2011 24 Hour RPG Movie Mashup Competition - Ideas

[Rotku]

Wall-E
or
Astroboy

[kumakami]

West side story
little shop of horrors
soilent green

[koipond]

[NoobHealer]

I call dibbs on RPG: The musical!

Although it is hard enough to find players who are willing to play normal RPGs. I can't imaging finding people who would be willing to sing out their actions too.

[SheikhJahbooty]

Soilent Green was a musical?

The musical that would make the easiest transition to RPG would be Guys and Dolls.

First off, nobody is allowed to use contractions unless they are singing.

And second, the songs are repetitive and the lines of the songs are really long, so it would give you time to come up with a rhyme if you were just singing off the top of your head.

"A lady doesn't leave her escort; it isn't fair; it isn't nice.
A lady doesn't wander all over the room, and blow on some other guys dice."

The setting is familiar to people, prohibition era gangsters trying to set up temporary illegal gambling dens. Excuses to go into the sewers and abandoned buildings. Dice are even part of the setting. Maybe craps could be used to determine the frequency of random encounters. "Craps, oh no, and it is an eleven, which means that I am picked up by the police."

[Rob Lang]

First pass of the list (ones I've seen)
Ghostbusters
West Side Story
Aliens
The Lion King
Smokey and the Bandit (hey, it was my favourite as a kid!)
Star Wars
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
Monsters Inc.
rocky horror picture show
Enter the dragon
clockwork orange
beatle juice
Back to the Future
Apocalypse Now
Blade Runner
Dr. Strangelove
Dawn of the Dead
Blues Brothers
From Dusk till Dawn
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (All the Dollars Trilogy Really)
2001 a Space Odyssey
The Hunt for Red October
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Alladin
Falling Down
Mars Attacks
One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest
Groundhog Day
Babe
K PAX
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnasus
Fargo
Snatch
A James Bond film (haven't seen many of the older ones, so I'm not sure which one would be the most useful)
Godfather
Braveheart
Little Shop of Horrors
Mystery Men
The Sinbad trilogy (7th Voyage of Sinbad; Golden Voyage of Sinbad; Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger)
Falling Down
The Shawshank Redemption
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Evil Dead
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Grease
Wall-E
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Chicago: The Musical
The Sound of Music
Amadeus
Big Trouble in Little China

Ones I've not see (and thus can't judge a game on)
duck soup
rocky
El Mariachi (The whole "Mariachi Trilogy" actually)
Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai
Bubba Ho-tep
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
Havery
Tetsuo, the Iron Man
El Topo
Primer
Hard Candy
Mystery Train
Buckaroo Banzai
Pi
Up
The Circus of Dr. Lao
The Three Faces of Eve
Rent
Grosse Point Blank
Italian for Beginners
Insomnia
Seven Samurai
The Prestige
Astroboy
Soilent Green

Next steps
Right, let's take the top list - CA is there anything on there you haven't seen? We'll remove those (sorry)! Then we'll do a little bit of a cull to reduce the films by genre. For example, I like Evil Dead and Dawn of the Dead but we only really need one.

Also, should we remove some of the films whose tropes are already embedded in RPG culture: I'm thinking Bladerunner and Star Wars.

[Onix]

Rob's got some movies to watch! That's only 43 or so hours of movies.

[koipond]

Damn it. No Grosse Point Blank, hitmen going back to their highschool reunion ... gone!

[Rob Lang]

Onix - you're not wrong there!
koi - Sadly, and there will be more casualties before we get the final list. The final list will be rocking though.

[NoobHealer]