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Re: Movie thread (Add away)
By: Puddy Date: June 12, 2020, 4:52 pm
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Blade Runner (1982) HD
[quote]Blade Runner is a 1982 science fiction film directed by
Ridley Scott, and written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples.
Starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young and Edward
James Olmos, it is loosely based on Philip K. Dick's novel Do
Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968). The film is set in a
dystopian future Los Angeles of 2019, in which synthetic humans
known as replicants are bio-engineered by the powerful Tyrell
Corporation to work at space colonies. When a fugitive group of
advanced replicants led by Roy Batty (Hauer) escapes back to
Earth, burnt-out cop Rick Deckard (Ford) reluctantly agrees to
hunt them down.
Blade Runner initially underperformed in North American theaters
and polarized critics; some praised its thematic complexity and
visuals, while others were displeased with its slow pacing and
lack of action. It later became an acclaimed cult film regarded
as one of the all-time best science fiction films. Hailed for
its production design depicting a decaying future, Blade Runner
is a leading example of neo-noir cinema. The film's soundtrack,
composed by Vangelis, was nominated in 1982 for a BAFTA and a
Golden Globe as best original score. [/quote]
Harrison Ford stars as Rick Deckard, a retired cop in Los
Angeles circa 2019. L.A. has become a pan-cultural dystopia of
corporate advertising, pollution and flying automobiles, as well
as replicants, human-like androids with short life spans built
by the Tyrell Corporation for use in dangerous off-world
colonization. Deckard's former job in the police department was
as a talented blade runner, a euphemism for detectives that hunt
down and assassinate rogue replicants. Called before his
one-time superior (M. Emmett Walsh), Deckard is forced back into
active duty. A quartet of replicants led by Roy Batty (Rutger
Hauer) has escaped and headed to Earth, killing several humans
in the process. After meeting with the eccentric Eldon Tyrell
(Joe Turkel), creator of the replicants, Deckard finds and
eliminates Zhora (Joanna Cassidy), one of his targets. Attacked
by another replicant, Leon (Brion James), Deckard is about to be
killed when he's saved by Rachael (Sean Young), Tyrell's
assistant and a replicant who's unaware of her true nature. In
the meantime, Batty and his replicant pleasure model lover, Pris
(Darryl Hannah) use a dying inventor, J.F. Sebastian (William
Sanderson) to get close to Tyrell and murder him. Deckard tracks
the pair to Sebastian's, where a bloody and violent final
confrontation between Deckard and Batty takes place on a
skyscraper rooftop high above the city.
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By: Puddy Date: June 12, 2020, 4:55 pm
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Schindler's List (1993) HD
[quote]Schindler's List is a 1993 American historical drama film
directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven
Zaillian. It is based on the 1982 novel Schindler's Ark by
Australian novelist Thomas Keneally. The film follows Oskar
Schindler, a Sudeten German businessman who together with his
wife Emilie Schindler saved more than a thousand mostly
Polish-Jewish refugees from the Holocaust by employing them in
his factories during World War II. It stars Liam Neeson as
Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as SS officer Amon Göth, and Ben
Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern.
Ideas for a film about the Schindlerjuden (Schindler Jews) were
proposed as early as 1963. Poldek Pfefferberg, one of the
Schindlerjuden, made it his life's mission to tell Schindler's
story. Spielberg became interested when executive Sidney
Sheinberg sent him a book review of Schindler's Ark. Universal
Pictures bought the rights to the novel, but Spielberg, unsure
if he was ready to make a film about the Holocaust, tried to
pass the project to several directors before deciding to direct
it.
Principal photography took place in Kraków, Poland, over 72 days
in 1993. Spielberg shot in black and white and approached the
film as a documentary. Cinematographer Janusz Kamiński
wanted to create a sense of timelessness. John Williams composed
the score, and violinist Itzhak Perlman performed the main
theme.
