, bigbywolfe and Burrito Boy 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaplayboy Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 Big Trouble in Little China Most film noir of the era The Buster Crabbe pulp sci fi serials, Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon The Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan films(rated R for retro-era racism) There's some HK films set in the 1920s or 1930s in Japanese occupied Manchuria or Colonial Hong Kong. Jet Li or Donnie Yen stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted March 21, 2015 Report Share Posted March 21, 2015 Yeah Fist of Legend, any martial arts stuff about Wong Fei-Hung has a good pulp era feel with a different approach than the usual western perspective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nero Grimes Posted March 28, 2015 Report Share Posted March 28, 2015 Go retro with Beat the Devil, if you want to take a band of motley treasure hunters less seriously. The recent Tin Tin movie is not pulp, The cartoons are close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nero Grimes Posted March 28, 2015 Report Share Posted March 28, 2015 Aromur of God 1 & 2. And any number of other Jackie Chan movies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal'El Wayne Posted April 1, 2015 Report Share Posted April 1, 2015 The Librarian Trilogy and the ten episode sequel television programme The Librarians Perpetual student, Flynn Carsen is recruited by a mystical secret library underneath the New York Metropolitan Library, to be the new Librarian. He is sent around the world to retrieve dangerous mystical artifacts and stop them falling into the wrong hands. Sort of like Indiana Jones, if he didn't need the gun or the whip because he was the smartest, most well-educated man in the world. st barbara and DoctorImpossible 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dead guy on the tab Posted April 2, 2015 Report Share Posted April 2, 2015 What no love for Flash Gordon - especially with the Queen soundtrack? Middleman Human Target Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nero Grimes Posted April 3, 2015 Report Share Posted April 3, 2015 dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun FLASH! ah ah! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlv61560 Posted April 26, 2015 Report Share Posted April 26, 2015 The ones you picked were great choices and easily should get you (and your players) into the mood, however I'll throw in a second vote for Secret of the Incas -- if you want to see the movie that Lucas and Spielberg pretty much ripped off to make Raiders of the Lost Ark, this is it. Complete to the leather jacket and the fedora, and beam of light in the hidden treasure/map room. Plus, it's got Charlton Heston in it, and his work was usually worth a glance. I'll also second The Librarian movies -- they're campy, and get progressively worse as you go through the three of them in terms of acting and plotting -- but they've got some interesting ideas in them and most of the pulp tropes make an appearance sooner or later. If they moved a little faster, and such things were still made in the modern day, they would have potentially made good cliffhanging serials to show before the main picture show. ;-) High Road to China and King Soloman's Mines, in my opinion, are pretty much on a par with The Librarian series as far as acting goes, but lots of ideas and scenery there! Even something like Wild Wild West (the movie -- which is really more steampunk than anything else) has the evil mastermind/wierd science thing going which is pretty classic as pulp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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