[LightDestory]

Yesterday I watched "Stowaway" on Netflix... well it took 2 hours of my time and it didn't give me any good memory. Boring film with a bad story telling. I just wished to finish as soon as possible because I am not used to interrupt a watching.

Plot from wikipedia:

The crew of MTS-42, a two-year mission to Mars, consists of commander Marina Barnett, biologist David Kim, and medical researcher Zoe Levenson. After taking off from Earth, the upper stage of their launch vehicle is connected by 450 meter long tethers to the ship's main hull, acting as a counterweight for inertia-based artificial gravity.[4]

Shortly after takeoff, Barnett discovers launch support engineer Michael Adams, an accidental stowaway, unconscious behind a panel. The crew begins to bond with him, but Barnett soon learns that Michael's body had been entangled with, and inadvertently destroyed, a device that scrubs carbon dioxide from the air on the ship.

The crew is forced to use emergency lithium hydroxide canisters to scrub CO
2 from the air. Unfortunately, the canisters can only sustain enough oxygen for two passengers. Barnett orders David to immediately cultivate his algae experiment on the ship, rather than at the Martian colony as planned. Only half of the algae survive, providing just enough oxygen for a third crew member. Without another oxygen supply, the crew of four will asphyxiate weeks before reaching Mars.

Barnett asks mission control for a solution that will save all four passengers, but the only option – an untested EVA to climb the tethers and recover liquid oxygen from the launch vehicle – is deemed too risky. Barnett and David come to terms with sacrificing Michael, but Zoe convinces them to wait ten days for mission control to think of another solution.

After three days, David explains the situation to Michael and offers him a painless lethal injection. Michael nearly takes his own life, but Zoe convinces him to hold out for a while longer. She insists on climbing the tethers to retrieve the liquid oxygen. David reveals that the rest of the algae has died, leaving only enough oxygen for two, and agrees to join her.

Zoe and David perform the EVA and fill two tanks, which would be enough to sustain two more passengers. Deadly radiation from a high-energy solar flare forces them to leave one of the tanks behind.[5] They make it back to the ship, but not before Zoe misses a step, which causes her to drop the tank, which drifts away. Meanwhile, the large tank is slowly leaking oxygen.

After regrouping, the crew realizes that one person must endure the radiation and retrieve the tank left behind on the first attempt so that the other three can survive. Marina must survive to pilot the ship, but the other three all volunteer to make the sacrifice. When Zoe ultimately insists on doing it herself, she manages to fill and return the tank to the ship before succumbing to radiation poisoning. She spends her final moments outside the ship, gazing at Mars amongst the stars.

[debjit]

I just watched "Army of the Dead" and "Wrath of Man". I enjoyed warth of man but it's too much for me in the army of the dead. The storyline is not that clear. I have to watch 2nd time to understand what is happening.
But another hand Warth of man is a bit clear with its story. The graphics are awesome I must say in the Army of Dead.

[Mashiro]

Tigerland / 2000 / United States / 7 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971. In September 1971, a platoon of recruits arrives in Ft. Polk, LA, for infantry training before leaving for war. The final week takes place in Tigerland, a swamp similar to Vietnam. Jim Paxton has enlisted; he wants to experience everything and write books later. He befriends Roland Bozz, a cool Texan with a gift for getting into trouble and for helping misfits get discharges. At least one sociopath in the platoon hates Bozz, even as the sergeants grudgingly recognize his leadership abilities. As the platoon heads into its week in Tigerland, Paxton's body gives out, Bozz makes plans to go AWOL, and the sociopath gets hold of live ammo. Is the Louisiana swamp more dangerous than the DMZ?

Somewhat of a crazy movie. A lot of profanity and many men acting like "we're super grown up and are super duper guys". A lot of racism. It's as it has most likely been at the times of the Vietnam war.

Btw: huge cast with many actors we all learned to know and love during many movies and TV shows.

[xdude]

@Mashiro

Very true. That's why I also gave it 6/10. I haven't watched too many Zombie movies since it's not my genre but even as a movie this one was not so good. I was trying to remember the movie World War Z to compare since it's one of the few Z movies I have watched but I kind of don't remember that one at all. This movie has some strange stuff even for a Zombie movie. Like Zombie Love, then Zombie having a babe? Even there is a Cyborg Zombie ??? lol
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I watched this old classic Sci-fi movie, Aliens (1986) again. I have downloaded the whole Aliens movie series into my Classics collection and this 2nd movie is the best among those. An amazing movie that is worth watching. This is one of the coolest scary Sci-fis from the 80s. I don't think it got highlighted in its launch since there were so many great movies released in that year such at Top Gun etc.