Schindler's List premiered on November 30, 1993, in Washington,
D.C. and was released on December 15, 1993, in the United
States. Often listed among the greatest films ever
made,[4][5][6][7] the film received international acclaim from
critics for its tone, Spielberg's direction, performances and
atmosphere; it was also a box office success, earning $322
million worldwide on a $22 million budget. It was nominated for
twelve Academy Awards, winning seven, including Best Picture,
Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score,
and won numerous other awards, including seven BAFTAs and three
Golden Globes. In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked
Schindler's List 8th on its list of the 100 best American films
of all time. The film was designated as "culturally,
historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of
Congress in 2004 and selected for preservation in the National
Film Registry. [/quote]
Based on a true story, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List stars
Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in Poland
who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazis' rise to
power. He starts a company to make cookware and utensils, using
flattery and bribes to win military contracts, and brings in
accountant and financier Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley) to help run
the factory. By staffing his plant with Jews who've been herded
into Krakow's ghetto by Nazi troops, Schindler has a dependable
unpaid labor force. For Stern, a job in a war-related plant
could mean survival for himself and the other Jews working for
Schindler. However, in 1942, all of Krakow's Jews are assigned
to the Plaszow Forced Labor Camp, overseen by Commandant Amon
Goeth (Ralph Fiennes), an embittered alcoholic who occasionally
shoots prisoners from his balcony. Schindler arranges to
continue using Polish Jews in his plant, but, as he sees what is
happening to his employees, he begins to develop a conscience.
He realizes that his factory (now refitted to manufacture
ammunition) is the only thing preventing his staff from being
shipped to the death camps. Soon Schindler demands more workers
and starts bribing Nazi leaders to keep Jews on his employee
lists and out of the camps. By the time Germany falls to the
allies, Schindler has lost his entire fortune -- and saved 1,100
people from likely death. Schindler's List was nominated for 12
Academy Awards and won seven, including Best Picture and a
long-coveted Best Director for Spielberg, and it quickly gained
praise as one of the finest American movies about the Holocaust.
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Re: Movie thread (Add away)
By: Puddy Date: June 12, 2020, 4:59 pm
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Dark Star (1974)
[quote]Dark Star is a 1974 American science fiction comedy film
directed by John Carpenter and co-written with Dan O'Bannon. It
follows the crew of the deteriorating starship Dark Star, twenty
years into their mission to destroy unstable planets that might
threaten future colonization of other planets.
Beginning as a University of Southern California student film
produced from 1970 to 1972, the film was gradually expanded to
feature film length by 1974, when it appeared at Filmex before
receiving a limited theatrical release in 1975. Its final budget
is estimated at $60,000.[3] While initially unsuccessful with
audiences, it was relatively well received by critics and
continued to be shown in theaters as late as 1980.[4] The home
video revolution of the early 1980s helped the film achieve
"cult classic" status, and O'Bannon collaborated with home video
distributor VCI in the production of multiple versions on VHS,
LaserDisc, and DVD.
The feature directorial debut for Carpenter, and the feature
debut for O'Bannon, Dark Star was also produced and scored by
Carpenter, while O'Bannon also served as editor, production
designer, and visual effects supervisor and appeared as Sergeant
Pinback.[/quote]
John Carpenter directed this wigged-out spoof of 2001: A Space
Odyssey. The film originally began as a 45-minute U.S.C. student
film project by Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon that was eventually
expanded into a feature length production. The sstory takes
place on the deep-space cruiser Dark Star, where a crew of
laid-back astronauts are assigned the task of blowing up planets
with unsuitable life forms in order to make the universe safe
for the human race. The leader is Commander Powell (Joe
Sanders), who is cryogenically frozen after being killed in a
freak accident. Next in line is Doolittle (Brian Narelle) who
tries to keep the rest of the crew in check. However, there is a
lot of down time between planetary explosions and the
tediousness is starting to get to everyone. However, after a
series of accidents, a smart bomb --i.e. a bomb that can talk
and think on its own-- does not detach itself from the ship as
planned and will explode within 24 minutes unless it can be
cajoled into disarming itself.
