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American History X-The tenth episode of a show about American History,this covers the history of America in WW2.
The Lorax- A pharmaceutical company pays bribes to get a new anti anxiety drug into the market without it going through the proper tests, which results in a zombie outbreak of fast moving dangerous zombies.
The Firm-A film about the Krays and their gang.
The King's Speech-Drama documentary about Martin Luther King.
Red-Taylor Swift Documentary
The Lost Boys-Peter Pan prequel.
The Lorax- A pharmaceutical company pays bribes to get a new anti anxiety drug into the market without it going through the proper tests, which results in a zombie outbreak of fast moving dangerous zombies.
The Firm-A film about the Krays and their gang.
The King's Speech-Drama documentary about Martin Luther King.
Red-Taylor Swift Documentary
The Lost Boys-Peter Pan prequel.
Lord of War-A film adaptation loosely based on the 1997 video game Postal where Matt (Charlie Sheen) snaps one day and wants to kill every person on the planet and earns the nickname "Lord of war" bombed at the box office but still notable for spawning memes used to this day .
Rush series (2013-2021)
The Rush series was Ron Howard's crack at the great stories of Formula One Racing starting in the mid-1970s, focusing on the great events, stories, drivers, characters and rivalries of the era. Known for being as realistic as possible (though not always exactly accurate, though the real life characters involved were mostly impressed by the level of accuracy of the films and in most cases were only too happy to approve of the films. Ron Howard's movies were indeed sufficiently good that the later chapters, as their budgets grew and their renown increased, often involved many of the people who so influenced the stories and indeed many of the cars and teams who actually did the racing.
Rush (2013)
The first chapter of the Rush movies was the legendary 1976 battle between legendary Austrian Niki Lauda and his flamboyant British rival James Hunt. The story also chronicles the two mens' rise to fame and stardom, Lauda's horrific 1976 accident at the Nurburgring in Germany which saw Formula One being a long hiatus from the circuit and Hunt and Lauda fighting for everything at the infamous-for-its-appalling-weather 1976 Japanese Grand Prix and Hunt's championship victory as a result of his near-suicidal charge during the race. Hunt and Lauda, despite their immense on-track rivalries, were known to have immense respect for each other, and the movies took great pains to make it about the two mens' individual personalities and burning desires to win being what drove them to access depths neither knew they had.
Rush II (2015)
After the immense commercial success of the first film, the second chronicled 'Anglo-American Dream Team' at Lotus in 1977 to 1980. Brought about by the legendary Lotus boss Colin Chapman's immense faith in many American racers when most Europeans tended to turn their noses up at them, Chapman managed to get Mario Andretti and A.J. Foyt - two of the kings of American racing, and two men who despised one another before their time with the Lotus Grand Prix Team - to be teammates, development drivers and, ultimately, the heroes who absolutely dominated Formula One in the last years of the 1970s and in the process both immensely raised the sport's popularity in North America and changed the face of Formula One forever, along with forging the team, drivers and men involved forging bonds that lasted a lifetime.
Rush III (2017)
Enter the 1980s and with the aftermath of the acrimonious FOCA-FISA split of 1980-1982 central to the story, Rush III chronicles the new generation of F1 racers entering the sport at the time - Alain Prost, Rick Mears, Gilles Villeneuve, Keke Rosberg, Nigel Mansell, Michèle Mouton, Stefan Bellof, Nelson Piquet and Ayrton Senna, along with Lauda and Hunt in the final years of their F1 driving careers - as well as the various personalities and their attempts to make their mark in the topsy-turvy world of early 1980s Formula One, as the turbo era and the incredibly-powerful and nearly-impossible-to-control cars that came to grand prix racing and the old orders being utterly demolished by the acrimonious split made for a world of characters and events the like of which racing had never seen before and hasn't seen since.
Rush IV (2019)
Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna by the late 1980s had risen to the top of the racing world, the fiery, passionate, unimaginably-talented Brazilian being a world apart from the calculating, precise, advantage-obsessed Frenchman. The two's time as teammates at McLaren led to an acrimonious split between them, and Prost's arrival at Ferrari, joining the incredibly Stefan Bellof - who was in so many ways similar to Senna - forced Senna and Prost to both up their games as the two men would rapidly find out that while anger burned inside both men, it was the passion that both allowed them to dominate their world but also create a legend that would last forever in the world of racing.
Rush V (2021)
The 1990s world of Formula One was one where technical innovations ruled and the engineers became as important as the cars, even as many of the famed characters of the 1970s and 1980s retired from roles behind the wheel and in many cases moved to the pit boxes and offices. At the center of this is Jackie Stewart, the legendary Scottish champion of the early 1970s, who is forced by fate to take over the team built by his friend and mentor Ken Tyrrell after the latter suffers health issues in the 1990s, and Stewart takes a true shot in the dark at a young man from California that the Ford Motor Company believes has potential - Jeff Gordon. Stewart rapidly finds out how true Gordon's talent is, and as Stewart builds his team, Gordon builds his skill, and the two men of vastly different backgrounds use their own immense abilities to best their rivals - most of all, vocal and proud self-made Irish team owner Eddie Jordan and his own ace pilot, skilled German Michael Schumacher. Rush V chronicles everything up to Gordon and Schumacher's truly-legendary fight for the 1997 World Championship, which Gordon won. Also noted about Rush V was the chance interaction of Gordon with a young karter who idolizes him, while Schumacher is introduced by his sports car-racer brother Ralf to a brilliant young karter in Germany, who impresses Michael to such a degree that he seeks to make sure the young man is able to keep racing - and winning - in karts. Eleven years later, Gordon and Schumacher could both say they are proud mentors, and ask whether Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel will be the next legends of Grand Prix racing....
