'The Phoenix Incident'
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'Johnny Mnemonic (1995)'
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- the story is interesting
- does not have spectacular acting
- william gibson (screenplay and short story)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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Show Hide Plot:"2001" is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past, someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith on Earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well). Evolution then enabled humankind to reach the moon's surface, where yet another monolith is found, one that signals the monolith placers that humankind has evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and human (Bowman) to reach the monolith placers. The winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be.
- MPAA Rating: 'G'
- Writers:
- Stanley Kubrick (screenplay by)
- Arthur C. Clarke (screenplay by)
- Actors:
- Keir Dullea
- Gary Lockwood
- William Sylvester
- Daniel Richter
- Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 15 wins & 11 nominations.
- Production: Metro Goldwyn Mayer
- Director:
- Stanley Kubrick
- Runtime: 149 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 8.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 92%
- Metacritic: 84/100
- Genres:
- Adventure
- Sci-Fi
- Languages:
- English
- Russian
- Countries:
- UK
- USA
- Amazon Affiliate Link: https://amzn.to/2X5GpTa
- very visual, almost no dialog
- no central character
- 1968
Warehouse 13 (2009–2014)
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Show Hide Plot:After saving the life of the President in Washington D.C., a pair of U.S Secret Service agents are whisked away to a covert location in South Dakota that houses supernatural objects that the Regents, an Authority above and outside any government, have collected over the centuries. Their new assignment: retrieve lost objects called "Artifacts", seemingly harmless items that can posses immense power, and investigate reports of new ones.
- MPAA Rating: 'TV-14'
- Writers:
- Jane Espenson
- D. Brent Mote
- Actors:
- Eddie McClintock
- Joanne Kelly
- Saul Rubinek
- Allison Scagliotti
- Awards: Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 2 nominations.
- Runtime: 43 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 7.6/10
- Genres:
- Drama
- Mystery
- Sci-Fi
- Thriller
- Language:
- English
Total Seasons: 5
- Countries:
- USA
- Canada
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Man of Steel (2013)
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Show Hide Plot:A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
- MPAA Rating: 'PG-13'
- Writers:
- David S. Goyer (screenplay)
- David S. Goyer (story)
- Christopher Nolan (story)
- Jerry Siegel (Superman created by)
- Joe Shuster (Superman created by)
- Actors:
- Henry Cavill
- Amy Adams
- Michael Shannon
- Diane Lane
- Awards: 7 wins & 46 nominations.
- Production: Syncopy, Warner Bros.
- Director:
- Zack Snyder
- Runtime: 143 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 7.0/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 56%
- Metacritic: 55/100
- Genres:
- Action
- Adventure
- Sci-Fi
- Language:
- English
- Countries:
- USA
- UK
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- a reboot
- all major story points from the first superman movie w christopher reeve
- worthy
The Abyss (1989)
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Show Hide Plot:Formerly married petroleum engineers who still have some issues to work out. They are drafted to assist a gung-ho Navy SEAL with a top-secret recovery operation: a nuclear sub has been ambushed and sunk, under mysterious circumstances, in some of the deepest waters on Earth.
- MPAA Rating: 'PG-13'
- Writer:
- James Cameron
- Actors:
- Ed Harris
- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
- Michael Biehn
- Leo Burmester
- Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 8 wins & 15 nominations.
- Production: Lightstorm Entertainment, Pacific Western
- Director:
- James Cameron
- Runtime: 171 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 7.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 89%
- Metacritic: 62/100
- Genres:
- Adventure
- Drama
- Mystery
- Sci-Fi
- Thriller
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- USA
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- james cameron
- water scenes are "real", not stunts
- none of the cast enjoyed making this movie.
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
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Show Hide Plot:An augmented human and Sarah Connor must stop an advanced liquid Terminator from hunting down a young girl, whose fate is critical to the human race.
- MPAA Rating: 'R'
- Writers:
- David S. Goyer (screenplay by)
- Justin Rhodes (screenplay by)
- Billy Ray (screenplay by)
- James Cameron (story by)
- Charles H. Eglee (story by)
- Josh Friedman (story by)
- David S. Goyer (story by)
- Justin Rhodes (story by)
- James Cameron (based on characters created by)
- Gale Anne Hurd (based on characters created by)
- Actors:
- Linda Hamilton
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Mackenzie Davis
- Natalia Reyes
- Awards: 1 win & 8 nominations.
