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Risk

2020-02-03T01:29:01Z

2600:1700:19C0:2760:FD6D:AD24:F9C7:A2F: Undo revision 632782 by 46.26.80.10 (talk)

[[category:Board Games]]

A terrible, terrible [[board game]] of Napoleonic world conquest where you move around tiny plastic soldiers and cannons and pretend you're making any sort of strategic choices. Even though the pieces are different, every unit is exactly the same. All your fate depends on dice rolls and how soon you manage to hog the best territories. It is the [[Death Korps of Krieg|World War I]] of board games, and about as much fun as actual trench warfare.

For all the awful shit that is Risk, most of us were raised on it, and learned tactics by playing it, much the same way a caveman learns that banging one rock on another makes noise. Or a [[loli|kid]] learns what tastes good by putting everything in their mouth.

What [[Parcheesi]] is to race games, [[Monopoly]] is to trading games, and "Asshole" is to trick-taking games, Risk is to wargames.

==Rules==
'''Pieces'''
* Units are a bazillion identical plastic bits. Everyone has plastic bits of a different colour so you can tell who owns what. Some plastic bits are different, but those just represent five or ten units. Some others are different because the dog chewed them.
* five six-sided dice: three red for offense, two white for defense.
* the map of territories. Every territory is adjacent to at least one other territory. The territories are grouped into "continents," and there's a bonus for owning an entire continent at the start of your turn.
* a deck of cards. Each card bears the name of one territory and one of three symbols, or few cards have no territory and all three symbols. The symbols are used for making sets; the latter cards are like "wild cards."

'''Setup'''
* Divide 120 by the number of players; that's how many units in each player's starting army
* Players take turns placing one unit each on an unoccupied territory.
* When all territories are occupied, players take turns placing extra units in territories they occupy.
* Keep going until everyone's deployed their starting army.
** Alternatively, you can set people's starting territories by dealing cards from the deck -- this stops [[That Guy]] from occupying bottlenecked continents like Australia or South America.

'''Turns'''
* At the start of your turn, you get [[PROMOTIONS|'''reinforcements''']]. These reinforcements can be distributed among any territories you occupy.
** one unit for three territories you occupy
** some more units if you still own an entire continent (around 1 unit for each 2 territories, depends on the map)
** even more units for trading in a set: three different symbols, three identical symbols, or any two cards with a "wild card". The first time a player does this, it's worth 4 units, then 6, then 8, 10, 12, 15, 20 and +5 more each step. If you hold five cards at the start of your turn, you MUST trade in a set right away.
** +2 armies on any territory you occupy that is mentioned in a card set you turn in; this is an exception to the "any territories" mentioned above.
* Now you get to '''attack''' as many times as you want or can get away with.
** Pick a territory that you own with more than one unit in it. Pick one of it's neighbours that you don't own. Declare that you're going to fuck shit up.
** You commit one, two or three units to attack. The defender commits one or two units to defend.
** Each side rolls as many dice as units they committed to the fight (usually red for attack, white for defense).
** Compare the highest die from each side. Lower number removes a unit from the attacking/defending territory as appropriate. Defender wins ties.
** If the attacker and defender each committed at least two units, compare the 2nd higest dice. Remove units, blah blah.
** Commit units again, lather, rinse, repeat, unless attacker decides to stop early.
** If defender is eliminated, the attacker must move in at least as many units as dice she rolled in the last attack.
** Attacker must leave at least one unit behind; that means if you're attacking from a territory that has only two units, you can roll only one die, and you must stop when only one attacking unit is left.
** If you still have a surplus of units, repeat the attacking thing from the same or another territory.
* When you're done being a bully at your neighbours, you may take one card if you conquered any territories this turn.
* At the end of your turn, you may '''fortify''' a territory by moving one group of units from a territory you own to an adjacent territory you own. You must leave at least one unit behind -- you can never abandon a territory.