The Rush series was Ron Howard's crack at the great stories of Formula One Racing starting in the mid-1970s, focusing on the great events, stories, drivers, characters and rivalries of the era. Known for being as realistic as possible (though not always exactly accurate, though the real life characters involved were mostly impressed by the level of accuracy of the films and in most cases were only too happy to approve of the films. Ron Howard's movies were indeed sufficiently good that the later chapters, as their budgets grew and their renown increased, often involved many of the people who so influenced the stories and indeed many of the cars and teams who actually did the racing.
Rush (2013)
The first chapter of the Rush movies was the legendary 1976 battle between legendary Austrian Niki Lauda and his flamboyant British rival James Hunt. The story also chronicles the two mens' rise to fame and stardom, Lauda's horrific 1976 accident at the Nurburgring in Germany which saw Formula One being a long hiatus from the circuit and Hunt and Lauda fighting for everything at the infamous-for-its-appalling-weather 1976 Japanese Grand Prix and Hunt's championship victory as a result of his near-suicidal charge during the race. Hunt and Lauda, despite their immense on-track rivalries, were known to have immense respect for each other, and the movies took great pains to make it about the two mens' individual personalities and burning desires to win being what drove them to access depths neither knew they had.
Rush II (2015)
After the immense commercial success of the first film, the second chronicled 'Anglo-American Dream Team' at Lotus in 1977 to 1980. Brought about by the legendary Lotus boss Colin Chapman's immense faith in many American racers when most Europeans tended to turn their noses up at them, Chapman managed to get Mario Andretti and A.J. Foyt - two of the kings of American racing, and two men who despised one another before their time with the Lotus Grand Prix Team - to be teammates, development drivers and, ultimately, the heroes who absolutely dominated Formula One in the last years of the 1970s and in the process both immensely raised the sport's popularity in North America and changed the face of Formula One forever, along with forging the team, drivers and men involved forging bonds that lasted a lifetime.
Rush III (2017)
Enter the 1980s and with the aftermath of the acrimonious FOCA-FISA split of 1980-1982 central to the story, Rush III chronicles the new generation of F1 racers entering the sport at the time - Alain Prost, Rick Mears, Gilles Villeneuve, Keke Rosberg, Nigel Mansell, Michèle Mouton, Stefan Bellof, Nelson Piquet and Ayrton Senna, along with Lauda and Hunt in the final years of their F1 driving careers - as well as the various personalities and their attempts to make their mark in the topsy-turvy world of early 1980s Formula One, as the turbo era and the incredibly-powerful and nearly-impossible-to-control cars that came to grand prix racing and the old orders being utterly demolished by the acrimonious split made for a world of characters and events the like of which racing had never seen before and hasn't seen since.
Rush IV (2019)
Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna by the late 1980s had risen to the top of the racing world, the fiery, passionate, unimaginably-talented Brazilian being a world apart from the calculating, precise, advantage-obsessed Frenchman. The two's time as teammates at McLaren led to an acrimonious split between them, and Prost's arrival at Ferrari, joining the incredibly Stefan Bellof - who was in so many ways similar to Senna - forced Senna and Prost to both up their games as the two men would rapidly find out that while anger burned inside both men, it was the passion that both allowed them to dominate their world but also create a legend that would last forever in the world of racing.
Rush V (2021)
The 1990s world of Formula One was one where technical innovations ruled and the engineers became as important as the cars, even as many of the famed characters of the 1970s and 1980s retired from roles behind the wheel and in many cases moved to the pit boxes and offices. At the center of this is Jackie Stewart, the legendary Scottish champion of the early 1970s, who is forced by fate to take over the team built by his friend and mentor Ken Tyrrell after the latter suffers health issues in the 1990s, and Stewart takes a true shot in the dark at a young man from California that the Ford Motor Company believes has potential - Jeff Gordon. Stewart rapidly finds out how true Gordon's talent is, and as Stewart builds his team, Gordon builds his skill, and the two men of vastly different backgrounds use their own immense abilities to best their rivals - most of all, vocal and proud self-made Irish team owner Eddie Jordan and his own ace pilot, skilled German Michael Schumacher. Rush V chronicles everything up to Gordon and Schumacher's truly-legendary fight for the 1997 World Championship, which Gordon won. Also noted about Rush V was the chance interaction of Gordon with a young karter who idolizes him, while Schumacher is introduced by his sports car-racer brother Ralf to a brilliant young karter in Germany, who impresses Michael to such a degree that he seeks to make sure the young man is able to keep racing - and winning - in karts. Eleven years later, Gordon and Schumacher could both say they are proud mentors, and ask whether Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel will be the next legends of Grand Prix racing....
Step Brothers : A 1991 Comedy-Drama starring Corey Haim as Rusty Turner the local school weirdo who does not talk to anyone and Corey Feldman as Brad Harmon the popular jock in school as their parents get married and they have to learn how to become a family . Though mocked for its simple plot the performances by Haim and Feldman were praised along with the movie realistic take on getting a step sibling realistic take on getting a step sibling .
