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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
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The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring is a 2001 epic high fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson based on the first volume of J. R. R. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings. It is the first instalment in The Lord of the Rings series, set in Middle-earth, the story tells of the Dark Lord Sauron, who is seeking the One Ring. The Ring has found its way to the young hobbit Frodo Baggins, released on 10 December 2001, the film was highly acclaimed by critics and fans alike who considered it to be a landmark in film-making and an achievement in the fantasy film genre. It has continued to be featured on lists of the greatest fantasy films ever made. The film was a box office success, earning over $871 million worldwide. As of January 2017, it is the 50th highest-grossing film of all time worldwide unadjusted for inflation and it also won four British Academy Film Awards, including Best Film and Best Director BAFTA awards. The Special Extended Edition was released to DVD on 12 November 2002, in 2007, The Fellowship of the Ring was voted No.50 on the American Film Institutes list of 100 greatest American films. The AFI also voted it the second greatest fantasy film of all time during their 10 Top 10 special, the film ranks #24 on Empire magazines 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time. Isildur is later killed by Orcs, and the Ring is lost for 2,500 years, found, the Ring is then found by a Hobbit named Bilbo Baggins. Sixty years on, Bilbo celebrates his 111th birthday in the Shire, Bilbo reveals he intends on leaving the Shire for one last adventure and leaves his inheritance to his nephew Frodo, including the Ring. Gandalf investigates the Ring, discovering its true identity and warns Frodo, learning Gollum was tortured by Orcs and told them that Bilbo took the Ring, Gandalf instructs Frodo to leave the Shire, accompanied by his gardener Samwise Gamgee. Gandalf rides to Isengard, meeting fellow wizard Saruman the White, but learns he is in league with Sauron, after a brief battle, Saruman imprisons Gandalf. The Hobbits are ambushed by the Ringwraiths, one stabbing Frodo with a morgul blade, Arwen, an elf and Strider’s lover, comes to Frodo’s aid and successfully takes him to Rivendell where he is healed, meeting Gandalf who escaped Saruman on the back of a giant eagle. Arwen’s father, Lord Elrond, holds a council, deciding that the Ring must be destroyed in Mount Doom, Bilbo gives Frodo his sword, Sting. The Fellowship of the Ring sets off but Saruman’s magic forces them to travel through the Mines of Moria, the Fellowship find the dwarves within Moria have been slain, and they are attacked by Orcs and a cave troll. They defeat them, but are confronted by an ancient demon called a Balrog, Gandalf casts the Balrog into a vast chasm, but its fiery whip drags Gandalf down into the darkness with it. The rest of the Fellowship, now led by Aragorn, reach Lothlórien, home to elves Galadriel, Galadriel privately informs Frodo that only he can complete the quest and one of his friends will try to take the Ring. Meanwhile, Saruman creates an army of Uruk-hai to track and kill the Fellowship, the Fellowship leave Lothlórien by river to Parth Galen
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 2)
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The second season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiered on September 15,1997 on The WB and concluded its 22-episode season on May 19,1998. The first 13 episodes aired on Mondays at 9,00 pm ET, beginning with episode 14 the series moved to Tuesdays at 8,00 pm ET, the emotional stakes are raised in season two. New vampires Spike and Drusilla come to town along with the new slayer, Kendra Young, Xander becomes involved with Cordelia, while Willow becomes involved with witchcraft and Daniel Oz Osbourne becomes a werewolf after being bitten by a young cousin who just happens to be a werewolf. Buffy and the vampire Angel develop a relationship over the course of the season, but Angels dark past as the evil and sadistic Angelus threatens to destroy Buffy and the world. The emotional stakes are raised in two as Buffy Summers returns from a summer in Los Angeles after her death at the end of the first season. Impatient with the attitude of the Order of Aurelius, Spike kills the Anointed One. In Whats My Line the time has come for Drusillas ritual, Angel is captured by Spike after he summons a horde of bounty hunters called the Order of Taraka to attempt to eliminate Buffy. Meanwhile, a new Slayer shows up in town, Kendra, Buffy and Kendra are forced to work together in order to rescue Angel and stop Spikes plan. Although they do save Angels life and stop the Order, Drusilla is still returned to strength while Spike is crippled by Buffys assault. Kendra returns to her home as Buffy reaches a new appreciation for her destiny as a slayer, during Buffys 17th birthday, Drusilla and Spike resurrect a powerful demon called The Judge who can burn the humanity out of people and who claims to be invincible. After Buffy and Angel escape from his attack, the two consummate their relationship which brings Angel a moment of perfect happiness and ends up costing him his soul. Buffy wakes up in Angels bed the following morning alone and frets about his disappearance, later she returns to his apartment where he torments her about giving up her virginity to him. Angel, now Angelus, joins forces with Spike and Drusilla as they intend to use the judge to wipe humanity off the Earth, the Scooby Gang show up to stop them and Buffy uses a rocket launcher to kill the judge and halt the vampires plan. She then fights one on one with Angel for the first time, instead she forcibly kicks him in the testicles and leaves. Meanwhile, Willow finds out about Xander and Cordelias relationship and falls out with Xander as a result, Giles is left emotionally shattered having just mended the relationship between him and Jenny and is traumatized when he finds her lifeless body in his bed, a gift left by Angelus. He attempts to take his revenge on Angelus but is saved by Buffy who claims she cant fight her mission on her own. Meanwhile, Xander and Cordelia, and Willow and Oz, now a werewolf after being bitten by his cousin, officially begin dating. In I Only Have Eyes For You it turns out that Spike is in fact ambulatory, during the season finale, Buffy and Willow come across the spell Jenny was working on just prior to her death
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Austin Powers in Goldmember
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Austin Powers in Goldmember is a 2002 American spy action comedy film. It is the third and final installment of the Austin Powers trilogy starring Mike Myers in the title role, the film was directed by Jay Roach, and co-written by Mike Myers and Michael McCullers. Myers also plays the roles of Dr. Evil, Goldmember, the movie co-stars Beyoncé Knowles in her theatrical film debut, as well as Robert Wagner, Seth Green, Michael York, Verne Troyer, Michael Caine, Mindy Sterling and Fred Savage. In a self-parody of the Austin Powers series, there is a film within the film in the opening, the film grossed $296.6 million at the box office internationally. Dr. Evil plans to back in time to 1975 and bring back Johan van der Smut, aka Goldmember. He intends to use the tractor beam to pull a meteor into the Earth, striking the ice caps. Moments after this plan is revealed, Austin Powers and the British Secret Service attack the base, Austin is knighted for his services, but is disappointed when his father, the famous super-spy Nigel Powers, does not attend the event. Basil Exposition later informs Austin that Nigel has been kidnapped, Austin visits the imprisoned Dr. Evil, who tells him that Goldmember is behind the abduction. Time-travelling to 1975, Austin infiltrates Goldmembers roller disco club and is reunited with his lover, FBI agent Foxxy Cleopatra. With Foxxys help, Austin locates his father, but is unable to rescue him, Goldmember takes Nigel through Dr. Evils time machine into the present day. Foxxy wants revenge on Goldmember for murdering her partner, and accompanies Austin in his pursuit, in the present, Dr. Evil and Mini-Me instigate a riot in their prison, allowing them to escape. A British Intelligence mole named Number 3 informs Austin that Dr. Evil has moved to a new lair near Tokyo, Austin and Foxxy travel to Tokyo and confront Fat Bastard, who is now a sumo wrestler, but still does work for Dr. Evil. Fat Bastard explains that a Japanese business man, Mr. Roboto, is working on a device for Dr. Evil, Austin and Foxxy later meet with Mr. Roboto, who pleads ignorance about Nigels whereabouts. Foxxy confronts Goldmember while Austin attempts to free Nigel, but Goldmember escapes with the command unit, unable to settle their differences, Nigel and Austin part ways when they disagree on how to deal with the situation. Meanwhile, Dr. Evils son, Scott Evil, has become evil in an attempt to prove himself to his father. Scott presents his father with sharks with laser beams attached to their heads, Dr. Evil replaces Mini-Me with Scott as his favored son, the rejected Mini-Me defects and joins Austin. Austin, Foxxy and Mini-Me infiltrate the sub, but Austin is captured, Dr. Evil prepares to activate the tractor beam, but Foxxy has stolen the key and frees Austin. Dr. Goldmember activates the tractor beam, but Austin and Dr. Evil work together to reverse its polarity, destroying the meteor, Austin, Foxxy, Dr. Evil, Mini-Me and Nigel are in the audience of a Hollywood theater watching the film
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A Hard Day's Night (film)
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It was written by Alun Owen and originally released by United Artists. The film portrays several days in the lives of the group, the film was a financial and critical success. Time magazine rated it as one of the all-time great 100 films, British critic Leslie Halliwell described it as a comic fantasia with music, an enormous commercial success with the director trying every cinematic gag in the book and awarded it a full four stars. The film is credited as being one of the most influential films of all time, inspiring numerous spy films. Bound for a London show, the Beatles escape a horde of fans, John, Paul, George, and Ringo play a card game, entertaining schoolgirls before arriving at their destination. Upon arrival in London, the Beatles are driven to a hotel, after a night out during which Pauls grandfather causes minor trouble at a casino, the group are taken to the theatre where their performance is to be televised. The preparations are lengthy so Ringo decides to spend time alone reading a book. Pauls grandfather, a villain, a mixer, convinces him to go outside to experience life rather than reading books. He tries to have a drink in a pub, walks alongside a canal. Meanwhile, the rest of the band attempts to find Ringo. Finally, he returns after being arrested by the police along with Pauls grandfather, after the concert, the band is taken away from the hordes of fans via helicopter. The screenplay was written by Alun Owen, who was chosen because the Beatles were familiar with his play No Trams to Lime Street, and he had shown an aptitude for Liverpudlian dialogue. McCartney commented, Alun hung around us and was careful to try and put words in our mouths that he mightve heard us speak. Owen wrote the script from the viewpoint that the Beatles had become prisoners of their own fame, their schedule of performances, the script comments cheekily on the Beatles fame. For instance, at one point a fan, played by Anna Quayle, apparently recognises John Lennon, though she does not actually mention Lennons name, other dialogue is derived from actual interviews with the Beatles. When Ringo is asked if hes a mod or a rocker, he replies, Uh, no, Im a mocker, a line derived from a joke he made on the TV show Ready Steady Go. The frequent reference to McCartneys grandfather as an old man sets up a contrast with the stock description of Brambells character, Albert Steptoe in Steptoe and Son. Audiences also responded to the Beatles brash social impudence, director Richard Lester said, The general aim of the film was to present what was apparently becoming a social phenomenon in this country
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Minority Report (film)
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Minority Report is a 2002 American science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg and loosely based on the short story of the same name by Philip K. Dick. Spielberg has characterized the story as fifty percent character and fifty percent very complicated storytelling with layers and layers of murder mystery, the films central theme is the question of free will versus determinism. It examines whether free will can exist if the future is set, the film was first optioned in 1992 as a sequel to another Dick adaptation, Total Recall, and started its development in 1997, after a script by Jon Cohen reached Spielberg and Cruise. Production suffered many delays due to Cruises Mission, Impossible II and Spielbergs A. I. running over schedule, Minority Report has a unique visual style. It uses high contrast to dark colors and shadows, much like a film noir picture. The films overlit shots feature desaturated colors which were achieved by bleach-bypassing the films negative in post-production, Minority Report was one of the best reviewed films of 2002. It received praise for its writing, visuals and themes, the film was nominated for and won several awards. The film was a success, earning over $358 million worldwide against an overall budget of $142 million. Over four million DVDs were sold in its first few months of home release, in April 2054, Washington, D. C. s PreCrime police stops murderers before they act, reducing the murder rate to zero. Murders are predicted using three mutated humans, called Precogs, who previsualize crimes by receiving visions of the future, would-be murderers are imprisoned in their own happy virtual reality. The Federal government is on the verge of adopting the controversial program, since the disappearance of his son Sean, PreCrime Captain John Anderton has both separated from his wife Lara and become a drug addict. While United States Department of Justice agent Danny Witwer is auditing the program, Anderton does not know Crow, but flees the area as Witwer begins a manhunt. Anderton seeks the advice of Dr. Iris Hineman, the creator of PreCrime technology, Anderton resolves to recover the minority report to prove his innocence. Anderton goes to a black market doctor for an eye transplant so as to avoid the citywide optical recognition system. He returns to PreCrime and kidnaps Agatha, shutting down the system, Anderton and Agatha go to Crows hotel room as the 36-hour time nears, finding numerous photos of children, including Seans. Crow arrives and Anderton prepares to him, accusing him to be a serial child killer. Agatha talks Anderton out of shooting Crow by telling him that he has the ability to choose his future now that he is aware of it. Crow however begs to be killed, having been hired to plant the photos, Crow grabs Andertons gun and pushes the trigger, killing himself
