I'm surprised that new york didn't actually riot after game 7 of the 2004 ALCS.
the best movies never made
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Agree.
In the playoffs.
That would turn the whole city of New York into a riotous mob.
Dispersion: The Fall of Pink Floyd (2014)
Directed by Martin Scorsese, the epic biopic tells the story of how the British Progressive band Pink Floyd deal with their struggles in success after their album The Dark Side of the Moon became a hit record. We later see the leader of the band, Roger Waters’s (Adam Driver) growing narcissism and ego following his band’s success and his fights with fellow band mates David Gilmour (Leonardo DiCapario), Nick Mason (Christian Bale), Richard Wright (Michael Cera).
It came to a point during the climax of the movie, during the production of The Wall movie, Richard Wright left the band in 1982. Then, in 1985, Roger Waters contacted with his talent manager Steve O’Rourke over his future royalty payments, however O’Rourke told Mason and Gilmour about it. Waters then in retaliation terminated the contact with O’Rourke and later fought Gilmour in a drug fueled rage. The movie ends in 2011, where an old Roger Waters (Jeff Goldblum) reunited with his bandmates in The Wall Live concert in O2 London.
Reception to the movie by both critics and audiences were mostly positive, as they praised the break from the typical musician biopic plot and how the movie deals with emotion of egoism. The movie helped to boost popularity of Pink Floyd and made The Endless River reach #5 in best selling album of 2014.
Link to the concept album in Spotify
Directed by Martin Scorsese, the epic biopic tells the story of how the British Progressive band Pink Floyd deal with their struggles in success after their album The Dark Side of the Moon became a hit record. We later see the leader of the band, Roger Waters’s (Adam Driver) growing narcissism and ego following his band’s success and his fights with fellow band mates David Gilmour (Leonardo DiCapario), Nick Mason (Christian Bale), Richard Wright (Michael Cera).
It came to a point during the climax of the movie, during the production of The Wall movie, Richard Wright left the band in 1982. Then, in 1985, Roger Waters contacted with his talent manager Steve O’Rourke over his future royalty payments, however O’Rourke told Mason and Gilmour about it. Waters then in retaliation terminated the contact with O’Rourke and later fought Gilmour in a drug fueled rage. The movie ends in 2011, where an old Roger Waters (Jeff Goldblum) reunited with his bandmates in The Wall Live concert in O2 London.
Reception to the movie by both critics and audiences were mostly positive, as they praised the break from the typical musician biopic plot and how the movie deals with emotion of egoism. The movie helped to boost popularity of Pink Floyd and made The Endless River reach #5 in best selling album of 2014.
Link to the concept album in Spotify
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From Here To Maternity (1957)
Spencer Tracy is horrified to discover that his daughter, (Elizabeth Taylor)has gotten pregnant while away at college. If that's not bad enough the young man responsible is an officer in the Royal Navy (Richard Burton) due to return to the UK in 6 weeks.
Spencer Tracy is horrified to discover that his daughter, (Elizabeth Taylor)has gotten pregnant while away at college. If that's not bad enough the young man responsible is an officer in the Royal Navy (Richard Burton) due to return to the UK in 6 weeks.
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June 13, 2006: A part of the 40th Anniversary celebrations the movie Star Trek: Discovery premiers at the second Star Trek Experience park in Iowa.
The film sees a 2381 joint operation by the Deep Space Nine and Next Generation crews to investigate the source of signals in the Gamma Quadrant that seem to be coming from a Starfleet source. The movie gave fans the first look at the lives of the DS9 crew since the end of the show in 1999, with the dispersal of the crew post Dominion War and updated the fans on the TNG crew's lives post the events of 2002’s Nemesis, wherein they had been accused of killing the entire Romulan Senate during a diplomatic visit to Romulus, and the split up of the famous crew during the fallout.
The movie opens with the Dreadnought Class USS Enterprise-D arriving at station Deep Space Nine after receiving Priority One orders to head there. Captain Riker is met by Captain Sisko who takes him to the conference room where they are met by Admiral Picard, who is taking charge of the operation. During the briefing Chief O'Brien (last seen leaving the station for an engineering job on Bajor) announced he was part of the Federation crew developing the Gateway station at the Gamma Quadrant mouth of the wormhole, and it was him that had found the signals. It was a simple SOS with no identifiers, other than being on a Starfleet code. There is debate on what it means, however given Picard has a priority in ensuring they do not break the Treaty of Bajor that ended the war, the Dominion Observer on-board is brought in so Picard can ask for formal permission to traverse Dominion space, this is Jem’hadar Honoured Elder Goran'Agar, who informs them that it will need to be taken to the Founders directly.
There is a moment for crews to say a few words with partners- Sisko talks to his son Jake and wife Kasidy on the Promenade, Ambassador Worf and Troi share a moment on the ‘Embassy Row’, before she leaves, Dax and wife Lenara share a moment in their quarters, O’Brien video calls his wife Keiko and his two children on Bajor, and Bashir gets a moment with his husband Garek before the order comes to leave.
After a spectacular Wormhole traversing sequence, the two ships travel towards the Founders home world, halfway they detect Dominion ships and the Defiant cloaks, heading away from Enterprise. The flagship is met by Jem’hadar ships and Weyoun who insist on a bureaucratic interpretation of the Treaty, and as expected, ties up Picard in red tape. Meanwhile Defiant slips towards the Founders home world using the ‘Advanced Cloak’ Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge has developed during the Enterprise’s time in Romulan space as part of the Federation’s efforts to stabilise the Empire. They arrive and broadcast directly to the Great Link, leading to Captain Sisko and Colonel Kira beaming down to converse with Odo, the shape-shifting former Security Chief of DS9. Odo grants the permission but insists on travelling with the crew (along with Weyoun and a party of Jem’hadar guards) as Ambassador, and also partly to be with Kira again.