[Mashiro]

Requiem for a Dream / 2000 / United States / 8.3 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep. Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) is a retired widow, living in a small apartment. She spends most of her time watching TV, especially a particular self-help show. She has delusions of rising above her current dull existence by being a guest on that show. Her son, Harry (Jared Leto) is a junkie but along with his friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) has visions of making it big by becoming a drug dealer. Harry's girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) could be fashion designer or artist but is swept along in Harry's drug-centric world. Meanwhile Sara has developed an addiction of her own. She desperately wants to lose weight and so goes on a crash course involving popping pills, pills which turn out to be very addictive and harmful to her mental state.

A movie about drug addiction from various kinds (medicine to real hard stuff) and the dream worlds the drugs create for the people that take them and get addicted to them but also the dark sides of their addiction.

[LightDestory]

Like @Mashiro @xdude and @debjit
I have watched "Army of the Dead" a 2021 American zombie heist film directed by Zack Snyder from a screenplay he co-wrote with Shay Hatten and Joby Harold, based on a story he also created. (wikipedia quote)

I didn't like it very match. I watched a lot of zombie movies such as: Resident Evil Saga (I know that it is so bad compared to the games), I am Legend, Alive, Pandemic and Warm bodies.

I think that this movie is the wrost of the category. I watched it but it didn't take any particular thing. Nothing was new or surprising at all. The zombies was likely a clichè. The storytelling was slow and pointless. I don't suggest it to any zombie-movie lover.


As always the plot from wikipedia:

A United States military convoy traveling from Area 51 collides with a car on the highway outside Las Vegas. The convoy's cargo, a zombie, escapes, killing and infecting several soldiers before heading into the city. There, they infect most of the city's population before the government decides to quarantine the city.

Casino owner Bly Tanaka and his associate Martin approach former mercenary Scott Ward about a job to recover $200 million from his casino vault in Vegas before the military deploys a tactical nuclear strike on the city. Ward agrees and recruits his former teammates Maria Cruz and Vanderohe, along with helicopter pilot Marianne Peters, German safecracker Ludwig Dieter, and Chicano sharpshooter Mikey Guzman, who brings along his associate Chambers. Martin joins the team to give them access to the casino. Ward's estranged daughter Kate, who works at a quarantine camp, directs them to Lily, a smuggler familiar with the city, who also recruits Burt Cummings, a camp security guard. When Kate learns Lily escorted her friend Geeta into Vegas, Kate insists on joining the team over Ward's objections.

After an encounter with a zombie-tiger named Valentine upon entering Vegas, Lily wounds Cummings and explains that a group of intelligent zombies known as "Alphas" will allow safe passage in exchange for a sacrifice. An Alpha female known as the Queen takes Cummings away to the Olympus casino, where the Alpha leader Zeus infects him. Lily leads the team to a building full of hibernating, normal zombies. Ward creates a path through the zombies with glow sticks. When Chambers accuses Martin of ulterior motives, he diverts her off the path, and she wakes the zombies. After she is surrounded and bitten, Guzman shoots the gasoline canister on her back, destroying her and the surrounding zombie hoard.

At Bly's casino, Ward and Kate turn on the power, Peters prepares a helicopter on the roof, and Dieter works on the vault. Martin and Lily stay outside under the pretense of keeping watch but instead lure the Queen into the open. Martin beheads her and takes her head. Zeus discovers her body and returns her to the Olympus casino, revealing that the Queen was pregnant with a zombie fetus. Enraged, Zeus directs the Alphas to Bly's casino. A news report reveals the government has brought forward the nuclear strike, giving the team approximately 90 minutes. As Dieter opens the vault, Ward discovers Kate had left to look for Geeta. As Ward and Cruz are about to search for her, Alphas appear and kill Cruz.

Martin traps the team in the basement, explaining that Bly cares only about the zombie head, which can create a zombie army for the government and is worth more than the money in the vault. When he steps outside, he discovers Lily stole the Queen’s head, and Valentine mauls him to death. Vanderohe attempts to fight Zeus but is easily overpowered. Dieter sacrifices himself to get Vanderohe in the vault safely. Ward, Lily, and Guzman make it to the lobby, where zombies attack them and swarm Guzman. Guzman detonates his grenades, killing the zombies and destroying the money he carried. Zeus confronts them on the roof. Lily distracts him with the Queen's head as Ward and Peters escape. Zeus impales Lily, who destroys the head by dropping it off the roof.

