The Darkling: un giovane padre di famiglia fatica a mantenere la moglie e la figlioletta con il proprio stipendio di cuoco in una tavola calda; l'incontro apparentemente casuale con un ricco collezionista di auto d'epoca gli cambierà la vita: d'ora in avanti dovrà curare il restauro dei pezzi più pregiati, destinati alla vendita in aste clandestine.
Dopo la morte della moglie in un incidente stradale, la vita del giovane viene sconvolta e, per soldi, decide di vendersi e truccare i numeri di telaio di alcune auto.
Lo stolto non sa di essersi appena venduto l'anima: ben presto il riccone lo inizia al magico segreto della sua fortuna: il darkling.
Dicesi "darkling"... il feto parlante del video Teardrops dei Massive Attack rinchiuso in una gabbietta per uccelli; per la precisione in fetuncolo è fin troppo parlante e parecchio rompiballe, e perseguita il giovane lusingandolo e spingendolo a compiere azioni malvagie con la prospettiva di ottenere fama e denaro.
Triplo YAWN carpiato per questo pseudo-horror moraleggiante per la TV, che si distingue solo per la presenza di vecchie auto americane indicibilmente tamarre.
Voto: 2. Trashometro® 1/10: (brutto e noioso a livelli patologici)
E si ringrazia Enrico per aver segnalato questo meraviglioso titolo che andrà recuperato.
domenica 30 luglio 2006
venerdì 28 luglio 2006
R.I.P.
In Pet Sematary II (anche Cimitero Vivente 2), la mamma di Edward Furlong (il sempre impresentabile bambozzo di Terminator 2) tira le cuoia; il paparino veterinario (già dottor Mark Greene di ER, già Goose di Top Gun, già tri-lambda di La Rivincita Dei Nerds) prende baracca e burattini e si trasferisce in una ridente cittadina, dove il figlio - che comunque non si strugge di dolore - possa superare questo difficile momento nella maniera tipica degli americani: trasloco + cane o gatto nuovo + bulli della scuola che ti pestano per bene.
Qui farà più o meno amicizia con un panzone vessato dal patrigno poliziotto.
Quando lo sbirro spara al cane del ciccione, i due ragazzi lo seppelliscono nelle vicinanze di casa, dove si trova un vecchio cimitero indiano che secondo le leggende ha il potere di resuscitare chi vi viene sepolto (che è anche una brillante soluzione al problema della carenza di aree cimiteriali).
Va da sé che il cane resuscita come macchina da guerra, e prontamente sbrana il poliziotto.
I due intraprendenti ragazzuoli con un futuro da becchini, seppelliscono pure lui, che ritorna morto, violento e gioviale allo stesso tempo.
Colti dal sacro fuoco del metodo scientifico empirico, seppelliscono pure la mamma di Furlong che - ingrata come pochi - resuscita pure lei malvagia.
Scontro finale con Furlong. Per dire il livello...
Filmetto di serie B, senza neppure un momento originale e non abbastanza splatter per divertire. L'unico personaggio quasi decente è il poliziotto morto, per il quale tutti noi facciamo il tifo.
Voto: 4.5 Trashometro® 4/10:
Nome di battesimo: Furlong, Edward Walter
Data di nascita: 2 August 1977
Altezza: 5' 7" (1.70 m)
Ultimi lavori:
Biografia:
Born in Glendale, California, Edward Furlong had no acting ambitions until he was approached by casting agent Mali Finn, who was looking for a young actor to play the role of John Conner in what turned out to be one of the the biggest box-office hits of the 1990s, Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). Finn instantly recognized his ability, and suggested him for the part, feeling that he could hold his own playing opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton.For his career-starting role, Furlong earned an MTV movie award for best breakthrough role, and a Saturn Sci-Fi award for best young actor. From there, he took an unconventional route through Hollywood, which led to his working with some of the top people in the business, in both studio and independent films. His work has included starring opposite Jeff Bridges in American Heart (1992) for which he was nominated for an IFP Spirit award for best supporting actor. He has also starred in A Home of Our Own (1993) with Kathy Bates, Little Odessa (1994) with Tim Roth, The Grass Harp (1995) with Walter Matthau and Barbet Schroeder's Before and After (1996).He also starred opposite Edward Norton in Tony Kaye's controversial and gripping drama American History X (1998) and in the hit comedy Pecker (1998). More recently, Furlong has been opposite Willem Dafoe in the prison drama Animal Factory (2000), directed by Steve Buscemi. He recently starred in Pupi Avati's 11th-century tale, Cavalieri che fecero l'impresa, I (2001) ("The Knights of the Quest").
Trivia random: In 1992, he launched a successful music career in Japan and is still extremely popular with Japanese girls today. His debut song "Hold On Tight" even beat Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" to #1 on the Japanese charts.
Citazione random: "I enjoy playing people that are totally different than me. It's a challenge to get inside these people's heads and wonder why they would have these beliefs."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Nome di battesimo: Edwards, Anthony Charles
Data di nascita: 19 July 1962
Altezza: 6' 2" (1.88 m)
Coniuge: Jeanine Lobell::(1994 - present) 4 children
Ultimi lavori:
Biografia:
Born to a well-blended family, Anthony Edwards was born in Santa Barbara, California, on July 19, 1962, the youngest of 5 children. Growing up as the son of an architect and an artist, his parents encouraged him to act at age 16, which eventually led him to attending a summer workshop in London before graduating from high school. Returning to the United States, Edwards worked in commercials, jobs that helped him pay his education at The University of Southern California where he studied acting. However, he dropped out of college, and in that same year, he had a small role in the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), starring Sean Penn. The movie was a box office smash and Edwards was looking forward to doing more films. His very first movie role was that of teen-aged John Muldowney in Heart Like a Wheel (1983), and his first starring role as nerdy Gilbert Lowell, in Revenge of the Nerds (1984). Edwards didn't need to worry about being typecast as a socially-challenged loser. After starring in The Sure Thing (1985) and Gotcha! (1985), he landed another big-time successful movie Top Gun (1986), in which he played Tom Cruise's ill-fated easy going navigator/best friend, Lt. Nick "Goose" Bradshaw. As Cruise rode "Top Gun" into the Hollywood stratosphere, Edwards also found his flight to stardom, at the same time. After "Top Gun", he reprized his role as Gilbert in the movie Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987), before he starred in Summer Heat (1987). He also featured in Mr. North (1988), and Miracle Mile (1988), however they weren't too successful. He began working in TV movies and continued to star in more box office movies such as Hawks (1988), How I Got Into College (1989), Downtown (1990), Pet Sematary II (1992), Landslide (1992) and Delta Heat (1992). The 90s won Edwards his best reviews for his recurring role of the quirky "bubble man" Mike Monroe on the immensely-popular "Northern Exposure" (1990). He was nominated for a Cable Ace Award in HBO's Sexual Healing (1993), and the following year, he starred in Charlie's Ghost Story (1994), before he played lawyer Clint Von Hooser in The Client (1994), which led him to the ultimate role of a lifetime, as easy-going charismatic physician, Dr. Mark Greene on "ER" (1994). For his work on "ER", he was nominated for an Emmy Award, 4 times For Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, but has never won, however, he has won a Golden Globe Award For Best Performance by an Actor-In a TV Series, and was nominated 4 times, and also has 2 Screen Actor's Guild Awards. Prior to playing Dr. Greene, he also played bank breaker turned cold-blooded killer, Dick Hickock in the TV movie remake of Truman Capote's _In Cold Blood (1996) (TV)_ , which was the best TV movie of the 1996-97 season. During his hiatus on "ER" (1994), he went back to the box office circuit to star and to produce the movie Don't Go Breaking My Heart (1999), which was a pretty complex movie, which wasn't a big hit. Edwards, once again, returned to the set of "ER", and this time, he signed up for a salary that almost no actor could be paid, so his decision was to stay on the show for 3 more years and possibly to save the money in order to spend a lot of family time and to work on directing later. His first big roles after ER were that of Brains in the movie Thunderbirds (2004), and as Jim Paretta in The Forgotten (2004). In the many years that he starred on ER, that show gave him more success in working on and off the set, also it gave him a spiritual blessing that so many popular actors have had over the years.
Trivia random: Moved to Manhattan, New York, in 2002
Citazione random: "There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Regista: James Cameron
Scrittore: James Cameron, William Wisher Jr.
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Valutazione: 8.2/10 (98947 voti) [#94 nella top250]
Durata: 137 min
Paese: France, USA
Lingua: English, Spanish
Cast:
Trama:
Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has managed to send a protector back to attempt to save John and his mother Sarah.
Trivia random: Sarah's ECT where Sarah is fitted for electro-convulsive therapy and voltage is pumped into her.
Citazione random: T-1000: Get out.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Regista: Mary Lambert
Scrittore: Richard Outten
Genere: Action, Horror
Valutazione: 3.7/10 (2656 voti)
Durata: 100 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
Trama:
The "sematary" is up to its old zombie-raising tricks again. This time, the protagonists are Jeff Matthews, whose mother died in a Hollywood stage accident, and Drew Gilbert, a boy coping with an abusive stepfather.
Trivia random: The 6 January 1991 draft of the screenplay credits revisions to David S. Goyer. He is not credited in the final film.
Citazione random: Clyde Parker: What are you doing, man?::Gus Gilbert: I'm just fuckin' with ya'!
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Genere: Drama
Valutazione: 7.9/10 (484 voti)
Durata: 60 (including commercials) min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
Trama:
Michael Crichton has created a medical drama that chronicles life and death in a Chicago hospital emergency room. Each episode tells the tale of another day in the ER, from the exciting to the mundane, and the joyous to the heart-rending. Frenetic pacing, interwoven plot lines, and emotional rollercoastering is used to attempt to accurately depict the stressful environment found there. This show even portrays the plight of medical students in their quest to become physicians.
Trivia random: Anthony Edwards was first choice to play the part of Dr Mark Greene. Unfortunately Edwards was committed to direct a feature film at the time the pilot was due to shoot and was therefore unavailable. By sheer luck, his feature was pushed back and he was able to film the pilot instead.
Citazione random: Linda Ferrell: Do you think there's one perfect love? You know, like 'Sleepless in Seattle', somewhere under the stars. One perfect person for everybody?::Carol Hathaway: I don't know, why?::Linda Ferrell: Because for Doug, it's you.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Regista: Tony Scott
Scrittore: Ehud Yonay, Jim Cash
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Valutazione: 6.5/10 (41059 voti)
Durata: 110 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
Trama:
Maverick is a hot pilot. When he encounters a pair of MiGs over the Persian Gulf, his wingman is clearly outflown and freaks. On almost no fuel, Maverick is able to talk him back down to the Carrier. When his wingman turns in his wings, Maverick is moved up in the standings and sent to the Top Gun Naval Flying School. There he fights the attitudes of the other pilots and an old story of his father's death in combat that killed others due to his father's error. Maverick struggles to be the best pilot, stepping on the toes of his other students and in a different way to Charlie, a civilian instructor to whom he is strongly attracted.
Trivia random: Both John Carpenter and David Cronenberg turned down the chance to direct.
Citazione random: Viper: How ya doin'?::Maverick: I'm all right.::Viper: Goose is dead.::Maverick: I know.::Viper: You fly jets long enough, something like this happens.::Maverick: He was my R.I.O., my responsibility.::Viper: My squadron we lost 8 of 18 aircraft. 10 men. First one dies you die too, but there will be others. You can count on that. You gotta let him go. You gotta let him go.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Regista: Jeff Kanew
Scrittore: Jeff Buhai, Tim Metcalfe
Genere: Comedy
Valutazione: 6.0/10 (7501 voti)
Durata: 90 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
Trama:
When lovable nerds Gilbert and Lewis embark on their freshman year at Adams College, little do they realize the perils that await them. They're beset with taunting by the jocks of Alpha Beta fraternity, which only worsens when the jocks accidentally burn down their house and are forced toss the freshmen out of the freshmen dorm. To make matters more problematic, Lewis develops a crush on pretty Betty Childs, popular sorority sister and quarterback's girlfriend. Joined by the aptly named Booger and the violin-playing Pointdexter, the nerds soon realize they must form their own fraternity in self-defense. Soon the tables are turned as the nerds employ high-tech warfare against the jocks.... but can they really win and make a difference?