La Forge is not the only crewmember on the ‘wrong’ ship with Jadiza Dax and O’Brien trying to triangulate the signal on Enterprise, and Data covering for Dax on Defiant. Ambassador Odo is given guest quarters on Enterprise, which sees some tense Jem'Hadar stand-off’s with Commander Madden’s security forces.
As they get through Dominion space the two ships start coming across hostile forces, there is a battle vs ships unknown even to Odo. Enterprise and Defiant struggle but prevail. Eventually the source of the signal is tracked down to a ship in orbit of a Class M Earth like world, and discovered to be coming from the Enterprise-B! Lost since 2321 while on a diplomatic mission, she had been presumed long destroyed. The Excelsior class ship has been seemingly stripped for parts and barely functional. An away team is sent over under Riker.
They are hailed from the surface by the Prime Minister- a being who wears the face of Captain Kirk, (played with great ham by William Shatner). Kirk explains they are now in the Confederation, a civilisation of worlds operating under the distracted noses of the Dominion. A dinner is arranged on the surface. Diplomatic Officer Troi informs them that she can sense there is much more going on making Picard and Sisko even more wary of the offer. Picard order the crews to maintain active scanning of the system.
At that point Riker signals from the Enterprise-B, they have found many dead and one comatose body in stasis. Doctor's Crusher and Bashir work to revive the unconscious Klingon male, who was badly injured before he ended up in a stasis field. Meanwhile Data and Dax work to access the Enterprise B's computers. The crews need to know what the Enterprise's last mission was as it is missing from their databases.
To buy time, Picard, Sisko, Troi, Data, Kira, and secretly Odo beam down to the planet. The place is technologically advanced, and populated by multiple alien lifeforms, but occasionally an Andorian, Human, Caitlin, or Vulcan can be seen. PM Kirk entertains them with ritualised non-lethal combat not unlike Klingon forms, but different, like it was only read about not witnessed. Attempts to learn about the history of the world are rebuffed, though they keep the grandstanding Kirk talking, and with careful questioning they learn this being only has partly memories of his time in Starfleet, leading to more questions.
O’Brien has been digging into odd signals he has been receiving, and with help from La Forge, Lt Nog, and Jem’hadar First Taran'atar they uncover a massive fleet of cloaked ships in this seemingly lightly defended system. The Starfleet ships are utterly outgunned and surrounded. Meanwhile, the Doctor’s succeed in waking their patient, whom they have identified as General Worf, ancestor of Ambassador Worf, a former crew-mate of theirs. Worf informs them of the last mission of the Enterprise-B.
Flashback: In 2321 Captain Chekov’s Enterprise-B comes to Quo’nos to discuss the violent Cardassian Union’s attacks on Federation and Klingon ships. Ambassador Kirk and General Worf make a visit to the area to discuss matters at Starbase 310 but are beset by Cardassian ships- they make a run for it, pushing the spaceframe's limits, then they take a major damage and crash out of warp in an unknown system, therein they find themselves shallowed by a (familiar to the audience) wormhole. They transition badly, and effectively fall out of the wormhole powerless, with most of the crew KO. An alien ship arrives (similar to the designs seen earlier) and takes the Enterprise in tow.
A montage shows the aliens, who are shadowy, smoky forms, merging with crewmembers and effectively processing them causing loss of control and memories. Some like Chekov and Worf manage to escape the Wisps. Under ‘Kirk’ a slightly twisted version of the Federation is shown being established- its expansionist and militaristic where the Federation is defensive and exploratory. Chekov’s Resistance grows, picking up alien allies and conducting raids. First contact with Dominion sees the Confederation beaten down militarily and they impose a new level of control over the Confederation which is a new complexity for the Resistance. Then a few years ago something distracted the Dominion- their forces vanished, and never came back, allowing the Confederation’s leadership to flex its muscles. The Resistance was betrayed and crumbled- Chekov is seen mounting a last-ditch firefight (Walter Koenig was clearly enjoying himself) while Worf and a few last fighters manage to escape to space to activate the Enterprise-B's emergency beacon during a firefight, before he fell into stasis. Worf now thinks it may have been a trap…
At the dinner Sisko manages to get Kirk taking about what his plans are. Kirk expresses (fake) surprise they are here at all, but now they are here they can help them conquer the Dominion. Picard tries to explain that is impossible, but Kirk smiles and several Wisps enter the room, moving to try and possess the crew. At this point Odo makes himself known and shields the away team, while Kira signals for emergency beam out. They dissolve in a transport beam as Kirk shouts for his warriors.
Enterprise and Defiant then have an extended spectacular battle vs the Confederation’s forces- both ships end up badly damaged as they run for the Dominion border- Enterprise uses its lance to take out multiple ships at once, but nearly loses shields due to the power taken up. Defiant rolls and curves among the enemy, picking off ships really showing her manoeuvrability. They reach the known border of Dominion space, where Dominion forces slam into the Confederation, before Kirk orders a retreat from his Vengeance battlecruiser.
Vengeance
There is a conference at the Gateway station- Odo says the Dominion will consider this is an internal matter, but Picard insists the Federation cannot ignore the violation of its citizens and will be keen to peruse a course of recovering its people- based on their examination of Worf, and the Enterprise-B dead, Bashir and Crusher are sure the Wisps control can be disrupted. Both sides agree to wait for decisions from Command or the Great Link.
As they talk the movie cuts to a cabin wherein the Away Team sent to the Enterprise-B are meeting including Riker- who reveal they are hosting Wisps...
Star Trek: Discovery was made for a budget of $150 million and was a box office smash bringing in $390.1 million. Some critics and fans consider it a bit derivative of Trek plots gone before, but general audiences lapped it up and Rotten Tomatoes rated it 92% ‘fresh’. A sequel was green-lit.
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June 13, 2006: A part of the 40th Anniversary celebrations the movie Star Trek: Discovery premiers at the second Star Trek Experience park in Iowa.