Peters takes Ward to the Olympus casino to retrieve Kate. Inside, Kate finds Geeta and kills Cummings. Zeus corners them, but Ward subdues him with a grenade launcher. Geeta, Kate, and Ward reach the roof but find it empty; Peters reappears just as Zeus reaches the roof. All three jump aboard the helicopter, as does Zeus, who overpowers Ward and bites him. Kate distracts Zeus before Ward kills him. As the nuke destroys Vegas, the shockwave causes the helicopter to crash, killing Peters and Geeta. Kate survives and finds Ward, who gives Kate money to start a new life before turning into a zombie. Kate kills him as a rescue helicopter arrives.

Vanderohe exits the vault with the remaining money. He drives to Utah and rents a private plane to take him to Mexico City. On the flight, he discovers that he has been bitten.

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[Mashiro]

Tiger & Dragon / 2000 / China / 7.8 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

A young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation. In early nineteenth-century China, in the waning years of the Qing dynasty, the renowned swordsman who yearns for enlightenment, Li Mu Bai, decides to give up his legendary Green Destiny sword: the sharp four-hundred-year-old blade of heroes. To mark the end of a blood-stained career, Li entrusts the excellent female warrior, Yu Shu Lien, with the precious weapon to deliver it to Governor Yu; however, once there, an audacious and nimble masked thief manages to steal it. As Shu Lien is hot on the trail of the skilled burglar, unrequited loves; fervent passions; an unconquerable desire for freedom, and bitter loose ends stand in the way. Can Mu Bai shake off his violent past?

A martial arts movie from China with some major chinese actors. I usually love Asian martial arts but this movie has been mostly boring due to a lot of dialog between characters. The fight scenes were quite interesting and epic though.

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The Others / 2001 / United States / 7.6 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

A woman who lives in her darkened old family house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that the home is haunted. A woman named Grace retires with her two children to a mansion on Jersey, towards the end of the Second World War, where she's waiting for her husband to come back from battle. The children have a disease which means they cannot be touched by direct sunlight without being hurt in some way. They will live alone there with oppressive, strange and almost religious rules, until she needs to hire a group of servants for them. Their arrival will accidentally begin to break the rules with unexpected consequences.

A mystery horror thriller movie about a family living in an old mansion. You know the drill. Strange things happen, people hear voices and etc. It is an interesting movie though .

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Audition / 1999 / Japan / 7.2 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all. In Tokyo, Shigeharu Aoyama is a widower that grieves the loss of his wife and raises his son Shigehiko Aoyama alone. Seven years later, the teenage Shigehiko asks why his middle-aged father does not remarry and Shigeharu meets his friend Yasuhisa Yoshikawa, who is a film producer, and tells his intention. However, Shigeharu has difficulties to approach to available women to date and Yasuhisa decide to organize a sham audition for casting the lead actress for the fake movie. They receive several portfolios of candidates and Shigeharu becomes obsessed by the gorgeous Asami Yamazaki. Despite the advice of the experienced Yasuhisa, Shigeharu calls Asami to date and he falls for her. But who is the mysterious Asami?

A Japanese love drama movie with some twists and kinks. A bit weird and mysterious.

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15 Minutes / 2001 / United States / 6.1 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

A homicide detective and a fire marshal must stop a pair of murderers who commit videotaped crimes to become media darlings. When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and make them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story."

An alright action movie with Robert De Niro in the main role. It's an ok movie .

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Reign of Fire / 2002 / United States, United Kingdom & Ireland / 6.2 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

A brood of fire-breathing dragons emerges from the earth and begins setting everything ablaze, establishing dominance over the planet. In present-day London, 12-year-old Quinn Abercromby witnesses the awakening of a hibernating dragon from a centuries-long slumber, the result of a construction dig supervised by his mother and an incident for which Quinn feels partially responsible. Twenty years later, the adult Quinn (Christian Bale) is the fire chief of a refortified castle community, responsible for dousing the blazes lit by the dragon's prodigious number of flame-spewing offspring, airborne juggernauts that have wreaked havoc across the globe, torching civilization and turning humans into an endangered species. Hope arrives in the form of Denton "Dragon Slayer" Van Zan (Matthew McConaughey), an American known to be the only man to ever kill one of the dragons, and Alex (Izabella Scorupco), a scientist/pilot who's a member of Van Zan's army, a zealous fighting force that includes a secret weapon: the Archangels, paratroopers using themselves as bait to attract and then dispatch the deadly beasts.

