[doppia] quatermass

Non sono certo un assolutista del bello e tanto meno un nostalgico dei classici: i film - come ogni altra cosa - invecchiano; alcuni sembrano risentire poco o nulla del trascorrere degli anni, mentre altri perdono la loro efficacia, al mutare del gusto dello spettatore.

La serie di Quatermass, pur visibilmente invecchiata, riesce a mentenere almeno parte del proprio fascino: il passo ed i temi non sono certo quelli della fantascienza o dell'horror moderni e spesso i personaggi risultano fin troppo inquadrati nei loro schemi, ma pur nella loro semplicità risultano ancora efficaci.

Ne L'Astronave Atomica del Dottor Quatermass (The Quatermass Xperiment), il buon dottore invia nello spazio un razzo con tre astronauti: sfiga vuole che ne torni uno solo, per giunta catatonico e nel bel mezzo di spaventose mutazioni biologiche.
Discretamente diretto da Val Guest e con Brian Donlevy nel ruolo del professore, mostra un lato cinico e spietato della scienza che non si arresta né di fronte ai drammi umani né a rischi inimmaginabili.

Voto: 6.5.
Tags: fantascienza, horror, thriller, Quatermass, razzo, astronave, morte, cibo, riproduzione, malattia, mutazione, pianta, fuga, ospedale, moglie, cattedrale, fuoco, scienziato, indagine, polizia.

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Dodici anni dopo, L'Astronave degli Esseri Perduti (Quatermass and the Pit) ci presenta un professore (qui Andrew Keir) intento ad indagare su una misteriosa astronave rinvenuta nel sottosuolo di Londra; strani fenomeni si verificano da anni nella zona, e la verità sconvolgerà tutti.
Un dottore meno bieco ed alle prese con il clima di una guerra fredda quasi all'apice, con la scienza sottomessa alle necessità militari.

Voto: 6.
Tags: fantascienza, horror, thriller, Quatermass, razzo, astronave, morte, apparizione, possessione, alieno, bomba, militare, esercito, polizia, Marte, paleontologia, scienziato.

Quatermass Xperiment, The (1955)

Astronave atomica del dottor Quatermass

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Regista: Val Guest
Scrittore: Nigel Kneale, Richard H. Landau
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Valutazione: 6.7/10 (820 voti)
Durata: 82 min
Paese: UK
Lingua: English

Cast:

• Brian Donlevy .... Prof. Bernard Quatermass
• Jack Warner .... Insp. Lomax
• Margia Dean .... Mrs. Judith Carroon
• Thora Hird .... Rosemary 'Rosie' Elizabeth Rigly
• Gordon Jackson .... BBC TV producer
• David King-Wood .... Dr. Gordon Briscoe (Quatermass' associate)
• Harold Lang .... Christie (man who helps Victor escape)
• Lionel Jeffries .... Blake
• Sam Kydd .... Police sergeant questioning Rosie
• Richard Wordsworth .... Victor Carroon (spaceship crew member)

Trama:
A missile, launched by the team led by Prof. Quatermass, lands in the English countryside. Of the three members of the crew, two have mysteriously disappeared. The third one, barely alive, undergoes an horrible metamorphosis turning into a monstrous "thing". When he breaks out and, chased in vain by inspector Lomax, starts killing humans and animals to feed his transformation, Quatermass realizes that this is the way chosen by an alien form of life to invade the Earth.

Trivia random: Among the materials used by Les Bowie to embellish the monster were bovine entrails and tripe.
Citazione random: Insp. Lomax: Nobody ever wins a cold war.

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Donlevy, Brian

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Nome di battesimo: Donlevy, Waldo Brian
Data di nascita: 9 February 1901
Data di morte: 5 April 1972
Altezza: 5' 8" (1.73 m)
Coniuge: Lillian Lugosi::(25 February 1966 - 5 April 1972) (his death), Marjorie Lane::(31 December 1936 - 1948) (divorced), Yvonne Grey::(5 October 1928 - 1936) (divorced)

Ultimi lavori:

• Pit Stop (1969) .... Grant Willard [attore]
• Arizona Bushwhackers (1968) .... Mayor Joe Smith [attore]
• Rogues' Gallery (1968) .... Det. Lee [attore]
• Five Golden Dragons (1967) .... Dragon #2 [attore]
• Hostile Guns (1967) .... Marshal Willett [attore]
• The Fat Spy (1966) .... George Wellington [attore]
• Gammera the Invincible (1966) .... Gen. Terry Arnold [attore]
• Waco (1966) .... Ace Ross [attore]
• Curse of the Fly (1965) .... Henri Delambre [attore]
• How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965) .... B.D. MacPherson aka Big Deal [attore]

Biografia:
It seems that Brian Donlevy started out life as colorfully as any character he ever played on the stage or screen. He lied about his age (he was actually 14) in 1916 so he could join the army. When Gen. John J. Pershing sent American troops to invade Mexico in pursuit of Pancho Villa - Mexican rebels under Villa's command raided Columbus, New Mexico, and killed 16 people -Donlevy served with that expedition and later, in WW I, was a pilot with the Lafayette Escadrille, a unit of the French Air Force comprised of American and Canadian pilots. His schooling was in Cleveland, OH, but in addition he spent two years at the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD. However, he gave up on a military career for the stage. After having landed several smaller roles, he got a part in "What Price Glory" and established himself as a bona fide actor. Later such roles on stage as "Three for One", "The Milky Way" and "Life Begins at 8:30" gave him the experience to head off to Hollywood. Donlevy began his Hollywood career with the silent film A Man of Quality (1926) and his first talkie was Gentlemen of the Press (1929) (in which he had a bit part). There was a five- to six-year gap before he reappeared on the film scene in 1935 with three films: Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935), Another Face (1935) and Barbary Coast (1935), which was his spring board into film history. Receiving rave reviews as "the tough guy all in black", acting jobs finally began to roll his way. In 1936 he starred in seven films, including Strike Me Pink (1936), in which he played the tough guy to Eddie Cantor's sweet bumpkin Eddie Pink. In all, from 1926 to 1969, Donlevy starred in at least 89 films, reprising one of his Broadway roles as a prizefighter in The Milky Way (1940), and he had his own starring television series (which he also produced), "Dangerous Assignment" (1952). In 1939 he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of the sadistic Sgt. Markoff in Paramount's Beau Geste (1939), its remake of an earlier silent hit. The Great McGinty (1940), a Preston Sturges comedy about a poor homeless slob who makes it to Governor of a state with the mob's help, is a brilliant character study of a man and the changes he goes through to please himself, those around him and, eventually, the woman he loves. A line in the film, spoken by Mrs. McGinty, seems a fitting description of the majority of roles Brian Donlevy would play throughout his career: ". . . You're a tough guy, McGinty, not a wrong guy." Donlevy's ability to make the roughest edge of any character have a soft side was his calling card. He perfected it and no one has quite mastered it since. He later, in 1944, reprised that role in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944). By 1935 Donlevy was working for 20th Century-Fox and had just completed filming 36 Hours to Kill (1936) when he became engaged to young singer Marjorie Lane, and they married the next year. The marriage produced one child, Judy, but ended in divorce in 1947. It was 19 years before he remarried. In 1966, 'Bela Lugosi's ex-wife Lillian became Mrs. Brian Donlevy, and they were married until his death in 1972. Donlevy had always derived great pleasure from his two diverse interests, gold mining and writing poetry, so it was fitting that after his last film, _Winner, The (1969)_, he retired to Palm Springs, California, where he began to write short stories and had his income well supplemented from a prosperous tungsten mine he owned in California. Having gone in for throat surgery in 1971 he re-entered the Motion Picture County Hospital in Woodland Hills, California on March 10th, 1972. Less than a month later, on April 6, he passed away from cancer.

