UA movies?

  • Mr Unlucky
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    Ju-on — a Japanese horror flick I watched recently. Utterly perfect for a UA theme.

    Unbreakable — a little too mainstream, but unique enough to hood it’s own.

    Anyone else?

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  • Crudeboy
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    Just two that I’ve re-watched lately that come to mind:

    Boondock Saints (just a little)

    Pi

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  • Metaphorgy
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    “May”, for all you closet fleshworkers.

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  • sionnach
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    “Donnie Darko” = Pure 80’s sense of weird wonder. Lynchean high school insane diorama. Time travel issues kinda “bill in three persons” with Deuz ex Machina embodied in the principal character!!!

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  • Alcar
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    Mullholland Dr – Just plain delightfully weird 🙂

    The Man Who Wasn’t There – A very, very odd little movie about a normal man who snaps…. or does he?

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  • Doug Billingsly
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    Probably been said elsewhere, but Intacto represents perfectly what I see as an Occult Underground.

    Also, just saw the Order. Cut and paste into an Order of St. Cecil game without even editing.

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  • sionnach
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    Ok. More spanish films (like Intacto).

    “Utopía”= A spanish seers sect fight against south america mafia (with the same principal actor of “Intacto”).

    “Nos miran” (They look at us): A obssesive cop follow the path of all the misterieus peoples disappearance. Ghost story.

    “The Others”: You known, Nicole Kindman.

    “Abre los ojos” (original – and good – version of Vanilla Sky)

    “El día de la bestia” (The day of the beast): This film from Alex de la Iglesia (Perdita Durango) is about the apocalypse and the three guys who stand to save the world. A priest, a heavy-rocker dude and a TV psykyk!!! Hilarious!!

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  • Mr Unlucky
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    Serpent and the Rainbow — reason number 491 why not to make an enemy of voodoo practicioners.

    Ringu — the importance of a single Significant Artifact personified. Note to movie pirates — what if someone renamed it, on the UA-world’s Kazaa?

    Candyman — if you can’t find the book it’s based off of, try to watch it for the details, not the horrible rip-off they did of the plotline.

    People Under the Stairs — skip the supernatural. As ‘natural’ people go, they go a long way to defending anything an Adept does wrong in the course of their day. “At least I’m not as screwed up as *those* people!”

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  • Insect King
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    I preferred the Ring to Ringu. The Ring is a little more grounded into the You Did It, less off the demon parent job.

    Guy Ritchie movies – roller coaster crime movies.

    The Cube.

    Pulp Fiction is still a good show.

    I’m told to watch the Devil’s Backbone and I still want to watch Intacto.

    I must go see Willard. It’s full of rats.

    Cheers,

    Chris.

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  • Mr Unlucky
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    Willard. Classic example of improving on perfection; Crispin Glover can make the reading of a cereal box moody, dark, and upsetting.

    Cube — excellent way to introduce the House of Renunciation to PCs. Visceral, tangible, thematically upsetting, and hard to navigate. The real person inside each of them can come out, and be recognized.

    The recluse becomes sociable.
    — Worth
    The idiot a brilliant guiding light.
    — Kazan
    The doctor becomes a tool for the system.
    — Holloway
    The protector a deviant malcontent.
    — Quentin
    The brilliant scholar laid low, mentally.
    — Leaven
    The felon a protector of the inept.
    — Rennes

    And through it all, a simple design is there, bearing mute witness to the perfection of humans, caught in mid-evolution. It is a catalyst, shaped like a death machine.

    Funny, that. Some folks just shouldn’t leave the house, y’know?

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  • Gabriel A. Zorrilla
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    Dudes, The Matrix series for cinematic combat effects!

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  • Insect King
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    The Cube is THE ROLEPLAYING GAME MOVIE. Six characters, a limited, dangerous environment, and forced co-operation.

    Lovely.

    I saw The Devil’s Backbone. It is a UA movie. Its set in an orphanage during the Spanish Civil War. Go see it and find out what will give dipsomancers a hard-on of note!

    All those signficant charges…

    Cheers,

    Chris.

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  • Christopher A.C. Esposito
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    Hey all, great movies so far, but I noticed that two amazing ones haven’t been mentioned yet:

    Dark City-
    A brilliant film from the director of the first Crow movie, Alex Proyas. About a guy that’s slowly starting to see that he just might be a lab rat in a never ending maze, however he at times shows the ability to change the maze all by himself…..The last great film noir picture.

    Memento-
    Another work of genius, about a guy that has absolutely no short term memory, tracking down his wife’s killer. I heartily reccommend both to anyone even thinking about running or playing UA.

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  • pseudogod
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    I know I’m commenting on something from 3 months ago… but, as far as the movie Boondock Saints, I think that has much more of an In Nomine feel than an UA feel.

    And nothing gives a better feel of paranoia and obsession appropriate to UA than Terry Gilliam..

    Especially: Brazil, 12 Monkeys, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

    -pg

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  • Aether
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    Ahh, Fear and Loathing. *happy sigh* I love that movie.

    But what of Jacob’s Ladder? Paranoia, creepitude, being hunted and such… Granted, it’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but there’s something in there that strikes me as very much a UA thing.

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  • Encryptshun
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    I would have to chime in with “Naked Lunch” (Narco-Alchemy), “Silence of the Lambs” (Buffalo Bill as Avatar of the Mystic Hermaphrodite), and “Collateral” (the Awakening of an Entropomancer).

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  • tonje
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    I get a kind of UA-feeling from Sin city 😉

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