'''Winning'''
* When you've eliminated all the other players.
: Since you need to attack to really move your units around, and you can only do a fortify move once, and card sets explode as the game drags on... the game REALLY drags on. And it's no fun for the players that got kicked out early, and when it's down to two player's it's pretty obvious who's gonna be whose bitch. The only person who wants to keep playing at this point is the bitch, who thinks for some reason their next card set of 55 units might make all the difference even though the other guy owns Asia AND Europe.
:: Or there's some fucker who's been sitting in Australia doing nothing for the past six hours and proceeds to rain shit onto Asia, then invade North America and Europe at the same time, making the game take even longer because he doesn't have the balls to finish the job and the guy who should've won the game is now stuck trying to take down the most annoyingly defensive prick in the game.
::If you play Risk as a drinking game, people care less about how long it takes.
::Any game that needs alcohol to be good enough to play is made of suck, Q.E.D.

==Maps==
Most "improvements" on the game just create new maps instead of actually fixing or adding to the mechanics.
<gallery>
Image:Risk_game_map.png|the original map without names
Image:Risk_game_graph.png|the naked original map
Image:Risk_harvardturf.jpg|Playing Risk as a LARP
Image:Risk la conquete du monde map.jpg|Risk is actually a rip-off of this French game
Image:Risk_2210_map.jpg|Now with oceans, and the Moon, and you have only five turns to win. Which is just about as long as you played anyways.
Image:Icehouse_WorldWar5_map.jpg|The icehouse version, extremely balanced map
Image:Lux_NuclearLux_map.jpg|Alternative map from the /tg/ approved vidyagaem [[Lux Delux|Lux]]
</gallery>

==Variations==
There have been many versions of Risk made, because people keep believing that there's a good wargame somewhere in this simulation built with twigs and grass, and by god they keep looking. And failing. The only successes at making Risk into a somewhat deep or stimulating game all move it far enough away from Risk that even the play-map becomes unrecognizable.
=== Variations you buy ===
* Castle Risk: uses capital cities, and action cards you play out of hand.
* Narnia Risk: WORSE than the original, somehow managed to make it even more dumbed-down for the kiddies.
* Risk Godstorm. You get four superunits that are Greek gods. Your dead armies are reinforcements in an "afterlife" map where the dead duke it out for a chance to return and reinforce on the real map.
* Risk Revised Edition: The official "Risk plus splatbooks." Has optional rules for missions, castles, new units, etc.
* Risk Transformers. Not as cool as it sounds.
* Risk: Star Wars. Three sides: Rebels vs. Empire vs. Hutts, each with a different deck of cards. Force-meter to swing advantages to Rebels or Empire, different objectives for each side... this isn't Risk anymore.
* Risk: Star Wars Clone Wars. See Risk Star Wars, only it's just The Republic vs. Separatists, and The Republic is fucked when Order 66 happens.
* Lord Of The Rings Risk: Strongholds, Leaders, action cards, a time limit and not the default rules all make it the best Risk game that's actually still Risk. Although because there's only Good and Evil models, you'll be wondering why you're fighting elves vs elves and orks vs orks. Also, without the Trilogy edition or Minas Tirith add-on, you're missing Gondor and Mordor. Which is really stupid.
* Risk Édition Napoléon. One player is Napoleon and everyone else tries to beat him up. Tries to be historically accurate, only, y'know, Napoleon isn't an idiot this time around. Or nearly as short.
* Risk Halo Wars Collector's Edition. ''(gagging noises.)'' This game took the wierdest game mechanic (useless support models) and took a shit on them, magnifying the importance of retarded and utterly useless models. Also, you need to spend victory points to do anything interesting, like fire ordnance.
*Risk [[Starcraft]] is superficially similar to the Lord of Rings version, with leaders, bases and action cards that are faction specific and make it a little bit assymetrical. It also adds mineral resources which count for extra reinforcements. The main difference is objective based gameplay, rather than trying to table your opponent which could take all night, which means that with the right setup and tactics you could win the game in three turns. Or, you know, just play actual Starcraft
* S.P.Q.RisiKo! Risk of Ancient Rome. Only sold in Italy; seems someone else has the copyright on Julius Caesar in America.
* Risk 2210AD. Actually a good game, and doesn't look or feel like original Risk at all. Surprise surprise.
* Risk Balance of Power. 2 player wargame with missions and a third dummy player. Again, better than Risk by being not Risk.
* Risk Express. Risk without the armies or the world map. Just dice and drink coasters. I'm not making this up.
* GoCrossCampus. Risk as a LARP. I swear to god I'm not making this up.
* [[Axis & Allies]]. Okay, not actually Risk, but Risk looks up to A&A and wants to be like that when it grows up.
* Risk Legacy: Starts out as normal Risk however the actions taken affect later games, including adding and removing rules, area effects on a location tearing up cards, and BURNING THE GAME.
* Doctor Who Risk: Dalek Invasion of Earth: Play as different factions of Daleks. Adds a time limit before Peter Capaldi arrives and fucks everybody's shit up. "Come the fuck in or fuck the fuck off!"

