Title: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: mejustnow on 27 March, 2014, 11:02:49 PM
Post by: mejustnow on 27 March, 2014, 11:02:49 PM
We're talking non 2000AD films they have more than a flavour of the prog about them.
The Dredd inspiration for RoboCop has been well documented. Furthermore I believe I'm right in saying the publishers had to sue for a writing credit to Hardware since it bore striking similarities to a Future Shock. A copy of the Future Shock was packaged with my DVD of the movie.
Has anyone seen the Tom Selleck film Runway, written and directed by Michael Crichton? I'm not calling foul by any stretch of the imagination, but there's some Robot Hunter flavour in there, as well as a programable bullet that screams Dredd, and a robot spider that injects poison (if memory serves) just like young PJ Maybe used to use. Runway was released in 1984 and PJ made his 1st appearance in 1987, so again, I'm not saying there's plagiarism iinvolved, I just find it interesting. Are there any more flicks out there with a hint of Thrill about them?
ArenfoU
The Dredd inspiration for RoboCop has been well documented. Furthermore I believe I'm right in saying the publishers had to sue for a writing credit to Hardware since it bore striking similarities to a Future Shock. A copy of the Future Shock was packaged with my DVD of the movie.
Has anyone seen the Tom Selleck film Runway, written and directed by Michael Crichton? I'm not calling foul by any stretch of the imagination, but there's some Robot Hunter flavour in there, as well as a programable bullet that screams Dredd, and a robot spider that injects poison (if memory serves) just like young PJ Maybe used to use. Runway was released in 1984 and PJ made his 1st appearance in 1987, so again, I'm not saying there's plagiarism iinvolved, I just find it interesting. Are there any more flicks out there with a hint of Thrill about them?
ArenfoU
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 28 March, 2014, 07:38:11 AM
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 28 March, 2014, 07:38:11 AM
The elephant unwrapping his Cornetto in the aisle behind you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKmCisU9GHE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKmCisU9GHE)
Read the book instead.
This one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twuScTcDP_Q), however, is sensational.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKmCisU9GHE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKmCisU9GHE)
Read the book instead.
This one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twuScTcDP_Q), however, is sensational.
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 28 March, 2014, 07:44:26 AM
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 28 March, 2014, 07:44:26 AM
oh, & let's get over & done with the elephant kicking the back of your seat in the cinema:
https://www.google.com.au/?gfe_rd=ctrl&ei=WSc1U-z1MsKN8QebmYHICA&gws_rd=cr#q=avatar+firekind (https://www.google.com.au/?gfe_rd=ctrl&ei=WSc1U-z1MsKN8QebmYHICA&gws_rd=cr#q=avatar+firekind)
https://www.google.com.au/?gfe_rd=ctrl&ei=WSc1U-z1MsKN8QebmYHICA&gws_rd=cr#q=avatar+firekind (https://www.google.com.au/?gfe_rd=ctrl&ei=WSc1U-z1MsKN8QebmYHICA&gws_rd=cr#q=avatar+firekind)
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: Eamonn Clarke on 28 March, 2014, 07:50:32 AM
Post by: Eamonn Clarke on 28 March, 2014, 07:50:32 AM
Outlander is a Strontium Dog movie, with Ron Perlman playing Wulf
http://eamonn1961.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/outlandish-behaviour.html
http://eamonn1961.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/outlandish-behaviour.html
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 28 March, 2014, 08:25:21 AM
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 28 March, 2014, 08:25:21 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLTOzu8N1Pg ...reminded me of... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn8wepj9MkY
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: amines2058 on 28 March, 2014, 08:46:36 AM
Post by: amines2058 on 28 March, 2014, 08:46:36 AM
Jurassic Park and the Dinosaur National Park in The Cursed Earth anyone??
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 28 March, 2014, 08:56:03 AM
Post by: Bubba Zebill on 28 March, 2014, 08:56:03 AM
Quote from: amines2058 on 28 March, 2014, 08:46:36 AM
Jurassic Park and the Dinosaur National Park in The Cursed Earth anyone??
Yep, I've looked in to that and found very little before Pat Mills. There are dinosaur / cowboy combinations pre Flesh. In the '50's and earlier. But the Dino theme park...I may be wrong, but I think Pat got there first.
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: amines2058 on 28 March, 2014, 09:04:15 AM
Post by: amines2058 on 28 March, 2014, 09:04:15 AM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 28 March, 2014, 08:56:03 AMQuote from: amines2058 on 28 March, 2014, 08:46:36 AM
Jurassic Park and the Dinosaur National Park in The Cursed Earth anyone??
Yep, I've looked in to that and found very little before Pat Mills. There are dinosaur / cowboy combinations pre Flesh. In the '50's and earlier. But the Dino theme park...I may be wrong, but I think Pat got there first.
It is not just the theme park premise though is it, it is also the cloning of dino's, the injection of dino dna into eggs. Plus the obvious escape of the dino's from the park.To many similarities to be a coincidence surely??