Trivia random: A display in the background the Tri-Lambda's performance at the end is provided by a Tandy Color Computer using the Audio Spectrum Analyzer cartridge. One of the nerds carries a board with shoulder straps that has a CoCo attached to it.
Citazione random: Lewis: Jocks only think about sports, nerds only think about sex.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Qui farà più o meno amicizia con un panzone vessato dal patrigno poliziotto.
Quando lo sbirro spara al cane del ciccione, i due ragazzi lo seppelliscono nelle vicinanze di casa, dove si trova un vecchio cimitero indiano che secondo le leggende ha il potere di resuscitare chi vi viene sepolto (che è anche una brillante soluzione al problema della carenza di aree cimiteriali).
Va da sé che il cane resuscita come macchina da guerra, e prontamente sbrana il poliziotto.
I due intraprendenti ragazzuoli con un futuro da becchini, seppelliscono pure lui, che ritorna morto, violento e gioviale allo stesso tempo.
Colti dal sacro fuoco del metodo scientifico empirico, seppelliscono pure la mamma di Furlong che - ingrata come pochi - resuscita pure lei malvagia.
Scontro finale con Furlong. Per dire il livello...
Filmetto di serie B, senza neppure un momento originale e non abbastanza splatter per divertire. L'unico personaggio quasi decente è il poliziotto morto, per il quale tutti noi facciamo il tifo.
Voto: 4.5 Trashometro® 4/10:
Furlong, Edward
Nome di battesimo: Furlong, Edward Walter
Data di nascita: 2 August 1977
Altezza: 5' 7" (1.70 m)
Ultimi lavori:
- Canes (2006) .... [attore]
- Forever (2006) .... (in negotiations) [attore]
- Jimmy and Judy (2006) .... Jimmy Wright [attore]
- Living & Dying (2006) .... Sam [attore]
- The Visitation (2006) .... Brandon Nichols [attore]
- Warriors of Terra (2006) .... Ed Furlong (attached) [attore]
- The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005) .... Jimmy Cuervo/The Crow [attore]
- Cruel World (2005) .... Philip Markham [attore]
- Intermedio (2005) .... Malik [attore]
- Nice Guys (2005) .... Tye [attore]
Biografia:
Born in Glendale, California, Edward Furlong had no acting ambitions until he was approached by casting agent Mali Finn, who was looking for a young actor to play the role of John Conner in what turned out to be one of the the biggest box-office hits of the 1990s, Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). Finn instantly recognized his ability, and suggested him for the part, feeling that he could hold his own playing opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton.For his career-starting role, Furlong earned an MTV movie award for best breakthrough role, and a Saturn Sci-Fi award for best young actor. From there, he took an unconventional route through Hollywood, which led to his working with some of the top people in the business, in both studio and independent films. His work has included starring opposite Jeff Bridges in American Heart (1992) for which he was nominated for an IFP Spirit award for best supporting actor. He has also starred in A Home of Our Own (1993) with Kathy Bates, Little Odessa (1994) with Tim Roth, The Grass Harp (1995) with Walter Matthau and Barbet Schroeder's Before and After (1996).He also starred opposite Edward Norton in Tony Kaye's controversial and gripping drama American History X (1998) and in the hit comedy Pecker (1998). More recently, Furlong has been opposite Willem Dafoe in the prison drama Animal Factory (2000), directed by Steve Buscemi. He recently starred in Pupi Avati's 11th-century tale, Cavalieri che fecero l'impresa, I (2001) ("The Knights of the Quest").
Trivia random: In 1992, he launched a successful music career in Japan and is still extremely popular with Japanese girls today. His debut song "Hold On Tight" even beat Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" to #1 on the Japanese charts.
Citazione random: "I enjoy playing people that are totally different than me. It's a challenge to get inside these people's heads and wonder why they would have these beliefs."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Edwards, Anthony (I)
Nome di battesimo: Edwards, Anthony Charles
Data di nascita: 19 July 1962
Altezza: 6' 2" (1.88 m)
Coniuge: Jeanine Lobell::(1994 - present) 4 children
Ultimi lavori:
- Zodiac (2007) .... Bill Armstrong [attore]
- The Forgotten (2004) .... Jim Paretta [attore]
- Thunderbirds (2004) .... Brains [attore]
- Die, Mommie, Die! (2003) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Northfork (2003) .... Happy [attore]
- Jackpot (2001) .... Tracy [attore]
- My Louisiana Sky (2001) (TV) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- Border Line (1999) (TV) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- Don't Go Breaking My Heart (1999) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- N.Y.H.C. (1999) (V) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
Biografia:
Born to a well-blended family, Anthony Edwards was born in Santa Barbara, California, on July 19, 1962, the youngest of 5 children. Growing up as the son of an architect and an artist, his parents encouraged him to act at age 16, which eventually led him to attending a summer workshop in London before graduating from high school. Returning to the United States, Edwards worked in commercials, jobs that helped him pay his education at The University of Southern California where he studied acting. However, he dropped out of college, and in that same year, he had a small role in the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), starring Sean Penn. The movie was a box office smash and Edwards was looking forward to doing more films. His very first movie role was that of teen-aged John Muldowney in Heart Like a Wheel (1983), and his first starring role as nerdy Gilbert Lowell, in Revenge of the Nerds (1984). Edwards didn't need to worry about being typecast as a socially-challenged loser. After starring in The Sure Thing (1985) and Gotcha! (1985), he landed another big-time successful movie Top Gun (1986), in which he played Tom Cruise's ill-fated easy going navigator/best friend, Lt. Nick "Goose" Bradshaw. As Cruise rode "Top Gun" into the Hollywood stratosphere, Edwards also found his flight to stardom, at the same time. After "Top Gun", he reprized his role as Gilbert in the movie Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987), before he starred in Summer Heat (1987). He also featured in Mr. North (1988), and Miracle Mile (1988), however they weren't too successful. He began working in TV movies and continued to star in more box office movies such as Hawks (1988), How I Got Into College (1989), Downtown (1990), Pet Sematary II (1992), Landslide (1992) and Delta Heat (1992). The 90s won Edwards his best reviews for his recurring role of the quirky "bubble man" Mike Monroe on the immensely-popular "Northern Exposure" (1990). He was nominated for a Cable Ace Award in HBO's Sexual Healing (1993), and the following year, he starred in Charlie's Ghost Story (1994), before he played lawyer Clint Von Hooser in The Client (1994), which led him to the ultimate role of a lifetime, as easy-going charismatic physician, Dr. Mark Greene on "ER" (1994). For his work on "ER", he was nominated for an Emmy Award, 4 times For Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, but has never won, however, he has won a Golden Globe Award For Best Performance by an Actor-In a TV Series, and was nominated 4 times, and also has 2 Screen Actor's Guild Awards. Prior to playing Dr. Greene, he also played bank breaker turned cold-blooded killer, Dick Hickock in the TV movie remake of Truman Capote's _In Cold Blood (1996) (TV)_ , which was the best TV movie of the 1996-97 season. During his hiatus on "ER" (1994), he went back to the box office circuit to star and to produce the movie Don't Go Breaking My Heart (1999), which was a pretty complex movie, which wasn't a big hit. Edwards, once again, returned to the set of "ER", and this time, he signed up for a salary that almost no actor could be paid, so his decision was to stay on the show for 3 more years and possibly to save the money in order to spend a lot of family time and to work on directing later. His first big roles after ER were that of Brains in the movie Thunderbirds (2004), and as Jim Paretta in The Forgotten (2004). In the many years that he starred on ER, that show gave him more success in working on and off the set, also it gave him a spiritual blessing that so many popular actors have had over the years.
Trivia random: Moved to Manhattan, New York, in 2002
Citazione random: "There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Terminator 2 - il giorno del giudizio
Regista: James Cameron
Scrittore: James Cameron, William Wisher Jr.
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Valutazione: 8.2/10 (98947 voti) [#94 nella top250]
Durata: 137 min
Paese: France, USA
Lingua: English, Spanish
Cast:
- Arnold Schwarzenegger .... The Terminator "T800"/Uncle Bob
- Linda Hamilton .... Sarah Connor
- Edward Furlong .... John Connor
- Robert Patrick .... T-1000
- Earl Boen .... Dr. Peter Silberman
- Joe Morton .... Dr. Miles Bennett Dyson
- S. Epatha Merkerson .... Tarissa Dyson
- Castulo Guerra .... Enrique Salceda
- Danny Cooksey .... Tim
- Jenette Goldstein .... Janelle Voight
Trama:
Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has managed to send a protector back to attempt to save John and his mother Sarah.
Trivia random: Sarah's ECT where Sarah is fitted for electro-convulsive therapy and voltage is pumped into her.
Citazione random: T-1000: Get out.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Pet Sematary II (1992)
Cimitero vivente 2
Regista: Mary Lambert
Scrittore: Richard Outten
Genere: Action, Horror
Valutazione: 3.7/10 (2656 voti)
Durata: 100 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
- Edward Furlong .... Jeff Matthews
- Anthony Edwards .... Chase Matthews
- Clancy Brown .... Gus Gilbert
- Jared Rushton .... Clyde Parker
- Darlanne Fluegel .... Renee Hallow
- Jason McGuire .... Drew Gilbert
- Sarah Trigger .... Marjorie Hargrove
- Lisa Waltz .... Amanda Gilbert
- Jim Peck .... Quentin Yolander
- Len Hunt .... Director
Trama:
The "sematary" is up to its old zombie-raising tricks again. This time, the protagonists are Jeff Matthews, whose mother died in a Hollywood stage accident, and Drew Gilbert, a boy coping with an abusive stepfather.
Trivia random: The 6 January 1991 draft of the screenplay credits revisions to David S. Goyer. He is not credited in the final film.
Citazione random: Clyde Parker: What are you doing, man?::Gus Gilbert: I'm just fuckin' with ya'!
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
"ER" (1994)
E.R. - medici in prima linea
Genere: Drama
Valutazione: 7.9/10 (484 voti)
Durata: 60 (including commercials) min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
- Goran Visnjic .... Dr. Luka Kovac (1999-)
- Maura Tierney .... Dr. Abby Lockhart (2000-)
- Mekhi Phifer .... Dr. Gregory Pratt (2002-)
- Parminder Nagra .... Dr. Neela Rasgotra (2003-)
- Linda Cardellini .... Nurse Samantha Taggart (2003-)
- Shane West .... Dr. Ray Barnett (2004-)
- Scott Grimes .... Dr. Archie Morris (2005-)
- Laura Innes .... Dr. Kerry Weaver (1995-) rest of cast listed alphabetically: Sharif Atkins .... Dr. Michael Gallant (2001-2004)
- Maria Bello .... Dr. Anna Del Amico (1997-1998)
- George Clooney .... Dr. Douglas Ross (1994-1999)
Trama:
Michael Crichton has created a medical drama that chronicles life and death in a Chicago hospital emergency room. Each episode tells the tale of another day in the ER, from the exciting to the mundane, and the joyous to the heart-rending. Frenetic pacing, interwoven plot lines, and emotional rollercoastering is used to attempt to accurately depict the stressful environment found there. This show even portrays the plight of medical students in their quest to become physicians.
Trivia random: Anthony Edwards was first choice to play the part of Dr Mark Greene. Unfortunately Edwards was committed to direct a feature film at the time the pilot was due to shoot and was therefore unavailable. By sheer luck, his feature was pushed back and he was able to film the pilot instead.
