12 Monkeys
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Plot
James Cole (Willis) is a convicted criminal living in a grim post-apocalyptic future. In 1996–97, the Earth's surface was contaminated by a virus
so deadly that it forced the surviving population to live underground.
At some point in the years that followed, scientists have engineered an
imprecise form of time travel.
To earn a pardon, Cole allows scientists to send him on dangerous
missions to the past to collect information on the virus, thought to be
released by a terrorist organization known as the Army of the Twelve
Monkeys. If possible, he is to obtain a pure sample of the original
virus so a cure can be made. Throughout the film, Cole is troubled with
recurring dreams involving a chase and a shooting in an airport.
On Cole's first trip, he arrives in Baltimore in 1990, not 1996 as
planned. He is arrested and hospitalized in a mental institution on the
diagnosis of Dr. Kathryn Railly (Stowe). There, he encounters Jeffrey
Goines (Pitt), a fellow mental patient with fanatical animal rights and anti-consumerist
leanings. Cole tries unsuccessfully to leave a voicemail on a number
monitored by the scientists in the future. After a failed escape
attempt, Cole is restrained and locked in a cell, but then disappears,
returning to the future. Back in his own time, Cole is interviewed by
the scientists, who play a distorted voice mail message which gives the
location of the Army of the Twelve Monkeys and states that they are
responsible for the virus. He is also shown photos of numerous people
suspected of being involved with the virus, including Goines. The
scientists then send him back to 1996.
Cole kidnaps Railly and sets out in search of Goines, learning that
he is the founder of the Army of the Twelve Monkeys. When confronted,
however, Goines denies any involvement with the virus and suggests that
wiping out humanity was Cole's idea, originally broached at the asylum
in 1990. Cole vanishes again as the police approach. After Cole
disappears, Railly begins to doubt her diagnosis of Cole when she finds
evidence that he is telling the truth, including a photograph from World War I in which Cole appears. Cole, on the other hand, convinces himself that his future experiences are hallucinations,
and persuades the scientists to send him back again. Railly attempts to
settle the question of Cole's sanity by leaving a voice mail on the
number he provided, creating the message the scientists played prior to
his second mission. They both now realize that the coming plague is
real, and make plans to enjoy the time they have left.
On their way to the airport, they learn that the Army of the Twelve Monkeys is a red herring;
all the Army has done is delay traffic by releasing all the animals in
the zoo. At the airport, Cole leaves a last message telling the
scientists they are on the wrong track following the Army of the Twelve
Monkeys, and that he will not return. He is soon confronted by Jose (Jon Seda),
an acquaintance from his own time, who gives Cole a handgun and
instructions to complete his mission. At the same time, Railly spots the
true culprit behind the virus: Dr. Peters (David Morse),
an assistant at the virology lab run by Goines's father. Peters is
about to embark on a tour of several cities around the world, which
matches the sequence (memorized by Cole) of viral outbreaks. After
forcing his way through the security checkpoint in pursuit of Peters,
Cole is fatally shot by police. As Cole dies in Railly's arms, she makes
eye contact with a small boy: the young James Cole witnessing the scene
of his own death, which will replay in his dreams for years to come.
Dr. Peters, aboard the plane with the virus, sits down next to Jones
(Florence), one of the lead scientists from the future.
LEONARDO DCARPIO
Inception
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Plot
Former dream architect Dominic "Dom" Cobb and business partner Arthur perform corporate espionage using an experimental military-developed machine to infiltrate the subconscious of their targets and extract information while dreaming, their latest target being Japanese businessman Saito. Tiered dream within a dream strategies are used and dreamers awaken by a "kick"
such as falling or by dying in the dream. If the dreamer is the one who
awakens, the dream "collapses". Each extractor carries a totem, a small
object the behavior of which is only predictable to its owner, used to
determine whether a dreamer is in someone else's dream. Cobb's totem is a
spinning top
that perpetually spins in the dream state. The extraction fails due to
Mallorie "Mal" Cobb, Cobb's deceased wife, whose memory projection
sabotages the mission. Saito reveals, after Cobb's and Arthur's
associate sells them out, that he was actually auditioning the team to
perform the difficult act of inception: implanting an idea into a
person's subconscious while they sleep.
Saito wishes to break up the energy conglomerate
of his ailing competitor Maurice Fischer, by planting the idea in his
son and heir Robert Fischer to disintegrate his father's company. Should
Cobb succeed, Saito would use his influence to clear a murder charge
against Cobb, so he can return to the United States and his children.