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 28 March, 2014, 12:35:55 PM
Post by: shaolin_monkey on 28 March, 2014, 12:35:55 PM
You probably already know about the film Hardware ripping off Shok!, yeah?
http://www.britishhorrorfilms.co.uk/shok.shtml
http://www.britishhorrorfilms.co.uk/shok.shtml
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: Steve Green on 28 March, 2014, 12:48:15 PM
Post by: Steve Green on 28 March, 2014, 12:48:15 PM
A few nods in this episode of Dr Who.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridlock_(Doctor_Who) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridlock_(Doctor_Who))
The location itself is very Termight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridlock_(Doctor_Who) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridlock_(Doctor_Who))
The location itself is very Termight.
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: Professor Bear on 28 March, 2014, 12:57:36 PM
Post by: Professor Bear on 28 March, 2014, 12:57:36 PM
Not a film, but take Flesh and strip out all the interesting characters and replace them with generic characters from any teen soap opera of the last 30 years and you get Tera Nova, the creator of which is apparently a British writer in their late 30s.
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: hippynumber1 on 28 March, 2014, 04:45:16 PM
Post by: hippynumber1 on 28 March, 2014, 04:45:16 PM
Is it 'Book of Eli'? Denzel Washington. I think one of Tharg's droids even work on the film in pre-production...
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 28 March, 2014, 04:47:43 PM
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 28 March, 2014, 04:47:43 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 28 March, 2014, 04:45:16 PM
Is it 'Book of Eli'? Denzel Washington. I think one of Tharg's droids even work on the film in pre-production...
That would have been Chris Weston. (http://chrisweston.co.uk/?page_id=283)
Cheers
Jim
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: radiator on 28 March, 2014, 04:49:38 PM
Post by: radiator on 28 March, 2014, 04:49:38 PM
Pitch Black always had quite a 2000ad flavour I thought.
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: Zarjazzer on 28 March, 2014, 07:59:08 PM
Post by: Zarjazzer on 28 March, 2014, 07:59:08 PM
Priest 2011. Which I watched again the other night. A huge walled mega city surrounded by dangerous post apocalyptic desert and a anti-hero who rides what looks like a lawmaster bike. And they even had Karl Urban in it. If that's not a twoofy rip off what is?
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: Leigh S on 28 March, 2014, 08:31:38 PM
Post by: Leigh S on 28 March, 2014, 08:31:38 PM
I always felt that Waterworld felt like an Alan Hebden/Jesus Redondo B strip...
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: DrRocka on 29 March, 2014, 01:18:01 AM
Post by: DrRocka on 29 March, 2014, 01:18:01 AM
I'm sure I saw a Kurt Russel movie one night called Soldier that was basically Rogue Trooper without the chips.
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: mejustnow on 29 March, 2014, 04:34:57 AM
Post by: mejustnow on 29 March, 2014, 04:34:57 AM
Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 28 March, 2014, 07:38:11 AM
The elephant unwrapping his Cornetto in the aisle behind you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKmCisU9GHE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKmCisU9GHE)
Read the book instead.
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Well now I've seen that! Very "Hell Trekkers"
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: The Adventurer on 29 March, 2014, 04:36:07 AM
Post by: The Adventurer on 29 March, 2014, 04:36:07 AM
Wall-E is a Sam Slade adventure waiting to happen.
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: malkymac on 30 March, 2014, 01:46:47 PM
Post by: malkymac on 30 March, 2014, 01:46:47 PM
Quote from: DrRocka on 29 March, 2014, 01:18:01 AM
I'm sure I saw a Kurt Russel movie one night called Soldier that was basically Rogue Trooper without the chips.
I was just about to post the very same thing.
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: malkymac on 30 March, 2014, 01:48:49 PM
Post by: malkymac on 30 March, 2014, 01:48:49 PM
The recent Karl Urban series 'Almost Human' has some Dredd/2000AD touches - future cop with android partner, references to 'the Wall' and putting offenders in the cubes.
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: malkymac on 30 March, 2014, 06:59:38 PM
Post by: malkymac on 30 March, 2014, 06:59:38 PM
Having just reread Detonators I would say that Pacific Rim could have been a movie version of that.
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: Professor Bear on 30 March, 2014, 11:07:42 PM
Post by: Professor Bear on 30 March, 2014, 11:07:42 PM
Quote from: malkymac on 30 March, 2014, 01:48:49 PM
The recent Karl Urban series 'Almost Human' has some Dredd/2000AD touches - future cop with android partner, references to 'the Wall' and putting offenders in the cubes.
And building up a "robot war" storyline.
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: malkymac on 31 March, 2014, 11:14:55 AM
Post by: malkymac on 31 March, 2014, 11:14:55 AM
Quote from: Professor Bear on 30 March, 2014, 11:07:42 PMQuote from: malkymac on 30 March, 2014, 01:48:49 PM
The recent Karl Urban series 'Almost Human' has some Dredd/2000AD touches - future cop with android partner, references to 'the Wall' and putting offenders in the cubes.
And building up a "robot war" storyline.
