Singularity Posted September 11, 2004 Share Posted September 11, 2004 So with Sky Captain coming out soon, I was thinking about what movies are great examples of pulp and inspirations (no pun intended) for Adventure!. Here's what I've got so far:Indiana Jones TrilogyBoth of the MummiesThe ShadowThe PhantomThe TransporterAll of the Star Wars movies (Lucas based it on pulp)Any other ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugin Posted September 11, 2004 Share Posted September 11, 2004 Pulp inspired includes Remo Williams, The Adventure Begins.And of course you forgot Doc Savage, Man of Bronze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Singularity Posted September 11, 2004 Author Share Posted September 11, 2004 They made a Doc Savage movie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Craft Posted September 11, 2004 Share Posted September 11, 2004 That they did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Singularity Posted September 11, 2004 Author Share Posted September 11, 2004 Well hot damn, was it any good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Singularity Posted September 11, 2004 Author Share Posted September 11, 2004 Ah crap, I might've not known about the Doc Savage movie (and Doc Savage is the quinessential pulp character and one half of Max Mercer), but I do know about this one and I'm ashamed for forgeting it, especially in the light of how much of a ripoff of Doc Savage it is:The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronin Posted September 11, 2004 Share Posted September 11, 2004 League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and though the time frame is a bit off, Hudson Hawk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugin Posted September 11, 2004 Share Posted September 11, 2004 League is actually pre-pulp in inspiration and post-pulp in feel. Hudson Hawk defnitelly seems like a pulp movie though.A bad one, but a pulp one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Singularity Posted September 11, 2004 Author Share Posted September 11, 2004 Yea, LXG the movie was "bigger" and "campier" than most pulp... but good call on Hudson Hawk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted September 11, 2004 Share Posted September 11, 2004 I'd have to second Remo Williams. My favorite action movie of the early 80's.Put it in the 1920's, and you'd have a heck of a time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronin Posted September 11, 2004 Share Posted September 11, 2004 Don't hate, Craig. Hudson Hawk was a good fucking movie, if you can love it for what it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Posted September 11, 2004 Share Posted September 11, 2004 How about The Rocketeer? Sure the movie was El Mucho Stinko, but it was also great fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugin Posted September 11, 2004 Share Posted September 11, 2004 Quote:Originally posted by ronin: Don't hate, Craig. Hudson Hawk was a good fucking movie, if you can love it for what it was. An overproduced ego project?Sorry man, the movie sucked. More so because I can see the great movie inside of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted September 11, 2004 Share Posted September 11, 2004 Hudson Hawk did not suck! It was a comedy, pure and simple.It pisses me off that no one gets the idea of that darn movie!!!Everyone expected some action flick on the level of Die Hard.Sorry. Don't work that way. Not in a comedy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugin Posted September 11, 2004 Share Posted September 11, 2004 Oh fucking please, give me some goddamn credit before throwing a hissy fit. I understand completely that it was supposed to be a comedy. I knew that from step fucking one. It was a comedy that sucked. There was poor casting choices, mugging for the camera, bad timing, and more overacting than in all three Evil Dead films without any of Campbell's panache. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted September 11, 2004 Share Posted September 11, 2004 Thank you for clairifying your point.If you're wondering why I find the movie funny...You just described why.That's why I thought the movie was good. It was the perfect con pulled on the audience. P.T. Barnum couldn't have done better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby1024 Posted September 12, 2004 Share Posted September 12, 2004 Not necessarily pulp, but great Inspiration for Adventure!, would be Big Trouble in Little China. Much excellent Inspiration to be found in that movie, despite it's quite obvious non-pulpiness.Pulp's antecedents include most action films as well, and Hong Kong Action films carry Pulp's flame as well. There are a lot of very good Asian films which, while not emulating pulp that well, provide a lot of Inspiration for the kind of cool things that Pulp Heroes should be able to do.Also, Many of the older Bond Films definitely wear their Pulp influences on their sleeve, and I'm adamant that Bond is merely a Daredevil with most of the Heroic Knacks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Knight Posted September 12, 2004 Share Posted September 12, 2004 Quote:Originally posted by Sakurako Hino: I'd have to second Remo Williams. My favorite action movie of the early 80's.Put it in the 1920's, and you'd have a heck of a time! Remo Williams works, especially since it was based in part on the earlier parts of the "Destroyer" Series.Later on, Remo starts doing some things that are incredible even for pulp.(definitely a stalwart).Anyway, I love Remo. And Chiun. Chiun rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menagerie Posted October 4, 2004 Share Posted October 4, 2004 Ok, I'm looking for two films and I can't remember the name. I thought it was Remo Williams but looking at the description on IMDB I think I'm UBER-wrong. An Andrew-Dice-Clay-type is a Bouncer and ends up fighting ninjas/warriors from the east who are after a magic Lotus flower. He's "very much" from New York (mega-stereotype) and picks up a Japanese Sidekick. Is Remo Williams the film with the guy learning to dodge bullets and run over wet concrete? