Wednesday, June 25, 2008

The List part II

Soooo I've compiled a list of new movies to add to the already established list:

List Part Two

Tank Girl: http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/movie/decade/1990-1999/tank-girl/

An asteroid crash lands on earth and destroys everything. The survivors struggle for water and an evil company has its hands on the last vestige of this precious commodity. Enter Tank Girl. She gathers together a ragtag group of survivors to fight this evil company. The movie is interspersed with live action and cartoon, as well as Ice Tea as a dog mutant.

Miyazaki: The Japanese Disney (only he kept his hard edge as Disney itself lost it)

Princess Monoke: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119698/

A girl is raised by the wolf spirit and her daughters. She wages a battle between an early industrial town and its harvesting of iron ore in the forest of the spirits. Watch as a catastrophe unfolds.

Nausica: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087544/

In the Valley of the Wind, the survivors of an ecological holocaust live in peace and harmony with their environment. Unfortunately, other groups of survivors are fighting each other and disturbing the horrible creatures that live within the toxic jungle that threatens to wipe out their existence. Nausica may be the chosen one to help save humanity from itself.

Tsotsi: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468565/

A South African youth from the poor shanty towns, runs with a bad crowd of “have nots” committing crime on the “haves”. One night, this youth shoots a woman and steals her car only to discover he has stolen her baby as well. A powerful story mixed with plenty of South African culture and popular music.

Army of Darkness: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106308/

Ash is sent through a portal in time and space while fighting an ancient evil, to the Dark Ages in Europe. While there he uses his 20th century knowledge and his chainsaw hand to help the people fight the evil Army of the Dead led by his foul doppleganger.

Blade Runner: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/

Replicants are used in the future to fight humanity’s wars. Replicants are genetically engineered humans with greatly reduced lives. A replicant hunter is sent on a task to hunt and destroy a group of escaped replicants who desperately seek their creator with a will to live past their expiration date.

Brazil: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/

In a dystopic society, people are kept complacent of the horrors that surround them. A man’s dreamy existence is disturbed by a beautiful freedom fighter and he is drawn into her world with delusions of grandeur, oblivious to the danger he is in and the hopelessness and despair of his world.

Heavy Metal: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082509/

Animation series of shorts revolving around an evil ball. Is a cult classic known for its adult animation style and rock and roll.

City of God: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317248/

A story about the cycle of violence seen through the eyes and lens of a youth with a camera. You watch as he grows up in the 70’s and see how living is a game of survival and how those in power foster the growth of the destructive existence of youth in Brazil.

Scanner Darkly: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405296/

A narc detective takes on a false persona in the future to investigate a supplier of a powerful drug. He himself is a user though and his persona as detective and as drug seller get confused and mixed up in this powerful psychological tale of addiction and identity.

Time Bandits: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081633/

Dwarves called the Time Bandits hunt for treasure through time. A youth joins them on a dark fairy tale-like romp.

Pan’s Labyrinth: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457430/

A girl is whisked away by her family to the Spanish Countryside during the Spanish Civil War. Her step father is an officer and has just married and impregnated her mother with his child. You glimpse into two worlds of horror as the little girl follows the forest god Pan and undertakes tasks to prove she is the reincarnated daughter of the rulers of the underworld; whilst her step father murders and kills those he suspects as rebels.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072271/

70’s horror classic sure to make you skin crawl as people are executed in life like fashion (complete with spasms). A group of young adults head into the Texas boondocks to find a home in which one of them used to live. They are picked off by a family of cannibals and their deformed, large, son with a mask of human skin over his head and chainsaw in his hands.

Jackie Chan : Yea, you know who he is

Operation Condor II: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091431/

Jackie Condor travels around Europe looking for sacred armour while fighting baddies. Look out for the Amazon chicks and the evil monks. A good laugh.

Rumble in the Bronx: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113326/

Jackie Chan goes to Brooklyn to visit family and ends up fighting a gang and a mob.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068555/

A series of sketch comedy based on the book. Made famous by its last sketch.

Stir Crazy: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081562/

A team flick between Richard Pryor (Comedic Genius) and Gene Wilder (of Wonka Fame). The duo end up going to jail and we get to witness the race centred jokes and tension in comedic fashion.

Irréversible: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290673/

A woman is brutally raped and her lover and ex join together to find the man who did this to her. Done in the style of the film Momento.

A Clockwork Orange: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/

Alex, a charming ol’ bloc, is the leader of a gang of violent youth in a dytopic future Britain. Together they rape and cause general social carnage. After he is caught a process is used to brainwash him into being a good citizen. Based on the book of the same name. Stanley Kubrick classic.

The Spook Who Sat by the Door: http://www.goldmedalhair.com/cart/detail.cfm?item=D520

Dan Freeman, a black man, joins the CIA and puts on a friendly demeanour, unbeknownst to them is secretly carrying out plans to start a black militant revolution.

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