=== House Rules ===
* Card "Balance": the most basic house rule, enforced by certain vidya adaptations. Turning in card sets only grants a set number of reinforcements, typically 5, regardless of how many sets have been turned in. Your mileage may vary on whether this rebalances or unbalances the game; I've heard it both ways.
* Hyborian Risk: same old risk, with a Conan-themed map. Hell, just change the fucking map; everybody knows the Classic map is broken.
* Nuclear Risk: each time the player's turns have gone around the table once, draw the top card of the territories deck. All units in that territory are eliminated, and the territory is uninhabitable. When sets are turned in, shuffle those cards into a 'nuclear-only' deck that is used when the normal deck is exhausted. Last person standing wins.
* Time Limit: play until every player has had X turns. Whoever has the most territories wins.
::''Well, that would make the game suck less.''
::''How so?''
::''Because you're playing it less!''
::''[[Dohohoho|DOHOHOHOHOHOHO!]]''
* Assassin Risk: Before the game starts, everyone puts one army unit in a cup, and each player draws a unit without looking. Do NOT show the other players what you drew, unless you drew your own colour -- then show the other players, draw another unit, and put your own colour back in. As soon as a player is eliminated from the game, whoever secretly drew that player's colour wins the game. This eliminates the long boring endgame between two superpowers, and increases the levels of paranoia between players.

Also, the [[40k]] [[Dawn of War]] games Dark crusade and Soulstorm implement the same structure but instead of a territory's conquest determined by 1-4 dicerolls, it is determined by a 5 to 40 minute game of [[40k]]. Needless to say, it's much better.

{{Board Games}}

Approved Movies/Old

2020-02-02T23:32:49Z

2600:1700:19C0:2760:FD6D:AD24:F9C7:A2F: not your personal rec list, bub

This is a list of /tg/ approved movies, organized into loose genres, alphabetically.

Add important details in brackets.