Cobb accepts the offer and assembles his team: Eames, a conman and
identity forger; Yusuf, a chemist who concocts the powerful sedative for a stable dream within a dream strategy; Ariadne, an architecture student tasked with designing the labyrinth of the dream landscapes; and Arthur. Saito accompanies so that he knows whether or not Cobb and his team succeeded.
When the elder Fischer dies in Sydney and his body is flown back to
Los Angeles, the team share the flight with Robert Fischer and Cobb
sedates him, bringing him into the shared dream. At each stage, the
member of the team generating the dream stays behind to initiate the
"kick", while the other members sleep within the dream to travel a level
deeper. In the first level, Yusuf's rainy downtown dream, the team
abducts Fischer. However Fischer's trained subconscious projections
attack and severely wound Saito. Eames temporarily takes the appearance
of Fischer's godfather, Peter Browning, to suggest Fischer reconsider
his father's will.
Yusuf drives the team in a van as they are sedated into Arthur's dream,
a hotel, where the team recruit Fischer, convincing him his kidnapping
was orchestrated by Browning. In the third dream level, a snowy mountain
fortress dreamed by Eames, Fischer is told they are in Browning's
subconscious, but they are really going deeper into Fischer's. Yusuf,
under assault by trained projections, initiates his kick too soon by
driving off a bridge, sending Arthur's dream world into zero-gravity and
causing an avalanche in Eames' dream. Arthur improvises a new kick
using an elevator that will be synchronized with the van hitting the
water, while the team in Eames' dream races to finish the job before the
new round of kicks.
Due to the effects of heavy sedation and multi-layered dreaming, death during this mission will result in entering Limbo,
dream space of unknown content where the dreamer could be trapped.
Elapsed time in each dream level is roughly twenty times greater than in
the level above it; in Limbo, the deepest level of all, 24 hours of
outer-world time would be experienced as about half a century. Cobb
reveals to Ariadne that he spent "fifty years" with Mal in Limbo
constructing a world from their shared memories whilst seemingly growing
old together. After returning to the waking world, Mal remained
convinced she was still dreaming and committed suicide, trying to
persuade Cobb to do so by retroactively incriminating him in her death.
He fled the U.S. and left his children behind, ostensibly in the care of
his father-in-law.
Saito succumbs to his wounds, and Cobb's projection of Mal sabotages the plan by killing Fischer, sending them both into Limbo.[15]
Cobb and Ariadne enter Limbo to find Fischer and Saito, while Eames
remains on his dream level to set up a kick by rigging the fortress with
explosives. Cobb confronts his projection of Mal, who tries convincing
him to stay in Limbo. Cobb refuses and confesses that he was responsible
for Mal's suicide: having convinced her to leave Limbo by using
inception to plant the idea in her mind that the world they had been
living in for fifty years was not real, and hence the need to kill
themselves in order to return to the real world, once back in the real
world she continued to believe dying would wake her. Mal attacks Cobb
but Ariadne shoots her. Through his confession, Cobb attains catharsis
and chooses to remain in Limbo to search for Saito. Ariadne pushes
Fischer off a balcony, bringing him back up to the mountain fortress,
where he enters a safe room to discover and accept the planted idea:
that his father wishes him to be his "own man", and that splitting up
the conglomerate might not be a radical notion.
All of the team members except Cobb and Saito ride the synchronized
kicks back to reality: Ariadne jumps off a balcony in Limbo, Eames
detonates the explosives in the fortress, Arthur blasts an elevator
containing the team's sleeping bodies up an elevator shaft, and the van
in Yusuf's dream hits the water. Cobb eventually finds an aged Saito and
the two remember their arrangement, presumably killing themselves and
awakening to outer-world reality on the airplane. Saito honors the
arrangement and Cobb passes through U.S. customs
once the plane lands in Los Angeles. Before reuniting with his
children, Cobb tests reality with his spinning top, but he turns away to
greet them before observing the results.
Titanic
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Plot
The Titanic was the largest vessel afloat, and was widely
believed to be unsinkable. Her passengers included the cream of American
and British society. The story of her sinking is told from the point of
view of her passengers and crew, principally Second Officer Charles Lightoller (Kenneth More).
Once in the open sea on her maiden voyage, the Titanic receives a number of ice warnings from nearby steamers. Captain Edward J. Smith (Laurence Naismith) is unconcerned and the ship continues on at high speed.
Late on 14 April 1912, lookout Frederick Fleet (Bernard Fox) spots an iceberg directly in front of the ship. The ship turns hard to port, but the Titanic collides with the iceberg on its starboard side, opening the first five compartments to the sea, below the waterline. Thomas Andrews (Michael Goodliffe),
the ship's builder, inspects the damage and finds that the ship will
soon sink, a bad situation made horrific by the fact the ship does not
have sufficient lifeboat capacity for everyone on board.