Mirror's Edge (2016)
Type: Thriller
Nation: United States of America
Studio: Lionsgate Entertainment
Directors: Ridley Scott
Writers: Michael Miller, Rhianna Pratchett, Matt Holloway
Visual Director: Alexander McConnell
Art Directors: Johannes Soderqvist, Paul Blackfield
Music: Thomas Wander, Calvin Harris
Starring: Emma Watson, Emily Browning, Taylor Swift, Shailene Woodley, Jai Courtney, Tim Tebow, Jessica Alba, Alexander Ludwig, Brock Lesnar, Olivia Wilde, Zoe Saldana, Joel Kinnaman, Hugh Dillon, Sela Ward, Lenny Kravitz, Jason Sudeikis
Mirror's Edge, loosely based on the massively-successful video game franchise of the same name, was one of the beloved 2010s series of movies based on video game franchises that ended the long view that the worlds of video games and movies weren't capable of crossing. The exotic visuals, incredible action sequences (nearly the entire cast trained for their roles with fitness gurus and parkour legends David Belle and Sebastien Foucan, and it showed) and genuinely-impressive acting stunned audiences, despite the relative lack of violence (the movie focused on the fast-paced movements and escape and evasion scenes rather than violence) and its PG-13 rating.
Mirror's Edge is set in a quasi-futuristic dystopian society, in which a network of 'runners', including the main characters, the Connors family sisters - Faith, Kate, Sarah and Rachel - with Faith, Sarah and Rachel acting as couriers to transmit messages while evading government surveillance, while police officer Kate is one of the few on the side of the law despite her misgivings about her sisters' actions. When Kate is arrested for the murder of a city mayoral candidate who advocates for less surveillance, it sets off both the runners and the forces to oppose them to find out the truth.
Type: Thriller
Nation: United States of America
Studio: Lionsgate Entertainment
Directors: Ridley Scott
Writers: Michael Miller, Rhianna Pratchett, Matt Holloway
Visual Director: Alexander McConnell
Art Directors: Johannes Soderqvist, Paul Blackfield
Music: Thomas Wander, Calvin Harris
Starring: Emma Watson, Emily Browning, Taylor Swift, Shailene Woodley, Jai Courtney, Tim Tebow, Jessica Alba, Alexander Ludwig, Brock Lesnar, Olivia Wilde, Zoe Saldana, Joel Kinnaman, Hugh Dillon, Sela Ward, Lenny Kravitz, Jason Sudeikis
Mirror's Edge, loosely based on the massively-successful video game franchise of the same name, was one of the beloved 2010s series of movies based on video game franchises that ended the long view that the worlds of video games and movies weren't capable of crossing. The exotic visuals, incredible action sequences (nearly the entire cast trained for their roles with fitness gurus and parkour legends David Belle and Sebastien Foucan, and it showed) and genuinely-impressive acting stunned audiences, despite the relative lack of violence (the movie focused on the fast-paced movements and escape and evasion scenes rather than violence) and its PG-13 rating.
Mirror's Edge is set in a quasi-futuristic dystopian society, in which a network of 'runners', including the main characters, the Connors family sisters - Faith, Kate, Sarah and Rachel - with Faith, Sarah and Rachel acting as couriers to transmit messages while evading government surveillance, while police officer Kate is one of the few on the side of the law despite her misgivings about her sisters' actions. When Kate is arrested for the murder of a city mayoral candidate who advocates for less surveillance, it sets off both the runners and the forces to oppose them to find out the truth.
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Oh, please... Not Ridley. The man is spent as a director.
Wait. Wasn't Faith meant to be of at least partial Asian ancestry ? She looks a little ambiguous, but I didn't get the impression she looked all that European. Not a major issue, but I just can't imagine Emma Watson specifically, or Emily Browning fitting that role.
And Taylor Swift ?! Really ?
Please, no !
No !
God From The Machine (2018)
Type: Action / Adventure
Nation: Canada / United States of America
Studio: Relativity Media / Lionsgate Entertainment
Directors: Luc Besson, Neill Blomkamp
Writers: Marcus Hansen, Devon Scott, Izo Hashimoto, Samantha Wilson
Visual Director: Laura Trudele
Art Directors: Trent Opaloch, Theirry Abrogast, Nicolas Renaud
Music: Thomas Bergersen, Junkie XL, NERO, Jaime Alguersari
Starring
Emily VanCamp as Emma 'ElementOne'
Patrick Swayze as Dr. Adam Wilson
Bradley Cooper as Captain Robert Julian
Zoe Saldana as Dr. Vanessa Anthony
Deepika Padukone as Dr. Priya Kamath
Daisy Ridley as Nora Reilly
Ariel Winter as Alexandra 'Alex' Levine
Theo James as Sargeant Jason Hendricks
Johnathan Rhys Meyers as Major Ryan Browning
Georges St-Pierre as 'ElementTwo'
Sharlto Copley as Michael Hester
Sonoya Mizuno as Dr. Kimiko Nomura
Ryoko Shinohara as Dr. Yoshihiro Sakai
Michael Weatherly as William 'Bill' Nicholson
Katy Perry as Madison 'Maddie' Warren
One of 2018's biggest movies for a variety of reasons and adding to the list of the visually-stunning and yet acting and design-wise well done 2010s movies, God From The Machine was based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Canadian novelist Samantha Wilson (who contributed to the writing, and whose best friend and one-time roommate Laura Trudele was the Visual Director the film). Brought to life by famed French action movie director Luc Besson and South African story genius Neill Blomkamp and with one of the greatest collections of visual effects created in Hollywood and exploring themes of transhumanism and its effect on humans and the idea of whether emotions and free will are truly possible in artificial intelligence as well as whether connections are possible between humans and AI on the deepest of levels.