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==Science Fiction==

* 5th Element, The
* The Abyss
* Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
* Animatrix - short Program [animated] (how to pull certain /tg/ cliche right)
* Appleseed
* Appleseed: Deus Ex Machina
* Avalon [Japanese, with original, Polish voices - this is '''very''' important, avoid English dubbing or official subtitles like fire, they change most of dialogues into incomprehensive mess]
* Babylon A.D. [director's cut]
* Blade Runner [final cut]
* Blade Runner 2049
* Brazil
* Children of Men
* Chronicle [2012]
* Cyborg [1989]
* Dark City
* Dark Star
* District 9
* Donnie Darko
* Doomsday
* [[Judge Dredd|Dredd]] [2012]
* Edge of Tommorow
* Enemy Mine
* Equilibrium
* Event Horizon
* eXistenZ
* Fortress [1992]
* Galaxy Quest
* Gattaca
* Ghosts of Mars
* Hell [German]
* I, Robot
* Immortal [French]
* Inception
* The Iron Giant [animated]
* The Island
* Johnny Mnemonic
* K-Pax
* Logan's Run
* Looper
* [[The Lord Inquisitor]] [animated]
* The Matrix
* Men in Black [only the first one]
* Metropolis [1927]
* Metropolis [animated]
* Moon
* Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind [animated]
* O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization [Polish] (best unofficial [[Paranoia]] movie)
* Outlander
* Pacific Rim
* Paycheck (as an exercise of handling hooks and plot devices)
* The Prestige
* Primer
* Red Planet
* Robocop [1987]
* Robocop 2
* Robot Jox
* Rock & Rule [animated] (preferably with Canadian dubbing, as American one simply sucks)
* Snowpiercer
* Solaris [1972, 2002]
* Source Code
* The Sphere
* Stalker [Russian]
* Star Wars [original trilogy]
* Star Trek (The Wrath of Khan, The Voyage Home, The Undiscovered Country, First Contact and Beyond for sure, the Search for Spock and the 2009 film if you want some more)
* Stargate [1994]
* [[Starship Troopers]]
* Strange days
* Sunshine
* Terminator
* Terminator 2: Judgment Day
* The Thirteenth Floor
* THX 1138
* Time Cop
* Titan, AE [Animated]
* Total recall [1990]
* Transformers: The Movie [Animated, 1987 version only]
* Treasure Planet [Animated]
* Twelve Monkeys
* [[Ultramarines:The Movie]] [Animated]
* WALL-E [animated]

==Horror==

* 28 Days Later
* 30 days of night
* 9th Gate
* Alien
* Aliens [preferably director's cut]
* Alien 3 [''obligatory'' director's cut]
* Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre [French] - preferably helped with the original mini-series from the 60s.
* Brotherhood of the Wolf [French]
* Cabin In The Woods
* Carrie [1976] - any sequel or remake is disapproved
* Dagon [Spanish]
* The Descent
* Dog Soldiers
* Eraserhead
* Evil Dead [trilogy]
* Event Horizon
* The Exorcist
* From Dusk Till Dawn [more of a parody than straight out horror; sequel is also worth it]
* From Hell
* The Gift [2000]
* Ginger Snaps (sequels are optional)
* Hellraiser
* The Hunger [1983]
* In the Mouth of Madness
* Interview with the Vampire (and gender-flipper Byzantium)
* The Masque of the Red Death
* Mulholland Drive
* Nattevagten [Danish]
* Near Dark (the second half of inspiration for Vampire: The Masquerade after Interview)
* Overlord
* Pandorum
* Pitch Black
* The Shining
* Silent Hill [2006]
* The Thing [1982]
* Virus [1999]
* Witchfinder General
* The VVitch [2015]

==Fantasy==
[[Image:97_35566_0_TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowship.jpg|right|thumb|The essential fantasy trilogy (not on the list because it's so obvious that this is a /tg/ approved movie).]]
* 10,000 BC
* The 13th Warrior
* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
* The Beastmaster
* Beowulf [animated, 2007]
* Big Trouble in Little China: Mind you, it's Urban Fantasy. Also, ''very'' 80s.
* Blade 1 & 2
* The Brothers Grimm
* Camelot [1988]
* Conan the Barbarian [1982]
* Conan the Destroyer
* Constantine
* Dragonheart
* Erik the Viking
* Excalibur
* Fire and Ice [animated]
* The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
* Hellboy (only the first one)
* Highlander (only the first movie; "Highlander II: The Quickening" is /tg/ unapproved, but worth a watch if you just want to see an insanely bad movie and a solid lesson in how '''*not*''' to extend a setting)
* The Hobbit [animated]
* How to Train Your Dragon [animated]
* Howl's Moving Castle [animated]
* Immortal [French]
* Ink [2009]
* Innocent Blood [1992]
* Jabberwocky [1977]
* Jumanji (and if you have spare time - the animated TV show too)
* Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
* Krull
* Kull the Conqueror
* Labyrinth
* Ladyhawke
* The Last Unicorn [animated]
* The Last Witch Hunter
* The Legend
* Lord of the Rings [animated]
* Masters of the Universe [1987]
* Neverending Story
* Night Watch [Russian]:Hello again, Urban Fantasy.
* The Nightmare Before Christmas [animated]
* Ondine
* Pan's Labyrinth
* Princess Mononoke [animated]
* The Princess Bride
* Red Sonja
* Reign of Fire
* The Return of the King [animated]
* Ronal The Barbarian [animated]
* SAGA - Curse of the Shadow
* The Secret of NIMH [animated]
* Snow White and the Huntsman (the visuals are definitely worth enduring it)
** Same with the sequel, The Huntsman: Winter's War
* Solomon Kane
* Song of the Sea [animated]
* Secret of Kells [animated]
* Stardust
* The Thief and the Cobbler [animated, The Recobbled Cut]
* The Thief of Baghdad [1924/1940]
* Time Bandits
* Trollhunter [Norwegian]
* Underworld (first movie, rest of the franchise is purely optional)
* Vidocq [French]
* Voyage of the Unicorn [TV movie]
* Willow
* Wizards
* Wolfhound of the Grey Hound Clan [Russian]

