tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65027727178702098532024-03-13T13:15:30.843-07:00Movie Spoilerswith RodRodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02284707021811638033noreply@blogger.comBlogger118125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502772717870209853.post-40837922764451565692015-07-11T20:30:00.002-07:002015-07-11T20:34:01.490-07:00Terminator Genisys<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) remembers what his parents told him of the world before Judgment Day. He never got to witness it, but he heard it was beautiful. On August 29th, 1997, Skynet took over and unleashed Judgment Day upon the world. Massive explosions are seen hitting San Francisco, killing millions of people and destroying the city.<br />
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As a child, Kyle is running through the sewers to avoid the Terminators. One of them corners him in the darkness, until it is shot down by the Resistance leader John Connor (Jason Clarke). He takes Kyle with him, and Kyle grows up fighting alongside John as they try to stop Skynet once and for all.<br />
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In 2029, John and Kyle fight with their unit to infiltrate the last Skynet base to take their secret weapon - the time machine that sent the Terminator to the past to kill John's mother Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke). Although Kyle isn't immediately convinced the mission will work, John persuades him to continue fighting alongside him. He then gives Kyle a picture of Sarah.<br />
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John gives a rousing speech to the other Resistance fighters before Kyle infiltrates the Skynet base using a dead Terminator to enter. The other Terminators scan it and see it's non-functional, so they start shooting at Kyle's truck. He detonates several explosives, killing these Terminators and allowing the other fighters to attack. Skynet's flying machines attack, shooting down some fighters in the battle. Suddenly, all the machines go offline and fall. The fighters think they've won. They go down to the storage facility to find the time machine. John tells the fighters what happens with the Terminators and his mother, and he asks for a volunteer to go back and stop them, because if Sarah dies, then he is never born, and all their victories will be undone. The original T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is already sent back to 1984 Los Angeles to carry out the task. Many offer to go back in time, but Kyle ultimately steps forward and decides to go since he knows as much about Sarah as John based on what he's told her. John agrees, and Kyle steps into the machine. As he is being sent back in time, Kyle sees one Resistance fighter, Alex (Matt Smith), with his arm glowing as he grabs John. He whispers, "You didn't think it was going to be that easy, did you?" to John. Kyle calls out to John as he is sent back.<br />
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In the time jump, Kyle sees flashbacks of a childhood he never lived, before Judgment Day. He sees himself on his 13th birthday receiving a tablet for Genisys, an operating system that is set to go online soon in this timeline. The young Kyle looks in the mirror and repeats "Genisys is Skynet", and that it's ready to activate in 2017. He also sees himself with Sarah, who traces her finger in the palm of his hand saying, "A straight line. You keep moving forward and never look back."<br />
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The T-800 approaches the trio of punks to take their clothes. Before anything else can happen, an aged T-800 (which Sarah has nicknamed "Pops") arrives and shoots at the original T-800. The two Terminators fight and pound each other's skin off. From a distance, Sarah uses a sniper rifle to shoot the original through the chest, killing it.<br />
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Kyle arrives in 1984, nude. He takes the pants off a homeless man as a cop (Byung-hun Lee) pulls up by the alley where Kyle landed and chases after him. Kyle quickly learns that this man is also a Terminator, the shapeshifting T-1000. Kyle runs into a clothing store and grabs a shirt. Two actual cops find him and cuff him. The T-1000 kills the older cop while Kyle and the younger cop hide. When it looks like the T-1000 has them cornered, a truck plows into the store and smacks the T-1000. Sarah opens the door and yells to Kyle, "Come with me if you want to live!" Kyle does so and hops in the truck with her.<br />
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Sarah apparently already knows who Kyle is and what he was sent back in time to do. She tells him they already killed the Terminator sent back to kill her, and she knows about Skynet, Judgment Day, and her own son. Kyle is surprised to see Sarah's Terminator (Pops) is working with her. In a panic, Kyle tries to shoot him, but Pops knocks Kyle out. While he's unconscious, Pops and Sarah discuss how she already knows that she's supposed to fall in love with Kyle and conceive John, but she doesn't want to hear about it. Meanwhile, the T-1000 follows them using a piece of his liquid metal to track them. The T-1000 catches up with them and attacks. Kyle comes to and shoots at the T-1000's police cruiser, causing it to blow up.<br />
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The trio lead the T-1000 into the sewers. Using its liquid metal, he reactivates the dead T-800, which attacks Kyle. Kyle manages to knock its head off, destroying it for good. Sarah finds herself in a floor beneath multiple vats of acid. Kyle runs to her, saying he's hurt, until another Kyle runs by. Knowing one of them is the T-1000, Sarah tries to figure out who is the imposter. She shoots at the T-1000's foot, which bleeds the liquid metal. Sarah tells the real Kyle to run as she shoots the acid vats to hit the T-1000. He nearly catches up to Sarah until Pops grabs him and holds him beneath the acid until he is completely disintegrated.<br />
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Sarah tells Kyle how Pops was sent to her in 1973 when she was a child and he vowed that nobody would hurt her. She and Pops bring Kyle to a place where they have their own time machine. Sarah wants to jump back to 1997 to prevent Judgment Day, but Kyle remembers the flashbacks he saw and is convinced that they need to jump to 2017 when Genisys is set to go live. Sarah is unconvinced until Kyle tells her what he saw. Pops knows what he's talking about and says he went through a nexus point that created an alternate timeline, which happened the moment Kyle reached out for John when he saw him being attacked in 2029. Sarah finally agrees to go back to 2017. She and Kyle undress for the machine as they talk about Kyle's time with John. Pops stays behind since his arm was damaged by the acid and he needs time for the tissue to repair, so he will spend the next 33 years waiting for Sarah and Kyle to return.<br />
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The two arrive in 2017 in the middle of a highway. They are nearly hit by a car until Kyle grabs Sarah and gets slammed against the front of the car. They are apprehended by Detective Cheung and Lt. Matias (Sandrine Holt and Michael Gladis). Pops (now more aged with grey hair) sees them.<br />
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Sarah and Kyle are taken to the hospital. There, they are met by a man named O'Brien (J.K. Simmons), who happens to be the cop that survived the T-1000 attack back in 1984. He knows there's something unusual about Sarah and Kyle. Sarah notices one of the doctors with a Genisys countdown on his phone and asks about it. She and Kyle learn that Genisys is an operating system set to link up with every electronic device in the world, meaning it's basically Skynet in the making. Matias also mentions to them that after running their prints, it looks like Sarah is the only one that is off the grid, but Kyle's prints match the Kyle Reese in this timeline, who is 12 years old. The authorities leave when Homeland Security arrives. Moments later, Sarah and Kyle are met by John. He has them cuff two officers when they enter the room. He convinces Sarah that he is her son when he mentions that she would sing him "Rocket Man" as a child, but he jokes that her singing is awful.<br />
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The three go to the parking garage where John calls Kyle "Dad", leading John and Sarah to admit what Kyle never knew, that he is to be John Connor's father. Kyle is confused and upset until they're met by Pops holding a giant teddy bear. He's concealing a gun, which he uses to shoot John. Kyle then thinks that Pops really is a murderous Terminator, until the blood around John turns into mechanical particles. John explains that when he was attacked in 2029, he was turned into a Terminator, the T-3000, by Alex. He convinced John that the reason they couldn't prevent Judgment Day was because of him, and he is better off as an asset to Skynet than he is as their enemy. He tries to convince his parents to join him, but they refuse. John attacks, and Pops fights him. They crash into the hospital and tumble near an MRI machine. The magnetic pull holds John back long enough for the three to escape.<br />
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We see a brief interview with Danny Dyson (Dayo Okeniyi), son of Miles (Courtney B. Vance). Danny is the President of Cyberdyne and creator of Genisys, and he hopes for the program to be a success.<br />
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Pops takes Sarah and Kyle to a safe house near the Golden Gate Bridge where they prepare their weapons to fight back. Kyle is still upset over learning he is John's father, having been lied to by both him and Sarah. She also tells Kyle that he is fated to die if everything goes out the way it should. Eventually, they resolve to destroy the Genisys mainframe for good.<br />
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John is apparently working alongside the Dysons as they prepare to launch Genisys. Danny speaks before a large crowd and shows off a childlike avatar in the role of Genisys, saying it is eager to meet the consumers. Danny says they have reached a billion pre-orders. Meanwhile, John vows to not let anyone harm Genisys.<br />
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Sarah, Kyle, and Pops get ready to fight back when John finds their hideout. Sarah shoots John with an explosive, giving the three a chance to run outside. They take a school bus before John re-emerges and chases after them on a motorcycle as they ride over the Golden Gate Bridge. John latches onto the bus and pulls the brakes out, causing Sarah to lose control. Kyle and Pops try to hold John off until he causes the bus to flip over and slide over the edge of the bridge. Pops pulls Sarah and Kyle out while John falls into the water with the bus. The authorities arrive, and the three surrender since Pops doesn't have a good chance of taking out all the cops.<br />
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The three are taken into custody. During their interrogations, O'Brien brings in the 12-year-old Kyle with his parents. Neither of them recognize the adult Kyle, but young Kyle says the adult looks like his father. They leave. Pops notices through the two-way mirror that something is up with one of the detectives. Cheung appears to shoot the other detectives, and Pops breaks through the mirror, knowing she is John in disguise. O'Brien helps Sarah and Kyle escape. Sarah then finds 12YO Kyle still with his parents. She traces his hand with her finger and tells him to keep going and never look back. O'Brien guides Sarah and Kyle to the roof with Pops where they take a chopper to Cyberdyne. John takes a chopper of his own and follows.<br />
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In the air, Sarah shoots at John, but he keeps going. They get high above John's chopper, giving Pops an idea. He looks at Sarah and says, "I'll be back" before dive-bombing into John's chopper and causing it to crash.<br />
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Everyone makes it to Cyberdyne, with John having made it first. He kills the guards and jumps the Genisys countdown from 13 hours to 15 minutes. Sarah, Kyle, and Pops plant explosives around the facility as they head to find John. Sarah and Kyle encounter the Genisys avatar and shoot out the projectors as it continues to taunt them. They, along with Pops, fight against John as he tries to prevent them from doing any further damage to the facility. Pops gets the detonator to set off the explosives, but it's too close to Sarah as John has her in his grasp. Neither one can kill her, since Pops is still protecting Sarah, and John needs her for him to stay alive. Pops fights John while Sarah and Kyle encounter Genisys in a matured avatar form, taking on the appearance of Alex. He says he cured John and that there's no stopping Skynet from becoming a reality.<br />
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Pops takes the fight with John to the room where an unfinished time machine is located. John's human tissue gets blasted off, revealing his complete T-3000 form. He continues to fight Pops, doing severe damage to him. Pops impales the T-3000 with his arm and brings him into the now-active time machine. He traps both of them in the magnetic field and tells Kyle to protect Sarah. Kyle gets her out of there as the magnetic field gains more power. Pops gets pushed out of the time machine and falls into a pool of mimetic polyalloy liquid while the T-3000 is destroyed in the magnetic field. The explosives go off and blow up most of the facility as Sarah and Kyle get into a bunker before the explosion hits them. After a while, Pops comes back, having been "upgraded" in the liquid metal.<br />
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The three go to find 12YO Kyle for Adult Kyle to tell his younger self to keep repeating "Genisys is Skynet". Now free from the threat of Skynet, Sarah is happy to choose what happens in her future, and she chooses Kyle, pulling him in for a kiss while Pops looks on awkwardly. The three drive off, with Kyle saying that even though Skynet is gone, there are still questions left unanswered, but they will continue to move forward. <i>http://www.themoviespoiler.com/2015Spoilers/TerminatorGenisys.html</i><br />
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Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02284707021811638033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502772717870209853.post-70203758511289260922015-06-17T21:39:00.004-07:002015-06-17T21:42:53.660-07:00JURASSIC WORLD<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The film starts with a shot of a dinosaur egg. It starts to crack and break open as a baby dinosaur is ready to emerge. Its claws break through before we get a look at its glowing eye.<br />
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We meet the Mitchell family as parents Scott and Karen (Adam Buckley and Judy Greer) bring their sons Zach and Gray (Nick Robinson and Ty Simpkins) to the airport for what is supposed to be a family vacation. Karen bids her sons farewell as they depart, though she is visibly worried about them.<br />
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The boys are taken to an area where a ship guides them to Isla Nublar for the unveiling of Jurassic World, a new theme park where their aunt Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) is the operations manager. Her assistant Zara (Katie McGrath) picks the boys up and travels with them to the resort, which is filled with hundreds of new guests eager to see what the park has to offer.<br />
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Claire meets with three investors to show them that their money would be in good hands as the park's scientists are continuing to find advances in genetically modifying dinosaurs. According to Claire, they've created the first ever dinosaur hybrid, the Indominus Rex. The investors all insist that they, like the park's guests, only want to be thrilled, which Claire can guarantee. After the meeting is done, Claire finds the boys. Gray is excited to see her, but Zach knows Claire is too busy to care about them. She has them stick with Zara for the day while she tends to her business.<br />
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Claire next meets with park employees Lowery and Vivian (Jake Johnson and Lauren Lapkus) to monitor the park's activity before meeting pith the park's owner Simon Masrani (Irrfan Khan) to go inspect the Indominus. They see on the glass overlooking the cage that there are two large cracks, indicating that the Indominus tried to break through it. Masrani requests that Claire find the park's Velociraptor trainer and expert Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) to ensure that this part of the park is secure. Claire doesn't seem too pleased to hear Owen's name.<br />
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Owen is with his Raptors, which he's named Blue, Charlie, Delta, and Echo (Owen says he's the Alpha). He has managed to tame them and keep them under control as the guests watch in amusement, along with his training partner Barry (Omar Sy). Vic Hoskins (Vincent D'Onofrio), head of InGen security, thinks of the Raptors as nothing more than park property and that they ought to be used as military weapons, which Owen and Barry disagree with. A new employee tries to wrangle a pig as it runs through the cage, only to get pulled in before the Raptors. Owen gets the employee out and holds the Raptors back before rolling out of the cage in the nick of time, showing that the Raptors are not fully tamed.<br />
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Zach and Gray run away from Zara to explore the rest of the park. Gray had an active interest in the dinosaurs while Zach creepily stares at other girls (despite already having a girlfriend). They go to the Mosasaur attraction where a massive underwater dinosaur emerges and takes a bite out of a shark before splashing the audience. Among the rest of the attractions are a petting zoo for kids where they can ride baby triceratops.<br />
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On the way to find Owen, Claire gets a call from Karen after learning that the boys aren't with her. Karen starts crying since she wishes she could spend time with them before she and Scott get divorced (we see her outside the office of some divorce lawyers). Claire comforts her and hangs up as she approaches Owen's bungalow. She tells him why she needs him and he follows her to the Indominus.<br />
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Upon returning to the Indominus cage, Owen noticed large claw marks against the wall. Claire panics and thinks the Indominus tried to escape. Lowery and Vivian attempt to locate her with the tracker in her head while Owen and two other employees look through the enclosure. As it turns out, she is right there with them. The Indominus snatches one employee in her jaws while Owen and the other man run away. She chases them outside the enclosure and sniffs out the other employee before devouring him. Owen slips under a van and masks his scent by cutting the fuel hose and dousing himself in gas. The Indominus misses him and proceeds moving toward the rest of the park.<br />
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In the control room, Masrani orders an ACU team to go in and capture Indominus. It's quiet in the forest until one man picks up the tracker that the Indominus clawed out. He sees blood dripping on his arm. The Indominus has camouflaged herself and begins to massacre the entire team as they use non-lethal weapons to subdue her. Owen chastises the staff for this while also noting that the Indominus wanted the people to think she escaped. He orders the staff to call for an evacuation of the island. Claire calls Zara and orders her to get the boys out of there, but Zara says she's lost sight of them. Claire then gets Owen to help her find the boys after proceeding to order the evacuation.<br />
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Masrani speaks to Dr. Henry Wu (B.D. Wong), one of the few survivors of the previous incident at Jurassic Park, who has stayed to carry on John Hammond's legacy. Masrani criticizes Wu for his involvement in the creation of the Indominus and allowing something like her to live amongst other creatures.<br />
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The boys ride a train to the next ride. Gray knows his parents are getting divorced, but Zach tries to get him to have fun to take his mind off it. They board the gyrosphere ride to take their own little tour of the park and into the Ankylosaurs area. Zach tells Gray to ignore the evacuation warning and they go off the grid. This allows Claire to track their location. The boys then cross paths with the Indominus. She viciously mauls another dinosaur to death while Zach and Grey try to stay hidden. Zach's phone rings as Claire calls him, alerting the Indominus. She starts to smash their pod until they manage to escape. They run toward the edge of a cliff over a body of water, making the jump right before the Indominus catches them.<br />
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Owen and Claire come across the broken pod and see the boys' footprints, then deduce that they jumped off the cliff. They also see the bodies of a half-dozen Apatosauruses, clawed and bloodied. Owen realizes that the Indominus is killing for sport.<br />
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Zach and Grey come across what used to be the Jurassic Park Visitor Center and they take a van to the northern part of the park. Owen and Claire come by the same area and are chased by the Indominus. This leads to Masrani and three other men to fly in a helicopter after the beast. In the chaos, they break through the Aviary, unleashing a group of Pterosaurs into the sky. The men in the helicopter are killed, and Masrani follows suit when the helicopter crashes to the ground. The Pterosaurs start making their way to the rest of the park.<br />
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As the Pterosaurs descend, they attack the guests. Zara finds Zach and Gray as they arrive, only to get snatched by a Pteranodon and then get eaten by the Mosasaur, along with the Pteranodon. Other guests are swooped up and eaten as well. The boys run to safety and are found by Owen and Claire, who kill two attacking dinosaurs. In the heat of the moment, Owen grabs Claire and kisses her. The boys join them, feeling much safer with Owen.<br />
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As a result of the chaos, Hoskins assumes control of the park and decides to utilize the Raptors as weapons. Owen finds Hoskins and punches him in the face, knowing he had this planned all along. Reluctantly, Owen agrees to use the Raptors, but if they do it his way. After talking to them calmly, Owen rides into the jungle with the Raptors with cameras on their heads.<br />
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The Raptors, along with another team of men, come across the Indominus. The Raptors go over to her menacingly, until the Indominus appears to communicate with them. That's when Owen realizes that the Indominus has Raptor DNA. The Raptors turn on the humans and start attacking. Blue nearly kills Barry until Owen calls him away. One of the Raptors is killed when it is blown up by a missile.<br />
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Owen, Claire, and the boys go to an InGen lab where they find Hoskins trying to pack his things after having sent the rest of the team, including Wu, away with dinosaur embryos. Hoskins starts to mention his plan about using the Indominus as a weapon, until one of the Raptors gets into the lab. Hoskins tries to communicate with it in a friendly way like Owen did, but it bites his arm before ripping the rest of him apart. The other four run away.<br />
