Posts Tagged ‘crash-landing’

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The (2005)

Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Def, Mos | Bailey, Bill | Chancellor, Anna | Davis, Warwick | Deschanel, Zooey | Elliot, Su | Freeman, Martin | Fry, Stephen | Griffiths, Richard | Jackson, Dominique | Jones, Simon | Lennon, Thomas | Longhurst, Mark | Macdonald, Kelly | Malkovich, John
Directors: Jennings, Garth
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Arthur Dent is a British everyman. When he finally meets his perfect woman he balks at her request to go some place and she is then stolen away from him by a man claiming to have his own spaceship arrives at the party. Arthur next finds that his home is to be demolished for a bypass. He thinks it is only his house, but later realizes, with the help of Ford Prefect, that his galactic home, Earth, is going to be destroyed as well. Ford and Arthur then catch a ride on a spaceship and are Arthur finds himself on the adventure of a lifetime. He also finds the woman stolen away from him and the man who pilfered her. If Earth can be restored will Arthur want to ease back into his boring life?

Planet of the Apes (2001)

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Wahlberg, Mark | Roth, Tim | Bonham Carter, Helena | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Giamatti, Paul | Warren, Estella | Tagawa, Cary-Hiroyuki | Warner, David | Kristofferson, Kris | Avari, Erick | Elliott, Lucas | Parke, Evan | Shadix, Glenn | Shen, Freda Foh | Ellis, Chris
Directors: Burton, Tim
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It is the year 2029: Astronaut Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) boards a pod cruiser on a Space Station for a “routine” reconnaissance mission. But an aburupt detour through a space time wormhole lands him on a strange planet where talking apes rule over the human race. With the help of a sympathetic chimpanzee activist named Ari (Helena Bonham-Carter) and a small band of human rebels, Leo leads the effort to evade the advancing Gorilla Army led by General Thade (Tim Roth) and his most trusted warrior Attar (Michael Clarke Duncan). Now the race is on to reach a sacred temple within the planet’s Forbidden Zone to discover the shocking secrets of mankind’s past - and the key to its future.

Jurassic Park III (2001)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Neill, Sam | Macy, William H. | Leoni, Téa | Nivola, Alessandro | Morgan, Trevor | Jeter, Michael | Diehl, John | Young, Bruce A. | Dern, Laura | Nichols, Taylor | Harelik, Mark | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Bryan, Blake Michael | Madison, Sarah Danielle | Park, Linda
Directors: Johnston, Joe
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Eight years after the InGen incident, Dr. Alan Grant is happy with his life far from any dinosaurs other than fossilized. Unfortunately, he is extremely short in research money, and therefore accepts the offer of wealthy businessman Paul Kirby: A low flight over isolated Isla Sorna, where InGen’s second research site was located, and Dr. Grant can fund his future research for a long time. What Dr. Grant didn’t know is that Kirby just needs a dinosaur expert to help him and his wife find their 14-year-old son Eric, who crashed on the island while paragliding. What he did suspect, but never wanted to witness, is that the Velociraptors have evolved into a communicating species (and seemingly all along had the capability to do so), now being smarter than primates.

Core, The (2003)

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Shyer, Christopher | Galletti, Ray | Pedde, Eileen | Sharma, Rekha | Scholte, Tom | Eckhart, Aaron | Morshower, Glenn | Harrison, Anthony | Karyo, Tchéky | Jenkins, Richard | Anderson, Bart | Leroux, Nicole | Callan, Justin | Humphreys, Chris | Swank, Hilary
Directors: Amiel, Jon
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For reasons unknown, the earth’s inner core has stopped rotating, causing the planet’s electromagnetic field to rapidly deteriorate. Instantly, life around the globe begins to change dramatically. In Boston, 32 people with pacemakers, all within a 10-block radius, suddenly drop dead. In San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge collapses, sending hundreds of people plunging to their deaths. In London’s Trafalgar Square, flocks of pigeons lose their ability to navigate, flying into panicked crowds, slamming into windshields and causing drivers to lose control of their cars. And in Rome, as thousands of tourists watch helplessly, an electrical superstorm reduces the ancient Roman Colosseum to rubble. Scrambling to resolve the crisis, government and military officials call upon geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes and a team of the world’s most gifted scientists to travel into the earth’s core in a subterranean craft piloted by “terranauts” Major Rebecca “Beck” Childs and Commander Robert Iverson. Their mission: Detonate a nuclear device that will reactivate the core and save the world from sure destruction.