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Monterey Pop
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Monterey Pop is a 1968 concert film by D. A. Pennebaker that documents the Monterey Pop Festival of 1967. Among Pennebakers several camera operators were fellow documentarians Richard Leacock and Albert Maysles, the painter Brice Marden has an assistant camera credit, and Bob Neuwirth, who figured prominently in Pennebakers Bob Dylan documentary Dont Look Back, acted as stage manager. Titles for the film were by the illustrator Tomi Ungerer, the order of performances in the film was rearranged from the order of appearance at the festival. Additionally many artists who appeared at the festival were not included in the cut of the film. Monterey Pop was shot on 16mm film blown up to 35mm for theatrical release, director D. A. Pennebaker said he recorded the audio on a professional 8-channel reel-to-reel recorder borrowed from The Beach Boys. The movies theatrical released used a soundtrack that included two to three minutes of rudimentary surround sound. Dolby noise reduction was added in 1978 when fresh prints of the film were struck, after the original production company, Leacock-Pennebaker, was dissolved in 1970, Pennebaker Associates acquired rights to the film. In a digital remix for the video, Pennebaker eliminated the track of the theatrical release and mixed the center dialog track into the left. No Dolby was used, although Sonys initial video release inadvertently said otherwise on the packaging, in 2002 Monterey Pop was released on DVD as part of a Criterion Collection box set, The Complete Monterey Pop Festival, that also includes Pennebakers short films Jimi Plays Monterey and Shake. Otis at Monterey, as well as two hours of performances, including some by bands not seen in the original film. The box set was re-released in 2009 on Blu-ray, for this edition, the soundtracks were remixed in 5.1 Surround Sound by Eddie Kramer. Rock critic Robert Christgau considers Monterey Pop the best of the 1960s concert documentaries, saying, he music, celebrants are like a wonderful secret — wonderful because even though everyone knows about it, it still delivers the thrill of discovery. Attracted by the high volume of the music, the police arrived. In 1969, Michael Lang and Artie Kornfeld pitched an idea for a studio in Woodstock, New York to businessmen John P. Roberts. In the documentary Woodstock, Now and Then, Rosenman said the proposal suggested that the studio would encourage occasional rock concerts in the town. org
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
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The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers is a 2002 epic high fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson and based on the second volume of J. R. R. Tolkiens novel The Lord of the Rings. It is the installment in The Lord of the Rings film series. Continuing the plot of The Fellowship of the Ring, the film intercuts three storylines, Frodo and Sam continue their journey towards Mordor to destroy the One Ring, meeting and joined by Gollum, the rings former owner. Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli come to the nation of Rohan and are reunited with the resurrected Gandalf. Merry and Pippin escape capture, meet Treebeard the Ent, meeting high critical acclaim, the film was an enormous box-office success, earning over $926 million worldwide and is currently the 39th highest-grossing film of all time. The film won accolades and was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee continue their journey to Mordor to destroy the One Ring by throwing it into Mount Doom and they are attacked in the night by Gollum, former owner of the Ring, but they capture him. Sympathising with Gollum for their shared burden, Frodo asks Gollum to lead them safely to Mordor, meanwhile, Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli pursue the Uruk-hai who kidnapped their friends Merry and Pippin. The Uruk-hai are slaughtered by the Rohirrim army of Rohan, Aragorn’s group later meet the Rohirrim who have been banished by their king Théoden, who is manipulated by Saruman’s servant Grima Wormtongue. Tracking the Hobbits in Fangorn, Aragorn’s group encounter a resurrected Gandalf who perished in Moria, Gollum leads Frodo and Sam through the Dead Marshes while evading the Nazgûl. They reach the Black Gate to Mordor but Gollum stops them, saying its too risky, the trio later are captured by the Rangers of Ithilien, led by Faramir, brother of the late Boromir. When Faramir discovers Frodo has the Ring, he intends on taking him to Gondor, Aragorn, Gandalf, Legolas, and Gimli travel to Rohan’s capital Edoras where Gandalf releases Théoden from Saruman’s power and Wormtongue is banished. Aragorn strikes up a friendship with Théoden’s niece Éowyn who quickly falls in love with him, during a Warg attack, Aragorn falls off a cliff into a river, but is found by his horse and taken to Helm’s Deep. In Fangorn, Merry and Pippin attend an Ent council but learn Treebeard and they convince them otherwise when they show the destruction Saruman has unleashed on the forests around Isengard. The Ents storm Isengard, and release the dam placed upon the nearby river, the Uruk-hai army arrive at Helm’s Deep, finding a makeshift army of civilians and Elves from Rivendell waiting for them. A great battle follows with Théoden losing hope until Aragorn convinces him to ride out, Gandalf and the Rohirrim arrive, turning the tide of the battle and destroying the Uruk-hai. Frodo, Sam, and Gollum are taken to the fallen Gondor city Osgiliath but they are attacked by the Nazgûl, Sam informs Faramir of how the Ring nearly drove Boromir mad, stunning Faramir. Frodo is nearly captured by the Nazgûl but Sam tackles him down a flight of stairs, after the attack ends, Faramir frees the trio and sends them on their way
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Alien (film)
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The films title refers to a highly aggressive extraterrestrial creature that stalks and kills the crew of a spaceship. Dan OBannon wrote the screenplay from a story he wrote with Ronald Shusett, drawing influence from works of science fiction. The film was produced by Gordon Carroll, David Giler and Walter Hill through their Brandywine Productions, Giler and Hill made revisions and additions to the script. The eponymous Alien and its elements were designed by Swiss surrealist artist H. R. Giger, while concept artists Ron Cobb. Alien launched the Alien franchise and is chronologically the first of the main series and it has remained highly praised in subsequent decades, being considered one of the greatest films of all time. In 2002, the film was deemed culturally, historically or aesthetically significant by the Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. In 2008, it was ranked as the seventh-best film in the fiction genre by the American Film Institute. The success of Alien spawned a franchise of novels, comic books, video games. A crossover with the Predator franchise produced the Alien vs. Predator series, a prequel series, which includes Prometheus and Alien, Covenant, continues in development. Detecting a mysterious transmission from a nearby planetoid— possibly a distress signal—the ships computer, Mother, following standard company policy for such situations, the Nostromo lands on the planetoid, sustaining damage from the planetoids dusty atmosphere in the process. Parker and Brett begin repairing the ship, while Dallas, Kane and they discover the signal is coming from a derelict alien spacecraft. Inside, they find the remains of an alien creature whose rib cage appears to have exploded from the inside. On the Nostromo, Ripley determines that the transmission is not a distress signal, Ash responds by telling her that she wouldnt be able to communicate with the others in time. In the alien ship, Kane discovers a chamber containing hundreds of eggs, as he inspects one, a creature springs out and attaches itself to his face. Dallas and Lambert carry the unconscious Kane back to the Nostromo, as acting senior officer, Ripley refuses to let them aboard, citing quarantine regulations, but Ash violates protocol by overriding Ripleys lock and letting them in. The crew unsuccessfully attempt to remove the creature from Kanes face and it detaches on its own and dies. With the ship repaired, the crew lifts off, Kane awakens with some memory loss but otherwise unharmed. Brett follows the cat, Jones, into an engine room
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Aliens (film)
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It is the sequel to the 1979 film Alien and the second installment in the Alien franchise. The film follows Weavers character Ellen Ripley as she returns to the planet where her crew encountered the hostile Alien creature, Gordon Carroll, David Giler, and Walter Hill of Brandywine Productions, who produced the first film and the later sequels, were executive producers of Aliens. They were interested in a follow-up to Alien as soon as its 1979 release, the script was written with a war film tone influenced by the Vietnam War to contrast the horror motifs of the original Alien. It was filmed in England at Pinewood Studios and at a power plant in Acton, London. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including a Best Actress nomination for Sigourney Weaver and it won eight Saturn Awards, including Best Science Fiction Film, Best Actress for Weaver and Best Direction and Best Writing for Cameron. Aliens is considered one of the best films in its genre, a sequel Alien 3 was released in 1992, with Sigourney Weaver reprising her role as Ellen Ripley and Lance Henriksen as Bishop in the film. Ellen Ripley is rescued after drifting through space in stasis for 57 years, the exomoon LV-426, where the Nostromo encountered the alien eggs, is now home to the terraforming colony Hadleys Hope. A dropship delivers the expedition to the surface of LV-426, where they find the colony deserted, the crew uses the colonys computer to locate the colonists grouped beneath the fusion powered atmosphere processing station. They head to the location, descending into corridors covered in Alien secretions, at the center of the station, the marines find the colonists cocooned, serving as incubators for the Aliens offspring. When the marines kill a newborn Alien, the Aliens are roused and ambush the marines, when the inexperienced Gorman panics, Ripley takes control of their vehicle and rams it through the nest to rescue marines Hicks, Hudson, and Vasquez. Hicks orders the dropship to recover the survivors, but a stowaway Alien kills the pilots, Ripley, Newt, Burke, Gorman, and the remaining marines barricade themselves inside the colony command center. He volunteers to crawl through several hundred meters of piping conduits to reach the colonys transmitter, Ripley and Newt fall asleep in the medical laboratory, awakening to find themselves locked in the room with the two facehuggers, which have been released from their tanks. Ripley triggers an alarm to alert the marines, who rescue them. Before the marines can execute Burke in response to the accusation, Hudson, Burke, Vasquez, and Gorman are all killed in the attack and Newt is captured. Ripley and an injured Hicks reach Bishop in the second dropship, the group arrives at the processing station, allowing a heavily armed Ripley to enter the hive and rescue Newt. As they escape, the two encounter the Alien queen in her egg chamber, pursued by the queen, Ripley and Newt rendezvous with Bishop and Hicks on the dropship. All four escape moments before the station explodes with the colony consumed by the nuclear blast, on the Sulaco, the group discover the Alien queen stowed away on the dropships landing gear. She emerges and tears Bishop in half, the queen advances on Newt, but Ripley clashes with her using an exosuit cargo-loader and expels it through an airlock into space
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Alien 3
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It serves as the third film installment of the Alien franchise, and takes place after the events of Aliens and was followed by Alien, Resurrection. The film stars Sigourney Weaver reprising her role as Ellen Ripley, the film faced large-scale problems during production, including shooting without a script, with various screenwriters and directors attached. Fincher was finally brought in to direct after a version with Vincent Ward at the helm was cancelled well into pre-production. While underperforming at the American box office, it earned over $100 million outside of North America, the film received polarized reviews and was regarded as inferior to the previous installments. Fincher has since disowned the film, blaming studio interference and deadlines, in 2003, a revised version of the film known as the Assembly Cut was released without Finchers involvement, it received a warmer reception than the first release version. A fire starts aboard the Colonial Marine spaceship Sulaco, the computer launches an escape pod containing Ellen Ripley, the young girl Newt, Hicks, and the damaged android Bishop, all four are in cryonic stasis. Scans of the crews cryotubes show an Alien facehugger attached to one member, the inmates, who live and work on Fiorina Fury 161 due to their dangerous nature and histories of violence, recover the crashed pod and its passengers. Another facehugger is seen approaching inmate Murphys dog, Spike, Ripley is awakened by Clemens, the prison doctor, who informs her that she is the sole survivor. She is warned by the warden, Harold Andrews, that her presence may have disruptive effects. Ripley insists that Clemens perform an autopsy on Newt, secretly fearing that Newt may be carrying an Alien embryo, despite protests from the warden and his assistant Aaron, the autopsy is conducted and no embryo is found. The bodies of Newt and Hicks are cremated, elsewhere in the prison, a quadrupedal alien bursts from Spike. Growing to full size, the Alien kills Murphy, Boggs, Ripley finds the damaged Bishop in the wreckage of the ship. Just as she is leaving the wreckage, four of the attempt to rape her. Ripley heads back to the infirmary, and re-activates Bishop, who confirms that a facehugger came with them to Fiorina in the escape pod, Ripley informs Andrews of her encounters with the Aliens and suggests everyone work together to hunt down and kill it. Andrews does not believe her story, but explains that the facility has no weapons, the Alien surprises Ripley and Clemens in the prison infirmary, where it kills Clemens. It examines Ripley, but spares her and retreats, Andrews orders Aaron to take her back to the infirmary, but he is dragged into the vents and killed by the Alien. Ripley rallies the inmates and proposes they pour flammable toxic waste into the ventilation system, however, the Aliens intervention causes an explosion and several inmates are killed. With Aarons help, Ripley scans herself using the escape pods medical equipment and she also discovers that Weyland-Yutani hopes to turn the Aliens into biological weapons