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Owen finds the remaining Raptors and once again tries to assert his dominance over them. They listen to him and become calm, until the Indominus returns. She slams Blue against a wall and then kills the other two Raptors. Gray says that the only thing to beat the Indominus is more teeth. Claire goes to one of the cages and orders Lowery (the only one to stay behind in the control room) to open that cage. Lowery does so, and from the cage emerges the Tyrannosaurus Rex. She charges into battle and swiftly attacks the Indominus. However, the beast proves to be very powerful and nearly mauls the T-Rex to death. Before she can strike the killing blow, Blue runs in and slams into the Indominus. The T-Rex rises, and, with Blue's help, they push the Indominus toward the lagoon. She rises for more, until the Mosasaur jumps up and grabs the Indominus, dragging her into the water to her doom. The T-Rex and Blue appear to acknowledge each other respectfully, while Blue shares one last moment with Owen before retreating into the jungle.<br />
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Not long after the chaos is over, Owen, Claire, and the boys are in a survivors base in Costa Rica. Scott and Karen arrive and tearfully reunite with their sons. Claire goes to Owen and asks what they should do now. He says they should stick together, "for survival." They leave together.<br />
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Ultron plans to have the labs in Korea build him a bio-organic body. While slowly uploading his consciousness to the new body, Wanda is able to access his mind and finds that he does plan to destroy the population of Earth so that he can repopulate it with machines that all bear his programming. The Avengers interrupt his plans and hijack the body in the cradle before Ultron can upload his entire consciousness to it.<br />
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Wanda and Pietro change sides. Meanwhile, Thor is taken by Dr. Selvig to a pool known as "The Water of Sight," where he has a vision of the new creation saving mankind.<br />
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Tony and Bruce discover that JARVIS had been laying dormant in an underground facility that Tony was able to access. The Avengers, fearing another Ultron nightmare, attempt to stop Tony, but Thor appears and uses Mjolnir to overload the body with power, and the Vision is born. Brilliantly intelligent, it is so level-minded that it can hold and carry Mjolnir.<br />
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Ultron plans to use the vibranium to lift the city of Sokovia above Earth and cause it to crash, creating a destructive shockwave similar to that of the meteor believe to have wiped out the dinosaurs. The Avengers, with help now from Wanda, Pietro, the Vision and War Machine, make their move as Ultron lifts the city. Vision confronts Ultron in one final attempt to get him to see what he will cause, but Ultron is too fargone, so the Vision corrupts his ability to travel the internet to upload into new bodies. S.H.I.E.L.D. shows up in a new flying hangar to help evacuate the city so that Tony can level it without hurting anyone.<br />
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While saving the people from Ultron's legion, Pietro is killed. Feeling his pain, Wanda destroys Ultron's main CPU, but his consciousness still exists in his legion.<br />
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With everyone safely off the flying island, Tony and Thor overload the vibranium reactor, causing the island to vaporize. War Machine destroys all but one of the escaping droids, which lands in a forest for one last talk with the Vision, who destroys the last remnant of Ultron.<br />
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Hulk flies away in a stealth Quinjet without transforming back into Bruce.<br />
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The gem in Loki's staff contained the Mind Stone, one of the 6 Infinity Stones. It now resides in the Vision, with the Tesseract in Asgard, the Aether with the Collector on Knowhere, and the Power Stone with Nova on Xandar.<br />
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With Tony announcing his resignation, the Hulk MIA, Hawkeye home with a new baby, and Thor returning to Asgard, Captain America and Black Widow break in the new Avengers: the Vision, Wanda, Falcon, and War Machine.<br />
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Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02284707021811638033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502772717870209853.post-911112616962302682015-04-27T20:07:00.005-07:002015-04-27T20:10:25.400-07:00Ex Machina<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) is selected to spend a week out at the secluded house of reclusive genius and tech CEO, Nathan (Oscar Issac). After arriving by helicopter, Nathan reveals to Caleb that he was selected because he is to take part in an experiment. The experiment is a Turing test on a humanoid artificial intelligence (AI) named Ava (Alicia Vikander). Other than the human skin on her face, hands and feet, she has the body of a robot.<br />
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Over the next few days, Ava and Caleb develop a strong bond, which results in Caleb deciding to help Ava escape from Nathan. On the night of the escape, Nathan figures out Caleb’s plan and tells him that she is using him, as he programmed her that way, deeming the experiment a success. When Caleb reveals that his plan is already in motion, Nathan knocks him out and decides to kill Ava. However, Ava kills Nathan first and locks Caleb in a room. She covers herself up with skin from Nathan’s other AIs (who have since been deactivated) and puts on some clothes. She goes out to where the helicopter is to pick up Caleb and is airlifted out into human society <i> http://www.moviepooper.com/pooperpg2.html</i><br />
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Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02284707021811638033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502772717870209853.post-14612275311143214872015-03-14T21:48:00.002-07:002015-03-14T21:49:59.760-07:00Chappie<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Johannesburg is the first city to use a robot police force. Created by Deon Wilson (Dev Patel) these robots are completely automated and have artificial intelligence. Deon’s office rival Vincent Moore (Hugh Jackman) has created The Moose (basically ED-209 from Robocop), which is operated via a human. Moore isn’t a big fan of Deon’s work.<br />
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Robocop unit 22 is back in the shop again. It seems this particular unit is accident prone and always getting serviced. The techs get it back into action and send it out into the field where it assists in a police raid on a drug deal gone bad.<br />
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On one side of the drug deal are Die Antwoord’s Ninja and Yolandi playing characters named Ninja and Yolandi. They’re teamed with Amerika (Jose Pablo Cantillo). They’re trying to deliver goods to crime boss Hippo (Brandon Auret). Ninja, Yolandi and Amerika manage to escape during the police raid. Hippo shoots a rocket launcher into 22’s chest and also manages to evade the cops.<br />
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Back at the shop, the techs see that 22’s battery is fused with his chest piece, so he’s basically beyond repair. They set him aside to be scrapped.<br />
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Hippo calls the gang and tells them that he’s not in jail and he still expects them to pay him the money they owe him from their previous botched job.<br />
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Moore asks robo-boss Michelle Bradley (Sigourney Weaver) for more money to assist with further developing his Moose. Deon’s robocops are such a hit that the government has decided to sink more money into that project and has no interest in the Moose. It’s big, expensive and ugly.<br />
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Deon goes home and starts working on his newest project which is creating an artificial consciousness. After a long night of programming and Red Bull, he succeeds.<br />
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Yolandi has a plan that the robocops must be like a television so all they need is a remote control to turn them off. They look at the news and see that Deon is the dude who created the robocops, so he must be the guy who knows how to power them down.<br />
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Deon asks Bradley if he can use his artificial consciousness program on the scrapped 22 unit. He explains that it’s possible that this could create a robot smarter than humans and it could even conceivably write poetry. She explains that they’re in the business of defense and not in the business of creating poets, so she gives him the big old thumbs down.<br />
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Deon decides to take a chance, gets the scrapped 22 and the Guard Key, which is needed to update the programming in all the robots as a precaution against hackers, and smuggles them out of the factory. The gang kidnaps him before he can get home.<br />
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The gang takes Deon back to their base and ask him how to shut down the robocops. He says it’s impossible. They’re about to kill him, but discover the 22 unit in the back of his van. He assembles it for them, explaining that if his program works, it can be taught. He puts it together and the 22 has the personality of a scared child. Yolandi takes on an immediate mother-role and tells him that he’s a happy chappie…and names him Chappie. They let Deon leave, but he asks to come back to check on the progress. He also tells them that because of the fused battery, Chappie only has about 5 days to live.<br />
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Moore wants to work on his Moose, but discovers that the Guard Key is missing. He knows Deon took it.<br />
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The next day Yolandi and Amerika start teaching Chappie. Ninja gets mad that because he needs Chappie trained to help them to do one more heist so they can pay back Hippo.<br />
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At work, Moore pulls his gun on Deon, but plays it off as a joke. He’s seriously got a screw loose.<br />
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Deon leaves work to check on Chappie. He’s mad that the gang is turning him into a thug, so he asks Chappie to promise not to do anything illegal. Moore follows Deon and sees what’s going on. Ninja returns and threatens to kill Deon again for interfering with his plans. He and Amerika take Chappie to the middle of a rough area and leave him there. The locals start attacking him, but because Chappie promised Deon he wouldn’t do anything bad, he doesn’t fight back.<br />
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Chappie makes his way back to the gang hideout where Amerika and Yolandi fix him back up. Ninja and Amerika figure out a way to trick Chappie into helping them. Together, they steal cars so they can get money to get weapons so they can do their big heist. Once they have enough cars, they go to a crazy looking apartment building, not completely unlike the building in Dredd. When they get there, a dog fight is taking place. Chappie can’t go up to see the arms dealer Pitbull (Johnny Selema) and get weapons, and a stack of Playstation 4s. When they return, Chappie is trying to nurse a dead dog back to health. Ninja explains to him that in life you can either end up the dead dog, or the winning dog which. He also tells him that his battery can’t be fixed because Deon made him to die. But if he helps them with their heist, they’ll be able to buy him a new body. Chappie goes along with the idea because he doesn’t want to die.<br />
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Deon returns to the gang hideout and is disappointed that Chappie is out doing illegal stuff with Ninja and Amerika. Yolandi tells him that he should leave because Ninja will kill him if he finds him there. Chappie, Ninja and Amerika return. Deon tries to reason with Chappie, but Chappie tells him that he’s angry that Deon didn’t tell him that he was going to die.<br />
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News stories break that Chappie is out in the world committing crimes, so Moore hunts him down. He manages to capture Chappie and steal the Guard Key from his head. Moore uses the guard key to shut down all of the robocops. Time breaks out all over Johannesburg. Deon finds the Key in Moore’s computer and manages to turn back on Chappie. Before they escape, Chappie sees The Moose. Deon explains that it’s controlled by transferring a human operator’s consciousness via a control helmet. Chappie steals the helmet and they go back to the gang hideout. <br />
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At the gang hideout, Chappie rigs up Yolandi’s laptop and all the PS4s to create a super computer. He tests the helmet out on Yolandi and it works!<br />
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The gang goes to meet with Hippo, who has changed the deal. He now wants Chappie for himself. Moore sends The Moose in on the deal too. A three way fire fight breaks out. The Moose steps on Amerika and rips him in half. Hippo is killed. Deon gets shot. Ninja creates a diversion so Deon, Yolandi and Chappie can escape. The Moose is about to take out Ninja, but Yolandi surprises it by launching a rocket at it. It turns and shoots Yolandi dead. Chappie jumps back into the action and blows up The Moose.<br />
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Chappie rushes Deon back to the lab. Moore is still there. Chappie beats him into a mangled mess, but doesn’t kill him. Deon is seconds away from death, but Chappie puts his consciousness in the one test robot that’s available. Deon, now a robot figures out a way to save Chappie too. He sends Chappie’s consciousness into the nearest fallen Robocop. That works too.<br />
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So Deon and Chappie are robots now. Chappie has Yolandi’s consciousness saved on a thumb drive from earlier when he was testing out the helmet. He hacks into the robot factory and has it create a new schematic. Yolandi’s consciousness is transferred into a brand new Fembot.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://Johannesburg%20is%20the%20first%20city%20to%20use%20a%20robot%20police%20force.%20%20Created%20by%20Deon%20Wilson%20(Dev%20Patel)%20these%20robots%20are%20completely%20automated%20and%20have%20artificial%20intelligence.%20%20Deon%E2%80%99s%20office%20rival%20Vincent%20Moore%20(Hugh%20Jackman)%20has%20created%20%20The%20Moose%20(basically%20ED-209%20from%20Robocop),%20which%20is%20operated%20via%20a%20human.%20%20Moore%20isn%E2%80%99t%20a%20big%20fan%20of%20Deon%E2%80%99s%20work.%20%20%20Robocop%20unit%2022%20is%20back%20in%20the%20shop%20again.%20%20It%20seems%20this%20particular%20unit%20is%20accident%20prone%20and%20always%20getting%20serviced.%20%20The%20techs%20get%20it%20back%20into%20action%20and%20send%20it%20out%20into%20the%20field%20where%20it%20assists%20in%20a%20police%20raid%20on%20a%20drug%20deal%20gone%20bad.%20%20On%20one%20side%20of%20the%20drug%20deal%20are%20Die%20Antwoord%E2%80%99s%20Ninja%20and%20Yolandi%20playing%20characters%20named%20Ninja%20and%20Yolandi.%20%20They%E2%80%99re%20teamed%20with%20Amerika%20(Jose%20Pablo%20Cantillo).%20%20They%E2%80%99re%20trying%20to%20deliver%20goods%20to%20crime%20boss%20Hippo%20(Brandon%20Auret).%20%20Ninja,%20Yolandi%20and%20Amerika%20manage%20to%20escape%20during%20the%20police%20raid.%20%20Hippo%20shoots%20a%20rocket%20launcher%20into%2022%E2%80%99s%20chest%20and%20also%20manages%20to%20evade%20the%20cops.%20%20Back%20at%20the%20shop,%20the%20techs%20see%20that%2022%E2%80%99s%20battery%20is%20fused%20with%20his%20chest%20piece,%20so%20he%E2%80%99s%20basically%20beyond%20repair.%20%20They%20set%20him%20aside%20to%20be%20scrapped.%20%20%20%20Hippo%20calls%20the%20gang%20and%20tells%20them%20that%20he%E2%80%99s%20not%20in%20jail%20and%20he%20still%20expects%20them%20to%20pay%20him%20the%20money%20they%20owe%20him%20from%20their%20previous%20botched%20job.%20%20Moore%20asks%20robo-boss%20Michelle%20Bradley%20(Sigourney%20Weaver)%20for%20more%20money%20to%20assist%20with%20further%20developing%20his%20Moose.%20%20Deon%E2%80%99s%20robocops%20are%20such%20a%20hit%20that%20the%20government%20has%20decided%20to%20sink%20more%20money%20into%20that%20project%20and%20has%20no%20interest%20in%20the%20Moose.%20%20It%E2%80%99s%20big,%20expensive%20and%20ugly.%20%20Deon%20goes%20home%20and%20starts%20working%20on%20his%20newest%20project%20which%20is%20creating%20an%20artificial%20consciousness.%20%20After%20a%20long%20night%20of%20programming%20and%20Red%20Bull,%20he%20succeeds.%20%20Yolandi%20has%20a%20plan%20that%20the%20robocops%20must%20be%20like%20a%20television%20so%20all%20they%20need%20is%20a%20remote%20control%20to%20turn%20them%20off.%20%20They%20look%20at%20the%20news%20and%20see%20that%20Deon%20is%20the%20dude%20who%20created%20the%20robocops,%20so%20he%20must%20be%20the%20guy%20who%20knows%20how%20to%20power%20them%20down.%20%20%20%20Deon%20asks%20Bradley%20if%20he%20can%20use%20his%20artificial%20consciousness%20program%20on%20the%20scrapped%2022%20unit.%20%20He%20explains%20that%20it%E2%80%99s%20possible%20that%20this%20could%20create%20a%20robot%20smarter%20than%20humans%20and%20it%20could%20even%20conceivably%20write%20poetry.%20%20She%20explains%20that%20they%E2%80%99re%20in%20the%20business%20of%20defense%20and%20not%20in%20the%20business%20of%20creating%20poets,%20so%20she%20gives%20him%20the%20big%20old%20thumbs%20down.%20%20Deon%20decides%20to%20take%20a%20chance,%20gets%20the%20scrapped%2022%20and%20the%20Guard%20Key,%20which%20is%20needed%20to%20update%20the%20programming%20in%20all%20the%20robots%20as%20a%20precaution%20against%20hackers,%20and%20smuggles%20them%20out%20of%20the%20factory.%20%20The%20gang%20kidnaps%20him%20before%20he%20can%20get%20home.%20%20The%20gang%20takes%20Deon%20back%20to%20their%20base%20and%20ask%20him%20how%20to%20shut%20down%20the%20robocops.%20%20He%20says%20it%E2%80%99s%20impossible.%20%20They%E2%80%99re%20about%20to%20kill%20him,%20but%20discover%20the%2022%20unit%20in%20the%20back%20of%20his%20van.%20%20He%20assembles%20it%20for%20them,%20explaining%20that%20if%20his%20program%20works,%20it%20can%20be%20taught.%20%20He%20puts%20it%20together%20and%20the%2022%20has%20the%20personality%20of%20a%20scared%20child.%20%20Yolandi%20takes%20on%20an%20immediate%20mother-role%20and%20tells%20him%20that%20he%E2%80%99s%20a%20happy%20chappie%E2%80%A6and%20names%20him%20Chappie.%20%20They%20let%20Deon%20leave,%20but%20he%20asks%20to%20come%20back%20to%20check%20on%20the%20progress.%20%20He%20also%20tells%20them%20that%20because%20of%20the%20fused%20battery,%20Chappie%20only%20has%20about%205%20days%20to%20live.%20%20Moore%20wants%20to%20work%20on%20his%20Moose,%20but%20discovers%20that%20the%20Guard%20Key%20is%20missing.%20%20He%20knows%20Deon%20took%20it.%20%20The%20next%20day%20Yolandi%20%20and%20Amerika%20start%20teaching%20Chappie.%20%20Ninja%20gets%20mad%20that%20because%20he%20needs%20Chappie%20trained%20to%20help%20them%20to%20do%20one%20more%20heist%20so%20they%20can%20pay%20back%20Hippo.%20%20%20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0That%20works%20too.%20%20So%20Deon%20and%20Chappie%20are%20robots%20now.%20%20Chappie%20has%20Yolandi%E2%80%99s%20consciousness%20saved%20on%20a%20thumb%20drive%20from%20earlier%20when%20he%20was%20testing%20out%20the%20helmet.%20%20He%20hacks%20into%20the%20robot%20factory%20and%20has%20it%20create%20a%20new%20schematic.%20%20Yolandi%E2%80%99s%20consciousness%20is%20transferred%20into%20a%20brand%20new%20Fembot./" 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Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02284707021811638033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502772717870209853.post-28591820877775802012015-02-25T18:18:00.004-08:002015-02-25T18:20:48.985-08:00NIGHTCRAWLER<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It's late at night in the city of Los Angeles. Louis Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) has broken into a train yard to try and break off a chain link fence. An officer approaches him and demands to see some ID. Lou keeps his cool and shows it to him, and then he attacks the man and kills him. Lou later takes the broken up fence to a scrapyard and sells the fence to the yard's owner while trying to negotiate a higher price. He then asks the owner if he is hiring, since he can start immediately. He uses his motto, "If you want to win the lottery, you gotta have the money to buy a ticket." The owner rebuffs him and says he won't hire a thief.<br />
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A few cop cars pass Lou on the road. He pulls over to see what they're investigating. A car is on fire, and people are inside. A van of nightcrawlers - guys who record violent incidents at night for profit - pull up, led by Joe Loder (Bill Paxton). Lou sees Loder filming while two men pull a woman from the vehicle. Lou approaches Loder and asks about the job. Loder says it's a "flaming asshole of a job." Lou asks him if they're hiring and Loder says no.<br />
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Lou steals a bike on the beach the next day and goes to pawn it off. The shop owner will only go as far as $700, but Lou asks for $800 in store credit so he can get a camcorder and a police scanner. Using these, he listens to reports of incidents in the area. He pulls up to multiple crime scenes and is told to leave by the police. He manages to get good graphic footage of a man who was shot to death after a carjacking. The police turn Lou and another nightcrawler away, the latter who angrily curses Lou out for ruining his shot. Lou follows the man as he calls his employer and overhears how much the man is set to make off the footage.<br />
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Lou goes to the Channel 6 news station and meets news director Nina Romina (Rene Russo). He shows her and another station producer, Frank Kruse (Kevin Rahm) the footage, with good shots of the man dead and paramedics trying to revive him. Lou only makes $250 off the footage, despite trying to go way higher. He once again tries asking for a job or an internship position to no avail.<br />
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Lou interviews a young man named Rick (Riz Ahmed) for an internship position, making it seem like he's heading some big news station. Rick is practically homeless and struggling to find work, and he has little experience in this sort of field. Lou simply asks him if he has a phone with GPS, and Rick says yes. Lou hires him on the spot and tells him he'll get paid $30 a night.<br />
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Lou makes Rick read off directions to him as they go looking for incidents. Lou drives like a maniac and makes Rick nervous. He accidentally gives him wrong directions, and they arrive to the scene of a home fire too late, as paramedics have already wheeled the victim away. Lou is furious with Rick.<br />
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People are gathered around a shooting in a suburban home. Lou sneaks in through the back and into the kitchen where he rearranges pictures on the fridge to focus on the bullet holes and a shot of the neighbors talking to police. Nina loves the footage but Frank says it looks like Lou broke in. She still uses it.<br />
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Eventually, Lou and Rick are able to get a lot of new footage of horrifying incidents (with headlines like "toddler stabbed" and "drunk mom hits biker"), which Lou continues to sell to Nina. He gives her an impassioned speech about how he's come up with his business plan and how he has hoped to make a name for himself, which seems to almost move Nina.<br />
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Lou stands by Nina when two anchors from her station are set to report on one of the incidents that Lou got on camera. He mentions a Mexican restaurant and invites Nina to go with him. Nina declines, as she doesn't want to compromise their professional relationship, but Lou implies that he'll stop giving her good footage if she says no.<br />