Trivia random: Played historical figure William Quantrill in two of his films: 'Kansas Raiders' (1950) and 'Woman They Almost Lynched' (1953); the second was not a sequel to the first.

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Keir, Andrew

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Data di nascita: 3 April 1926
Data di morte: 5 October 1997
Coniuge: Joyce Scott::(1977 - ?)

Ultimi lavori:

• Dragonworld: The Legend Continues (1999) (TV) .... Angus [attore]
• The Princess Stallion (1997) (TV) .... Fergus [attore]
• Rob Roy (1995) .... Duke of Argyll [attore]
• Dragonworld (1994) .... Angus McGowan [attore]
• The War That Never Ends (1991) (TV) .... Archidamus [attore]
• The Shell Seekers (1989) (TV) .... Lawrence [attore]
• The One Game (1988) (TV) .... Lord Maine [attore]
• "Wipe Out" (1988) (mini) .... Prof. David Thompson [attore]
• The Party (1987) (TV) .... [attore]
• "First Among Equals" (1986) (mini) .... [attore]

Biografia:
The character actor Andrew Keir (originally Andrew Buggy) was born in 1926 in the coal-mining town of Shotts in Lanarkshire, Scotland, and raised there with his five brothers John, Tom, Michael, Patrick, and Hugh and his sister Maggie. The son of a coal miner, Keir worked in the coal mines from age 14 to 20, at which point he joined the Glasgow Citizen's Theatre to train as an actor. Shortly thereafter, Keir established himself professionally in British theater, television, and film, debuting in The Lady Craved Excitement (1950). His bluff, no-nonsense demeanor was perfect for authoritarian and military roles, especially Roman soldiers, as in Cleopatra (1963), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), and The Viking Queen (1967). He hooked up with Hammer Productions early on (his debut film) and continued the association in a number of horror films, e.g., Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) and Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971). One of his best-known and most popular performances was that of the title role in Quatermass and the Pit (1967). Keir made numerous appearances in television throughout his career, notably in "Adam Smith" (1972) and in the Australian series "The Outsiders" (1976). Keir, true to his heritage, frequently played Scotsmen, especially in the latter part of his career.

Trivia random: Children: Andrew; Maureen; Sean Keir (actor and producer); Deirdre Keir (child actress and producer); Julie T. Wallace (actress).

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Guest, Val

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Nome di battesimo: Guest, Valmond
Data di nascita: 11 December 1911
Data di morte: 10 May 2006
Coniuge: Yolande Donlan::(1954 - 10 May 2006) (his death) 2 children

Ultimi lavori:

• The Boys in Blue (1982) .... [scrittore]
• Dangerous Davies - The Last Detective (1981) .... [scrittore]
• "Shillingbury Tales" (1981) .... [regista]
• "Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson" (1980) .... (unknown episodes) [regista]
• The Shillingbury Blowers (1980) .... [regista]
• Killer Force (1976) .... [scrittore]
• Sporting Chance (1976) (TV) .... [regista]
• Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974) .... [scrittore]
• Mission: Monte Carlo (1974) .... [scrittore]
• Au Pair Girls (1972) .... [scrittore]

Biografia:
Val Guest began his career as an actor on the British stage and in early sound films. He ran the one-man London office of "The Hollywood Reporter" until an encounter with director Marcel Varnel led to a screen writing job at Gainsborough Studios. Guest's directing career began in the early 1940s with a Ministry of Information short about the perils of sneezing (!), an inauspicious start to a lengthy roster of films that includes the science-fiction classics The Quatermass Xperiment (1955), Quatermass 2 (1957), The Abominable Snowman (1957) and The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961). He was married to the actress Yolande Donlan from 1954 until his death in 2006, aged 94.

Trivia random: Son-in-law of James Donlan.
Citazione random: I never had enough money to make any of my films. I just had to use my wits. I came on the set and I was expected to have "instant genius." Over the years of battling against all odds I learned what I could get away with. I've spent my career trying to make inexpensive pictures look more expensive by using "tricks."

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Quatermass and the Pit (1967)

Astronave degli esseri perduti, L'

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Regista: Roy Ward Baker
Scrittore: Nigel Kneale
Genere: Sci-Fi, Horror
Valutazione: 7.4/10 (1693 voti)
Durata: 97 min
Paese: UK
Lingua: English

Cast:

• James Donald .... Dr. Mathew Roney
• Andrew Keir .... Prof. Bernard Quatermass
• Barbara Shelley .... Barbara Judd
• Julian Glover .... Col. Breen
• Duncan Lamont .... Sladden
• Bryan Marshall .... Capt. Potter
• Peter Copley .... Howell
• Edwin Richfield .... Minister of Defense
• Maurice Good .... Sgt. Cleghorn
• Grant Taylor .... Police Sgt. Ellis

Trama:
While digging a new subway line in London, a construction crew discovers first: a skeleton, then what they think is an old World War II German missle. Upon closer examination the "missle" appears to be not of this earth! This movie examines the age old question of how we came to be on this planet. It is suprizingly scary.

Trivia random: Julian Glover was chosen by Roy Ward Baker to play Colonel Breen.
Citazione random: Sladden: [Preparing his drill] I did steel armour plating within six inches thick. Swish - just like that. Oh, it was legal. A bloke got shut in a strong room. But I got him out. It was a secret job like this one.::Col. Breen: Then I'm glad you don't talk about it.

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

pa-pa-pa-PANDEMONIUM!

L'esordiente presunto regista Christian Alvart deve avere un sacco di parenti che gli vogliono bene, se con oltre 28.000 voti su IMDb è riuscito ad assestarsi su una media di 6.9, per il suo Pandorum.

Nata come grande idea (?) post-peperonata nella testolina dello stesso regista, inizialmente venne tentata la via della produzione a basso costo.
A dimostrazione che di ubriachi è pieno il mondo, finì invece nelle mani di un capace produttore che vi investì 33 dannatissimi milioni di dollari (non suoi) e fu così che come per ogni block-buster che si rispetti venne chiamato il grande nome che ti attira frotte di pubblico in sala: Dennis Quaid.
Tom Cruise quella sera era impegnato...
La grande idea, peraltro partorita come primo capitolo di una trilogia, incassò circa un terzo di quanto venne a costare.
C'è sicuramente una morale in tutto ciò, ma preferisco non soffermarmi troppo a pensarci...

