Shmup player endearing movies

PooshhMao · Post by **PooshhMao** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 8:30 am

Hi,

Yesterday I got to see the movie Stealth, and while hardly intellectually stimulating, REALLY entertained

the Talon planes really reminded me of Super Aleste's protagonist ship, and the movie's obviously thoroughly inspired by Macross, Plus especially.

Too bad the movie bombed, I guess high tech AI driven fighter jets are out of fashion, people just want orcs and trolls and living trees and wizards which can magic themselves back to life nowadays. Sigh.

There have been threads of shmup-based or shmup-like animes before (of which there are plenty - there's Macross of course, and the awe-inspiring Battle Fairy Yukikaze), but never movies.

So come on, which movie has content shmup fans are likely te enjoy, and why? (I suspect people will come up with Top Gun, Firefox and Iron Eagle, but I don't mind, go nuts

doctorx0079 · Post by **doctorx0079** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:42 am

Don't forget The Last Starfighter, and Tron.

Arcatech · Post by **Arcatech** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:47 am

I guess SPUN could be like Mushihime Sama ultra mode.

PooshhMao · Post by **PooshhMao** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:31 am

Lemme guess, Richard David James fan?

Post by **system11** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:35 am

There is a Gunhed film. It's generally unrelated, but interesting enough - if very firmly in B movie territory.

Arcatech · Post by **Arcatech** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:05 am

Nah, I just couldn't think of any nifty shmup movies.

The Last Starfighter was good fun though.

Post by **Shatterhand** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:32 pm

Captain Sky And The World Of Tomorrow

It's like Strikers 1945

Sly Cherry Chunks · Post by **Sly Cherry Chunks** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:06 pm

Battle Beyond The Stars.

fl0w · Post by **fl0w** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:49 pm

+1 for "Tron" !
"The last starfighter" should be seen for historical reasons
"Spun" is great, even better than Wonderland, esp. if you know speedheads or are one yourself, but i don't see how it relates to mushi !?

"Electric Dreams" ain't bad too, a masterpiece of oldskool geekery (not shmuppy).
"The Mysterians", the earth is under attack !
"Battlestar Galactica" (the movie) if you like Dangun Feveron

(of course, don't miss the recent series)

it290 · Post by **it290** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 4:58 pm

WWII Air Force propaganda movies. I've seen a bunch of these, and they're entertaining.

Anyone see The Aviator? That movie he makes at the beginning (Hell's Angels) looks like the ultimate shmup movie. I'd never heard of it up until then. I always thought someone should make a WWI based shmup - the only ones I can think of are Blue Max and the shooting parts of Cinemaware's Wings.

No_not_like_Quake · Post by **No_not_like_Quake** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 5:01 pm

There are scenes from a Japanese movie in the video for Mindphaser by Front Line Assembly that is interesting. The movie seems to be about a futuristic tank infiltrating some fortress. Reminded me a little of Granada.

I don't know the name of the movie.

I hate the new Battlestar Galactica. What are the chances of distant humans searching for Earth having identical technology (wall plugs, various tools) and clothing (business suits) to us? The whole premise of "Cylons can now look and act human" is another way of saying "we can't afford too many scenes with CG robots or we refuse to use men in robot suits because that's cheesy". Um, the original Battlestar was all about cheesy. That's what made it great. To it's credit though, the new series has some ok space battles.

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 6:01 pm

fl0w wrote:+1 for "Tron" !

I love Tron and all, but aside from the computer graphics, I don't see how it can be shmup-like.

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 8:48 pm

Shatterhand wrote:Captain Sky And The World Of Tomorrow

It's like Strikers 1945

here here. its the most shmup-like movie i can think of.

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:03 pm

Personally I found Yukikaze to be a bit boring... but I only sat through the first episode. Maybe I'll watch more if you say it's so good.

On the other hand, I almost shat my pants with joy from Macross Zero.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:57 pm

Hot Shots Part Deux

kemical · Post by **kemical** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:40 pm

No_not_like_Quake wrote:There are scenes from a Japanese movie in the video for Mindphaser by Front Line Assembly that is interesting. The movie seems to be about a futuristic tank infiltrating some fortress. Reminded me a little of Granada.

*thumbs up, good stuff. (big fla fan)

there are some scenes that stand out in my mind of stuff that relates to shooters, there was some anime short film from the 80's that was about some type of racing in the future, and there was just lots of intense shots of the pilots of these vehicles, also the fluke atom bomb video had the footage of that chick piloting the vehicle which always reminds me of shooters.

doctorx0079 · Post by **doctorx0079** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:05 am

What does Tron have to do with shooters? Well check out the Space Paranoids floating tank scene. The light cycles are rather cool action game things too (not technically shooters). I mean the whole movie is about people living in what is basically a giant video game.