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Loder finds Lou and offers him a spot on his team to deliver them some good footage. Lou turns him down, even as Loder persists. However, Lou very firmly rejects him, to Loder's anger.<br />
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Nina joins Lou at the Mexican restaurant. He makes it clear he wants more than a professional relationship but she says this is just a courtesy date. He reminds her that he station is the lowest rated station in the area, and she needs him just as much as he wants her.<br />
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Lou and Rick fail to arrive in time for another incident as Loder and his team beat him to the punch, leaving Lou with weak footage of a stabbing in Corona. Nina is pissed at him. Loder's coverage hits Channel 2 in all it's glory. Lou smashes his bathroom mirror in fury. He goes to Loder's house and cuts the brakes on his van. This later leads to Loder crashing the van into a pole. Lou and Rick arrive in time for Lou to film Loder being wheeled away in a gurney, choking on his own blood.<br />
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A big break comes when Lou and Rick happen upon a shooting/break-in at a large mansion. Lou sees two men fleeing the scene. He enters the house and films the dead bodies in each room. One victim is on the ground gasping for breath as Lou walks around him. He delivers the graphic footage to Nina, at which point he makes a demand for $15,000 for the footage, and not a cent lower, and he also wants the anchors to give him credit as Video Production News, and for him to be recognized as a credible news source. He makes it abundantly clear to Nina that he's calling the shots now. The anchors at the station report on the footage while Nina tells them what to say.<br />
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Two detectives, Frontieri and Lieberman (Michael Hyatt and Price Carson), arrive at Lou's door to question him about the footage and if he saw the two men. He doesn't give a clear description of the men but he tells them that they were driving an SUV.<br />
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Lou brings Rick to catch the killers and phone the cops. Rick demands a raise if he's going to keep tagging along on these sorts of missions. He meekly asks for $75 a night when Lou states he could've gone higher. Together, they find the killers and follow them to a restaurant. Lou phones the cops and says one of them has a gun. Two cops arrive and enter the place. Two more show up, and the killers begin to shoot at them. The cops shoot the larger killer dead while the other one gets away. Lou and Rick follow them in an intense chase. The cop car is hit by another car. Another cop car catches up to the killer and they crash. Lou stops the car and goes to get his shot. He tells Rick that the killer is dead. Rick goes to film the killer, only to find him alive and with a gun. He shoots Rick three times before crawling out. The killer aims his gun at the cops and is shot dead. Lou films his corpse and then films a dying Rick. Rick says Lou knew the killer was alive, and Lou implies that he did this since Rick threatened to compromise this whole operation. Rick dies.<br />
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Lou brings all of this to Nina, who is enchanted by all the gruesome imagery. Detective Frontieri comes to the station and demands to have the footage as it is evidence, but Nina refuses to surrender the tapes. Frontieri later interrogated Lou, knowing he withheld information from them since he knew what the killers looked like. Furthermore, he remains unmoved by Rick's death, but he sticks by his word without flinching, and he is left free to walk.<br />
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Frank approaches Nina and says the break-in at the mansion was really a drug robbery since there were multiple bags of cocaine found in there. He says this is the real story but Nina is focusing on the car chase and accident. Frank tells her she sounds like Lou, to which she replies that Lou has inspired them to reach higher.<br />
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Now, Lou has established Video Production News with news vans and three interns. He gets then ready with their tasks, and adds that he won't make them do anything he won't do himself. With that, he guides them into the night to snap more footage of what the people really want to see. <i>http://www.themoviespoiler.com/2014Spoilers/Nightcrawler.html</i><br />
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The movie is based on the life of Chris Kyle (Cooper), a Navy Seal sniper nicknamed The Legend. He was credited with over 160 kills over 1000 days and 4 deployments after 9/11. The movie focuses on his ability to balance his wife and 2 children, and his feelings of responsibility to save his brothers in arms.<br />
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Several of his friends are killed by an enemy sniper, and after he finally kills Mustafa, the notorious enemy sniper, he quits the military and returns to his family, but is unable to adapt to civilian life, suffering from PTSD.<br />
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He finds therapy in helping wounded veterans by taking them to the shooting range.<br />
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Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02284707021811638033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502772717870209853.post-1028703269302721042015-01-15T19:44:00.000-08:002015-01-15T19:46:44.844-08:00INHERENT VICE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The movie opens on a rickety beach house; we are told it’s 1970 in Gordita Beach, a fictional town in Los Angeles. A young woman, Shasta Fay (Katherine Waterston), walks to this home; we are told she is the homeowner’s “ex-old lady” and “Tonight she was all in flatland gear, hair a lot shorter than he remembered, looking just like she swore she’d never look.” These are passages from Thomas Pynchon’s novel and this eloquent prose is inserted throughout the movie. Shasta’s ex-boyfriend is revealed as Doc Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix), who is both private investigator and hippie/dope head who always seems a bit dazed and confused. Shasta tells him about her new lover, Mickey Wolfmann, and asks Doc to help prevent a plot by Mickey’s wife and her lover to have Mickey abducted and committed to an insane asylum. He asks why she came to his place and she suspects she is being watched and by showing up at his home, it just looks like a secret rendezvous.<br />
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Wolfmann is a wealthy real estate developer that Doc remembers from TV ads. He watches one where, in his drug-state, Wolfmann appears as Doc’s archrival, the police officer, Bigfoot. Doc calls his Aunt Reet, who tells him that Wolfmann is technically Jewish but wants to be a Nazi. He is associated with white supremacists and has a lot of ties to criminals.<br />
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We meet Sortilège (Joanna Newsom) who is serving as our narrator. She tells Doc to change his hair; we later see it with pieces of blue ribbon tied into it.<br />
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Doc meets with Kahlil Tariq, a member of a Black Panther-esque group, who hires Doc to help him find one of Mickey’s bodyguards, Glen Charlock, a white supremacist who he met in jail who owes him money. Kalil discusses the history of Los Angeles’ land – Mexicans losing their homes so the Dodger Stadium can be built, American Indians being kicked out for the Music Center, his own neighborhood gone to build Channel View Estates (Wolfmann’s real estate). Doc writes on his pad with stoned out notes like “PARANOIA ALERT” and “HALLUCINATING.”<br />
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Doc visits Channel View Estates, followed by dozens of police officers that do a poor job at remaining hidden. Doc enters the home, which ends up being a brothel. Behind a door with a cartoon drawing of a naked woman, a prostitute named Jade emerges and tells about the $14.95 special on eating pussy. She demonstrates on her colleague, Bambi, while Doc searches the premises for Charlock – but he is knocked on the head and collapses, theatrically.<br />
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He awakes in a police station where he is interrogated about the murder of Charlock and the disappearance of both Mickey Wolfmann and Shasta Fay. He mocks the FBI agents conducting the interrogation, each picking their nose at different intervals (the film has an over-the-top goofy tone). Doc is helped by an attorney, Sauncho Smilax (Benicio Del Toro) but he is not an actual criminal lawyer and is willing to help the police OR Doc indiscriminately. Bigfoot Bjornsen (Josh Brolin) of the LAPD enters and it’s clear that Doc and him have a love/hate relationship despite a deep respect for each other. A running joke is Bigfoot is always simulating oral sex on bananas or popsicles, which intrigues Doc in a nonjudgmental way. Bigfoot tries to get Doc to become an informant for the police but he does not want to.<br />
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Doc is also hired by Hope Harlingen (Jena Malone), who is looking for her missing husband, Coy, a saxophone player. She tells Doc about her own drug problems and how drugs have ruined her teeth and made her breasts hairy (she shows Doc a photo in which he screams in reply). She tells him she’s now working as a drug counselor.<br />
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When he leaves the station, the secretary, Petunia (Maya Rudolph), tells him he has a message – it is from Jade who apologizes for setting him up and tells him to be aware of the Golden Fang.<br />
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Jade meets Doc in an alley where she explains about the Golden Fang, a group that is smuggling drugs into the country. He then runs into Coy Harlingen, who is not dead at all. Coy is a saxophone player in a local surf band who is hiding undercover at a house on Topanga Canyon – no one recognizes him because he plays bass with the band that resides there. Coy disappears in the fog and Doc struggles to find his way out (a metaphor but also shows the world from his drugged-out point of view).<br />
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Doc makes his way to the Wolfmann residence and meets his wife, Sloane, as well as her lover, the hunky yoga instructor, Riggs Warbling. The house is run on debauchery including a housekeeper who is openly willing to perform sexual favors for guests. Doc tours the house and finds a closet filled with ties, each with a naked woman drawn on them. Each woman is a live-in houseguest – one of them is his own ex-girlfriend, Shasta, who has now gone missing.<br />
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Back at the police station, Doc expresses his distaste for the police and seems to be afraid of officers.<br />
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Doc meets with Deputy DA Penny Kimball (Reese Witherspoon), who he also is having an affair with on the side. She asks him about Wolfmann and Sasha’s disappearances and the murder of Charlock. She suggests maybe Doc has killed him given that he is always so drug-induced, he passes out and doesn’t remember things; he has no defense against this hypothesis. She directs him to the FBI, who take him to an estate; among the guests is a man with a swastika on his face. Doc spots Coy Herlingen there; the two speak privately about the Golden Fang, which Coy reveals is the name of a secret organization with shady business. It is also the name of their boat which is used to smuggle heroin into the country.<br />
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Sauncho Smilax, the attorney, gives Doc more information on the Golden Fang, including the fact that it was stuck in the Bermuda Triangle for 50 years. Doc spots the boat in the ocean.<br />
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Doc is watching a Richard Nixon rally on TV; Coy Harlingen appears on the screen, protesting Hitler’s speech. When he talks to Coy about it, he learns that Coy dabbled in Communism years ago and that he is now a police informant. He explains that he fears for his life and now only wants to return to his wife and daughter.<br />
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At his home, Doc receives a postcard from Shasta that reminds him of an experience they had there with a Ouija board. Sortilège is there, helping them use the board, but they don’t seem to acknowledge her (flirting with the idea that she is a figment of Doc’s imagination). The board spells out a phone number and when Shasta and Doc call it, it leads them to the Howdy Doper office downtown. They visit it in person but it is closed; they wait outside the building, snuggling up in the cold.<br />
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Doc goes to the same building from his memory and waits in the office of a dentist, Dr. Rudy Blatnoyd, D.D.S. (Martin Short, who is scene-stealing). Rudy is hedonistic, constantly having sexual relations with his staff and snorting cocaine. He is later joined by Japonica Fenway, a young 18-year-old girl, who is the daughter of a rich man named Crocker Fenway. She drives the group home, despite them all being high on cocaine; they are pulled over by a police officer who explains her headlights are off; Japonica says she doesn’t need them because she can see in the dark. The officer continues, telling them that any group over three people may be indicative of a cult; a high Dr. Rudy worries that it’s Charles Manson again. The police officer lets them go, not realizing they are all obviously high on cocaine.<br />
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Bigfoot meets with Doc in a restaurant – he tells him that Dr. Rudy Blatnoyd has just been found dead with a neck injury – fang bites. Bigfoot also informs Doc that there may be a link between Puck Beaverton (another one of Wolfmann’s bodyguards) and Coy Harlingen. The two have a long conversation about how the city is changing for the worse – Doc mentions extra work is drying up. Later, Doc watches television at home and sees Doc working as an extra on a police television series (in the vein of “Dragnet”).<br />
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Doc goes to a casino hours away to find Puck Beaverton. It is run by a sort of cult, including a man with a swastika on his face. Doc notices two FBI agents escorting Wolfmann through the premises; he manages to talk with him and learns that Wolfmann has given up on the state of the world and feels guilty for the negativity that his real-estate business has caused; he now is a happy member of the cult.<br />
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When Doc returns to Los Angeles, he is greeted by Shasta who has returned. She says she was up north but he points out the puka shells she are wearing are from the beach. She confesses to being on a three-hour tour (i.e., on the Golden Fang) and that she was brought along as inherent vice. She admits to not knowing what this means. We are told by Sortilège in voiceover that “inherent vice” is listed as an insurance policy as something that will inevitably be damaged – like chocolate which will melt or glass which will break. In other words, a sort of defect in a product, which will lead to it being deteriorated; if the defect is not noticeable and nobody has been warned of it, neither the insurance company or the insured are liable for any claim.<br />
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Doc meets with Penny again who is willing to provide him with confidential files – he reviews them and learns that Adrian Prussia, a loan shark, is paid by the police department to kill people for them – one of their victims was Doc’s former partner. Prussia is tied to the Golden Fang and he learns that Glen Charlock was involved with a deal which is how he ended up dead.<br />
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At his place, Shasta and Doc engage in a conversation and when she emerges from another room, she is completely naked. Shasta says that Doc should pretend she is a Manson girl, easily duped and controlled by a man, all while rubbing her nipples. As their conversation continues, she rubs his leg, sexually, and then bends over the couch – all in a long, six-minute unbroken shot. It concludes with them having sex.<br />
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Doc visits Adrian Prussia but is abducted and drugged by Puck Beaverton. He wakes up, handcuffed. He manages to escape, killing both Puck and Adrian. Bigfoot appears and rescues Doc – but after driving him home, Doc learns that he has been set up and all the smuggled heroin from the Golden Fang has been planted in the trunk of his car.<br />
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Instead of incurring the wrath of the drug dealers, Doc hides the heroin in his house and arranges for the drugs to be returned to Crocker Fenway (Japonica’s father), in exchange for Coy’s freedom.<br />
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Sauncho and Doc go to the ocean and watch the Golden Fang becomes repossessed. Coy is finally reunited with his family.<br />
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Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02284707021811638033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502772717870209853.post-31597154720975000862015-01-08T20:08:00.005-08:002015-01-08T20:11:00.714-08:00The Imitation Game<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) is a brilliant mathematician with an off-putting personality. <br />
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He is hired by a commander to help crack Enigma, an unbreakable German code, to decipher messages communicated during World War II. The code is reset by the Germans every morning, so Alan puts his energy into constructing a supercomputer to help run through the possibilities. Along with five other code breakers, including a brilliant woman named Joan (Keira Knightley), they realize that they can decipher the code using recurring phrases in messages, namely “heil Hitler” which ends the weather report every morning. They crack the code and assist the Allies discretely, never getting credit so they will be able to decipher messages in future wars. <br />
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Ten years later, a detective takes special interest in Alan for having a classified and empty war file; he finds out Turing’s secret is not that he is a spy but that he is a homosexual. Alan is indicted and forced to either take estrogen treatments (to allegedly rid him of his homosexuality) or years in prison, where he will not be able to continue his work. The medication destroys him mentally and he finally commits suicide. <br />
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Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02284707021811638033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502772717870209853.post-1371642206534786702015-01-01T21:42:00.003-08:002015-01-01T21:44:55.112-08:00Unbroken<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The film opens with World War II air corps in a B-24 Liberator bomber in the Pacific island. Louie Zamperini (Jack O’Connell) is a bombardier and he and his crew are engaged in a bombing mission against the Japanese. Many are injured but with their pilot, Phil (Domhnall Gleeson), and Louis’ skill, they successfully land the plane even though it’s been shot hundreds of times.<br />
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Flashback to a young Louie, living in Torrance, California. He is escorted home by police officers after defending himself against some bullies. We meet his family briefly – a traditional Italian family now living in America.<br />
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At a baseball game, he is caught under the bleachers and ends up running away to avoid trouble; this is how his older brother realizes he is a fast runner. He begins training him. Years later, he becomes the fastest runner in his high school’s history and ends up going to the Olympics in 1936. At the Games, he ends up in last place but manages to speed ahead to set an American world record.<br />
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In current day, the crew who flew on the shot down plane have been transferred to Hawaii to await reassignment. Louie impresses his fellow army men by continuing to train and beating the four-minute-mile. The men are sent on a mission to search for a lost aircraft and crew. They are given another B-24 but it is notorious as being defective. While on the search, mechanical difficulties cause the plane to crash into the ocean of Oahu, killing eight of the eleven men aboard. The only three to survive are Louie, Phil, and a man named Mac (Finn Wittrock) who make their way onto lifeboats.<br />
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The three struggle to survive, noting that they have limited rations (they can have one piece of chocolate in the morning and at night, only a few drops of water per day, etc.) On day three, an airplane flies overhead and they try to signal it with dye and a flare gun but they go unnoticed.<br />
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As time goes on, their situation gets more and more bleak. They are bitten by bugs and completely dehydrated. They continue to fight although Mac feels more and more hopeless eventually exhausting their supplies. Amongst the long journey to survive, they clobber an albatross that has landed in their boat and try to eat it – but quickly vomit it up. They then instead use the albatross as bait to attract fish and eat it raw. Eventually, sharks begin to circle the boat and they learn to stay low.<br />
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The men are fatigued and awaken one morning to find a rainstorm. They happily fill up containers with fresh water and drink the drops from the sky. Later, after a treacherous storm, Louie makes a deal with God that if he can survive, he will serve Him for the rest of his days. They all manage to hold on. At one point, Louie finally stabs a shark from the boat and they begin to feast on its meat.<br />
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After 29 days, another plane flies above and they shoot their flare gun to attack attention. The plane circles around and all are in disbelief that they will finally be rescued after a harrowing 4 weeks. But then the plane begins firing at them. They all quickly jump into the water and hide from the bullets, kicking sharks away. They resurface back on the life raft but the firing continues. Louie dives back into the water but Mac and Phil huddle back on the boat. When Louie returns to them, he thinks they are dead but they have dodged all of the bullets by staying hunkered in the raft. The plane disappears and they patch up the holes so they can remain afloat.<br />
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Time continues on – nearing 50 days – and Mac finally takes a turn for the worst. They wrap his body up and give him a burial at sea. Shortly after, Phil and Louie awaken to both “good news” and “bad news.” The good news is a boat has discovered them; the bad news is it is the Japanese and they are now being held prisoner.<br />
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Louie and Phil are taken to a PoW camp and told they are the enemy and will be treated accordingly by a man who speaks English. He forces them to strip and then begins beating them. He is Mutsushiro Watanabe (Miyavi), nicknamed the Bird, because the prisoners cannot call him what they want to. He is sadistic and it is said that he comes from a military background and is sadistic in attempt of living up to his father’s expectations. He takes special interest in Louie after spotting him looking at him while he is speaking to the prisoners outside. He tells him to look at him and then whacks his nose with a cane. When he stands up again and looks at the Bird on request, he is whacked again. It’s only until he tells Louie not to look at him that he leaves him alone.<br />
