| Post/Author/DateTime | Post |
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| Adamaro2304-26-07, 11:05 PM | As already suggested in the ECS certain movies capture the mood most people try to get in Eberron, so start naming them, I'll start: 1. Indiana Jones, 1,2,3 & Young Indiana Jones tv series 2. Tomb Raider 1&2 3. King Soloman's Mines 4. The lost City of Gold 5. Van Helsing 6. Sahara 7. The Mummy 8. The Mummy Returns 9. The Musketeer 10. all the Three Musketeer movies 11. Zorro Movies 12. Pirates of the Carribean 1&2 13. Sleepy Hollow 14. Treasure Planet 15. Atlantis: The Lost Empire |
| Snipers_Promise04-26-07, 11:16 PM | 16. All James Bond Movies |
| Macrovore04-26-07, 11:30 PM | 17. Serenity (and it's show, Firefly) |
| Toloran04-26-07, 11:31 PM | 18. Blade Runner 19. Maltease Falcon (yeah, they are mentioned in the campaign setting book but who cares: They are awesome movies). |
| KidChainsaw04-27-07, 01:49 AM | I second all the above but would add 1.-Brotherhood of the Wolf 2.-Hellboy (even though the comics are better) 3.-Dark City 4.-Big Trouble in Little China 5.-King Kong (both the 1930's original and PJ's remake) 6.-From Hell (once again the comic was better) 7.-The Mission (if you ever need to explain to someone what it means to be a paladin...) |
| Macrovore04-27-07, 11:35 AM | 27. Princess Bride |
| DwarfPcfan04-27-07, 01:22 PM | 28-Sin City 29-Batman Begins 30-Reservoir Dogs 31- Any of the Lethal Weapon movies 32-300 (Karnath come on...) 33-Vidocq 34-Steam Boy 35-Dreamcatcher (yes the book was so much better) All for now... |
| Eled_the_Worm_Tamer04-27-07, 03:20 PM | 36: The Count of Monte Cristo (shame on you dwarfPcfan) 37: Princess Monanoke 38: Laputa, castle in the sky |
| Melvin the Mediocre04-27-07, 03:57 PM | 39. Fifth Element |
| Hideous Phidias04-27-07, 04:04 PM | 40. Time Bandits 41. The Forbidden Zone |
| OgreBane9904-27-07, 04:23 PM | 42. Apocalypto (the recent Mel Gibson flick) 43. Jurassic Park 44. Jurassic Park 2 45. Jurassic Park 3 |
| Belabras04-27-07, 05:50 PM | 46. Steamboy 47. Vampire Hunter D 48. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust 49. Relic 50. Pitch Black |
| Adamaro2304-27-07, 11:18 PM | 47: The entire Sir Artur Conan Doyle's The Lost World TV Series (the best show ever) |
| DragoonDarkfire04-27-07, 11:24 PM | 48: Full Metal Alchemist (what? There's a movie...) |
| OgreBane9904-28-07, 05:02 PM | 49. Pathfinder (loved how they made the vikings look so monstrous) |
| InfinityStar804-28-07, 05:55 PM | 50. Babylon 5 (All 5 seasons) 51. Babylon 5 movies (All of them) |
| gelalshawr04-28-07, 06:53 PM | League of Extraordinary Gentlemen |
| timothyx04-28-07, 08:21 PM | 53) Pans Labyrinth 54) Ladyhawk 55) Highlander (original movie, not teh crap afterwards) 56) Hellraiser 1, 2, 4 57) Pitch Black 58) Guildenstern & Rosencrantz are Dead 59) Henry the 5th 60) Man who Would be King 61) Ice Pirates 62) Space Balls 63) Pirates of Penzance 64) Plunket & McClaine (sp?) |
| Belabras04-28-07, 09:18 PM | Plunkett & Macleane actually. I'd forgotten about that. Good choice. |
| Darth Syntax04-29-07, 03:51 PM | 58) Guildenstern & Rosencrantz are Dead An excellent choice 65. The Third Man 66. The Prestige 67. Miller's Crossing 68. The Game 69. Alien 70. Strange Days 71. Ravenous |
| Marcus Majarra04-29-07, 07:54 PM | 72) Kill Bill (both) 73) Pulp Fiction 74) Enemy at the Gates 75) Gladiator |
| Bocamb04-29-07, 10:33 PM | 76. Brazil (set in Zilargo) And although they aren't movies... 77. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series) 78. Angel (TV series) |
| Nomadicc04-29-07, 10:59 PM | 79. - 84. Star Wars series I can't believe nobody's mentioned these... all the Eberron elements are there (high adventure, crumbling empires, destructive technology, mysticism vs. tech, treachery and intrigue, yadda yadda... ) |
| Arcane Guyver04-29-07, 11:57 PM | 85. National Treasure (not a great movie, but it feels very Eberron-ish) 86. Boondock Saints 87. The Bourne Identity, Supremacy (and hopefully Ultimatum) 88. Silent Hill 89. John Carpenter's The Thing 90. The Rocketeer |
| shadyspace04-30-07, 12:15 AM | 91) Casanova (the 2005 remake, all the deception and intrigue, not a great film, but Jeremy Irons character makes it entertaining) |
| mhacdebhandia04-30-07, 12:51 AM | To quote Stephen Colbert, "First person to mention The Lord of the Rings gets a punch in the throat." I would like to contribute: 92. Near Dark. A band of vampires roaming the countryside, led by an ex-Confederate soldier? Easy to adapt. |
