Sep 14
Plot:
Years have passed since Ted Striker heroically saved many lives by avoiding a plane crash. Working as a test pilot for a new Lunar Shuttle, he gets innocently sent into a mental ward after a crash of the badly constructed, computer-navigated spaceship. When he hears that the exactly same type of shuttle is scheduled for a moon flight soon, he breaks out to hinder the launch. Aboard, Ted finds his ex-ex Elaine Dickinson working as stewardess again and her fiancé Simon, a member of the committee that wants the Mayflower I to be launched. In flight, the ship’s computer ROK 9000 takes control, killing the crew. Ted and Elaine manage to switch it off, and now it is up to Ted again to save the passengers’ lives - if there only wouldn’t be these flashbacks to the war and these people who know Ted and have no faith in his abilities at all.
IMDB rating: 5.70 out of 10.0 (7554 votes) Continue reading »
Tags:
airplane,
asteroid,
aviation,
bomb,
commodore-computer,
computer,
courtroom,
disaster,
flashback-sequence,
flashback-within-flashback,
impotence,
mental-institution,
psychiatrist,
Romance,
second-part,
self-referential,
sequel,
sequel-mentioned-during-end-credits,
space-shuttle,
spoof,
surprise-after-end-credits,
timebomb
Sep 13
Plot:
A giant, global-killing asteriod, like the one that killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago is 18 days away from hitting the Earth. NASA’s been caught with their pants down and needs a new plan to stop the rock. They enlist the help of Harry Stamper, an expert deep core driller, to train their astronauts and help them drill into the asteroid and plant a nuclear bomb. But Harry figures the astronauts can’t be trained in time and opts to go with his own oil drilling crew.
IMDB rating: 5.70 out of 10.0 (51866 votes) Continue reading »
Tags:
8-track,
asteroid,
astronaut,
bicycle,
bicycle-messenger,
blockbuster,
bomb,
bravery,
brooklyn-bridge,
chase,
chrysler-building-new-york,
class-differences,
deep-core-drilling,
disaster,
drill,
eiffel-tower-paris,
entrepreneur,
exotic-dancer,
father-daughter-relationship,
forbidden-love,
gambling-addiction,
gatling-gun,
genius,
gratuities,
greenpeace,
helicopter,
hero,
humor,
lasersight,
loan-shark,
machismo,
media-coverage,
meteor-threatens-earth,
misfit,
moon,
nasa,
natural-disaster,
new-york-city,
nuclear,
nuclear-weapons,
obesity,
oil-platform,
oil-rig,
paris-france,
psychologist,
redneck,
rescue,
rorschach-inkblot,
sacrifice,
self-sacrifice,
sex-addiction,
single-parent,
space,
space-shuttle,
space-station,
street-vendor,
stripper,
swimming,
syringe,
tattoo,
title-spoken-by-character,
traffic-jam,
training,
wedding,
william-tell-overture
Sep 13
Plot:
Long before humans appeared on the planet, dinosaurs ruled the earth. On a little off-coast island, a clan of lemurs finds a dinosaur egg, hatching. Since there are no parents, the lemurs take care of the newborn, Aladar. Years later, a medium meteor goes down close to the island and the shockwave forces its inhabitants to flee to the continent. There, Aladar and his family meet other dinosaurs for the first time as well as real dangers. The destruction caused by the meteor here has also forced a herd of different herbivores to move to a remote valley that can provide food and protection against the carnivorous predators following after. Since Aladar grew up with a different understanding of the ways of the world, his way of helping others first isn’t accepted within the herd, but soon it is proven that reason may be better than panic.
IMDB rating: 6.20 out of 10.0 (6582 votes) Continue reading »
Tags:
beast-fable,
blockbuster,
cave,
compassion,
computer-animation,
desert,
dinosaur,
disaster,
egg,
hope,
kids-and-family,
lemur,
meteor,
monkey,
nesting-grounds,
prehistoric,
raptor,
tyrannosaurus,
urination-scene,
water
Sep 12
Plot:
A teenage astronomer and his teacher discover an object amongst the stars at night. Little do they know that it’s a comet on a direct collision course for earth. After the teacher dies in a car crash trying to report his findings the President announces the comet’s existence. He also states that there is no need to panic, because NASA is going to send astronauts on the space mission, Messiah. Their mission is to destroy the comet before it gets too close to the earth. When Messiah backfires, the President announces that special caves will have to be built, and the government will have to have a lottery-of-fate to randomly select 800,000 ordinary American citizens to go along with 200,000 scientists, soldiers, and other officials. These 1,000,000 people will be set aside to save the population from extinction when the comet hits.
IMDB rating: 5.80 out of 10.0 (25861 votes) Continue reading »
Tags:
apocalypse,
astronaut,
astronomy,
blockbuster,
bravery,
brooklyn-bridge,
chrysler-building-new-york,
comet,
disaster,
epic,
father-daughter-relationship,
flood,
giant-wave,
helicopter,
hero,
lottery-of-fate,
lover,
meteor-threatens-earth,
military,
mormon,
motorcycle,
natural-disaster,
new-york,
newspaper,
nuclear-weapons,
reporter,
sacrifice,
space-shuttle,
spacecraft,
statue-of-liberty,
suicide,
tidal-wave,
traffic-jam,
u.s.-president,
wedding