A distress signal is immediately sent out, and efforts begin to signal a ship (depicted to be the SS Californian)
that is seen on the horizon, a mere 10 miles away. But the ship's radio
operator is off duty and he does not hear the distress signal.
Fortunately, the radio operator on the RMS Carpathia receives the distress call, understands the emergency and immediately alerts Captain Arthur Rostron (Anthony Bushell) who promptly orders the ship to head to the Titanic at maximum speed.
Captain Smith orders his officers Lightoller and William Murdoch
to start lowering the lifeboats. Many women and children are reluctant
to get in a small, cramped lifeboat, and Murdoch and Lightoller must use
force to put them in. Many men try to sneak into the lifeboats, but
Lightoller will not allow them. Murdoch, working the other side of the
ship, is shown as more accommodating to men. As the stewards struggle to
hold back women and children holding third-class tickets ("steerage"),
most of the women and children from second and first class climb into
the lifeboats and launch away from the ship.
The bow of the ship is swiftly taking in a lot of water and there are
only two collapsible lifeboats left. Lightoller and other able seamen
struggle to untie them and, unable to take the time to put passengers
into the boats, leave them in the hope that the boats will save more
lives.
The RMS Carpathia
is four hours away and is racing to the site, in hope of saving more
lives. The ship sinks amid much chaos on the decks, with third class
passengers allowed up from below after the boats are gone.
Lightoller and many others swim off the ship. The ship sinks deeper
into the water; suddenly a funnel breaks loose and crashes into the
water and the ship goes down. One of the overturned collapsibles is
floating, so Lightoller and a few more men balance on the boat and wait.
Chief Baker Charles Joughin
is found in the water, not minding the cold because he's been drinking,
and pulled up on the boat. Lightoller spots another lifeboat and the
men are saved. The Carpathia comes and rescues the survivors.
As the film ends, Lightoller, the senior surviving officer, reflects
that they were all so sure about the safety of the ship, and that he
will "never be sure again, about anything."
HARRISON FORD
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STEVEN SPIELBERG
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VIN DIESEL
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MARK WAHLBERG
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CHOW YUN FAT
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JACKIE CHAN
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JASON STATHAM
ANGELINA JONES
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SO CLOSE MOVIES
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NAKED WEAPON
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POLICE STORY
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AZUMI I
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MISC
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TURBULENCE 1
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Plot
After Ryan Weaver is arrested for a murder that he says he did not
commit, he must be transported to Los Angeles. He and another prisoner
are escorted by four air marshals on a Boeing 747 on a commercial flight. Even though it is Christmas Eve, the plane is nearly empty, with only eight people on board.
During the flight, Stubbs, the other prisoner being escorted, breaks
free and begins a shootout with the marshals. Amidst the chaos, both the
pilot and co-pilot are killed. Weaver frees himself and attempts to
save the last remaining marshal, but fails when both Stubbs and the
marshal are shot dead.
Weaver appears to be horrified by the ordeal, increasing the
passengers' trust in him. Because of the death of the pilots, Teri
Halloran, a stewardess, makes her way into the cockpit and learns she is
the only one left capable of keeping the plane from crashing. To make
matters worse, the plane is heading for a Category 6 storm.
Weaver's behavior becomes increasingly erratic. He locks the
passengers in the crew's cabin and strangles Maggie, one of the other
flight attendants. His motives had become clear to Teri after she spoke,
via the plane's radio, with the detective who arrested him.
Being the only hope for the plane's survival, Halloran must be
instructed by radio how to land. Halloran's first attempt is
unsuccessful, with the plane skimming an office building and a car park
due to Weaver's meddling with the flight controls. She then must turn
the plane around and leave L.A. airspace.
Halloran begs LAX
not to have her shot down as a result of her failed first attempt and
insists that she can land the plane. At this point, Weaver, at the peak
of his madness, breaks into the cockpit and tries to murder her.
Halloran spies one of the marshals' guns, which she uses to kill Weaver.
She returns to the pilot's seat and safely lands the plane. Despite the
boasts of Weaver that he killed them all, the passengers are found
alive.