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The prisoners are complacent surrounded by the armed Japanese. They are forced to clean out the latrines (Louie says it’s funny they shit so much considering they have nothing to eat). One day, the Bird says they have some renowned people in their midst and has an opera singer identify himself and then asks who is the Olympic athlete amongst them. Louie reluctantly identifies himself and is forced to run against a young Japanese boy. Because he is fatigued from lack of food, he collapses on the ground; the Bird says he is not so tough and beats him.<br />
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The sadistic cruelty continues on and on for a long while. Louie is often held in solitary confinement. The prisoners point out that if the Allies ever get to the PoW to rescue them, they will be killed on sight. They aren’t sure what to root for.<br />
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One day, a man tells Louie that he wants him to go on the radio and tell his family that he is still alive and that he is being treated fairly, to appease Americans. He agrees, telling his family he is alive which they hear from their home in California. He is then taken to a restaurant where he is asked to make another announcement where he applauds Japan as a culture and to live the rest of his life in the country, as a traitor. He cannot do this and is taken back to the PoW camp.<br />
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The Bird singles Louie out from the crowd and orders every single prisoner (about 200) to punch him in the face. When the first prisoner refuses, the Bird has a weakened Phil beaten. Louie convinces the prisoners to go along with it and is punched over and over, always getting up to take the next punch despite his face being bruised and battered.<br />
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During an outdoor production of Cinderella, with the prisoners playing all the roles, the Bird sits next to Louie and tells him he is being promoted and transferred to another camp. He tells Louie that this is unfortunate news because he is a friend who took interest in him because of how much strength he exhibited when he first arrived. He prompts Louie to congratulate him on the promotion but Louie stays silent.<br />
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Life at camp gets immensely better. But then the Allies bomb the neighboring city so the prisoners are relocated to another camp. When they arrive, the Bird appears and Louie passes out at the sight. The cruelty continues. The men are forced to carry large bags of coal up many flights of stairs. The weight of the bags and their fatigue combined causes some men to fall over the railing. The prisoners are also informed that President Roosevelt has died. One man breaks down in tears.<br />
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One day, the Bird orders Louie to pick up a very large steel beam. Louie struggles but the Bird is persistent, telling him he has to hold it over his head. He tells the guards, who are surrounding Louie, to shoot him if he should drop the beam. Louie holds the beam over his head for hours, much to the admiration of his other prisoners. Finally, at nightfall, he is able to lower the beam.<br />
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The men are told that they have to bathe in the ocean. They are sure they will be executed. When they get into the water, the Allied planes fly overhead; the war is over. They all cheer at having survived.<br />
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Louie goes into the bathroom of the camp now that they are no longer prisoners; he sees a picture of the Bird as a child with his dictator father. He is disgusted.<br />
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Louie is flown home to his family and embraced by them. This is juxtaposed with a real life photo of the scene. End credits tells us that the Japanese were held accountable for war crimes but eventually the charges were dropped to assure good relations with the Japanese. Louie kept his promise to obey God and remained religious throughout his life. He forgives all the men who wronged him and meets all of them in person, years later – only the Bird refuses to acknowledge him. He also returns to the Olympics, in 1998, to carry a torch… when the games are held in Japan. A memorial card reveals he passed away in 2014 (three months prior to the film’s release).<i>http://www.themoviespoiler.com/2014Spoilers/Unbroken.html </i><br />
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Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02284707021811638033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502772717870209853.post-47409262362223406812014-12-30T21:26:00.002-08:002014-12-30T21:26:36.602-08:00FOXCATCHER<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The film starts with grainy documented footage of the Du Pont family. They are with their horses and dogs on their piece of land, Foxcatcher Farms. They set loose a small fox on the farm, allowing it to run freely.<br />
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The year is 1987. Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) is an Olympic wrestling champion. He is training in the gym with a dummy. Next, he goes to McKinley Elementary School to speak before an unimpressed audience of children about his accomplishments and what it means to him, showing off his gold medal. Mark lives alone in a small home. His older brother is another well-respected gold medal winner, Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo). The two practice together in the gym at Wexler University, resulting in Mark hitting Dave in the face and making him bleed.<br />
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Mark receives a phone call inviting him to fly out to Pennsylvania to meet John Du Pont (Steve Carell). Mark is brought to John's huge mansion and meets the man face-to-face. John asks Mark about his ambitions, to which Mark says he wants to be the best in the world. John wants to put together a wrestling team, aptly named "Team Foxcatcher". He also wants Mark to ask Dave to join them.<br />
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Mark goes back to Dave's home while he is outside with his wife Nancy (Sienna Miller) and their two kids. Mark invites Dave to join him and John in training their team, but Dave doesn't want to uproot his family and prefers to be settled where they currently are.<br />
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Mark moves out of his home and goes to live on John's estate. He is told that the horses on the farm are off limits as they belong to John's mother Jean (Vanessa Redgrave). John and Mark gather five other men to start their training. They all develop a familial bond, with the men treating John like a father figure, especially Mark. John has one of the team members move his mother's horse-breeding trophies off the shelf so that he can make a spot for wrestling trophies. John then falls over, and the men run to help him up, but it's just a trick to get one of them into a wrestling mood. The men cheer John's name.<br />
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The team goes to France for a wrestling competition. Mark competes and wins against his opponent.<br />
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John takes Mark around the country making rounds at events, photoshoots, and other gatherings to promote the start of Team Foxcatcher. Mark tells everyone that he sees John as a father figure that he never had. At one point, Mark brings John to Dave and Nancy's motel room to meet them. Nancy doesn't get up from the bed to greet John, making Mark upset. John also gets Mark to try cocaine, and the man even gets blonde highlights in his hair.<br />
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John sits on his porch with Mark. He asks Mark if he has any friends. He remembers a friend he had in his childhood, until he learned that he was paid by his mother to be his friend. He considers Mark a friend and tells him that he ought to call him "Eagle" or "Golden Eagle" instead of "Mr. Du Pont"<br />
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One day, John notices nobody is training in the gym. He finds the team with Mark at his place watching TV and smoking weed. John is unhappy with Mark making the call to give the guys the morning off. He slaps Mark and calls him an ungrateful ape. Mark is pissed.<br />
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Dave decides to move with his family to Pennsylvania to help his brother train with the team.<br />
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The team goes to Seoul for the XXIV Olympics. In Mark's first fight, he loses. He goes to his room and cries, then he pounds his head and smashes it against a mirror until he completely shatters. He then loads up heavily on carbs. Dave comes by his room and consoles him, saying he won't let him be alone. Mark pukes up his food and then gets weighed in (one of the weigh-in officials is played by the real Mark Schultz). He's 12 pounds overweight and has 90 minutes before the next match. Dave has Mark exercise heavily. John comes by the gym, but Dave talks him away from Mark. Later, Mark competes again and he wins.<br />
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John tries to show his mother what he is doing. She considers wrestling to be low, and she doesn't want to see her son be low. During a training session with the team, Jean's nurse brings her around the gym so John can show her what he's doing. She remains unimpressed and has the nurse wheel her away, to John's disappointment.<br />
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After another wrestling match, John is nowhere to be found. Dave learns that John flew home because his mother passed away.<br />
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John is the subject of a documentary that looks at his work behind Team Foxcatcher and his involvement with his team. Some footage of Mark is used. Dave is sat down to be interviewed for the film. He is told to describe John as a mentor and leader, though Dave seems very hesitant to say that.<br />
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Dave tries to negotiate with John and his lawyer over Mark's payment if he is to stay on the team. The lawyer says Dave is not quite qualified to be making these kinds of calls, but Dave affirms that as long as he is involved with the team, the demands ought to be met. Mark eventually moves out of John's estate.<br />
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On one cold day, John drives to Dave's home with his associate Fred Cole (Brett Rice). Dave is in the driveway working in his car. John pulls up and Dave walks over. John holds up a gun and asks Dave if he has a problem with him. A frightened Dave answers no, and John shoots him in the stomach. Nancy hears and runs to the door. Fred tells John to stop. John shoots Dave again in the back, and then points the gun at Nancy before she runs back inside to call 911. Dave starts crawling away, but John shoots him once more in the back, ultimately killing Dave. Fred gets out of the car as John drives away. He runs to Dave before Nancy comes to her husband's body.<br />
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The medics arrive and take Dave's body away. The police find John in his home and promptly arrest him.<br />
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A while later in the 90's, we're at a UFC fight. Mark is competing in it. It's never shown or stated, but he wins.<br />
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The ending text says that Dave Schultz was posthumously inducted into the Wrestling Hall of Fame and is survived by his wife and two children. Mark Schultz retired from wrestling after the Seoul Olympics and now operates a wrestling clinic. John Du Pont died in prison in December 2010. <i>http://www.themoviespoiler.com/2014Spoilers/Foxcatcher.html</i><br />
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Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02284707021811638033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502772717870209853.post-7614023022656635112014-12-24T18:30:00.001-08:002014-12-24T18:30:31.940-08:00INTERSTELLAR<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
An old woman, Murph (Ellen Burstyn), addresses the camera and says her father was a farmer, like almost everybody else was at the time, but he did not start off this way. Her father, Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), was a pilot, as we see him in a craft of his own. We also see Murph as a child (Mackenzie Foy) going into Cooper's room, asking him if he was dreaming about a crash. Murph thinks there is a ghost in the house, which Cooper doesn't believe in.<br />
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We see clips of elderly people talking about the area they lived in, which was made up of crops and corn fields.<br />
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Cooper also lives with his 15-year-old son Tom (Timothee Chalamet) and father-in-law Donald (John Lithgow). Murph brings in a piece of Cooper's craft to the table during breakfast.<br />
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Cooper drives the kids to school to drop them off but also to meet with Murph's teacher. He lets Murph handle the truck, and they end up getting a flat tire on the road. Tom teases Murph and calls her "Murphy's Law". Cooper gets out to change the tire when a drone flies overhead. He hops back in the truck and drives through the corn field to chase after it. They follow it toward the edge of a hill near a lake. Cooper then gets out a device that controls the drone, which he lets Murph try out.<br />
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Cooper meets with the kids' school principal (David Oyelowo) and Murph's teacher Ms. Kelly (Collette Wolfe). The principal shows Cooper Tom's test grades and says he'll make a great farmer, though Cooper says Tom could make a great engineer, even if the results don't seem to suggest this. Ms. Kelly shows Cooper a textbook that Murph brought in to show the other kids. This federal textbook is forbidden in the school since they use textbooks that say the Apollo missions were faked to bankrupt the Soviets. Cooper isn't happy with what his daughter is being taught and he mentions that if his wife hadn't passed away, she would be there and would be more calm about this. Murph ends up getting suspended.<br />
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Cooper is called home to find a bunch of tractors around the crops. There appears to be something wrong with the food supply.<br />
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The next day, the family goes to a baseball game. Donald complains that they serve popcorn at the place instead of hot dogs. The crowd then sees that a huge dust storm is happening. Cooper drives the family home with protective masks. Murph realizes the window in her room is open, so she and Cooper run upstairs to shut it. On the floor are thick and thin parallel lines across the floor made out in dust. Cooper analyzes them and determines they are coordinates.<br />
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Cooper drives to the facility that the coordinates lead to, with Murph stowing away in the truck. He gets out bolt cutters to go through the fence, only for a robot, TARS (Bill Irwin), to show up and apprehend Cooper.<br />
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Cooper is interrogated by TARS until Dr. Amelia Brand (Anne Hathaway) comes in. She brings Cooper to a room with other scientists, with Murph sitting among them. Leading the group is Amelia's father, Professor Brand (Michael Caine), along with fellow scientists Doyle (Wes Bentley) and Romilly (David Gyasi). They identify themselves as being part of NASA. Professor Brand explains the situation, which is that the Earth's crops and food supply are slowly dying off, and the planned mission is to find a new home in the universe to sustain human life, as there may be no hope to save the planet. Several astronauts before them, led by the famed Dr. Mann, went on what are called the Lazarus Missions prior to the rest of the group to find a new world.<br />
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Romilly explains that a wormhole has been discovered that can lead them to a new galaxy with a chance to explore a new world for human life. This is their Plan A. Plan B would involve rebuilding life through fertilized embryos that would replace human life. Cooper disagrees with this plan, so he agrees to Plan A. Murph is not happy with him and she storms up to her room when they get home.<br />
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Cooper tries to comfort Murph in her room, but she is too angry to listen. She says that she deciphered a message from the books falling off her shelf in Morse code that says "Stay". Cooper promises to return home, though he doesn't know when. He gives Murph his watch but she throws it against her bookshelf. Before Cooper leaves, a couple of books fall off the shelf.<br />
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Cooper drives to the station in his truck as Donald and Tom see him off. Murph is too late to say goodbye. Cooper looks in the passenger seat in the hope that Murph possibly stowed away again, but she is not there. His eyes fill up with tears.<br />
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Cooper, Amelia, Doyle, and Romilly blast off into space to begin their mission to Mars and then Saturn, along with TARS and the ship's computer CASE (Josh Stewart). They dock their shuttle onto the space module Endurance. Romilly and Doyle put themselves in hypersleep.<br />
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Back on Earth, Professor Brand brings Cooper's truck back for Tom to use. He also tells Donald and Murph that they can send messages that will be transmitted to Cooper, but Murph is still mad.<br />
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The astronauts soar through the wormhole, passing through the cosmos and stars and infinite space. They know that time passes differently for them on these planets due to the different gravitational pull. One hour out there amounts to bout seven years on Earth. Taking that into account, Cooper knows that it's crucial that they find a way to complete the mission without wasting what could be a decade for the people on Earth. He makes a plan to go around the black hole Gargantua to what he and the others refer to as "Miller's planet", after another astronaut (Miller) landed on it.<br />
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The team lands on Miller's planet, which is set upon a seemingly endless body of water. Romilly stays in the craft while Cooper, Amelia, Doyle, and TARS set out. They find a wrecked beacon in the water, belonging to Miller, whose body is nowhere to be found. From the distance, Amelia thinks she sees mountains, when it is actually a colossal wave headed toward them. Amelia tries to salvage the beacon as Cooper orders her to return to the craft. Doyle is killed by a wave of water while the others make it back inside. There, Romilly has aged 23 years. Amelia realizes that Miller was probably there hours ago and died minutes before they got to the planet.<br />
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There is also a number of video messages in the craft that were sent to Cooper. Most of them are from Tom. It starts with Tom in his current age saying that he misses his dad and that he's met a girl named Lois. The messages then show Tom as an adult (now played by Casey Affleck). He has married Lois (Leah Cairns) and they have a baby named Jesse. Cooper is overwhelmed with emotion and he starts crying. Another video message shows Tom looking forlorn, as something has happened to Jesse. He also mentions that Donald has passed away. The last message is from a now adult Murph (now played by Jessica Chastain). She is at the age when Cooper left and promised to return. She starts to weep, making Cooper even more emotional.<br />
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Presently, Murph is working with Brand at NASA to finish the equation he's been working on that would figure out how humans can escape Earth's gravitational pull. She still harbors some resentment toward her father for leaving her.<br />
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Cooper, Amelia, and Romilly are sitting together trying to figure out which planet they should head to next, Edmunds or Mann. From their discussion, Cooper learns that Amelia is in love with a fellow scientist named Wolf Edmunds, for whom one of the planets is named after. She hopes to be able to see him again soon, and she states that love is the one thing that transcends time and space.<br />
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Murph goes to the hospital where her partner Getty (Topher Grace) directs her to Brand's room. He is dying. When Murph expresses hope for the mission's success, Brand admits that he solved his equation long ago but was missing data from a singularity behind a black hole for it to be complete, so he puts what little faith he has left in Plan B. With his dying breaths, he crushes Murph's hope. After he passes, Murph sends a video message to Amelia to inform her of her father's death.<br />
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The astronauts come across an icy planet with frozen clouds. There is another craft on the surface with a pod inside. Another person is in hypersleep - Dr. Mann (Matt Damon). He awakens and sees Cooper, and he gets overwhelmed to see another human again, bringing him to cry in Cooper's arms. Afterwards, Mann explains the environment of the planet to the team, stating there there are 67 hours in the day, and another 67 at night, as well as the icy conditions. The team then receives Murph's message to Amelia, which also addresses Cooper. Murph asks if both Cooper and Amelia knew that the mission was a sham and that Cooper simply abandoned his family. Amelia is just as shocked to hear this, and Mann admits that he has considered the mission to be a failure. Amelia begins to cry.<br />
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Murph has dinner at the old family home where Tom lives with his family. He and Lois have another son, Coop (Liam Dickinson). Coop and Lois suffer from a cough that is attributed to the conditions of the area. Tom seems to be ignoring the problem and refuses to take his family out of there.<br />
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Cooper and Mann go out to navigate the planet together while Romilly and Amelia stay behind. Here, Mann turns on Cooper and removes his emergency oxygen pack before pushing him over the edge of a hill. It's revealed that he forged data of the viability of the planet so he could be found and saved. Since he has considered Plan A a failure, Mann opts for Plan B, and, knowing that nobody can survive on this planet, he leaves Cooper to die. Cooper fights back, only for Mann to crack Cooper's visor by slamming his head against it. Mann escapes while Cooper tries to contact Amelia for help. Mann ends up killing Romilly by blowing up his station while Amelia rushes to Cooper's aid. They pick up TARS and fly after Mann.<br />
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Getty tries to help Coop with his cough, but Tom doesn't want his or Murph's help, and he punches Getty in the face. He and Murph leave, following other vans that are evacuating the area as another dust storm starts forming. Murph then drives into the corn fields and douses it with gas before lighting it up with a flare to persuade Tom and his family to leave.<br />
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Cooper and Amelia find Mann trying to dock his shuttle with Endurance in space, but he cannot as he hasn't secured the airlock. Amelia tries warning him that the shuttle will depressurize, but it is too late, as the shuttle does just that, causing an explosion that kills Mann.<br />