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Alien Resurrection
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Alien, Resurrection is a 1997 American science fiction action horror film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and written by Joss Whedon. It is the installment in the Alien film series, and was filmed at the 20th Century Fox studios in Los Angeles. In the film, which is set 200 years after the preceding installment Alien 3, Ellen Ripley is cloned and an Alien queen is surgically removed from her body. The United Systems Military hopes to breed Aliens to study and research on the spaceship USM Auriga, the Aliens escape their enclosures, while Ripley and the mercenaries attempt to escape and destroy the Auriga before it reaches its destination, Earth. Alien, Resurrection was released on November 26,1997 and received mixed reviews from film critics. In 2379, two hundred years after the events of Alien 3, military scientists on the space vessel USM Auriga create a clone of Ellen Ripley using DNA from blood samples taken before her death. The Alien queens DNA was mixed in with Ripleys, and the clone grows up with an embryo inside it, the scientists extract the embryo, raise it and collect its eggs. The Ripley clone is kept alive for further study, as a result of the aliens DNA inside her, she develops enhanced strength and reflexes, has acidic blood and a psychic link with the Aliens. Also, the genetic memory allows the clone to have some of Ripleys memories. A group of mercenaries, Elgyn, Johner, Christie, Vriess, Hillard and Call and they deliver several kidnapped humans in stasis. The military scientists use the humans as hosts for the Aliens, the Betty crew soon encounters Ripley. Call recognizes her name and tries to kill her, suspecting she may be used to create more Aliens, the Aliens have already matured and escape confinement by killing off one of their own and using the acidic blood to burn through their enclosures. They then capture Dr. Jonathan Gediman and kill another scientist and they damage the Auriga and kill some of those people who do not evacuate, including General Perez and Elgyn. Military scientist Dr. Wren reveals that the default command in an emergency is to return to Earth. Along the way, Ripley encounters the grotesque products of failed attempts to clone Ripley, the surviving one begs Ripley to mercy kill her, and she complies. As the group makes their way through the ship, they swim through a flooded kitchen. They are chased by two Aliens, one is killed, while the other snatches Hillard. As they escape the kitchen, the Alien returns and blinds Christie, after Wren betrays the group, Call is revealed to be an android
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Jackass: The Movie
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Jackass, The Movie is a 2002 American reality comedy film directed by Jeff Tremaine with the tagline Do not attempt this at home. It is a continuation of the stunts and pranks by the characters of the MTV television series Jackass. The film was produced by MTV Films and Dickhouse Productions and released by Paramount Pictures, brandon DiCamillo and Raab Himself also appear but not as frequently as in the show. Other regular Jackass personalities who made appearances include Rake Yohn, Manny Puig, Phil Margera, in addition, Rip Taylor, Henry Rollins, Spike Jonze, boxing star Butterbean, Mat Hoffman, and Tony Hawk make cameo appearances. An unrated version of the film was released in 2006 and clocked in at 88 minutes long, rent-a-Car Crash-Up Derby - the team rent a Ford Contour which Johnny Knoxville then drives in a demolition derby event, before returning the wrecked car to the rental company. The Muscle Stimulator - the team try out electronic muscle stimulators, fatty Fall Down - Preston Lacy sits down on a bench that has been rigged to collapse, in front of passers-by. Golf Cart Antics - the team take part in various stunts in golf buggies across a golf course, Party Boy Japan - Chris Pontius, as Party Boy, strips off and dances in the middle of a Tokyo shopping centre. Alligator Tightrope - Steve-O attempts to walk a tightrope across a zoos alligator enclosure, fireworks Wake-Up - Bam Margera wakes up his parents by letting off fireworks in their bedroom, and again in Phils van when he sets out to go to work. The Shoplifter - Johnny Knoxville, dressed as an elderly man, hardware Store Crap - Dave England takes a dump in a display toilet at a hardware store. Clipper Cam - various members of the team and crew are subjected to attacks with hair clippers. Mousetraps - Ehren McGhehey, dressed as a mouse, has to negotiate his way through hundreds of mousetraps to reach the cheese, the Bungee Wedgie - Raab Himself jumps from a tree, suspended by his underpants from a bungee cord. Riot Control Test - Johnny Knoxville is shot in the stomach with a less-lethal projectile designed to control rioters, the Big Cone - Wee Man hides under a giant plastic roadcone and sets off around busy Tokyo streets. Ass Kicked by Girl - Ryan Dunn fights Japanese female kickboxer Naoko Kumagai, tropical Pole Vaulting - Steve-O pole-vaults into palm trees, into the sea from a pier, and into a filthy drainage channel. Night Pandas - The team dress up as pandas and set off into the nightlife of Tokyo. Rocket Skates - Johnny Knoxville attaches firework rockets to his roller skates, roller Disco Truck - The team get into the back of a truck for a roller disco complete with strobe lights and dry ice, while Preston Lacy drives the truck around a car park. Wasabi Snooters - At a Japanese restaurant Steve-O attempts to snort wasabi hot sauce, the Gong - Rick Kosick and Johnny Knoxville sneak up behind unsuspecting members of the Japanese public with a giant gong. Bams Mom Says Fuck - In an effort to make April Margera swear, the Handrail - Johnny Knoxville attempts to grind a long rail on his skateboard. Jacuzzi - Preston Lacy has an afternoon in the hot tub with a beer
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection
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The series began in October 2003 and ended in October 2008. The Golden Collection series was launched following the success of the Walt Disney Treasures series that itself collected archived Disney material, the cartoons included on the set are uncut, unedited, uncensored and digitally restored and remastered from the original black and white and successive exposure Technicolor film negatives. However, some of the cartoons in these collections are derived from the Blue Ribbon reissues, where the original titles, instead of the Blue Ribbon titles, still exist, Warner has taken the Blue Ribbon titles out. A handful of cartoons in the first two collections and the cartoons on Volume 6 have digital video noise reduction artifacting. The noise reduction process sometimes unintentionally erases or blurs some of the picture on certain scenes of the cartoons, the most recent collections, however, lack such artifacting. Home Video has been quietly reissuing copies of the disc of Volume 2 that lacks artifacting and interlacing. Beginning with Volume 3, a warning was printed on the packaging explaining that the collection is intended for adults and this goes along with Whoopi Goldbergs filmed introduction in Volume 3 that explains the history of ethnic imagery that frequently appears in cartoons of the 1930s and 1940s. Ruth Clampett, Sybil Freleng, and Linda Jones, audio footage of Mel Blanc in recording sessions is heard as a bonus feature on several of the discs as is an obscure audio clip of Arthur Q. Bryan rehearsing a line as Elmer Fudd in Whats Opera, Doc. In total, there are 356 cartoons spread throughout the 6 volumes, in some regions, such as Regions 2 and 4, each disc in each volume is packaged separately. Volume 1 contains 56 cartoons mostly from the 1950s with a selection of shorts from the 1940s. You Ought to Be in Pictures This was the first volume to have 60 cartoons, Disc one, as in the first edition, contains only Bugs Bunny cartoons. Disc two contains Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote shorts, along with four cartoons from Road Runner, Disc three contains nine Sylvester/Tweety shorts, along with six cartoons starring Daffy Duck and/or Porky Pig. Volume 3 contains a selection of cartoons mostly from the 1930s and 1940s, Porky Pigs Feat Robin Hood Daffy Birds Anonymous Walky Talky Hawky Disc one, as with previous volumes, is only Bugs Bunny. Disc two features Hollywood caricatures and parodies, Disc three mainly concerns Porky Pig, with a few other pig-related cartoons thrown in. Disc four is the all-stars disc, Disc two is dedicated to director Frank Tashlin. Disc three contains only Speedy Gonzales cartoons, Disc four consists of cartoons starring obscure Looney Tunes cats, with a few Sylvester cartoons thrown in for good measure. This is the first time that the first disc is not entirely dedicated to Bugs Bunny, Disc two contains parodies of fairy tale stories. Disc three honors the work of director Bob Clampett, Disc four features Porky Pig and other early classics - all in black-and-white
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
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Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay written by Lawrence Kasdan, from a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman. It was produced by Frank Marshall for Lucasfilm Ltd. with Lucas, starring Harrison Ford, it was the first installment in the Indiana Jones film franchise to be released, though it is the second in internal chronological order. It pits Indiana Jones against a group of Nazis who are searching for the Ark of the Covenant, the film originated from Lucas desire to create a modern version of the serials of the 1930s and 1940s. Production was based at Elstree Studios, England, but filming took place in La Rochelle, France, Tunisia, Hawaii. Released on June 12,1981, Raiders of the Lost Ark became the years top-grossing film, in 1999, the film was included in the U. S. Library of Congress National Film Registry as having been deemed culturally, historically, Raiders of the Lost Ark is often ranked as one of the greatest films of all time, both in the action-adventure genre, and in general. The film also ranks #2 on Empires 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time, in 1936, archaeologist Indiana Jones braves an ancient booby-trapped temple in Peru and retrieves a golden idol. He is confronted by rival archaeologist René Belloq and the indigenous Hovito people, surrounded and outnumbered, Indy surrenders the idol to Belloq and escapes aboard a waiting floatplane. Jones returns to his position at Marshall College, where he is interviewed by two Army Intelligence agents. They inform him that the Nazis are searching for his old mentor, Abner Ravenwood, the Staff of Ra is the key to finding the Well of Souls, a secret chamber in which the Ark is buried. The agents authorize Jones to recover the Ark to prevent the Nazis from obtaining it and he travels to Nepal and discovers that Abner has died, and the headpiece is in the possession of Ravenwoods daughter Marion. Jones visits Marion at her tavern, where she reveals her feelings toward him from a previous romantic affair. She physically rebuffs his offer to buy the headpiece, and Jones leaves, shortly after, a group of thugs arrive with their Nazi commander, Arnold Toht. Indy and Marion escape with the headpiece, and Marion decides to accompany Indy in his search for the Ark so he can repay his debt to her, the pair travels to Cairo, where they meet up with Indys friend Sallah, a skilled excavator. Sallah informs them that Belloq and the Nazis are digging for the Well of Souls with a replica of the headpiece and they quickly realize the Nazi headpiece is incomplete and that the Nazis are digging in the wrong place. The Nazis kidnap Marion and it appears to Jones that she is killed in an exploding truck, after a confrontation with Belloq in a local bar, Indy and Sallah infiltrate the Nazi dig site and use their staff to correctly locate the Ark. Indy discovers Marion is alive, bound and gagged in a tent, Indy, Sallah, and a small group of diggers unearth the Well of Souls and acquire the Ark. Belloq and Nazi officer Colonel Dietrich arrive, seize the Ark from Jones, Jones and Marion escape to a local airstrip, where Jones has a fistfight with a Nazi mechanic and destroys the flying wing that was to transport the Ark to Berlin
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a 1984 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the installment in the Indiana Jones franchise and a sequel to the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark. Executive producer and co-writer George Lucas decided to make the film a prequel as he did not want the Nazis to be the villains again, after three rejected plot devices, Lucas wrote a film treatment that resembled the films final storyline. The film was released to success but mixed reviews, which criticized its violence. However, critical opinion has improved since 1984, citing the films intensity, some of the films cast and crew, including Spielberg, retrospectively view the film in a negative light, partly due to the film being the darkest and most overtly violent Indiana Jones film. The film has also been the subject of controversy due to its portrayal of India, in 1935, Indiana Jones narrowly escapes the clutches of Lao Che, a crime boss in Shanghai, China. With his 11-year-old Chinese sidekick Short Round and the nightclub singer Willie Scott in tow, Indy flees Shanghai on an airplane that, unknown to them, is owned by Lao. While the three of sleep on the plane, the pilots parachute out, and they leave the plane to crash over the Himalayas while dumping its fuel. Indy, Shorty, and Willie discover this and narrowly manage to escape by jumping out of the plane on an inflatable raft, during the journey to Pankot, Indy hypothesizes that the stone may be one of the five fabled Sankara stones that promise fortune and glory. The trio receive a welcome from the Prime Minister of Pankot Palace. The visitors are allowed to stay the night as guests, during which they attend a lavish but grotesque banquet given by the young prince Maharaja, Chattar Lal rebuffs Indys questions about the villagers claims and his theory that the ancient Thuggee cult is responsible for their troubles. Later that night, Indy is attacked by an assassin, leading Indy, Willie and they discover a series of tunnels hidden behind a statue in Willies room and set out to explore them, overcoming a number of booby-traps along the way. The trio eventually reach a temple where the Thugs worship Kali with human sacrifice. They watch as the Thugs chain one of their victims in a cage and slowly lower him into a fire pit. They discover that the Thugs, led by their high priest Mola Ram, are in possession of three of the five Sankara stones, and have enslaved the children to mine for the two stones. As Indy tries to retrieve the stones, he, Willie, Indy is whipped and forced to drink a potion called the Blood of Kali, which places him in a trance-like state where he begins to mindlessly serve the Thugs. Willie, meanwhile, is kept as a sacrifice, while Shorty is put to work in the mines alongside the enslaved children. Shorty breaks free and escapes back into the temple where he burns Indy with a torch, after defeating Chattar Lal, Indy stops Willies cage and cranks it out of the pit just in time before it has a chance to enter the fire