| timothyx04-30-07, 04:00 AM | 92. Near Dark. A band of vampires roaming the countryside, led by an ex-Confederate soldier? Easy to adapt. Near Dark, an excellent choice 93) Lost boys 94) Mad Max (all 3) 95) Bram Stokers Dracula 96) Memento 97) Buckaroo Banzai 98) Frankenstien Unbound 99) The Libertine 100) First Knight 101) Excalibur |
| DwarfPcfan04-30-07, 11:42 AM | 102) The magnificent 7 103) The seven samurai 104)Unforgiven 105)Silverado 106)Wyatt Earp 107)the Last Samurai 108)Once upon a time in the West 109)The warriors 110)King Arthur 111)Good Fellas 112)The GodFather 113)Any Dirty Harry movie 114)Spirited Away 115)Army of Darkness (sorry could not resist) 116)Rising Sun Thats all I have for now... |
| jalcee04-30-07, 01:34 PM | 117. Stardust (Coming soon!) |
| Snipers_Promise04-30-07, 07:11 PM | Now that i think about it, band of brothers had some ebberonish content. Not that much, but some. |
| sorreahdarkhart05-01-07, 02:33 AM | Let's see... 118) The Jackal 119) Basic That about does it for me. I can't think of much else that wasn't covered. Good pick with the Fifth Element. Loves the Brucey I do. I can't see Silent Hill being Eberron-y though. Maybe it'll come to me. |
| The Wilgar05-01-07, 11:47 AM | 120) Patton I can just see some crazy old Brelish General now... And, though it's not movies, The Dresden Files book series. You could take Harry and drop him into Sharn without changes. |
| mackaber05-01-07, 03:04 PM | 121. Ghost Dog The Urban Ninja is just as much at home in Sharn as he is in modern day NYC altough he does not listen to Rap! |
| Arcane Guyver05-01-07, 05:59 PM | Some more off-beat selections... 122. The Descent - Six chicks with picks! Some 'extreme explorers' end up stranded, inadvertently dropping into Khyber and fighting off Grimlocks. 123. Fist of Legend (US title) - Prolly my favorite martial arts flick, this one involves two hostile countries and the prejudice that comes with it. 124. Smokin' Aces - Just love this movie. 125. Shanghai Noon & Knights 126. Noir - Anime series involving a pair of assassins... I can't see Silent Hill being Eberron-y though. Maybe it'll come to me. Well, it's more of the supernatural flavor than the typical pulp & noir. I do rather like the idea of a rakshasa raja permanently messing up a town, causing some unlucky people who enter it instead go into a ghostly, ethereal version (and occasionally switching it over to the shadow plane for nasty fun). Throw in some investgation, a strange cult, and the good guys don't have a superhappy ending (despite being successful), and you got an Eberron flick IMO. |
| Olav05-01-07, 10:02 PM | 127- Unleashed Kalshtar monk coditioned to go into kill-bot mode when a collar is taken off to the delite of jaded nobels |
| WolfHati05-02-07, 02:15 PM | 128. Though not strictly a movie, any episode of Star Trek: DS9 with a plot revolving around either Odo and/or Garak. |
| ^Graff05-02-07, 05:33 PM | 129. HBO's Rome (not a movie, but Pullo and Vorenus seem like adventurers, and the nobles can be great inspiration for Khorvairian politicians) |
| Belabras05-02-07, 08:35 PM | 130-134. Alien 1, 2, 3, and 4 |
| DBlizzard05-03-07, 02:24 AM | 97) Buckaroo Banzai And to go back to the source: 135) Doc Savage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Savage:_The_Man_of_Bronze) Cheesy movie starring Ron Ely. However, the bones of the plot certainly contains inspiration. 136) The Shadow |
| Wizardman05-04-07, 07:30 AM | 137) Wild Wild West It's very easy to adapt. A mad artificer kidnapping geniuses to help build a moving Eldritch Machine, aided by a band of soldiers led by a war criminal that won't stop fighting the war even though everyone else has. Jim West is a Fighter/Rogue, probably a hobgoblin, and Artemus Gordon is clearly a changeling Rogue/Artificer. Both are in the service of Breland. |
| DwarfPcfan05-04-07, 11:57 AM | 138-Heat 139-Unbreakable 140-the sixth sense 141-The long kiss good night 142-Back to the future (come on you know you've thought about it) 143-Saving private Ryan 144-Enemy at the Gates 145-Beowulf and Grendel More later... |
| skrap-san04-09-08, 04:03 PM | 146: Metropolis the anime. (the feel of the movie fits a Sharn campaign were warforged are really discriminated). |
