Posts Tagged ‘breaking-the-fourth-wall’
BachelorMan (2003)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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In these times of enlightened sexual politics, Ted Davis is a scoring machine. He’s got the rap, the charm and his little black book weighs several pounds. Ted has become a guru to his buddies who can only aspire in awe to his greatness. This is a man’s man, a ladies man, a super-hero: He’s Ted Davis: “BachelorMan” When the woman of his dreams, “Heather” moves in next door, Ted’s ordeal begins. She’s beautiful, long-legged, athletic and LOUD. Her constant groans and howls of amorous pleasure turn Ted’s domain of conquest and libidinous triumph into a nightmare world of BachelorMan-Interruptus. So the hunt begins as Ted delivers a first round of come-ons and invitations for his object of desire to become entangled, but nothing works. When all seems hopeless, Ted gets some guidance from his good friend Meg that turns the situation around: “Don’t scam on her, listen to her, be SINCERE.” Of course! Ted runs next door to attest his true feelings for the only woman he could ever love – and sure enough – it works! They fall passionately into each other’s arms. Realizing that in this love-induced haze, he’s been tricked into turning his life upside-down, Ted breaks it off with Heather to again pursue his destiny as “BachelorMan.” But something is very wrong in single and looking land. Ted can’t turn the ladies heads like he used to – none of the scams work. He’s lost his super powers, and it will take all of BachelorMan’s skill and cunning to get his Lois Lane back. |
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Based on the biography of the same name. The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is the story of the comic actor, who would later immortalize bumbling Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther series. From his beginnings in show business as a variety performer to his ultimate success as a movie star, Peter Sellers was a man of many faces. But it was also that moniker that caught up with his personal life, when Sellers was a man without an identity and only a library of oddball characters to make up for his personality. Focusing on his rising success and his family life, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is the story of a man whose personal life clashed with stardom, while he was an individual completely immersed in the characters he portrayed. |
National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze (2003)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Dorm Daze unfolds during a crazy afternoon at a university co-ed dormitory in the days before Christmas break when one of the students, Styles McFee (Patrick Renna), hires a prostitute named Dominique (Boti Bliss) for his unwitting brother, Booker (Chris Owen), to lose his virginity. But Booker prefers to loose his virginity to his long-term sweetheart Rachel (Gable Carr) just down the hall. Meanwhile, another student, named Wang (Paul H. Kim), awaits the arrival of a French foreign exchange student, who speaks little English, also named Dominique (Marie Nicolle Marquis). Farcical wackiness ensues as a series of mistaken identities and mishaps escalate into monumental proportions starting when Wang leaves for work, Dominique the Student arrives and is mistaken for the prositute by Styles, while Dominique the Hooker is mistaken for the student by others including the two dorm gossip queens Lynn (Jennifer Lyons) and Marla (Danielle Fischel). Other characters involve Adrienne (Cameron Richardson), who is targeted by the dorm geek, Newmar (Tony Denman), with whom they had a drunken fling the night before. Adrienne tries to find a missing handbag belonging to her friend, Claire (Tatyana Ali), who is having boyfriend troubles with Tony (Edwin Hodge). Adrienne’s roommate, Gerri (Mariah Delfino), inadvertently gets her hands on another handbag similar looking to Claire’s which is filled with $30,000 in cash. Gerri is soon mistaken for a shadowy hitwoman, named Britany the Snake, by a local gangster named Lorenzo (Courtney Gains). Elsewhere, Pete’s (Patrick Cavanaugh) punk friend Cliff (Jamed DeBello) enters the dorm when Pete has to go to work. Cliff soon teams up with Dominique the Hooker to find the missing handbag with the cash while the token gay student Foosball (Randy Spelling) works his way through all the plots of this collegiate comedy of Shakespearean proportions. |
Braveheart (2004)Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 |
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The movie begins in the small town of Elerslie, Scotland. William lives with his father, who is not named in the film, and his older brother Malcolm. William’s father and older brother are called to a meeting a few miles from their home where they find the entire nobility of Scotland hanging. Malcolm and his father then go to a battle between the British and their clan, both die tragically. At the funeral William meets his uncle Argyle who fought in the battle with Malcolm and his father. He takes him away to live with him. The scene then cuts to an adult William on his horse. William later runs into a girl he knew before he went to live with Argyle, her name, Murron, we discover that Lords have the right to sleep with brides on their wedding night, so William marries Murron in secret. Murron is the assaulted by a British guard, the guard is killed by William, a fight ensues, and eventually Murron is killed by the lord. This enrages Wallace who then build himself a fine army entering city’s and killing all Englishman