The film sees a 2381 joint operation by the Deep Space Nine and Next Generation crews to investigate the source of signals in the Gamma Quadrant that seem to be coming from a Starfleet source. The movie gave fans the first look at the lives of the DS9 crew since the end of the show in 1999, with the dispersal of the crew post Dominion War and updated the fans on the TNG crew's lives post the events of 2002’s Nemesis, wherein they had been accused of killing the entire Romulan Senate during a diplomatic visit to Romulus, and the split up of the famous crew during the fallout.
The movie opens with the Dreadnought Class USS Enterprise-D arriving at station Deep Space Nine after receiving Priority One orders to head there. Captain Riker is met by Captain Sisko who takes him to the conference room where they are met by Admiral Picard, who is taking charge of the operation. During the briefing Chief O'Brien (last seen leaving the station for an engineering job on Bajor) announced he was part of the Federation crew developing the Gateway station at the Gamma Quadrant mouth of the wormhole, and it was him that had found the signals. It was a simple SOS with no identifiers, other than being on a Starfleet code. There is debate on what it means, however given Picard has a priority in ensuring they do not break the Treaty of Bajor that ended the war, the Dominion Observer on-board is brought in so Picard can ask for formal permission to traverse Dominion space, this is Jem’hadar Honoured Elder Goran'Agar, who informs them that it will need to be taken to the Founders directly.
There is a moment for crews to say a few words with partners- Sisko talks to his son Jake and wife Kasidy on the Promenade, Ambassador Worf and Troi share a moment on the ‘Embassy Row’, before she leaves, Dax and wife Lenara share a moment in their quarters, O’Brien video calls his wife Keiko and his two children on Bajor, and Bashir gets a moment with his husband Garek before the order comes to leave.
After a spectacular Wormhole traversing sequence, the two ships travel towards the Founders home world, halfway they detect Dominion ships and the Defiant cloaks, heading away from Enterprise. The flagship is met by Jem’hadar ships and Weyoun who insist on a bureaucratic interpretation of the Treaty, and as expected, ties up Picard in red tape. Meanwhile Defiant slips towards the Founders home world using the ‘Advanced Cloak’ Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge has developed during the Enterprise’s time in Romulan space as part of the Federation’s efforts to stabilise the Empire. They arrive and broadcast directly to the Great Link, leading to Captain Sisko and Colonel Kira beaming down to converse with Odo, the shape-shifting former Security Chief of DS9. Odo grants the permission but insists on travelling with the crew (along with Weyoun and a party of Jem’hadar guards) as Ambassador, and also partly to be with Kira again.
La Forge is not the only crewmember on the ‘wrong’ ship with Jadiza Dax and O’Brien trying to triangulate the signal on Enterprise, and Data covering for Dax on Defiant. Ambassador Odo is given guest quarters on Enterprise, which sees some tense Jem'Hadar stand-off’s with Commander Madden’s security forces.
As they get through Dominion space the two ships start coming across hostile forces, there is a battle vs ships unknown even to Odo. Enterprise and Defiant struggle but prevail. Eventually the source of the signal is tracked down to a ship in orbit of a Class M Earth like world, and discovered to be coming from the Enterprise-B! Lost since 2321 while on a diplomatic mission, she had been presumed long destroyed. The Excelsior class ship has been seemingly stripped for parts and barely functional. An away team is sent over under Riker.
They are hailed from the surface by the Prime Minister- a being who wears the face of Captain Kirk, (played with great ham by William Shatner). Kirk explains they are now in the Confederation, a civilisation of worlds operating under the distracted noses of the Dominion. A dinner is arranged on the surface. Diplomatic Officer Troi informs them that she can sense there is much more going on making Picard and Sisko even more wary of the offer. Picard order the crews to maintain active scanning of the system.
At that point Riker signals from the Enterprise-B, they have found many dead and one comatose body in stasis. Doctor's Crusher and Bashir work to revive the unconscious Klingon male, who was badly injured before he ended up in a stasis field. Meanwhile Data and Dax work to access the Enterprise B's computers. The crews need to know what the Enterprise's last mission was as it is missing from their databases.
To buy time, Picard, Sisko, Troi, Data, Kira, and secretly Odo beam down to the planet. The place is technologically advanced, and populated by multiple alien lifeforms, but occasionally an Andorian, Human, Caitlin, or Vulcan can be seen. PM Kirk entertains them with ritualised non-lethal combat not unlike Klingon forms, but different, like it was only read about not witnessed. Attempts to learn about the history of the world are rebuffed, though they keep the grandstanding Kirk talking, and with careful questioning they learn this being only has partly memories of his time in Starfleet, leading to more questions.
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O’Brien has been digging into odd signals he has been receiving, and with help from La Forge, Lt Nog, and Jem’hadar First Taran'atar they uncover a massive fleet of cloaked ships in this seemingly lightly defended system. The Starfleet ships are utterly outgunned and surrounded. Meanwhile, the Doctor’s succeed in waking their patient, whom they have identified as General Worf, ancestor of Ambassador Worf, a former crew-mate of theirs. Worf informs them of the last mission of the Enterprise-B.
Flashback: In 2321 Captain Chekov’s Enterprise-B comes to Quo’nos to discuss the violent Cardassian Union’s attacks on Federation and Klingon ships. Ambassador Kirk and General Worf make a visit to the area to discuss matters at Starbase 310 but are beset by Cardassian ships- they make a run for it, pushing the spaceframe's limits, then they take a major damage and crash out of warp in an unknown system, therein they find themselves shallowed by a (familiar to the audience) wormhole. They transition badly, and effectively fall out of the wormhole powerless, with most of the crew KO. An alien ship arrives (similar to the designs seen earlier) and takes the Enterprise in tow.