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Cooper manages to get Endurance back under control with the help of TARS. He and Amelia then plan to use the robot to to gather data on the singularity behind Gargantua, and then chart a course to Edmunds' planet. Knowing that they have a limited energy and oxygen supply with them, Cooper and Amelia try to make it home carefully. However, Cooper separates himself from Amelia to let her go on without him. Cooper ends up falling through what looks like another wormhole. It puts him in an odd dimension of sorts. He hears the voice of TARS speaking to him. Cooper floats against what looks like a wall. He peeks through it and sees Murph as a child. He is looking at her through her bookcase. Cooper calls out to her and starts pushing the books. TARS explains that he has stumbled upon a new dimension relative to time, space, and gravity, and that the beings that invented this dimension led Cooper to find this place. They know humans could not have created this just yet, but soon enough. Cooper sees himself on the day that he left Murph, and he yells at himself to stay. He notices the watch he left Murph sitting on the bookshelf, and he taps his fingers against the lining of the dimension to try and communicate with Adult Murph through the hands on the watch. Adult Murph is still trying to get Tom's family out of the house while the fire in the corn fields is being extinguished. Now, both Cooper and Murph realize that Cooper was the "ghost" in Murph's room - he was the one that left the message in Morse code for Murph that read "Stay". Adult Murph then figures out that her father is communicating with her. This gives her what she needs to solve Brand's equation and to save mankind. She goes to the research facility, gathers all the papers she once worked on and throws them into the air before excitedly kissing Getty. Cooper, meanwhile, falls through the dimension and drifts through space before blacking out.<br />
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Cooper awakens in a medical station. The doctor tells him to relax and take it slow, as he is now 124 years old. Cooper walks to the window and sees kids playing baseball, when the batter hits the ball and it goes through the window of a house - a house that is directly above the playing field. The doctor says they are in Cooper Station over Saturn. Cooper thinks it's named after him, but it's named after Murph. The doctor says she'll be arriving in a few weeks.<br />
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Cooper is given the remains of TARS and is brought to his old home. He works on him and reprograms his settings, making him more honest and slightly more humorous.<br />
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Cooper gathers with his great grandchildren at the hospital to be reunited with Old Murph as she lying in bed surrounded by her family. She is happy to see her father, who has fulfilled his promise to return to her. Knowing that her time is short, she encourages Cooper to continue living and sharing his life with someone. She tells him to find Amelia, who is lost and setting up camp somewhere out there.<br />
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Amelia is shown on Edmunds' planet putting Plan B into effect, trying to rebuild a community with the smaller organisms and unaware of what has happened with humanity. Cooper decides to follow Murph's advice and seek out Amelia himself.. <i>http://www.themoviespoiler.com/2014Spoilers/Interstellar.html</i><br />
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Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02284707021811638033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502772717870209853.post-91375052943982369652014-11-03T21:14:00.006-08:002014-11-03T21:18:25.965-08:00JOHN WICK<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
John Wick (Keanu Reeves) crashes an SUV into a wall. He staggers on out of the vehicle, bloody and wounded. He puts pressure on a stab wound in his gut. As he crawls to the side, he takes out his phone and watches a video of his wife Helen (Briget Moynahan) on the beach. John slumps over and shuts his eyes.<br />
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Mere days ago, John woke up on a cloudy day. He has flashbacks to him being with Helen, up until recently when she collapsed in his arms. She had an illness that eventually claimed her life. It is the day of her funeral. After the service, John's old friend Marcus (Willem Dafoe) approaches him to offer his condolences.<br />
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That night, a delivery arrives for John. It's a small beagle. John finds a note from Helen. She wrote to him that she has made peace with her death, and now she wants John to find his. John weeps. He takes the dog out and looks at its collar, which has a flower on it, leading John to figure out Helen named the dog Daisy.<br />
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Daisy follows John on his day as he takes his Mustang out. He stops to get gas at the same time as three Russian mobsters, including Iosef Tarasov (Alfie Allen), son of mob boss Viggo Tarasov (Michael Nyqvist). Iosef comes up to John's car and compliments it, and then asks how much he wants for it. John says it's not for sale. Iosef then goes over to Daisy, but John scares him away. One of Iosef's buddies peeks his head into the car and wishes John a good day.<br />
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As John is getting into bed, Daisy needs to use the bathroom. When they get downstairs, there are two men in shadows standing before John, while a third takes a bat and whacks John in the head. He starts beating on John while Daisy whines. One of the men goes over to the dog and breaks her neck. The man pulls off his mask to reveal Iosef, who knocks John out. John later wakes up and goes over to Daisy, stroking her head.<br />
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Iosef takes John's car to a shop run by Aurelio (John Leguizamo). Aurelio immediately recognizes the car and demands to know where Iosef got it. Iosef brags about who he stole the car from and that he killed this person's dog. Aurelio slugs Iosef in the face. Later, John comes by the shop and asks if Iosef came by, and Aurelio gives John his name to confirm that's who took his car and killed his dog. Even later that night, Viggo calls Aurelio to ask why he struck Iosef. Aurelio says because he stole John Wick's car and killed his dog. Viggo simply replies, "Oh."<br />
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John takes a sledgehammer into the basement and begins smashing the floor open. He uncovers a stash of guns and bullets.<br />
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Viggo meets with Iosef in his home to discuss the situation. He socks his son twice in the stomach to reprimand him, reminding him who he just committed a crime against. Viggo tells Iosef that John was associated with him once, until he met Helen and decided to leave. John apparently had a reputation as "The Boogeyman", or rather, the guy they called to kill the Boogeyman. Viggo calls John up to try and resolve the matter, but John hangs up on him.<br />
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Viggo sends a team of masked hitmen to John's home to kill him. However, John gets the drop on them and takes them all out with ease. He shoots them down and ends up fighting the last few before stabbing the last guy through the heart. John then calls a clean-up crew to dispose of the bodies. This is not the first time they have done business with John, and they know it won't be the last.<br />
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Viggo meets with Marcus and asks him to kill John Wick for a new contract that he's put out worth $2 million. He also instructs his assistant Avi (Dean Winters) to call for others to take the job. Marcus accepts.<br />
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John goes to a hotel, the Continental, to stay as he conducts his business. There, he sees a woman he recognizes, known as Perkins (Adrianne Palicki). John meets another old friend, Winston (Ian McShane), over trying to find Iosef..<br />
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At night, Marcus gets to the roof of the building across the street and prepares his rifle to aim into John's room. From the mirror, he sees someone entering. He fires a shot to warn John. It's Perkins. She starts shooting at John while he tries to dodge her. She tells him that Viggo has doubled the contract if she breaks the rules of the hotel. He eventually gets Perkins in a headlock and offers her mercy if she tells him where to find Iosef. She tells John that he's in the bathhouse downstairs in the hotel. John then knocks Perkins out and leaves her with his associate Harry (Clarke Peters).<br />
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John goes into the club/bathhouse where Iosef and his buddies are. As soon as they spot John, he begins shooting at them while Iosef runs away. John kills every hitman in his path, but he loses Iosef as he flees in a getaway car.<br />
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Harry keeps Perkins cuffed to a chair, unaware that she has dislocated her thumb to slip out. She gets out and puts a pillow over Harry's face before shooting him.<br />
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John goes to a church where Viggo keeps his secret stash of money. After shooting the other goons in the church, John forces the priest to guide him to where the money is. He lights it all on fire.<br />
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Viggo learns of the fire moments before he is caught in a hail of gunfire courtesy of John. Although he kills most of Viggo's men, he is knocked out when an SUV rams into another, throwing John off his feet. Viggo captures him and wonders why he's gone to great lengths for revenge.<br />
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John tells him that the dog was a gift from his dying wife, and that Iosef took that from him. Viggo leaves him with his henchmen for them to suffocate him with a plastic bag. However, Marcus is watching from the next building, and he shoots one hitman in the head to let John take out the other. John gets his gun and shoots at Viggo's getaway car, leaving only him alive. Viggo is forced to tell John that Iosef is hiding in a safe house in Brooklyn.<br />
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The safe house is guarded by armed men, but none of that stops John from killing them and storming the place. Iosef once again tries to make a run for it, but John catches him and finishes him off.<br />
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In retaliation for Iosef's death, Viggo has his goons find Marcus and bring him to Viggo's home. There, they beat him good until Viggo and Perkins shoot him to death. Viggo calls John to tell him this, just before boarding a chopper out of there.<br />
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Before going to the chopper, Perkins is cornered by four men led by Winston, who tells her she broke the rules of the Continental. The four men execute her.<br />
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John finds Marcus's body and sets off to take Viggo down. He finds the villains heading to the chopper and tries ramming into them with his car. Viggo makes Avi go out and kill John, only for John to ram into him with his car. Viggo tries to push John's car over the edge, but John gets out safely. The two then fight hand-to-hand in the rain. VIggo tries to stab John, but John pushes the blade into himself before grabbing it and sticking it in Viggo's neck. He leaves him to die.<br />
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Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02284707021811638033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502772717870209853.post-65916001579142767572014-10-26T20:04:00.004-07:002014-10-26T20:06:43.214-07:00THE JUDGE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hank Palmer (Robert Downey Jr.) is one of the best defense attorneys in Chicago. He’s in the bathroom at the courthouse when the prosecuting attorney Mike Kattan (David Krumholtz) questions his ethics and the fact that he defends so many guilty people. Hank tells him that innocent people can’t afford him. Kattan asks how he sleeps at night. Hank tells him, he sleeps in a beautiful house with a smoking hot wife.<br />
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In the courtroom, Hank gets a phone call from his brother telling him that their mother died. Hank requests that the trial be suspended until he can return. Kattan doesn’t believe him, so Hank plays the voicemail. The case is suspended.<br />
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Outside Hank’s house, Hank bonds with his daughter Lauren (Emma Tremblay). He goes inside and tells his wife (Sarah Lancaster) that he wants custody of Lauren once they’re divorced. The happy life he painted for Kattan, isn’t exactly the truth. His wife tells him that he’d be a horrible father because he doesn’t know when Lauren gets up for school, who her teachers are, what her favorite color is. Hank leaves and heads to Carlinville, Indiana for his mother’s funeral.<br />
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Hank pays his respects to his mom at the funeral home viewing. We meet his younger brother Dale (Jeremy Strong) who seems to be Autistic and hides behind a Super-8 camera filming everything. We also meet oldest brother Glen (Vincent D’Onofrio). He used to be the local star baseball player, but his career was sidelined by a car accident. Now he’s an out of shape guy who owns a shop.<br />
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Hank goes to the local courthouse and watches his dad, Judge Joseph Palmer (Robert Duvall) deliberate over a case where a guy says he can’t afford child support even though he just bought a new truck. Judge Palmer dispenses small town justice and orders the man give his truck keys over to the pregnant woman suing him so that she can sell it. The Judge also points out that she’s responsible too by asking her, “You do know how babies are made, right?” At the end of the case, Judge Palmer struggles to remember Bailiff Gus’s name. His memory is slipping.<br />
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At the Palmer house, Hank discovers that his dad stores all of his junk in his old room and no one made preparations for him to stay. The next morning all of the Palmers leave early to get breakfast at the local diner before going to the funeral. Hank shows up late and sarcastically thanks them for inviting him. The Judge gets up and leaves without really acknowledging Hank at all. Hank sees that his old high school girlfriend Samantha (Vera Famiga) works at the diner. They haven’t seen each other in years.<br />
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At the mom’s funeral, the Judge is warm and friendly to everyone except Hank. They don’t get along at all. They go to the cemetery and bury the mom.<br />
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That night, the Palmer boys decide to go to a local bar and the Judge goes to the convenience store.<br />
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At the bar, locals start to give Glen shit because they’ve all had poor experiences in the Judge’s courtroom. Glen is about to fight them when Hank steps in and through fast talking shames the locals into leaving. This impresses young bartender Carla (Leighton Meester) who starts making out with Hank later that night.<br />
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When the Palmer boys get home they see that their dad damaged the front of his car. The next morning the Judge yells at them for taking his car out. He doesn’t remember causing the damage himself.<br />
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The police show up and question the Judge about his whereabouts the night before. Someone hit and run Mark Blackwell and now he’s dead. The Judge goes with the police for questioning, but Hank rushes in and stops things. The Judge insists that because he didn’t do anything wrong, there was no harm in talking to the police. Both the Judge and Blackwell were seen at the convenience store last night. The Judge says he went a different way home than where Blackwell’s body was found.<br />
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The Palmers all go home and the Judge makes fun of Hank for not being able to hold his marriage together. This infuriates Hank so he leaves and gets on a plane to go back to Chicago. Before the plane takes off, Glen calls him to tell him that the Judge has been arrested. Forensics shows Blackwell’s blood on the Judge’s car.<br />
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Hank goes to the jail and bails out his dad. The Judge refuses to let Hank represent him and instead hires local inexperienced attorney C.P. Kennedy (Dax Shepard). Lawyering seems to be a side job to Kennedy running a shop. They find out the Dwight Dickham (Billy Bob Thornton) is going to be handling the prosecution. Dickham has a reputation, so Hank sticks around to help Kennedy pick a jury. He does it entirely by asking what kind of bumper sticker each candidate has on their car. If it’s something about having an honor roll student or anything like that, he passes. He does accept people if they have stickers that say things like “Gun Control means using two hands” and “Missing: Wife and Dog, reward for Dog” like from the trailer for the movie.<br />
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Hank breaks out his old Metallica shirt and bike and starts riding around town. He rides no handed on his bike and wipes out. Samantha and her daughter Carla the bartender pick him up and give him a ride. Carla and Hank don’t tell Samantha that they made out the other night, but their stories clash regarding whether or not they’ve met. She’s honest, he’s not.<br />
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Hank and Samantha hang out and catch up a little. They break into the diner like they did as kids and then she tells him that she doesn’t just work there, she owns it now. They didn’t have to break in, she wanted to because it was just like old times. Plus it was worth a broken window to see Hank climb the building. They eat pie and she comes on to him, but he rejects her advances and explains that he’s going back to Chicago as soon as he can. She’s insulted that he’d think she wanted anything more than just a hook up and tells him to lock up when he leaves because she’s going to go home and masturbate.<br />
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A security tape shows that the Judge lied about his trip home. He said he went one direction, saw that the road was washed out and went back the other way. The security tape shows that his timeline doesn’t match up.<br />
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Hank asks Dale about the Judge’s condition. Dale says that he’s fine and keeps a routine where he goes and plays Chess with Doc Morris (Denis O’Hare) every week. Hank remembers his dad doesn’t play Chess so he asks if Dale has any footage of that. He does. They look at the film and we find out that the Judge is getting some sort of medical treatment.<br />
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Hank goes to meet with Doc Morris and finds out that his dad has Cancer and has been getting chemotherapy even though they caught it too late. Hank asks what the side effects are and finds out that they include memory loss.<br />
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Hank tells the Judge that he knows about the chemo and wants to use that in court. Blackwell was a kid who the Judge went light on. After Blackwell did minimal time, he killed his girlfriend. Then the Judge threw the book at him. Blackwell had just gotten out of jail. So the prosecution has the Judge at the scene of the accident and motive to make it murder. The Judge’s pride prevents him from wanting to use being sick as a defense. No one, aside from the doctor and the late wife, knows about the Cancer. He says that people don’t remember any of the great stuff Ronald Reagan did, they only remember him as a senile old fool. He doesn’t want that to be his legacy too. Hank points out that he’s just a small town Judge and he’ll have no legacy.<br />
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Since Hank is going to be in Indiana for awhile, he has his daughter Lauren come visit. He warns her that his father is a mean man and she shouldn’t take it personally. Much to Hank’s surprise, the Judge is delightful to Lauren and tells her that she’s the first girl they’ve had in the family in a very long time. That night, Hank and Lauren are hanging out and hear a noise from the Judge’s room. Hank goes to investigate and sees that his dad is out of it, struggling to walk and has soiled himself. Hank takes him into the bathroom, undresses him and helps him in the shower to clean him off.<br />
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The Judge wants to take the stand during his case, but Hank doesn’t want him to. The Judge says that only guilty people refuse to defend themselves. They talk about the best lawyers they’ve ever seen. Hank tells the Judge about one he respected and the Judge tells Hank about one who had integrity, clearly something he feels his son lacks. Hank and the Judge have a huge fight.<br />
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Hank was driving under the influence the night Glen got in the car accident and got injured. His dad threw the book at him. He was always hard on Hank, but points out that because of that, Hank turned out fine. Hank says he turned out fine on his own. The Judge reminds him that he’s the one who paid for Hank to go to law school and become a lawyer. Hank graduated at the top of his class and never got a congratulations from his dad. In all fairness, Hank also never thanked his dad. This visit to Carlinville is the first time they’ve spoken since Hank left home at 18.<br />
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Hank takes his daughter to the airport to go home and notices that she has a lot of the same mannerisms that Carla has. He goes home and checks dates for homecoming and realizes that Carla was born nine months after the last night he spent with Samantha. It looks like he may have been seriously macking on his daughter!<br />
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The Judge takes the stand. Dickham jogs the Judge’s memory and we find out that on the night Blackwell died, they were both at the convenience store. When Blackwell saw that Judge he told him that since the Judge’s wife was buried in the same cemetery as the girl Blackwell killed years ago, when he goes there, he can piss on both of their graves. Motive established. Hank questions him. We find out that the reason the Judge was initially easy on Blackwell was because when Blackwell was a child the Judge saw he was no different than Hank, a young boy who screwed up from time to time. Hank brings up the chemo, much to the surprise of everyone. This infuriates the Judge who tells Hank that after this they’re done forever. The Judge admits to memory loss. He still can’t remember Gus’ name even though Gus has been his Bailiff for over 20 years. Dickham cross examines. The Judge absolutely does not remember killing Blackwell. Dickham says he has no further questions, but the Judge volunteers, that while he doesn’t remember killing Blackwell, he’s glad he’s dead.<br />
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The jury deliberates. They come back with a not guilty verdict to murder, but guilty to manslaughter. He’s sentenced to four years in prison.<br />
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Hank goes back to Chicago and runs into Kattan in the bathroom again. He’s a changed man. He’s on a losing streak with cases and decides to stick with it.<br />
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Seven months later, the Judge is released from prison. Hank picks him up. They go fishing. The Judge tells him that the reason he was hard on Hank for so many years is because while he saw Hank in Blackwell, he also saw Blackwell in Hank and worried that if he wasn’t tough on Hank, he wouldn’t turn out to be the man he is today. The Judge tells him that before when Hank asked him who the best lawyer he ever saw was, he was wrong. The best lawyer he ever saw was Hank. Hank finally gets his dad’s approval. Then the Judge dies in the fishing boat.<br />