within. Wallace prepares to move on to Sterling where he prepared for his greatest battle yet, in the forest he realises that he must find a way to beat the heavy cavalry from the ground, he decided to create spears twice as long as men. These were used in the battle to kill the entire heavy cavalry raised at the last minute to kill the on coming horses. Eventually Wallace reaches York, the most important military city he gains control. Williams final battle at Falkirk ends in his betrayal by two nobles, whom he later kills. William is betrayed by the leper father of Robert the Bruce, is captured and refuses to bow down as a loyal subject of the king Edward I, Longshanks. Therefore, instead of mere beheading William Wallace is subject to being Hung, hung within an inch of death. Drawn, being stretched by his ankles and wrists and then having his insides shown to him before he died. Then Quartered, he was beheaded and his head was put on the London Bridge his body was torn into for pieces one sent to each corner of Britain as a warning to the citizens. After Wallace’s death we see Robert the Bruce led the battle of Bannockburn the last battle for Scotland’s freedom. |
Confidence (2003)Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 |
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What Jake Vig doesn’t know just might get him killed. A sharp and polished grifter, Jake has just swindled thousands of dollars from the unsuspecting Lionel Dolby with the help of his crew: Insideman Gordo, Shills Miles, and Big Al—and two corrupt LAPD officers, Lloyd Whitworth and Omar Manzano. But when both Lionel and Big Al turn up dead, it becomes clear that Lionel wasn’t just any mark—as Jake soon learns, he was an accountant for eccentric crime boss Winston King. Never one to shy away from a challenge, Jake offers to repay The King by pulling off the biggest con of his career. The mark? Morgan Price, a banker with deep ties to organized crime. With so much riding on the outcome, Jake decides to bring in a brash, blonde pickpocket named Lily, who joins the crew in a complex scheme involving corporate loans, creative accounting, wire transfers and off-shore accounts. Jake and his crew will have to stay one step ahead of both the criminals and the cops to finally settle their debt. |
The NeverEnding Story (1984)Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 |
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Bastian is a young boy who lives a dreary life being tormented by school bullies. On one such occasion he escapes into a book shop where the old proprieter reveals an ancient story-book to him, which he is warned can be dangerous. Shortly after, he “borrows” the book and begins to read it in the school attic where he is drawn into the mythical land of Fantasia, which desperately needs a hero to save it from destruction. |
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)Saturday, July 11th, 2009 |
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The movie starts out with Arthur, King of the Britons, looking for knights to sit with him at Camelot. He finds many knights including Sir Galahad the pure, Sir Lancelot the brave, the quiet Sir Bedevere, and Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Lancelot. They do not travel on horses, but pretend they do and have their servants bang coconuts to make the sound of horse’s hooves. Through satire of certain events in history (witch trials, the black plague) they find Camelot, but after literally a quick song and dance they decide that they do not want to go there. While walking away, God (who seems to be grumpy) come to them from a cloud and tells them to find the Holy Grail. They agree and begin their search… Search keywords |
Annie Hall (1977)Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 |
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After breaking up with his girlfriend Annie Hall, neurotic comedian Alvy Singer goes on a stream of conciousness journey through his memories of their relationship, trying to find out what caused them to part ways. He often breaks the fourth wall, speaking to the camera, entering peoples’ stories, and even using animation. |
Young Frankenstein (1974)Thursday, June 4th, 2009 |
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When the will of Victor Frankenstein, the famous scientist who attempted to reanimate dead bodies, is opened, his grandson, Frederick, who’s become a skilled neurosurgeon and teacher and has cut most ties with his family name due to his grandfather’s experiments, is given the castle where all the experiments were made. Upon his arrival, Frederick finds and reads through his grandfather’s book about his theories and experiments and discovers that they might in fact work. Assisted by Igor, the grandson of the Igor who assisted Victor Frankenstein, and Inga, an attractive lab assistant, he successfully reanimates a body which soon escapes and creates havoc… |
The Meaning of Life (1983)Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 |
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The Monty Python group examines the meaning and purpose of life in a series of sketches from conception to death and beyond. In typical Monty Python fashion they satirizes and humourizes almost everyone. |
Equus (1977)Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 |
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A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy’s demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own. |
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)Thursday, March 12th, 2009 |