- Production: Tencent Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Lightstorm Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Skydance Media
- Director:
- Tim Miller
- Runtime: 128 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 6.2/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 70%
- Metacritic: 54/100
- Genres:
- Action
- Adventure
- Sci-Fi
- Languages:
- English
- Spanish
- Countries:
- USA
- Spain
- Hungary
- China
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- Linda Hamilton
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Terminator: Dark Fate
- time travel
Men in Black 3 (2012)
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Show Hide Plot:After breaking out of a moon-based maximum security prison, Boris the Animal decides to go back in time and eliminate the person who arrested him - Agent K. When he does so, Agent J realizes that the time line has been changed and he too travels back to July 15, 1969, the day before Agent K is killed. After overcoming some disbelief, J manages to convince young K and others of just who he is and why he's there. With the help of a being who can see all time lines, they track Boris down. J also learns a secret, something old K had never told him.
- MPAA Rating: 'PG-13'
- Writers:
- Etan Cohen
- Lowell Cunningham (based on the Malibu comic by)
- Actors:
- Will Smith
- Tommy Lee Jones
- Josh Brolin
- Jemaine Clement
- Awards: 1 win & 13 nominations.
- Production: Amblin Entertainment, Parkes/MacDonald
- Director:
- Barry Sonnenfeld
- Runtime: 106 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 6.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 68%
- Metacritic: 58/100
- Genres:
- Action
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Sci-Fi
- Languages:
- English
- Ukrainian
- Countries:
- USA
- United Arab Emirates
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- time travel
- wil smith, tommy lee jones
- I really like the ending to this move (the last ~10 minutes)
'Escape from New York (1981)'
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Total Recall (1990)
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Show Hide Plot:Douglas Quaid is haunted by a recurring dream about a journey to Mars. He hopes to find out more about this dream and buys a holiday at Rekall Inc. where they sell implanted memories. But something goes wrong with the memory implantation and he remembers being a secret agent fighting against the evil Mars administrator Cohaagen. Now the story really begins and it's a rollercoaster ride until the massive end of the movie.
- MPAA Rating: 'R'
- Writers:
- Philip K. Dick (short story "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale")
- Ronald Shusett (screen story)
- Dan O'Bannon (screen story)
- Jon Povill (screen story)
- Ronald Shusett (screenplay)
- Dan O'Bannon (screenplay)
- Gary Goldman (screenplay)
- Actors:
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Rachel Ticotin
- Sharon Stone
- Ronny Cox
- Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 14 nominations.
- Production: TriStar Pictures
- Director:
- Paul Verhoeven
- Runtime: 113 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 7.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 81%
- Metacritic: 57/100
- Genres:
- Action
- Sci-Fi
- Thriller
- Language:
- English
- Box Office: $119,000,000
- Countries:
- USA
- Mexico
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- the original
- ah-nold
- "buy the memory of your ideal vacation cheaper, safer, and better than the real thing"
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
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Show Hide Plot:Neo discovers that somehow he is able to use his powers in the real world too and that his mind can be freed from his body, as a result of which he finds himself trapped on a train station between the Matrix and the Real World. Meanwhile, Zion is preparing for the oncoming war with the machines with very little chances of survival. Neo's associates set out to free him from The Merovingian since it's believed that he is the One who will end the war between humans and the machines. What they do not know is that there is a threat from a third party, someone who has plans to destroy both the worlds.
- MPAA Rating: 'R'
- Writers:
- Lilly Wachowski
- Lana Wachowski
- Lilly Wachowski (characters)
- Lana Wachowski (characters)
- Actors:
- Mary Alice
- Tanveer K. Atwal
- Helmut Bakaitis
- Kate Beahan
- Awards: 5 wins & 35 nominations.
- Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
- Directors:
- Lana Wachowski
- Lilly Wachowski
- Runtime: 129 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 6.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 35%
- Metacritic: 47/100
- Genres:
- Action
- Sci-Fi
- Languages:
- English
- French
- Box Office: $139,076,032
- Country:
- USA
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- watching all the way through and paying careful attention
- I found this movie 2/3 into it.