The movie is set in Toronto in 2040 (the movie was mostly filmed there), which in the world is the center of a huge and growing industry of ever-improving bionic implants and a rapid growth in the sophistication of artificial intelligence. The movie's beginning starts with Dr. Adam Wilson (Swayze) putting the finishing touches on his greatest AI masterpiece, ElementOne (VanCamp), which he claims will radically change the world's relationship between AI beings and humans, which up until then had always stuck rigidly to the effects of Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, which Dr. Wilson believes makes for the relationship between humans and AI beings to be a master-slave relationship which he loudly disapproves of, though his protege, Dr. Vanessa Anthony (Saldana) is not entirely sure of ElementOne's ability to live as a human. Despite this, ElementOne is introduced to the public at a show and proves perfectly willing to bask in the attention and proves very much able to live as a human, but one which struggles with human interactions despite the efforts of sociologist Michael Hester (Copley). The struggles lead to the program of AI development being canned by his employer, Elemental Robotics, and its boss William Nicholson (Weatherly), who forces Wilson into retirement, passing the program to Dr. Anthony. Despite this, Wilson is allowed to live a normal life with ElementOne as his roommate, with Hester continuing to try and help ElementOne with her adjustment. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Wilson, Dr. Anthony is also passing information of ElementOne to her employer's rivals, led by Dr. Yoshihiro Sakai (Shinohara) and Dr. Kimiko Nomura (Mizuno).
Less than a year and a half after ElementOne's creation, she and Hester are attacked by four men intent on sexually assaulting ElementOne, who are more than a little surprised to find she isn't a woman but a robot. Hester and a local policeman, Sargeant Jason Hendricks (James) stop the attack, though at the cost of being Heston being made a paraplegic. Traumatized by the incident and with a desire to fix her gravely injured friend, ElementOne tracks down and attacks her own attackers in their homes, viciously injuring two of them and killing the two who had tried to rape her. That done, she also robs all four of the men, seeking funds to get a way of fixing Hester's injuries. That, however, forces Hendricks and his superior, Captain Robert Julian (Cooper) to chase down ElementOne, who is unable to tell her that what she was done was wrong. Between Hendricks' attempts to stop her actions and his inability to stop her attackers, she is made to believe that he couldn't stop the people who had hurt her and that she had to do that herself. Making matters worse, the brother of one of those badly injured takes offense and tracks ElementOne, Wilson and Hester down, killing Hester and wounding Wilson before fleeing. Traumatized, ElementOne goes on a rampage, deciding that those guilty of crimes against others in the name of simple revenge or pleasure deserve to suffer.
Her loss of control forces Wilson to contact his old employer, who initially sends out his own security officer, Major Ryan Browning (Hedlund) to track down ElementOne and stop her, including by killing her if necessary. Not wanting to see his creation destroyed by hatred and pain, Wilson contacts Dr. Anthony, who along with her new deputy, Dr. Priya Kamath (Padukone) seek to help chase down ElementOne, while Doctors Sakai and Nomura also begin their own investigations.
In her rage, ElementOne stops a violent home invasion by three men on two roommates, Nora Reilly (Ridley) and Alexandra Levine (Winter), the former of which ElementOne is stunned to discover has bionic legs because of a past violent attack by one of the three men who had attacked her again and that Alexandra has a bionic arm owing to a motorcycle accident. ElementOne goes to kill the man responsible for Nora's pain, but Nora stops her from doing so with both Nora and Alexandra explaining to ElementOne that the greatest vengeance for an abuser like the man is to see Nora living happily. ElementOne, who had never fully understood the idea of empathy and whose violent streak had been a result of the violence done to her, Wilson and Hester. That stunning realization comes with a desire by ElementOne to be with Nora and Alex, but both girls convince ElementOne to clear out of the crime scene for the time being while the police show up. The fact that the men are alive and that Nora and Alex aren't traumatized is suspicious to Robert and Jason, but they can't prove any connection between them and ElementOne, so the girls are let go. ElementOne spends the next few days in a form of self-reflection, while Wilson hears of what happened to Nora and Alex, and thinking that they may have finally broken ElementOne's shell, goes to see them. They tell Dr. Wilson about what happened, and Dr. Wilson begs them to send her back to his former employer, knowing of Major Browning's efforts. That call leads to indignant anger by Nora and Alex, the latter telling Dr. Wilson that if he created her, he should be the first to protect her as the two girls throw him out.