Too bad it is probably going to get shitcanned as i was really enjoying it.
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: amines2058 on 31 March, 2014, 12:23:46 PM
Post by: amines2058 on 31 March, 2014, 12:23:46 PM
Quote from: malkymac on 31 March, 2014, 11:14:55 AMQuote from: Professor Bear on 30 March, 2014, 11:07:42 PMQuote from: malkymac on 30 March, 2014, 01:48:49 PM
The recent Karl Urban series 'Almost Human' has some Dredd/2000AD touches - future cop with android partner, references to 'the Wall' and putting offenders in the cubes.
And building up a "robot war" storyline.
Too bad it is probably going to get shitcanned as i was really enjoying it.
Not definitely shitcanned yet though, more like shitcan limbo, I am still living in hope of a season 2 to see what is beyond the wall!
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 31 March, 2014, 01:18:41 PM
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 31 March, 2014, 01:18:41 PM
Attack the Block felt very Cradlegrave to me.
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: vzzbux on 31 March, 2014, 02:45:03 PM
Post by: vzzbux on 31 March, 2014, 02:45:03 PM
This is a complete rip off of our very own Joseph.
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Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: amines2058 on 31 March, 2014, 03:51:31 PM
Post by: amines2058 on 31 March, 2014, 03:51:31 PM
I recall a film that came out in 1995ish but the name escapes me. It was vaguely similar to the Judge Dredd story in 2000ad, but different in a bad way. The hero has a slight speech impediment and played a law enforcement role but did not wear a helmet. He also wore a gold shiny codpiece, Shiny gold boots and a matt black catsuit??
There was a cheesy comedy sidekick called Fergie who shared the same name but nothing else with Fergie from The Day The Law Died.
As I say could have been a 2000ad movie but to many glaring errors and differences to make me think of it as one.
There was a cheesy comedy sidekick called Fergie who shared the same name but nothing else with Fergie from The Day The Law Died.
As I say could have been a 2000ad movie but to many glaring errors and differences to make me think of it as one.
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: pert on 16 May, 2014, 04:55:54 PM
Post by: pert on 16 May, 2014, 04:55:54 PM
I always thought the "so bad they're good" italian post apocalpypse movies Bronx Warriors, The New Barbarians and After The Fall Of New York were a bit 2000ad ish
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: Professor Bear on 16 May, 2014, 05:21:51 PM
Post by: Professor Bear on 16 May, 2014, 05:21:51 PM
Strange but true - After the Fall of New York shares a lot of plot similarities and themes with Children of Men. Some trash is seemingly a hair's breadth away from being arthouse.
There's a lot of 2000ad to post-apocalyptic 1980s movies, but a lot of them lack the satire or black humor to really solidify the link even for big fans of both. Steel Dawn ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgF7U95ekkc ) is kind of like Dry Run if you squint at either of them for a bit, while Steel Frontier has one or two moments across its 90 minutes that are pretty 2000ad-ish, too. Robot Jox shares a lot of tropes beloved of early twoothy futuresport strips if you don't mind its plastic sets and plastic actors, though the stop-motion robot fights now have a retro charm, and border on genius when scraps spill into orbit and robots start transforming into giant tanks mid-battle. Some of the character stuff like the racist Texan coach always wearing a big cowboy hat, the enemy robo pilot's cold-bloodedness, and the dystopian American society where "the people" are a poverty-stricken underclass scream early-80s Pat Mills, too.
There's a lot of 2000ad to post-apocalyptic 1980s movies, but a lot of them lack the satire or black humor to really solidify the link even for big fans of both. Steel Dawn ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgF7U95ekkc ) is kind of like Dry Run if you squint at either of them for a bit, while Steel Frontier has one or two moments across its 90 minutes that are pretty 2000ad-ish, too. Robot Jox shares a lot of tropes beloved of early twoothy futuresport strips if you don't mind its plastic sets and plastic actors, though the stop-motion robot fights now have a retro charm, and border on genius when scraps spill into orbit and robots start transforming into giant tanks mid-battle. Some of the character stuff like the racist Texan coach always wearing a big cowboy hat, the enemy robo pilot's cold-bloodedness, and the dystopian American society where "the people" are a poverty-stricken underclass scream early-80s Pat Mills, too.
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: Judge Nutmeg on 17 May, 2014, 08:35:55 PM
Post by: Judge Nutmeg on 17 May, 2014, 08:35:55 PM
always thought accion mutante had a 2000ad feel about it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrSfAz8aljw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrSfAz8aljw
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: Judge Nutmeg on 17 May, 2014, 08:38:02 PM
Post by: Judge Nutmeg on 17 May, 2014, 08:38:02 PM
and space truckers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOEW39CEDL8
definately took off ace trucking co
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOEW39CEDL8
definately took off ace trucking co
Title: Re: A 2000AD film by any other name
Post by: pert on 17 May, 2014, 10:04:13 PM
Post by: pert on 17 May, 2014, 10:04:13 PM
Didnt The Mouth of Sauron in LOTR look a lot like Judge Death?