Citazione random: Linda Ferrell: Do you think there's one perfect love? You know, like 'Sleepless in Seattle', somewhere under the stars. One perfect person for everybody?::Carol Hathaway: I don't know, why?::Linda Ferrell: Because for Doug, it's you.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Top Gun (1986)
Regista: Tony Scott
Scrittore: Ehud Yonay, Jim Cash
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Valutazione: 6.5/10 (41059 voti)
Durata: 110 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
- Tom Cruise .... Maverick
- Kelly McGillis .... Charlie
- Val Kilmer .... Ice
- Anthony Edwards .... Goose
- Tom Skerritt .... Viper
- Michael Ironside .... Jester
- John Stockwell .... Cougar
- Barry Tubb .... Wolfman
- Rick Rossovich .... Slider
- Tim Robbins .... Merlin
Trama:
Maverick is a hot pilot. When he encounters a pair of MiGs over the Persian Gulf, his wingman is clearly outflown and freaks. On almost no fuel, Maverick is able to talk him back down to the Carrier. When his wingman turns in his wings, Maverick is moved up in the standings and sent to the Top Gun Naval Flying School. There he fights the attitudes of the other pilots and an old story of his father's death in combat that killed others due to his father's error. Maverick struggles to be the best pilot, stepping on the toes of his other students and in a different way to Charlie, a civilian instructor to whom he is strongly attracted.
Trivia random: Both John Carpenter and David Cronenberg turned down the chance to direct.
Citazione random: Viper: How ya doin'?::Maverick: I'm all right.::Viper: Goose is dead.::Maverick: I know.::Viper: You fly jets long enough, something like this happens.::Maverick: He was my R.I.O., my responsibility.::Viper: My squadron we lost 8 of 18 aircraft. 10 men. First one dies you die too, but there will be others. You can count on that. You gotta let him go. You gotta let him go.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
Rivincita dei nerds, La
Regista: Jeff Kanew
Scrittore: Jeff Buhai, Tim Metcalfe
Genere: Comedy
Valutazione: 6.0/10 (7501 voti)
Durata: 90 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
- Robert Carradine .... Louis Skolnick, Tri-Lam
- Anthony Edwards .... Gilbert Lowell, Tri-Lam
- Timothy Busfield .... Arnold Poindexter, Tri-Lam
- Andrew Cassese .... Harold Wormser, Tri-Lam
- Curtis Armstrong .... Dudley 'Booger' Dawson, Tri-Lam
- Larry B. Scott .... Lamar Latrell, Tri-Lam
- Brian Tochi .... Toshiro Takashi, Tri-Lam
- Julia Montgomery .... Betty Childs, Pi-Delta-Pi (as Julie Montgomery)
- Michelle Meyrink .... Judy, Gilbert's Nerd Girlfriend/Omega-Mu
- Ted McGinley .... Stan Gable, Alpha Beta/President of Greek Council
Trama:
When lovable nerds Gilbert and Lewis embark on their freshman year at Adams College, little do they realize the perils that await them. They're beset with taunting by the jocks of Alpha Beta fraternity, which only worsens when the jocks accidentally burn down their house and are forced toss the freshmen out of the freshmen dorm. To make matters more problematic, Lewis develops a crush on pretty Betty Childs, popular sorority sister and quarterback's girlfriend. Joined by the aptly named Booger and the violin-playing Pointdexter, the nerds soon realize they must form their own fraternity in self-defense. Soon the tables are turned as the nerds employ high-tech warfare against the jocks.... but can they really win and make a difference?
Trivia random: A display in the background the Tri-Lambda's performance at the end is provided by a Tandy Color Computer using the Audio Spectrum Analyzer cartridge. One of the nerds carries a board with shoulder straps that has a CoCo attached to it.
Citazione random: Lewis: Jocks only think about sports, nerds only think about sex.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
mercoledì 26 luglio 2006
silent benny hill
Silent Hill fa raggiungere al cinema stylish nuove ed impensate vette. Sfortunatamente chi lo ha prodotto deve aver creduto che un po' di nebbia, qualche mostro buffo ed una bimba inquietante fossero validi sostituti per trama, senso del ritmo e dialoghi decenti.
Una bimbetta adottata ha degli incubi durante i quali continua a ripetere Silent Hiiill, ovvero il nome di una città abbandonata che fu sede di una terribile catastrofe.
La mammina, che compensa il proprio scarso acume con due tettine dure-dure, decide di andare a farvi turismo zombie-sessuale.
Non fa in tempo a parcheggiare la macchina che la bimba svanisce nel nulla e deve dunque fiondarsi alla sua ricerca, con l'aiuto di una poliziotta.
Nel corso della ricerca, strani incontri con mostri, entità sovrannaturali assortite e gente strana varia.
Forse (forse) la trama sarebbe anche stata quasi sufficiente, se non fosse per il piccolo dettaglio che Silent Hill non fa paura.
Un particolare tutto sommato rilevante, visto che stiamo parlando di un film horror.
E non è che non fa paura perché ormai ho fatto il callo a quasi tutti i cliché del genere: è che proprio non c'è nulla che possa anche solo lontanamente spaventare.
Diretto da quel mostro che già ci aveva regalato una mezza ciofeca come Crying Freeman ed una purga intestinale come Il Patto dei Lupi, Silent Hill si limita a bullarsi delle proprie scene nebbiose, dei propri mostri presi di peso dai videogiochi senza preoccuparsi troppo di rendere interessante la storia.
Tratto da una longeva serie di videogiochi, che mi dicono avere momenti davvero da brividi, non si inserisce certo tra le più immonde schifezze che si possono pescare nel maleodorante mare dei film tratti da videogiochi, ma solo perché nel genere c'è talmente tanto materiale trash che a sparar nel mucchio è più facile trovare un titolo peggiore che uno migliore.
Voto: 4. Trashometro® 1/10:
Tags: horror, silent hill, videogioco, inseguimento, mostri, male, paese abbandonato, fede.
Regista: Christophe Gans
Scrittore: Stéphane Cabel, Christophe Gans
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery
Valutazione: 7.0/10 (16429 voti)
Durata: France:152 (director's cut) (DVD) min
Paese: France, Canada
Lingua: French, German, Italian
Cast:
Trama:
In 1765 something was stalking the mountains of south-western France. A 'beast' that pounced on humans and animals with terrible ferocity. Indeed they beast became so notorious that the King of France dispatched envoys to find out what was happening and to kill the creature. By the end, the Beast of Gevaudan had killed over 100 people, to this day, no one is entirely sure what it was, wolf? hyena? or something supernatural? Whatever it was, shepherds had the same life-expectancy as the red-suited guys in 'Star Trek'. The Beast is a popular myth in France, albeit one rooted firmly in reality; somewhat surprisingly it is little known to the outside world, and perhaps incredibly it has never been made into a movie. Until now... Based on the true story of the Beast of the Gevaudan that terrorised France in the mid-XVIIIth century, the movie aims to tell first and explain afterwards. In the first part, a special envoy of the King of France, altogether biologist, explorer and philosopher, arrives in the Gevaudan region, in the mountainous central part of France. The Beast has been attacking women and children for months and nobody has quite been able to harm it or even take a good look at it. In the second part, our hero Chevalier de Fronsac will not only have to fight the Beast, but also ignorance, bigotry and conspiracy and will rely on two women, one an aristocrat, the other a prostitute, as well as the enigmatic Mani, an Iroquois he met in New-France (Canada).
Trivia random: There actually was a Beast of Gévaudan (La Bête du Gévaudan) which was a real wolf(like) creature that prowled the Auvergne and South Dordogne regions of France during the years 1764 to 1767, killing about 100 people, often in bizarre circumstances.
Citazione random: Henri Sardis: So tell me sire, do they speak of the beast in Paris?::Gregoire De Fronsac: Speak of it? They're already singing songs about it.::Marianne De Morangias: Instead of singing songs, they should be saying prayers.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Regista: Christophe Gans
Scrittore: Kazuo Koike, Ryoichi Ikegami
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Valutazione: 6.4/10 (3070 voti)
Durata: 102 min
Paese: Canada, France, Japan, USA
Lingua: English, Japanese
Cast:
Trama:
A lethal Samurai assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills, is seen swiftly and mercilessly executing three Yakuza gangsters by a beautiful artist. She is captivated by the grace of his kill and later falls in love with him. An intense power struggle for the leadership of the Yakuza Clans ensues as they seek vengeance for the death of their leader. They soon realise the fatal mistake of underestimating the deadly skills of the Crying Freeman.
Trivia random: Jason Scott Lee was originally wanted for the role but he had a three-picture obligation for Universal Pictures and could not commit to the project. Mark Dacascos lobbied for the part and eventually went on to became Christophe Gan's actor of choice for future and upcoming films.
Citazione random: Shido Shimazaki: "The Sons of the Dragon" exist! And so does the Freeman!
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Regista: Christophe Gans
Scrittore: Roger Avary
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Valutazione: 6.6/10 (16324 voti)
Durata: 127 min
Paese: Canada, Japan, USA, France
Lingua: English
Cast:
Trama:
Routed from sleepwalking problems, Rose Da Silva decides to take her daughter Sharon to the town she talks about in her sleep, Silent Hill, to face her nightmares, where Sharon goes missing and Rose must fight the power of the town to get her back.
Trivia random: In the original script, there were only female characters. After submitting this, the script was returned to Christophe Gans with a memo saying "there are no men!". Sean Bean's character was added and the script was approved.
Citazione random: Rose: What do you want?::Alessa: Satisfaction.::Rose: Satisfaction?::Alessa: Revenge.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Data di nascita: 11 March 1960
Ultimi lavori:
Biografia:
Born in 1960 in Antibes (in the South of France), Christophe Gans became crazy about movies at an early stage. As a teenager, he made a lot of samurai and kung fu super-8 films with his friends. At the end of the seventies, he founded the fanzine "Rhesus Zero" about B-movies. In 1980, he studied at the French cinema school Idhec and directed a short movie called "Silver Slime", a tribute to Mario Bava. In 1982, he founded the magazine "Starfix" and defended directors like David Cronenberg, Dario Argento, Russel Mulcahy, David Lynch, John Carpenter or Sergio Leone. He decided to make movies and directed one of the three parts of Necronomicon (1994) called "The Drowned", then "Crying Freeman" from the famous Japanese manga. Gans created the video collection "HK" devoted to Hong Kong movies. He worked for two years on a free adaptation of Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues under the Sea" but the project failed. In 1999, he was asked to make Pacte des loups, Le (2001) ("Brotherhood of the Wolf") about the Beast of Gévaudan, an unknown animal who killed more than one hundred people in France at the end of 18th century. The movie was released in January 2001 and was a great success (more than five million people saw it).
Trivia random: He founded the cinema magazine "Starfix".
Citazione random: "Everything in horror film is about transgression, and the young audience wants to touch something that is forbidden, and is by function anti-establishment. It is a way for young audiences to express rebellion, and also to deal with very modern fear but in a very playful way, in a very symbolic way. I think it is why horror films have a natural function among the teenage audience; it is a way to express the fact they are not invincible. I have the feeling that is very human, to be young and just to enjoy the thrill of death without any consequences. You can enjoy this thrill, and then two days later be in the Army in Iraq. The death is far when we are here on this side of the world, but the young audience knows we are not so far from the real death."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Data di nascita: 12 November 1973
Altezza: 5' 5¾" (1.67 m)
Ultimi lavori:
Trivia random: Has lived in Los Angeles, California, since 1997.
Citazione random: "Any situation today could be a tragedy or a comedy, it just depends on the mood that you're in when you're experiencing it, and the mood of the storyteller who is telling it."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Una bimbetta adottata ha degli incubi durante i quali continua a ripetere Silent Hiiill, ovvero il nome di una città abbandonata che fu sede di una terribile catastrofe.
La mammina, che compensa il proprio scarso acume con due tettine dure-dure, decide di andare a farvi turismo zombie-sessuale.
Non fa in tempo a parcheggiare la macchina che la bimba svanisce nel nulla e deve dunque fiondarsi alla sua ricerca, con l'aiuto di una poliziotta.