| LlazaarPrince04-18-08, 01:08 AM | 147. Conan the Barbarian ~ Eberron more than any other D&d world lends itself to this type of adult swords n sorcery. 148. Terminator ~ definately some of the scenes from the first one where they have robots ruling a mist covered world is a good starting point for the Mournalnd and Lord of Blades. 149. Aguirre, the Wrath of God ~ If you were ever tempted to play Q'barra or Xendrik in a "realistic" vein, this would be your movie. 150. Warlords ~ a chinese Jet Li flick with loads of good ideas for Last War setting or if you plan on the whole mess starting again. It's about how politics uses soldiers as pawns 151. A nightmare on Elm Street ~ If your using the Kalashtar and the Dreaming Dark, might as well use the best film ever made about nightmares. 152. Dune ~ Shocked nobody mentioned this one yet. It has the same Guilds/Royal families split of power. Political intrigue abounds. Sci-Fi/magic technology. 153. The dark Crystal ~ I am revolving my campaign around an all powerful mega dragonshard called the Soulburner that is half Syberis and half Khyber. It is kept in a secret chamber and guarded by dark elf "sketsis" 154. The Host ~ The Korean monster flick would make a superb one -shot adventure anywhere from the Shadow Marches to Q'barra 155. Begotten ~ This completely unwatchable film with its incessant insect chirping is good watching is you want a truly sick version of what the demon wastes could be like. 156-160. The Harry Potter movies ~ There is a LOT of material here for anyone going to Arcanix or even Korranburg U. 161. A.I. ~ terrific starting point for the philosophical challenges facing the 'Forged 162. The Blob ~ Aberrations are big in Eberron. The Blob would make a great boos baddie in many an Eberron adventure. 163. Reign of Fire ~ Gives a good feel of what parts of Argonessen would be like. |
| Arcane Guyver04-18-08, 02:18 AM | 164: Shoot 'em Up - "By the Host! Do we really suck or are these guys really that good?" 165: The Mist - "The end of times has come. Not in flames, but in mist." |
| Capt_Smash04-21-08, 04:27 PM | 166 the scifi miniseries The Lost Room. Come on, who hasn't romped from sharn to the eldeen reaches in search of artifacts, secret dungeons and the only thing that can stop a Gaze attack weilding madman bent on sundering reality to bring the dead back to life... an immortal Pirate Kudos if you get the reference |
| Fabius Maximus04-21-08, 05:26 PM | I could swear I already mentioned 'Payback' in this thread, but I can't find the post... |
| IMAL04-21-08, 07:19 PM | 167. Stargate (And series) It's a great way to cross-genre almost anything, and, in a pre-Mourning campaign, it gives plenty of ways to explain the Mourning. |
| BlackDragon7142504-21-08, 11:40 PM | 127- Unleashed Kalshtar monk coditioned to go into kill-bot mode when a collar is taken off to the delite of jaded nobels That would be "Unleashed" if nobody gets it. Great movie though. Figured I should write the movie title out. O wait, it says Unleashed, Olav just didn't put a hyphen between unleashed and kalashtar, APOLOGIES! |
| BlackDragon7142504-21-08, 11:43 PM | 168) Cloverfield~ What it would be like if the Tarrasque was ever released and made its way to Sharn. |
| corey123404-27-08, 06:34 PM | 169) the matrix 2 170) atlantis (the disney one) whoever said sleepy hollow, that was a good pick |
| skrap-san04-29-08, 01:49 AM | whoever said sleepy hollow, that was a good pick The campaign setting did |
| Rageofthemodrons10104-29-08, 10:18 PM | 171) Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: While distinctly Oriental, an inspiring movie for monk and ninja characters. Also, a few of the weapons from the movie made it to Secrets of Sarlona. |
| Aeros_of_Q-pid05-03-08, 06:39 PM | 172:Evil Dead 173:Evil Dead 2 174:13 Ghosts; arcane house powered by the dead 175:A Scanner Darkly; it's a stretch but it's because of the betrayl mostly. |
| TheGreatPook05-07-08, 11:57 PM | 176: Blue Velvet |
| Revvecor05-08-08, 12:32 AM | 177: Wizards 178: Suspiria 179: The Sword and the Sorcerer 180: Conquest 181: Hellraiser 3,5-8 |
| Missekat05-12-08, 12:40 PM | 102: Apocalypse now. Karrn general gone mad in the jungles of Q'barra. Deneith soldier sent to get him after the war has ended. Wonderful. U can just see the airships coming over the treeline with the rising sun behind them, to the sound of "Ride of The Valkyrie"... |
| Revvecor05-25-08, 10:49 PM | 103: New Gladiators 104: The Church |
| skrap-san05-27-08, 02:25 AM | 105: the new mummy movie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBwQV7oEbVo)seems to fit the bill once more :) |