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, from a story co-written by executive producer George Lucas. It is the installment in the Indiana Jones franchise. Harrison Ford reprises the role and Sean Connery plays Indianas father, Henry Jones. Other cast members featured include Alison Doody, Denholm Elliott, Julian Glover, River Phoenix, in the film, set largely in 1938, Indiana searches for his father, a Holy Grail scholar, who has been kidnapped by Nazis. After the mixed reaction to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Spielberg chose to compensate with a film that toned down the violence, during the five years between Temple of Doom and Last Crusade, he and executive producer Lucas reviewed several scripts before accepting Jeffrey Boams. Filming locations included Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom, Turkey, the film was released in North America on May 24,1989, to mostly positive reviews. It was a success, earning $474,171,806 at the worldwide box office totals. It won an Academy Award for Best Sound Editing, in 1912, thirteen-year-old Indiana Jones is horseback riding with his Boy Scout troop at Arches National Park in Utah. While scouting caves, Indy discovers a group of robbers who have found a golden crucifix belonging to Coronado and steals it from them. The men give chase through a circus train, leaving Indy with a bloody cut across his chin from a bullwhip. Indy escapes, but the local sheriff makes him return the cross to the robbers, impressed with Indys bravery, the leader of the robbers gives Indy his fedora, and encourages him to not give up. In 1938, Indy recovers the cross off the coast of Portugal, later, Indy is introduced to Walter Donovan, who informs him that Indys father, Henry Jones, Sr. has vanished while searching for the Holy Grail, using an incomplete inscription as his guide. Indy then receives Henrys Grail diary via mail from Venice, realizing that he would not have sent the diary unless he was in trouble, Indy and Marcus travel to Venice, where they meet Henrys Austrian colleague, Dr. Elsa Schneider. They flee, however, when the catacombs are set aflame by the Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword, a secret society that protects the Grail from evildoers. Indy and Elsa capture one of the Brotherhood, Kazim, and Indy tells him that his goal is only to find his father, Kazim tells him that Henry is being held in Castle Brunwald on the Austrian-German border. Marcus later reveals a map drawn by Henry of the route to the Grail, at Castle Brunwald, Indy rescues Henry, but learns that Elsa and Donovan are actually working with the Nazis, and are using him to find the Grail for them. Meanwhile, Marcus is captured in Hatay, while waiting with Sallah for the Joneses, the Joneses escape from Castle Brunwald. Henry tells Indy that to reach the Grail, one must face three booby traps and his diary contains the clues to guide them through the challenges safely and they recover the diary from Elsa at a book burning rally in Berlin
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Spider-Man 2
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Spider-Man 2 is a 2004 American superhero film directed by Sam Raimi and written by Alvin Sargent from a story by Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, and Michael Chabon. The sequel to the 2002 film Spider-Man, it is the film in Raimis Spider-Man film trilogy based on the fictional Marvel Comics character of the same name. Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, and James Franco reprise their roles as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Mary Jane Watson. Spider-Man must stop him from successfully recreating the experiment, which threatens to annihilate the city, Spider-Man 2 was released in both conventional and IMAX theaters on June 30,2004. It grossed $783.8 million worldwide and won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and it also received five awards at the Saturn Awards ceremony including Best Fantasy Film and Best Director for Raimi. The films success led to the release of Spider-Man 3 in 2007, Peter Parker struggles to balance his crime-fighting duties as Spider-Man with the demands of his normal life. Estranged from both love interest Mary Jane Watson and best friend Harry Osborn, Peter additionally discovers his Aunt May is facing eviction. Harry, now head of Oscorps research division, is sponsoring brilliant nuclear scientist Otto Octavius fusion power project, while handling hazardous materials, Octavius wears a harness of powerful robotic tentacle arms with artificial intelligence. During a public demonstration, in which Peter and Harry attend, Octavius refuses to shut down the reactor, which goes critical, killing his wife and shattering the inhibitor chip blocking the arms from his nervous system. Spider-Man arrives and shuts down the experiment, destroying it, at a hospital, doctors prepare to surgically remove Octaviuss harness. However, without the chip to keep the arms supported to the nervous system. Upon regaining consciousness and seeing the carnage, Octavius escapes and takes refuge at a harbour, becoming increasingly influenced by the arms AI, Octavius robs a bank that Peter and May are coincidentally visiting in order to fund a second experiment. Octavius takes May hostage but is rescued by Peter as Spider-Man, the Daily Bugle subsequently dubs Octavius Doctor Octopus. Mary Jane becomes engaged to astronaut John Jameson, son of Bugle chief J. Jonah Jameson, Peter suffers an emotional breakdown and temporarily loses his powers. He abandons his Spider-Man identity, returns to his normal life, a garbageman brings Spider-Mans costume to Jameson, who takes credit for driving Spider-Man into hiding. Peter decides to tell Aunt May the truth behind Uncle Bens death, may forgives him, but the rise in New York City crime rate worries Peter. Octavius, requiring the isotope tritium to fuel his reactor, visits Harry to demand it, Harry agrees in exchange for Spider-Mans life. He tells Octavius to seek Peter, who is good friends with Spider-Man
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Angel (season 4)
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The fourth season of the television series Angel, the spin-off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, premiered on October 6,2002 on The WB and concluded its 22-episode season on May 7,2003. The season aired in a new timeslot, Sundays at 9,00 pm ET, the season begins with Gunn and Fred searching for Angel and Cordelia at the end of season three. It turns out that Wesley has been searching for them both as well. Using information coerced from Justine, Wesley is able to deduce Angels location and bring him back to shore, after Angel forces Connor to leave the Hyperion Hotel in retribution for what he did to him, Angel does everything he can to find Cordelia whose whereabouts are still unknown. Angel and Co. eventually learn that Cordelia is happy and they decide to leave her in peace. After Cordelia is made aware of the world that surrounds them. Meanwhile, Fred and Gunn hit a snag in their relationship after Gunn kills Freds old college professor for sending her to Pylea. Wesley is still sleeping with Lilah Morgan who, after decapitating Linwood Murrow with the backing of the Senior Partners, was head of special projects at Wolfram & Hart. Wesley and Lilah begin to develop feelings for each other. Using rather unreliable magic, Lorne is eventually able to retrieve Cordelias long lost memories which brings back everything she felt for Angel and her friends. After telling Angel that the two of them were in love, she out of the hotel unable to deal with everything that has happened to her. Later she tells Angel that as soon as she regained her memory she had a vision of a terrifying monster rising up underneath Los Angeles. This monster would come to be known as The Beast, who, as soon as he is awakened, as the Beast calls down a reign of fire Cordelia and Connor look upon what they believe to be the end of the world. Cordelia, perceiving Connors life as one big sham, decides to sleep with him in order to him one moment of truth in an otherwise horrible life of lies. Angel, witnessing this after checking to see if they were okay, grows incredibly frustrated, after Connor contacts Wolfram & Hart to gain information about his true nature, the Beast invades the building and kills everyone inside. Angel is informed of this and goes in with his team to rescue his son, using her last ounce of strength, the conduit teleports the team away before they are harmed. This event leads to the gang realizing that the Beast is on a quest to kill the five totems of the sun god Ra in order to out the sun. Angelus tells the little of value but instead taunts and ridicules each of them by exploiting a weak spot either in their self-esteem or relationships
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 6)
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It maintained its previous timeslot, airing Tuesdays at 8,00 pm ET. This season marked the series network change from The WB to UPN, at the beginning of season six Willow resurrects Buffy with a powerful spell. Although her friends believe that they have taken her out of Hell and she is therefore traumatized by her resurrection and this causes her to fall into a deep depression for most of the season. Giles returns to England after realizing that Buffy has become too reliant on him, while Buffy takes up a job for money and develops a secret. Dawn is happy to have her back, but Buffys depression causes Dawns feelings of alienation to lead to kleptomania. When a demon briefly traps everyone in the Summers house, Dawns feelings are revealed and Buffy promises to mend their relationship. On the wedding day of Xander and Anya, a magician, seeking his own vengeance against Anya, Anya reverts to a vengeance demon once more. When Anya cant find anyone who wishes vengeance on Xander, she has a one night stand with Spike, Tara becomes concerned and challenges Willow to go a week without magic, but Willow gives in to her addiction, causing Tara to leave her. Despite their separation, Tara is still devoted to helping Willow with her addiction, the Trio would often use monsters such as vampires and demons to assist them. Warren is shown to be the only competent villain of the group, and his capacity for evil is demonstrated by the rape of his ex-girlfriend. After Buffy thwarts his plans multiple times and the Trio breaks apart, Warren then attacks Buffy with a gun, Willow tries to resurrect Tara but fails. Taras death causes Willow to descend into darkness and unleash all of her magical powers. Willow hunts down and flays Warren alive in vengeance, driven by grief, Willow fights and overpowers Buffy, who is forced to fight when she is unable to condone Willows actions. Giles returns to help face Willow in battle and infuses her with light magic and this backfires when Willow feels the pain in everyone around the world and decides to destroy the world in order to end everyones suffering. At the climax of the season, Xander prevents Willow from destroying the world by reminding her of their friendship and telling her that he loves her no matter what and she eventually breaks down, and the dark magic drains from her. Meanwhile, Buffy comes to terms with being alive again, series creator Joss Whedon served as executive producer, but his role was diminished as he took a hiatus to write the musical episode, and later Fox ordered a new pilot from him, Firefly. Whedon only ended up writing and directing one episode, the musical, marti Noxon was promoted to executive producer and took over the duties of the showrunner and wrote three episodes. David Fury was promoted to producer and wrote four episodes, directing one of them
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Dawn of the Dead (1978 film)
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Dawn of the Dead is a 1978 American independent zombie horror film directed by George A. Romero. It was written by Romero in collaboration with the Italian filmmaker Dario Argento and it was the second film made in Romeros Living Dead series, but contains no characters or settings from Night of the Living Dead, and shows in a larger scale the apocalyptic effects on society. In the film, a phenomenon of unidentified origin has caused the reanimation of the dead, who prey on human flesh, the cast features David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott Reiniger, and Gaylen Ross as survivors of the outbreak who barricade themselves inside a suburban shopping mall. Dawn of the Dead was filmed over four months, from late 1977 to early 1978, in the Pennsylvania cities of Pittsburgh. Its primary filming location was the Monroeville Mall, the film was made on a budget estimated at $1.5 million and was a significant box office success for its time, grossing approximately $55 million worldwide. Since opening in theaters in 1978, and despite heavy gore content, in addition to four official sequels, the film has spawned numerous parodies and pop culture references. A remake of the premiered in the United States on March 19,2004. It was labeled a re-imagining of the films concept. In 2008, Dawn of the Dead was chosen by Empire magazine as one of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time, the United States is devastated by a mysterious phenomenon which reanimates recently deceased human beings as flesh-eating zombies. Despite the best efforts by the U. S. government and local authorities to control the situation, millions of people are killed and reanimate, social order is collapsing. Some rural communities and the military have been effective in fighting the hordes in open country. Meanwhile, police SWAT officer Roger DiMarco and his team raid a housing project where the residents are defying the law of delivering their dead to National Guardsmen. Some residents fight back with handguns and rifles, and are killed by both the overzealous SWAT team and their own reanimated dead, during the raid, Roger meets Peter Washington, part of another SWAT team, and they partner up together. Roger tells Peter that his friend Stephen intends to steal his workplaces helicopter and flee and they are informed of a group of zombies trapped in the basement, which they assist in the grim job of destroying. That night, Roger and Peter rendezvous with Francine and Stephen, following some close calls while stopping for fuel, the group comes across a shopping mall, which they decide to make their sanctuary. Francine reveals that she is pregnant, Peter offers to abort the child, but this is rejected. During the blockade operation, Roger becomes reckless and is bitten by the zombies, after clearing the interior of zombies, the four are able to enjoy a hedonistic lifestyle with all the goods in every store available to them. Roger eventually succumbs to his wounds, soon reanimates and is shot in the head by Peter, after several months, all emergency broadcast transmissions cease, suggesting that the government has collapsed and a large portion of the population has been killed and reanimated