A montage shows the aliens, who are shadowy, smoky forms, merging with crewmembers and effectively processing them causing loss of control and memories. Some like Chekov and Worf manage to escape the Wisps. Under ‘Kirk’ a slightly twisted version of the Federation is shown being established- its expansionist and militaristic where the Federation is defensive and exploratory. Chekov’s Resistance grows, picking up alien allies and conducting raids. First contact with Dominion sees the Confederation beaten down militarily and they impose a new level of control over the Confederation which is a new complexity for the Resistance. Then a few years ago something distracted the Dominion- their forces vanished, and never came back, allowing the Confederation’s leadership to flex its muscles. The Resistance was betrayed and crumbled- Chekov is seen mounting a last-ditch firefight (Walter Koenig was clearly enjoying himself) while Worf and a few last fighters manage to escape to space to activate the Enterprise-B's emergency beacon during a firefight, before he fell into stasis. Worf now thinks it may have been a trap…
At the dinner Sisko manages to get Kirk taking about what his plans are. Kirk expresses (fake) surprise they are here at all, but now they are here they can help them conquer the Dominion. Picard tries to explain that is impossible, but Kirk smiles and several Wisps enter the room, moving to try and possess the crew. At this point Odo makes himself known and shields the away team, while Kira signals for emergency beam out. They dissolve in a transport beam as Kirk shouts for his warriors.
Enterprise and Defiant then have an extended spectacular battle vs the Confederation’s forces- both ships end up badly damaged as they run for the Dominion border- Enterprise uses its lance to take out multiple ships at once, but nearly loses shields due to the power taken up. Defiant rolls and curves among the enemy, picking off ships really showing her manoeuvrability. They reach the known border of Dominion space, where Dominion forces slam into the Confederation, before Kirk orders a retreat from his Vengeance battlecruiser.
Vengeance
There is a conference at the Gateway station- Odo says the Dominion will consider this is an internal matter, but Picard insists the Federation cannot ignore the violation of its citizens and will be keen to peruse a course of recovering its people- based on their examination of Worf, and the Enterprise-B dead, Bashir and Crusher are sure the Wisps control can be disrupted. Both sides agree to wait for decisions from Command or the Great Link.
As they talk the movie cuts to a cabin wherein the Away Team sent to the Enterprise-B are meeting including Riker- who reveal they are hosting Wisps...
Star Trek: Discovery was made for a budget of $150 million and was a box office smash bringing in $390.1 million. Some critics and fans consider it a bit derivative of Trek plots gone before, but general audiences lapped it up and Rotten Tomatoes rated it 92% ‘fresh’. A sequel was green-lit.
Some more ideas:
1) 48 Hours - A fantasy world where there is a Santa like figure who does deliver presents on 'Festival Day' - he is a Demi-God with an army of Dwarf workers. The film would concentrate semi-documentary style on the 48 hours before and after the literally magical night.
2) The Only Orc gardener- concentrating on an Orc who was crippled in battle, and captured by Dwarves. After some years with them he escaped and returned home. Unable to return to battle he is assigned to the most useless task the Chief can devise and now raises plants to feed the Clan. However he treats his workers as equals and listens to their advice, doubling their yields. They are laughed at and ignored by the Clan- effectively becoming a Clan within a Clan. In one night of slaughter the Chief and all the adult/teen males are killed off by an Human-Elf invasion, only the females and young children are spared with the Invasion forces expecting them to die. The farmers are ignored even by the Invaders- they see them as honourless for being captured and don't make an effort to free them. Once they have gone there is only one Adult male Orc left to take the Chiefdom. Can he forge a new Orc Clan and nation from his shattered people?
3) Last Voyage of the Titanic- it's 1929 and the Great War has enveloped Europe. The economic crash making the tension between nations explode into conflict. RMS Titanic leaves Southampton on a scheduled voyage, she is secretly carrying huge amounts of the UK's gold reserves, plus the Prince of Wales. Publicly she is carrying a very large amount of (neutral) American's escaping the conflict. Can Titanic escape the U-Boats waiting for her? Will the Germans risk bringing in the USA for the advantage of bankrupting the UK? And what of the conspiracy in Whitehall to deliberately sink the Titanic to get the United States onside..?
1) 48 Hours - A fantasy world where there is a Santa like figure who does deliver presents on 'Festival Day' - he is a Demi-God with an army of Dwarf workers. The film would concentrate semi-documentary style on the 48 hours before and after the literally magical night.
2) The Only Orc gardener- concentrating on an Orc who was crippled in battle, and captured by Dwarves. After some years with them he escaped and returned home. Unable to return to battle he is assigned to the most useless task the Chief can devise and now raises plants to feed the Clan. However he treats his workers as equals and listens to their advice, doubling their yields. They are laughed at and ignored by the Clan- effectively becoming a Clan within a Clan. In one night of slaughter the Chief and all the adult/teen males are killed off by an Human-Elf invasion, only the females and young children are spared with the Invasion forces expecting them to die. The farmers are ignored even by the Invaders- they see them as honourless for being captured and don't make an effort to free them. Once they have gone there is only one Adult male Orc left to take the Chiefdom. Can he forge a new Orc Clan and nation from his shattered people?
3) Last Voyage of the Titanic- it's 1929 and the Great War has enveloped Europe. The economic crash making the tension between nations explode into conflict. RMS Titanic leaves Southampton on a scheduled voyage, she is secretly carrying huge amounts of the UK's gold reserves, plus the Prince of Wales. Publicly she is carrying a very large amount of (neutral) American's escaping the conflict. Can Titanic escape the U-Boats waiting for her? Will the Germans risk bringing in the USA for the advantage of bankrupting the UK? And what of the conspiracy in Whitehall to deliberately sink the Titanic to get the United States onside..?
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W. The biography of playwright Wendy Wasserstein her writings, her Survival of cancer,
Her nomination by president trump as national playwright. Her adaption as a prophet, by the Cao Dai.
Her nomination by president trump as national playwright. Her adaption as a prophet, by the Cao Dai.