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Hank asks Samantha if Carla is his daughter. She’s not. She’s Glen’s daughter. Samantha was mad that Hank ditched her, so she hooked up with his brother out of spite. Glen doesn’t know. He’s married now and has two sons, so she never wanted to bother him with that.<br />
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Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02284707021811638033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502772717870209853.post-85143682283270402672014-10-12T19:34:00.003-07:002014-10-12T19:36:48.761-07:00GONE GIRL<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) is stroking his wife Amy's (Rosamund Pike) hair, saying through a voiceover that he'd like to bash her head in and pick her brain apart to see what kind of secrets come spilling out.<br />
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July 5th, 2012 (The Morning Of) - Nick goes to a bar he co-owns with his sister Margo (Carrie Coon). He brings her a board game that she throws in with a pile of others. She takes out two glasses and pours Nick and herself some bourbon. It's the day of Nick and Amy's 5th anniversary. Nick seems distressed, not wanting to be home at all.<br />
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January 8th, 2005 - Nick and Amy first meet at a party in New York. He writes for a men's magazine and she writes personality quizzes for another. She makes a comment on his chin making him look untrustworthy. He puts two fingers on his chin to seem more trustworthy. They take a walk and pass through a bakery that is getting a sugar delivery. Sugar is floating around everywhere as Nick and Amy walk through it. Nick tells Amy he has to kiss her now. He wipes some sugar off her lips and kisses her. He later goes down on her.<br />
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In the present day, Nick returns home. He picks up his cat that's sitting outside on the front lawn. He enters his home and calls for Amy. No answer. He goes into the living room and sees a table flipped over and the glass surface is broken. Nick screams Amy's name, startling a neighbor.<br />
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Nick calls the police. Arriving at his home are Detective Rhonda Boney and Officer Jim Gilpin (Kim Dickens and Patrick Fugit). They inspect the place. Rhonda sees a smear of blood in the kitchen above the counter. In the living room, they see a wall with pictures of "Amazing Amy", a book series written by Amy's parents. Rhonda comments that she loves the books and is surprised to learn that Nick is married to Amazing Amy herself.<br />
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February 24th, 2007 - Nick and Amy go to a party held by her parents Rand and Marybeth (David Clennon and Lisa Banes). Rand asks Amy to go sit with bloggers and reporters to answer some questions. She does, and they get her with mundane questions such as if she hasn't been married yet. Nick comes in pretending to be a reporter, where he proposes to Amy by putting a ring inside a booklet.<br />
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Nick is brought into the police station for questioning about Amy's disappearance. Rhonda and Jim find it odd that he seems rather indifferent and passive when answering questions and the fact that he doesn't know if Amy has any close friends or her blood type. He goes to call Amy's parents. Her mother asks to speak to Rhonda. In the next room, Nick finds that his father Bill (Leonard Kelly-Young) is in there after the police found him wandering around town, having left the treatment clinic (he suffers from Alzheimer's). Nick drives him back to the clinic.<br />
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Nick stays at Margo's house while the police inspect his home. A pregnant neighbor, Noelle Hawthorne (Casey Wilson), who also claims to be Amy's best friend, comes by and asks about Amy. In the kitchen, Rhonda finds an envelope in a drawer, conveniently marked "Clue One".<br />
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July 5th, 2009 - Nick and Amy have been happily married for two years. They go to the library and have sex in a quiet area. They also get each other clothes from the same brand.<br />
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When questioned about this "clue", Nick says it's something Amy made as part of a treasure hunt for their anniversary. The first clue leads him and Rhonda to his office, where a pair of red panties are found. The second clue there mentions a brown house, but Nick goes to his father's old home, which is painted blue. They find the third clue there, but Nick is unable to decipher it.<br />
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Amy's parents fly in from New York as a press conference is held to spread awareness of Amy's disappearance. Nick asks others for help, but he appears emotionless, and only makes himself look bad as he smiles next to the poster of Amy.<br />
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Nick and Amy's parents meet with Rhonda to determine some possible suspects. Rand names an ex-boyfriend of Amy's, Desi Collings, who apparently tried to commit suicide after Amy broke up with him, and a former classmate named Tommy O'Hara that allegedly sexually assaulted Amy, and so she pressed charges.<br />
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People go to the volunteer center to help find Amy. One person there is Desi Collings (Neil Patrick Harris). Nick tries to come off as friendly to others, but Jim doesn't buy it. Even Marybeth thinks he is acting like a "homecoming king." One woman takes a picture with Nick. He asks her to delete it, but she refuses. Consequently, this and other actions from Nick hit the media and TV personalities like Ellen Abbott (Missi Pyle) paint him as an unempathetic sociopath.<br />
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As Amy continued to document her married life in her diary, it is shown by their third year of marriage, both Nick and Amy were hit by the recession, and both of them lost their jobs. Amy tells Nick that she let her parents use her trust fund money, which is nearly a million dollars. Later on, Nick has started losing interest in the marriage and has begun overspending on electronics like video games and a new laptop. Amy thinks he is trying to make her look like a cold, bitchy wife. To make matters worse, Nick and Margo's mother Maureen (Cyd Strittmatter) was diagnosed with breast cancer, forcing Nick and Amy to move back to his hometown in Missouri. This led Amy to think that she was disposable and that Nick didn't need her anymore. Over time, he just kept using her for sex. They had an argument over having kids, leading Amy to hit Nick in the chest, and Nick grabbing Amy and throwing her against the staircase. He immediately looks shameful.<br />
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A few nights after Amy disappears, Nick gets a text from someone saying they are outside Margo's house. Nick opens the back door. A young woman, Andie Fitzgerald (Emily Ratajkowski), comes in and starts kissing Nick. He tells her to be quiet while Margo is sleeping. He makes sure that Andie hasn't said anything to anybody about her affair with Nick or that he has mentioned wanting to divorce Amy. They continue kissing and have sex.<br />
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Nick lets Andie slip out the door early in the morning, thinking Margo is still asleep. However, she is standing in the kitchen and angrily berates her brother for lying to her, knowing what would happen if the cops or media were to find out about this.<br />
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At night, there is a vigil for Amy. Nick stands alongside her parents, trying to seem more empathetic and hopeful to find Amy. Andie is in the crowd and calls him an asshole. Noelle walks by and calls out to Nick, asking him if he knew that Amy was six weeks pregnant. The reporters chase Nick all the way to the police car as they escort him out of there.<br />
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Margo presses Nick about the pregnancy bombshell. He says he did not know she was pregnant, but that he did want kids and Amy didn't.<br />
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Rhonda and Jim meet Nick back in his home and mention that someone wiped up a pool of blood in the kitchen. Nick also doubts that Amy knew Noelle, until Rhonda shows him photographs of the two of them, along with Noelle's kids. She even hands Nick a document of recent transactions from Amy's credit card, though Nick says he never bought any of those items. Additionally, Rhonda presses Nick about the fact that he upped Amy's life insurance policy earlier that year. Rhonda also gets a call after Amy's sample results come back, concluding that she was indeed pregnant.<br />
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While Nick tries to decipher the third clue of Amy's treasure hunt, Rhonda and Jim continue their investigation. They find a local dealer and show him a picture of Amy. He tells Rhonda that she came by and tried to buy a gun from him. They go back to Nick's father's home and go to the basement. In the furnace, they find what happens to be Amy's diary, burnt slightly from the outside. Nick, meanwhile, figures out the clue and is led to the wood shed outside Margo's home, where a large pile of electronics are stored, and a box in the middle of it all.<br />
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We go back to "the morning of", and we learn the truth - Amy is alive and she staged everything to lead up to her disappearance. She is seen driving away from Missouri with her arm bandaged up slightly. For a while, Amy has been writing false information in the diary to leave an implication of Nick being abusive towards her, as well as personal fears that he may kill her. She even planned to fake her pregnancy by befriending Noelle and making her think that Nick was hurting her. Amy drained her toilet and let Noelle drink enough fluids for her to use the bathroom, so Amy stole her urine and left a sample for the cops to find. On the day of their fifth anniversary, Amy let Nick go about his day while she set up a crime scene to make Nick look guilty. She has even planned ahead in case she needs to kill herself to completely frame Nick. To make sure she's not found out, she cuts her hair, dyes it, and makes herself look unkempt and disheveled, and she hides out at a small resort under the name Nancy, even hitting herself with a hammer in the face to sell it. She befriends a woman named Greta (Lola Kirke). Amy tells her how she came across Nick leaving the bar with Andie during a snowy night, wiping her lips before he kissed her the same way he kissed Amy when they first met (this part is true).<br />
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Nick brings the box inside and opens it to find Punch and Judy dolls, with the Judy doll missing a mallet. Together, he and Margo deduce that Amy has framed Nick for her disappearance.<br />
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Nick goes to New York to find Tanner Bolt (Tyler Perry), a lawyer that has been following Nick's story in the media. He agrees to help Nick prove his innocence. He gives Nick the contact information of Tommy O'Hara so that Nick can ask him questions.<br />
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Nick meets Tommy (Scoot McNairy) in a bar. Tommy says he met Amy at a party and had consensual sex with her, but she later framed him and made it look as though he raped her. Now he is a registered sex offender and has not been able to get a job. Nick later visits Desi after finding his address from a letter he wrote to Amy. After Nick asks Desi about his side of the story regarding his attempted suicide, Desi closes the door on him and walks back inside his house.<br />
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At the resort, Amy plays mini-golf with Greta and her friend Jeff (Boyd Holbrook). At one point, she jumps up and drops her fanny pack full of money. Greta and Jeff notice. The next day, they get Amy in her room and rob her. Now penniless, she calls someone from a payphone.<br />
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Tanner goes to Missouri to help Nick and Margo clear up Nick's image. Nick tells Tanner what he thinks has been going on with Amy, dropping clues that only he would really know. For instance, the reason he knew that the "brown house" in the treasure hunt clue was his dad's house was because they'd pretend that his dad was a spy called Mr. Brown. Nick also admits to the affair, which Tanner says he ought to tell the cops about so that it gives them one less reason to think Nick had a motivation to kill Amy.<br />
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Nick later books an interview on TV with Sharon Schieber (Lena Olin). Tanner coaches him to make him seem more likable by having Nick admit that he's been unfaithful and dishonest, which would earn him some possible points in the media.<br />
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On the day of the interview, Tanner keeps trying to get Nick to come off less smug and more genuinely upset by pelting him with gummy bears in his dressing room until Nick gets it right. At the same time, Desi finds Amy in a casino after he calls her. She never mentions getting her money stolen, but she continues to play up the abused wife angle. As they leave, and as Nick meets Sharon, a bombshell hits the news: Andie confesses to her affair with Nick at a press conference, in front of Amy's parents. Desi and Amy see the news at the casino while Sharon gets wind of it at the same time. Marybeth tells reporters that her and Rand's love for Nick ended then and there.<br />
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Desi takes Amy back to his home. Together, they watch Nick's interview with Sharon, which Nick is watching with Margo. Nick convincingly comes off as remorseful for the affair, but he insists that he did not kill his wife. Sharon lets him speak directly into the camera to say something to Amy. He says he loves her and drops mention of the woodshed (figuratively) before putting two fingers on his chin, knowing Amy would recognize that. Margo checks the internet and sees Nick is already getting more love.<br />
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Things take an unfortunate turn when Rhonda and other officers show up at Margo's home with a search warrant after getting a tip from a neighbor of Nick sneaking into her woodshed. They find all the electronics from the credit card bill. Both Nick and Margo are taken into custody. Rhonda reads to Nick the pages of Amy's diary, which is ended with "This man may truly kill me." Jim brings in the missing Judy mallet from the puppets, which gives Rhonda reason to implicate Nick and place him under arrest. Nick tries to give his argument, but Tanner shuts him up.<br />
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At Desi's home, Amy learns that Desi has security cameras installed nearly all over the place. While he's out at work, she soaks her nightgown in wine and crawls to the camera, making it look like she's just been raped as she fakes crying.<br />
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Nick and Margo are released on bond. The media continues to hound them on the way out, now that everyone is convinced Nick is a cold monster. Nick quietly whispers to himself, "Come home, Amy. I dare you."<br />
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Amy waits for Desi to come home. She gets a wine bottle and puts it in herself as she plans something. When Desi gets home, Amy seduces him and agrees to go with him to Greece. They go into the bedroom and start having sex. When Desi is caught off guard, Amy grabs a box cutter she was concealing and slashes his throat. She becomes drenched in his blood and leaves him to die.<br />
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Nearly a whole month after Amy's disappearance, Nick looks out his window to see that things seem quiet. In his driveway is Amy, still covered in blood. The reporters and neighbors are shocked and begin clamoring around Nick and Amy as she walks up to him. He whispers to her, "You fucking bitch", before she collapses in his arms.<br />
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At the hospital, Amy makes a story about how Desi kidnapped and raped her before she made her heroic escape. Rhonda asks her questions regarding the items in Margo's woodshed, but Amy ignores them in favor of telling her rape story, while also being heavily medicated on painkillers. The reporters follow her and Nick home, happy that she's alive and that Nick is now vindicated. However, Nick knows something is wrong. Amy lets him hop in the shower with her as she washes Desi's blood off her, and to make sure Nick's not wearing a wire. She all but outright states that she did frame Desi and murdered him to make her return seem heroic.<br />
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Nick meets with Tanner, Margo, and Rhonda (who now trusts Nick) about this revelation, though without sufficient evidence and with everybody on Amy's side, they cannot prove that she murdered Desi and framed Nick for her disappearance.<br />
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Nick and Amy make their first public appearance together at the volunteer center, posing as a happily reunited couple. They are even set to have an interview with Ellen Abbott. Amy gives Nick a gift, which is a pregnancy test. It's positive. Nick knows this is another ploy of hers to keep him with her, and he slams her head against the wall, calling her a cunt. She tells him she's the same cunt he fell in love with. Reluctantly, Nick joins Amy hand-in-hand for the interview. They break the news to Ellen, who is overjoyed and hugs Amy. Margo later finds out about the pregnancy and cries for her brother, knowing he is stuck with the real monster for another 18 years.<br />
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The film concludes with Nick stroking Amy's hair again, wondering to himself just what she's thinking. <i> http://www.themoviespoiler.com/2014Spoilers/GoneGirl.html</i><br />
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Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02284707021811638033noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502772717870209853.post-21539227974908629922014-09-28T18:46:00.002-07:002014-09-28T18:48:27.919-07:00THE EQUALIZER<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) is up early getting ready and going to his job at Home Mart. He is respected and well-liked among his co-workers. He sits to have lunch with his friend Ralphie (Johnny Skourtis). Ralphie takes a bite of his sandwich and McCall hears a crunch. There's chips in his sandwich. McCall reminds Ralphie he's supposed to be dropping weight for his test to become a security guard.<br />
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Most nights, McCall goes to a diner where he takes a book. He is currently reading "The Old Man and the Sea". A young girl in the place (Chloe Grace Moretz) asks McCall if the man in the book has caught the fish. He says not yet. The girl finishes her pie and goes to hail a cab.<br />
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McCall's coworkers ask him what he used to do before working with them. He jokes that he was a Pip with Gladys Knight, doing a little dance for them.<br />
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McCall goes back to the diner that night and runs into the same girl. She notices he's reading a new book. A limo pulls up across from the diner. She then gets a call from her pimp, Slavi (David Meunier). He tells her she has a client, which is the man in the limo. The girl doesn't want to, since this man is a pig. The car door opens to reveal an obese man waiting for the girl. Reluctantly, she goes outside and joins him.<br />
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The next night, McCall finds the girl in the diner. She has a bruise on her face. He gives her a doughnut that he got from work. She sits with him at his table and introduces herself as Teri, although her real name is Alina. She hands McCall a CD that she recorded of herself singing. McCall leaves with her and they take a walk before a car pulls up to them. It is Slavi and his driver Tevi (Alex Veadov). Slavi gets out and slaps Alina. McCall takes a step forward until he sees that Tevi has a gun. Slavi walks over to McCall and hands him a card for his business to ask for other girls.<br />
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McCall visits the diner again another night and learns from the manager that Alina is in the ICU after being beaten badly. McCall goes there and sees another prostitute, Mandy (Haley Bennett), by Alina's side. Her face is even more bruised and messed up. Mandy walks by McCall, crying. She gets a cup of coffee but overflows the cup. McCall comforts her and asks about Alina. They ride the elevator, and Mandy tells him that Slavi hit Alina, and she hit him back, and was made an example of. Mandy says that Slavi also threw battery acid in a girl's face to make her an example as well. He has threatened other girls before.<br />
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McCall looks at the card that Slavi gave him. He goes to an area above a restaurant where Slavi and his men are meeting. McCall enters with an envelope containing $9800 for Alina's freedom. At first, the goons laugh at McCall, though Slavi says that the money would be good to keep Alina for one month. McCall takes the money back and starts to walk out. He almost leaves but then decides to stay and lock the door. After carefully observing the men and whatever weapons they may be holding, he sets the timer on his watch. One of the men aims his gun at McCall, but he grabs the man's arm and causes him to shoot Slavi in the throat. He then jabs a shot glass into that man's eye. He stabs the third man, and then gets a corkscrew and repeatedly stabs Tevi until he sticks it under his chin and finishes him off. McCall goes to Slavi's side and watches him slowly die.<br />
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Following the murders, a Russian mobster named Teddy (Marton Csokas) arrives to Boston to seek out the killer. He teams up with a group of corrupt cops to gain leads.<br />
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At work, McCall notices Ralphie isn't in. He's told that Ralphie quit. McCall visits a restaurant that Ralphie's mother works at. Ralphie is helping there after a fire broke out, supposedly by accident.<br />
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Teddy is taken by one of the crooked cops, Frank Masters (David Harbour), to the workplace of a gangster named John Looney (Shawn Fitzgibbon), to continue his search for the killer. John insults Teddy, and all Russians in general. In response, Teddy hits John with an ashtray while Frank kills John's goons. Teddy continues to beat John's face in until the man goes unconscious.<br />
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McCall is seen playing baseball with his co-workers. Ralphie shows up in a security guard uniform, having passed his test.<br />
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The other two dirty cops, Remar (Mike O'Dea) and Pederson (James Wilcox), are eating at Ralphie's mother's restaurant. They extort her for some money and claim that there will be another "accident" if the money isn't on time again. McCall finds them outside the restaurant and says he'd like to report a crime. They brush him off until he calls one of them personally. McCall shows them a video he took of them extorting a convenience store clerk with evidence of their confession to starting the fire at the restaurant. McCall tells them they can either give the money back, or the video will hit the news stations. The cops hold him at gunpoint, but McCall quickly beats them both. They comply and later return the money to Ralphie's mother.<br />
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A crook comes to Home Mart and holds the cashier Jenny (Anastasia Mousis) at gunpoint until she hands him the money in the register. McCall calmly comes over and gives him the money. The crook also demands Jenny's ring, which was her mother's. She tearfully hands it to him. McCall observes several details of the man, like his tattoos and his cap. He doesn't make a move since children enter the store with their mother. McCall instead follows the man outside and gets a look at the plates on his car. The cops inform them that this was part of a string of robberies from the same man. McCall then goes to get a sledgehammer off a rack. The next day, Jenny finds her ring in the register. McCall then returns the hammer to the rack after wiping it clean.<br />
