03-05-2018, 05:00 AM | #41 |
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Re: Stories, Movies and Music to set the mood.
I remember Damnation Alley in the theatre. I thought it was an okay post apoc film, but it doesn't put me in the Car Wars mood. An interesting movie all the same.
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03-05-2018, 05:41 PM | #42 | |
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Re: Stories, Movies and Music to set the mood.
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A lot of people love to call out Mad Max when they talk about Car Wars, but to me only the first Mad Max movie relates to the kind of Car Wars I like. I LOVE all the Mad max movies, but they're more Post Apoc than my vision of Car Wars. To me the Jason Statham version of Death Race is much closer to Car Wars. Not that it doesn't have it's own flaws too... |
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03-06-2018, 02:48 PM | #43 | |
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Re: Stories, Movies and Music to set the mood.
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[Wince, Audible, 1 ea.]
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03-06-2018, 03:20 PM | #44 |
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03-07-2018, 07:40 AM | #45 |
Join Date: Mar 2011
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Re: Stories, Movies and Music to set the mood.
I'll read it.
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03-07-2018, 11:09 AM | #46 | |
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Or he might have meant 30 x 1mm machine guns. It's Hollywood, who can tell. The days when actors who play people who handle guns actually had military experience is long gone. Trigger discipline is appalling, people constantly cycle the chamber instead of re-cocking, the list is endless ;) |
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03-07-2018, 02:40 PM | #47 | |
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Re: Stories, Movies and Music to set the mood.
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(The reference to "0.50-calibre shells", oddly, actually refers to something which existed -- in the '50s, the USAF experimented with explosive-tipped 0.50-cal. rounds for its fighters; the experiment failed miserably, as the rounds had a high failure rate, and said failure usually resulted in a blown-out gun. One might assume seventy years on the problems have been rectified. :) )
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03-09-2018, 01:23 PM | #48 |
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Location: Spinward Marches
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Re: Stories, Movies and Music to set the mood.
Well, against my better judgment I ordered a bluray of Damnation Alley. I recall being in the theatre in thinking the movie was just okay, but leaned a little on the B-side of things.
I caught the intro of Death Race, the one with Carradine either last year or the year before. Now that thing truly was a solid B-grade flick. I can't say it puts me in a CW mood. Road Warrior / Mad Max 2 puts me in a C&C mood, but then again, I've never done Chassis and Crossbows. I wonder if anyone's going to run one at Kublacon this year. |
03-10-2018, 08:47 PM | #49 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Bellevue, WA, USA
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Re: Stories, Movies and Music to set the mood.
The designers would like to acknowledge this game's debt to all of the battling autos of science fiction and spy literature. If you like this game, you ought to look at Harlan Ellison's "Along the Scenic Route," Alan Dean Foster's "Why Johnny Can't Speed" (source of the "Drive Offensively" motto), Roger Zelazny's "Damnation Alley," "Devil Car," and "Last of the Wild Ones," the films "Duel," "Mad Max," and "Death Race 2000," and every James Bond ever made.
Introduction to Ziplock Bag Car Wars and Pocket Box Car Wars Steve Jackson Games, 1981-1983
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03-11-2018, 04:54 PM | #50 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Chicagoland Area, Illinois
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Re: Stories, Movies and Music to set the mood.
I believe "Busnaught" also first appeared in Why Johnny Can't Speed.
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