Jurassic Park IV (2006)
Vance Grant, the brother of Alan Grant and a former soldier, is contacted and hired by John Hammond (Richard Attenborough). Recently, several dinosaurs from Isla Sorna have made it to mainland Central America, and are wrecking havoc on both the ecosystems and human communities. Hammond has a solution: introduce aggressive, sterile females to them and destroy them from the inside out. However, because of a ban on genetics modification and tight restrictions of amber mining trading, they'll need to get DNA from Isla Sorna itself. Currently, Sorna is tightly guarded by both the UN and the Python Corporation, headed by the swiss billionaire George von Helstrom. He goes with his comrade Jeb Overton.
Vance and Jeb are transported by helicopter to the island, base jumping down. They make their way to an Ingen lab on a mountain, where there is a still functioning fridge of embryos to use. However, it turns out that the lab is home to a rookery of velociraptors and therizinosaurus in a symbiotic relationship, and only barely manage to escape with the DNA samples. To make matters worse, they find the helicopter has been captured and used as bait by Python's mercenaries, and its only when a T. rex shows up they escape in the confusion, but are knocked out unconscious before they can fully escape.
Dayas later, Vance and Jeb wake up in a castle in the Swiss Alps, owned by von Helstrom. Its here they meet another member of their former team, Wallace Joyce. He takes them to a secret lab where stolen dinosaurs are being experimented on to weaponise, such as a male ankylosaurus, a female Therizinosaurus, pair of dilophosaurus, and a flock of microraptors. The experiments are conducted by Sherman Fosdick and behavioural zoologist Maya Lundberg, where Deinonychus are fitted with regulator boxes that allow for control via neuropeptides. Recently, the raptors have began acting up, initially suggested to be the fault of both the regulator boxes and the aggressive mercenary Jon Zweiss.
The first mission the dinosaurs are slated for is a hostage crisis in the Dominican Republic, where the Militia group Caribbean Liberation Front, many disgruntled amber mine workers affected by the ban, are holding a governor's daughter hostage. The mission is a success, but public suspicions are already high.
The next night, von Helstrom and his team are celebrating the success. However, the dinosaurs are growing increasingly restless, and after Zweiss taunts them one more time, they break out and rampage. While the therizinosaurus and ankylosaurus are content to escape outside and feed, the raptors go after the people who long made them miserable. Python's forces all try to capture them to no avail, and the raptors succeed in killing von Helstrom, Joyce, Sherman, and Zweiss. Fortunately Maya, Vance, and Jeb manage to trap the raptors and tranquilise them before government agents arrive.
Vance and Maya agree to act as informants in exchange for reduced sentences, while helping coordinate dinosaur elimination efforts alongside John Hammond, who has decided against using the DNA samples. The film ends with the dinosaurs being released back into the wilds of Isla Sorna as Hammond looks on.
Cast
Filming took place in British Columbia. The pacific rainforests and mountains of Vancouver Island stood in for Isla Sorna and the Rockies stood in for Switzerland. Additional filming took place in Queensland, Australia and Hawaii.
Merchandise
Several video games were made. Among them are:
Reception and Box Office
Jurassic Park IV received poor reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a score of 29%, reading “Bloated and unable to make its mind up, Jurassic Park IV shows why resurrecting dead things is usually a bad idea”. Points of contention were recycled plotlines from the previous films and a perceived lack of focus and identity to it. Indeed, the film pretty much killed off the Jurassic Park film franchise.
That said, some did praise the film's more outright horror feel to it courtesy of James Wan.
The box office was a bit kinder, grossing $422 million worldwide against a $100 million budget, making it the eighth highest film of the year.
Legacy
Despite the high film gross, the film's poor reception, along with middling merch sales, led execs decide to pull the plug on the franchise, cancelling a potential Jurassic Park V. Nothing would come of the film in the proceeding years beyond the occasional game or rerelease, or rerelease toyline. However, come 2018, and the franchise was given a soft reboot in the form of the prequel TV series Nublar.
James Wan would return to the straight horror genre with Dead Silence, later turning down an adaptation of the 1975 novel Death Sentence.
Dinosaurs (by order of appearance)
- Directed by: James Wan
- Produced by: Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, and Frank Marshall
- Written by: William Monahan and John Sayles
- Cinematography by: Janusz Kamiński
- Composed by: Charlie Clouser
- Running time: 120 minutes
- Release date: October13, 2006
Vance Grant, the brother of Alan Grant and a former soldier, is contacted and hired by John Hammond (Richard Attenborough). Recently, several dinosaurs from Isla Sorna have made it to mainland Central America, and are wrecking havoc on both the ecosystems and human communities. Hammond has a solution: introduce aggressive, sterile females to them and destroy them from the inside out. However, because of a ban on genetics modification and tight restrictions of amber mining trading, they'll need to get DNA from Isla Sorna itself. Currently, Sorna is tightly guarded by both the UN and the Python Corporation, headed by the swiss billionaire George von Helstrom. He goes with his comrade Jeb Overton.
Vance and Jeb are transported by helicopter to the island, base jumping down. They make their way to an Ingen lab on a mountain, where there is a still functioning fridge of embryos to use. However, it turns out that the lab is home to a rookery of velociraptors and therizinosaurus in a symbiotic relationship, and only barely manage to escape with the DNA samples. To make matters worse, they find the helicopter has been captured and used as bait by Python's mercenaries, and its only when a T. rex shows up they escape in the confusion, but are knocked out unconscious before they can fully escape.
Dayas later, Vance and Jeb wake up in a castle in the Swiss Alps, owned by von Helstrom. Its here they meet another member of their former team, Wallace Joyce. He takes them to a secret lab where stolen dinosaurs are being experimented on to weaponise, such as a male ankylosaurus, a female Therizinosaurus, pair of dilophosaurus, and a flock of microraptors. The experiments are conducted by Sherman Fosdick and behavioural zoologist Maya Lundberg, where Deinonychus are fitted with regulator boxes that allow for control via neuropeptides. Recently, the raptors have began acting up, initially suggested to be the fault of both the regulator boxes and the aggressive mercenary Jon Zweiss.
