Posts Tagged ‘planet’

The Fantastic Planet (1973)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Sci-Fi
Countries: Czechoslovakia | France
Actors: Jennifer Drake | Eric Baugin | Jean Topart | Jean Valmont | Sylvie Lenoir | Michèle Chahan | Yves Barsacq | Hubert de Lapparent | Gérard Hernandez | Claude Joseph | Philippe Ogouz | Jacques Ruisseau | Barry Bostwick | Mark Gruner | Marvin Miller
Directors: René Laloux
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La Planète sauvage AKA Fantastic Planet is a surrealist story based on the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Set in a far distant world human beings or “Oms”have been domesticated by the gigantic Draags. Wild Oms however are a problem and are exterminated by the dozen. One domesticated om Terr is able to escape his masters with a headset that puts information directly into the brain. Armed now with the Draags technology he leads the Oms in an attempt to make life better for them…But will the deomizing destroy them?

The Fountain (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Hugh Jackman | Rachel Weisz | Ellen Burstyn | Mark Margolis | Stephen McHattie | Fernando Hernandez | Cliff Curtis | Sean Patrick Thomas | Donna Murphy | Ethan Suplee | Richard McMillan | Lorne Brass | Abraham Aronofsky | Renee Asofsky | Anish Majumdar
Directors: Darren Aronofsky
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Three stories - one each from the past, present, and future - about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife; a space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star that’s wrapped in a nebula; he seeks eternity with his love. The stories intersect and parallel; the quests fail and succeed.

Transformers (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Shia LaBeouf | Megan Fox | Josh Duhamel | Rachael Taylor | Tyrese Gibson | Jon Voight | Anthony Anderson | John Turturro | Michael O'Neill | Peter Cullen | Charlie Bodin | Andrew Caldwell | Bryan Cox | Keith David | Frederic Doss
Directors: Michael Bay
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A long time ago, far away on the planet of Cybertron, a war was being waged between the noble Autobots (led by the wise Optimus Prime) and the devious Decepticons (commanded by the dreaded Megatron) for control over the Allspark, a mystical talisman that would grant unlimited power to whoever possessed it. The Autobots managed to smuggle the Allspark off the planet, but Megatron blasted off in search of it. He eventually tracked it to the planet of Earth (circa 1850), but his reckless desire for power sent him right into the Arctic Ocean, and the sheer cold forced him into a paralyzed state. His body was later found by Captain Archibald Witwicky, and before going into a comatose state Megatron used the last of his energy to engrave a map, showing the location of the Allspark, into the Captain’s glasses, and send a transmission to Cybertron. He is then carted away by the Captain’s ship. A century later, Sam Witwicky, nicknamed Spike by his friends, buys his first car. To his shock, he discovers it to be Bumblebee, an Autobot in disguise who is to protect Spike, as he bears the Captain’s glasses and the map carved on them. But Bumblebee is not the only Transformer to have arrived on Earth - in the desert of Qatar, the Decepticons Blackout and Scorponok attack a U.S. military base, causing the Pentagon to send their special Sector Seven agents to capture all “specimens of this alien race,” and Spike and his girlfriend Mikaela find themselves in the middle of a grand battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons, stretching from Hoover Dam all the way to Los Angeles. Meanwhile, within the depths of Hoover Dam, the cryogenically stored form of Megatron awakens…

Titan A.E. (2000)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Matt Damon | Bill Pullman | John Leguizamo | Nathan Lane | Janeane Garofalo | Drew Barrymore | Ron Perlman | Alex D. Linz | Tone Loc | Jim Breuer | Christopher Scarabosio | Jim Cummings | Charles Rocket | Ken Hudson Campbell | Tsai Chin
Directors: Don Bluth
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One thousand years from now, aliens destroy Earth in fear of the Titan project. Some humans escape, becoming a downtrodden Diaspora, living in impoverished settlements. The mysterious Titan spacecraft also escapes, and its inventor has hidden it before dying. A spacecraft captain and its pilot, Korso and Akima, two humans, seek out Cale, the youthful son of the dead scientist and explain that he must help them find the Titan, which holds a mechanism to unite and save humanity. Cale refuses, but the arrival of the killer aliens persuades him to join Korso. Can he avoid his pursuers, know friend from foe, find the Titan, and embrace his humanity, a nature he has despised until now?