- I'm basically lost as to what has happened.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
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Show Hide Plot:Over 10 years have passed since the first cyborg called The Terminator tried to kill Sarah Connor and her unborn son, John Connor. John Connor, the future leader of the human resistance, is now a healthy young boy. However another Terminator is sent back through time called the T-1000, which is more advanced and more powerful than its predecessor. The Mission: to kill John Connor when he's still a child. However, Sarah and John do not have to face this threat of a Terminator alone. Another Terminator is also sent back through time. The mission: to protect John and Sarah Connor at all costs. The battle for tomorrow has begun...
- MPAA Rating: 'R'
- Writers:
- James Cameron
- William Wisher
- Actors:
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Linda Hamilton
- Edward Furlong
- Robert Patrick
- Awards: Won 4 Oscars. Another 32 wins & 33 nominations.
- Production: TriStar Pictures
- Director:
- James Cameron
- Runtime: 137 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 8.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 93%
- Metacritic: 75/100
- Genres:
- Action
- Sci-Fi
- Languages:
- English
- Spanish
- Box Office: $198,116,802
- Countries:
- USA
- France
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"I cannot self-terminate"
The VelociPastor (2018)
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Show Hide Plot:After losing his parents, a priest travels to China, where he inherits a mysterious ability that allows him to turn into a dinosaur. At first horrified by this new power, a hooker convinces him to use it to fight crime. And ninjas.
- Writer:
- Brendan Steere
- Actors:
- Alyssa Kempinski
- Greg Cohan
- Claire Hsu
- Aurelio Voltaire
- Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations.
- Director:
- Brendan Steere
- Runtime: 75 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 5.2/10
- Genres:
- Action
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Horror
- Sci-Fi
- Thriller
- Languages:
- English
- Cantonese
- Mandarin
- Korean
- Countries:
- USA
- China
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_VelociPastor
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
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Show Hide Plot:Austin Powers is a 60's spy who is cryonically frozen and released in the 1990's. The world is a very different place for Powers. Unfortunately for Austin, everyone is no longer sex-mad. Although he may be in a different decade, his mission is still the same. He has teamed up with Vanessa Kensington to stop the evil Dr. Evil, who was also frozen in the past. Dr. Evil stole a nuclear weapon and is demanding a payment of (when he realises its the 90's) 100 billion dollars. Can Austin Powers stop this madman? or will he caught up with Evil's henchman, with names like Alotta Fagina and Random Task? Only time will tell!
- MPAA Rating: 'PG-13'
- Writer:
- Mike Myers
- Actors:
- Mike Myers
- Elizabeth Hurley
- Michael York
- Mimi Rogers
- Awards: 3 wins & 8 nominations.
- Production: New Line Home Entertainment
- Director:
- Jay Roach
- Runtime: 89 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 7.0/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 71%
- Metacritic: 51/100
- Genres:
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- USA
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Upload (2020–)
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Show Hide Plot:A man is able to choose his own afterlife after his untimely death.
- MPAA Rating: 'TV-MA'
- Writer:
- Greg Daniels
- Actors:
- Robbie Amell
- Andy Allo
- Zainab Johnson
- Kevin Bigley
- Runtime: 30 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 8.1/10
- Genres:
- Comedy
- Mystery
- Sci-Fi
- Language:
- English
Total Seasons: 1
- Country:
- USA
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Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007)
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Show Hide Plot:General Hammond summons Colonel Jack O'Neill out of retirement to embark on a secret rescue mission. O'Neill confesses that he disobeyed orders to destroy the Stargate on Planet Abydos, and that scientist Daniel Jackson may still be alive. Arriving on Abydos with his team, O'Neill meets up once again with the scientist, who has discovered a giant elaborate cartouche in hieroglyphics. All signs point to the fact that this is a map of many Stargates that exist throughout the galaxy - a development that makes the dream of the SG-1 team to travel throughout the universe in time a reality.
- MPAA Rating: 'TV-14'
- Writers:
- Jonathan Glassner
- Brad Wright
- Actors:
- Amanda Tapping
- Christopher Judge
- Michael Shanks
- Richard Dean Anderson
- Awards: Nominated for 9 Primetime Emmys. Another 18 wins & 88 nominations.