Underrated movie in my opinion. I really liked it.

Also great cast with Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey and Gerard Butler.

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Road to Perdition / 2002 / United States / 7.7 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

A mob enforcer's son witnesses a murder, forcing him and his father to take to the road, and his father down a path of redemption and revenge. 1931. Mike Sullivan and Connor Rooney are two henchmen of elderly downstate IL-based (Quad City area, though much of the action takes place in the Chicago area) Irish-American mobster John Rooney, Connor's father. In many respects, John treats Mike more as his son, who he raised as his own after Mike was orphaned, than the volatile Connor, who nonetheless sees himself as the heir apparent to the family business. One evening, Mike's eldest son, twelve year old Michael Sullivan Jr., who has no idea what his father does for a living, witnesses Connor and his father gun down an associate and his men, the situation gone wrong initiated from an action by Connor. Caught witnessing the incident, Michael is sworn to secrecy about what he saw. Regardless, Connor, not wanting any loose ends, makes an attempt to kill Mike, his wife and their two sons. Mike and the surviving members of his family know that they need to go on the run as Connor, who has gone into hiding, will be protected through mob loyalty, especially by John, who cannot turn on his own flesh and blood. Still, Mike has to figure out a way for retribution for what Connor did, while still protecting him and his family, not only from Connor, but from John and his fellow associates. Through it all, Mike wants those in his family that had no say in what he chose as a living, to have some redemption for their eternal souls.

A great Mafia style movie with flair of Green Mile and an awesome cast including Tom Hanks, Daniel Craig (James Bond) and other great actors (Jude Law and others).

Give it a spin.

[Mashiro]

Narc / 2002 / United States / 7.1 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

When the trail goes cold on a murder investigation of a policeman an undercover narcotics officer is lured back to the force to help solve the case. An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly under the scrutiny of internal affairs. They follow leads, informants turn up dead, Nick's wife is unhappy he's back on the street, Henry's protective of the dead cop's wife. Nick reads and re-reads the case file, broods, watches Oak's heavy-handed style, sometimes joining in. The brass want to close out the case, Nick and Henry stay on it, and bits of evidence point them to an auto body shop. What actually happened; will Nick ever know?

Actually it was a good movie and I enjoyed watching it.

[tiwil]

The Big Short / US / 7.8 out of 10 on IMDB

A very good movie doing drama for 2008 economic collapse. Burry managed to profit his hedge fund to profit big money.
Worth to watch, especially if you're not affected (like me because I'm still toddler that time ).

From this movie, I got what affected people feel and how they're revenging with GME stocks.

[Mashiro]

Shorta / 2020 / Denmark / 6.6 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

Jens and Mike, two police officers on routine patrol, find themselves trapped in a maze of buildings when unrest spreads. The exact details of what took place while Talib Ben Hassi (19) was in police custody remain unclear. Police officers, Jens and Mike, are on routine patrol in Svalegården's ghetto when news of Talib's death comes in over the radio, igniting uncontrollable, pent-up rage in the ghetto's youth, who lust for revenge. Suddenly, the two officers find themselves fair game and must fight tooth and claw to find a way out.

I really liked the movie and can recommend it.

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Runaway Jury / 2003 / United States / 7.1 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer. Wendell Rohr is a torts lawyer taking on the gun lobby. Rankin Fitch is the jury consultant for the Defendants and between them the battle is for the hearts and minds of the jury. But there is someone on the inside. Nicholas Easter is a juror with a girlfriend, Marlee, on the outside. they have a past ..... and their own agenda.

An entertaining thriller.

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Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie / 1995 / United States / 7.9 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

The history of nuclear weapons between 1945 until 1963. A documentary presenting mankind's most ambitious effort at perfecting the means to its own annihilation. Featuring newly unclassified atomic test footage. Some of the footage used in this documentary is from another documentary, "Tsar Bomba." This footage deals with a 60,000 pound device that is called in this film the Soviet's "monster bomb." When it was tested, it created the largest explosion ever created by man.

A great documentary movie about the history of the atomic bomb from 1945 to 1963.

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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind / 2002 / United States / 7 out of 10 Rating on IMDb

An adaptation of the cult memoir of game show impresario Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell), in which he purports to have been a C.I.A. hitman. Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off-screen. This is the story of a legendary showman's double life - television producer by day, C.I.A. assassin by night. At the height of his television career, Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell) was recruited by the C.I.A. and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris claimed.

It was an OK movie to me. Not what I expected.