Posted in April 17, 2009 ¬ 9:14 pmh.
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In this cinematic concert, mesmerizing images are plucked from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques. The result is a chronicle of the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology, the synthetic and the virtual. Extremes of intimacy and spectacle, tragedy and hope fuse in [...]
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2002, Documentary, USA, War
abstract, advertising, american-football, armaments, astronaut, athletics, berlin-wall, brooklyn-bridge, bruegel's-tower-of-babel, child-nudity, commercialism, compilation, cross-burning, currency, firework, gymnastic, hollywood-sign, infant-nudity, ku-klux-klan, logo, mandelbrot-fractal, microphotography, military-parade, missile, mushroom-cloud, nuclear-explosion, part-animated, petronas-towers, pieter-bruegel, playground, racing, reagan-assassination-attempt, reverse-footage, riot, rocket-launching, sequel, skydiving, slow-motion, solarized-footage, split-screen, statue-of-liberty, stock-market, super-bowl, symbol, technology, telecommunications, terrorism, time-lapse-photography, violence, washington-d.c., washington-monument, wax-museum, wildlife
Posted in April 17, 2009 ¬ 8:46 pmh.
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This movie takes a big-budget, special-effects-filled look at what the world would look like if the greenhouse effect and global warming continued at such levels that they resulted in worldwide catastrophe and disaster, including multiple hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of the next Ice Age. At the center of the story is [...]
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2004, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, USA
antarctica, astronaut, axe, based-on-book, bible, blockbuster, blood-poisoning, book-burning, border, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, buoy, california, california-usa, Canada, climatologist, climatology, conference, disaster, dog, earth, end-of-the-world, environmental, evacuation, fall-from-height, father-son-relationship, fear-of-flying, fireplace, flashlight, flood, freeze-to-death, frost, giant-wave, global-warming, hailstorm, helicopter, helicopter-crash, hollywood, hollywood-california, hollywood-sign, hospital, ice-age, librarian, library, los-angeles-california, machine-gun, mammoth, manhattan, medicine, mexican-border, mexico, military, natural-disaster, new-delhi-india, new-york, new-york-city, pay-phone, pilot, planetary-melodrama, president, professor, rain, refugee-camp, rifle, scotland, ship, shipwreck, sick-child, snow, space-station, statue-of-liberty, taxi, tidal-wave, tokyo-japan, tornado, tsunami, turbulence, u.s.-army, u.s.-mexico-border, u.s.-president, u.s.-vice-president, us-embassy, USA, vagrant, vice-president, washington-d.c., weather, whiskey, wolf, wolf-pack, zoo
Posted in February 27, 2009 ¬ 11:55 amh.
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A space salvage expert and his partner become involved with a group of criminals intent on hijacking a small asteroid made of sapphire and crashing it into the moon for later recovery. The only place that they can bring the asteroid down without drawing attention to themselves is a far side mining claim. But first [...]
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1969, Crime, Sci-Fi, UK, Western
2020s, animated-title-sequence, asteroid, astronaut, gun-for-hire, mining, moon, mst3k, number-in-title, outer-space, ray-gun
Posted in February 26, 2009 ¬ 10:10 amh.
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The third chapter of the Apes saga. Two intelligent simians from the future, Cornelius and Zira travel to present-day Earth. They become instant sensations, wined and dined and treated like celebrities — until a high-level plot forces them to run for their lives!
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1971, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, USA
1970s, accidental-death, agency, altering-history, alternate-history, ape, ape-man, archaeologist, astronaut, birth, breeding, central-intelligence-agency, champagne, chimpanzee, circus, circuses, drinking-while-pregnant, drunk-scene, drunkenness, dystopic-future, end-of-the-world, endless-loop, escape, expectant-father, expectant-mother, fainting, fall-from-height, fear, firearm, friendship, giving-birth, gorilla, hearing, hotel, husband-wife-relationship, infant, intellectual, los-angeles-california, military-base, murder, museum, nuclear-holocaust, nuclear-war, oil-tanker, pacifism, party, planet-of-the-apes, post-nuclear, pregnancy, pregnant, pregnant-wife, presidential-advisor, press-conference, psychiatrist, recording, scientist, sequel, shopping, shopping-spree, simian-fiction, soldier, spacecraft, spaceship, strangling, stylized, surprise-ending, television-news, temper, tense, time-travel, tragedy, truth-serum, twist-in-the-end, u.s.-president, women's-rights, zoo, zoologist
Posted in February 26, 2009 ¬ 10:08 amh.
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An astronaut, named Brent, is sent on a mission to find the missing astronaut crew from the first film, and he also lands on the planet of the apes where he stumbles upon an underground city where the last humans have hold up in hiding from the dreaded ape army now out to exterminate mankind.
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1970, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, USA
40th-century, animal, ape, ape-man, apocalypse, astronaut, atomic-bomb, attack, bad-guy, based-on-novel, beneath-the-city, bomb, campy, chase, creationism, disfigurement, evolution, fantastic, future, grim, holocaust, human-race, illusion, judgment-day, monster, morality, mutant, mutation, mute, new-york-city, planet-of-the-apes, post-apocalyptic, post-holocaust, religion, science, science-runs-amok, scientist, sequel, shot-to-death, simian-fiction, statue-of-liberty, subterranean, survivor, telekinesis, telepathy, time-travel, visceral
Posted in February 26, 2009 ¬ 10:05 amh.
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After having their ship crash on a mysterious planet, two US astronauts wander across the desert plain. Thinking they are alone, the surprise comes when life forms appear, not just as mute human but as apes. Walking, talking apes. The apes see themselves as the original beings on the planet and do anything to keep [...]