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La Dolce Vita
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La Dolce Vita is a 1960 Italian comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Federico Fellini. The film follows Marcello Rubini, a journalist writing for magazines, over seven days and nights on his journey through the sweet life of Rome in a fruitless search for love. La Dolce Vita won the Palme dOr at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and the Oscar for Best Costumes, based on the most common interpretation of the storyline, the film can be divided into a prologue, seven major episodes interrupted by an intermezzo, and an epilogue. If the evenings of each episode were joined with the morning of the preceding episode together as a day, they would form seven consecutive days. 1st Day Sequence, A helicopter transports a statue of Christ over an ancient Roman aqueduct outside Rome while a second, Marcello Rubinis news helicopter, the news helicopter is momentarily sidetracked by a group of bikini-clad women sunbathing on the rooftop of a high-rise apartment building. Hovering above, Marcello uses gestures to elicit phone numbers from them but fails in his attempt then shrugs, 1st Night Sequence, Marcello meets Maddalena by chance in an exclusive nightclub. A beautiful and wealthy heiress, Maddalena is tired of Rome and they make love in the bedroom of a prostitute to whom they had given a ride home in Maddalena’s Cadillac. 1st Dawn Sequence, Marcello returns to his apartment at dawn to find that his fiancée, on the way to the hospital, he declares his everlasting love to her and again as she lies in a semiconscious state in the emergency room. While waiting frantically for her recovery, however, he tries to make a call to Maddalena. 2nd Day Sequence, That day, he goes on assignment for the arrival of Sylvia, during Sylvias press conference, Marcello calls home to ensure Emma has taken her medication while reassuring her that he is not alone with Sylvia. After the film star confidently replies to the barrage of questions, her boyfriend Robert enters the room late. To Sylvias producer, Marcello casually recommends that Sylvia be taken on a tour of St Peters, inside St Peters dome, a news reporter complains that Sylvia is an elevator because none of them can match her energetic climb up the numerous flights of stairs. Inspired, Marcello maneuvers forward to be alone with her when they reach the balcony overlooking the Vatican. 2nd Night Sequence, That evening, the infatuated Marcello dances with Sylvia in the Baths of Caracalla, Sylvias natural sensuality triggers raucous partying while Robert, her bored fiancé, draws caricatures and reads a newspaper. His humiliating remark to her causes Sylvia to leave the group, eagerly followed by Marcello, finding themselves alone, Marcello and Sylvia spend the rest of the evening in the alleys of Rome where they wade into the Trevi Fountain. 2nd Dawn Sequence, Like a magic spell that has suddenly been broken and they drive back to Sylvias hotel to find an enraged Robert waiting for her in his car. Robert slaps Sylvia, orders her to go to bed, 3rd Day Sequence, Marcello meets Steiner, his distinguished intellectual friend, inside a church playing Bach on the organ. Steiner shows off his book of Sanskrit grammar, 4th Day Sequence, Late afternoon, Marcello, his photographer friend Paparazzo, and Emma drive to the outskirts of Rome to cover the story of the purported sighting of the Madonna by two children
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Easy Rider
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Easy Rider is a 1969 American road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper. It tells the story of two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South after selling a large score of cocaine, the success of Easy Rider helped spark the New Hollywood era of filmmaking during the early 1970s. The film was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1998, in Easy Rider, real drugs were used in scenes showing the use of marijuana and other substances. The protagonists are two freewheeling bikers, Wyatt, nicknamed Captain America, and Billy, Wyatt dresses in American flag-adorned leather, while Billy dresses in Native American-style buckskin pants and shirts and a bushman hat. The former is open to people they meet on their journey and accepting of help while the latter is more hostile. After smuggling cocaine from Mexico to Los Angeles, Wyatt and Billy sell their haul to Connection, a man in a Rolls-Royce, during their trip Wyatt and Billy stop to repair one of the bikes at a farmstead, and have a meal with the farmer and his family. Wyatt seems to appreciate the simple, traditional lifestyle presented here, later Wyatt stops to pick up a hippyish hitch-hiker and he invites them to visit his commune, where they stay for the rest of the day. Life in the commune appears to be hard, with young hippies from the city struggling to grow their own crops in a dry climate with poor soil and little rainfall. At one point, the witness a prayer for blessing of the new crop, as put by a commune-member, A chance to make a stand. The commune is also hosting a traveling theater group that sings for its supper, the hitch-hiker asks the two bikers to stay at the commune, saying, the time is now, to which Wyatt replies Im hip about time. but I just gotta go. As the bikers leave, the hitch-hiker gives Wyatt some LSD for him to share with the right people, later, while naughtily riding along with a parade in a small town, the pair are arrested by the local authorities for parading without a permit and thrown in jail. There, they befriend American Civil Liberties Union lawyer and local drunk George Hanson, George helps them get out of jail and decides to travel with Wyatt and Billy to New Orleans. As they camp that night, Wyatt and Billy introduce George to marijuana, as an alcoholic and a square, George is reluctant to try the marijuana, but he quickly relents. Stopping to eat at a smalltown Louisiana diner, the trios appearance attracts the attention of the locals, the girls in the restaurant think theyre exciting but the local men and a police officer begin making loud and denigrating comments and taunts. One of the men menacingly states, I dont believe theyll make the parish line, the waitress does not take their order and Wyatt, Billy and George, feeling the hostility, decide to leave without any fuss. The events of the day cause George to comment, This used to be a hell of a good country, I cant understand whats gone wrong with it. He observes that Americans talk a lot about the value of freedom but are afraid of anyone who truly exhibits it. In the middle of the night a group of attack the sleeping trio
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
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It is the third and final installment in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, following The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, preceding The Hobbit film trilogy. Released on 17 December 2003, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King received rave reviews and universal acclaim, the film was the highest-grossing film of 2003 and, by the end of its theatrical run, the second highest-grossing film in history. As of January 2017, it is the fourteenth highest-grossing film of all time, at the 76th Academy Awards, it won all 11 Academy Awards for which it was nominated, therefore holding the record for highest Oscar sweep. The wins included the awards for Best Picture, the first and only time a film has done so, it was also the second sequel to win a Best Picture Oscar. The film jointly holds the record for the largest number of Academy Awards won with Ben-Hur, the film has been re-released twice, in 2011 and 2017. Gandalf leads Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, and King Théoden to Isengard where they reunite with Merry, with Saruman defeated, Gandalf retrieves Sarumans palantír. Pippin later steals a glance into the seeing-stone, and suffers an attack from Sauron himself. Gandalf deduces that Sauron will attack Gondors capital Minas Tirith and he rides there to warn them, taking Pippin with him because Sauron believes Pippin is the ring bearer. The hobbits begin climbing a precarious stair carved in the face that will take them into Mordor via a secret way. But having overheard Gollums plot to regain the Ring, Sam keeps an eye on him. Saurons army strikes and overwhelms the city of Osgiliath, forcing Faramir, while helping Théoden gather his forces, Aragorn is approached by Elrond who informs him Arwen is dying. Following a vision of her son, she refused to leave Middle Earth, Elrond gives Aragorn the sword Andúril, Isildurs sword Narsil reforged, so he can reclaim his birthright while gaining reinforcements from the Dead Men of Dunharrow. Joined by Legolas and Gimli, Aragorn travels to the Paths of the Dead, Faramir is gravely wounded after a futile effort to retake Osgiliath, and believing his son to be dead, Denethor falls into madness. Gandalf is left to command the city defences against the Orc army led by Gothmog, but as Gothmogs forces eventually force their way into the city, Denethor attempts to kill himself and Faramir on a pyre. Pippin alerts Gandalf and they save Faramir, but Denethor leaps to his death from the top of Minas Tirith just before Théoden and the Rohirrim arrive. Initially, the Rohirrim have the advantage at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, though Théodens niece Éowyn, having posed as a male soldier, battles and slays the Witch-King with Merrys help, Théoden dies of his wounds. Aragorn arrives with the Army of the Dead, they overcome the Orcs, Aragorn and the other captains of Men decide to lead all who can march upon the Black Gate as a distraction, so Frodo and Sam can get to Mount Doom. Gollum disposes of the last of the food, blaming Sam
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The Matrix
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The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction film written and directed by The Wachowskis, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano. Computer programmer Neo learns this truth and is drawn into a rebellion against the machines, the film is an example of the cyberpunk science fiction genre. The Matrix was first released in the United States on March 31,1999 and it was generally well-received by critics, and won four Academy Awards as well as other accolades including BAFTA Awards and Saturn Awards. Reviewers praised The Matrix for its visual effects, cinematography. The films premise was both criticized for being derivative of earlier science fiction works, and praised for being intriguing, the action also polarized critics, some describing it as impressive, but others dismissing it as a trite distraction from an interesting premise. The film has appeared in lists of the greatest science fiction films. The success of the led to the release of two feature film sequels, both written and directed by the Wachowskis, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. The Matrix franchise was expanded through the production of comic books, video games. Trinity, a hacker, is cornered by police in an abandoned hotel. She overpowers them with superhuman abilities, but a group of sinister superhuman black-suited Agents lead the police in a rooftop pursuit and she answers a ringing public telephone and vanishes. Thomas Anderson is a programmer living a double life under the hacker alias Neo. He believes something is wrong with the world and is puzzled by repeated online encounters with the phrase the Matrix. Trinity contacts him, saying that a man named Morpheus can explain its meaning, however, the Agents, led by Agent Smith, apprehend Neo at his office. Undeterred, Neo meets Morpheus, who offers him a choice between a red pill that will allow him to learn the truth about the Matrix, and a blue pill that will return him to his old life. Swallowing the red pill, Neos reality disintegrates and he awakens, naked and weak, in a liquid-filled pod and he is rescued and brought aboard Morpheuss hovercraft, the Nebuchadnezzar. Morpheus explains that, in the 21st century, intelligent machines waged a war against the humans that created them, when humans blocked the machines access to solar energy, the machines began to harvest the humans bioelectricity for power. The Matrix is a simulation of the world as it was in 1999 in which the minds of the harvested humans are trapped and pacified. Morpheus and his crew belong to a group of rebels who hack into the Matrix and unplug enslaved humans, the rebels understanding of the simulated reality allows them to bend its physical laws, granting them superhuman abilities
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The Matrix Reloaded
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It was also screened out of competition at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. The video game Enter the Matrix, which was released on May 15, and a collection of nine animated shorts, The Animatrix, the Matrix Revolutions, which completes the story, was released six months after Reloaded, in November 2003. Six months after the events of the first film, Neo, Morpheus receives a message from Captain Niobe of the Logos calling an emergency meeting of all of Zions ships. Zion has confirmed the last transmission of the Osiris, an army of Sentinels is tunneling towards Zion, commander Lock orders all ships to return to Zion to prepare for the onslaught, but Morpheus asks one ship to remain in order to contact the Oracle. The Caduceus receives a message from the Oracle, and the Nebuchadnezzar ventures out so Neo can contact her, one of the Caduceus crew, Bane, encounters Agent Smith, who takes over Banes avatar. Smith then uses this avatar to leave the Matrix, gaining control of Banes real body, in Zion, Morpheus announces the news of the advancing machines to the people. Neo receives a message from the Oracle and returns to the Matrix to meet her bodyguard Seraph, after realizing that the Oracle is part of the Matrix, Neo asks how he can trust her, she replies that it is his decision. The Oracle instructs Neo to reach the Source of the Matrix by finding the Keymaker, as the Oracle departs, Smith appears, telling Neo that after being defeated, he refused to be deleted, and is now a rogue program. He demonstrates his ability to clone himself using other inhabitants of the Matrix, including other Agents and he then tries to absorb Neo as a host, but fails, prompting a battle between Smiths clones and Neo. Neo manages to defend himself, but is forced to retreat from the overwhelming numbers. Neo, Morpheus, and Trinity visit the Merovingian and ask for the Keymaker and his wife Persephone, seeking revenge on her husband for his infidelity, betrays him and leads the trio to the Keymaker. The Merovingian soon arrives with his men, Morpheus, Trinity and the Keymaker escape, while Neo holds off the Merovingians servants. Morpheus and Trinity try to escape with the Keymaker on the freeway, facing several Agents and the Twins, Morpheus defeats the Twins, Trinity escapes, and Neo flies in to save Morpheus and the Keymaker from Agent Johnson. In the real world, Zions remaining ships prepare to battle the machines, within the Matrix, the crews of the Nebuchadnezzar, Vigilant and Logos help the Keymaker and Neo reach the door to the Source. The crew of the Logos must destroy a power plant to prevent a security system from being triggered, the Logos succeeds, while the Vigilant is bombed by a Sentinel in the real world, killing everyone on board. Although Neo asked Trinity to remain on the Nebuchadnezzar, she enters the Matrix to replace the Vigilant crew, however, her escape is compromised by an Agent, and they fight. As Neo, Morpheus, and the Keymaker try to reach the Source, the Keymaker unlocks the door to the Source, allowing Neo and Morpheus to enter and escape from the Smiths, but the Smiths kill the Keymaker while he tries to close the door to the Source. Neo enters a door and meets a program called the Architect, the Architect explains that Neo is part of the design of the sixth iteration of Matrix, designed to stop the fatal system crash that naturally occurs due to the concept of human choice