Nel corso della ricerca, strani incontri con mostri, entità sovrannaturali assortite e gente strana varia.
Forse (forse) la trama sarebbe anche stata quasi sufficiente, se non fosse per il piccolo dettaglio che Silent Hill non fa paura.
Un particolare tutto sommato rilevante, visto che stiamo parlando di un film horror.
E non è che non fa paura perché ormai ho fatto il callo a quasi tutti i cliché del genere: è che proprio non c'è nulla che possa anche solo lontanamente spaventare.
Diretto da quel mostro che già ci aveva regalato una mezza ciofeca come Crying Freeman ed una purga intestinale come Il Patto dei Lupi, Silent Hill si limita a bullarsi delle proprie scene nebbiose, dei propri mostri presi di peso dai videogiochi senza preoccuparsi troppo di rendere interessante la storia.
Tratto da una longeva serie di videogiochi, che mi dicono avere momenti davvero da brividi, non si inserisce certo tra le più immonde schifezze che si possono pescare nel maleodorante mare dei film tratti da videogiochi, ma solo perché nel genere c'è talmente tanto materiale trash che a sparar nel mucchio è più facile trovare un titolo peggiore che uno migliore.
Voto: 4. Trashometro® 1/10:
Tags: horror, silent hill, videogioco, inseguimento, mostri, male, paese abbandonato, fede.
Pacte des loups, Le (2001)
Patto dei lupi, Il
Regista: Christophe Gans
Scrittore: Stéphane Cabel, Christophe Gans
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery
Valutazione: 7.0/10 (16429 voti)
Durata: France:152 (director's cut) (DVD) min
Paese: France, Canada
Lingua: French, German, Italian
Cast:
- Samuel Le Bihan .... Grégoire de Fronsac
- Vincent Cassel .... Jean-François de Morangias
- Émilie Dequenne .... Marianne de Morangias
- Monica Bellucci .... Sylvia
- Jérémie Renier .... Thomas d'Apcher
- Mark Dacascos .... Mani
- Jean Yanne .... Le Comte de Morangias
- Jean-François Stévenin .... Henri Sardis
- Jacques Perrin .... Thomas d'Apcher (old)
- Edith Scob .... Geneviève de Morangias
Trama:
In 1765 something was stalking the mountains of south-western France. A 'beast' that pounced on humans and animals with terrible ferocity. Indeed they beast became so notorious that the King of France dispatched envoys to find out what was happening and to kill the creature. By the end, the Beast of Gevaudan had killed over 100 people, to this day, no one is entirely sure what it was, wolf? hyena? or something supernatural? Whatever it was, shepherds had the same life-expectancy as the red-suited guys in 'Star Trek'. The Beast is a popular myth in France, albeit one rooted firmly in reality; somewhat surprisingly it is little known to the outside world, and perhaps incredibly it has never been made into a movie. Until now... Based on the true story of the Beast of the Gevaudan that terrorised France in the mid-XVIIIth century, the movie aims to tell first and explain afterwards. In the first part, a special envoy of the King of France, altogether biologist, explorer and philosopher, arrives in the Gevaudan region, in the mountainous central part of France. The Beast has been attacking women and children for months and nobody has quite been able to harm it or even take a good look at it. In the second part, our hero Chevalier de Fronsac will not only have to fight the Beast, but also ignorance, bigotry and conspiracy and will rely on two women, one an aristocrat, the other a prostitute, as well as the enigmatic Mani, an Iroquois he met in New-France (Canada).
Trivia random: There actually was a Beast of Gévaudan (La Bête du Gévaudan) which was a real wolf(like) creature that prowled the Auvergne and South Dordogne regions of France during the years 1764 to 1767, killing about 100 people, often in bizarre circumstances.
Citazione random: Henri Sardis: So tell me sire, do they speak of the beast in Paris?::Gregoire De Fronsac: Speak of it? They're already singing songs about it.::Marianne De Morangias: Instead of singing songs, they should be saying prayers.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Crying Freeman (1995)
Crying Freeman
Regista: Christophe Gans
Scrittore: Kazuo Koike, Ryoichi Ikegami
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Valutazione: 6.4/10 (3070 voti)
Durata: 102 min
Paese: Canada, France, Japan, USA
Lingua: English, Japanese
Cast:
- Mark Dacascos .... Yo Hinomura/Freeman
- Julie Condra .... Emu O'Hara
- Rae Dawn Chong .... Det. Forge
- Byron Mann .... Koh
- Masaya Kato .... Ryuji Hanada
- Yôko Shimada .... Lady Hanada
- Mako .... Shido Shimazaki
- Tchéky Karyo .... Det. Netah
- Kevan Ohtsji .... Takeshi Shimazaki
- Debbie Podowski .... Customs Agent
Trama:
A lethal Samurai assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills, is seen swiftly and mercilessly executing three Yakuza gangsters by a beautiful artist. She is captivated by the grace of his kill and later falls in love with him. An intense power struggle for the leadership of the Yakuza Clans ensues as they seek vengeance for the death of their leader. They soon realise the fatal mistake of underestimating the deadly skills of the Crying Freeman.
Trivia random: Jason Scott Lee was originally wanted for the role but he had a three-picture obligation for Universal Pictures and could not commit to the project. Mark Dacascos lobbied for the part and eventually went on to became Christophe Gan's actor of choice for future and upcoming films.
Citazione random: Shido Shimazaki: "The Sons of the Dragon" exist! And so does the Freeman!
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Silent Hill (2006)
Regista: Christophe Gans
Scrittore: Roger Avary
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Valutazione: 6.6/10 (16324 voti)
Durata: 127 min
Paese: Canada, Japan, USA, France
Lingua: English
Cast:
- Radha Mitchell .... Rose Da Silva
- Sean Bean .... Christopher DaSilva
- Laurie Holden .... Cybil Bennett
- Deborah Kara Unger .... Dahlia Gillespie
- Kim Coates .... Officer Thomas Gucci/Henry Townshend
- Tanya Allen .... Anna
- Alice Krige .... Claudia Wolf/Christabella
- Jodelle Ferland .... Sharon DaSilva/Alessa Gillespie
- Colleen Williams .... Archivist
- Ron Gabriel .... Old Mechanic
Trama:
Routed from sleepwalking problems, Rose Da Silva decides to take her daughter Sharon to the town she talks about in her sleep, Silent Hill, to face her nightmares, where Sharon goes missing and Rose must fight the power of the town to get her back.
Trivia random: In the original script, there were only female characters. After submitting this, the script was returned to Christophe Gans with a memo saying "there are no men!". Sean Bean's character was added and the script was approved.
Citazione random: Rose: What do you want?::Alessa: Satisfaction.::Rose: Satisfaction?::Alessa: Revenge.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Gans, Christophe
Data di nascita: 11 March 1960
Ultimi lavori:
- Silent Hill (2006) .... [regista]
- L'Atelier: l'histoire de la Film Worshop (2004) (V) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Saint Ange (2004) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Le Pacte des loups (2001) .... [scrittore]
- Seul contre tous (1998) .... (special thanks) [misc]
- Crying Freeman (1995) .... [scrittore]
- Necronomicon (1994) .... (screenplay) (part 1) [scrittore]
- Silver Slime (1981) .... [scrittore]
Biografia:
Born in 1960 in Antibes (in the South of France), Christophe Gans became crazy about movies at an early stage. As a teenager, he made a lot of samurai and kung fu super-8 films with his friends. At the end of the seventies, he founded the fanzine "Rhesus Zero" about B-movies. In 1980, he studied at the French cinema school Idhec and directed a short movie called "Silver Slime", a tribute to Mario Bava. In 1982, he founded the magazine "Starfix" and defended directors like David Cronenberg, Dario Argento, Russel Mulcahy, David Lynch, John Carpenter or Sergio Leone. He decided to make movies and directed one of the three parts of Necronomicon (1994) called "The Drowned", then "Crying Freeman" from the famous Japanese manga. Gans created the video collection "HK" devoted to Hong Kong movies. He worked for two years on a free adaptation of Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues under the Sea" but the project failed. In 1999, he was asked to make Pacte des loups, Le (2001) ("Brotherhood of the Wolf") about the Beast of Gévaudan, an unknown animal who killed more than one hundred people in France at the end of 18th century. The movie was released in January 2001 and was a great success (more than five million people saw it).
Trivia random: He founded the cinema magazine "Starfix".
Citazione random: "Everything in horror film is about transgression, and the young audience wants to touch something that is forbidden, and is by function anti-establishment. It is a way for young audiences to express rebellion, and also to deal with very modern fear but in a very playful way, in a very symbolic way. I think it is why horror films have a natural function among the teenage audience; it is a way to express the fact they are not invincible. I have the feeling that is very human, to be young and just to enjoy the thrill of death without any consequences. You can enjoy this thrill, and then two days later be in the Army in Iraq. The death is far when we are here on this side of the world, but the young audience knows we are not so far from the real death."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Mitchell, Radha
Data di nascita: 12 November 1973
Altezza: 5' 5¾" (1.67 m)
Ultimi lavori:
- Downloading Nancy (2007) .... [attrice]
- Feast of Love (2007) .... Diana [attrice]
- PU-239 (2007) .... Marina [attrice]
- Rogue (2006) .... Kate [attrice]
- Silent Hill (2006) .... Rose Da Silva [attrice]
- Mozart and the Whale (2005) .... Isabelle Sorenson [attrice]
- Finding Neverland (2004) .... Mary Ansell Barrie [attrice]
- Man on Fire (2004) .... Lisa [attrice]
- Melinda and Melinda (2004) .... Melinda [attrice]
- Visitors (2003) .... Georgia Perry [attrice]
Trivia random: Has lived in Los Angeles, California, since 1997.
Citazione random: "Any situation today could be a tragedy or a comedy, it just depends on the mood that you're in when you're experiencing it, and the mood of the storyteller who is telling it."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
lunedì 24 luglio 2006
kyashan
Gli anni '70! Robottoni! Colori sgargianti! Capelli afro! LSD! Che mito! Che spettacolo!
Certo, personalmente tutti i miei anni '70 li ho passati a dormire, piangere e poppare, ma...
Ehi, non che me ne stia lamentando, è solo che non ero molto attento alla scena culturale dell'epoca.
Ad ogni buon conto: gli anni '70, tra le altre cose, sono stati la culla di una intera stagione di cartoni animati giapponesi pieni di robottoni, eroi fichissimi con capelli improbabili e donnine tutte curve.
Anche se gli eroi erano innumerevoli, non è difficile identificare il vincitore nella classifica dei più truzzi: Kyashan!
Dopo essersi fatto trasformare in androide dal padre indicibilmente sadico (che già che c'era aveva reso robotico il suo cane e tramutato in un cigno meccanico la moglie), Kyashan combatteva contro ondate di robot malvagi con la stessa facilità con la quale l'italiano medio stila la sua personalissima formazione della nazionale. Aveva giusto la sfiga che, andando ad energia solare, era costretto a salvare la Terra all'aperto ed in orario d'ufficio; ma quando sei l'uomo più fico del pianeta queste son quisquiglie...
Nel 2004 esce il film di Kyashan (Kyashan - la rinascita in Italia) con attori in carne ed ossa (beh, più o meno: son giapponesi... ) che reinterpreta il personaggio.
Dopo una tremenda guerra tra Europa ed Asia, l'umanità è sull'orlo della rovina a causa del diffondersi di malattie genetiche; il dottor Azuma, supportato dai militari, cerca di sviluppare una soluzione chiamata neo-cellule; non proprio sorprendentemente l'esperimento - di fatto pezzi di cadaveri in un pentolone da streghe - sfugge di mano ed emerge una nuova razza: i neodroidi, che dopo una quantità mediorientale di trattative giurano eterno odio agli umani.
Come se non fosse già una giornata abbastanza schifosa, il figlio di Azuma tira le cuoia in guerra e l'esimio professore non trova di meglio che immergerlo nel brodino dell'esperimento per farlo rinascere come eroe strafico.