ElementOne returns to the two girls, talking of how she had taken on a proper name, naming herself Emma after Dr. Wilson's daughter, with Nora and Alex telling her about Dr. Wilson's visit. Outraged by Dr. Wilson's way of saving her, she goes to see him with more than a little bit of anger, demanding to know why he wanted her brought back to be almost certainly destroyed. Dr. Wilson desperately tries to convince Emma that he didn't want her destroyed, trying to convince her that if she stayed with him she would be fine, whereas if Major Browning or Captain Julian found her she'd die. Not believing this, she departs, with Dr. Wilson being unaware that Sargeant Hendricks was waiting to see if she showed up. He tries to stop her, only for Dr. Anthony to try to stop Hendricks from attacking Emma, being gravely wounded in the attack - but Emma, remembering what had happened to Nora, puts herself at great risk to get Vanessa out alive. Both are a mess when they go to Nora and Alex, but Vanessa directs them to Dr. Kamath, who with the help of paramedic friend nurses them back to life. Having been saved from death, Vanessa tells Emma all about why she was created, and also about her talking to Doctors Sakai and Nomura. Vanessa tells Emma that Adam wants the best for her, and that he feels Major Browning and Captain Julian are such threats that she can't avoid them forever. Emma decides that if she isn't going to last long that she will make sure her friends won't suffer any more.
Her first visit is to Nora's tormentor, who is beaten senseless by Emma, who is warned by him that he'd cheated death for hurting her twice but that he wouldn't survive a third time. That gets Captain Julian on the case of Dr. Anthony, and he quickly discovers the connections to the two Japanese doctors. Major Browning, however, takes a more blunt approach, kidnapping Nora and Alex, a situation that is discovered by Priya, who subsequently alerts the authorities. Captain Julian and Sargeant Hendricks try to stop Major Browning from his actions, but Browning kills Hendricks and badly injures Julian as a result. In the middle of the mess, Vanessa and Priya are alerted to the two rival doctors being on side with Major Browning, and that the information passed by Dr. Anthony to her rivals had been used to create a second machine, which is under the control of Major Browning. Emma and Priya are quickly able to help the now badly-injured Robert, leaving an enraged Dr. Wilson to demand to know what the hell Vanessa was doing.
Major Browning uses the second new machine, called ElementTwo, to confront William Nicholson and seize control of his company from him, killing Nicholson. Major Browning decides against killing Nora and Alex, figuring that Emma would come for them. Vanessa's realization that her actions have brought about the chaos and resulted in the destruction of her mentor's life's work and her boss' murder attempts to kill herself, but is talked out of it by Emma, using the exact same line Nora had taught her. Robert makes it clear that with ElementTwo around that trying to rescue Nora and Alex directly would be a suicide mission, and the group - Emma, Robert, Adam, Vanessa and Priya - make a plan of attack. Robert and Adam would lead a police raid against the Elemental Robotics HQ while Vanessa and Priya would assist Emma in getting her friends out.
Robert's plan works perfectly, as the Toronto Police want the murderer of one of their own badly, and ably assisted by Vanessa and Priya, Emma gets her friends out while ElementTwo is guarding his boss. The move infuriates Major Browning, who sends ElementTwo after his boss. Robert and Adam, well aware that they have guessed Major Browning wrong and wanting Emma to survive, help her fight back against him, but Emma still struggles to fight him, until Alex deliberately crashes her motorcycle into Emma and ElementTwo, injuring all three and allowing Adam to attack ElementTwo as well. He is killed in the process, but Emma kills ElementTwo as a result. Emma is distraught over the death of her creator, but the hurting Alex and Nora both tell Emma that fighting for what one believes in is rarely a lost cause, and that his death wouldn't be in vain because they all knew the truth of what had happened.
The death of ElementTwo quickly makes it back to Elemental, where Major Browning confers with Doctors Sakai and Nomura before Doctors Anthony and Kamath show up, infuriated - and armed. Browning attempts to hurt Vanessa and Priya, but fails to do so as the two shoot him dead in the office of the company CEO. Doctor's Sakai and Nomura watch in amazement as the two doctors calmly walk away and leave.
Alex's decision to crash her bike results in her getting bionic legs like Nora, and Emma helps her adjust to them. Robert informs the police of what happened, and owing to what happened to Major Browning, the Toronto Police make a point of investigating the death of Ryan Browning as a case of self-defense. Doctors Sakai and Nomura are investigated for conspiracy, corporate fraud and stealing secrets. They are acquitted, but they make a point of getting out of Toronto immediately - but shortly after they get back to Tokyo both are killed by an accident where their car is hit by a large truck.
The five women all move in together, and Vanessa and Priya's new employer is a company that develops both bionic implants but also ways of repairing brains damaged by trauma using bionic implants - and using Emma as a test bed. Robert also finds himself hanging around often....and soon, he's more than just friends with Emma.