Of course The Last Starfighter is more "shooty".

kemical wrote:
there are some scenes that stand out in my mind of stuff that relates to shooters, there was some anime short film from the 80's that was about some type of racing in the future, and there was just lots of intense shots of the pilots of these vehicles,

Probably "Running Man", directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri. I first saw it on Liquid Television and found it rather disturbing. It is part of the anthology film Neo-Tokyo which has been shown on The Anime Network recently.

kemical wrote: also the fluke atom bomb video had the footage of that chick piloting the vehicle which always reminds me of shooters.

The character is supposed to be Arial Tetsuo from WipeOut. I used to be a fan of hers back when it mattered. Damn I wish I could get the whole video. No one answers my emails about it. How do you get old music videos anyway????

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:42 am

kemical wrote:
No_not_like_Quake wrote:There are scenes from a Japanese movie in the video for Mindphaser by Front Line Assembly that is interesting. The movie seems to be about a futuristic tank infiltrating some fortress. Reminded me a little of Granada.
*thumbs up, good stuff. (big fla fan)

The footage is from the movie Gunhed, with some shots of Bill Leeb mixed into it.

PooshhMao · Post by **PooshhMao** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:23 am

Well frankly, I didn't like the non-action parts of Yukikaze all that much either. I just can't bring myself to giving a damn about what happens to the plain and uninteresting characters - but the wooshy zappy bits, wow.

I've watched the first half hour of Sky Captain and then went on to do something more fun (playing Juno First I believe)

I recall seeing the Last Starfighter, but that had too high a white picket fence playing-catch-with-dad-in-the-frontyard element too it.

Sigh, 70's/80's movies - heroes weren't necessarily fashion models, they swore, they had selfish motives, they smoked, they complained.

5parrowhawk · Post by **5parrowhawk** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:29 am

OK, brace yourself:

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha.

Sounds like the least shmuppy show you could think of, right? Watch the series and then think again. (Watch it and then play Cotton or, better yet, a Shanghai Alice game, for best results.)

I seriously believe that it would make an awesome Senko no Ronde-alike, and a pretty decent shmup (assuming one could come up with a good excuse to have a multitude of popcorn baddies).

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 10:06 pm

What about near the end of Moonraker? That's a pretty good astronaut laser fight.

There's another Bond movie that had Bond blowing up MASH style choppers while flying a yellow gyrocopter.

Andi · Post by **Andi** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:05 am

The Running Man is the movie that Smash TV stole it's plot from. The Smash TV developers even admitted it in an interview. It might not be shooter inspired, but it is shooter inspiring.

doctorx0079 · Post by **doctorx0079** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 5:55 am

FatCobra wrote:What about near the end of Moonraker? That's a pretty good astronaut laser fight.

There's another Bond movie that had Bond blowing up MASH style choppers while flying a yellow gyrocopter.

Never Say Never Again?

Post by **spadgy** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:26 pm

Ye Olde thread I know, but I just stumbled upon it.

2001: A Space Odyssey - The bit with the tunnel of lights near the end has a real bullet hell feel to it...

The Right Stuff - chasing the demon sequences when it goes all strange when the planes breach the sound limit...

Hell's Angels - 1930 WWI movies filled with amazing, hectic air combat scenes. Plenty of stuntmen got killed in that movie...

elfhentaifan · Post by **elfhentaifan** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:56 pm

Twiddle wrote:Hot Shots Part Deux

I'd rather say the first one, though.

kengou · Post by **kengou** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 1:34 pm

No_not_like_Quake wrote:I hate the new Battlestar Galactica. What are the chances of distant humans searching for Earth having identical technology (wall plugs, various tools) and clothing (business suits) to us? The whole premise of "Cylons can now look and act human" is another way of saying "we can't afford too many scenes with CG robots or we refuse to use men in robot suits because that's cheesy". Um, the original Battlestar was all about cheesy. That's what made it great. To it's credit though, the new series has some ok space battles.

THANK YOU

So yeah, I also vote for ORIGINAL Galactica. The myriad space dogfights in the show had an awesome shmuppy feel, tons of lasers and dodging everywhere, even if they blatantly re-used scenes from the first episode in pretty much every subsequent one to save money.

320x240 · Post by **320x240** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:04 pm

bloodflowers wrote:There is a Gunhed film. It's generally unrelated, but interesting enough - if very firmly in B movie territory.

Twiddle wrote:Hot Shots Part Deux.

These two share the same actress. Hot Shots is more like a run & gun though.

How come no one has mentioned Star Wars yet? To obvious I guess.

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:22 pm

Wing Commander lol

Also Flight of the Navigator? It was a bit wet, so perhaps there weren't any lazers in it. Can't remember. Awesome film though.

bkk · Post by **bkk** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:42 pm

Equilibrium is the closest thing I've seen to a shmup in movie format.