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Four horror/science-fiction segments directed by four of Hollywood’s famous directors based on TV’s most popular anthology series, bookened by a funny and scary prologue and epilogue featuring Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks. In the first story directed by John Landis (a vague remake of the Twilight Zone episode “A Quality of Mercy”) a loud-mouthed bigotted businessman (Vic Morrow) with an intense hatred for Jews, blacks, and Asians, gets the tables turned on him when he walks out a bar and is inexplicably transported back in time to being pursued by Nazis in 1940’s France, then as an African-American at a KKK rally in the 1950s Deep South, and as a Vietnamese in 1960s Vietnam. The second story directed by Stephen Spielberg (a remake of ‘Kick the Can’) an old man (Scatman Crothers) arrives at a retirement home and makes the wishes of the residents come true when he magically transforms them into youthful incarnations of their days gone by. The third story directed by Joe Dante (a remake of ‘It’s a Good Life’) a young woman on the road (Kathleen Quinlan) gives a ride to a mysterous 10-year-old boy (Jeremy Licth) to his house and ends up trapped with other people in an alternate reality created by the boy’s imagination. The fourth story directed by George Miller (a remake of ‘Nightmare at 20,000 Feet) stars John Lithgow as an passenger on an airline whom sees, but cannot convince anyone, a mysterious creature on the outside wing of the airplane trying to sabotage the aircraft. |
Hard-Boiled ()Thursday, February 5th, 2009 |
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A hard-boiled Hong Kong detective (Chow Yun-Fat), who lost his partner in a gunfight, working with an undercover cop (Tony Leung) to stop a ruthless mob crime of smuggling weapons and killing innocent people. Ένα βραστό σκληρό ντετέκτιβ Χονγκ Κονγκ (Chow Yun-Fat), ο οποίος έχασε τη εταίρος σε μια gunfight, συνεργάζεται με ένας μυστικός αστυνομικός (Tony Leung) για να σταματήσει έναν ανελέητο κιν εγκλήματος από το λαθρεμπόριο όπλων και σκοτώνοντας αθώους ανθρώπους. |
The Wild Bunch ()Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 |
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A few months before the First World War an age tape of criminals controlled by the pike bishop robs a bank intention of Texas while using the money to withdraw. If the robbery fails, the gang is made flee to Mexico with the reformed ex-partner of the bishop, Deke Thornton in the hot pursuit. With nothing to appear for the fruitless robbery the gang of the bishop is ready to steal a broadcasting of guns for general “Mapache” Juerta, to restore her luck. With Thornton who, and her union with the bad Juerta the attempts of her conscience, bishop and co breaks. prepare for her lawless past to catch up them. Ein paar Monate vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg raubt ein Altersband von vom Hecht-Bischof geführten Verbrechern eine Bankabsicht von Texas beim Verwenden des Geldes aus, um sich zurückzuziehen. Wenn der Raub schief geht, wird die Bande gezwungen, nach Mexiko mit dem reformierten Ex-Partner des Bischofs, Deke Thornton in der heißen Verfolgung zu fliehen. Mit nichts, um sich für den erfolglosen Raub zu zeigen, ist die Bande des Bischofs bereit, eine Sendung von Pistolen für Allgemeinen “Mapache” Juerta zu stehlen, ihre Glücke wieder herzustellen. Mit Thornton, der, und ihrer Vereinigung mit dem schlechten Juerta das Versuchen ihres Gewissens, Bischofs und co hereinbricht. bereiten Sie sich auf ihre gesetzlose Vergangenheit vor, sie einzuholen. |
Hotel Rwanda ()Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 |
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Ten years ago some of the worst atrocities in the history of humanity happened in the country of Rwanda – and in an epoch of communication of high speed and round the clock news, events went almost unobserved by the rest of the world. In only three months, a million persons was savagely assassinated. Facing this indescribable actions, inspired by his love for his family, a common man calls extraordinary courage to save the lives of more than thousand powerless refugees, by granting them the shelter in the hotel which he runs. Il y a dix ans certaines des pires atrocités dans l’histoire d’humanité sont survenues dans le pays du Rwanda – et dans une ère de communication de grande vitesse et 24 heures sur 24 nouvelles, les événements sont allés presque inaperçus par le reste du monde. Dans seulement trois mois, un million de personnes ont été sauvagement assassinées. Face à ces actions indescriptibles, inspirées par son amour pour sa famille, un homme ordinaire convoque le courage extraordinaire pour sauver les vies de plus de mille réfugiés impuissants, en les accordant l’abri dans l’hôtel qu’il dirige. |
King Arthur ()Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 |