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kestrel404 Posted October 4, 2004 Share Posted October 4, 2004 Well, since it hasn't made it in here yet:Sky Captain and the World of TomorrowPerhaps a bit more epic than Adventure!, but so pulpy that I fell out of my seat laughing. Twice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakurako Hino Posted October 5, 2004 Share Posted October 5, 2004 Quote:Originally posted by Alchemist: Well, since it hasn't made it in here yet:Sky Captain and the World of TomorrowPerhaps a bit more epic than Adventure!, but so pulpy that I fell out of my seat laughing. Twice. Yes, but was it in a good way like it was for me? I loved Sky Captain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryffen Posted October 6, 2004 Share Posted October 6, 2004 Anyone remember Dick Tracy?Not a great film, but sort of the pulpy theme.Ghost in the Darkness?Did anyone see Tales of the Golden Monkeyback in the 80s? (oops, showing my age now)I know it's not a film, but I thought it was worth expanding this to TV - just to give more options and scope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted October 6, 2004 Share Posted October 6, 2004 Tales of the Gold Monkey and Bring 'Em Back Alive with Captain Sheridan ... I mean, Bruce Boxlietner ...Dick Tracy's problem was that it tried to be too artsy, otherwise it could have been good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimrod Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 Quote:Originally posted by Alchemist: Well, since it hasn't made it in here yet:Sky Captain and the World of TomorrowPerhaps a bit more epic than Adventure!, but so pulpy that I fell out of my seat laughing. Twice. [tangent threadjack]More epic than Adventure! ?I don´t really understand that sentiment - but perhaps that is because I´ve fought zeppelin armadas over the NY skyline, insectoids in the Hollow Earth and even mad Hindu tiger gods - all as commander of my own SHIELD-goes-pulp organization.The only game that goes more over-the-top with PC choices is Aberrant, in my experience. YMMV, of course.[/tangent threadjack] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark J. Cobb Posted June 24, 2006 Share Posted June 24, 2006 "Romancing the Stone" and it's sequel (which I never saw), "Jewel of the Nile" Both w/ Mike Douglas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Dwarf Posted June 24, 2006 Share Posted June 24, 2006 Here's one from the past. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension. Now who remembers that classic film? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark J. Cobb Posted June 25, 2006 Share Posted June 25, 2006 vaguely...I LOVE resurrecting bygone threads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hutch Posted June 25, 2006 Share Posted June 25, 2006 Quote:Originally posted by Menagerie:Is Remo Williams the film with the guy learning to dodge bullets and run over wet concrete? Yes, yes it is. God I love that movie! I went out and bought the DVD..."Chun, your incredible!""No!.....I am better than that." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark J. Cobb Posted June 25, 2006 Share Posted June 25, 2006 I forgot that part!Chun: "... now do it backwards."Remo: "Ok, no problem..." *leaps towards exercise pole/onstical course thingy*Chun: "...In the dark." *clicks off light, crashing sound heard* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadvalon Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 the phantom with billy zane is funny but so poor in cinemaography and acting (and some sets are awful, the singh broterhood base for example or the ancient caves) but it has some scenes i really enjoyed.The shadow with alec baldwin, its far from perfect but i like it, if only this baldwing guy wasn't showing his face too often... but the (telepathically) invisible base, the colorfull villain and the era look are great IMHO.High Road to China with tom selleck, in this movie you can see why he was chosen for indiana jones role originally. A very good OST. Buckaroo Banzai... uff that's a weird film, too campy and homorous for me but i like some ideas (i used red lectroids and doctor Masado Banzai in one of my adventure! campaigns)Hellboy and Hellboy animated, great for more terror oriented adventure!, specially nazi super villains and lovecraftian monstruosities. Althoug it is set in the present time hs deathtraps and spooky places are great for 1920's an 1930's adventures. In my own games i usually add some terror elements and Hellboy's comics are great for visual inspiration.Corto Maltese, a french animated movie based in a great BD character, Corto Maltese is an adventurer (part time pirate) in a 1900-1920 setting from South Seas to Caribbean to Siberia... the comics are far better than the movie.Flash Gordon (1980) again it's set in the present and with a low budget. But it's funny and science fiction is adventure too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erin 'Stellar' Donovan Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 "The Transporter 1 & 2""Quigley Down Under" And and also arguably the first and second "Crocodile Dundee" movies as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Light Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jameson (ST) Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyLion Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jameson (ST) Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 I can't believe I didn't think of this before but Dark City has a very pulpy vibe to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jameson (ST) Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 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 vibeAlso the Amazing Screw-on Head ... TV Pilot or comic ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jameson (ST) Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 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 vibeAlso the Amazing Screw-on Head ... TV Pilot or comic ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SalmonMax Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was so pulp it hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SalmonMax Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was so pulp it hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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