Type: Action / Adventure
Nation: Canada / United States of America
Studio: Relativity Media / Lionsgate Entertainment
Directors: Luc Besson, Neill Blomkamp
Writers: Marcus Hansen, Devon Scott, Izo Hashimoto, Samantha Wilson
Visual Director: Laura Trudele
Art Directors: Trent Opaloch, Theirry Abrogast, Nicolas Renaud
Music: Thomas Bergersen, Junkie XL, NERO, Jaime Alguersari
Starring
Emily VanCamp as Emma 'ElementOne'
Patrick Swayze as Dr. Adam Wilson
Bradley Cooper as Captain Robert Julian
Zoe Saldana as Dr. Vanessa Anthony
Deepika Padukone as Dr. Priya Kamath
Daisy Ridley as Nora Reilly
Ariel Winter as Alexandra 'Alex' Levine
Theo James as Sargeant Jason Hendricks
Johnathan Rhys Meyers as Major Ryan Browning
Georges St-Pierre as 'ElementTwo'
Sharlto Copley as Michael Hester
Sonoya Mizuno as Dr. Kimiko Nomura
Ryoko Shinohara as Dr. Yoshihiro Sakai
Michael Weatherly as William 'Bill' Nicholson
Katy Perry as Madison 'Maddie' Warren
One of 2018's biggest movies for a variety of reasons and adding to the list of the visually-stunning and yet acting and design-wise well done 2010s movies, God From The Machine was based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Canadian novelist Samantha Wilson (who contributed to the writing, and whose best friend and one-time roommate Laura Trudele was the Visual Director the film). Brought to life by famed French action movie director Luc Besson and South African story genius Neill Blomkamp and with one of the greatest collections of visual effects created in Hollywood and exploring themes of transhumanism and its effect on humans and the idea of whether emotions and free will are truly possible in artificial intelligence as well as whether connections are possible between humans and AI on the deepest of levels.
The movie is set in Toronto in 2040 (the movie was mostly filmed there), which in the world is the center of a huge and growing industry of ever-improving bionic implants and a rapid growth in the sophistication of artificial intelligence. The movie's beginning starts with Dr. Adam Wilson (Swayze) putting the finishing touches on his greatest AI masterpiece, ElementOne (VanCamp), which he claims will radically change the world's relationship between AI beings and humans, which up until then had always stuck rigidly to the effects of Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, which Dr. Wilson believes makes for the relationship between humans and AI beings to be a master-slave relationship which he loudly disapproves of, though his protege, Dr. Vanessa Anthony (Saldana) is not entirely sure of ElementOne's ability to live as a human. Despite this, ElementOne is introduced to the public at a show and proves perfectly willing to bask in the attention and proves very much able to live as a human, but one which struggles with human interactions despite the efforts of sociologist Michael Hester (Copley). The struggles lead to the program of AI development being canned by his employer, Elemental Robotics, and its boss William Nicholson (Weatherly), who forces Wilson into retirement, passing the program to Dr. Anthony. Despite this, Wilson is allowed to live a normal life with ElementOne as his roommate, with Hester continuing to try and help ElementOne with her adjustment. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Wilson, Dr. Anthony is also passing information of ElementOne to her employer's rivals, led by Dr. Yoshihiro Sakai (Shinohara) and Dr. Kimiko Nomura (Mizuno).
Less than a year and a half after ElementOne's creation, she and Hester are attacked by four men intent on sexually assaulting ElementOne, who are more than a little surprised to find she isn't a woman but a robot. Hester and a local policeman, Sargeant Jason Hendricks (James) stop the attack, though at the cost of being Heston being made a paraplegic. Traumatized by the incident and with a desire to fix her gravely injured friend, ElementOne tracks down and attacks her own attackers in their homes, viciously injuring two of them and killing the two who had tried to rape her. That done, she also robs all four of the men, seeking funds to get a way of fixing Hester's injuries. That, however, forces Hendricks and his superior, Captain Robert Julian (Cooper) to chase down ElementOne, who is unable to tell her that what she was done was wrong. Between Hendricks' attempts to stop her actions and his inability to stop her attackers, she is made to believe that he couldn't stop the people who had hurt her and that she had to do that herself. Making matters worse, the brother of one of those badly injured takes offense and tracks ElementOne, Wilson and Hester down, killing Hester and wounding Wilson before fleeing. Traumatized, ElementOne goes on a rampage, deciding that those guilty of crimes against others in the name of simple revenge or pleasure deserve to suffer.
Her loss of control forces Wilson to contact his old employer, who initially sends out his own security officer, Major Ryan Browning (Hedlund) to track down ElementOne and stop her, including by killing her if necessary. Not wanting to see his creation destroyed by hatred and pain, Wilson contacts Dr. Anthony, who along with her new deputy, Dr. Priya Kamath (Padukone) seek to help chase down ElementOne, while Doctors Sakai and Nomura also begin their own investigations.
In her rage, ElementOne stops a violent home invasion by three men on two roommates, Nora Reilly (Ridley) and Alexandra Levine (Winter), the former of which ElementOne is stunned to discover has bionic legs because of a past violent attack by one of the three men who had attacked her again and that Alexandra has a bionic arm owing to a motorcycle accident. ElementOne goes to kill the man responsible for Nora's pain, but Nora stops her from doing so with both Nora and Alexandra explaining to ElementOne that the greatest vengeance for an abuser like the man is to see Nora living happily. ElementOne, who had never fully understood the idea of empathy and whose violent streak had been a result of the violence done to her, Wilson and Hester. That stunning realization comes with a desire by ElementOne to be with Nora and Alex, but both girls convince ElementOne to clear out of the crime scene for the time being while the police show up. The fact that the men are alive and that Nora and Alex aren't traumatized is suspicious to Robert and Jason, but they can't prove any connection between them and ElementOne, so the girls are let go. ElementOne spends the next few days in a form of self-reflection, while Wilson hears of what happened to Nora and Alex, and thinking that they may have finally broken ElementOne's shell, goes to see them. They tell Dr. Wilson about what happened, and Dr. Wilson begs them to send her back to his former employer, knowing of Major Browning's efforts. That call leads to indignant anger by Nora and Alex, the latter telling Dr. Wilson that if he created her, he should be the first to protect her as the two girls throw him out.