The first mission the dinosaurs are slated for is a hostage crisis in the Dominican Republic, where the Militia group Caribbean Liberation Front, many disgruntled amber mine workers affected by the ban, are holding a governor's daughter hostage. The mission is a success, but public suspicions are already high.
The next night, von Helstrom and his team are celebrating the success. However, the dinosaurs are growing increasingly restless, and after Zweiss taunts them one more time, they break out and rampage. While the therizinosaurus and ankylosaurus are content to escape outside and feed, the raptors go after the people who long made them miserable. Python's forces all try to capture them to no avail, and the raptors succeed in killing von Helstrom, Joyce, Sherman, and Zweiss. Fortunately Maya, Vance, and Jeb manage to trap the raptors and tranquilise them before government agents arrive.
Vance and Maya agree to act as informants in exchange for reduced sentences, while helping coordinate dinosaur elimination efforts alongside John Hammond, who has decided against using the DNA samples. The film ends with the dinosaurs being released back into the wilds of Isla Sorna as Hammond looks on.
Cast
- Karl Urban as Vance Grant
- Richard Attenborough as John Hammond
- TBD as Jeb Overton
- Famke Janssen as Maya Lundberg
- Armin Mueller-Stahl as George von Helstrom
- TBD as Wallace Joyce
- TBD as Sherman Fosdick
- Michael Fassbender as Jon Zweiss
- Laura Dern as Ellie Degler
- Miguel Sandoval as Juanito Rostagno
Filming took place in British Columbia. The pacific rainforests and mountains of Vancouver Island stood in for Isla Sorna and the Rockies stood in for Switzerland. Additional filming took place in Queensland, Australia and Hawaii.
Merchandise
Several video games were made. Among them are:
- Jurassic Park: Nightmare - Survival horror game about surviving a wave of raptors.
- Jurassic Park: Guardians - An Xbox 360 and Playstation 2 shooter game where you play as game warden Arthur Farleigh in charge of protecting Isla Sorna and the dinosaurs from poachers, big game hunters, and occasionally each other. Very well received.
- Jurassic Park IV (Arcade) - Released by Sega. You play as Python mercenaries trying to recapture dinosaurs in the Swiss Alps.
Reception and Box Office
Jurassic Park IV received poor reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a score of 29%, reading “Bloated and unable to make its mind up, Jurassic Park IV shows why resurrecting dead things is usually a bad idea”. Points of contention were recycled plotlines from the previous films and a perceived lack of focus and identity to it. Indeed, the film pretty much killed off the Jurassic Park film franchise.
That said, some did praise the film's more outright horror feel to it courtesy of James Wan.
The box office was a bit kinder, grossing $422 million worldwide against a $100 million budget, making it the eighth highest film of the year.
Legacy
Despite the high film gross, the film's poor reception, along with middling merch sales, led execs decide to pull the plug on the franchise, cancelling a potential Jurassic Park V. Nothing would come of the film in the proceeding years beyond the occasional game or rerelease, or rerelease toyline. However, come 2018, and the franchise was given a soft reboot in the form of the prequel TV series Nublar.
James Wan would return to the straight horror genre with Dead Silence, later turning down an adaptation of the 1975 novel Death Sentence.
Dinosaurs (by order of appearance)
- Pteranodon - Seen in new reports along American coasts and on Sorna
- Gallimimus - Seen raiding crops via news report and on Sorna
- Dryosaurus - Seen raiding crops via news report.
- Compsognathus - Seen raiding bird nests and attacking children via news report
- Parasaurolophus and Triceratops - A mixed herd appears on Sorna browsing, drinking, and socialising about as Nick and Jeb stop to observe them.
- Therizinosaurus/Reaper - Three appear on Sorna, living in a symbiotic relationship with the raptors, and a female is used by Python.
- Velociraptor - A pack, utilising the JP3 designs, appear in the Sorna lab sequence
- Tyrannosaurus rex - A male appears on Sorna to temporarily scare off the Python mercenaries, and later observing the Python dinosaurs.
- Brachiosaurus - One appears on Sorna as it watches the Python helicopter fly off and as the Python dinosaurs are rereleased, as the last dinosaur on the island we see in the films.
- Ankylosaurus - A male named Hercules is captured and utilised by Python
- Microraptor/Tetrawing- A flock named after various nymphs appear.
- Deinonychus/D-Raptor - A pack, codenamed Argonauts, each named after a different ancient greek hero, play a central role
- Dilophosaurus/Spitter - Two of them play a similar role as the above.
- Iguanodon (would raid crops along news report)
- Metriacanthosaurus, Ceratosaurus, and Carnotaurus (mentioned as potential threats on the island by an agent briefing Vance and Jeb and appear on monitor; also planned for cut chase sequence on Sorna)
- Neovenator (ditto)
- Kronosaurus (intended for sequence where it eats Jeb and Vance's boat pilot)
- Archaeopteryx (appears as fossil facsimile in Helstrom's mansion)
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White Sun and Sickle. an Oliver Stone film, concerning the negotiation's between Koysign, and Chang Chinquo, concerning the Taiwan USSR alliance against Mao's China.
Seen in the same genre as W, and Nixon, geopolitics through drama.
Seen in the same genre as W, and Nixon, geopolitics through drama.
Doogal (2006)
An animated comedy using characters from the classic sitcom Father Ted. When Ted wins an all-expenses paid holiday to Las Vegas, Father Dougal Maguire is left running the Craggy Island parish, with predictable results. To make matters worse, Jack decides to go on a booze cruise, and Bishop Brennan announces a snap inspection...
The title comes from Father Dougal being too stupid to even spell his own name correctly.
An animated comedy using characters from the classic sitcom Father Ted. When Ted wins an all-expenses paid holiday to Las Vegas, Father Dougal Maguire is left running the Craggy Island parish, with predictable results. To make matters worse, Jack decides to go on a booze cruise, and Bishop Brennan announces a snap inspection...
The title comes from Father Dougal being too stupid to even spell his own name correctly.