Trama davvero innovativa: due tizi - tra cui Quaid, mica pippe - si risvegliano su un'astronave prossima al collasso. Sono dell'equipaggio, ma non ricordano quasi nulla della missione (col senno di poi, lasciare un block notes con un paio di istruzioni poteva essere una idea).
Andando a zonzo scopriranno la verità sulla loro missione (non ci crederete: la Terra era andata in mona), perché non c'è quasi nessuno vivo a bordo (viaggereste voi su un'astronave guidata da Dennis Quaid?), cosa cavolo sono i soliti mostroidi semi-umani che ammazzano tutto ciò che incontrano (spettatori scontenti?) e dove mai sono capitati.

Girato vergognosamente male, specie nelle innumerevoli scene di lotta, ciò che davvero contraddistingue il film è l'ennesima grande prova attoriale di Dennis Quaid, capace qui di mettere in imbarazzo l'intera umanità smentendo l'ultimo milione di anni di evoluzione.
Ah già: anche la signorina dai prosperosi seni anti-gravitazionali ha il suo perché.
Per il resto, solo noia, stupidità e sofferenza.
Complimenti al sottotitolo italiano - "l'universo parallelo" - composto durante una partita a Scarabeo, immagino.

Prossimamente, l'unica cosa per cui valga la pena andare al cinema in questi giorni: Splice. Numi, che bello.

Voto: 2 Trashometro^® 5/10: Fai più male che bene.
Tags: guarda mamma un film con Dennis Quaid, ehi ma quello è Dennis Quaid, fantascienza, horror, thriller, azione, combattimento, lotta, astronave, spazio, missione, ibernazione, risveglio, capsula di salvataggio, motore, esplosione, mostro, mutante, tettona, trash.

Traue, Antje

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Data di nascita: 18 January 1981
Altezza: 5' 6½" (1.69 m)

Ultimi lavori:

• Georgia (2010) .... Zoe [attrice]
• Wave (2010) .... Kate [attrice]
• Pandorum (2009) .... Nadia [attrice]
• Phantomschmerz (2009) .... Anja (uncredited) [attrice]
• Berlin am Meer (2008) .... Estelle [attrice]
• Goldjunge (2006) .... Manuela [attrice]
• Kleinruppin forever (2004) .... Ramona [attrice]
• Die Nacht davor (2003) .... Franziska Teenstätten [attrice]
• Verlorene Kinder (2000) (TV) .... [attrice]

Biografia:
Antje Traue was born on January 18, 1981 in Mittweida/Saxony. While still a pupil, she discovered her stage fever and portrayed "Jeanne d'Arc" in school's theatre. At the age of sixteen, Antje attended a music theatre casting at the International Munich Art Lab for the Hip Hop Musical "West End Opera" and was rewarded with the lead role. For four years she was on stage with the ensemble, touring Germany, Europe and New York City. In 2002 Antje moved to Berlin and played in various films and TV movies such as "Kleinruppin Forever", "Berlin am Meer" and "Phantomschmerz". In 2008 she was invited to audition for the female lead role in the international science fiction film "Pandorum", directed by Christian Alvart. After several auditions and test shootings Antje finally got the part and played her first lead opposite Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster.

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Splice (2009)

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Regista: Vincenzo Natali
Scrittore: Vincenzo Natali, Antoinette Terry Bryant
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Valutazione: 6.5/10 (8502 voti)
Durata: 104 min
Paese: Canada, France, USA
Lingua: English, French

Cast:

• Adrien Brody .... Clive Nicoli
• Sarah Polley .... Elsa Kast
• Delphine Chanéac .... Dren
• Brandon McGibbon .... Gavin Nicoli
• Simona Maicanescu .... Joan Chorot
• David Hewlett .... William Barlow
• Abigail Chu .... Child Dren

Trama:
Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named "Dren", the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators - only to have that bond turn deadly.

Trivia random: The main scientist characters, Clive and Elsa, are named as an homage to Bride of Frankenstein (1935), a similarly themed movie. Colin Clive played Dr. Henry Frankenstein while Elsa Lanchester played Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley/The Bride.
Citazione random: Elsa Kast: [crying] What do you want? What do you want?
Dren: Inside... you...

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Cruise, Tom

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Nome di battesimo: IV, Thomas Cruise Mapother
Data di nascita: 3 July 1962
Altezza: 5' 7" (1.70 m)
Coniuge: Katie Holmes::(18 November 2006 - present) 1 child, Nicole Kidman::(24 December 1990 - 8 August 2001) (divorced) 2 (adopted) children, Mimi Rogers::(9 May 1987 - 4 February 1990) (divorced)

Ultimi lavori:

• The Hardy Men (2013) .... [attore]
• Mission: Impossible IV (2011) .... (producer) [produttore]
• Knight and Day (2010) .... Roy Miller [attore]
• Tropic Thunder (2008) .... Les Grossman - Grossman's Office [attore]
• Valkyrie (2008) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
• Lions for Lambs (2007) .... Senator Jasper Irving [attore]
• Ask the Dust (2006) .... (producer) [produttore]
• Mission: Impossible III (2006) .... (producer) [produttore]
• Elizabethtown (2005) .... (producer) [produttore]
• War of the Worlds (2005) .... Ray Ferrier [attore]

Biografia:
If you had told 14 year old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too distant future he would be considered one of the top 100 movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to become a priest. Nonetheless, this sensitive, deeply religious youngster who was born in July 1962 in Syracuse, New York, was destined to become Tom Cruise, one of the highest paid and most sought after actors in screen history. The only son (among four children) of nomadic parents young Tom spent his boyhood eternally on the move and by the time he was 14 he had attended 15 different schools in the US and Canada. He finally settled in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, with his mother and her new husband. While in high school, he developed an interest in acting and abandoned his plans of becoming a priest, dropped out of school, and at age 18 headed for New York and a possible acting career. The next 15 years of his life are the stuff of legends. He made his film debut with a small part in Endless Love (1981) and from the outset exhibited an undeniable box office appeal to both male and female audiences. Though below average height and not particularly handsome in the traditional sense, within 5 years Tom Cruise was starring in some of the top grossing films of the decade including Top Gun (1986); The Color of Money (1986), Rain Man (1988) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). By the 1990s and 2000s he was one of the highest paid actors in the world earning an average 15 million dollars a picture in such blockbuster hits as Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994), Mission: Impossible (1996), Mission: Impossible II (2000), Mission: Impossible III (2006), Vanilla Sky (2001), Minority Report (2002), The Last Samurai (2003), Collateral (2004), War of the Worlds (2005), and Jerry Maguire (1996) - for which he received an Academy Award Nomination for best actor. In 1990 he renounced his devout Catholic beliefs and embraced The Church Of Scientology claiming that Scientology teachings had cured him of the dyslexia that had plagued him all of his life. A kind and thoughtful man well known for his compassion and generosity, Tom Cruise is one of the best liked members of the movie community. He was married to actress Nicole Kidman until 2001. Thomas Cruise Mapother IV has indeed come a long way from the lonely wanderings of his youth.