ElementOne returns to the two girls, talking of how she had taken on a proper name, naming herself Emma after Dr. Wilson's daughter, with Nora and Alex telling her about Dr. Wilson's visit. Outraged by Dr. Wilson's way of saving her, she goes to see him with more than a little bit of anger, demanding to know why he wanted her brought back to be almost certainly destroyed. Dr. Wilson desperately tries to convince Emma that he didn't want her destroyed, trying to convince her that if she stayed with him she would be fine, whereas if Major Browning or Captain Julian found her she'd die. Not believing this, she departs, with Dr. Wilson being unaware that Sargeant Hendricks was waiting to see if she showed up. He tries to stop her, only for Dr. Anthony to try to stop Hendricks from attacking Emma, being gravely wounded in the attack - but Emma, remembering what had happened to Nora, puts herself at great risk to get Vanessa out alive. Both are a mess when they go to Nora and Alex, but Vanessa directs them to Dr. Kamath, who with the help of paramedic friend nurses them back to life. Having been saved from death, Vanessa tells Emma all about why she was created, and also about her talking to Doctors Sakai and Nomura. Vanessa tells Emma that Adam wants the best for her, and that he feels Major Browning and Captain Julian are such threats that she can't avoid them forever. Emma decides that if she isn't going to last long that she will make sure her friends won't suffer any more.
Her first visit is to Nora's tormentor, who is beaten senseless by Emma, who is warned by him that he'd cheated death for hurting her twice but that he wouldn't survive a third time. That gets Captain Julian on the case of Dr. Anthony, and he quickly discovers the connections to the two Japanese doctors. Major Browning, however, takes a more blunt approach, kidnapping Nora and Alex, a situation that is discovered by Priya, who subsequently alerts the authorities. Captain Julian and Sargeant Hendricks try to stop Major Browning from his actions, but Browning kills Hendricks and badly injures Julian as a result. In the middle of the mess, Vanessa and Priya are alerted to the two rival doctors being on side with Major Browning, and that the information passed by Dr. Anthony to her rivals had been used to create a second machine, which is under the control of Major Browning. Emma and Priya are quickly able to help the now badly-injured Robert, leaving an enraged Dr. Wilson to demand to know what the hell Vanessa was doing.
Major Browning uses the second new machine, called ElementTwo, to confront William Nicholson and seize control of his company from him, killing Nicholson. Major Browning decides against killing Nora and Alex, figuring that Emma would come for them. Vanessa's realization that her actions have brought about the chaos and resulted in the destruction of her mentor's life's work and her boss' murder attempts to kill herself, but is talked out of it by Emma, using the exact same line Nora had taught her. Robert makes it clear that with ElementTwo around that trying to rescue Nora and Alex directly would be a suicide mission, and the group - Emma, Robert, Adam, Vanessa and Priya - make a plan of attack. Robert and Adam would lead a police raid against the Elemental Robotics HQ while Vanessa and Priya would assist Emma in getting her friends out.
Robert's plan works perfectly, as the Toronto Police want the murderer of one of their own badly, and ably assisted by Vanessa and Priya, Emma gets her friends out while ElementTwo is guarding his boss. The move infuriates Major Browning, who sends ElementTwo after his boss. Robert and Adam, well aware that they have guessed Major Browning wrong and wanting Emma to survive, help her fight back against him, but Emma still struggles to fight him, until Alex deliberately crashes her motorcycle into Emma and ElementTwo, injuring all three and allowing Adam to attack ElementTwo as well. He is killed in the process, but Emma kills ElementTwo as a result. Emma is distraught over the death of her creator, but the hurting Alex and Nora both tell Emma that fighting for what one believes in is rarely a lost cause, and that his death wouldn't be in vain because they all knew the truth of what had happened.
The death of ElementTwo quickly makes it back to Elemental, where Major Browning confers with Doctors Sakai and Nomura before Doctors Anthony and Kamath show up, infuriated - and armed. Browning attempts to hurt Vanessa and Priya, but fails to do so as the two shoot him dead in the office of the company CEO. Doctor's Sakai and Nomura watch in amazement as the two doctors calmly walk away and leave.
Alex's decision to crash her bike results in her getting bionic legs like Nora, and Emma helps her adjust to them. Robert informs the police of what happened, and owing to what happened to Major Browning, the Toronto Police make a point of investigating the death of Ryan Browning as a case of self-defense. Doctors Sakai and Nomura are investigated for conspiracy, corporate fraud and stealing secrets. They are acquitted, but they make a point of getting out of Toronto immediately - but shortly after they get back to Tokyo both are killed by an accident where their car is hit by a large truck.
The five women all move in together, and Vanessa and Priya's new employer is a company that develops both bionic implants but also ways of repairing brains damaged by trauma using bionic implants - and using Emma as a test bed. Robert also finds himself hanging around often....and soon, he's more than just friends with Emma.