==Comedy==
* 48 hours
* Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
* Beverly Hills Cop 1 & 2 (and let's pretend 3 doesn't exist)
* The Big Hit
* Big Lebowski
* Blues Brothers
* Buffalo Soldiers
* A Chinese Ghost Story [Chinese] (1987) - sequels are optional, remake is shunned
* Cocoon (1985)
* Coming to America
* The Cuckoo [Russian]
* [[Dark Dungeons]]
* A Fish Called Wanda
* Fletch
* Forrest Gump
* Fright Night [1985 & 2011]
* Futurama Bender's Game - A Futurama movie created in honor of Gary Gygax's death. Basically a parody to Dungeon and Dragons and Lord of the Ring. It also counts as a science fiction film because well, is Futurama.
* The Gamers trilogy (preferably with dice subtitles)
* Gentlemen Broncos
* Ghostbusters (1984)
* Grosse Pointe Blank & War, Inc.
* Groundhog Day
* In Bruges
* Kindergarten Cop
* Kung Fu Hustle
* Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
* The Mask
* The Men Who Stare at Goats
* Monty Python and the Holy Grail
* Monty Python's Life of Brian
* Nothing to Lose
* Tropic Thunder - all-bard party at war
* Secondhand Lions
* Shaun Of The Dead [Actually, the whole Cornetto Trilogy: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End]
* The Sister Act
* Snatch
* Space Balls
* Spies like us
* Stay Tuned
* The Sting
* Taxi [French]
* Trading Places
* Tremors
* Vabank [Polish]
* We're No Angels (both the 1955 and 1989 versions)
* What We Do In The Shadows
* Your Highness
* Zombieland

==Western==
* 3:10 to Yuma [1957]
* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
* Dances with Wolves (preferably extended edition; warning - it runs for almost 4 hours, but is well worth it)
* The Dark Valley [Austrian]
* Django [1966]
* Django Unchained [unrelated with the above]
* Dollars Trilogy [A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - preferably extended cuts]
* The Good, The Bad, The Weird [Korean] (Korean cut, not the international!)
* The Hateful 8
* High Noon
* High Plain Drifter
* Jeremiah Johnson
* The Magificent Seven [1960]
* My Name Is Nobody
* Once Upon a Time in the West
* Open Range
* Outland
* Pale Rider
* Quigley down under
* Rio Bravo
* Showdown at The O.K. Corral
* Silverado
* They call me Trinity
* Tombstone
* Treasure of the Silver Lake (along with other Winnetou films) - a warning of what happens if you have no clue how to run a western setting.
* True Grit (1969 and 2010 versions)
* Two Mules for Sister Sara
* Unforgiven
* The Wild Bunch
* The Outlaw Josey Wales
* White Sun of the Desert (Soviet "eastern")