Trivia random: Was named the #1 top money-making star at the box office in Quigley Publications annual poll of movie exhibitors a record seven times between 1986 and 2005. Being crowned the top box office champ in 2005 put Cruise one title ahead of Tom Hanks, who has been named #1 at the B.O. six times. Bing Crosby and Burt Reynolds both were named #1 for five consecutive years, and Clint Eastwood also has been #1 five times, but non-consecutively.
Citazione random: I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.
Salario massimo: $20,000,000 against 15%, per Jerry Maguire (1996)

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Pandorum (2009)

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Regista: Christian Alvart
Scrittore: Travis Milloy, Travis Milloy
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Valutazione: 6.9/10 (28154 voti)
Durata: 108 min
Paese: USA, Germany
Lingua: English, Vietnamese, German

Cast:

• Dennis Quaid .... Payton
• Ben Foster .... Bower
• Cam Gigandet .... Gallo
• Antje Traue .... Nadia
• Cung Le .... Manh
• Eddie Rouse .... Leland
• Norman Reedus .... Shepard
• André Hennicke .... Hunter Leader
• Friederike Kempter .... Evalon
• Niels-Bruno Schmidt .... Insane Officer 'Eden'

Trama:
Two crew members are stranded on a spacecraft and quickly - and horrifically - realize they are not alone. Two astronauts awaken in a hyper-sleep chamber aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft. It's pitch black, they are disoriented, and the only sound is a low rumble and creak from the belly of the ship. They can't remember anything: Who are they? What is their mission? With Lt. Payton staying behind to guide him via radio transmitter, Cpl. Bower ventures deep into the ship and begins to uncover a terrifying reality. Slowly the spacecraft's shocking, deadly secrets are revealed...and the astronauts find their own survival is more important than they could ever have imagined.

Trivia random: Pandorum (2009) is the first in a proposed trilogy. But its doubtful the sequels will ever see the light of day due to the first film's low box-office performance.
Citazione random: Nadia: Where's your Lieutenant?
Bower: He's not my Lieutenant.

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Alvart, Christian

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Data di nascita: 28 May 1974

Ultimi lavori:

• 8 Uhr 28 (2010) .... [regista]
• Case 39 (2009) .... [regista]
• Pandorum (2009) .... (story) [scrittore]
• Antikörper (2005) .... (co-producer) [produttore]
• Curiosity & the Cat (1999) .... (writer) [scrittore]

Biografia:
Christian Alvart was born in 1974 near Frankfurt, Germany. His strict Christian background frowned upon films and television and in his childhood he was rarely allowed to see a movie. He developed a fascination and love for the forbidden subject matter and quickly became an "expert" in his circle of friends, successfully hiding that he hadn't seen most of the films they were talking about. Instead, he read about films, their making, the novels or the source material they were based on. When he finally was able to get his hands on films he couldn't stop watching, often going to the cinema six times a week. In 1990 he started making small video and Super-8 films with his friends. The group became part of a network of hobby-filmmakers and geeks. Most of his peers were professionally working in lower positions on movies, creating their own projects in their free time. At the age of 19 Alvart became an editor and layout designer with the X-TRO Filmmagazin, soon working his way up to editor-in-chief and eventually even owning the special interest publication. In 1997, he decided to make his own films again and moved with his company Syrreal Entertainment to Berlin. To get a glance at the world of "professional filmmaking" he started as a runner, soon working his way up again to 1st AD on two features within the same year. In 1998, he wrote, produced and directed Curiosity & The Cat, his first 35mm feature film - a low budget thriller which cost only $30K. Many of his friends from the Frankfurt days were part of the project. The film was nominated for the Max-Ophüls-Award and the Prize of the Minister President of the State Saarland. Alvart then worked as a writer for several German features and TV shows. In 2005, he debuted Antibodies, his second work as a director. When it premiered at The Tribeca Film Festival he was named as one of "Five Directors To Watch" as well as the "German New Face of Cinema" at The AFI Festival. Antibodies was also invited to the Edinburgh Film Festival as well as many others, winning numerous awards.

Trivia random: Wrote the script of "Killer Queen" at the age of sixteen.

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Quaid, Dennis

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Nome di battesimo: Quaid, Dennis William
Data di nascita: 9 April 1954
Altezza: 6' (1.83 m)
Coniuge: Kimberly Quaid::(4 July 2004 - present) 2 children, Meg Ryan::(14 February 1991 - 16 July 2001) (divorced) 1 child, P.J. Soles::(23 November 1978 - 23 January 1983) (divorced)

Ultimi lavori:

• Footloose (2011) .... Rev. Shaw Moore (rumored) [attore]
• Soul Surfer (2011) .... Tom Hamilton [attore]
• The Tent (2011) .... Corey [attore]
• Legion (2010) .... Bob Hanson [attore]
• The Special Relationship (2010) (TV) .... Bill Clinton [attore]
• G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) .... General Abernathy / Hawk [attore]
• Horsemen (2009) .... Det. Aidan J. Breslin [attore]
• Pandorum (2009) .... Payton [attore]
• Smart People (2008) .... Lawrence Wetherhold [attore]
• The Express (2008) .... Ben Schwartzwalder [attore]

Biografia:
Dennis Quaid was born in Houston, Texas, the son of an electrician. He studied drama in high school and in college, but dropped out before completing his studies, moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career. His brother, Randy Quaid, had already began to build a successful career, but Dennis initially had trouble finding work. He began to gain notice when he appeared in Breaking Away (1979) and earned strong reviews for his role in The Right Stuff (1983). Aside from acting, Quaid is also a musician, and plays with his band, the Sharks.

Trivia random: He was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in march 2005 in Austin, Texas.
Citazione random: [On The Express (2008)] At its core, it's about living your life with grace. If God bestows grace upon you, that you should live your life to its full effect. You know, Ernie Davis embodied that in his short life. He touched everybody around him.
Salario massimo: $60,000, per Playing by Heart (1998)

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J.J.'s Star Trek

Di Star Trek ho seguito molto poco la serie classica, ho visto però un buon numero di film, quasi tutta The Next Generation ed Enterprise (e mi sono piaciute molto) mentre ho sempre evitato gli altri spin-off.

Avevo una certa fiducia in J.J. Abrams, sperandolo capace di produrre qualcosa di "simile ma diverso", che desse nuova linfa ad una serie seminale per la fantascienza.
Larga parte delle mie aspettative sono andate deluse, ed inizio seriamente a pensare che l'amico J.J. abbia perso il tocco (non che a dirigere sia mai stato un mago, ma almeno in teoria sapeva scrivere: ultimamente mi pare davvero sotto-tono).
Intendiamoci: Star Trek è un film più o meno decente, sicuramente sopra la media se consideriamo la - ad essere buoni altalenante - qualità degli altri film della saga. Però ha tanti e tali difetti che gridano letteralmente vendetta, e che avrebbero richiesto ben poco sforzo, per essere corretti.

Trama: ennesimo stravolgimento temporale (che torna buono come scusa per cambiare molto degli inizi di Star Trek) in cui un allegro minatore Romulano torna indietro nel tempo per vendicarsi del caro vecchio Spock, disintegrando il pianeta Vulcano. Contro di lui viene mandata allo sbaraglio una marea di ragazzini che hanno a malapena finito l'accademia, mentre il grosso della flotta si gratta i didimi altrove.