Sure. Is Vance Alan's younger brother? If so and you want another New Zealander for the role I would suggest Karl Urban. For Jeb if you want to go with yet another New Zealander I suggest Temuera Morrison.
Nice ideas and I will take Urban for Vance, but I want an American for Jeb. Jeb's meant to be southern, so he should have at least an actyor from it, though he won't have that much of the accent, only traces of it.
As for the rest, well i'll PM you.
Star Wars Episode 1 The Beginning- POD is Steven Spielberg dying suddenly in 1996 just as George Lucas finished his first draft of what would eventually be TPM. This sends Lucas into a deep depression and he develops writers block. This leads to him turning to Lawrence Kasdan for help in writing subsequent drafts with his (much better than the finished movie seriously http://fd.noneinc.com/secrethistoryofstarwarscom/secrethistoryofstarwars.com/thebeginning.html ) first draft as a base.
The movie is generally liked though all agree it does not hold a candle to the OT. It gets a 66% rating on Rotten Tomatoes instead of the 52% it got iotl (This is not my ideal Star Wars prequel rewrite either. It's a thought exercise in finding a late POD to make Episode 1 a bit better. It still wouldn't be great,just not godawful)
Good Changes include-
Jedi wear black or white uniforms like Luke in ROTJ no Tatooine Robes
Obi Wan was trained by Yoda and (a mohawk sporting) Qui Gon was also trained by Yoda,making them friends not master and padawan (however Obi Wan is a lot younger and more brash compared to Qui Gon)
Maul has feathers on his head instead of spikes and does not have a double bladed lightsaber
Anakin is 12 instead of 9 which makes him a little more believable though still kind of a gary stu like otl TPM (otl he was supposed to be 12 but then George changed it so Anakin would miss his mother more)
Anakin is a lot angrier with his lot in life as a slave,rebellious and not at all the optimistic altruistic kid from TPM because George has decided that separation from his mother should not be the primary reason (still is A reason) Anakin joins the dark side later on
Obi Wan is implied to be a poor master for Anakin due to his recklessness and at the end of the movie desire for vengeance on the Sith
Jar Jar Binks speaks normal english but is still kind of silly/annoying as many reviewers/fans point out. (Still better than OTL)
Naboo is instead Alderaan
The Trade Federation is using their battle droids to invade because they wants to find Alderaan's secret Cloning formula for slave labor (We still have the dumb battle droids but now the term Clone Wars makes a bit more sense)
Maul is revealed to have survived in the last scene
Things that are still there-
Bad/Cheesy dialogue,there's just less of it
Battle Droids are still stupid
Same amount of gratuitous CGI
Jar Jar is still kind of annoying
C-3P0 is still shoehorned in
Watto is still a stereotype
Lots of boring political scenes still
Anakins acting is still not great,not terrible like OTL (Jake Loyd is not cast since he's too young. This also gives him a better life because he will not be relentlessly bullied OTL)
As for the other 2 prequels in this universe all I've though of so far is that AOTC is parallel in quality to OTL's ROTS and TTL's ROTS is on par with Rouge One in quality
The movie is generally liked though all agree it does not hold a candle to the OT. It gets a 66% rating on Rotten Tomatoes instead of the 52% it got iotl (This is not my ideal Star Wars prequel rewrite either. It's a thought exercise in finding a late POD to make Episode 1 a bit better. It still wouldn't be great,just not godawful)
Good Changes include-
Jedi wear black or white uniforms like Luke in ROTJ no Tatooine Robes
Obi Wan was trained by Yoda and (a mohawk sporting) Qui Gon was also trained by Yoda,making them friends not master and padawan (however Obi Wan is a lot younger and more brash compared to Qui Gon)
Maul has feathers on his head instead of spikes and does not have a double bladed lightsaber
Anakin is 12 instead of 9 which makes him a little more believable though still kind of a gary stu like otl TPM (otl he was supposed to be 12 but then George changed it so Anakin would miss his mother more)
Anakin is a lot angrier with his lot in life as a slave,rebellious and not at all the optimistic altruistic kid from TPM because George has decided that separation from his mother should not be the primary reason (still is A reason) Anakin joins the dark side later on
Obi Wan is implied to be a poor master for Anakin due to his recklessness and at the end of the movie desire for vengeance on the Sith
Jar Jar Binks speaks normal english but is still kind of silly/annoying as many reviewers/fans point out. (Still better than OTL)
Naboo is instead Alderaan
The Trade Federation is using their battle droids to invade because they wants to find Alderaan's secret Cloning formula for slave labor (We still have the dumb battle droids but now the term Clone Wars makes a bit more sense)
Maul is revealed to have survived in the last scene
Things that are still there-
Bad/Cheesy dialogue,there's just less of it
Battle Droids are still stupid
Same amount of gratuitous CGI
Jar Jar is still kind of annoying
C-3P0 is still shoehorned in
Watto is still a stereotype
Lots of boring political scenes still
Anakins acting is still not great,not terrible like OTL (Jake Loyd is not cast since he's too young. This also gives him a better life because he will not be relentlessly bullied OTL)
As for the other 2 prequels in this universe all I've though of so far is that AOTC is parallel in quality to OTL's ROTS and TTL's ROTS is on par with Rouge One in quality
I have been brainstorming this pop culture centered TL for a while. One of the ideas I had is for a DC cinematic universe that starts in 2005. It begins with Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman films being released that year. This DCCU begins with a rebooted Superman film with a very different from OTL Kevin Smith script. Here there is a different producer who does not push all the nonsense crap Smith was forced to put in OTL's script. This different script is a reboot of the Richard Donner film. Smith who had recently lost his father focuses heavily on Superman's relationship to his biological Kryptonian father Jor-El and his adoptive Earth father Jonathan Kent. The villain of the film is Lex Luthor who is framing the recently active Superman for various mass causality crimes. Also a large part of the film takes place on Krypton before it is destroyed. The film genre wise is a dramatic action sci-fi thriller with some comedic elements. Another major figure in the production of the film is director Jon Favreau. Essentially making this TTL's Iron Man in various ways. In that it begins the DCCU, it's use of CGI effects, and it brings a renaissance of comic book films. So, I give you the cast of Superman.