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The Matrix Revolutions
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The Matrix Revolutions is a 2003 American–Australian science fiction action film written and directed by The Wachowski Brothers. It was the installment of the Matrix trilogy, released six months following The Matrix Reloaded. The film was released simultaneously in 60 countries on November 5,2003, while it is the final film in the series, the Matrix storyline is continued in The Matrix Online. It was the second film to be released in both regular and IMAX theaters at the same time. The film received average reviews from critics. Neo and Bane lie unconscious in the bay of the ship Hammer. Meanwhile, Neo finds his digital self trapped in a virtual subway station—named, Mobil Ave. mobil, being an anagram for limbo—a transition zone between the Matrix and the Machine City. In that subway station, he meets a family of programs, including a girl named Sati, whose father tells Neo the subway is controlled by the Trainman, when Neo tries to board a train with the family, the Trainman refuses and overpowers him. Seraph contacts Morpheus and Trinity on behalf of the Oracle, who informs them of Neos confinement, Seraph, Morpheus and Trinity enter Club Hel, where they confront the Merovingian and force him to release Neo. Troubled by visions of the Machine City, Neo visits the Oracle and she states that everything that has a beginning has an end, and that the war will conclude. After Neo leaves, a group of Smiths assimilates Sati, Seraph. In the real world, the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar and the Hammer find and reactivate Niobes ship and they interrogate Bane, who says that he has no recollection of the earlier massacre. As the captains plan their defense of Zion, Neo requests a ship to travel to the Machine City, motivated by her encounter with the Oracle, Niobe offers him the Logos. Bane, who has stowed away on the Logos, takes Trinity hostage, Neo realizes that Bane has been assimilated by Smith. Bane cauterizes Neos eyes with a cable, blinding him, however. Neo kills Bane, and Trinity pilots them to the Machine City, Niobe and Morpheus set out for Zion with the Hammer to aid the human defenses against the Sentinels. In Zion, the fatally wounded Captain Mifune instructs Kid to open the gate for the Hammer, when it arrives, it discharges its EMP, disabling the Sentinels but also the remaining defenses. The humans are forced to retreat and wait for the next attack, near the Machine City, Neo and Trinity are greeted by thousands of missiles which Neo attempts to destroy, but is overwhelmed by their numbers
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The Animatrix
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The Animatrix is a 2003 American-Japanese anthology anime film based on The Matrix trilogy produced by The Wachowskis, who wrote and directed the trilogy. The film is a compilation of nine animated short films, including four written by the Wachowskis and it details the backstory of the Matrix universe, including the original war between man and machines which led to the creation of the Matrix. The short is a direct prequel leading into the events of The Matrix Reloaded, captain Thadeus and Jue engage in a blindfolded sword fight in a virtual-reality dojo. With each slice of their swords, they remove another part of each others clothing, immediately after cutting the other down to their underwear, they lift their blindfolds to peek at the other. As the two are about to kiss, they are interrupted by an alarm and the simulation ends, in the next scene, the hovercraft Osiris is headed for Junction 21 when Robbie, the operator, picks up an army of Sentinels on his HR scans. The ship flees into a tunnel, where it encounters a smaller group of Sentinels patrolling the area. The crew members man the guns and destroy the patrol. The ship then emerges on the surface, four kilometers directly above Zion, there, the crew members see that the Machines are using gigantic drills to tunnel their way down to Zion. The Sentinel army soon detects the Osiris and pursues the ship, Thadeus decides Zion must be warned, and his shipmate Jue volunteers to broadcast herself into the Matrix to deliver the warning while the ship is doggedly pursued. Knowing that they are not going to make it, Jue, entering the Matrix on a high rooftop, Jue jumps off and acrobatically makes her way down through power poles between two buildings. When she lands in the alley below, an effect is created by her impact. She drops off a package into a box, the package sets the prologue for the video game Enter the Matrix. She attempts to contact Thadeus via a phone as the Osiris is overrun by Sentinels. The Sentinels tear their way into the ship, at the time of the call, Thadeus is making a last stand to hold off the Sentinels. Shortly after Jue says Thadeus over her phone, the Osiris explodes, destroying many of the pursuing Sentinels. In the Matrix, Jue falls to the ground, dead, the Second Renaissance is a two-part film written and directed by Mahiro Maeda. He used Bits and Pieces of Information written by The Wachowskis as a prequel to the series as a base for the first part, the production is made by the Studio 4°C. In the early-to-mid twenty-first century, humanity successfully develops Artificial intelligence, many of these robots are domestic servants meant to interact with humans, so they are built in mans own image
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Star Wars (film)
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Star Wars is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. The first installment in the Star Wars film series, it stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew co-star in supporting roles. The plot focuses on the Rebel Alliance, led by Princess Leia, and its attempt to destroy the Galactic Empires space station and this conflict disrupts the isolated life of farmhand Luke Skywalker, who inadvertently acquires a pair of droids that possess stolen architectural plans for the Death Star. Star Wars was released theatrically in the United States on May 25,1977 and it earned $461 million in the U. S. and $314 million overseas, totaling $775 million. It surpassed Jaws to become the film of all time until the release of E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial. When adjusted for inflation, Star Wars is the film in North America. It received ten Academy Award nominations, winning seven and it was among the first films to be selected as part of the U. S. Library of Congress National Film Registry as being culturally, historically, at the time, it was the most recent film on the registry and the only one chosen from the 1970s. Its soundtrack was added to the U. S. National Recording Registry in 2004, today, it is often regarded as one of the best films of all time, as well as one of the most important films in the history of motion pictures. It launched an industry of tie-in products, including TV series spinoffs, novels, comic books, and video games, the films success led to two critically and commercially successful sequels, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. A prequel trilogy was released between 1999 and 2005, followed by a trilogy beginning in 2015. In 2016, Rogue One was released as a prequel to the original Star Wars film. The galaxy is in the midst of a civil war, spies for the Rebel Alliance have stolen plans to the Galactic Empires Death Star, a heavily armed space station capable of destroying an entire planet. Rebel leader Princess Leia has the plans, but her ship is captured by Imperial forces under the command of the evil Darth Vader, before she is captured, Leia hides the plans in the memory of an astromech droid, R2-D2, along with a holographic recording. R2-D2 flees to the surface of the desert planet Tatooine with C-3PO, the droids are captured by Jawa traders, who sell them to moisture farmers Owen and Beru Lars and their nephew Luke Skywalker. While cleaning R2-D2, Luke accidentally triggers part of Leias message, the next morning, Luke finds R2-D2 searching for Obi-Wan, and meets Ben Kenobi, an old hermit who lives in the hills and reveals himself to be Obi-Wan. Contrary to his uncles statements, Luke learns that his father, Anakin, Obi-Wan tells Luke that Vader was his former pupil who turned to the dark side of the Force and killed Anakin. Obi-Wan then presents to Luke his fathers weapon – a lightsaber, Obi-Wan views Leias complete message, in which she begs him to take the Death Star plans to her home planet of Alderaan and give them to her father for analysis
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The Empire Strikes Back
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The Empire Strikes Back is a 1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner. Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan wrote the screenplay, with George Lucas writing the films story, the film is set three years after Star Wars. The Galactic Empire, under the leadership of the villainous Darth Vader and the Emperor, is in pursuit of Luke Skywalker, while Vader chases a small band of Lukes friends—Han Solo, Princess Leia Organa, and others—across the galaxy, Luke studies the Force under Jedi Master Yoda. When Vader captures Lukes friends, Luke must decide whether to complete his training and become a full Jedi Knight or to confront Vader, following a difficult production, The Empire Strikes Back was released on May 21,1980. The film ranks #3 on Empires 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time and it became the highest-grossing film of 1980 and, to date, has earned more than $538 million worldwide from its original run and several re-releases. When adjusted for inflation, it is the sequel of all time. The film was followed by a sequel, titled Return of the Jedi, in 2010, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant. Three years after the destruction of the Death Star, the Rebel Alliance has been driven from their base on Yavin IV by the Galactic Empire. The Rebels, led by Princess Leia, have set up their new base on the ice planet Hoth, the Imperial fleet, led by Darth Vader, continues to hunt for the Rebels’ new base by dispatching probe droids across the galaxy. While investigating a meteor strike, Luke Skywalker is injured and captured by a wampa. He manages to escape from its cave with his lightsaber, the ghost of his late mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, instructs him to go to the Dagobah system to train under Jedi Master Yoda. He is found by Han Solo, who kills his tauntaun, Han and Luke make it through the night and are rescued by a search party. On patrol, Han and Chewbacca discover the meteor Luke had planned to investigate is actually a probe droid, the Empire launches a large-scale attack, using AT-AT Walkers to capture the base. Despite heavy resistance, the Walkers destroy the shield generator. Han and Leia escape on the Millennium Falcon with C-3PO and Chewbacca and they hide in an asteroid field, where Han and Leia grow closer, and eventually, kiss. Vader summons bounty hunters, including the notorious Boba Fett, to assist in finding the Falcon, Luke, meanwhile, escapes with R2-D2 in his X-wing fighter and crash-lands on the swamp planet Dagobah. He meets a creature who is revealed to be Yoda, after conferring with Obi-Wans spirit. Yoda trains Luke as a Jedi and raises his sunken ship from the swamp with the power of the Force, after evading the Empire, Han sets a course for Cloud City, a floating colony in the skies of the gas giant planet Bespin
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Return of the Jedi
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This list of characters from the Star Wars franchise contains only those which are considered part of the official Star Wars canon. C-3PO and R2-D2 are the characters to appear in all films to date
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From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries)
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The series takes its title from, but is not based upon, the famous Jules Verne science fiction novel From the Earth to the Moon. Hanks appears in episode, introducing each of the first eleven. The last episode is represented in a pseudo-documentary format narrated by Blythe Danner, hanks narrates and appears in these scenes as Méliès assistant. The miniseries has a large cast, driven in part by the fact that it portrays 30 of the 32 astronauts who flew, or were preparing to fly. Members of many of the families, and other NASA and non-NASA personnel, are also portrayed. Several fictional characters are included, notably television newscaster Emmett Seaborn who appears in nine of the twelve episodes. The twelve episodes, each directed by different individuals, use a variety of viewpoints and themes, while covering the Mercury, Gemini. Lane Smith portrays Emmett Seaborn, a reporter for a fictional television network. The miniseries, concentrating on the Apollo space program, was produced with an intent not to other dramatic portrayals of events of the space race. Project Mercury, which was portrayed in the film The Right Stuff, was summarized in the first episode. Many of the actors had opportunity to interact and form friendships with the real life astronauts they were portraying. Brett Cullen, who played Apollo 9 Command Module pilot and Apollo 15 commander David Scott, was invited to the Scott family home each time an episode he appeared in was first televised. Two short clips from the scenes of Apollo 13 were used in Thats All There Is, a splashdown sequence. The original series was shot in 1.33,1 aspect ratio, the series was released on DVD as a 4-disc set. With the proliferation of widescreen flat-panel TV sets the series was remastered in 1.78,1 aspect ratio, new framing causes loss of top and bottom parts of the frames from the original movie. This is not always noticeable because of careful transfer process, some captions have also been compromised. Parts of the mini-series were filmed at the Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, scenes of the moonwalks were shot inside the blimp hangars on the former Marine base in Tustin, California. Approximately half the area inside was converted to the Moons surface, the episode also featured a real Apollo Lunar Module, which had been built for the Apollo 18 mission but was never used due to budget cuts