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1968, Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, USA
animal-rights, ape, ape-man, archaeologist, astronaut, barbarism, barefoot, based-on-novel, beach, blockbuster, brain-surgery, caged-human, captive, chase, chimpanzee, class-conflict, class-differences, communism, creationism, cryogenics, cryonics, cult-favorite, dead-child, doll, domination, drawing-or-writing-in-sand, dystopic-future, education, evolution, friendship, future-time-travel, gorilla, gun, horse, horseback-riding, humans-in-cages, hunted, hunter, hunter-quarry, hunting, lobotomy, loincloth, male-female-relationship, male-nudity, mute, nasa, net, orangutan, ostracism, paranoia, planet, planet-of-the-apes, post-apocalyptic, pre-credit-scene, racism, religion, satire, science, science-runs-amok, scientist, shaving, shot-in-the-neck, simian-fiction, socialism, space-exploration, space-travel, spacecraft, statue-of-liberty, stranded, the-black-guy-dies, time-travel, trial, twist-in-the-end, vivisection, wound
Posted in August 28, 2008 ¬ 2:55 pmh.
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In the year 2001, Dave Bowman was taken by the Jupiter monolith and transformed into a powerful being. Now, in the year 2010, Dr. Heywood Floyd, the man held responsible for Discovery’s failure, is going to Jupiter. He and his crewmates must reactivate the psychotic HAL-9000 computer, so they may learn what happened, and they [...]
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1984, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller, USA
2010s, american, artificial-intelligence, astronaut, based-on-novel, calculator, cold-war, coma, computer, correspondence, cosmonaut, creator-creation-relationship, cryogenics, cryonics, cult-favorite, death-of-friend, deceit, dolphin, egyptian-pyramid, eiffel-tower-paris, engineer, father-son-relationship, ghost-ship, hospital, hyperventilation, joint-mission, jupiter, lincoln-memorial, marriage, monolith, nasa, new-mexico, number-in-title, presumed-dead, profanity, radio-telescope, russian, sequel, sequel-to-cult-favorite, space, space-exploration, spacecraft, spacewalk, stasis, sunset, television-news, twist-in-the-end, washington-d.c., white-house
Posted in August 28, 2008 ¬ 2:11 pmh.
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2001 is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith here on earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well) Evolution then enabled man to reach the moon’s surface where he finds yet another monolith, one which signals the monolith-placers that we have evolved that [...]
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1968, Adventure, Sci-Fi, UK, USA
2000s, airline, alien, alien-contact, alien-intelligence, alien-technology, ancient-astronaut, ape, archeological-dig, artificial-intelligence, asphyxiation-in-space, astronaut, based-on-short-story, bathroom-scene, birthday, blockbuster, blue-danube-waltz, bone, carl-jung, chess, cinerama, classical-music-score, cold-war, computer, computer-breakdown, computer-chess, cryogenics, cryonics, cult-director, cult-favorite, doctor, dream-imagery, dream-like, epic, evil-computer, evolution, explosive-decompression, famous-opening-theme, famous-score, father-daughter-relationship, future, futuristic, hibernation, human-versus-computer, imagery, jogging, jupiter, lip-reading, long-take, man-ape, man-versus-machine, messiah, metaphysical, millenialism, monolith, moon, moon-base, moon-landing, murder, nasa, negative-footage, number-in-character's-name, number-in-title, outer-space, payphone, planetary-alignment, prehistoric, product-placement, psychadelic-image, psychedelic, quarantine, rebirth, satellite-dish, scientist, shuttle-craft, soviet-american-relations, space, space-expedition, space-exploration, space-hero, space-shuttle, space-station, space-travel, spacecraft, spaceship, spaceship-setting, spacesuit, spacewalk, stewardess, strauss-also-sprach-zarathustra, super-computer, surreal, surrealism, talking-computer, technology, toilet-scene, trans-world-airline, transfiguration, vacuum, very-little-dialogue, video-phone, visionary, zero-gravity
Posted in July 16, 2008 ¬ 8:50 pmh.
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Commander Luke Graham is selected to lead the first manned mission to Mars. Upon setting foot on the red planet, the team discovers an ancient, domelike structure which appears to be a beacon. The dome destroys the team and leaves Luc injured. The recently widowed Jim McConnell leads the rescue mission. When they arrive, they [...]
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2000, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, USA
alien, alien-contact, astronaut, based-on-theme-park-attraction, blood, cult-director, dismemberment, dna, dust-storm, face-on-mars, fluid-breathing, husband-wife-relationship, kiss, life, long-take, loss-of-husband, mars, meteorite, product-placement, rescue-operation, reverse-footage, sandstorm, self-sacrifice, space, space-station, space-travel, spacecraft, widower, zero-gravity
Posted in July 16, 2008 ¬ 8:50 pmh.
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Commander Luke Graham is selected to lead the first manned mission to Mars. Upon setting foot on the red planet, the team discovers an ancient, domelike structure which appears to be a beacon. The dome destroys the team and leaves Luc injured. The recently widowed Jim McConnell leads the rescue mission. When they arrive, they [...]
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2000, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, USA
alien, alien-contact, astronaut, based-on-theme-park-attraction, blood, cult-director, dismemberment, dna, dust-storm, face-on-mars, fluid-breathing, husband-wife-relationship, kiss, life, long-take, loss-of-husband, mars, meteorite, product-placement, rescue-operation, reverse-footage, sandstorm, self-sacrifice, space, space-station, space-travel, spacecraft, widower, zero-gravity
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