- Runtime: 44 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 8.4/10
- Genres:
- Action
- Adventure
- Drama
- Sci-Fi
- Language:
- English
Total Seasons: 10
- Countries:
- USA
- Canada
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The Butterfly Effect (2004)
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Show Hide Plot:Evan Treborn grows up in a small town with his single, working mother and his friends. He suffers from memory blackouts where he suddenly finds himself somewhere else, confused. Evan's friends and mother hardly believe him, thinking he makes it up just to get out of trouble. As Evan grows up he has fewer of these blackouts until he seems to have recovered. Since the age of seven he has written a diary of his blackout moments so he can remember what happens. One day at college he starts to read one of his old diaries, and suddenly a flashback hits him like a brick!
- MPAA Rating: 'R'
- Writers:
- J. Mackye Gruber
- Eric Bress
- Actors:
- Ashton Kutcher
- Melora Walters
- Amy Smart
- Elden Henson
- Awards: 1 win & 8 nominations.
- Production: New Line Cinema
- Directors:
- Eric Bress
- J. Mackye Gruber
- Runtime: 113 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 7.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 33%
- Metacritic: 30/100
- Genres:
- Drama
- Sci-Fi
- Thriller
- Language: English
- Box Office: $57,200,000
- Country: USA, Canada
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Replicant (2001)
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Show Hide Plot:Jake Riley is working on the "Torch" case, a psycho serial killer, who kills women with kids and sets them on fire after they are dead. The killer calls Riley sometimes and now, that Riley retires, the killer has no person to play against anymore. The NSA comes into play here and offers a job to Riley. A replicant, or better a clone of the killer should help him find the real one, as kind of test if it works out. Now Riley is back on track, with a clone of the killer at his hand on the way to discover that nobody is born as murderer.
- MPAA Rating: 'R'
- Writers:
- Lawrence Riggins
- Les Weldon
- Actors:
- Jean-Claude Van Damme
- Michael Rooker
- Catherine Dent
- Brandon James Olson
- Awards: 2 nominations.
- Production: Artisan Entertainment
- Director:
- Ringo Lam
- Runtime: 100 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 5.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 27%
- Genres:
- Action
- Sci-Fi
- Thriller
- Language: English
- Country: USA
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
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Show Hide Plot:Everyone has bad mornings. You wake up late, you stub your toe, you burn the toast...but for a man named Arthur Dent, this goes far beyond a bad day. When he learns that a friend of his is actually an alien with advanced knowledge of Earth's impending destruction, he is transported off the Earth seconds before it is exploded to make way for a new hyperspace motorway. And as if that's not enough, throw in being wanted by the police, Earth II, an insane electronic encyclopedia, no tea whatsoever, a chronically depressed robot and the search for the meaning of life, and you've got the greatest adventure off Earth.
- MPAA Rating: 'PG'
- Writers:
- Douglas Adams (book)
- Douglas Adams (screenplay)
- Karey Kirkpatrick (screenplay)
- Actors:
- Bill Bailey
- Anna Chancellor
- Warwick Davis
- Yasiin Bey
- Awards: 1 win & 10 nominations.
- Production: Buena Vista
- Director:
- Garth Jennings
- Runtime: 109 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 6.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 60%
- Metacritic: 63/100
- Genres:
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Sci-Fi
- Language: English
- Box Office: $51,019,112
- Country: UK, USA
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Real Genius (1985)
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Show Hide Plot:Mitch Taylor is one of the youngest students ever accepted to a university known for its programs for geniuses. He partners up with his roommate, science club legend Chris Knight, on a project to develop a high-powered laser. Together with their hyperkinetic friends, they employ their intellects in the pursuit of bigger blasts, practical jokes, and a deeper understanding of what real genius means. When they find out that their professor intends to turn their work over to the military for use as a weapon, they decide to get even.
- MPAA Rating: 'PG'
- Writers:
- Neal Israel (screenplay)
- Neal Israel (story)
- Pat Proft (screenplay)
- Pat Proft (story)
- Pj Torokvei
- Actors:
- Val Kilmer
- Gabriel Jarret
- Michelle Meyrink
- William Atherton
- Awards: 2 wins & 2 nominations.
- Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Director:
- Martha Coolidge
- Runtime: 108 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 7.0/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 75%
- Metacritic: 71/100
- Genres:
- Comedy
- Romance
- Sci-Fi
- Language: English
- Country: USA
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Virtuosity (1995)
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Show Hide Plot:The Law Enforcement Technology Advancement Centre (LETAC) has developed SID version 6.7: a Sadistic, Intelligent, and Dangerous virtual reality entity which is synthesized from the personalities of more than 150 serial killers. LETAC would like to train police officers by putting them in VR with SID, but they must prove the concept by using prisoners as test subjects. One such prisoner is ex-cop Parker Barnes. When SID manages to inject his personality into a nano-machine android, it appears that Barnes might be the only one who can stop him.
- MPAA Rating: 'R'
- Writer:
- Eric Bernt
- Actors:
- Denzel Washington
- Kelly Lynch
- Russell Crowe
- Stephen Spinella
- Awards: 1 nomination.
- Production: Paramount Home Video
- Director:
- Brett Leonard
- Runtime: 106 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 5.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 32%
- Metacritic: 39/100
- Genres:
- Action
- Crime
- Sci-Fi
- Thriller
- Language: English
- Country: USA
- Amazon Affiliate Link: https://amzn.to/33Kd4Qp
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
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Show Hide Plot:Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
- MPAA Rating: 'R'
- Writers:
- Hampton Fancher (screenplay by)
- Michael Green (screenplay by)
- Hampton Fancher (story by)
- Philip K. Dick (based on characters from the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by)
- Actors:
- Ryan Gosling
- Dave Bautista
- Robin Wright
- Mark Arnold
- Awards: Won 2 Oscars. Another 97 wins & 156 nominations.
- Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
- Director:
- Denis Villeneuve
- Runtime: 164 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 8.0/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 87%
- Metacritic: 81/100
- Genres:
- Action
- Drama
- Mystery
- Sci-Fi
- Thriller
- Language: English, Finnish, Japanese, Hungarian, Russian, Somali, Spanish
- Box Office: $91,800,042
- Country: USA, UK, Hungary, Canada, Spain
- Amazon Affiliate Link: https://amzn.to/39BnmVf
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
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Show Hide Plot:Stranded in 1955, Marty McFly receives written word from his friend, Doctor Emmett Brown, as to where can be found the DeLorean time machine. However, an unfortunate discovery prompts Marty to go to his friend's aid. Using the time machine, Marty travels to the old west where his friend has run afoul of a gang of thugs and has fallen in love with a local schoolteacher. Using the technology from the time, Marty and Emmett devise one last chance to send the two of them back to the future.
- MPAA Rating: 'PG'
- Writers:
- Robert Zemeckis (characters)
- Bob Gale (characters)
- Robert Zemeckis (story)
- Bob Gale (story)
- Bob Gale (screenplay)
- Actors:
- Michael J. Fox
- Christopher Lloyd
- Mary Steenburgen
- Thomas F. Wilson
- Awards: 5 wins & 11 nominations.
- Production: Universal Pictures
- Director:
- Robert Zemeckis
- Runtime: 118 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 7.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 79%
- Metacritic: 55/100
- Genres:
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Sci-Fi
- Western
- Language: English
- Country: USA
- Amazon Affiliate Link: https://amzn.to/38nDfxw
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
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Show Hide Plot:Marty McFly has only just gotten back from the past, when he is once again picked up by Dr. Emmett Brown and sent through time to the future. Marty's job in the future is to pose as his own son to prevent him from being thrown in prison. Unfortunately, things get worse when the future changes the present.
- MPAA Rating: 'PG'
- Writers:
- Robert Zemeckis (characters)
- Bob Gale (characters)
- Robert Zemeckis (story)
- Bob Gale (story)
- Bob Gale (screenplay)
- Actors:
- Michael J. Fox
- Christopher Lloyd
- Lea Thompson
- Thomas F. Wilson
- Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 8 nominations.
- Production: Universal Pictures
- Director:
- Robert Zemeckis
- Runtime: 108 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 7.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 65%
- Metacritic: 57/100
- Genres:
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Sci-Fi
- Language: English
- Country: USA
- Amazon Affiliate Link: https://amzn.to/2v3iWXN
Back to the Future (1985)
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Show Hide Plot:Marty McFly, a typical American teenager of the Eighties, is accidentally sent back to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean "time machine" invented by a slightly mad scientist. During his often hysterical, always amazing trip back in time, Marty must make certain his teenage parents-to-be meet and fall in love - so he can get back to the future.