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Batman Begins
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Comic book storylines such as The Man Who Falls, Batman, Year One, and Batman, The Long Halloween served as inspiration. The goal was to get the audience to care for both Batman and Bruce Wayne, the film, which was primarily shot in Iceland and Chicago, relied on traditional stunts and miniatures, while computer-generated imagery was used minimally. Batman Begins opened on June 15,2005, in the United States and it grossed over $48 million in its opening weekend in North America, eventually grossing over $374 million worldwide. The film received reviews and is considered by many to be one of the best superhero films of the 2000s. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography and it is followed by The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises in a continual story-arc, which has later been referred to as The Dark Knight Trilogy. The film is presented in a narrative, jumping between the present and past. This is a summary of the plot. As a child, Bruce Wayne falls down into a dry well and is attacked by a swarm of bats, while watching an opera with his parents, Thomas and Martha, Bruce becomes frightened by performers masquerading as bats and asks to leave. Outside, mugger Joe Chill murders Bruces parents in front of him, orphaned, Bruce is raised by the family butler, Alfred Pennyworth. Fourteen years later, Chill is freed in exchange for testifying against Gotham City mafia boss Carmine Falcone, Bruce intends to murder Chill, but one of Falcones assassins does so first. Bruces childhood friend, assistant district attorney Rachel Dawes, berates him for attempting to undermine the justice system, Bruce confronts Falcone, who tells him that real power comes from being feared. Bruce decides to travel the world and learn how to confront injustice, while serving a prison sentence for theft in Bhutan, he meets Henri Ducard, who trains him as a member of the League of Shadows, led by Ras al Ghul. After completing his training and purging his fears, Bruce learns that the League intends to destroy Gotham, believing it to be corrupt, Bruce rejects the Leagues cause and burns down their temple during his escape. Ras is killed by falling debris, while Bruce saves the unconscious Ducard, Bruce returns to Gotham intent on fighting crime. Inspired by his fear, he takes up the vigilante identity of the Batman. He takes an interest in his familys company, Wayne Enterprises, company archivist Lucius Fox allows Bruce access to prototype defense technologies including a protective bodysuit and a heavily armored car called the Tumbler. Bruce poses as a shallow playboy to allay suspicion, Batman intercepts a drug shipment, provides Rachel with evidence against Falcone, and enlists Sergeant James Gordon, one of the few honest cops left in Gotham, to arrest him. Crane puts on a mask and sprays Falcone with a fear-inducing hallucinogen that drives him insane
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The Big Lebowski
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The Big Lebowski is a 1998 American crime comedy film written, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. It stars Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey The Dude Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker and he is assaulted as a result of mistaken identity, after which The Dude learns that a millionaire also named Jeffrey Lebowski was the intended victim. Julianne Moore and Steve Buscemi also star, with David Huddleston, John Turturro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sam Elliott, Tara Reid, David Thewlis, the film is loosely inspired by the work of Raymond Chandler. The original score was composed by Carter Burwell, a collaborator of the Coen brothers. The Big Lebowski was a disappointment at the U. S. box office, in 2014, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, being deemed culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. A spin-off based on Turturros character, titled Going Places, is filming, with Turturro also acting as writer. The two soon realize they have attacked the wrong Jeffrey Lebowski and leave, but not before one of them urinates on the Dudes rug, the Dude meets his bowling friends, the timid Donny and the temperamental Vietnam War veteran Walter Sobchak. Encouraged by Walter, the Dude approaches the other Jeffrey Lebowski, the eponymous Big Lebowski, the Dude subsequently meets Bunny, Lebowskis young trophy wife. Days later, Lebowski contacts the Dude stating that Bunny has been kidnapped, Lebowski wants the Dude to deliver a briefcase containing a million-dollar ransom and see if he can recognize the culprits. Later, a different pair of thugs appear in the Dudes apartment, knock him unconscious, when Bunnys kidnappers call to arrange delivery of the ransom, Walter suggests they give the kidnappers a fake ransom instead, namely a briefcase filled with dirty underwear. The kidnappers grab the fake ransom and leave, later that night, the Dudes car is stolen, with the real ransom money briefcase still inside. Jeffrey Lebowskis adult daughter Maude contacts the Dude and reveals she took the rug and she reckons that Bunny kidnapped herself and asks the Dude to recover the ransom which her father illegally withdrew from the familys foundation. Lebowski is angry that the Dude failed to deliver the money and shows him a severed green-painted toe, allegedly belonging to Bunny. Later, a gang of German nihilist musicians invade the Dudes apartment and threaten him, Maude says the German nihilists are actually Bunnys friends. The Dudes car is found by the police without the ransom money, later, while cruising around in the car, The Dude finds the homework assignment of a high school student named Larry inside. Taking this to mean that Larry was the one who stole the car, Walter and The Dude go to his house, when Larry refuses to respond to Walter and the Dudes threats, Walter wrecks a new sports car parked outside which they assume Larry bought with the money. However, a neighbor rushes outside, reveals himself as having just bought the car and angrily wrecks The Dudes car in revenge, the Dude is forcibly brought before Treehorn, who asks about the whereabouts of Bunny and says he wants the money she owes him. He drugs the Dudes White Russian cocktail, causing The Dude to have a sequence involving Maude
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Cinderella Man
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Cinderella Man is a 2005 American drama film by Ron Howard, titled after the nickname of heavyweight boxing champion James J. Braddock and inspired by his life story. The film was produced by Howard, Penny Marshall, and Brian Grazer, damon Runyon is credited for giving Braddock this nickname. Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger and Paul Giamatti star, James J. Braddock is an Irish-American boxer from New Jersey, formerly a light heavyweight contender, who is forced to give up boxing after breaking his hand in the ring. This is both a relief and a burden to his wife, Mae and she cannot bring herself to watch the violence of his chosen profession, yet she knows they will not have enough income without his boxing. As the United States enters the Great Depression, Braddock does manual labor as a longshoreman to support his family, unfortunately, he cannot get work every day. Thanks to a cancellation by another boxer, Braddocks longtime manager and friend, Joe Gould, offers him a chance to fill in for just one night. The fight is against the number-two contender in the world, Corn Griffin, Braddock stuns the boxing experts and fans with a third-round knockout of his formidable opponent. He believes that while his hand was broken, he became more proficient with his left hand. Despite Maes objections, Braddock takes up Goulds offer to return to the ring, Mae resents this attempt by Gould to profit from her husbands dangerous livelihood, until she discovers that Gould and his wife also have been devastated by hard times. With a shot at the championship held by Max Baer a possibility. Out of a sense of pride, he uses a portion of his money to pay back money to the government given to him while unemployed. A title fight against Baer comes his way, Mae is terrified because Baer, the champ, is a vicious man who reportedly has killed at least two men in the ring. The arrogant Baer attempts to him, even taunting Mae in public that her man might not survive. When he says this, she becomes so angry that she throws a drink at him and she is unable to attend the fight at the Madison Square Garden Bowl or even to listen to it on the radio. On June 13,1935, in one of the greatest upsets in boxing history, the Richmond Street side of The Bays Queen Street store was redressed as Madison Square Garden, complete with fake store fronts and period stop lights. A stretch of Queen Street East between Broadview and Carlaw was also made up to appear to be from the 1930s and dozens of cars were parked along the road. Maple Leaf Gardens was used for all the scenes. Filming also took place in Hamilton, Ontario at the harbour for the dock workers scene, the main apartment was shot north of St. Clair Avenue on Lauder Avenue on the east side
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The Crying Game
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The Crying Game is a 1992 thriller film written and directed by Neil Jordan. The film explores themes of race, gender, nationality, however, unexpected events force Fergus to decide what he wants for the future, and ultimately what his nature dictates he must do. The IRA demands the release of jailed IRA members, threatening to execute Jody in three days if their demands are not met, Fergus is tasked to guard Jody and develops a bond with the prisoner, much to the chagrin of the other IRA men. During this time, Jody tells Fergus the story of the Scorpion, Jody persuades Fergus to promise to seek out his girlfriend Dil in London should Jody be killed. The deadline set by Jodys captors passes and with none of the IRAs demands being met, when Fergus takes him into the woods to carry out the sentence, Jody makes a break for it. With his IRA companions seemingly dead after the attack, Fergus flees to London, a few months later, Fergus finds Dil at a hair salon. Later they talk in a bar, where he sees her singing The Crying Game, Fergus suffers from guilt about Jodys death and sees him in his dreams bowling a cricket ball to him. He pursues Dil, protecting her from a suitor and falling in love with her. Later, when he is about to love to her in her apartment. His initial reaction is of revulsion, rushing to the bathroom to throw up, he accidentally hits Dil in the face. A few days later, he leaves her a note and the two make up, despite everything, Fergus is still attracted to Dil. Around the same time, Jude unexpectedly reappears in Fergus apartment and she tells him that the IRA tried and convicted him in absentia, and she forces him to agree to help with a new mission to aid in assassinating a judge. She also mentions that she knows about Fergus and Dil, warning him that the IRA will kill her if Fergus does not co-operate, Fergus, unable to overcome his feelings for Dil, continues to woo her. To shield her from possible retribution, he gives her a haircut, the night before the IRA mission is to be carried out, Dil gets heavily drunk and Fergus escorts her to her apartment, where she asks him to stay with her. Fergus complies, then admits he had a hand in Jodys death. Dil, drunk, appears not to understand, but in the morning, before Fergus wakes up and she unwittingly prevents Fergus from joining the other IRA members and completing the planned assassination. Holding Fergus at gunpoint, Dil forces him to tell her that he loves her and she unties him, saying that, even if he is lying, it is nice to hear his words. Dil then breaks down in tears, meanwhile, Jude and Maguire gun the judge down, but Maguire is shot dead by one of the bodyguards
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Jaws (film)
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Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchleys 1974 novel of the same name. The screenplay is credited to both Benchley, who wrote the first drafts, and actor-writer Carl Gottlieb, who rewrote the script during principal photography, shot mostly on location on Marthas Vineyard in Massachusetts, the film had a troubled production, going over budget and past schedule. Spielberg and others have compared this approach to that of classic thriller director Alfred Hitchcock. Now considered one of the greatest films made, Jaws was the prototypical summer blockbuster. Jaws became the film of all time until the release of Star Wars. It won several awards for its soundtrack and editing and it was followed by three sequels, none with the participation of Spielberg or Benchley, and many imitative thrillers. In 2001, Jaws was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, being deemed culturally, historically, during a late-night beach party on Amity Island, a young woman goes swimming in the ocean. While treading water, she is pulled under. The next morning, her remains are found on shore. The medical examiner ruling the death a shark attack leads Police Chief Martin Brody to close the beaches, Mayor Larry Vaughn overrules him, fearing it will ruin the towns summer economy. The coroner now concurs with the theory that the girl was killed in a boating accident. Brody reluctantly accepts their conclusion until another fatal shark attack occurs shortly after, a bounty is then placed on the shark, resulting in an amateur shark-hunting frenzy. Local professional shark hunter Quint offers his services for $10,000, meanwhile, consulting oceanographer Matt Hooper examines the first victims remains and confirms the death was from a shark attack. When local fishermen catch a tiger shark, the mayor proclaims the beaches safe. Hooper disputes it being the predator, confirming this after no human remains are found inside it. Hooper and Brody find a vessel while searching the night waters in Hoopers boat. Underwater, Hooper retrieves a sizable great white sharks tooth embedded in the submerged hull and he drops it after finding a partial corpse. Vaughn discounts Brody and Hoopers claims that a great white shark is responsible and refuses to close the beaches
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Office Space
