2011 24 Hour RPG Movie Mashup Competition - Ideas

[Rotku]

Worse comes to worse go on Wikipedia and get an idea for the theme. You're not required to replicate the movie, just to use some of its ideas and themes. Or do what I did couple of nights ago - go and hire the film. Went and saw Imaginations of Doctor whatshisface the other night, after hearing the name for the first time here.

[Chainsaw Aardvark]

1. Ghostbusters
2. West Side Story
3. Aliens
4. The Lion King
5. Star Wars
6. rocky horror picture show
7. Enter the dragon
8. clockwork orange
9. beatle juice
10. Back to the Future
11. Apocalypse Now
12. Blade Runner
13. Dr. Strangelove
14. Dawn of the Dead
15. Blues Brothers
16. From Dusk till Dawn
17. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (All the Dollars Trilogy Really)
18. 2001 a Space Odyssey
19. The Hunt for Red October
20. Alladin
21. Mars Attacks
22. One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest
23. Groundhog Day
24. Little Shop of Horrors
25. Falling Down
26. The Shawshank Redemption
27. Evil Dead
28. Wall-E
29. The Sound of Music
30. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
31. Falling Down



I've watched parts of "Braveheart" and Mystery Men" and I'm inclined to go to the library to find "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" since that sounds like a fun film to include. (Possibly Snatch as well - we need a heist film)

Is there a difference between "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" and "The Good, The Bad, The Ugly" other than a possible typographical error?

I'm not such a big fan of James Bond films, and most of the ones I've seen are with Pierce Brosnan. I'm not opposed to having them on the list - and Bond is now more a meme than any specific movie.



Smokey and the Bandit (hey, it was my favorite as a kid!)
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
Monsters Inc.
Babe
K PAX
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnasus
Fargo
Godfather
The Sinbad trilogy (7th Voyage of Sinbad; Golden Voyage of Sinbad; Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger)
Grease
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Chicago: The Musical
Amadeus

It occurs to me that if we're trying to get our genres covered, we're missing quite a few. Then again, I don't think there would be much desire to see "Psycho meets Triumph of Will" or "Nightmare on Elm Street + Spartacus". Hmm slave uprising fighting the Roman empire by entering their dreams...

[SheikhJahbooty]

Incidentally, K-Pax is the American remake of the Argentine film, Hombre Mirando al Sudeste.

Although I don't see how that would be useful in coming up with a role-playing game unless someone always wanted an excuse to combine The Adventures of Baron von Münchhausen, Penny for Your Thoughts, and Powerkill.

[tygertyger]

[Rotku]

[Onix]

The Adventures of Baron von Münchhausen was an awesome movie. Primarily because at the end you're left saying "okay, what just happened?" and I'm pretty good at understanding convoluted story lines. Brazil made sense to me, The Adventures of Baron von Münchhausen confuses me to this day.

[SheikhJahbooty]

Vague suggestion here.

Maybe cross off the list any films that have already explicitly inspired commercial RPGs. (Ghost Busters, Star Wars, Aliens) Cross off all genre defining films. (Night of the Living Dead) Even cross off those films that a RPG existed before the film but they were both inspired by the same intellectual property. (Lord of the Rings, Conan, 007, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and most superhero movies)

Just a suggestion. I think it would make for more interesting submissions. The down side is it may make the contest hard if all the movies are a bit odd.

Tygertyger seems to have ahandle on it though, with his Sweeney Todd + Soilent Green mashup idea.

[misterecho]

I think it should be ok to use a well known trope filled classic such as ghostbusters or star wars and mix it with something completely unexpected. I think that will bring out some really interesting entries too.

[tadk]

I cannot believe that Rob has not seen the Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
That defies credibility

[Rob Lang]