- MPAA Rating: 'PG'
- Writers:
- Robert Zemeckis
- Bob Gale
- Actors:
- Michael J. Fox
- Christopher Lloyd
- Lea Thompson
- Crispin Glover
- Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 19 wins & 25 nominations.
- Production: Universal Pictures
- Director:
- Robert Zemeckis
- Runtime: 116 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 8.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 96%
- Metacritic: 87/100
- Genres:
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Sci-Fi
- Language: English
- Box Office: $2,925,880
- Country: USA
- Amazon Affiliate Link: https://amzn.to/30FM96Q
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
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Show Hide Plot:After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother and his little sister, Gertie, and the children decide to keep its existence a secret. Soon, however, E.T. falls ill, resulting in government intervention and a dire situation for both Elliott and the alien.
- MPAA Rating: 'PG'
- Writer:
- Melissa Mathison
- Actors:
- Dee Wallace
- Henry Thomas
- Peter Coyote
- Robert MacNaughton
- Awards: Won 4 Oscars. Another 47 wins & 34 nominations.
- Production: Universal Pictures
- Director:
- Steven Spielberg
- Runtime: 115 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 7.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 98%
- Metacritic: 91/100
- Genres:
- Family
- Sci-Fi
- Language: English
- Country: USA
- Amazon Affiliate Link: https://amzn.to/39yb14y
- this movie is a classic
- music by john williams
- a few iconic shots
- bicycle across moon
- ship landing
- e.t. getting drunk
- no villians
Timecop (1994)
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Show Hide Plot:When the ability to travel through time is perfected, a new type of law enforcement agency is formed. It's called Time Enforcement Commission or TEC. A cop, Max Walker, is assigned to the group. On the day he was chosen, some men attack him and kill his wife. Ten years later Max is still grieving but has become a good agent for the TEC. He tracks down a former co-worker who went into the past to make money. Max brings him back for sentencing but not after telling Max that Senator McComb, the man in charge of TEC, sent him. Max has his eye on McComb.
- MPAA Rating: 'R'
- Writers:
- Mark Verheiden (screenplay)
- Mike Richardson (story)
- Mark Verheiden (story)
- Mike Richardson (comic series)
- Mark Verheiden (comic series)
- Actors:
- Jean-Claude Van Damme
- Mia Sara
- Ron Silver
- Bruce McGill
- Awards: 1 win & 4 nominations.
- Production: MCA Universal Home Video
- Director:
- Peter Hyams
- Runtime: 99 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 5.9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 45%
- Metacritic: 48/100
- Genres:
- Action
- Crime
- Sci-Fi
- Thriller
- Language: English
- Country: Canada, USA, Japan
- Amazon Affiliate Link: https://amzn.to/36anNUG
- there was a tv show called Timecop
- jean claude.. impressive skills
- time travel
- same matter cannot occupy the same space
Project Almanac (2015)
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Show Hide Plot:As a group of friends discover plans for a time machine, they build it and use it to fix their problems and for personal gain. But as the future falls apart with disasters, and each of them disappear little by little, they must travel back to the past to make sure they never invent the machine or face the destruction of humanity.
- MPAA Rating: 'PG-13'
- Writers:
- Jason Pagan
- Andrew Deutschman
- Actors:
- Jonny Weston
- Sofia Black-D'Elia
- Sam Lerner
- Allen Evangelista
- Production: Paramount Pictures
- Director:
- Dean Israelite
- Runtime: 106 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 6.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 36%
- Metacritic: 47/100
- Genres:
- Drama
- Mystery
- Sci-Fi
- Thriller
- Language: English
- Country: USA
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- good story
- time travel
- convincing special effects
- it's about comprehension, not memorization
- POV camera (a good thing for the story)
The Lazarus Effect (2015)
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Show Hide Plot:THE LAZARUS EFFECT follows a group of researchers led by Frank and his fiancé Zoe who've achieved the unimaginable - bringing the dead back to life. After a successful, yet unsanctioned, trial on a newly deceased animal, the team is ready to unveil their breakthrough to the world. When the dean of their university learns of their underground experiments, their project is unexpectedly shut down and their materials confiscated. Frank, Zoe and their team take matters into their own hands, launching a rogue attempt to recreate their experiment, during which things go terribly wrong and one of their own, Zoe, is horrifically killed. Fueled by terror and grief, Frank pushes them to do the unthinkable: attempt to resurrect their first human test subject. Initially, the procedure appears a success, but the team soon realizes something is wrong with Zoe. As her strange new persona reveals itself, the team quickly becomes stuck in a gruesome reality. They are no longer faced with the question of whether they can bring someone back to life- but rather, the wrath of her return.
