The movies that we hold as our favorite say a lot about us. I collaborated with a guy on a RPG campaign whose top two movies were T2 followed – closely – by Titan AE. TITAN AE: the predictable animated sci-fi flick with the Mary Sue hero that beat the video game-like bad guy empire to recreate a lost Earth faced by sudden but inevitable betrayals along the way. We didn’t collaborate for long.

In his defense, dude was from rural British Columbia — where I believe they find DVDs randomly by cutting them out of the stomachs of sharks they hunt for protein and oil when not renaming old hobbies. If action movies are your thing, Terminator 2 is a debatable favorite movie (even a fourth is coming, maybe).

The influence that made him LOVE … that other one … led to very Disney like plots in our games, which didn’t fit the gritty sea-themed game we ran. This made me look like DM Doom when it was my turn to narrate. “What kind of horrific monsters were those that you created to destroy us, Digg!?!” Um … ghouls, one of the most common undead monsters in D&D. By leaving the threat unnamed it added a lot more horror to the scene. If I called them ghouls, they’d chuckle and slash right through the lot.

This type of evocative depiction says a lot about my creative style and the movies I love. Topping my action flick list, in no particular order, are movies like Crouching Tiger, The Killer, and the oft-slept on Equilibrium, whose protagonist is the top 3 of highest on-screen kill count in film history. “A master of the Gun kata is an adversary not to be taken lightly.” If you’ve seen this move, your reply to this quote is “Fuck yeah!” Each of those  uses a good amount of drama to enhance the action and make the ass kicking more emotionally satisfying, although many think of drama and action as opposite genres.But of course there is quality to be considered. Soul Food is a drama, but if it’s one of your all time favorites … I’m changing the topic if you’re cute, and SCHOOLING YOU if ya ain’t!

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