GibsonMcCoy

Some adaptations I love, some I hate.

For instance, the "Burn Notice" tv series is much better than the movie it's adapted from a few years back. Chuck Palahniuk is noted for saying he loves the "Fight Club" movie better than his book.

I also found the Bourne books boring and slow, but I love the movies, but I think the adaptation of John Steakley's "Vampire$" to film to be an awful mess, while I've read and reread the book at least 20 times.

And there are those who would say that Akira Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood" is better than Shakespeare's "Macbeth" and others who would claim you cannot top Shakespeare.

On the other hand, Frank Miller claims he still gets letters from people hating what he did to Batman, even though the majority of fans believe "The Dark Knight Returns" was the greatest thing to happen to Bruce Wayne ever.

I'm a huge fan of Neil Gaiman's work. So much so that I have a tattoo of one of characters. When watching "Stardust" I cringed at the introduction of Robert De Niro as a cross-dressing sky pirate, but I found the performance of De Niro wonderful.

When I become a multi-billionaire overlord of the Earth, or at least a major film studio, I'll corrupt Troy Hickman's works the same way! Except, there will be pants involved!

~summons Hickman~

When a cop friend of yours pulls up, and you say, "The blueberry is here!"

And yeah, I did that the other day.

Want!

Here's hoping everyone keeps safe and sound and survives this crazy weather.

My thoughts are with you all.

Iggy... I really *HATE* you!

Hate in this case means admire and respect. Everytime I do something, you top it!

Congratulations!

/J... naw just kidding!

I can get behind this!

@Anasthesia and I are currently using it on a DP/MM blaster and a DP/Kin Corrupter.

We've used it before in the past as well, and probably will again.

Not quite an action film, not quite a romance and not quite a comedy, but it has the greatest sword fight ever filmed, and anyone who says different is selling something.

"The Princess Bride"

We're in Georgia and got seven inches of snow. That's practically unheard of around here.

The local public works doesn't even have a salt truck, they mount a field marker (like the kind they use to made baseball and football markings) on the back of a pickup and drop sand out of it.

No plows either, they have a tractor.

I want a Power Armor/ Bolter primary with Chainsword as an Epic pool.

I've got several good friends who live in Australia. I used to work with a company out of Brisbane, so I've been keeping everyone in my thoughts.

Stay safe, all.

Mother nature just hit us hard with a blizzard here, and it looks like she's determined to flood Queensland as well.

I think we all agree "Die Hard" is the ultimate in action movies. I remember seeing the trailer for it and people in the theater laughing at the thought of Bruce Willis in an action film. Back then he was only known for "Moonlighting" and "Blind Date."

Several others I love have been said, I'd like to add:

"The Replacement Killers"
"The Matrix"
"Ghost Dog"
"Raiders of the Lost Ark"
"Aliens"
"The Losers"
"Army of Darkness"

Edit:
And is anyone else as excited for "Cowboys and Aliens" as I am?

Oh I remember that...

And I've been trying for years to forget it.

We wasted a whole game session playing this, when I could have got that +5 battleaxe I wanted.

Sure!

RED stars Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich.
Bruce is a retired government agent, who is lonely and doesn't know what to do with his life, so he constantly calls this one girl at payroll just to chat. He is flagged as dangerous and so a hit squad is sent after him. He gets his old team together to help protect the girl in payroll and to find out why these "Retired, Extremely Dangerous" agents are suddenly being hunted by their former employers.

Malkovich steals every scene he is in. Lots of action and lots of humor.


The Way of the Gun stars Benecio Del Toro, Ryan Phillipe, James Caan and Juliette Lewis.
Two drifters overhear that the surrogate mother of a rich family is very close to her due-date and will be at her OB/Gyn. They decide to kidnap her and hold her for ransom.

It's a modern retelling of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" with a shootout at an old motel turned house of ill repute in Mexico.

Favorite scene: Benecio and James just having a beer together and discussing their respective careers while negotiating terms of the kidnapping.

As was said, you really can't screw up in this game.

And you don't have to reroll characters to fix anything you want to change later, you can get respecs by either doing the Terra Volta trial, veteran rewards, sometimes the devs give us free ones, or you can find or buy recipes to earn respecs.

The respec allows you to completely change your power selection and slotting. It won't allow you to change your Archetype (Scrapper) or your Primary or Secondary powers (Martial Arts, Willpower)

Here's my basic power selection for Willpower:


Level 1: High Pain Tolerance
Level 4: Fast Healing
Level 10: Indomitable Will
Level 16: Rise to the Challenge
Level 20: Quick Recovery
Level 22: Mind Over Body
Level 24: Build Up
Level 28: Heightened Senses

I'm trying to avoid telling you how to slot your powers because any build I give you will be directed toward a high cost build, completely slotted out with Invention Origin sets and designed to solo AVs, Task Forces and other Stupid Scrapper Tricks.

That won't do you much good as a leveling build however.

http://www.cohplanner.com/download.php will link you to MiDs which is what we use to design and examine builds. You can tinker around in it and see which powers you want to put where, and when, and what Enhancements you would like.

Okay, here's my top ten action films in no particular order. Some of these could also count as drama, thrillers or even camp:

"Die Hard"
"Hard Boiled"
"The Killer"
"Expendables"
"Crank"
"Boondock Saints"
"RED"
"Machete"
"Sin City"
"Way of the Gun"