Mi sta bene che si sia voluto cambiare un po' della personalità dei personaggi per adeguarli ai gusti moderni, ed alla fin fine sia Kirk che Spock risultano decenti, mi sta molto meno bene che si prediligano azione, gags e passo veloce ad una buona trama.
Sì perché Star Trek non ha una trama degna di questo nome, diciamolo: il cattivo è quanto di peggio potesse essere scelto (un fottuto minatore incazzereccio che dio sa come c'ha l'astronave più fica del creato e che riesce addirittura a portarla indietro nel tempo; gli altri almeno facevano fatica...) mentre gli eventi si susseguono senza troppa logica al sol fine di far diventare Kirk comandante nel tempo di un peto.
Lo so, lo so, a qualcuno sarà venuto un coccolone, ma... Old Spock incontrato tra i ghiacci dopo 5 minuti? L'intera flotta al mare? Astronavi che partono con solo cadetti (capitano a parte)? Scotty che salta fuori per magia? Potrei continuare a piacere.
Menzione di demerito per gli intermezzi comici: ne accetto un paio a film se fatti con classe, qui davvero si esagera (unica decente: l'accenno al beagle di Jonathan Archer ) ed alcuni personaggi sono macchiette.
Se questi sono i gusti che soddisfano il pubblico giovane (e si direbbe sia così, almeno in America), siamo messi parecchio male.

Mediamente scarsini gli interpreti (a che pro Winona Ryder?), la regia non brilla ma non fa neppure troppi danni, fetentine le scazzottate ed i mostri che se J.J. non ce li mette non è proprio contento, si vede. Bruttissima la nuova sala macchine dell'Enterprise.

Cosa si salva? Come detto, salvicchio Kirk, Uhura se non altro per motivi estetici ed ho apprezzato il nuovo Spock; folgorante l'inizio con il padre di Kirk; ottimi gli effetti speciali: l'Enterprise in costruzioni è un piacere per gli occhi.

Voto: 6. Si lascia guardare, per carità, ma da qui a considerarlo un capolavoro...
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Ryder, Winona

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Nome di battesimo: Horowitz, Winona Laura
Data di nascita: 29 October 1971
Altezza: 5' 4" (1.63 m)

Ultimi lavori:

• Alpha Numeric (2010) .... Tea Baker [attrice]
• Star Trek (2009) .... Amanda Grayson [attrice]
• Stay Cool (2009) .... Scarlet Smith [attrice]
• The Informers (2009) .... Cheryl Laine [attrice]
• The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009) .... Sandra Dulles [attrice]
• The Last Word (2008/I) .... Charlotte [attrice]
• Water Pills (2008) .... Carrie [attrice]
• Sex and Death 101 (2007) .... Death Nell / Gillian De Raisx [attrice]
• The Ten (2007) .... Kelly La Fonda [attrice]
• Welcome (2007/II) .... Cynthia [attrice]

Biografia:
Winona Ryder was born Winona Horowitz and named after the town in which she was born, Winona Minnesota. She grew up in a ranch commune in Northern California where there was no electricity. She is the Goddaughter of Timothy Leary and her parents were friends of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg and once edited a book called "Shaman Woman Mainline Lady" an anthology of writings on the drug experience in literature - this included one piece by Louisa May Alcott. Winona Ryder was later to star as Jo in this author's Little Women (1994). She moved with her parents to Petaluma (near San Francisco) when she was ten and enrolled in acting classes at the American Conservatory Theater. At 13 she had a video audition to the film Desert Bloom (1986), but didn't get the part. Director David Seltzer, however, spotted her and cast her in Lucas (1986). When telephoned to ask how she'd like to have her name appear on the credits, she suggested Ryder as her father's Mitch Ryder album was playing the background. Ryder was selected for the part of Mary Corleone in The Godfather: Part III (1990), but had to drop out of the role after catching the flu from the strain of doing the films Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990) and Mermaids (1990) back to back. She said she didn't want to let everyone down by doing a substandard performance. She later made The Age of Innocence (1993) which was directed by Martin Scorsese, who she believes to be "the best director in the world".

Trivia random: Turned down the lead role in Sabrina (1995) because she felt she could not fill Audrey Hepburn's shoes and that the role was marked by sexism. [1994]
Citazione random: Focus should be on the art of film, not on the business of film.
Salario massimo: $2,800,000, per Alien: Resurrection (1997)

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

"Enterprise" (2001)

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Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Action
Valutazione: 7.3/10 (5367 voti)
Durata: USA:60::(including commercials) min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English, Klingon

Cast:

• Scott Bakula .... Captain Jonathan Archer / ...
• Jolene Blalock .... Sub-Commander T'Pol / ...
• Dominic Keating .... Lieutenant Malcolm Reed / ...
• John Billingsley .... Dr. Phlox (98 episodes, 2001-2005)
• Anthony Montgomery .... Ensign Travis Mayweather / ...
• Linda Park .... Ensign Hoshi Sato / ...
• Connor Trinneer .... Commander Charles 'Trip' Tucker III (98 episodes, 2001-2005)
• Mark Correy .... Engineer Alex (43 episodes, 2001-2005)

Trama:
In the early twenty-second century, the starship Enterprise is launched. Her mission is to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations and to boldly go where no humans have gone before. Along with an alien chief medical officer and first officer, this crew with only NASA-level training and what the Vulcans know of local space, begin to explore and begin the legacy set for other Enterprise crews and captains like Robert April, Christopher Pike, James Kirk, John Harriman, Rachel Garrett, Jean-Luc Picard, William Riker, Edward Jellico and others.

Trivia random: It had been reported that NBC, the network that carried the original "Star Trek" (1966), was interested in acquiring this series, but lost out to UPN.
Citazione random: Commander Tucker: Grandma taught me never to judge a species by their eating habits.

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Star Trek (2009)

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Regista: J.J. Abrams
Scrittore: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Action
Valutazione: 8.6/10 (34960 voti) [#62 nella top250]
Durata: 126 min
Paese: USA, Germany
Lingua: English

Cast:

• Chris Pine .... James T. Kirk
• Zachary Quinto .... Spock
• Leonard Nimoy .... Spock Prime
• Eric Bana .... Nero
• Bruce Greenwood .... Capt. Christopher Pike
• Karl Urban .... Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy
• Zoe Saldana .... Nyota Uhura
• Simon Pegg .... Scotty
• John Cho .... Hikaru Sulu
• Anton Yelchin .... Pavel Chekov

Trama:
A chronicle of the early days of James T. Kirk and his fellow USS Enterprise crew members.

Trivia random: SPOILER: An ongoing joke in the Star Trek universe is the redshirt character, a slang term for a stock character whose primary purpose in the plot of a story is to die soon after being introduced, thus demonstrating the dangerous circumstances faced by the main characters. When Kirk and Sulu jump on to the space drill, they are joined by Olsen who is wearing a red uniform and meets his death soon after.
Citazione random: Spock: [to Kirk] Out of the chair.