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Re: Movie thread (Add away)
By: Puddy Date: June 12, 2020, 5:17 pm
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Back to the Future (1985) HD
[quote]Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction
film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob
Gale. It stars Michael J. Fox as teenager Marty McFly, who
accidentally travels back in time from 1985 to 1955, where he
meets his future parents and becomes his mother's romantic
interest. Christopher Lloyd portrays the eccentric scientist
Doctor Emmett "Doc" Brown, his friend and the inventor of the
time-traveling DeLorean automobile, who helps Marty repair
history and return to 1985. The cast also includes Lea Thompson
as Marty's mother Lorraine, Crispin Glover as his father George,
and Thomas F. Wilson as Biff Tannen, Marty and George's
arch-nemesis.
Zemeckis and Gale wrote the script after Gale wondered whether
he would have befriended his father if they had attended school
together. Film studios rejected it until the financial success
of Zemeckis' Romancing the Stone. Zemeckis approached Steven
Spielberg, who agreed to produce the project at Amblin
Entertainment, with Universal Pictures as distributor. Fox was
the first choice to play Marty, but he was busy filming his
television series Family Ties, and Eric Stoltz was cast; after
the filmmakers decided he was wrong for the role, a deal was
struck to allow Fox to film Back to the Future without
interrupting his television schedule. [/quote]
Contemporary high schooler Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) doesn't
have the most pleasant of lives. Browbeaten by his principal at
school, Marty must also endure the acrimonious relationship
between his nerdy father (Crispin Glover) and his lovely mother
(Lea Thompson), who in turn suffer the bullying of middle-aged
jerk Biff (Thomas F. Wilson), Marty's dad's supervisor. The one
balm in Marty's life is his friendship with eccentric scientist
Doc (Christopher Lloyd), who at present is working on a time
machine. Accidentally zapped back into the 1950s, Marty
inadvertently interferes with the budding romance of his
now-teenaged parents. Our hero must now reunite his
parents-to-be, lest he cease to exist in the 1980s. It won't be
easy, especially with the loutish Biff, now also a teenager,
complicating matters. Beyond its dazzling special effects, the
best element of Back to the Future is the performance of Michael
J. Fox, who finds himself in the quagmire of surviving the
white-bread 1950s with a hip 1980s mindset.
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Re: Movie thread (Add away)
By: Puddy Date: June 12, 2020, 5:25 pm
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Avatar (2009) HD
[quote]Avatar (marketed as James Cameron's Avatar) is a 2009
American[8][9] epic science fiction film directed, written,
produced, and co-edited by James Cameron and stars Sam
Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, and
Sigourney Weaver. The film is set in the mid-22nd century when
humans are colonizing Pandora, a lush habitable moon of a gas
giant in the Alpha Centauri star system, in order to mine the
mineral unobtanium,[10][11] a room-temperature
superconductor.[12] The expansion of the mining colony threatens
the continued existence of a local tribe of Na'vi – a humanoid
species indigenous to Pandora. The film's title refers to a
genetically engineered Na'vi body operated from the brain of a
remotely located human that is used to interact with the natives
of Pandora.[13]
Development of Avatar began in 1994, when Cameron wrote an
80-page treatment for the film.[14][15] Filming was supposed to
take place after the completion of Cameron's 1997 film Titanic,
for a planned release in 1999,[16] but, according to Cameron,
the necessary technology was not yet available to achieve his
vision of the film.[17] Work on the language of the film's
extraterrestrial beings began in 2005, and Cameron began
developing the screenplay and fictional universe in early
2006.[18][19] Avatar was officially budgeted at $237 million.[4]
Other estimates put the cost between $280 million and $310
million for production and at $150 million for
promotion.[20][21][22] The film made extensive use of new motion
capture filming techniques, and was released for traditional
viewing, 3D viewing (using the RealD 3D, Dolby 3D, XpanD 3D, and
IMAX 3D formats), and for "4D" experiences in select South
Korean theaters.[23] The stereoscopic filmmaking was touted as a
breakthrough in cinematic technology.[/quote]
"Avatar" is the story of an ex-Marine who finds himself thrust
into hostilities on an alien planet filled with exotic life
forms. As an Avatar, a human mind in an alien body, he finds
himself torn between two worlds, in a desperate fight for his
own survival and that of the indigenous people.