Spaceballs (1987)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Mel Brooks | Rick Moranis | Bill Pullman | Daphne Zuniga | John Candy | George Wyner | Joan Rivers | Dick Van Patten | Michael Winslow | Lorene Yarnell | John Hurt | Sal Viscuso | Ronny Graham | JM J. Bullock | Leslie Bevis
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King Roland of the planet Druidia is trying to marry his daughter Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) to Prince Valium, but Vespa is kidnapped by the evil race of the Spaceballs. The Spaceballs ask Roland a tremendous ransom: all the air of Druidia (you see, the air of Spaceball had serious pollution problems…). The King decides to offer a generous amount of money to a space rogue, Lone Starr, to persuade him to save Vespa. What follows is the parody of a _LOT_ of famous SF movies.

The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Taylor Lautner | Taylor Dooley | Cayden Boyd | George Lopez | David Arquette | Kristin Davis | Jacob Davich | Sasha Pieterse | Rico Torres | Marc Musso | Shane Graham | Tiger Darrow | Rocket Rodriguez | Racer Rodriguez | Rebel Rodriguez
Directors: Robert Rodriguez
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Dreamer Max, ridiculed by his classmates, conjures up his perfect dreamworld…the Planet Drool. But his dream is more powerful than even he suspects, and his favourite dream super-heroes, Sharkboy and Lavagirl, materialise on Earth. They need help from Max. All is not well in Max’s dreamworld. An alien intelligence is interfering and darkness threatens his beloved Planet Drool. Is it true, as Sharkboy and Lavagirl say, that only Max, the powerful dreamer, can stop it? Max takes off on a wild and dangerous journey to the fantastic Planet Drool with Sharkboy and Lavagirl. Can they discover the source of the danger? Will they be able to stop it in time?

Serenity (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nathan Fillion | Gina Torres | Alan Tudyk | Morena Baccarin | Adam Baldwin | Jewel Staite | Sean Maher | Summer Glau | Ron Glass | Chiwetel Ejiofor | David Krumholtz | Michael Hitchcock | Sarah Paulson | Yan Feldman | Rafael Feldman
Directors: Joss Whedon
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The crew of the Serenity is getting desperate. They have lain lower and lower to protect their doctor, Simon Tam (Sean Maher), and his telepathic traumatized little sister, River (Summer Glau), from the alliance, whom he rescued her from a year earlier. This has made getting jobs harder and now they are desperate. When they take River on a robbery during which Reavers (humans who have gone crazy and turned into cannibals) attack, Simon decides that its time to leave the crew of the Serenity for his and River’s safety. She then mutters “Miranda” and goes berserk and nearly shoots Capt. Malcolm Reynolds (Nathan Fillion), until her brother says the safety word to put her to sleep. Reynolds decides to take them back on board for safety, only now an alliance operative (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is on their tracks and making Reynolds determined to find out what “Miranda” is and what the Alliance is hiding.

The Planets (1999)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Documentary
Countries: UK
Actors: Karen Stone | Samuel West
Directors: David McNab
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Interesting narrative, excellent computer generated images (for its time), extensive interviews with numerous scientists (mostly Americans and Russians-thank goodness this documentary isn’t biased towards any country) and a memorable soundtrack combined to make compelling viewing for anyone interested in astronomy.

Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Patrick Stewart | Jonathan Frakes | Brent Spiner | LeVar Burton | Michael Dorn | Marina Sirtis | Gates McFadden | Linda Hardy | Ron Perlman | Shannon Cochran | Dina Meyer | Jude Ciccolella | Alan Dale | John Berg | Michael Owen
Directors: Stuart Baird
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On their way to Riker’s and Troi’s honeymoon, the Enterprise is sent near the neutral zone to Romulan space, and picks up a prototypic twin of android Data. Immediately they are further sent to Romulus, where a new praetor, Shinzon, a human cloned from Captain Picard who lives on the slave planet Remus, appears to want peace with the Federation. But then the crew detects a break-in on their computer systems, and Picard is captured by the Remans because Shinzon needs him as his only matching supplier of genetic material. Picard and the Enterprise can escape, only to find themselves battling Shinzon’s completely cloaked Warbird, who is after the complete destruction of earth.

Kaena: The Prophecy (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: Canada | France
Actors: Cécile De France | Michael Lonsdale | Victoria Abril | François Siener | Jean-Michel Farcy | Raymond Aquaviva | Jean Piat | Kirsten Dunst | Richard Harris | Anjelica Huston | Michael McShane | Greg Proops | Keith David
Directors: Chris Delaporte | Pascal Pinon
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AXIS, a gigantic coiling plant, stretches high above the clouds… At its center is a village whose people are in mortal danger because Axis is withering… it’s sap is drying up. The people beg their gods for help… but to no avail. Compelled by a mysterious force, Kaena, a rebellious, high-spirited teenage girl will defy the High Priest and her people’s ancestral beliefs to take the perilous journey through the Axis and discover what dark secrets lie beyond the clouds… A dying world, an evil force, a terrible secret…