- MPAA Rating: 'PG-13'
- Writers:
- Luke Dawson
- Jeremy Slater
- Actors:
- Mark Duplass
- Olivia Wilde
- Sarah Bolger
- Evan Peters
- Awards: 2 nominations.
- Director:
- David Gelb
- Runtime: 83 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 5.2/10
- Metacritic: 31/100
- Genres:
- Horror
- Mystery
- Sci-Fi
- Thriller
- Language: English
- Country: USA
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Philadelphia Experiment II (1993)
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Show Hide Plot:David Herdeg's participation in a failed 1943 experiment in radar invisibility has propelled him 40 years into the future. An aberration in his genetic makeup enabled him to pass through the portal of time. It has also made him sensitive to any alteration to the time continuum. Another disasterous experiment in 1993 sends a stealth aircraft through the time portal, into 1943 Germany. Simultaneously, Herdeg is pulled into the portal, and finds himself in the terrifying 1993 that resulted from a Nazi victory in World War II.
- MPAA Rating: 'PG-13'
- Writers:
- Wallace C. Bennett (characters)
- Don Jakoby (characters)
- Kim Steven Ketelsen (story)
- Kevin Rock (story)
- Kevin Rock (screenplay)
- Nick Paine (screenplay)
- Actors:
- Brad Johnson
- Marjean Holden
- Gerrit Graham
- John Christian Graas
- Production: Trimark
- Director:
- Stephen Cornwell
- Runtime: 97 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 4.5/10
- Genres:
- Action
- Adventure
- Sci-Fi
- Language: English, German
- Country: USA
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Glitch (2008)
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Show Hide Plot:Three young people try to pitch a new technology for communication to a large cellular company in order to receive funding to further test their product. Upon rejection from that company, one of the three makes the rash decision to test the products on themselves. Upon the initial test, the new technology seems to work fine, but soon after the three discover that the technology has a 'Glitch'. The story revolves around the effects of the glitch, which seem to give some of the friends 'super' powers or abilities. Eventually, it turns into a battle with inventor of the technology against the other two friends in a fight against good and evil.
- MPAA Rating: 'Not Rated'
- Writer:
- Darryn Lucio
- Actors:
- Steve Byers
- Maury Chaykin
- Matthew Edison
- Darrell Hicks
- Director:
- Randy Daudlin
- Runtime: 90 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 4.4/10
- Genres:
- Action
- Sci-Fi
- Thriller
- Language: English
- Country: USA
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Spaceballs (1987)
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Show Hide Plot:King Roland of the planet Druidia is trying to marry his daughter Princess Vespa 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.
- MPAA Rating: 'PG'
- Writers:
- Mel Brooks
- Thomas Meehan
- Ronny Graham
- Actors:
- Mel Brooks
- John Candy
- Rick Moranis
- Bill Pullman
- Awards: 1 win.
- Production: MGM
- Director:
- Mel Brooks
- Runtime: 96 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 7.1/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 59%
- Metacritic: 46/100
- Genres:
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Sci-Fi
- Language: English
- Country: USA
- Amazon Affiliate Link: https://amzn.to/2QPyib9
- ty to michael
- spaceballs is "silly"-- once you accept that, you will probably like it.
- quintessential example of Mel Brooks
- not currently a mel brooks fan
- I watched the first few minutes up to the clip of a sign outside a church that said something about "druidism (reformed)"
- I didn't find myself laughing all that much, so I stopped it to add the movie to agora and write this comment
Fahrenheit 451 (2018)
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Show Hide Plot:In a terrifying care-free future, a young man, Guy Montag, whose job as a fireman is to burn all books, questions his actions after meeting a young woman - and begins to rebel against society.
- MPAA Rating: 'TV-14'
- Writers:
- Ray Bradbury (based on the novel written by)
- Ramin Bahrani (screenplay by)
- Amir Naderi (screenplay by)
- Actors:
- Michael B. Jordan
- Aaron Davis
- Cindy Katz
- Michael Shannon
- Awards: Nominated for 5 Primetime Emmys. Another 3 wins & 9 nominations.