Skin Walker(1947)
Starring Boris Karloff, Eddie Anderson, Marilyn Monroe and Buster Crabbe
Set in the West in 1876 Sheriff Roy Cooper ( Crabbe) is hunting notorious outlaw Xander Kane
(Karloff) with his best girl Betsy Moss (Monroe) and the town handyman Otis (Anderson) when strange things begin to happen and a lot of people die.
When Betsy goes off investigating on her own and takes a reluctant Otis with her the result is comedy gold, unknown to them Xander is following them. They find an old Indian who tells them the story of the skin walkers evil shapeshifting creatures that can only be killed by fire.
When Xander is cornered in a cabin one of the greatest plot twists in movie History takes place Sheriff Cooper is exposed as the Skin Walker when Otis shoots him with a shot gun after Xander tricks the Sheriff into a mistake. In the resulting fight the skin walkers tosses everyone else around the cabin and Betsy tosses Xander a railroad Spike and he lunges at the skin walker with the spike it blocks his attack and Xander says "I wasn't trying to stab you , I'm just holding the Spike" Otis a former rail road worker hammers the skin walker to the wall.Xander then Tulsa's the skinwalker with kerosene and lites it up.
The movie was a massive hit and is credited with starting Marilyn Monroe's career and reviving Buster Crabbe's his career.
Marilyn Monroe credited her friend Eddie Anderson with helping her survive the break-up of her marriage and getting psychological help. Xander Kane became a reoccurring character in 18 movies played by numerous actors from Boris Karloff to Charles Bronson and Arnold Schwarzenegger to more recently Vin Diesel.
Starring Boris Karloff, Eddie Anderson, Marilyn Monroe and Buster Crabbe
Set in the West in 1876 Sheriff Roy Cooper ( Crabbe) is hunting notorious outlaw Xander Kane
(Karloff) with his best girl Betsy Moss (Monroe) and the town handyman Otis (Anderson) when strange things begin to happen and a lot of people die.
When Betsy goes off investigating on her own and takes a reluctant Otis with her the result is comedy gold, unknown to them Xander is following them. They find an old Indian who tells them the story of the skin walkers evil shapeshifting creatures that can only be killed by fire.
When Xander is cornered in a cabin one of the greatest plot twists in movie History takes place Sheriff Cooper is exposed as the Skin Walker when Otis shoots him with a shot gun after Xander tricks the Sheriff into a mistake. In the resulting fight the skin walkers tosses everyone else around the cabin and Betsy tosses Xander a railroad Spike and he lunges at the skin walker with the spike it blocks his attack and Xander says "I wasn't trying to stab you , I'm just holding the Spike" Otis a former rail road worker hammers the skin walker to the wall.Xander then Tulsa's the skinwalker with kerosene and lites it up.
The movie was a massive hit and is credited with starting Marilyn Monroe's career and reviving Buster Crabbe's his career.
Marilyn Monroe credited her friend Eddie Anderson with helping her survive the break-up of her marriage and getting psychological help. Xander Kane became a reoccurring character in 18 movies played by numerous actors from Boris Karloff to Charles Bronson and Arnold Schwarzenegger to more recently Vin Diesel.
55 days at Peking (1963)
While the main Martian invasion landed in the UK, two capsules went off course and crashed into the outskirts of Peking, right as the Boxers prepare their rebelion. An unlikely aliance forms between the Boxer movement, the Legation troops and the Imperial army, all fighting to defend the capital from the "monsters from the sky". Almost 3 hours long, with 30 characters, this epic movie broke all box-office records, and won 7 oscars.
While the main Martian invasion landed in the UK, two capsules went off course and crashed into the outskirts of Peking, right as the Boxers prepare their rebelion. An unlikely aliance forms between the Boxer movement, the Legation troops and the Imperial army, all fighting to defend the capital from the "monsters from the sky". Almost 3 hours long, with 30 characters, this epic movie broke all box-office records, and won 7 oscars.
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Wow, that's an old film!
Still one of my favourites. And the scene were a boxer decapitates a martian with a huge sword while a russian bayonets it? Priceless!*
*ok, that might not be in the original movie...
Well if the film was made in 1693 it was filmed before the events depicted by quite some time!
Well if the film was made in 1693 it was filmed before the events depicted by quite some time!
... took me 2 hours to realise this... I really need vacations...
King Thomas
Banned
Moana-Documentary about the "Re-moaners" who dislike the UK EU referendum result
The Lion King-Documentary about Richard the 1st and the Third Crusade
Monsters Inc- Documentary about how the CIA supports certain dictators and terror groups
Brave-Each week, a new story about have a go heroes
The Lion King-Documentary about Richard the 1st and the Third Crusade
Monsters Inc- Documentary about how the CIA supports certain dictators and terror groups
Brave-Each week, a new story about have a go heroes
Garbage Pail Kids: A documentary detailing the lifes of homeless kids and street urchins who try and survive poverty through selling pails of garbage and rummaging for half-eaten food. The documentary was partially responsible for passing laws so food vendors and supermarkets would recycle and or donate food to poverty centers as part to end child hunger.
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Pixels: A cult classic "artsy" film, the story tells of an art student who specializes in pixel art as he tries to bring the style into the art world while dealing with fearsome comepetitors and a tragic past. Adam Sandler was nominated for an Oscar for his role as the eccentric yet secretly depressed protagonist, surprising many with his acting chops.