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Saldana, Zoe

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Nome di battesimo: Nazario, Zoe Yadira Zaldaña
Data di nascita: 19 June 1978
Altezza: 5' 7" (1.70 m)

Ultimi lavori:

• The Losers (2011) .... Aisha [attrice]
• Death at a Funeral (2010) .... [attrice]
• Takers (2010) .... [attrice]
• Avatar (2009) .... Neytiri [attrice]
• Burning Palms (2009) .... Sarah Cotton [attrice]
• Star Trek (2009) .... Nyota Uhura [attrice]
• The Skeptic (2009) .... Cassie [attrice]
• Vantage Point (2008) .... Angie Jones (as Zoë Saldana) [attrice]
• After Sex (2007) .... Kat [attrice]
• Blackout (2007/III) .... Claudine [attrice]

Biografia:
Zoe Saldana was born Zoe Yadira Zaldaña Nazario in New Jersey, moved to the Dominican Republic for 7 years and studied ballet there at Ritmos Espacio de Danza academy (actually known as "ECOS Espacio de Danza Dance Academy), and then went back to the United States to continue her career. In New York she studied acting at the Faces theater program and after that got her first role of relevance in the movie Center Stage (2000/I).

Trivia random: In The Terminal (2004), Saldana's character Torres is revealed to be a Trekkie. Saldana went on to be cast as Uhura in Star Trek (2009).
Citazione random: When I go to the D.R., the press in Santo Domingo always asks, "¿Qué te consideras, dominicana o americana?" (What do you consider yourself, Dominican or American?) I don't understand it, and it's the same people asking the same question. So I say, time and time again, "Yo soy una mujer negra." ("I am a black woman.") [They go,] "Oh, no, tú eres trigueñita." ("Oh no, you are 'dark skinned'") I'm like, "No! Let's get it straight, yo soy una mujer negra." ("I am a black woman.")

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

"Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987)

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Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Action
Valutazione: 8.8/10 (9673 voti)
Durata: 45::(176 episodes) min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English, Klingon, French

Cast:

• Patrick Stewart .... Captain Jean-Luc Picard / ...
• Jonathan Frakes .... Commander William T. Riker / ...
• LeVar Burton .... Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge / ...
• Marina Sirtis .... Counselor Deanna Troi (176 episodes, 1987-1994)
• Brent Spiner .... Lt. Commander Data / ...
• Michael Dorn .... Lieutenant Worf / ...
• Gates McFadden .... Doctor Beverly Crusher / ...
• Majel Barrett .... Enterprise Computer / ...
• Wil Wheaton .... Wesley Crusher / ...

Trama:
Set in the 24th century and decades after the adventures of the original crew of the starship Enterprise, this new series is the long-awaited successor to the original "Star Trek" (1966). Under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, the all new Enterprise NCC 1701-D travels out to distant planets to seek out new life and to boldly go where no one has gone before.

Trivia random: Each of the three live-action Star Trek series after the original "Star Trek" (1966) has had a cameo appearance by a character from its predecessor series in its premiere episode: "Star Trek: The Next Generation" had Dr. McCoy, "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993) had Captain Picard, and "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995) had Quark.
Citazione random: Lt. Cmdr. Data: If the warp drive fails to activate, the results could be... unfortunate.<br />Lieutenant Worf: Very unfortunate. We will be dead.

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Abrams, J.J.

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Nome di battesimo: Abrams, Jeffrey Jacob
Data di nascita: 27 June 1966
Altezza: 5' 7" (1.70 m)
Coniuge: Katie McGrath::(1996 - present) 3 children

Ultimi lavori:

• Untitled Star Trek Sequel (2011) .... (producer) [produttore]
• Morning Glory (2010) .... (producer) [produttore]
• Anatomy of Hope (2009) (TV) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
• Star Trek (2009) .... (producer) [produttore]
• Untitled Hunter Scott Project (2009) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
• Cloverfield (2008) .... (producer) [produttore]
• Lost: Via Domus (2008) (VG) .... (creator) [scrittore]
• Mission: Impossible III (2006) .... (written by) [scrittore]
• The Catch (2005) (TV) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
• Alias (2004) (VG) .... (creator) [scrittore]

Trivia random: Sold his script for "Forever Young" (1992) for 2 million dollars.
Citazione random: Directing's the best part. Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like. And secondly, it means that you've gotten through all the writing stuff, and the producing stuff, and casting, and prep, and all those stages that are seemingly endless. So directing is sort of the reward for all the work you put in before. And then there's the editing, which is another amazing stage of the process. It's incredible the moments you can create.

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

"Star Trek" (1966)

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Genere: Sci-Fi, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Valutazione: 8.6/10 (6607 voti)
Durata: 47::(79 episodes) min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English

Cast:

• Leonard Nimoy .... Mr. Spock / ...
• William Shatner .... Captain James T. Kirk / ...
• DeForest Kelley .... Dr. McCoy (76 episodes, 1966-1969)
• Nichelle Nichols .... Uhura (68 episodes, 1966-1969)
• James Doohan .... Scott / ...
• Eddie Paskey .... Lt. Leslie / ...
• Bill Blackburn .... Lt. Hadley / ...
• George Takei .... Sulu (51 episodes, 1966-1969)
• Frank da Vinci .... Lt. Brent / ...
• Walter Koenig .... Chekov (36 episodes, 1967-1969)

Trama:
The adventures of the U.S.S. Enterprise, representing the United Federation of Planets on a five-year mission in outer space to explore new worlds, seek new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man has gone before. The Enterprise is commanded by handsome and brash Captain James T. Kirk. His First Officer and best friend is Mr. Spock from the planet Vulcan, and Kirk's Medical Officer is Dr. McCoy. With its crew of approximately 430, the Enterprise battles aliens, megalomanical computers, time paradoxes, psychotic murderers, and even Genghis Khan!

Trivia random: Recently, James Doohan's son attempted to purchase a life-sized wax replica of his father at a Hollywood wax museum auction, but was outbid by an unidentified fan.
Citazione random: Spock: While there was a chance, I was bound legally and morally to ascertain the Captain's status.<br />McCoy: You mean, to make sure he was dead.

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

wall-e

WALL·E è la perfezione fatta cinema. Punto.
Andate a vederlo. SU-BI-TO.

Ultimamente la Pixar mi aveva fatto temere d'aver intrapreso un nuovo corso un po' banale e sempliciotto (vedi Ratatouille e Cars, che pure - chiariamo - non erano brutti film in sé), sotto l'ombrello di una Disney in cronica crisi di idee.
Personalmente, consideravo Gli Incredibili il loro punto più alto (sì, anche più di capolavori come Finding Nemo e Toy Story 2), per la complessità della trama e la maturità dei temi affrontati.
Non lo pensavo superabile, specie viste le ultime produzioni, ma mi devo ricredere: come film WALL-E è meglio degli Incredibili (forse persino molto meglio); non che abbia molto senso fare simili paragoni essendo estremamente diversi come stile e genere, e forse Gli Incredibili resta il film che mi riguarderò più volentieri, ma santi numi: se non si fosse capito, WALL-E è uno dei migliori film di tutti i tempi.

La trama (ma perché leggerla? Tanto DOVETE vederlo ): la Terra è al collasso per l'eccesso di rifiuti, unica - pigra - soluzione trovata è il partire su una flotta di astronavi extra-lusso per una crociera di cinque anni, mentre sul pianeta una torma di WALL-E (piccoli compattatori di rifiuti cingolati) ripulisce il mondo.
Settecento anni dopo la crociera è ancora in corso, e nessuno si preoccupa minimamente di ritornare indietro, troppo impegnati a godersi le comodità di un mondo popolato da robot apparentemente al proprio servizio.
Sulla Terra il piano è fallito, ed un unico WALL-E resta ancora in funzione; nei secoli ha imparato ad auto-ripararsi, e la costante esposizione agli oggetti umani (soprattutto una consunta videocassetta di Hello, Dolly!) lo ha portato a sviluppare una malinconica solitudine.
L'arrivo di una sonda inviata alla ricerca di segni che il pianeta è di nuovo abitabile, spezzerà la sua monotona routine.