Pitch Black (2000)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Diesel, Vin | Mitchell, Radha | Hauser, Cole | David, Keith | Fitz-Gerald, Lewis | Black, Claudia | Griffith, Rhiana | Moore, John | Burke, Simon | Chantery, Les | Sari, Sam | Dirani, Firass | Anderson, Ric | Wilson, Vic | Makin, Angela
Directors: Twohy, David
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Set in the distant future, a spaceship carrying some 40 people, mostly ones wanting to settle on other planets from their own, hits a meteor shower and crash lands on a distant planet killing all but about a dozen of them. The survivors, led by the second-in-command Carolyn Fry (’Rahda Mitchell’ (qv)), find themselves on a hot and humid landscape with constant sunlight from three orbiting suns. Fry not only must help the survivors find food and water, but contend with a deadly criminal, named Riddick (’Vin Diesel’ (qv)), who was being transported to a prison cell on their destination. But every 22 years, the planet’s three suns go into a total eclipse for a month where darkness brings out the planet’s real inhabitants; large, reptilian, vampire-like creatures that come out and dominate the surface in total darkness, killing and eating all life. The Fry and her people then must cooperate with Riddick, who has surgically enhanced eyes to see in darkness, to lead them to safety and off the planet before they all become dinner for the creatures.

Panic (2001)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Rowland, Rodney | Loken, Kristanna | Enberg, Alexander | Shackelford, Ted | Carrera, Barbara | Campbell, Scott Michael | Smallwood, Tucker | Williams, Billy 'Sly' | Bowe, David | Bishop, John | Bliss, Boti | Rizzardi, Tereza | Grover, Gulshan | Stroud, Duke | Sanyogetta
Directors: Misiorowski, Bob
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FAA system analyzer named Neil McCabe is the only person who seems to have this different hunch towards a group of international terrorists after a horrific plane incident occured. He thinks that an evil genius computer hacker sets out and manipulate the computer electronical system which linked to several airplanes to cause destruction and tragedy. In order to prevent the mishap, McCabe and his teammate, Rudy, finds out about the machine used by the criminals which leads them to a psychotic thrilling fight between the terrorist.

Red Planet (2000)

Thursday, February 8th, 2007
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Jessica Morton | Kilmer, Val | Moss, Carrie-Anne | Bratt, Benjamin | Sizemore, Tom | Baker, Simon | Stamp, Terence | Morton, Jessica B. | Bossi, Caroline | Neill, Bob
Directors: Hoffman, Antony
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In the near future, Earth is dying. A new colony on Mars could be humanity’s only hope. A team of American astronauts, each a specialist in a different field, is making the first manned expedition to the red planet and must struggle to overcome the differences in their personalities, backgrounds and ideologies for the overall good of the mission. When their equipment suffers life-threatening damage and the crew must depend on one another for survival on the hostile surface of Mars, their doubts, fears and questions about God, man’s destiny and the nature of the universe become defining elements in their fates. In this alien environment they must come face to face with their most human selves.

Mummy, The (1999)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Fraser, Brendan | Weisz, Rachel | Hannah, John | Vosloo, Arnold | O'Connor, Kevin J. | Fehr, Oded | Hyde, Jonathan | Avari, Erick | Fox, Bernard | Dunham, Stephen | Johnson, Corey | Watkins, Tuc | Djalili, Omid | Ipalé, Aharon | Velasquez, Patricia
Directors: Sommers, Stephen
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In ancient Egypt, high priest Imhotep started a forbidden relationship with Anck Su Namun, Pharaoh Seti’s Mistress. When Seti finds out about what’s going on, Imhotep and his loved one stab him, but can’t escape the trustworthy guards: Anck Su Namnun chooses to commit suicide while Imhotep is bestowed with the Hom-Dai, the most feared curse of all: He is mummified alive in Hamunaptra, the city of the Dead. More than thirty-six centuries later, in 1923, to be exact, adventurer Rick leads Egyptologist Evelyn and her brother Johnathan to mysterious Hamunaptra. While Johnathan is keen on finding the legendary Egyptian treasures, Evelyn wants to search for the Book of the Living, which would clarify a lot in historical knowledge about the ancient Egyptians. Unfortunately, they and a rivaling group of careless American adventurers free Imhotep’s mummy from his eternal prison. Now, with the ancient and quite agile high priest on the loose, the adventurers and scientists face not only a dangerous enemy, but also a massive threat to today’s world: Imhotep wants to bring Ankh-su-namun back to life by using Evelyn’s body, but he also wants to rid the world of the disbelieving crowd of democracy-supporters to be able to enforce his tyrannic dictatorship.