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[Erin 'Stellar' Donovan]

"The Transporter 1 & 2"

"Quigley Down Under"

And and also arguably the first and second "Crocodile Dundee" movies as well.

[White Light]

I'd argue the validity to the addition of the Transporter flicks to the list of Quinessential Adventure! flicks. I'm just not feeling it.

Though Navigational Hazard is hilarious.

Oh, and fuck you. The Phantom with Billy Zane is fucking great.

[jameson (ST)]

Transporter does have some pulpy goodness in the car chases but the fights are way NOT pulp.

While not a pulpy movie overall the recent Fly Boys has some extremely good aerial combat between WW1 era biplanes.  I would think this a good resource for GMs with pilot players, and those same players of pilots!

[SkyLion]

Im surprised nobody mentioned Alan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold.  Loved that movie when I was a kid.

Also, sombody mentioned Dick Tracey earlier which was a sort of pulp rendered as a four color comic.

I also would nominate Sin City...much more noir than pulp in flavor, I feel it is a good resource due to the larger than life nature of the characters powers.

And of course as an aside, Addventure as a game system works really well with these related genres.  Over at Eon ProfPotts was running an awesome homebrew setting in the same vein as Flash Gordon, on an alternate world where the native races were package deal Mesmerists and Stalwarts and daredevil humans had been appearing at random from some trans-dimensional telluric mists...very cool stuff.

[Hero]

Speaking of King Solomon's Mines ... Would Congo be Pulp-esque?  Its got the whole "Killer Apes" and Lost City feel to it and then there is the escape in a balloon at the end.

[jameson (ST)]

I can't believe I didn't think of this before but Dark City has a very pulpy vibe to it.

[jameson (ST)]

the more I watch it the more I begin to think that Sin City is 1/2 Pulp and 1/2 Noir ... and 100% good!

Also the TV show The Middleman ... has a good tongue in cheek pulp-ish vibe

Also the Amazing Screw-on Head ... TV Pilot or comic ...

[SalmonMax]

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was so pulp it hurt.

[jameson (ST)]

the more I watch it the more I begin to think that Sin City is 1/2 Pulp and 1/2 Noir ... and 100% good!

Also the TV show The Middleman ... has a good tongue in cheek pulp-ish vibe

Also the Amazing Screw-on Head ... TV Pilot or comic ...

[SalmonMax]

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was so pulp it hurt.

[SkyLion]

While I wouldn't call it a great movie, The Quest (the one with Jean Claude Van Damme) is definitely pulp like.  Hmm...and while we are talking about martial arts tournaments, the first Mortal Kombat movie had some definitely pulp infused elements that would work great for an Adventure! game...