Solitudine, sentimenti e voglia di (e difficoltà a) relazionarsi, WALL-E è una storia d'amore.
Poi... siete di quelli che vogliono a tutti i costi trovare in tutto un messaggio socialmente edificante, che altrimenti Non È Una Cosa Seria^®? Prego, accomodatevi: messaggio ambientalista, critica all'eccesso di consumismo, inaridimento dei rapporti umani e necessità di autodeterminazione. Tutto quel che volete e di cui va di moda chiacchierare e dichiararsi paladini, e anche di più (impegnandosi un po', qualcosa contro la guerra in Iraq uno allenato lo trova di sicuro). E non lo dico per dare un contentino: tutte queste cose ci sono e sono importanti e bene evidenti nell'economia del film, che però resta una storia d'amore. Una delle più belle mai raccontate, per la precisione.

Sceneggiatura a dir poco coraggiosa (il film è in larga parte muto), regia superba ed impeccabile, tutto concorre alla creazione di un capolavoro in cui non sposterei una virgola; sono bellissimi perfino i titoli di coda e l'intricatissima società robotica che popola l'astronave.
Oh, e per inciso: si ride anche parecchio, nel caso a qualcuno fosse venuto il dubbio.

Dell'aspetto tecnico inutile anche parlarne: la Pixar sposta di nuovo l'asticella in una gara che da quando è stata fondata è solo contro se stessa.
L'espressività dei protagonisti è qualcosa di commovente.

Ultima raccomandazione: NON portateci i bambini; ci saranno eccezioni e bimbi che si divertiranno a vederlo, ma non è un film per loro - specie la prima lunghissima prima parte in cui nessuno parla. Certo, un buon numero di gag visive ci sono (anche se molte prevedono un minimo di conoscenza), ma è un film che prevede una certa maturità.

Simpatico il corto del prestigiatore e del coniglio all'inizio, anche se One Man Band resta insuperato.

Voto: da 10 in su. Tenero e toccante, se non vi commuove fino alle lacrime siete il mostro di Dusseldorf!
Tags: capolavoro, Pixar, animazione, amore, sentimento, fantascienza, commedia, avventura, robot, computer, Terra, rifiuti, spazzatura, rifiuti, astronave, capitano, società robotica, arma, pianta, laser, crociera, riparazione, distopia, futuro, fulmine, scarafaggio, ambiente, ammutinamento, consumismo, ballo, agricoltura.

Incredibles, The (2004)

Incredibili, Gli

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Regista: Brad Bird
Scrittore: Brad Bird
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Animation
Valutazione: 8.1/10 (117177 voti) [#162 nella top250]
Durata: 115 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: Spanish, English, French

Cast:

• Craig T. Nelson .... Bob Parr / Mr. Incredible (voice)
• Holly Hunter .... Helen Parr / Elastigirl (voice)
• Samuel L. Jackson .... Lucius Best / Frozone (voice)
• Jason Lee .... Buddy Pine / Syndrome (voice)
• Dominique Louis .... Bomb Voyage (voice)
• Teddy Newton .... Newsreel Narrator (voice)
• Jean Sincere .... Mrs. Hogenson (voice)
• Eli Fucile .... Jack Jack Parr (voice)
• Maeve Andrews .... Jack Jack Parr (voice)
• Wallace Shawn .... Gilbert Huph (voice)

Trama:
Mr. Incredible (A.K.A. Bob Parr), and his wife Helen (A.K.A. Elastigirl), are the world's greatest famous crime-fighting superheroes in Metroville. Always saving lives and battling evil on a daily basis. But fifteen years later, they have been forced to adopt civilian identities and retreat to the suburbs where they have no choice but to retire of being a superhero and force to live a "normal life" with their three children Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack (who were secretly born with superpowers). Itching to get back into action, Bob gets his chance when a mysterious communication summons him to a remote island for a top secret assignment. He soon discovers that it will take a super family effort to rescue the world from total destruction.

Trivia random: When Buddy first meets Mr. Incredible, he has put on a hero mask and filled in the area around his eyes with a blue marker. A similar technique was used in all the Batman films to make the eyes of the actor more visible against the black mask.
Citazione random: [a captured Mr. Incredible is begging Syndrome to call off the attack on Helen's jet]::Mr. Incredible: No! Call off the missiles. I'll do anything!::Syndrome: Too late! Fifteen years too late.

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

WALL·E (2008)

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Regista: Andrew Stanton
Scrittore: Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi, Animation
Valutazione: 8.7/10 (79455 voti) [#31 nella top250]
Durata: 98 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English

Cast:

• Ben Burtt .... WALL•E / M-O (voice)
• Elissa Knight .... EVE (voice)
• Jeff Garlin .... Captain (voice)
• Fred Willard .... Shelby Forthright - BnL CEO
• MacInTalk .... AUTO (voice)
• John Ratzenberger .... John (voice)
• Kathy Najimy .... Mary (voice)
• Sigourney Weaver .... Ship's Computer (voice)
• Kim Kopf .... Hoverchair Mother (voice)

Trama:
In a distant, but not so unrealistic future, where mankind has abandoned earth because it has become covered with trash from products sold by the powerful multi-national Buy N Large corporation, WALL-E, a garbage collecting robot has been left to clean up the mess. Mesmerized with trinkets of earth's history and show tunes, WALL-E is alone on Earth except for a sprightly pet cockroach. One day, Eve, a sleek (and dangerous) reconnaissance robot, is sent to earth to find proof that life is once again sustainable. WALL-E falls in love with Eve. WALL-E rescues Eve from a dust storm and shows her a living plant he found amongst the rubble. Consistent with her "directive" Eve takes the plant and automatically enters a deactivated state except for a blinking green beacon. WALL-E, doesn't understand what has happened to his new friend, but true to his love, he protects her from wind, rain, and lightening, even as she is unresponsive. One day a massive ship comes to reclaim Eve, but WALL-E, out of love or loneliness hitches a ride on the outside of the ship to rescue Eve. The ship arrives back at a large space cruise ship, which is carrying all of the humans who evacuated earth 700 years earlier. The people of earth ride around this space resort on hovering chairs which give them a constant feed of TV and video chatting. They drink all of their meals through a straw out of laziness and/or bone loss, and are all so fat that they can barely move. When the auto-pilot computer, acting on hastily given instructions sent many centuries before, tries to prevent the people of earth from returning, by stealing the plant, WALL-E, Eve, the portly captain, and a band of broken robots stage a mutiny.