Gironzolando in cerca di refrigerio sull'himalaya, i cattivi si imbattono in quel che sembra il castello delle favole, ripensato da Victor Von Doom ed arredato a suon di granate al fosforo. Collegato all'interruttore della luce del soggiorno, si attiva la mega-fabbrica di robottoni killer che i malvagi manderanno a morire schiantati contro il poootentissimo Kyashan.
Nel mezzo, un po' di politica internazionale ed internale, qualche dramma affettivo ed il visetto innocentissimo di Luna.
Il film lascia con la mascella per terra a livello visivo: spettacolari le ambientazioni steam-punk andato a male, notevole l'uso della computer grafica e del blue-screen (come e prima di Sin City) ed in generale funziona molto bene nell'inventare e nel presentare un futuro alternativo estremizzato.
Eccellente la selezione musicale, sempre in sintonia con le immagini.
Funziona tutto molto bene per una oretta buona.
La pellicola dure due dannatissime ore e venti minuti.
Ecco.
Purtroppo il giocattolo si rompe quando i protagonisti si mettono a sproloquiare sui massimi sistemi, peraltro in maniera non esattamente originale: troppi dialoghi banali, troppe cose che accadono Perché Sì®, troppi momenti morti (introspettivi? no, no: noiosi) tra un combattimento e l'altro.
A proposito dei combattimenti: maraglissimi quelli contro i robot (salti, pugni, e smitragliate), molto più deludenti e mal girati i pochi uno-contro-uno con gli altri cattivi umanoidi.
La sensazione che resta è che si sia voluto strafare, quando un po' più di moderazione (e forse di consapevolezza dei propri mezzi) avrebbe sfornato un prodotto più coerente e meno visionario (fumato?).
E poi diamine: mancano il cane Flendar (che diciamolo: nella serie vinceva metà delle battaglie da solo ) e la mamma-cigno!
Voto: 5.5 (più che altro in quanto occasione parziamente spercata)
Tags: kyashan, fantascienza, azione, robot, neo-cellule, truzzo, maraglio, giappoe, cina, guerra.
Regista: Kazuaki Kiriya
Scrittore: Kazuaki Kiriya, Dai Sato
Genere: Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi, Drama
Valutazione: 6.5/10 (2945 voti)
Durata: 141 min
Paese: Japan
Lingua: Japanese
Cast:
Trama:
In a world with an alternate history, a great war finally comes to an end leaving the earth diseased and polluted. The geneticist Dr. Azuma vies for support from the government for his neo-cell treatment that he claims can rejuvenate the body and regenerate humankind. The government leaders, guarding their own deeply entrenched powers, turn down the professor. Driven to complete his work, Dr. Azuma accepts a secret offer from a sinister faction of the powerful military. After an incident occurs in Dr. Azuma's lab, a race of mutant humans known as the Shinzo Ningen are unleashed upon the world. Now only the warrior known as Casshern, reincarnated with an invincible body, stands between the Shinzo Ningen and a world on the brink of annihilation.
Trivia random: SPOILER: The German message above Sagure's "entrance" to Dr. Kozuki's home reads: "zur erinnerung an meine verstorbene frau" which essentially translates to "To the memory of my deceased wife".
Citazione random: Kotaro Azuma-hakase: You have no idea what war is like.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Data di nascita: 17 June 1978
Ultimi lavori:
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Regista: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
Scrittore: Frank Miller
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Valutazione: 8.4/10 (85280 voti) [#62 nella top250]
Durata: 124 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
Trama:
An adaptation of Frank Miller's stories based in a morally bankrupt metropolis. Chief amongst the town's residents is Marv (Rourke), who trawls the darkest areas of town looking for the person who murdered Goldie (King) while she lay sleeping in his bed.
Trivia random: Robert Rodriguez originally envisioned Johnny Depp in the role of Jackie Boy. Due to prior commitments, Depp could not play the part. While at the Academy Awards, Rodriguez saw Benicio Del Toro with long hair ("Wolf Man" hair, as he describes it) and said that he "was looking at Jackie Boy". He told Del Toro not to cut his hair and mailed him the comic book and a copy of the short, "The Customer is Always Right." Del Toro immediately signed on.
Citazione random: Yellow Bastard: [referring to 19-year-old Nancy] A little old for my taste, but I can forgive that just this once!
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Genere: Action, Animation, Sci-Fi
Paese: Japan
Lingua: Japanese
Cast:
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Certo, personalmente tutti i miei anni '70 li ho passati a dormire, piangere e poppare, ma...
Ehi, non che me ne stia lamentando, è solo che non ero molto attento alla scena culturale dell'epoca.
Ad ogni buon conto: gli anni '70, tra le altre cose, sono stati la culla di una intera stagione di cartoni animati giapponesi pieni di robottoni, eroi fichissimi con capelli improbabili e donnine tutte curve.
Anche se gli eroi erano innumerevoli, non è difficile identificare il vincitore nella classifica dei più truzzi: Kyashan!
Dopo essersi fatto trasformare in androide dal padre indicibilmente sadico (che già che c'era aveva reso robotico il suo cane e tramutato in un cigno meccanico la moglie), Kyashan combatteva contro ondate di robot malvagi con la stessa facilità con la quale l'italiano medio stila la sua personalissima formazione della nazionale. Aveva giusto la sfiga che, andando ad energia solare, era costretto a salvare la Terra all'aperto ed in orario d'ufficio; ma quando sei l'uomo più fico del pianeta queste son quisquiglie...
Nel 2004 esce il film di Kyashan (Kyashan - la rinascita in Italia) con attori in carne ed ossa (beh, più o meno: son giapponesi... ) che reinterpreta il personaggio.
Dopo una tremenda guerra tra Europa ed Asia, l'umanità è sull'orlo della rovina a causa del diffondersi di malattie genetiche; il dottor Azuma, supportato dai militari, cerca di sviluppare una soluzione chiamata neo-cellule; non proprio sorprendentemente l'esperimento - di fatto pezzi di cadaveri in un pentolone da streghe - sfugge di mano ed emerge una nuova razza: i neodroidi, che dopo una quantità mediorientale di trattative giurano eterno odio agli umani.
Come se non fosse già una giornata abbastanza schifosa, il figlio di Azuma tira le cuoia in guerra e l'esimio professore non trova di meglio che immergerlo nel brodino dell'esperimento per farlo rinascere come eroe strafico.
Gironzolando in cerca di refrigerio sull'himalaya, i cattivi si imbattono in quel che sembra il castello delle favole, ripensato da Victor Von Doom ed arredato a suon di granate al fosforo. Collegato all'interruttore della luce del soggiorno, si attiva la mega-fabbrica di robottoni killer che i malvagi manderanno a morire schiantati contro il poootentissimo Kyashan.
Nel mezzo, un po' di politica internazionale ed internale, qualche dramma affettivo ed il visetto innocentissimo di Luna.
Il film lascia con la mascella per terra a livello visivo: spettacolari le ambientazioni steam-punk andato a male, notevole l'uso della computer grafica e del blue-screen (come e prima di Sin City) ed in generale funziona molto bene nell'inventare e nel presentare un futuro alternativo estremizzato.
Eccellente la selezione musicale, sempre in sintonia con le immagini.
Funziona tutto molto bene per una oretta buona.
La pellicola dure due dannatissime ore e venti minuti.
Ecco.
Purtroppo il giocattolo si rompe quando i protagonisti si mettono a sproloquiare sui massimi sistemi, peraltro in maniera non esattamente originale: troppi dialoghi banali, troppe cose che accadono Perché Sì®, troppi momenti morti (introspettivi? no, no: noiosi) tra un combattimento e l'altro.
A proposito dei combattimenti: maraglissimi quelli contro i robot (salti, pugni, e smitragliate), molto più deludenti e mal girati i pochi uno-contro-uno con gli altri cattivi umanoidi.
La sensazione che resta è che si sia voluto strafare, quando un po' più di moderazione (e forse di consapevolezza dei propri mezzi) avrebbe sfornato un prodotto più coerente e meno visionario (fumato?).
E poi diamine: mancano il cane Flendar (che diciamolo: nella serie vinceva metà delle battaglie da solo ) e la mamma-cigno!
Voto: 5.5 (più che altro in quanto occasione parziamente spercata)
Tags: kyashan, fantascienza, azione, robot, neo-cellule, truzzo, maraglio, giappoe, cina, guerra.
Casshern (2004)
Regista: Kazuaki Kiriya
Scrittore: Kazuaki Kiriya, Dai Sato
Genere: Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi, Drama
Valutazione: 6.5/10 (2945 voti)
Durata: 141 min
Paese: Japan
Lingua: Japanese
Cast:
- Yusuke Iseya .... Casshern/Tetsuya Azuma
- Kumiko Aso .... Luna Kozuki
- Akira Terao .... Kotaro Azuma-hakase
- Kanako Higuchi .... Midori Azuma
- Fumiyo Kohinata .... Kozuki-hakase
- Hiroyuki Miyasako .... Akubon
- Jun Kaname .... Barashin
- Hidetoshi Nishijima .... Lieutenant Colonel Kamijo
- Mitsuhiro Oikawa .... Kaoru Naito
- Susumu Terajima .... Sakamoto
Trama:
In a world with an alternate history, a great war finally comes to an end leaving the earth diseased and polluted. The geneticist Dr. Azuma vies for support from the government for his neo-cell treatment that he claims can rejuvenate the body and regenerate humankind. The government leaders, guarding their own deeply entrenched powers, turn down the professor. Driven to complete his work, Dr. Azuma accepts a secret offer from a sinister faction of the powerful military. After an incident occurs in Dr. Azuma's lab, a race of mutant humans known as the Shinzo Ningen are unleashed upon the world. Now only the warrior known as Casshern, reincarnated with an invincible body, stands between the Shinzo Ningen and a world on the brink of annihilation.
Trivia random: SPOILER: The German message above Sagure's "entrance" to Dr. Kozuki's home reads: "zur erinnerung an meine verstorbene frau" which essentially translates to "To the memory of my deceased wife".
Citazione random: Kotaro Azuma-hakase: You have no idea what war is like.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Aso, Kumiko
Data di nascita: 17 June 1978
Ultimi lavori:
- "Jikô keisatsu" (2006) (mini) .... Shizuka Mikazuki [attrice]
- The Uchôten Hoteru (2006) .... Naomi Ohara [attrice]
- Hasami otoko (2005) .... Chinatsu [attrice]
- Mayonaka no Yaji-san Kita-san (2005) .... The Wife of the Bartender [attrice]
- Aoi kuruma (2004) .... Akemi [attrice]
- Casshern (2004) .... Luna Kozuki [attrice]
- Eiko (2004) .... Eiko Akimori [attrice]
- "Shinsengumi!" (2004) .... O-Ryou [attrice]
- Tange Sazen: Hyakuman ryo no tsubo (2004) .... [attrice]
- Zebraman (2004) .... [attrice]
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Sin City (2005)
Regista: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
Scrittore: Frank Miller
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Valutazione: 8.4/10 (85280 voti) [#62 nella top250]
Durata: 124 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
- Jessica Alba .... Nancy Callahan
- Devon Aoki .... Miho
- Alexis Bledel .... Becky
- Powers Boothe .... Senator Roark
- Cara D. Briggs .... Hearing Panel Person (as Cara Briggs)
- Jude Ciccolella .... Liebowitz
- Jeffrey J. Dashnaw .... Motorcycle Cop (as Jeff Dashnaw)
- Rosario Dawson .... Gail
- Jesse De Luna .... Corporal Rivera
- Benicio Del Toro .... Jackie Boy
Trama:
An adaptation of Frank Miller's stories based in a morally bankrupt metropolis. Chief amongst the town's residents is Marv (Rourke), who trawls the darkest areas of town looking for the person who murdered Goldie (King) while she lay sleeping in his bed.