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Teddy gets some information regarding McCall, most of which appears clean with no indication that he has any involvement with Slavi's death. He and Frank, along with another villain, stake out while one of their guys tries to catch McCall at the diner. McCall knows the man is up to no good, and he asks him if they're waiting for anyone else. The man takes out a gun and starts to walk over to him. A truck pulls up by the diner, obscuring the view for Teddy and company. McCall hits the man in the stomach with his book, and then kills him by slamming his head down on the table and breaking his neck. He then kills the lights by sticking a knife in an outlet. He walks out of the diner and snaps photos of Teddy and his men in their car.<br />
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The gangsters follow McCall home. He boils some honey to tend a wound sustained from the gunman. He manages to slip out before Teddy and his goons arrive. From another room, McCall watches them from cameras hidden around his apartment. Teddy knows he is watching.<br />
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McCall goes to the home of his friends Brian and Susan Plummer (Bill Pullman and Melissa Leo). McCall knows Susan can gather some information regarding Teddy and the people he works for. While she is out getting what he asked for, Brian tells McCall that he was believed to have been dead, but Susan knew the truth. When she returns, she tells McCall that the men he killed were part of the Russian mafia led by Vladimir Pushkin (Vladimir Kulich). Teddy, who is really named Nicolai, is the man Pushkin sends when something needs to be done. Remar and Pederson were on Pushkin's payroll, but were found dead a few days earlier with their testicles blown off and shoved down their throats. Susan warns McCall that these men won't stop until he and everyone he cares about is dead.<br />
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McCall finds Frank and traps him in his car with a hose to poison him with carbon monoxide until he tells him to help him. Frank relents and guides McCall to a warehouse where the Russians keep their money. McCall manages to get all the gangsters there to surrender, and he has them tied up in a room with all the money for the cops to find, and then he frees the workers. The police arrive to find the gangsters and money, and to arrest Frank. McCall then goes to Frank's safety deposit box and gets his money, passport, and a USB containing more information regarding Pushkin and his dealings. He finds his oil tankers and blows them all up.<br />
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Teddy and his men overtake Home Mart and hold McCall's friends, including Ralphie and Jenny, hostage unless he goes to confront them. The villains track his cell phone to await his arrival. When he doesn't appear to show, they almost execute one of McCall's coworkers, until music starts playing over the intercom. The gangsters walk out and are steadily killed by McCall as he stealthily moves about the place. He hangs one with barbed wire and stabs another one through the neck, and then kills one by blowing him up in a room with hydrogen in a microwave. Ralphie goes to help McCall until he gets shot in the leg. McCall helps him escape until he's left with Teddy after the explosion sets off the sprinklers. McCall gets a nail gun and shoots Teddy with it repeatedly until he gets him in the throat, killing him.<br />
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Three days later, McCall corners Pushkin in his home in Moscow as Pushkin is taking a shower. McCall turns the lights on and off repeatedly and runs the sink water. Pushkin goes by the sink and finds McCall has vanished. He calls for his guards, not realizing that McCall cut the wires and left them exposed. The water hits the wires, and Pushkin is electrocuted. The other guards have already been killed.<br />
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McCall returns to Boston and is approached by Alina, no longer bruised up. She tells him she's gotten a real job and has started to do some reading. She thanks McCall for what he did, and she kisses him on the cheek before they bid each other farewell.<br />
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The last scene features McCall back at the diner on his laptop. He receives a message asking for help. He simply replies, "Yes." <i>http://www.themoviespoiler.com/2014Spoilers/Equalizer.html </i><br />
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Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02284707021811638033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502772717870209853.post-58594963624047848142014-09-23T19:22:00.000-07:002014-09-23T19:23:58.573-07:00THE MAZE RUNNER<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) wakes up in an ascending elevator. With him are supply containers marked WCKD. When the elevator reaches the top, a door above him opens and he’s surrounded by a Lord of the Flies type gaggle of young men/boys. Thomas takes off running, but stops when he realizes he’s in a small glade surrounded by huge walls. There’s nowhere to run to, baby.<br />
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Gally (Will Poulter) subdues Thomas and keeps him from trying to run into a maze which is accessible through a door in the wall.<br />
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The leader of the group, Alby (Ami Ameen), and his consigliere Newt (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) explain the situation to Thomas. Once a month the elevator, or the box as they call it, comes to the surface with supplies as well as a new boy. They all live in the glade and call themselves Gladers. None of them can remember anything, but after a few days their names come back to them. Each boy is given a different job. Some are builders, some are runners. A door opens in the giant wall every day and closes every night. The door leads to a maze that surrounds the glade. Runners go through looking for a way out. If you’re trapped in the maze over night, the Grievers get you and you die. The maze changes every night. Alby was the first boy to arrive in the Glade. No one knows why they’re there.<br />
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Thomas starts to form a friendship with the kid who came up the month before him. He’s one of the youngest of the group. His name is Chuck (Blake Cooper).<br />
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That night there’s a celebration for Thomas. Gally is wrestling one of the other boys and asks if Thomas wants to have a go. They end up sparring and when Thomas hits his head on the ground, he remembers his name.<br />
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That night Thomas has a dream. It’s full of fleeting images, but a woman (Patricia Clarkson) says, “Wicked is good.”<br />
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Alby takes Thomas around to show him more of the sites. The boys carve their names on the wall when they arrive. When one dies, they cross off the name. Thomas tries to fit in and he’s given the task to go dig up fertilizer from out in the woods. While he’s there, he’s attacked by Ben (Chris Sheffield) one of the Runners who was stung by a Griever. While they fight, the other boy says, “This is all your fault. I saw you.” That boy has what they call The Changing. A sting will apparently cause tremendous pain and make you prone to violence. There’s no cure for it, so they force the boy into the maze at night just as the doors are closing. Everyone is concerned that there was a Griever attack during the day.<br />
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That night Thomas has another dream. It’s more of the lady assuring him that Wicked is good, but now he also remembers himself and a girl about the same age sitting across from each other at work stations going over diagnostics.<br />
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The next day, Alby goes into the maze to retrace Ben’s path and find out what happens. It rains during the day. Now it’s getting late and Alby still hasn’t returned. All the boys gather around the entrance to the maze. Just as the doors are about to close, the lead Runner named Minho (Ki Hong Lee) appears with a very injured Alby. Thomas rushes into the maze to help them, but the door closes behind him.<br />
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Minho and Thomas use vines to suspend Alby’s body and try to keep it safe from the Grievers. Alby was stung while inside the maze. One of the Grievers appears and chases after Thomas. The Grievers looks like gigantic bedbugs with robot legs and scorpion tails. Thomas and the Griever run around a bit as the walls in the maze change. Finally Thomas is able to lure the Griever between two walls that are colliding and SQUISH! Dead Griever.<br />
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The next day Gally calls for a meeting of the Gladers. Most are excited that Thomas killed a Griever. There’s another group though, lead by Gally who feel that the rules they have were put in place to keep everyone safe and ever since Thomas arrived things have changed like Grievers attacking during the day. And, speaking of things changing, the elevator arrives.<br />
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The boys run out to check what the elevator brought. Inside are no supplies, only a girl (Kaya Scodelario). She looks up and says, “Thomas”, before passing out. In her hand is a note that reads, “She’s the last one ever”.<br />
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Gally calls for Thomas to be punished because non Runners are allowed in the maze. He doesn’t like the fact that the girl knew who Thomas was. He’s scared that the elevator hasn’t gone back down since they took out the girl. Newt says Thomas can be locked up overnight without any food and starting tomorrow, he’s a Runner. Gally is mad at his leniency.<br />
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A bunch of the boys go back into the maze, which further upsets Gally, to look at the carcass of the Griever. Inside it they find a weird device that has an electronic display reading the number 7. The device also is marked WCKD. The boys realize whoever sends them supplies also made the Grievers.<br />
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Minho shows Thomas a map of the maze. There are different outer sections that open each day as the maze changes. Each outer section is numbered. Last night, section 7 was open.<br />
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The girl is awake. She’s at the top of a tower throwing stuff at the boys on the ground. Thomas yells up to her that it’s him. She agrees to let him come up. He explains that her memory was wiped, but in a few days she’ll remember her name. She says she already remembers her name. It’s Teresa. She remembers Thomas too. He tells her that he’s had dreams about her and a lady saying that “Wicked is good”. When Teresa woke up she found two syringes in her pocket too.<br />
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That night, Thomas deals with his punishment of being locked up. Chuck visits him and brings him some food. He also asks Thomas to give his parents a little carved statue Chuck made. Even though he doesn’t remember his parents, he’s sure his parents remember him and miss him. Thomas gives back the statue and tells Chuck that he’ll be able to give that to his parents him self.<br />
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The next morning Thomas and Minho go into the maze along with the device they got from the Griever. The device ends up making clicking noises and guides them to a new section Minho has never seen before. Minho is also concerned that all of the outer sections of the maze seem to be open. They get to a wide area marked WCKD Loading Dock that ends up in a dead end, but the device turns from red to green and opens a new path. That path leads to what looks like some sort of sewer tunnel. The edges of the tunnel have the same slime that the Grievers leave secrete. So they go back to the Glade.<br />
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Thomas decides to use one of the syringes on the still “changing” Alby. It ends up making him better. When he comes to he tells Thomas, “You were their favorite.” But we don’t find out what he means because outside doors all over the maze begin to open and out pour bunches and bunches of Grievers.<br />
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There’s a giant Griever attack that wipes out a bunch of the boys and destroys much of their village. Alby is among the dead. Chuck is saved after getting grabbed by one of the Grievers. They end up hacking off its tail. After the attack, Thomas realizes that the venom from the Griever “stings” helps the victim remember. So he takes the hacked off tail and stings him self. He remembers a little bit more.<br />
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The maze isn’t a prison it’s a test. He sees all of the other boys in incubation tubes. A lot of them are in a panic. He also sees himself as a scientist along with Teresa.<br />
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The Gladers use the second syringe and Thomas is cured and confesses to everyone that he’s one of the people responsible for everyone being there. Gally is furious and he and his group tie Thomas and Teresa to stakes outside the entrance to the maze as an offering. But, half the group is still with Thomas so they free them. Now the Gladers are divided.<br />
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Thomas tells Gally that he’d rather die trying to escape than die in the Glade not trying. Thomas takes a group into the maze. They get to the Loading Dock area from before and are attacked by a bunch of Grievers again. They go through the sewer tunnel type area and it leads to a locked door. Teresa needs a numerical code to get through. They realize the code must be the sequence in which the maze would normally open. She types it in and everyone goes through a door. Walls crush all the Grievers behind them.<br />
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The kids walk through some hallways until they find a door marked “exit”. And that’s not me making a joke…it’s seriously a regular old exit door like you’d find in any building. They go through and now they’re inside the lab from Thomas’ dreams and memories. All the scientists are dead. A video starts to play.<br />
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The woman from earlier identifies herself as Ava Paige and tells the kids that they don’t remember this by there was global devastation by something called the Flare. She was part of a controversial group called The World Catastrophe Killzone Department…y’know WCKD), that believed that in testing the kids they could monitor their brains and find a cure. While she speaks, behind her guerilla soldiers rush in and start killing other scientists. She tells them she’s glad they passed the first test and reminds them that Wicked is good. Before signing off, Paige shoots herself in the head.<br />
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A door opens leading outside. Before anyone can leave, Gally shows up. He has a gun. He says that they all belong in the Glade. He goes to shoot Thomas, but Chuck jumps in front of the bullet. Gally gets stabbed in the chest with a knife. Chuck hands the, now bloody, statue to Thomas and dies.<br />
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A group, who looks like the guerillas from the video, rushes in and takes the kids outside to waiting helicopters. At first it looks like they’re in the desert, but we pull out to reveal that they’re outside what used to be a city. Buildings are destroyed and everything is covered in sand. They fly over the maze and the Glade and no one asks why the choppers just didn’t land inside the Glade and rescue the kids there instead.<br />
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Paige, alive and wiping fake blood off her head, says that the kids have taken the bait. More kids survived than she anticipated. The maze was a success. <i>http://www.themoviespoiler.com/2014Spoilers/MazeRunner.html</i><br />
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Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02284707021811638033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502772717870209853.post-9210268971645645582014-09-14T21:07:00.003-07:002014-09-14T21:07:58.921-07:00BOYHOOD<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
2002 - Six-year-old Mason Evans, Jr. (Ellar Coltrane) is laying in the grass outside his school, staring at the sky, when his mother Olivia (Patricia Arquette) comes from out of the school to take him home. She just met with his teacher, and while Mason seems to be a curious kid, he doesn't put a lot of effort into his schoolwork, shirking his homework and not behaving himself properly.<br />
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We see Mason hanging out with his friend Tommy (Elijah Smith), spraying graffiti on the walls and checking out provocative pictures of women in magazines.. The boy also lives with his eight-year-old sister Samantha (Lorelei Linklater). She enjoys to mess with her brother, as seen when she sings "Oops I Did It Again" to annoy Mason, then throws something at him. Olivia goes up to see what's going on, and Samantha pretends to cry to get Mason in trouble.<br />
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Olivia's boyfriend Ted (Steven Prince) comes over one day to take her out, but because the babysitter canceled, she chooses to stay and take care of Mason and Sam. Ted is annoyed and says he has plans to keep with his friends. Olivia stays and plays with her children and later reads to them "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets". While Mason tries to sleep, he overhears Olivia and Ted arguing. He gets up to check out the commotion, seeing Olivia stating that she wants to go out, but she is responsible for her children and she feels that Ted is blaming them for her lack of a social life.<br />
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2003 - Not long after, Olivia announces to her kids that they are moving to Houston in a place that her mother found for them, and so she can go back to college and work her way to a better job. Neither kid is excited for the move. When they get to Houston, the kids' father, Mason Sr. (Ethan Hawke) comes to pick them up. He is very happy to see his kids, but Grandma is not quite as trusting of Mason Sr. He offers to take them back home to Olivia, despite Grandma telling him not to.<br />
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Mason Sr. takes the kids bowling. Sam scores four strikes, but when Mason goes up to roll, he misses. He asks his dad to get bumpers set up, but Mason Sr. says bumpers are not necessary, and that we don't use bumpers in life, as it takes the fun and challenge out of things. The kids are both shown trying to compete for their dad's attention, both trying to show off their accomplishments. They then sit to have a meal, watching news of the situation in Iraq. Mason Sr. expresses his feelings on the situation, saying it's not the fault of those in Iraq for what happened in recent times, and he tells his kids if they were old enough to vote, do NOT vote for Bush. He also has a smoking habit that bothers the children over the smell. He brings them home, waiting for Olivia to come back. When she does, she learns the kids didn't finish their homework or have a proper meal. She calls Mason Sr. outside to talk, and Mason watches them argue. Mason Sr. leaves.<br />
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2004 - Olivia takes Mason to class with her one day. After the lecture, she introduces him to her professor, Bill Wellbrock (Marco Perella). He appears charming and kind to Mason. Mason leaves the room to wait for his mother, and he hears Bill not-so-subtly asking Olivia if she may get a babysitter so they can go out. They eventually do go on a date, with Bill's kids, Randy (Andrew Villareal) and Mindy (Jamie Howard) staying over Olivia's house playing on the trampoline with Mason and Sam.<br />
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2005 - Olivia and Bill marry, with Mason and Sam having Randy and Mindy joining them as a family. The kids spend time together, like going to the opening party of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" at the local book store. Bill proves to be a strict parent, particularly toward Randy. He seems to show a bit of favoritism to Mason.<br />
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Bill is shown to start drinking. His demeanor toward his kids, as well as Mason and Sam seems to be getting harsher. He criticizes the kids for not finishing their work, scolding them in front of Olivia.<br />
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Mason Sr. takes the kids out again, but they don't try and talk to him so much. It begins to bug their dad (especially since he's quit smoking) a lot until he pulls over and insists that they talk to him about anything, whether it's drama at school or anything else they've done lately. The kids then reconnect with Mason St., and he takes them to a museum, a baseball game, and they play hide and seek around the area. Mason Sr. later takes the kids back to his place, where they stay over for the weekend. Being part of a band, Mason Sr. plays a song for his kids with his roommate. At night, while Mason sleeps on the couch, he asks his dad if he believes that there's magic in the world. Mason Sr. responds with mentioning something about a whale with sonar and asks Mason if he'd believe him if he told him about that.<br />
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Bill orders Mason and Randy to have haircuts in their home. It's especially unpleasant for Mason, as he was happy with his long hair. He expresses his disdain to his mother, who says she'll talk to Bill. She leaves Mason at school, where the other kids laugh at his haircut. One girl, however, passes a note to Mason, thinking his haircut looks "kewl". They smile at each other.<br />
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2006 - Mason and Randy are riding around town with their friend on their bikes, when they come home to find Olivia in the garage, crying on the floor. The boys run to her, and Bill comes out loudly stating that she had an accident and is just overreacting. Bill's behavior worsens over time. Over dinner one afternoon, he brings his liquor bottle to the table and menacingly asks the family if they have a problem with his drinking. Everyone says no, though Mason is silent. Bill knows Mason doesn't like him, and he jokes that he doesn't like himself either. Mason still says nothing, and Bill throws his drinking glass at Mason's plate, shattering it and frightening Olivia and the kids.<br />
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When Olivia is out of the house, Bill interrogates the kids, thinking they sent secret messages to her. He checks through all their phones and sees nothing except on Sam's phone, and Sam admits that she spoke to her mom, who told Sam that the kids should stay in their rooms. Bill takes the kids to an ATM and sees that Olivia took all their money. He forces Mason and Randy to go into the liquor store to cash in a check. When they return, Olivia comes home with a friend to take Mason and Sam away, but Bill stands between them, yelling at the kids to go back inside the house. Mason and Sam manage to get out, with Bill aggressively pushing them ahead. They stay at this friend's house for the time being. Sam asks her mom why they couldn't take Mindy and Randy. Olivia says she's not their legal guardian and it would be kidnapping. She starts crying because she doesn't have the answers.<br />