Superman(2005)
Directed by Jon Favreau
Written by Kevin Smith
Superman/Kal-El/Clark Kent: Ben Affleck
Jor-El: Christopher Reeve(never has accident ITTL)
Jonathan Kent: Patrick Swayze
Lara Jor-El: Dana Reeve
Martha Kent: Leah Thompson
Lex Luthor: Vince Vaughn
Lois Lane: Jennifer Garner
Jimmy Olson: Jason Mewes
Perry White: Dan Akroyd
In this reboot the Daily Planet is a televised network news station with Lois being a live reporter and Jimmy being her camera man. Clark is simply a writer for the studio anchorman portrayed by Jon Favreau himself. Perry is the producer for the network. Kevin Smith makes a few cameo appearances as a quirky weatherman for the station.
If anyone has any questions about the film, the plot, the casting choices, or anything else feel free to ask. I leave you with this until tomorrow when I reveal.... David Fincher's The Batman....!!!!
Superman(2005)
Directed by Jon Favreau
Written by Kevin Smith
Superman/Kal-El/Clark Kent: Ben Affleck
Jor-El: Christopher Reeve(never has accident ITTL)
Jonathan Kent: Patrick Swayze
Lara Jor-El: Dana Reeve
Martha Kent: Leah Thompson
Lex Luthor: Vince Vaughn
Lois Lane: Jennifer Garner
Jimmy Olson: Jason Mewes
Perry White: Dan Akroyd
In this reboot the Daily Planet is a televised network news station with Lois being a live reporter and Jimmy being her camera man. Clark is simply a writer for the studio anchorman portrayed by Jon Favreau himself. Perry is the producer for the network. Kevin Smith makes a few cameo appearances as a quirky weatherman for the station.
If anyone has any questions about the film, the plot, the casting choices, or anything else feel free to ask. I leave you with this until tomorrow when I reveal.... David Fincher's The Batman....!!!!
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The Pure Hell of St Trinnian's
A 1960's British disaster movie.
The small British Caribbean colony on the Island of St Trinnian's is devastated by first a powerful Hurricane and then the eruption of its volcano. The film follows the struggles of a party of British Public schoolgirls spending their summer doing community service on the island. (And trying to catch a rich husband)
A 1960's British disaster movie.
The small British Caribbean colony on the Island of St Trinnian's is devastated by first a powerful Hurricane and then the eruption of its volcano. The film follows the struggles of a party of British Public schoolgirls spending their summer doing community service on the island. (And trying to catch a rich husband)
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The God Machine - A historical comedy of spiritualist minister John Murray Spear's attempt to create a mechanical messiah named New Motive Power, and the "New Mary", aka Sarah Newton, who was to power it up.
American Jackass - About George Washington and Henry Clay's troubled breeding of donkeys for the newly birthed America.
American Jackass - About George Washington and Henry Clay's troubled breeding of donkeys for the newly birthed America.
Ok the next part of the DCCU comes out a couple of months after Superman. This one is actually what got me started on this. I am super excited for the new The Batman that is coming out next year. With all the talk of it being like if David Fincher made a Batman movie. I was like um what if Fincher did make a Batman movie. So ITTL after Superman is green-lit Smith and Favreau quickly get the ball rolling for a Batman film as well. This Batman film is super gritty and a more realistic take on the story. It is a reboot of his origins and takes place in Year One of his crimefighting.
The Batman(2005)
Directed by David Fincher
Written by James Vanderbilt
"Batman"/Bruce Wayne: Chris Pine
Alfred Pennyworth: Timothy Dalton
Detective Jim Gordon: Robert Downey Jr.
Assistant District Attorney Harvey Dent: Jake Gyllenhaal
Vicki Vale: Rachel McAdams
Lucius Fox: Morgan Freeman
Oswald "The Penguin" Cobblepot: Tom Hardy
Salvatore "IL Capo" Maroni: Milo Ventimiglia
Carmine Falcone: Ray Liotta
Luigi "Don Grande" Maroni: in a special appearance by Al Pacino.
As you can see am I going with a very young cast. The main conflict of the film is a gang war between Penguin's gang and the mafia. Early in the film Penguin kills Luigi and Sal takes over. Sal is brash and some might even say insane. This leads to Falcone attempting to take over and form a truce with the Penguin. I chose Chris Pine for Batman because I believe he would put in the training to secure the role being virtually unknown at the time. I am going ahead and posting this but I will be editing in more details later.
The Batman(2005)
Directed by David Fincher
Written by James Vanderbilt
"Batman"/Bruce Wayne: Chris Pine
Alfred Pennyworth: Timothy Dalton
Detective Jim Gordon: Robert Downey Jr.
Assistant District Attorney Harvey Dent: Jake Gyllenhaal
Vicki Vale: Rachel McAdams
Lucius Fox: Morgan Freeman
Oswald "The Penguin" Cobblepot: Tom Hardy
Salvatore "IL Capo" Maroni: Milo Ventimiglia
Carmine Falcone: Ray Liotta
Luigi "Don Grande" Maroni: in a special appearance by Al Pacino.
As you can see am I going with a very young cast. The main conflict of the film is a gang war between Penguin's gang and the mafia. Early in the film Penguin kills Luigi and Sal takes over. Sal is brash and some might even say insane. This leads to Falcone attempting to take over and form a truce with the Penguin. I chose Chris Pine for Batman because I believe he would put in the training to secure the role being virtually unknown at the time. I am going ahead and posting this but I will be editing in more details later.
With Joan Collins- who in the 60’s was still as beautiful an actress as you could hope to find anywhere in
the world- playing one of the girls. Also one of the first film roles of a young Scotsman named Sean Connery.