Trivia random: Robert Rodriguez originally envisioned Johnny Depp in the role of Jackie Boy. Due to prior commitments, Depp could not play the part. While at the Academy Awards, Rodriguez saw Benicio Del Toro with long hair ("Wolf Man" hair, as he describes it) and said that he "was looking at Jackie Boy". He told Del Toro not to cut his hair and mailed him the comic book and a copy of the short, "The Customer is Always Right." Del Toro immediately signed on.
Citazione random: Yellow Bastard: [referring to 19-year-old Nancy] A little old for my taste, but I can forgive that just this once!
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
"Shinzô ningen Kyashân" (1973)
Genere: Action, Animation, Sci-Fi
Paese: Japan
Lingua: Japanese
Cast:
- Ikuo Nishikawa .... Casshân/Azuma Tetsuya (voice)
- Masato Yamanouchi .... Azuma Kôtarô
- Reiko Mutô .... Azuma Midori/Swanny
- Kenji Utsumi .... Blayking Boss (voice)
- Emiko Tsukada .... Kôzuki Luna
- Kazuya Tatekabe .... Barashin
- Osamu Katô .... Sagray
- Ryûji Nakagi .... Akubone
- Shôji Kato .... Friendar
- Gorô Naya .... Opening Narration (voice)
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
domenica 23 luglio 2006
Io, Robot
Nel 2035 Willy, il principe di Bel Air, ha finalmente messo la testa a posto e si è trovato un lavoro come detective della omicidi. Lui, notoriamente poco avvezzo a qualsivoglia tecnologia non sia un mega-mangianastri portatile a doppia piastra, viene chiamato ad indagare sul misterioso suicidio di quel gran manico del dottor Zefram Cochrane il quale, qualche decennio prima della propulsione a curvatura, aveva inventato pure il cervello positronico e le tre leggi della robotica. Un vero talento! (anche perché, a questo punto, dovrà stabilire il primo contatto da morto... rendendo l'incontro coi vulcaniani il primo caso di eso-necrofilia )
Tornando a noi... per la fortuna del buon Willy, verrà aiutato nell'impresa da Rachel del Coyote Ugly, che a forza di mance e di flirt coi clienti ha imparato il mestiere di robopsicologa.
I, Robot si ispira in maniera talmente vaga ai libri di Asimov che tutto ciò che rimane sono alcuni nomi di persone e cose.
Detto questo, pur con parecchie ingenuità ed uno sviluppo della trama così-così, il film nel complesso si lascia guardare.
Tra gli aspetti negativi c'è certamente la scadente introduzione ai personaggi ed un tono troppo leggero: una sana virata sul cupo avrebbe giovato.
La trama, pur con delle pecche e poco coraggio nel finale, non è poi una catastrofe ed ha alcuni momenti pregevoli purtroppo sfruttati solo in parte (il salvataggio dall'auto finita in mare, la battaglia tra robot); davvero eccellenti gli effetti speciali: i robot, benché molto diversi dalla visione asimoviana, sono spettacolari e molto ben animati.
Nessuno si aspetti di vedere qualcosa di anche solo lontanamente paragonabile - per qualità - ai libri di Asimov, ma alla fin fine mantiene la promessa di un paio d'ore di intrattenimento.
Voto: 6.
Tags: fantascienza, thriller, azione, robot, asimov, futuro, omicidio, intelligenza artificiale, cervello positronico, tecno-fobia.
Regista: Alex Proyas
Scrittore: Isaac Asimov, Jeff Vintar
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Valutazione: 7.0/10 (34030 voti)
Durata: 115 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
Trama:
Set in a future Earth (2035 A.D.) where robots are common assistants and workers for their human owners, this is the story of "robotophobic" Chicago Police Detective Del Spooner's (Smith) investigation into the murder of Dr. Alfred Lanning (James Cromwell), who works at U.S. Robotics, in which a robot, Sonny (Tudyk), appears to be implicated, even though that would mean the robot had violated the Three Laws of Robotics, which is apparently impossible. It seems impossible because.. if robots can break those laws, there's nothing to stop them from taking over the world, as humans have grown to become completely dependent upon their robots. Or maybe... they already have? Aiding Spooner in his investigation is a psychologist, Dr. Susan Calvin (Moynahan), who specializes in the psyches of robots.
Trivia random: When Detective Spooner walks up to the garage containing the motorcycle, the code he enters on the door pad is 911.
Citazione random: Dr. Alfred Lanning: Good to see you again, son.::Detective Del Spooner: Hello, doctor.::Dr. Alfred Lanning: Everything that follows is a result of what you see here.::Detective Del Spooner: Is there something you want tell me?::Dr. Alfred Lanning: I'm sorry. My responses are limited. You must ask the right questions.::Detective Del Spooner: Why did you call me?::Dr. Alfred Lanning: I trust your judgement.::Detective Del Spooner: Normally, these circumstances wouldn't require a homicide detective.::Dr. Alfred Lanning: But then our interactions have never been entirely normal. Wouldn't you agree?::Detective Del Spooner: You got that right... Is there something you want say to me?::Dr. Alfred Lanning: [the camera rotates around Lanning, revealing him to be a hologram] I'm sorry. My responses are limited. You must ask the right questions.::Detective Del Spooner: Why would you kill yourself?::Dr. Alfred Lanning: That, detective, is the right question. Program terminated.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Nome di battesimo: Cromwell, John Oliver
Data di nascita: 27 January 1940
Altezza: 6' 7" (2.01 m)
Coniuge: Julie Cobb::(29 May 1986 - present) (filed for divorce), Anne Ulvestad::(27 November 1976 - 1986) (divorced) 3 children
Ultimi lavori:
Biografia:
Born in Los Angeles but raised in Manhattan and educated at Middlebury College and Carnegie Tech, James Cromwell - the son of noted film director John Cromwell - studied acting at Carnegie-Mellon. He went into the theater (like both his parents) doing everything from Shakespeare to experimental plays. He started doing TV in 1974, gaining some notice in a recurring role as Archie Bunker's buddy Stretch Cunningham in "All in the Family" (1971), made his film debut in 1976, and goes back to the stage periodically. Some of his more noted film roles have been in Revenge of the Nerds (1984) and the surprise hit about a charming pig, Babe (1995). He garnered some of the best reviews of his career - many of which said he should have received an Oscar - for his role as a corrupt, conniving police captain in L.A. Confidential (1997).
Trivia random: At 6' 7", he is the tallest Oscar-nominated actor of all time (he was nominated for his Best Actor in a Support Role in Babe (1995)).
Citazione random: "The goal of the government was to get all the leaders of the Black Panther Party in jail so that they could be killed systematically through prison violence, and that way they could stop what was a very powerful and evolving movement. I don't think we would have the kind of prison population now and what happens in this country with the gangs if the Panthers had been allowed to continue what they decided to do, which was basically empower black communities to take back their self control and reestablish the dignity of being a black person in this country" - on the Black Panthers movement of the 1960s
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Data di nascita: 2 January 1920
Data di morte: 6 April 1992
Coniuge: Janet Opal Jeppson::(30 November 1973 - 6 April 1992) (his death), Gertrude Blugerman::(26 July 1942 - 16 November 1973) (divorced)
Ultimi lavori:
Biografia:
Isaac Asimov was born Isaak Ozimov on January 2, 1920, in Petrovichi shtetl (village), near Smolensk, Russia. His father Judah and his mother Anna Rachel (nee Berman were Orthodox Jews. In 1923 the Asimovs emigrated to the US and settled in Brooklyn, New York. There his parents corrected his birthday to September 7, 1919, in order to send him to school a year earlier.Asimov was an avid reader from the age of 5. He spoke Yiddish and English at home with his parents. In 1935 he graduated from high school, in 1939 received a B.S. and in 1941 an M.Sc. in Chemistry from Columbia University. His studies were interrupted by work and military service during the Second World War. In 1948 he completed his postgraduate studies and received a Ph.D. in Biochemistry. In 1949 he began his teaching career at the Medical School of Boston University, becoming assistant professor in 1951, associate professor in 1955 and full professor in 1979. His income from his literary works was much greater than his professor's salary, and Asimov stopped taking pay for teaching. He was considered one of the best lecturers at Boston University.Asimov was raised as a non-religious person, did not have a bar mizvah and called himself an atheist. He did not oppose genuine religious convictions in others but did oppose superstitious or unfounded beliefs. he defined his intellectual position as a humanist and rationalist. He opposed the Vietnam war in the 1960s and was a supporter of the Democratic party. He embraced environmental issues and supported feminism, joking that he wished women to be free "because I hate it when they charge". He was also humorous about his memberships in various clubs and foundations. As a free thinker, Asimov saw sci-fi literature serving as a pool where ideas and hypotheses are expressed with unrestricted intellectual freedom.At the age of 11 he wrote eight chapters of a fiction novel about the adventures of young boys in a small town. His first publication was "Marooned Off Vesta" in "Amazing Stories"magazine in 1939. Asimov shot to fame in 1941 with "Nightfall", a story of a planet where night comes once every 2049 years. It has been described as one of the best science-fiction story ever written. Asimov wrote over 500 literary works. He is credited with introducing the words "positronic", "psycho-history" and "robotics" into the English language. He penned such classics as "I, Robot" and the "Foundation" series, often considered to be the most impressive of his writings. He also founded "Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine", which became a best-selling publication.Asimov met Gertrude Blugherman on a blind date on Valentine's Day in February 1942, and they married in July that year. The Asimovs had two children, David (born in 1951) and daughter Robyn Joan (born in 1955). Asimov met Janet Opal Jeppson in the late 1950s. She was a psychoanalyst and also a writer of science fiction for children. Correspondence with her convinced Asimov that she was the right kind of person for him. After his first marriage ended in divorce, he married Janet in 1973. That marriage was childless.In 1983 Asimov contracted HIV infection from a tainted blood transfusion received during a triple bypass surgery. He eventually developed AIDS and wanted to go public about it, but his doctors convinced Asimov to remain silent. He died of heart and renal failure from complications of AIDS on April 6, 1992, in Boston, Massachussets, and was cremated. His ashes were scattered.
Trivia random: His family moved to the US in the last year that this was easy to do. Very likely they would not have qualified if they had not done so.
Citazione random: "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Nome di battesimo: Moynahan, Kathryn Bridget
Data di nascita: 21 September 1970
Altezza: 5' 9" (1.75 m)
Ultimi lavori:
Biografia:
Bridget Moynahan was born in Binghamton, New York in 1970. She played mostly sports in her childhood before going on to become a fashion model to appear on such magazines as Glamour and Vogue.
Trivia random: Ranked #86 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women In The World" (2002)
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Nome di battesimo: Jr., Willard Christopher Smith
Data di nascita: 25 September 1968
Altezza: 6' 2" (1.88 m)
Coniuge: Jada Pinkett Smith::(31 December 1997 - present) 2 children, Sheree Smith::(9 May 1992 - 1995) (divorced) 1 child
Ultimi lavori:
Biografia:
Will Smith was the second of four children of Caroline and Willard Smith Sr., owner of a refrigeration company. He grew up in middle class West Philadelphia and got the nickname 'Prince' because of the way he could charm his way out of trouble. Pursuing music, he met Jeff Townes at a party and they soon began performing together as DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. When the duo took off in popularity, Smith made, and spent a lot of money on a house, cars and jewelry. But Smith was looking for something new when, in 1989, he met Benny Medina, who had an idea for a sitcom based on his life in Beverly Hills. Smith loved the idea as did NBC which put on the "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" (1990). The plot was simple - Will basically played himself; a street-smart West Philly kid transplanted to Beverly Hills. The series lasted 6 years. During that time, he ventured into movies where the critics took note of him in Six Degrees of Separation (1993). With the success that came with the action picture Bad Boys (1995), Will's movie career was set. His had a huge hit with the Blockbuster Independence Day (1996) where he plays the alien-battling Marine Corps Captain Steven Hiller.
