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THOTH13 wrote:Hey guys, I am not sure if this has been covered anywhere on the forums but a bunch of my gamers and I were discussing creating a movie list to help potential new players get a feel for what rifts is about and I wanted to see what the rest of you though, or could come up with as well. Some of the examples we had were:
Doomsday - because the film shows how different societies popped up after a major catastrophe
Priest - for the old west/sci-fi feel of the town and people, as well as the hive

Killer Cyborg wrote:http://forums.palladium-megaverse.com/viewtopic.php?p=2094200#p2094200

Killer Cyborg wrote:The Tripods was a BBC release based on the books by John Christopher. It's a post-apocalypse setting where alien tripods have taken over the Earth generations ago, and a group of children decide that maybe the giant tripods that want to mind-control them aren't their friends after all, and try to escape to the mountains.
The books are better, of course.

Circuitry Man
In a world where the atmosphere has been destroyed, oxygen is money and people live underground. A Romeo-Bot and a female bodyguard try to smuggle a case of stolen microchips from LA to New York, pursued by the evil cyborg Plughead.

Cyborg II
The first film to feature Angelina Jolie, this quasi-sequel to Van Damme's Cyborg also has Jack Palance and Billy Drago.
If that doesn't draw you in, here's a plot summary via Wikipedia:

In the year 2074, the cybernetics market is dominated by the USA's Pinwheel Electronics and Japan's Kobayashi Robotics. Cyborgs are commonplace, used for anything from soldiers to prostitutes. Casella Reese is a top-of-the-line cyborg developed for corporate espionage and is programmed with the "Glass Shadow" program, meant to mimic human senses and emotions such as fear, love, pain and hatred. However, Glass Shadow is also an explosive that runs through her entire circuitry. Guided by the renegade prototype cyborg Mercy, who can communicate through any television screen, she and combat trainer Colton Ricks escape the Pinwheel facility so she can avoid her fate of self-destruction, one that faces most corporate espionage cyborgs.

12 Monkeys
Bruce Willis travels back and forth between a future where humans have been mostly wiped-out by a terrorist created plague and a time right before the plague was released where he might be able to stop it from being unleashed.

The Blood of Heroes
Rutger Hauer and Joan Chen.
If the cast alone doesn't get you to see it, I don't know what will, but this is also perhaps the greatest sports movie of all time.
A ragged team of Juggers try to win enough dog skulls in The Game to get the attention of The League, and win a place inside the Nine Cities instead of having to live out in the wastelands.

Def-Con 4
The crew of a nuclear missile satellite refuse to fire their missiles during a nuclear war, only to have their satellite crash-land on a post-apocalypse Earth ruled by savages and mutants.

Hell Comes To Frogtown
Roddy Piper stars as Sam Hell, the last fertile man in the world who is recruited by a female government to infiltrate Frogtown and rescue a group of human women who have been kept as sex slaves by the mutant frogs- then to help start repopulating the world with humans.

The Mad Max Series
If you need a description, you don't deserve to have it.

Six-String Samurai
In 1957, the US went to war with the Soviets and a nuclear war ensued.
After the apocalypse, the last bastion of freedom was a city called "Lost Vegas," where Elvis ruled as king for 50 rockin' years before eventually dying.
After the King's death, every rocker with a sword and a guitar (including Death himself), starts making their way across the wastelands to get to vegas for the contest to crown the new king.
The soundtrack is provided by The Red Elvises- if you don't know who they are, you need to find out.

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Killer Cyborg wrote:The problem is that Rifts has so many different aspects and angles, a single movie can only probably cover one or two of them.

But here are some I'd use:
Crash & Burn
Star Wars (original Trilogy)
Krull
Robocop
Heavy Metal
Phantasm (1-4)
Robot Carnival
Akira
Dog Soldiers
Starship Troopers
Vampire Hunter D
Nemesis 1 & 2
Hellboy
Serenity
Screamers
Iron Man
Ninja Scroll
Big Trouble in Little China
Waterworld
Excalibur
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Lair of the White Worm
Resident Evil
The Mummy

THOTH13 wrote:Hey guys, I am not sure if this has been covered anywhere on the forums but a bunch of my gamers and I were discussing creating a movie list to help potential new players get a feel for what rifts is about and I wanted to see what the rest of you though, or could come up with as well. Some of the examples we had were:
Doomsday - because the film shows how different societies popped up after a major catastrophe
Priest - for the old west/sci-fi feel of the town and people, as well as the hive

Zer0 Kay wrote:Hmm It is funny saying that the cyberpunk Bubblegum Crisis may not be dark enough and to corporate political intrigue for Rifts. However it's Influence Bladerunner is a great example of what life inside one of the Mega cities may look like.

The movie Hardware is a good cautionary tale to not bring home any "dead" skelebot parts to your artist girlfriend.

Zer0 Kay wrote:The movie Hardware is a good cautionary tale to not bring home any "dead" skelebot parts to your artist girlfriend.

Killer Cyborg wrote:

Zer0 Kay wrote:The movie Hardware is a good cautionary tale to not bring home any "dead" skelebot parts to your artist girlfriend.

True.
Shame the movie wasn't more than that, though.

Zer0 Kay wrote:

Killer Cyborg wrote:

Zer0 Kay wrote:The movie Hardware is a good cautionary tale to not bring home any "dead" skelebot parts to your artist girlfriend.

True.
Shame the movie wasn't more than that, though.

what are you talking about? Could have sworn like so many SciFi movies of the era of was also about *****. And those are important, billions of babies can't be wrong and I'm sure if you asked those in possession of them if they'll give em up.

random_username wrote:Bah just go for the 3 min 26 second crash course version (found this late 2014): Particularly for the conclusion at 2:41.

Warning Ridiculous Nonsense Alert!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef201LbbAPE

Alrik Vas wrote:

random_username wrote:Bah just go for the 3 min 26 second crash course version (found this late 2014): Particularly for the conclusion at 2:41.

Warning Ridiculous Nonsense Alert!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef201LbbAPE

that went exactly how I wanted it to.