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07-03-2007, 05:05 AM | #1 |
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Movies as 'inspiration'?
I'm still fairly new to Transhuman Space and was wondering which movies people consider to fall into the category of hard-fi? My list is as follows:
2001: A Space Odyssey A.I. Bicentennial Man Blade Runner Contact Equilibrium Event Horizon Gattaca I, Robot The Abyss The Sixth Day Total Recall Am I pretty much in the ball park with these suggestions? What other films/tv series would you suggest? |
07-03-2007, 05:53 AM | #2 |
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Just 'found' this list on the Transhuman Space section of the website.
Documentaries The Blue Planet (BBC, 2002). Secrets of the Ocean Realm (PBS, 1998). Volcanoes of the Deep (NOVA/PBS, 1999). Film and Television 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Richard Fleischer, 1954). The Abyss (James Cameron, 1989). Blue Submarine No. 6 (Mahiro Maeda, 1998). Deep Blue Sea (Renny Harlin, 1999). Gasaraki (ADV Films, 1998). Ghost in the Shell (Bandai Visual, 1996). Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (Production, I.G., 2002). Planetes (Sunrise, 2003). SeaQuest DSV (Universal TV, 1993-1995). Waterworld (Kevin Reynolds, 1995). Sealab 2021 (Williams Street, 2001). |
07-03-2007, 11:18 AM | #3 | |
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Honestly, there is precious little genuine hard SF in the visual media. Of those you've listed, I'd only classify 2001, Contact (from what I understand; I've never seen it), and maybe Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex as being hard SF. Not that most of the others don't have something to offer to a THS campaign, they're just not what I'd call hard SF. |
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07-03-2007, 01:45 PM | #6 | |
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After watching that drek, I feel the very poor taste urge to disinter Carl Sagan and kick him in the rocky mountain oysters. |
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07-03-2007, 02:35 PM | #7 |
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Planetes is doubly-recommended. Had it more biotech it would be set in the THS universe.
For a vacuum-cleaner campaign is obligatory reference. |
07-03-2007, 05:50 PM | #8 | |
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07-04-2007, 03:37 AM | #10 | |
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But anyway. There are of course no actual Transhuman Space movies. There are movies and similar which one can raid for inspiration for bits of Transhuman Space, though. For example, 2001 should give something of the feel of gritty hard SF space travel, while any version of Ghost in the Shell is good for definining the atmosphere of a high-action, somewhat cinematic Fifth Wave game. I've not seen the anime of Planetes - must borrow it off my GM sometime - but I've read some of the manga collections. It is of course a good point of reference for vacuum cleaner campaigns (despite the occasional traditional cluelessness about orbital mechanics), though I can see why someone would find it unengaging; its ambitions exceed the writer's ability to tell a good story. Moonlight Mile is another recent anime which seems to have been created by someone who at least knows what hard SF is. I'd guess that 20,000 Leagues is in the filmography for Under Pressure, and hence on the SJGames site, because it is an at least vaguely cool underwater movie. There aren't many of those around, at all, so that particular filmography maybe ends up looking a bit desperate.
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