Trivia random: Graduate of Philly's legendary Overbrook High School, whose alumni include Wilt Chamberlain, Hal Lear, Wali Jones, Walt Hazzard, The Dovells, The Orlons, DeeDee Sharp, etc. and in tribute to his student years there, his production is called Overbrook Entertainment.
Citazione random: "My biggest emotional defeat and the greatest emotional pain I've had as an actor was when 'Wild Wild West' opened up to $52 million. The movie wasn't good. And it hurt so bad to be the No. 1 movie, to open at $52 million and to know the movie wasn't good."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Tornando a noi... per la fortuna del buon Willy, verrà aiutato nell'impresa da Rachel del Coyote Ugly, che a forza di mance e di flirt coi clienti ha imparato il mestiere di robopsicologa.
I, Robot si ispira in maniera talmente vaga ai libri di Asimov che tutto ciò che rimane sono alcuni nomi di persone e cose.
Detto questo, pur con parecchie ingenuità ed uno sviluppo della trama così-così, il film nel complesso si lascia guardare.
Tra gli aspetti negativi c'è certamente la scadente introduzione ai personaggi ed un tono troppo leggero: una sana virata sul cupo avrebbe giovato.
La trama, pur con delle pecche e poco coraggio nel finale, non è poi una catastrofe ed ha alcuni momenti pregevoli purtroppo sfruttati solo in parte (il salvataggio dall'auto finita in mare, la battaglia tra robot); davvero eccellenti gli effetti speciali: i robot, benché molto diversi dalla visione asimoviana, sono spettacolari e molto ben animati.
Nessuno si aspetti di vedere qualcosa di anche solo lontanamente paragonabile - per qualità - ai libri di Asimov, ma alla fin fine mantiene la promessa di un paio d'ore di intrattenimento.
Voto: 6.
Tags: fantascienza, thriller, azione, robot, asimov, futuro, omicidio, intelligenza artificiale, cervello positronico, tecno-fobia.
I, Robot (2004)
Io, robot
Regista: Alex Proyas
Scrittore: Isaac Asimov, Jeff Vintar
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Valutazione: 7.0/10 (34030 voti)
Durata: 115 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
- Will Smith .... Del Spooner
- Bridget Moynahan .... Susan Calvin
- Alan Tudyk .... Sonny
- James Cromwell .... Dr. Alfred Lanning
- Bruce Greenwood .... Lawrence Robertson
- Adrian Ricard .... Granny (as Adrian L. Ricard)
- Chi McBride .... Lt. John Bergin
- Jerry Wasserman .... Baldez
- Fiona Hogan .... V.I.K.I.
- Peter Shinkoda .... Chin
Trama:
Set in a future Earth (2035 A.D.) where robots are common assistants and workers for their human owners, this is the story of "robotophobic" Chicago Police Detective Del Spooner's (Smith) investigation into the murder of Dr. Alfred Lanning (James Cromwell), who works at U.S. Robotics, in which a robot, Sonny (Tudyk), appears to be implicated, even though that would mean the robot had violated the Three Laws of Robotics, which is apparently impossible. It seems impossible because.. if robots can break those laws, there's nothing to stop them from taking over the world, as humans have grown to become completely dependent upon their robots. Or maybe... they already have? Aiding Spooner in his investigation is a psychologist, Dr. Susan Calvin (Moynahan), who specializes in the psyches of robots.
Trivia random: When Detective Spooner walks up to the garage containing the motorcycle, the code he enters on the door pad is 911.
Citazione random: Dr. Alfred Lanning: Good to see you again, son.::Detective Del Spooner: Hello, doctor.::Dr. Alfred Lanning: Everything that follows is a result of what you see here.::Detective Del Spooner: Is there something you want tell me?::Dr. Alfred Lanning: I'm sorry. My responses are limited. You must ask the right questions.::Detective Del Spooner: Why did you call me?::Dr. Alfred Lanning: I trust your judgement.::Detective Del Spooner: Normally, these circumstances wouldn't require a homicide detective.::Dr. Alfred Lanning: But then our interactions have never been entirely normal. Wouldn't you agree?::Detective Del Spooner: You got that right... Is there something you want say to me?::Dr. Alfred Lanning: [the camera rotates around Lanning, revealing him to be a hologram] I'm sorry. My responses are limited. You must ask the right questions.::Detective Del Spooner: Why would you kill yourself?::Dr. Alfred Lanning: That, detective, is the right question. Program terminated.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Cromwell, James (I)
Nome di battesimo: Cromwell, John Oliver
Data di nascita: 27 January 1940
Altezza: 6' 7" (2.01 m)
Coniuge: Julie Cobb::(29 May 1986 - present) (filed for divorce), Anne Ulvestad::(27 November 1976 - 1986) (divorced) 3 children
Ultimi lavori:
- The 1 Second Film (2007) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Becoming Jane (2007) .... [attore]
- Spider-Man 3 (2007) .... Captain George Stacy [attore]
- Avenger (2006) (TV) .... Paul Devereaux [attore]
- Dante's Inferno (2006) .... Virgil [attore]
- The Queen (2006) .... Prince Philip [attore]
- The Longest Yard (2005) .... Warden Hazen [attore]
- Pope John Paul II (2005) (TV) .... Cardinal Adam Sapieha [attore]
- 'Salem's Lot (2004) (TV) .... Father Donald Callahan [attore]
- I, Robot (2004) .... Dr. Alfred Lanning [attore]
Biografia:
Born in Los Angeles but raised in Manhattan and educated at Middlebury College and Carnegie Tech, James Cromwell - the son of noted film director John Cromwell - studied acting at Carnegie-Mellon. He went into the theater (like both his parents) doing everything from Shakespeare to experimental plays. He started doing TV in 1974, gaining some notice in a recurring role as Archie Bunker's buddy Stretch Cunningham in "All in the Family" (1971), made his film debut in 1976, and goes back to the stage periodically. Some of his more noted film roles have been in Revenge of the Nerds (1984) and the surprise hit about a charming pig, Babe (1995). He garnered some of the best reviews of his career - many of which said he should have received an Oscar - for his role as a corrupt, conniving police captain in L.A. Confidential (1997).
Trivia random: At 6' 7", he is the tallest Oscar-nominated actor of all time (he was nominated for his Best Actor in a Support Role in Babe (1995)).
Citazione random: "The goal of the government was to get all the leaders of the Black Panther Party in jail so that they could be killed systematically through prison violence, and that way they could stop what was a very powerful and evolving movement. I don't think we would have the kind of prison population now and what happens in this country with the gangs if the Panthers had been allowed to continue what they decided to do, which was basically empower black communities to take back their self control and reestablish the dignity of being a black person in this country" - on the Black Panthers movement of the 1960s
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Asimov, Isaac
Data di nascita: 2 January 1920
Data di morte: 6 April 1992
Coniuge: Janet Opal Jeppson::(30 November 1973 - 6 April 1992) (his death), Gertrude Blugerman::(26 July 1942 - 16 November 1973) (divorced)
Ultimi lavori:
- I, Robot (2004) .... (suggested by book) [scrittore]
- Nightfall (2000) (V) .... (story) [scrittore]
- Bicentennial Man (1999) .... (novel The Positronic Man) (short story The Bicentennial Man) [scrittore]
- The Android Affair (1995) (TV) .... (story) [scrittore]
- Teach 109 (1990) (TV) .... (story) [scrittore]
- Feeling 109 (1988) .... (story) [scrittore]
- Gandahar (1988) .... (adaptation) (English version) [scrittore]
- Nightfall (1988) .... (story) [scrittore]
- "Probe" (1988) .... (creator) [scrittore]
- Robots (1988) (V) .... (novels I, Robot et al) [scrittore]
Biografia:
Isaac Asimov was born Isaak Ozimov on January 2, 1920, in Petrovichi shtetl (village), near Smolensk, Russia. His father Judah and his mother Anna Rachel (nee Berman were Orthodox Jews. In 1923 the Asimovs emigrated to the US and settled in Brooklyn, New York. There his parents corrected his birthday to September 7, 1919, in order to send him to school a year earlier.Asimov was an avid reader from the age of 5. He spoke Yiddish and English at home with his parents. In 1935 he graduated from high school, in 1939 received a B.S. and in 1941 an M.Sc. in Chemistry from Columbia University. His studies were interrupted by work and military service during the Second World War. In 1948 he completed his postgraduate studies and received a Ph.D. in Biochemistry. In 1949 he began his teaching career at the Medical School of Boston University, becoming assistant professor in 1951, associate professor in 1955 and full professor in 1979. His income from his literary works was much greater than his professor's salary, and Asimov stopped taking pay for teaching. He was considered one of the best lecturers at Boston University.Asimov was raised as a non-religious person, did not have a bar mizvah and called himself an atheist. He did not oppose genuine religious convictions in others but did oppose superstitious or unfounded beliefs. he defined his intellectual position as a humanist and rationalist. He opposed the Vietnam war in the 1960s and was a supporter of the Democratic party. He embraced environmental issues and supported feminism, joking that he wished women to be free "because I hate it when they charge". He was also humorous about his memberships in various clubs and foundations. As a free thinker, Asimov saw sci-fi literature serving as a pool where ideas and hypotheses are expressed with unrestricted intellectual freedom.At the age of 11 he wrote eight chapters of a fiction novel about the adventures of young boys in a small town. His first publication was "Marooned Off Vesta" in "Amazing Stories"magazine in 1939. Asimov shot to fame in 1941 with "Nightfall", a story of a planet where night comes once every 2049 years. It has been described as one of the best science-fiction story ever written. Asimov wrote over 500 literary works. He is credited with introducing the words "positronic", "psycho-history" and "robotics" into the English language. He penned such classics as "I, Robot" and the "Foundation" series, often considered to be the most impressive of his writings. He also founded "Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine", which became a best-selling publication.Asimov met Gertrude Blugherman on a blind date on Valentine's Day in February 1942, and they married in July that year. The Asimovs had two children, David (born in 1951) and daughter Robyn Joan (born in 1955). Asimov met Janet Opal Jeppson in the late 1950s. She was a psychoanalyst and also a writer of science fiction for children. Correspondence with her convinced Asimov that she was the right kind of person for him. After his first marriage ended in divorce, he married Janet in 1973. That marriage was childless.In 1983 Asimov contracted HIV infection from a tainted blood transfusion received during a triple bypass surgery. He eventually developed AIDS and wanted to go public about it, but his doctors convinced Asimov to remain silent. He died of heart and renal failure from complications of AIDS on April 6, 1992, in Boston, Massachussets, and was cremated. His ashes were scattered.
Trivia random: His family moved to the US in the last year that this was easy to do. Very likely they would not have qualified if they had not done so.
Citazione random: "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Moynahan, Bridget
Nome di battesimo: Moynahan, Kathryn Bridget
Data di nascita: 21 September 1970
Altezza: 5' 9" (1.75 m)
Ultimi lavori:
- Gray Matters (2007) .... Charlie [attrice]
- The Making of 'Lord of War' (2006) (V) .... (special thanks) [misc]
- Noise (2006/I) .... Helen [attrice]
- Prey (2006) .... [attrice]
- Unknown (2006) .... [attrice]
- Lord of War (2005) .... Ava Fontaine Orlov [attrice]
- I, Robot (2004) .... Susan Calvin [attrice]
- The Recruit (2003) .... Layla Moore [attrice]
- The Sum of All Fears (2002) .... Dr. Cathy Muller [attrice]
- Serendipity (2001) .... Halley Buchanan [attrice]
Biografia:
Bridget Moynahan was born in Binghamton, New York in 1970. She played mostly sports in her childhood before going on to become a fashion model to appear on such magazines as Glamour and Vogue.