TURBULENCE 2
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In this action-packed drama, a group of people who have completed a
therapy program to overcome their severe fear of flying celebrate with a
group flight to L.A. However, they soon discover that there are
perfectly good reasons to be afraid of airliners -- a group of
terrorists highjack the jet, murdering the pilot and threatening to kill
all the passengers with chemical weapons. With the captain's chair
empty, one of the passengers is forced to bring the plane safely to the
ground. Turbulence
II: Fear of Flying stars Craig Sheffer, Jennifer Beals, and Tom Berenger. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
TURBULENCE 3
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Plot
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This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. (February 2013) |
The film opens in Los Angeles International Airport where fans and haters of heavy metal singer Slade Craven (John Mann) gather up. Craven will perform his farewell concert on a Boeing 747 operated TransCon Airlines flight 619, which will be flying from Los Angeles to Toronto,
and the concert is scheduled to be broadcast over the internet. The FAA
has received threats that they had better allow this concert to take
place. Erica Black (Monika Schnarre) is a news anchor who is on the airplane with her cameraman Ethan (Ben Derrick),
covering the concert. The fans board the plane and later Craven and his
band get on while the crew checks everything. During the safety
demonstration, the fans do not pay attention and they cheer saying
Craven many times.
For the past two years, FBI agent Kate Hayden (Gabrielle Anwar) has been after hacker Nick Watts (Craig Sheffer),
who has gained access to the live broadcast of the concert. After
having snacks, Craven and his band start the concert and perform “Gun
Love” and do tricks. Later when Craven is backstage at the first class
toilet, an unknown person corners him and assumes his personality. The
anonymous person then kills Craven's manager. When Kate arrives at
Nick's home, they both see something that they never thought was
supposed to be part of the broadcast. Craven kills captain Collins and
takes the airplane hostage. Kate places a call and tells fellow agent
Frank Garner and his partner Dave Barrett to check it out. Garner and
Barrett head to the offices of Z-Web-TV, the company that's broadcasting
the concert and it is the same company that Erica works for, and the
company is run by Benny Mitchell. When Barrett calls the FAA tower in
San Diego and talks to Mr. Stopnow, the head of the tower and his staff,
an explosion splinters the tower, killing everyone in there. Garner and
Barrett think that Craven has accomplices on the ground.
Kate and Nick use Nick's equipment to figure out who the hostage
taker is and later find out that he is not the real Slade Craven, but an
impostor named Simon Flanders (also played by Mann; voice by (Brian Dobson),
and it is revealed that he was the anonymous person who cornered Craven
and abducted him by tying up and locked him in a room in the cargo
hold, and the room has a computer in it. They then find more information
that Simon is a member of a Satanic Cult called Guardians of the
Gateway, who see themselves as the vanguard of the Antichrist who will
rule the next millennium. He learns that Simon was previously suspected
of murder and charged with 5 counts of Arson with all of the charges
dropped due to insufficient evidence.
The plane strays off its normal flight path, and is heading toward Stull, Kansas,
because there is a small church there that Simon and his accomplices
from the cult plan to crash the airplane in, because they believe that
Satan will be released by the crash. Nick checks the internet and finds
research that when the Pope visited Colorado in 1996, he refused to fly
over Eastern Kansas, because this part of Kansas is said to be one of
the most unholiest places in the world. It turns out that Erica, who is a
high-ranking member of Guardians of the Gateway is the mastermind.
Erica organized the whole plan to take the airplane hostage, and the
co-pilot, MacIntosh’s (Rutger Hauer)
assignment is to crash the airplane into the church. After using the
computer to talk to Kate and Nick, Craven manages to free himself and as
he is about to leave, Simon enters and the two converse. A fight
follows and Craven knocks Simon unconscious. He gets out of the hold,
and heads to the auditorium wherein backstage, he finds Erica whom he
engages in a hand to hand combat where he disarms her of a gun and
knocks her to the electric chair prop which he wires, killing her. He
then sees his guitarist, Damen, dead. He goes to the cockpit and finds
MacIntosh, who tells him his plan to crash the plane and commits
suicide. Realizing that no pilot is left to fly the plane, Craven takes
the controls.
The fans and the two remaining band members are in despair in the economy class cabin as Craven is guided by the Kansas City International Airport
control tower along with Nick and Kate to land the plane. Simon enters
the cockpit again and intervenes. Craven engages him in a hand to hand
combat while the plane goes into a dive. The two land in the main cabin
where Simon is about to stab Craven but Craven manages to disarm him by
using a fire extinguisher and subdue him by locking him in the first
class toilet and blocks the door with a service trolley.
The flight reaches Kansas in a stormy weather and Craven lands the plane safely at Kansas City International Airport.
Everyone in the plane applauds. Nick and Kate, the Z-Web-TV, FBI, and
Kansas Airport controllers also celebrate. Nick is apprehended and the
FBI agents are congratulated. As the plane is surrounded by emergency
vehicles, the fans, crew, and the band disembark. One of the fans, Jen
Shore (Michelle Harrison)
is given the chance to share on camera what has happened. After that,
Craven disembarks and is congratulated and cheered by everyone and the
film ends.
CHOW YUN FAT
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TAKEN
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