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Office Space is a 1999 American comedy film written and directed by Mike Judge. It satirizes the everyday life of a typical mid-to-late-1990s software company. It stars Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Gary Cole, Stephen Root, David Herman, Ajay Naidu, shot in Dallas and Austin, Texas, Office Space is based on Judges Milton cartoon series. It was his first foray into filmmaking and second full-length motion picture release, after Beavis. The films sympathetic depiction of ordinary IT workers garnered a following within that field, but also addresses themes familiar to white-collar employees. Although not a big success at the box office, making $12.8 million against a $10 million budget, the film was received by critics and sold well on home video. Peter Gibbons, a programmer at a company called Initech, is frustrated and unmotivated at his job and his co-workers include Samir Nagheenanajar and Michael Bolton, also programmers, and Milton Waddams, a meek collator who is mostly ignored by the rest of the office. Peters girlfriend, Anne, persuades him to attend an occupational hypnotherapy session, the following workday, Peter decides to skip work and asks Joanna, a waitress at Chotchkies, a nearby chain restaurant, out to lunch. Joanna and Peter bond over their shared loathing of idiotic management, the consultants, however, are impressed by his frank insights into the offices problems, and decide to promote him. On Michael and Samirs last day at Initech, Peter takes one last item, a frequently malfunctioning printer, at a barbecue, Peter learns that Joanna had previously slept with a colleague, identified as Lumbergh. Assuming it to be his boss, he becomes disgusted with Joanna and confronts her, after she questions his financial scheme and he writes a letter confessing everything and slips it and anonymous checks for the stolen money under the door of Lumberghs office late at night. Peter finally finds a job that he likes, doing work with his next-door neighbor. Samir and Michael both get jobs at Initechs competitor, Initrode, meanwhile, Milton lounges on the beach at a fancy Mexican resort, complaining about his beverage and threatening to take his business to a competitor. The setting of the film reflected a trend that Judge observed in the United States. It seems like every city now has these identical office parks with identical adjoining chain restaurants, he said in an interview. He remembers, There were a lot of people who wanted me to set this movie in Wall Street, or like the movie Brazil, but I wanted it very unglamorous, the kind of bleak work situation like I was in. Judge sold the film to 20th Century Fox based on his script and a cast that included Jennifer Aniston, Ron Livingston, and David Herman. Originally, the wanted to make a film out of the Milton character but Judge was not interested
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Sin City (film)
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Sin City is a 2005 American neo-noir crime anthology film written, produced, and directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez. It is based on Millers graphic novel of the same name, much of the film is based on the first, third and fourth books in Millers original comic series. The Big Fat Kill focuses on an everyman getting caught in a war between a group of prostitutes and a group of mercenaries, the police and the mob. That Yellow Bastard follows a police officer who protects a young woman from a grotesquely disfigured serial killer. The intro and outro of the film are based on the short story The Customer is Always Right, which is collected in Booze, Broads & Bullets, the sixth book in the comic series. The film was screened at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival in competition and won the Technical Grand Prize for the films visual shaping, the Salesman steps out of an elevator and walks onto a balcony overlooking Basin City, where The Customer awaits. He comforts her, the two talk and share a kiss, and he shoots her, after she dies, he ponders what she was running from before mentioning that he will cash her check in the morning. On the docks of Sin City, aging police officer John Hartigan tries to stop serial child-killer Roark Junior from raping and killing his fourth victim, Junior is the son of Senator Roark, who bribes the police to cover up his sons crimes. Hartigans partner, Bob, tries to convince Hartigan to walk away, fighting off the pain caused by his bad heart, Hartigan confronts Junior, and shoots off his ear, right hand and genitals. Bob then arrives and shoots Hartigan in the back, revealing himself to be on Senator Roarks payroll, as sirens approach, Nancy comforts Hartigan as he passes out, as he reasons that the death of an old man is a fair trade for a young girls life. After a one-night stand, Marv awakens to find that Goldie, realizing he has been set up, he escapes the police that have arrived to arrest him, vowing to avenge her death. Marv interrogates several informants, working his way up to a corrupt priest who reveals that the Roark family was behind the murder, after killing the priest, Marv is attacked by a woman who looks like Goldie. Marv goes to the Roark farm where he is subdued by silent stalker Kevin, Marv and Lucille escape their holding cell, but she is shot by the leader of a squad of corrupt cops. Marv kills the squad, interrogates the leader, and finds out that Cardinal Patrick Henry Roark arranged for Goldies murder and he convinces her that he is not the killer and she resolves to help him avenge Goldie. They return to the farm, where Marv attacks and slowly dismembers Kevin and he brings Kevins head to Cardinal Roark, who confesses to his part in the murders, before Marv brutally murders him too and is immediately captured by Roarks guards. Marv is blackmailed into confessing to the murder of Cardinal Roark and the women Kevin killed, wendy visits him the night before and pretends to be Goldie as a way of thanking him for avenging her sister and the next day, Marv is executed via electric chair. Dwight McCarthy is with his waitress girlfriend Shellie, when her drunken ex-boyfriend, Jackie Boy, after Jackie Boy hits Shellie and goes to the bathroom, Dwight ambushes him and threatens to kill him if he doesnt leave Shellie alone. Angry and embarrassed, Jackie leaves Shellies flat, with Dwight following them to make sure he does not take his anger out on another girl
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Titanic (1997 film)
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Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance-disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. Camerons inspiration for the film came from his fascination with shipwrecks, production began in 1995, when Cameron shot footage of the actual Titanic wreck. The modern scenes on the vessel were shot on board the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh. Scale models, computer-generated imagery, and a reconstruction of the Titanic built at Playas de Rosarito in Baja California were used to re-create the sinking, the film was partially funded by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox. It was the most expensive film made at time, with an estimated budget of $200 million. Upon its release on December 19,1997, Titanic achieved critical and commercial success, with an initial worldwide gross of over $1.84 billion, Titanic was the first film to reach the billion-dollar mark. It remained the highest-grossing film of all time until Camerons 2009 film Avatar surpassed it in 2010. A 3D version of Titanic, released on April 4,2012 to commemorate the centennial of the sinking, earned it an additional $343.6 million worldwide and it became the second film to gross more than $2 billion worldwide. In 2015, Titanic Live, an orchestra version of the film. In 1996, treasure hunter Brock Lovett and his team aboard the research vessel Akademik Mstislav Keldysh search the wreck of RMS Titanic for a necklace with a rare diamond, the Heart of the Ocean. They recover a safe containing a drawing of a woman wearing only the necklace dated April 14,1912. Rose Dawson Calvert, the woman in the drawing, is brought aboard Keldysh, in 1912 Southampton, 17-year-old first-class passenger Rose DeWitt Bukater, her fiancé Cal Hockley, and her mother Ruth board the luxurious Titanic. Ruth emphasizes that Roses marriage will resolve their familys financial problems, distraught over the engagement, Rose considers suicide by jumping from the stern, Jack Dawson, a penniless artist, intervenes and discourages her. Discovered with Jack, Rose tells a concerned Cal that she was peering over the edge, when Cal becomes indifferent, she suggests to him that Jack deserves a reward. He invites Jack to dine with them in first class the following night, Jack and Rose develop a tentative friendship, despite Cal and Ruth being wary of him. Following dinner, Rose secretly joins Jack at a party in third class, aware of Cal and Ruths disapproval, Rose rebuffs Jacks advances, but realizes she prefers him over Cal. After rendezvousing on the bow at sunset, Rose takes Jack to her room, at her request, Jack sketches Rose posing nude wearing Cals engagement present. They evade Cals bodyguard and have sex in an automobile inside the cargo hold, on the forward deck, they witness a collision with an iceberg and overhear the officers and designer discussing its seriousness
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War of the Worlds (2005 film)
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It stars Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Justin Chatwin, Miranda Otto and Tim Robbins, with narration by Morgan Freeman. The film was shot in 73 days, using five different sound stages as well as locations in California, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, the film was surrounded by a secrecy campaign so few details would be leaked before its release. Tie-in promotions were made with several companies, including Hitachi, the film was released in the United States on June 29 and in United Kingdom on July 1. War of the Worlds was a box office success, and became 2005s fourth most successful film both domestically, with $234 million in North America, and $591 million overall, at the time of release, it was the highest-grossing film starring Tom Cruise. A narrator explains how humans were unaware that a race of extraterrestrials was making plans to occupy Earth, Ray Ferrier is a divorced crane operator longshoreman who works at a dock in Brooklyn, New York and lives in Bayonne, New Jersey. Ray is estranged from his children and his former wife, Mary Ann, later drops off the children, 10-year-old daughter Rachel and teenage son Robbie, at Rays house on her way to visit her parents in Boston. Unexplained changes in the occur, including lightning that strikes multiple times in the middle of an intersection. Ray collects his children, steals a car and drives to Mary Anns home in suburban New Jersey to take refuge, the next morning, he discovers that a Boeing 747 has crashed in the street. They also explain that the lightning was how the aliens were able to enter the Tripods, Ray decides to take the kids to Boston to be with their mother. The three are forced to abandon the car after a mob takes it by force. They later survive a Tripod attack which causes a Hudson River ferry to sink, during a desperate battle between U. S. Marines and the aliens, Ray is forced to choose between being separated from Rachel and preventing Robbie from joining the fight, he lets Robbie go with the Marines, who are overwhelmed. The three remain undetected for two days, even as a probe and a group of the aliens themselves explore the basement, the next morning, Ogilvy suffers a mental breakdown while witnessing a Tripod harvesting human blood and tissue to fertilize an alien vegetation. The tripods inject a tube into the humans and drain out their blood, convinced that Ogilvys mad shouting jeopardizes his daughters life, Ray reluctantly kills him. The basement hideout is exposed when a second probe catches them sleeping, Rachel is soon abducted by a nearby Tripod, Ray immediately allows himself to be abducted, being placed in the same cage with Rachel and other prisoners. As the aliens select him for harvesting, Ray takes a belt of grenades into the machine, the Tripod is destroyed and releases the cage, with Ray and Rachel, and a number of other prisoners, making it out alive. Ray and Rachel arrive in a devastated Boston, where the vegetation is dying, Ray notices birds landing on an active Tripod, indicating that its shields are off. Ray alerts the soldiers escorting his refugee group and they shoot it down, as the soldiers advance on the downed Tripod, a hatch opens releasing a liquid, a sickly alien struggles halfway out, and then dies immediately
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The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)
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The film stars Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale. Notable for its use of Technicolor, fantasy storytelling, musical score and it was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, but lost to Gone with the Wind. It did win in two categories, including Best Original Song for Over the Rainbow and Best Original Score by Herbert Stothart. However, the film was a box office disappointment on its release, earning only $3,017,000 on a $2,777,000 budget. It was MGMs most expensive production at that time, and did not completely recoup the studios investment and turn a profit until theatrical re-releases starting in 1949. The film was named the most-viewed motion picture on television syndication by the Library of Congress, designation on the registry calls for efforts to preserve it for being culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant. It is also one of the few films on UNESCOs Memory of the World Register, the Wizard of Oz is often ranked on best-movie lists in critics and public polls. It is the source of many quotes referenced in popular culture. It was directed primarily by Victor Fleming, noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, but uncredited contributions were made by others. The songs were written by Edgar Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen, the musical score and the incidental music were composed by Stothart. The film begins in Kansas, which is depicted in a sepia tone, Dorothy Gale lives with her dog Toto on the farm of her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. Dorothys dog gets in trouble with a neighbor, Miss Almira Gulch. However, Dorothys family and the farmhands are all too busy to pay attention to her, Miss Gulch arrives with permission from the sheriff to have Toto euthanized. She takes him away, but he escapes and returns to Dorothy and they meet Professor Marvel, a phony but kindly fortune teller, who realizes Dorothy has run away and tricks her via his crystal ball into believing that Aunt Em is ill so that she must return home. She races home just as a tornado strikes. Unable to get into her familys storm cellar, she seeks safety in her bedroom, a wind-blown window sash hits her in the head, knocking her out. The house is picked up and sent spinning in the air by the twister, the farmhouse crashes in Munchkinland in the Land of Oz, where the film changes to Technicolor. Glinda the Good Witch of the North and the Munchkins welcome her as their heroine, as the house has landed on and killed the Wicked Witch of the East, leaving only her stocking feet exposed