Trivia random: Ranked #86 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women In The World" (2002)
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Smith, Will (I)
Nome di battesimo: Jr., Willard Christopher Smith
Data di nascita: 25 September 1968
Altezza: 6' 2" (1.88 m)
Coniuge: Jada Pinkett Smith::(31 December 1997 - present) 2 children, Sheree Smith::(9 May 1992 - 1995) (divorced) 1 child
Ultimi lavori:
- Pursuit (2008) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Time Share (2008) .... (producer) [produttore]
- I Am Legend (2007) .... Neville [attore]
- Monster Hunter (2007) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Tonight, He Comes (2007) .... (producer) [produttore]
- ATL (2006) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Extra Protection (2006) .... (producer) [produttore]
- The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) .... (producer) [produttore]
- White Boy Shuffle (2006) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Hitch (2005/I) .... (producer) [produttore]
Biografia:
Will Smith was the second of four children of Caroline and Willard Smith Sr., owner of a refrigeration company. He grew up in middle class West Philadelphia and got the nickname 'Prince' because of the way he could charm his way out of trouble. Pursuing music, he met Jeff Townes at a party and they soon began performing together as DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. When the duo took off in popularity, Smith made, and spent a lot of money on a house, cars and jewelry. But Smith was looking for something new when, in 1989, he met Benny Medina, who had an idea for a sitcom based on his life in Beverly Hills. Smith loved the idea as did NBC which put on the "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" (1990). The plot was simple - Will basically played himself; a street-smart West Philly kid transplanted to Beverly Hills. The series lasted 6 years. During that time, he ventured into movies where the critics took note of him in Six Degrees of Separation (1993). With the success that came with the action picture Bad Boys (1995), Will's movie career was set. His had a huge hit with the Blockbuster Independence Day (1996) where he plays the alien-battling Marine Corps Captain Steven Hiller.
Trivia random: Graduate of Philly's legendary Overbrook High School, whose alumni include Wilt Chamberlain, Hal Lear, Wali Jones, Walt Hazzard, The Dovells, The Orlons, DeeDee Sharp, etc. and in tribute to his student years there, his production is called Overbrook Entertainment.
Citazione random: "My biggest emotional defeat and the greatest emotional pain I've had as an actor was when 'Wild Wild West' opened up to $52 million. The movie wasn't good. And it hurt so bad to be the No. 1 movie, to open at $52 million and to know the movie wasn't good."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
lunedì 17 luglio 2006
maronna, 'u sangue!
Dio sa perché, è arrivato a noleggio Shallow Ground.
Un ragazzo ignudo ed insanguinato compare improvvisamente dal bosco; preso in custodia dalla locale stazione della polizia, inizia a manifestare strani poteri: sanguina copiosamente a comando, viene ricoperto da ragni e tutte quelle cose che si fanno alle medie per evitare una interrogazione.
In più, come bonus, il suo sangue ha il potere di generare incubi e visioni in chi lo tocca.
Il durissimo sceriffo di paese, che un anno prima non era riuscito ad impedire lo strano omicidio di una ragazza nel bosco, decide di seguire il suo istinto e di gestire la questione da solo, senza chiamare rinforzi. Istinto non proprio infallibile, visto che prima della fine le vittime si conteranno in notazione scientifica, i morti resusciteranno dalle tombe e (quasi) tutti finiranno in preda alle allucinazioni.
Il film in sé totalizzerebbe anche una discreta quantità di punti-gore, con tantissimo sangue che schizza da tutte le parti, ma si perde in una trama delirante che parte per la tangente in mille direzioni diverse, tutte ugualmente insensate. Finale loffio, che cerca di dare un spiegazione a tutto senza riuscirci.
Voto: 4.5 Trashometro® 4/10:
Tags: horror, thriller, sangue, morti, omicidio, visioni, polizia, bosco.
Regista: Sheldon Wilson
Scrittore: Sheldon Wilson
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Valutazione: 5.2/10 (1103 voti)
Durata: 97 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
Trama:
A naked teenage boy covered in blood appears at a remote sheriff's station one year after the brutal unsolved murder of a local girl. Now Sheriff Jack Shepherd, guilt ridden over the girl's murder, must confront his own demons as he desperately searches for the boy's true identity and possible victims. Little does Jack realize that he has started down a path that will bring him face to face with an unthinkable horror. Before sunrise the living will pay for the pain the dead have suffered. Citazione random: Detective Russell: Mark's dead, they found him in his patrol car this morning.::Stuart Dempsey: Oh my God, what happened?::Detective Russell: You remember that little junkie, Curtis Weaver?::Stuart Dempsey: He was a dealer...yeah...what's that got to do with anything?::Detective Russell: That's what I was hoping you could tell me.::Stuart Dempsey: Look, the only person who knows for sure what happened to Curtis, is Curtis, and he's dead.::Detective Russell: And that would be a problem.::Stuart Dempsey: And how is that my problem?::Detective Russell: Stuart, they've come to clear the books, they've come to make things right once and for all.::Stuart Dempsey: Who?::Detective Russell: The dead.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Un ragazzo ignudo ed insanguinato compare improvvisamente dal bosco; preso in custodia dalla locale stazione della polizia, inizia a manifestare strani poteri: sanguina copiosamente a comando, viene ricoperto da ragni e tutte quelle cose che si fanno alle medie per evitare una interrogazione.
In più, come bonus, il suo sangue ha il potere di generare incubi e visioni in chi lo tocca.
Il durissimo sceriffo di paese, che un anno prima non era riuscito ad impedire lo strano omicidio di una ragazza nel bosco, decide di seguire il suo istinto e di gestire la questione da solo, senza chiamare rinforzi. Istinto non proprio infallibile, visto che prima della fine le vittime si conteranno in notazione scientifica, i morti resusciteranno dalle tombe e (quasi) tutti finiranno in preda alle allucinazioni.
Il film in sé totalizzerebbe anche una discreta quantità di punti-gore, con tantissimo sangue che schizza da tutte le parti, ma si perde in una trama delirante che parte per la tangente in mille direzioni diverse, tutte ugualmente insensate. Finale loffio, che cerca di dare un spiegazione a tutto senza riuscirci.
Voto: 4.5 Trashometro® 4/10:
Tags: horror, thriller, sangue, morti, omicidio, visioni, polizia, bosco.
Shallow Ground (2004)
Regista: Sheldon Wilson
Scrittore: Sheldon Wilson
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Valutazione: 5.2/10 (1103 voti)
Durata: 97 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:
- Timothy V. Murphy .... Jack Sheppard
- Stan Kirsch .... Stuart Dempsey
- Lindsey Stoddart .... Laura Russell
- Patricia McCormack .... Helen Reedy (as Patty McCormack)
- Rocky Marquette .... Boy
- Natalie Avital .... Darby Owens
- Chris Hendrie .... Albert Underhill
- Tara Killian .... Amy Underhill
- Myron Natwick .... Harvey
- Steve Eastin .... Detective Russell
Trama:
A naked teenage boy covered in blood appears at a remote sheriff's station one year after the brutal unsolved murder of a local girl. Now Sheriff Jack Shepherd, guilt ridden over the girl's murder, must confront his own demons as he desperately searches for the boy's true identity and possible victims. Little does Jack realize that he has started down a path that will bring him face to face with an unthinkable horror. Before sunrise the living will pay for the pain the dead have suffered. Citazione random: Detective Russell: Mark's dead, they found him in his patrol car this morning.::Stuart Dempsey: Oh my God, what happened?::Detective Russell: You remember that little junkie, Curtis Weaver?::Stuart Dempsey: He was a dealer...yeah...what's that got to do with anything?::Detective Russell: That's what I was hoping you could tell me.::Stuart Dempsey: Look, the only person who knows for sure what happened to Curtis, is Curtis, and he's dead.::Detective Russell: And that would be a problem.::Stuart Dempsey: And how is that my problem?::Detective Russell: Stuart, they've come to clear the books, they've come to make things right once and for all.::Stuart Dempsey: Who?::Detective Russell: The dead.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
domenica 16 luglio 2006
[ninja] ninja commandements
"L'impero Ninja ha le sue feroci leggi e chi osa trasgredire conosce la morte. Questa è la stora di tre ribelli (Ivan il Rosso, Rodneg e Janet) che hanno cercato di infrangere il codice a cui avevano giurato sacra fedeltà."
Questo recita il retro di copertina, ciccando giusto il nome di Rodney ed il fatto che i trasgressori erano in due (tale "Ivan il Rosso" non venga mai neppure nominato).
Ninja Commandments è forse uno dei film più rappresentativi del suo genere: i due "film" di cui è composto non si sfiorano nemmeno, ed il girato hong-kongese sembra essere il più laido ed insensato film drammatico che sia mai stato abortito in fase di produzione. Non è un film facile e non è consigliabile come primo "film di ninja", ma non di meno è una vera pietra miliare dell'auto-punizione cinematografica... e poi ci sono i 10 (o quanti sono) comandamenti ninja!
Il saggio capo dell'impero ninja ha quattro seri problemi:
- è brutto che ammazza,
- si è fatto soffiare da sotto il naso delle antiche spade,
- deve punire i disertori Rodney e Janet,
- ha uno stuolo di fessi al proprio comando.
Rodney e Janet invece hanno violato la prima regola del catto-impero ninja: "niente sesso prematrimoniale"! È una cosa seria, vanno puniti! Tanto seria che non se ne occupa nessuno, ed in ogni caso nell'altro girato non ci sono ninja, quindi perché preoccuparsi?
Approfittando dell'assenza di Gordon, invece, Il Cattivo Di Cui Non Ricordo Il Nome decide che è ora di uccidere il maestro e prendere il suo posto. Tornato senza l'ombra di una spada Gordon combatterà contro tale ingiustizia (certamente tra i precetti ninja c'è anche "non uccidere il maestro"!) fino al feroce duello finale.
Altrove, nel frattempo, Rodney scopre che sua moglie Janet è incinta e decide di trovarsi un lavoro dignitoso e remunerativo: comprare ciarpame porta e porta. Purtroppo, senza alcuna ragione apparente, viene accusato da un piccolo malavitoso locale del furto di una orripilante teiera in ghisa, crimine evidentemente molto grave da quelle parti, dato che Rodney viene prontamente incarcerato in attesa di giudizio... e liberato per decorrenza dei termini 30 anni dopo (il sistema giudiziario hong-kongese mi lascia perplesso).
Janet scodella dunque l'inutile bastardo Danny ma, per salvarlo dall'incendio della loro capanna, resta ustionata al volto. Vergognandosene, decide di spacciarsi con Danny, ora cresciuto, come una sua zia.
Danny cresce complessato a causa della "zia" sfigurata, che maltratta e mette in imbarazzo.
Una volta diventato adulto scoprirà la verità e cercherà di far reincontrare il padre (finalmente uscito di galera) con la madre, ma un triste destino è in agguato...
Seguendo le vicissitudini di questi disgraziati avremo, ogni volta che Rodney o Janet alzano gli occhi al cielo, delle comparsate del maestro ninja morto che, dal suo paradiso ninja, dispensa perle di saggezze e precetti ninja.
A dire il vero tali comandamenti sono solo molto vagamente collegati alle loro vicende terrene, il che mi lascia pensare che il maestro ninja faccia un po' le veci dei biscottini della fortuna o dei bigliettini nei baci perugina, ma tant'è...
Da non perdere: la scalata di Gordon dell'Everest hong-kongese al solo fine di gridare "NINJA!" in cima; i cattivi vestiti come i ninja della roma ed i buoni vestiti come i ninja della lazio; i fulmini di frankenstein nei momenti drammatici del finale.
Voto: 2. Trashometro® 10/10: (autopunitivo all'estremo, fate attenzione!)
Tags: ninja, gordon, maestro, grande maestro che si fa accoppare come un deficiente, precetti ninja, saggezza, prigione, miseria, ustioni, vendetta, trash.
Ninja Commandments (1987)
Regista: Joseph Lai
Valutazione: 5.0/10 (5 voti)
Paese: HongKong
Lingua: English
Cast:
- Richard Harrison .... Ninja Master Gordon
- Dave Wheeler
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
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