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Re: Movie thread (Add away)
By: Puddy Date: June 12, 2020, 5:27 pm
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Star Trek (2009) HD
[quote]Star Trek is a 2009 American science fiction action film
directed by J. J. Abrams and written by Roberto Orci and Alex
Kurtzman. It is the eleventh film in the Star Trek film
franchise, and is also a reboot that features the main
characters of the original Star Trek television series portrayed
by a new cast, as the first in the rebooted film series. The
film follows James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary
Quinto) aboard the USS Enterprise as they combat Nero (Eric
Bana), a Romulan from their future who threatens the United
Federation of Planets. The story takes place in an alternate
reality[3][4] because of time travel by both Nero and the
original Spock (Leonard Nimoy). The alternate timeline was
created in an attempt to free the film and the franchise from
established continuity constraints while simultaneously
preserving original story elements.[/quote]
Star Zachary Quinto assumes the role of the Federation Starfleet
lieutenant and Vulcan made famous in the original series by
Leonard Nimoy (who also appears in an older incarnation of his
original role), Spock, with Anton Yelchin stepping into the role
of USS Enterprise navigator Pavel Chekov, Zoe Saldana assuming
the role of communications officer Uhura, Simon Pegg keeping the
ship in top shape as chief engineer Montgomery Scott (aka
"Scotty"), and Eric Bana tormenting the benevolent space
explorers as the villainous Nero. Harold and Kumar Go to White
Castle co-star John Cho also boards the Enterprise as Hikaru
Sulu, with Chris Pine and Karl Urban assuming the legendary
roles of Captain Kirk and Leonard "Bones" McCoy, respectively.
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Re: Movie thread (Add away)
By: Puddy Date: June 12, 2020, 5:29 pm
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Iron Man (2008) HD
[quote]Iron Man is a 2008 American superhero film based on the
Marvel Comics character of the same name. Produced by Marvel
Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures,[N 1] it is the
first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It was directed by
Jon Favreau from a screenplay by the writing teams of Mark
Fergus and Hawk Ostby, and Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, and
stars Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man alongside
Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Shaun Toub, and Gwyneth Paltrow.
In the film, following his escape from captivity by a terrorist
group, world famous industrialist and master engineer Tony Stark
builds a mechanized suit of armor and becomes the superhero Iron
Man. [/quote]
Billionaire industrialist and genius inventor Tony Stark is
kidnapped and forced to build a devastating weapon. Instead,
using his intelligence and ingenuity, Tony builds a high-tech
suit of armor and escapes captivity. When he uncovers a
nefarious plot with global implications, he dons his powerful
armor and vows to protect the world as Iron Man.
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By: Puddy Date: June 12, 2020, 5:32 pm
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X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) HD
[quote]X-Men: Days of Future Past is a 2014 superhero film
directed and produced by Bryan Singer and written by Simon
Kinberg from a story by Kinberg, Jane Goldman, and Matthew
Vaughn. A British-American venture, the film is based on the
fictional X-Men characters that appear in Marvel Comics, the
seventh installment of the X-Men film series and a sequel to
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), X-Men: First Class (2011) and The
Wolverine (2013). It stars an ensemble cast, including Hugh
Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence,
Halle Berry, Nicholas Hoult, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, Peter
Dinklage, Ian McKellen, and Patrick Stewart. The story, inspired
by the 1981 Uncanny X-Men storyline "Days of Future Past" by
Chris Claremont and John Byrne, focuses on two time periods,
with Wolverine traveling back in time to 1973 to change history
and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and
mutants. [/quote]
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the
species across two time periods in X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST.