==Action==
* Blood Diamond
* Blue Thunder
* Centurion
* The Chronicles of Riddick
* Collateral
* Commando
* The Dark Knight
* The Departed [and original Infernal Affairs]
* Die Hard 1 & 3 (and only those two)
* Elite Squad 1 & 2 [Brazilian]
* Escape from New York
* Hanna
* Hard Boiled [1992]
* Haywire
* John Wick
* Kill Bill, Volumes 1 and 2
* Knight and Day
* Last Action Hero
* Lethal Weapon 1 & 2 [or entire quadrilogy]
* The Long Kiss Goodnight
* Mad Max series (judge Thunderdome and Fury Road for yourself, they have their charms.)
* Mission Impossible 3 & 4 (and only those two)
* Predator & Predators
* Ronin [1998]
* The Running Man
* Running Scared [2006]
* Steel Dawn
* Streets of Fire
* The Transporter ('''only''' the first one)
* True Lies
* The Untouchables
* Waterworld
* Wild Wild West

==War==
* The 9th Company [Russian] (watch original version - English dubb is just awful)
* Alexander [Final Cut version, avoid like fire theatrical cut]
* Apocalypse Now
* A Bridge Too Far
* Colonel Wolodyjowski [Polish]
* Crimson Tide
* Das Boot [extended, serialised version - takes 5 hours, worth every minute]
* The Deluge [Polish]
* Dirty Dozen
* The Dogs Of War
* Fury
* Gallipoli
* Gettysburg
* Guns of Navarone
* Hell in the Pacific
* Kelly's Heroes [and it's remake/update Three Kings]
* Kingdom of Heaven [extended director's cut]
* Lawrence of Arabia
* Legionnaire
* Lone Survivor [2013] (as a case study of how and why high-level characters aren't invulnerable)
* Lord of War
* Manhunt [2012, Polish]
* Mulan [Chinese from 2009 and animated from 1998]
* Platoon
* Red Cliff [Chinese full cut]
* Sahara [1943/95, '''*not*''' the adventure flick from 2005]
* Sharpe series [TV movies starring Sean Bean]
* Soldier [1998]
* Soldier of Orange [Dutch]
* Thin Red Line
* War [2002, Russian]
* Windtalkers
* Where Eagles Dare
* Zwartboek [Dutch, '''only''' after watching Soldier of Orange]

==Crime==
* American Animals
* Black Rain
* The Casino
* Chinatown
* Crimson Rivers [French] (avoid English dubbing, it's horrible)
* Dobermann [French] (chaotic evil campaign)
* Dog Day Afternoon
* The Disappearance of Alice Creed (how to conserve details)
* Entrapment [1999]
* Escape from Alcatraz
* French Connection
* The Godfather I & II
* Gone Girl
* The Good Thief
* The Handmaiden [Korean] (just watch it, don't read anything about it)
* Heat
* Heist [2001] (all-Rogue campaign)
* Hell or High Water
* A History of Violence
* In the Shadow [2012, Czech]
* Insomnia [2002]
* Italian Job [1969 & 2003]
* Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
* L.A. Confidential
* Layer Cake
* Matchstick Men
* Money Train
* The Nice Guys
* No Country for Old Men
* Palmetto
* Payback [both theatrical and director's cut - two different films]
* Plunkett & Macleane
* Pulp Fiction
* Red Rock West
* Reindeer Games
* Reservoir Dogs
* The Score
* A Simple Plan
* Sneakers
* The Spanish Prisoner
* The Thief [1981]
* The Thieves [Korean]
* The Thomas Crown Affair [both 1968 & 1999]
* The Town [2010]
* Trance [2013]
* The Truth About Charlie
* The Usual Suspects
* The Witness [1985]