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The Roman Empire is stretched across many nations, even Great Britain. In his conquest for more ground, the Romans entered Sarmatia where they fought against Sarmatian very brave cavalery. The Romans, impressed for weaponery of Sarmatian and clashes against skills, included them in his army like gentlemen. After 15 years of portion and clashes for the Roman Empire the Gentleman Sarmatian, lead for Arthur/Artorious Castus, they are on the point of getting his freedom when the Romans leave Great Britain. But the Gentlemen must realize a final order before they are free. A Roman priest and his family, especially his son Alecto, must be rescued of the invasion Saxon ones. But there is another danger that is to the watching in the way to the freedom – the Woads, British rebels who hate the Romans. El Imperio romano es estirado a través de muchas naciones, incluso Gran Bretaña. En su conquista para más tierra, los romanos entraron en Sarmatia donde ellos lucharon contra Sarmatian muy valiente cavalery. Los romanos, impresionados por weaponery de Sarmatian y enfrentamientos contra habilidades, los incluyeron en su ejército como caballeros. Después de 15 años de porción y enfrentamientos por el Imperio romano los Caballeros Sarmatian, plomo por Arthur/Artorious Castus, están a punto de recibir su libertad cuando los romanos dejan Gran Bretaña. Pero los Caballeros deben realizar una orden final antes de que ellos sean libres. Un sacerdote romano y su familia, sobre todo su hijo Alecto, deben ser rescatados de los sajones de invasión. Pero hay otro peligro que está al acecho en el camino a la libertad – los Glastos, rebeldes británicos que odian a los romanos. |
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian ()Monday, November 17th, 2008 |
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One year after his first adventure in Narnia, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy they are withdrawn in by the magic horn of Susan. They think that hundreds of years have happened, and Narnia is governed now by the bloodthirsty general Miraz, uncle to the real heir, prince Caspian Sea, now in the exile. Now the children must find Caspian Sea and help him to lay down Miraz. but how will they come to house after it is done?. Un año después de su primera aventura en Narnia, Peter, Susan, Edmund, y Lucy son retirados en por el cuerno mágico de Susan. Ellos encuentran que cientos de años han pasado, y Narnia es gobernado ahora por el general sanguinario Miraz, tío al heredero verdadero, príncipe Caspio, ahora en el exilio. Ahora los niños deben encontrar Caspio y ayudarle a deponer Miraz. ¿pero cómo llegarán a casa ellos después de que es hecho?. |
The Missing ()Friday, September 19th, 2008 |
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In the 19th century New Mexico, a father (Tommy Lee Jones) comes back home, hoping to be reconciled with his adult daughter Maggie (Cate Blanchett). The daughter of Maggie is kidnapped to work together father and being separated daughter compelling, to get back them. Im 19. Jahrhundert New Mexico, ein Vater (Tommy Lee Jones) kommt zurück nachhause, hoffend, sich mit seiner erwachsenen Tochter Maggie (Cate Blanchett) zu versöhnen. Die Tochter von Maggie wird gekidnappt, Vater und getrennt lebende Tochter zwingend, zusammenzuarbeiten, um sie zurückzubekommen. |
Iron Man (1991)Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 |
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Toni Strongly is the whole playboy who also is by chance a technology genius. While in Afghanistan which demonstrates a new rocket he is arrested and is wounded. His conquerors want that he collects a rocket for them, but, instead, he creates an armoured complaint and means to prevent his death by the shrapnel which is left in his breast by the attack. He uses the armoured complaint to flee. Back in the U. SEE. he announces that his society stops making weapons, and he begins work on an updated armoured complaint only to think, that be Obadiah Stane, acting weapons stiff in stiff industries to the insurgents have sold. He uses his new complaint to return to Afghanistan to destroy the arms and then to prevent Shane, to abuse his research. Toni Stark ist der ganze Lebemann, der auch zufällig ein Technikgenie ist. Während in Afghanistan, das eine neue Rakete demonstriert, er festgenommen und verwundet wird. Seine Eroberer wollen, dass er eine Rakete für sie sammelt, aber stattdessen schafft er eine gepanzerte Klage und ein Mittel, seinen Tod durch den Bombensplitter zu verhindern, der in seiner Brust durch den Angriff verlassen ist. Er verwendet die gepanzerte Klage, um zu flüchten. Zurück im U. S. er gibt bekannt, dass seine Gesellschaft aufhören wird, Waffen zu machen, und er Arbeit an einer aktualisierten gepanzerten Klage beginnt, um nur zu finden, dass Obadiah Stane, sein stellvertretendes an Steifen Industrien Steife Waffen an die Aufständischen verkauft hat. Er verwendet seine neue Klage, um nach Afghanistan zurückzukehren, um die Arme zu zerstören und dann Shane zu verhindern, seine Forschung zu missbrauchen. |
Doomsday ()Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 |
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Great Britain, 2007. A mortal plague, known like “the Harvester’s Virus,” has exploded, killing hundreds of thousands in his stela. In the desperation, the British Government evacuates so many survivors since this can of the infected area, and then he constructs a wall, preventing to the rest from escaping. Thirty years later, with the wall still and the victims all except forgotten, the virus explodes again. The Government decides to send a team of the first of workers led by Commander Eden Sinclair, in the warm area to investigate the possibility of a remedy. Gran Bretaña, 2007. Una plaga mortal, conocida como “el Virus de Segador,” ha estallado, matando cientos de miles en su estela. En la desesperación, el Gobierno británico evacua a tantos sobrevivientes como esto puede del área infectada, y luego construye una pared, impidiendo al resto escaparse. Treinta años más tarde, con la pared todavía y las víctimas todos excepto olvidado, el virus estalla otra vez. El Gobierno decide enviar un equipo de primera de obreros, conducidos por el Comandante Eden Sinclair, en la zona caliente para investigar la posibilidad de una cura. |



