Trivia random: The protocol that AUTO is programmed to follow is A113, a reference to the animation room at the California Institute of the Arts, where many of the Pixar animators studied.
Citazione random: Mary: [Mary is looking at the stars outside the Axiom while other passengers pass idly by] Oh! So many stars! Ah.::[she sees WALL-E and EVE flying around outside.]::Mary: Oh! Hey! That's what's-his-name!::[backs up, bumps into John]::John: Hey! What the-?::Mary: Look! Look look look!::[she shuts off his chair and screen, making him aware of his surroundings]::John: Huh? What?::[sees WALL-E and EVE]::John: Hey... I know that guy! It's uh, uh... Wally! That's it! Hey - Wally! It's your buddy John!::Mary: [simultaneously] Hey! Hi, Wally!::[John casually puts his right hand upon Mary's.]::John: [looks down, somewhat surprised; looks up at Mary, smiles] Hi.::Mary: [smiles] Hi.

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Toy Story 2 (1999)

Toy Story 2 - Woody e Buzz alla riscossa

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Regista: John Lasseter, Ash Brannon
Scrittore: John Lasseter, Pete Docter
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Animation
Valutazione: 8.0/10 (88076 voti)
Durata: 92 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English

Cast:

• Tom Hanks .... Woody (voice)
• Tim Allen .... Buzz Lightyear (voice)
• Joan Cusack .... Jessie, the Yodeling Cowgirl (voice)
• Kelsey Grammer .... Stinky Pete the Prospector (voice)
• Don Rickles .... Mr. Potato Head (voice)
• Jim Varney .... Slinky Dog (voice)
• Wallace Shawn .... Rex the Green Dinosaur (voice)
• John Ratzenberger .... Hamm the Piggy Bank (voice)
• Annie Potts .... Bo Peep (voice)
• Wayne Knight .... Al the Toy Collector (voice)

Trama:
While Andy is away at summer camp Woody has been toynapped by Al McWiggin, a greedy collector and proprietor of "Al's Toy Barn"! In this all-out rescue mission, Buzz and his friends Mr. Potato Head, Slinky Dog, Rex and Hamm springs into action to rescue Woody from winding up as a museum piece. They must find a way to save him before he gets sold in Japan forever and they'll never see him again!

Trivia random: After Rex jumps out of the car in Al's Toy Barn to chase after the Zurg help book, he runs to catch the car. Mr. Potato Head views him in the review mirror - a reference to Jurassic Park (1993) when the T-Rex chases the crew in the jeep.
Citazione random: Woody: Jessie, let go of the plane!::Jessie: What? Are you crazy?::Woody: Just pretend it's the final episode of Woody's Roundup.::Jessie: But it was cancelled! We never saw if you made it!::Woody: Well, then, let's find out together!

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Finding Nemo (2003)

Alla ricerca di Nemo

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Regista: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
Scrittore: Andrew Stanton, Andrew Stanton
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Animation
Valutazione: 8.2/10 (120205 voti) [#152 nella top250]
Durata: 100 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English

Cast:

• Albert Brooks .... Marlin (voice)
• Ellen DeGeneres .... Dory (voice)
• Alexander Gould .... Nemo (voice)
• Willem Dafoe .... Gill (voice)
• Brad Garrett .... Bloat (voice)
• Allison Janney .... Peach (voice)
• Austin Pendleton .... Gurgle (voice)
• Stephen Root .... Bubbles (voice)
• Vicki Lewis .... Deb / Flo (voice)
• Joe Ranft .... Jacques (voice)

Trama:
Life along the Great Barrier Reef is full of dangers when you are a tiny clown fish. And for Marlin, a single parent determined to protect his only son Nemo, there are constant fears and anxieties. When, on his first day of school, Nemo defies his father and swims off alone to investigate a boat, he is suddenly scooped up by a diver as Marlin helplessly watches. Marlin turns desperate as he frantically swims off in search for his son. As he passes a school of fish he bumps into Dory, an agreeable blue tang with severe short-term memory loss, who offers to help. Together this aquatic odd couple set out on an impossible mission, finding themselves in troubled waters and contending with such hazards as sharks, deadly angler fishes and a forest of jellyfish. Meanwhile, in a dentist's office overlooking Sydney Harbor, Nemo has landed in a fish tank that is home to a colorful group of characters who want to initiate him into their gang. When word of Marlin and Dory's ocean adventures gets back to Nemo, he is so thrilled to learn of his father's search for him that he becomes motivated to move forward with a daring escape plan of his own.

Trivia random: John Lasseter considered Danny Elfman to score the film. When he turned it down Hans Zimmer was asked, but he turned it down as well.
Citazione random: Lobster: ...and it was like wicked dark down there. How's it going Bob?...

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Stanton, Andrew (I)

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Nome di battesimo: Jr., Andrew Christopher Stanton
Data di nascita: 3 December 1965

Ultimi lavori:

• John Carter of Mars (2012) .... (screenplay) [scrittore]
• Presto (2008) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
• WALL·E (2008) .... (original story) (screenplay) [scrittore]
• Cars Mater-National (2007) (VG) .... Fred (voice) [attore]
• Ratatouille (2007) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
• Cars (2006) .... Fred (voice) [attore]
• The Incredibles (2004) .... Additional Voices (voice) [attore]
• Exploring the Reef (2003) (V) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
• Extreme Skate Adventure (2003) (VG) .... (voice) [attore]
• Finding Nemo (2003) .... (screenplay) (story) [scrittore]

Trivia random: Joined Pixar in 1990 as its second animator and ninth employee.
Citazione random: We were always frustrated that people saw CG as a genre as opposed to just a medium that could tell any kind of story. We felt like we widened the palette with Toy Story (1995) but then people unconsciously put CG back in a different box: 'Well, it's got to be irreverent, it's got to have A-list actors, it's got to have talking animals.'

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Hello, Dolly! (1969)

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Regista: Gene Kelly
Scrittore: Ernest Lehman, Michael Stewart
Genere: Romance, Comedy, Musical, Family, Romance
Valutazione: 6.7/10 (3440 voti)
Durata: 146 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English

Cast:

• Barbra Streisand .... Dolly Levi
• Walter Matthau .... Horace Vandergelder
• Michael Crawford .... Cornelius Hackl
• Marianne McAndrew .... Irene Molloy
• Danny Lockin .... Barnaby Tucker
• E.J. Peaker .... Minnie Fay
• Joyce Ames .... Ermengarde Vandergelder
• Tommy Tune .... Ambrose Kemper
• Judy Knaiz .... Gussie Granger / Ernestina Simple
• David Hurst .... Rudolph Reisenweber

Trama:
A matchmaker named Dolly Levi takes a trip to Yonkers, New York to see the "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire," Horace Vandergelder. While there, she convinces him, his two stock clerks and his niece and her beau to go to New York City. In New York, she fixes Vandergelder's clerks up with the woman Vandergelder had been courting, and her shop assistant (Dolly has designs of her own on Mr. Vandergelder, you see).

Trivia random: Also in the original musical, Cornelius Hackl and the Widow Molloy sing "It Only Takes a Moment" in the courtroom during Horace Vandergelder's trial; in the movie, however, they sing "It Only Takes a Moment" in Central Park. The entire arrest and trial sequence was dropped for the movie version.
Citazione random: Dolly Levi: Hello! Hello there, how are you? Oh Hello!::Horace: You know too many people.::Dolly Levi: Total strangers!::Horace: Then why do you greet them?::Dolly Levi: It makes me feel good to have so many friends.::Horace: Oh, say hello for me too then.::Dolly Levi: I already did.

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.