The beloved characters from the original "X-Men" film trilogy
join forces with their younger selves from the past, "X-Men:
First Class," in order to change a major historical event and
fight in an epic battle that could save our future.
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By: Puddy Date: June 12, 2020, 5:35 pm
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Logan (2017) HD
[quote]Logan is a 2017 American superhero film starring Hugh
Jackman as the titular character. It is the tenth film in the
X-Men film series and the third and final installment in the
Wolverine trilogy following X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and
The Wolverine (2013). The film, which takes inspiration from
"Old Man Logan" by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven, based in an
alternate bleak future, follows an aged Wolverine and an
extremely ill Charles Xavier who defend a young mutant named
Laura from the villainous Reavers led by Donald Pierce and
Zander Rice. The film is produced by 20th Century Fox, Marvel
Entertainment, TSG Entertainment and The Donners' Company, and
distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is directed by James
Mangold, who co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Green and
Scott Frank, from a story by Mangold.[9] In addition to Jackman,
the film also stars Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Boyd
Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, and Dafne Keen.
Principal photography began in Louisiana on May 2, 2016, and
wrapped on August 19, 2016, in New Mexico. The locations used
for Logan were mainly in Louisiana, New Mexico, and
Mississippi.[/quote]
It's 2029. Mutants are gone--or very nearly so. An isolated,
despondent Logan is drinking his days away in a hideout on a
remote stretch of the Mexican border, picking up petty cash as a
driver for hire. His companions in exile are the outcast Caliban
and an ailing Professor X, whose singular mind is plagued by
worsening seizures. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world
and his legacy abruptly end when a mysterious woman appears with
an urgent request--that Logan shepherd an extraordinary young
girl to safety. Soon, the claws come out as Logan must face off
against dark forces and a villain from his own past on a
live-or-die mission, one that will set the time-worn warrior on
a path toward fulfilling his destiny.
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Re: Movie thread (Add away)
By: Puddy Date: June 12, 2020, 5:37 pm
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) HD
[quote]Raiders of the Lost Ark (later marketed as Indiana Jones
and the Raiders of the Lost Ark) is a 1981 American
action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and written
by Lawrence Kasdan from a story by George Lucas and Philip
Kaufman. It was produced by Frank Marshall for Lucasfilm Ltd.,
with Lucas and Howard Kazanjian as executive producers. The film
originated from Lucas's desire to create a modern version of the
serial films of the 1930s and 1940s. [/quote]
Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is no ordinary archeologist. When
we first see him, he is somewhere in the Peruvian jungle in
1936, running a booby-trapped gauntlet (complete with an
over-sized rolling boulder) to fetch a solid-gold idol. He loses
this artifact to his chief rival, a French archeologist named
Belloq (Paul Freeman), who then prepares to kill our hero. In
the first of many serial-like escapes, Indy eludes Belloq by
hopping into a convenient plane. So, then: is Indiana Jones
afraid of anything? Yes, snakes. The next time we see Jones,
he's a soft-spoken, bespectacled professor. He is then summoned
from his ivy-covered environs by Marcus Brody (Denholm Elliott)
to find the long-lost Ark of the Covenant. The Nazis, it seems,
are already searching for the Ark, which the mystical-minded
Hitler hopes to use to make his stormtroopers invincible. But to
find the Ark, Indy must first secure a medallion kept under the
protection of Indy's old friend Abner Ravenwood, whose daughter,
Marion (Karen Allen), evidently has a "history" with Jones.
Whatever their personal differences, Indy and Marion become
partners in one action-packed adventure after another, ranging
from wandering the snake pits of the Well of Souls to surviving
the pyrotechnic unearthing of the sacred Ark.
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