==Adventure==
* The African Queen
* Alatriste [Spanish]
* Atlantis: The Lost Empire [Animated]
* Black Robe
* Captain Blood
* Cast Away
* The Crimson Pirate [1952]
* Cutthroat Island
* Fanfan la Tulipe [1952, French]
* Flight of the Phoenix [1965/2004]
* The Ghost and the Darkness
* The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
* Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan [the only approved Tarzan production]
* Hidalgo
* Indiana Jones [trilogy only - outside the original 3 there are no others]
* Ivanhoe
* Janosik [2009, Polish-Slovakian co-production]
* King Kong [1933, 2005]
* King Solomon's Mines [1985]
* Kon-Tiki [Norwegian]
* Last of the Mohicans
* Le Bossu [French, 1959/1997]
* The Librarian [TV movies franchise]
* The Man Who Would Be King
* The Mummy [1999 - and only this one]
* National Treasure
* Prince of Persia
* Queen of the Desert
* Quest for Fire [1981]
* Renegades [2017] (a perfect Merc 2000 module)
* The Road to El Dorado [Animated]
* Romancing the Stone
* The Sea Hawk
* The Snow Walker
* Stand by me (how to handle atypical quest with atypical party)
* Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
* Six Days, Seven Nights
* Tintin - both the 2011 motion capture and old feature animations from the 60s (animated TV series is meanwhile approved television)
* Tomb Raider [2001] (Just bring lots of alcohol and friends)
* The Way Back

==General==
* [[Mazes and Monsters]] - The "so bad it's good"-type movie. Based on a novel by a hack writer for ''Cosmopolitan'' that assumed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dallas_Egbert_III|James Dallas Egbert III's disappearance] had something to do with gaming. Starring Tom Hanks and the World Trade Center Towers (it was made before their destruction)
* 7 Samurai
* 8MM
* Aguirre, the Wrath of God [German]
* Amadeus
* The American
* As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me [German]
* Astropia
* The Blood of Heroes/Salute to the Jugger [goes under both titles] - two words, my friend: "Walk slowly"
* Baraka [obligatory HD restored version]
* A boy and his dog
* Capricorn One
* The Cell
* The City of Lost Children
* A Clockwork Orange
* The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
* Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
* The Day After [1983]
* Dead Calm [1989]
* Death Wish [1974] (sequels are so hilariously bad they are painful to watch)
* Deliverance
* Dirty Harry (the rest of the series is optional)
* Donnie Brasco
* Dr. No
* The Dressmaker
* The Duellists
* The Fall
* Falling Down
* <s>Fight Club</s> DON'T TALK ABOUT THIS
* First Blood
* Fort Saganne [French]
* The Game [1997]
* Gangs of New York
* Geronimo: An American Legend
* Ghost Dog
* The Great Escape
* Heavy Metal [animated]
* Hero [Chinese]
* The Hidden Fortress [Japanese]
* House of Flying Daggers [Chinese]
* Humanity and Paper Balloons [Japanese]
* In The Name Of The Rose
* The Insider
* Jurassic Park
* Koyaanisqatsi (rest of the Qatsi trilogy is optional)
* The Last Valley
* Léon: the Professional
* Les Diaboliques [both French original and the remake from 1996]
* Les Samurai [French]
* The Lives of Others [German] (how to Lawful Evil)
* The Madness of King George
* Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (how to maritime)
* Miracle Mile
* The Mission [1986] (novelisation is approved literature, greatly expanding the story into TTRPG campaign territory. Also, amazing soundtrack.)
* Money Talks [1997]
* Mr Brooks
* Nick of Time
* North by North-West
* Nowhere in Africa [German]
* On the Beach [1959 & 2000]
* Once upon a time in China 1 & 2
* Papillon [1973]
* The Piano
* Ran (Japanese)
* Rashômon [1950]
* The Road
* Rob Roy
* Run Lola Run [German]
* Runaway Train
* Sanjuro [1962]
* Sense and Sensibility
* Sekal has to die [Czech-Polish co-production]
* The Seventh Seal
* Shawshank Redemption
* Six-String Samurai
* Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
* Sorcerer [1977, obligatory HD restored version]
* Superman [1978] & Superman 2 [1980]
* Surviving the Game
* The Sword and the Rose
* Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
* Tai-Pan
* Tasogare Seibei [Japanese]
* Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
* Throne of Blood [Japanese]
* Trash Humpers
* Training Day
* The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
* Unbreakable
* Vatel [French]
* WarGames
* The Wild Hunt
* Yôjinbô [Japanese]
* Zatōichi [''at least'' the 2003 film]
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