- Production: HBO Films
- Director:
- Ramin Bahrani
- Runtime: 100 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 4.9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 33%
- Genres:
- Drama
- Sci-Fi
- Thriller
- Language: English
- Country: USA
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I, Robot (2004)
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Show Hide Plot:In 2035, technophobic homicide detective Del Spooner of the Chicago PD heads the investigation of the apparent suicide of leading robotics scientist, Dr. Alfred Lanning. Unconvinced of the motive, Spooner's investigation into Lanning's death reveals a trail of secrets and agendas within the USR (United States Robotics) corporation and suspicions of murder. Little does he know that his investigation would lead to uncovering a larger threat to humanity.
- MPAA Rating: 'PG-13'
- Writers:
- Jeff Vintar (screenplay)
- Akiva Goldsman (screenplay)
- Jeff Vintar (screen story)
- Isaac Asimov (suggested by book)
- Actors:
- Will Smith
- Bridget Moynahan
- Alan Tudyk
- James Cromwell
- Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 13 nominations.
- Director:
- Alex Proyas
- Runtime: 115 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 7.1/10
- Metacritic: 59/100
- Genres:
- Action
- Crime
- Drama
- Mystery
- Sci-Fi
- Thriller
- Language: English
- Country: USA, Germany
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- will smith
- asimov
- a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, cause a human being to come to harm.
- a robot must obey orders from human beings except where the orders conflict w the first law
- a robot must protect its own existence except where such protection conflicts w the first or second law
- "prejudice never shows much reason"
- "you'd think we would have banned the internet to keep libraries open"
- "one day they'll have secrets, one day they'll have dreams"
The Matrix (1999)
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Show Hide Plot:Thomas A. Anderson is a man living two lives. By day he is an average computer programmer and by night a hacker known as Neo. Neo has always questioned his reality, but the truth is far beyond his imagination. Neo finds himself targeted by the police when he is contacted by Morpheus, a legendary computer hacker branded a terrorist by the government. Morpheus awakens Neo to the real world, a ravaged wasteland where most of humanity have been captured by a race of machines that live off of the humans' body heat and electrochemical energy and who imprison their minds within an artificial reality known as the Matrix. As a rebel against the machines, Neo must return to the Matrix and confront the agents: super-powerful computer programs devoted to snuffing out Neo and the entire human rebellion.
- MPAA Rating: 'R'
- Writers:
- Lilly Wachowski
- Lana Wachowski
- Actors:
- Keanu Reeves
- Laurence Fishburne
- Carrie-Anne Moss
- Hugo Weaving
- Awards: Won 4 Oscars. Another 34 wins & 48 nominations.
- Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
- Directors:
- Lana Wachowski
- Lilly Wachowski
- Runtime: 136 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 8.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 88%
- Metacritic: 73/100
- Genres:
- Action
- Sci-Fi
- Language: English
- Country: USA
- Amazon Affiliate Link: https://amzn.to/2LogZuN
- still the best of the three, now that I've seen all of them in order
- green tint whenever in the Matrix
- lots and lots of bullet time
- martial arts
- sci-fi
- "bullet time"
- first of a "trilogy" that should have been stand-alone.
don't mess w the original
Frequency (2000)
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Show Hide Plot:A rare atmospheric phenomenon allows a New York City firefighter to communicate with his son 30 years in the future via HAM radio. The son uses this opportunity to warn the father of his impending death in a warehouse fire, and manages to save his life. However, what he does not realize is that changing history has triggered a new set of tragic events, including the murder of his mother. The two men must now work together, 30 years apart, to find the murderer before he strikes so that they can change history--again.
- MPAA Rating: 'PG-13'
- Writer:
- Toby Emmerich
- Actors:
- Dennis Quaid
- Jim Caviezel
- Shawn Doyle
- Elizabeth Mitchell
- Awards: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 7 nominations.
- Production: New Line Cinema
- Director:
- Gregory Hoblit
- Runtime: 118 min
- IMDB:
- Ratings:
- Internet Movie Database: 7.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 70%
- Metacritic: 67/100
- Genres:
- Crime
- Drama
- Mystery
- Sci-Fi
- Thriller
- Language: English
- Website: http://www.frequencymovie.com
- Country: USA
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- time travel