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2007/2008 - Mason has started a new school, meeting new friends along the way. One day, he goes to see his mom teaching at the Texas College. He sits through her lecture, and then hears her invite the students for a gathering over Thanksgiving that she is hosting with a fellow professor. When she and Mason get home, Olivia scolds Sam for not going to pick Mason up from school.<br />
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As the fall comes around, Mason Sr. has his kids go around the neighborhood putting on Obama/Biden signs for the upcoming elections. Mason goes to the house of a right-wing Republican and asks if he can put the sign up, and the man sends Mason away. The kids do find a lady who is definitely pro-Obama, calling herself an "Obama Mama".<br />
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On another occasion, Mason Sr. takes his son camping. They go for a swim in the lake, hike through the woods, and then sit around a campfire at night, making s'mores and having an amusing conversation about if there will ever be another "Star Wars" movie.<br />
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Olivia and her co-worker host the Thanksgiving party. Mason talks to one of Olivia's students in his room. She tells him that his mom is her favorite professor. While eating, a student named Jim (Brad Hawkins), an Afghanistan/Iraq War veteran, talks about his experiences serving his country. Mason later sees Jim talking to his mom outside, as she is clearly interested. Eventually, he ends up moving in with her.<br />
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2009/2010 - Mason makes new friends over time in his new school. He does have a brief encounter with some bullies in the bathroom, both of whom harass him but then leave, flipping him the bird. Mason later walks home with his friend Jill (Evie Thompson), who mentions not liking the "Twilight" series, as well as noting that one of her friends has a crush on Mason.<br />
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One of Mason's new friends comes over asking if he wants to go camping with him and other friends. Olivia lets Mason go, though the kids really just go to an unfinished home where they drink beer and berate each other for their lack of sexual experiences.<br />
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2011 - Mason is dropped off by his friends while making out with his girlfriend in their car. He also shares a joint with his friends. He comes home to find his mother hosting another party. He admits he's been drinking and smoking a little, but Olivia doesn't seem upset. Instead, she wishes her son a happy birthday.<br />
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Mason Sr. comes to pick up Mason and Sam again, with his new wife Annie (Jenni Tooley), and his newborn son Cooper, while Olivia is talking to a handyman named Ernesto (Roland Ruiz) about fixing the pipes. She asks if he goes to school, and he says he doesn't have time since he works all day. She suggests going to take night classes. The kids, meanwhile, get ready to leave. Mason Sr. thanks Jim for giving Mason a camera. On the road, Mason learns that his dad gave away his old car to buy a minivan. Mason is upset because he recalls his dad promising him that car when he turned 16. Mason Sr. doesn't remember saying such a thing. He does, however, give his son a mix CD of songs from the individual Beatles members after they went solo, because, to Mason Sr., each of them put together still creates an effective flow of Beatles music as if they were still together as a band.<br />
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The family gets to the home of Annie's parents, Cliff (Richard Jones) and Nana (Karen Jones). They are much more conservative than Mason Sr. is used to, but they still love him and his kids. They give Mason a Bible with his name on it, and a rifle. Mason Sr. and Cliff teach Sam and Mason to shoot, and then later take them to church.<br />
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2012 - Mason has developed an active interest in photography. He spends a lot of time in the darkroom, which cuts into his schoolwork. His teacher, Mr. Turlington (Tom McTigue), comes in and lectures the boy on his lack of work, encouraging him to do better. He assigns Mason to photograph the football game.<br />
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Mason goes to a party and meets a girl named Sheena (Zoe Graham). He expresses his views on the world and life, which she finds weird, but she is definitely charmed by him. Mason comes home late, with Jim sitting outside waiting for him. He is angry at Mason's lack of respect and disregard for rules.<br />
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2013 - Mason now works at a restaurant as a busboy/dishwasher. He eats some leftover shrimp with his co-worker April (Jessie Tilton). They seem to flirt for a bit before Mason goes to wash dishes. His boss (Richard Robicheaux) comes in, scolding Mason for slacking on his work. However, he does tell Mason that he's up for a fry cook job over the summer, which would bring in more pay for him.<br />
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Somewhere in between this, Olivia has broken up with Jim and she plans to sell the house.<br />
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Mason takes Sheena to Austin to stay with Sam at her dorm in college while her roommate is out. On the trip, Mason mentions deactivating his Facebook account, which Sheena makes fun of him for, since she feels more connected to everything with that site. They get to Austin and hang out with Sam and her new boyfriend. At night, Mason and Sheena go to a diner to munch on chips and queso at 3 in the morning. They go through the city and watch the sunrise, sharing a kiss. Later, they have sex in Sam's roommate's bed. The roommate comes in and catches them in bed. She briefly chats with Mason, despite the situation being a bit awkward.<br />
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At school, Mason collects his pictures that he had for a photography contest, in which he earned a silver medal. He gets a text from Sheena to meet him under a tree. Turns out that Sheena cheated on Mason with a college lacrosse player, and her friends have been talking, since Mason already bought prom tickets for both of them. Sheena breaks up with Mason.<br />
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Not long after, Mason has graduated high school. His friend drives him home and joins Mason for a graduation party. All of Mason's family is there, and even his boss shows up to give him a savings bond. The family takes pictures and toasts to Mason's future.<br />
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One afternoon, Olivia takes her kids to a restaurant, telling them that she is moving to a new place and that they must gather the childhood possessions that they wish to keep, now that both of them are no longer going to be living at home. The manager comes over, and it happens to be Ernesto the handyman. He thanks Olivia for encouraging him to pursue an education, which has brought him better job opportunities, and he offers them a free meal on him.<br />
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Mason hangs out with his dad at a lounge, discussing Mason's recent break-up. Mason Sr. says Sheena was too square for his boy, and that if he keeps working on himself, he'll meet better girls. Mason Sr.'s roommate then gets with his band and plays a song for Mason's recent graduation.<br />
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Mason is set to move out to college. He debates on leaving or taking his framed first photograph with him. Olivia starts to cry, knowing her kids have left the nest and saying that she has nothing to look forward to now but death.<br />
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Mason drives off to college. He stops at a gas station to fill up, but also manages to take photographs. He gets to his dorm and meets his roommate, Dalton (Maximillian McNamara) and his girlfriend Barb (Taylor Weaver), along with Barb's roommate Nicole (Jessi Mechler). They invite Mason to go hiking with them, and they give him part of a pot brownie. On the hike, Mason chats with Nicole, who has a teaching job. The four of them get to an area where Dalton is yelling excitedly to the air. Mason sits with Nicole, who asks him if he thinks about when people tell him to seize moments. She thinks it's the opposite, and that moments seize us. Mason ponders the thought, and smiles at Nicole.<br />
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Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02284707021811638033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502772717870209853.post-41339201281040006632014-08-31T21:19:00.000-07:002014-08-31T21:21:01.401-07:00Chef<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Chef Carl Casper (Jon Favreau) turns the lights on in the kitchen of the restaurant he works at, beginning to prepare some good food. He cracks garlic cloves, gets his spices and sauces ready, leaving no stone unturned. Coming in after him are his co-workers Martin (John Leguizamo) and Tony (Bobby Cannavale), the latter of which is hungover from the previous night. They pull a pork apart for bacon when Carl remembers to pick up his son Percy (Emjay Anthony).<br />
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Percy lives with his mother/Carl's ex-wife Inez (Sofia Vergara). Although Percy loves his dad, Carl doesn't always put in as much time as he wants to for the boy. He takes him out to the farmers market to get some food. Percy gets a bag of kettle corn and Carl buys both of them New Orleans-based food, inspiring Percy to want to go down there and try authentic Louisiana cuisine.<br />
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Carl and his cohorts prep up the kitchen for the arrival of renowned food critic Ramsey Michel (Oliver Platt). Carl's boss Riva (Dustin Hoffman) bugs Carl about sticking to the menu as it has been for the past decade that Carl has been working there, since the last time Carl tried to change things up, nobody ordered his food. Riva leaves Carl to cook what he's best at, so Carl decides to serve Ramsey food such as caviar with eggs as a starter, and later a chocolate lava cake for dessert. That night, as Carl and his buddies celebrate at the bar, Carl reads Ramsey's review on his phone. Ramsey starts by praising the food he ate from Carl a decade earlier, but the review becomes less and less pleasant for Carl to read as he finds that Ramsey wrote his food off as "needy" and less ambitious than Carl used to deliver, leaving them with two stars. A discouraged Carl smokes a joint with his friend/the restaurant's hostess Molly (Scarlett Johansson), who comforts him and then lets him cook her some pasta. She takes one bite and lets out a satisfied sigh.<br />
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While bonding with Percy, Carl inquires about Twitter, since Martin and Tony kept telling him "Fuck Twitter" earlier at work. Percy explains to Carl the gist of Twitter as he sets up an account for him, leading them to find out that Ramsey's review went viral. Thousands of Ramsey's followers retweeted the review, causing others to write Carl off as well. Later, as Carl keeps going through the tweets of others, he decides to write back to Ramsey by saying "You wouldn't know a good meal if it sat on your face." The next morning, Percy tells Carl that he's received over 1000 followers since the past night, and that he is trending on the site for writing back to Ramsey. Carl believed he was sending a private message to him, unaware that he made a public reply. Ramsey wrote back with "I'd rather have you sit on my face after a brisk walk than to suffer that fucking lava cake again." At work, Carl send out another angry tweet to Ramsey, saying he's gonna have a new menu prepared for him that night.<br />
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Carl and the staff get ready to prepare a new menu for Ramsey, as well as the other patrons who are coming after reading the challenging tweet, but Riva comes in and tells him to stick to the menu and to run anything through him if he wants to post it online. He gives Carl an ultimatum - make the food that's on the menu, or leave. Carl chooses the latter, leaving Tony to be head chef. Carl goes home to make food while Molly and Riva personally tend to Ramsey. They serve him the same dull, unappealing food that he ate during his previous visit, while Carl prepares mouthwatering grilled beef with his own dessert. He calls Molly to stall Ramsey until he gets there. Once at the restaurant, Carl lets loose on Ramsey in front of the other patrons, angrily telling him he is not needy and that the review won't get to him, even though it clearly struck a nerve. Video footage of Carl's freakout hits the web, and he tries to get Inez's publicist Jen (Amy Sedaris) to do something about it, but she says there are probably countless other videos that captured him at the restaurant.<br />
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Now jobless and in need of a break, Carl joins Inez and Percy as they go to Miami. They meet with Inez's dad (Jose C. Hernandez), who thinks his daughter and Carl have gotten back together. Inez then sets up a meeting with her other ex-husband Marvin (Robert Downey, Jr.), who gives Carl access to a food truck so that he can keep making food how he wants to. He is given a dusty truck that is in desperate need of renovations. Before he gets to fixing it, Carl asks Inez is she ever slept with Marvin after they (Carl and Inez) divorced. She says it almost happened but they never went through with it. Percy joins Carl in fixing up the truck, replacing the oven, stove, and sink. They get into an argument when Carl orders Percy to scrub a tray found in the oven that is filled with a gross and smelly crud that Percy refuses to clean. He runs away after Carl yells at him, but he goes to apologize to his son.<br />
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Martin joins the duo in their food truck venture, despite having been promoted to sous chef. They take their truck, now called "El Jefe" across the country, selling Cubano sandwiches to hungry customers. They are stopped by a cop in South Beach who only asks them to move the truck further up, and then asks to take pictures with Carl after recognizing him from his freakout video on "Tosh.0". Percy markets the food truck through Twitter, Facebook, and Vine, spreading word of El Jefe to others across the country. People love the sandwiches and are happy with Carl's food. When they stop off in New Orleans at last, Percy finally gets to try beignets. Along the way, he also takes one-second clips of each day that he spends with his dad and Martin. One night when talking to Inez, Carl tries to tell her about how Percy is really helping them out. While Percy chimes in by saying that he got to try beer and was given a knife by Carl, Carl tries to cut him off by telling Inez that Percy says he loves her, although it sounds more like Carl genuinely saying it to her.<br />
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With the summer winding down, Carl tells Percy that it's almost time for him to go back to school and that he can't let him keep working with him. Despite this, a sad Percy agrees to the terms. He is returned home with Inez, but not before reminding Carl to check out the one-second clips video he sent him. Carl opens it to find many clips of him and Percy together on their trip, along with Martin, Inez, and his grandfather. Percy captured their trip to New Orleans, his first beignet, his first beer, and many laughs with Carl. This inspires Carl to call him back up and allow his son to join him on weekends and after school. Percy excitedly goes to ask Inez for permission.<br />
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A while later, El Jefe is still going strong, with Inez having joined the crew. While she is serving customers, one of them turns out to be none other than Ramsey Michel. She turns him away, but he is there to talk to Carl. He claims that he sent someone to pick up the food for him, and he really enjoyed it, especially since he knows that Carl is making food the way he wants to. They make amends over their online flame war, and Ramsey proposes to personally back Carl's business without writing about it since he can't back anything he has personal interest in.<br />
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Six months later, Carl has opened his own restaurant, also called "El Jefe", with Percy, Martin, and Ramsey working behind him. Additionally, he and Inez have remarried, and her father's band plays in the restaurant as they celebrate, with plenty of great food to go around. <i>http://www.themoviespoiler.com/2014Spoilers/chef.html </i><br />
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She decides to live!<br />
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Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02284707021811638033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502772717870209853.post-71279686562264482442014-08-10T19:33:00.001-07:002014-08-10T19:33:29.565-07:00LUCY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We see a cell split up into multiple other cells. Then we see a chimp in prehistoric times drinking from a lake. Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) says that life began billions of years ago, and ponders just what we have done with it since then.<br />
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In the present, Lucy is outside a hotel in Taiwan with her week-long boyfriend Richard (Pilou Absaek). He is asking her to take a briefcase up to the room of a Mr. Jang (Min-sik Choi). She refuses to do anything for Richard without knowing what it is that he wants her to deliver, so he handcuffs Lucy's wrist to the handle of the briefcase, leaving her with no choice. She enters the lobby and tells the clerk that Richard is sending her up to Jang, and then nervously gives her name to the clerk. Lucy looks out the window to see Richard smiling and trying to be encouraging, until he is shot and killed. A group of thugs come out of the elevator and force Lucy to go up with them. This scene is juxtaposed with footage of a cheetah chasing a gazelle, mauling it and then carrying the gazelle's corpse in its teeth.<br />
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They take Lucy to Jang's apartment. There are bloodied corpses on the floor, causing Lucy to vomit. Jang comes out with his hands soaked in blood. He rings up a man on the phone to translate for Lucy. She cries, not knowing what is going on or why any of this is happening. Jang writes down numbers on a piece of paper, which is the code to open the briefcase. Jang steps into the next room while his men arm themselves with guns and shields. Lucy opens the briefcase, which contains four bags of blue powdered substances. Jang brings in a drugged-up man to snort some of the blue powder. The man briefly convulses and then starts laughing maniacally until Jang shoots him in the head. Lucy is then ordered to do a job, which she refuses to do until she gets smacked.<br />
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Lucy wakes up in a hotel room. There is a bandage on her stomach. Jang's men come in and throw her some clothes. She is taken to Jang, along with three other men. A British man known as "The Limey" (Julian Rhind-Tutt) comes in to explain to Lucy that she and the other men have had a drug called CPH4 stuffed into their lower intestines. The drug is supposed to be the next big thing on the market, and they intend to smuggle it across the world. Afterwards, Lucy is taken to a room and chained up, where one of the thugs starts kicking her in the stomach, right where they cut into her. This causes a tear in the drug bag, leaking the powder into Lucy's system. She begins to writhe and thrash all across the room, even reaching up to the ceiling until she falls back down to the floor.<br />
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As all of this happens, we meet Professor Samuel Norman (Morgan Freeman) giving a lecture to a classroom on his research of the brain's capacity. He essentially explains what could happen if humans could exceed beyond the suggested 10% brain capacity that they use, as well as its responses to certain environments that would allow the brain to submit to immortality or reproduction. Basically, if the subject doesn't like their environment, they would choose immortality and move elsewhere, but if they were happy with their setting, they would be inclined to reproduce (complete with images of every species engaging in intercourse). If, say, humans could reach up to 40%, they could manipulate matter (footage of a magic show is juxtaposed here as an example). One student asks Norman what would happen if humans reached 100%. He says he has no idea.<br />
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Lucy reawakens, with her eyes glowing bright blue. She sits upright, calmer than before. A thug comes into the room, and Lucy spread her legs to tempt him. The thug smiles and lays down his gun on the table. As he walks over to her, Lucy grabs his belt and flips him over, then pulls the table over to take the gun. After she frees herself, she shoots the other thugs as they're eating. She gets shot in the shoulder, but is able to dig the bullet out without feeling pain. She then eats all the thugs' food before leaving. She finds two men outside and gets one of them to take her to the hospital.<br />
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On her way to the hospital, Lucy is able to hear peoples' voices from outside the car. When she gets to the hospital, she is able to clearly read the signs as if they were in English to her. She gets to an operating room where doctors are working on a man. Lucy looks at the patient's x-ray scans and then shoots the man, stating to the doctors that they wouldn't have been able to save him because the tumor in his brain had already spread far enough. She forces the doctors to take the bag out of her stomach. She then calls her mother to tell her that she feels everything - the air, the blood in her veins, the heat leaving her body, and is even able to access the deepest parts of her memories, like when she was sick as a child or even petting a cat when she was barely a year old. She tells her mother that she loves her before hanging up. The doctor pulls the bag of drugs out of Lucy's stomach, and after she tells him that it's CPH4, he tells her that this is something that pregnant women produce six weeks into their pregnancy as nutrients for the fetus, and that the doctor is surprised Lucy has survived this long with it in her body.<br />
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Lucy makes one more stop back to the hotel to find Jang as he is in the middle of getting a tattoo and a facial. She kills his guards and then shoos the tattoo artist away before sticking knives in both of Jang's hands. With her newfound powers, she taps into his brain and sees where the other three drug mules are going based on images their plane tickets. She leaves, and Jang lets out a pained scream.<br />
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Lucy goes to the apartment of her friend Caroline (Analeigh Tipton) to use her laptop. She reads all of Norman's research in a matter of seconds, then contacts him to tell him what she's read. He is astonished to hear that she read everything, even as she continues to explain what she is feeling and experiencing, now that she has reached up to 20% brain capacity. She is able to manipulate electronics, making her appearance on the TV in Norman's hotel room, as well as his phone and the radio. She plans to meet with him in 12 hours. Before leaving, she prints out a prescription for Caroline, telling her that her liver and kidneys are failing and that she needs to make new lifestyle choices and she'll be okay.<br />
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The news about Lucy shooting the patient has spread, so as she makes her way through the airport, she changes her hair color and style. She calls a French policeman, Captain Pierre Del Rio (Amr Waked), to inform him of the other drug mules. She then boards the plane and continues her research on the brain, typing on her laptop at rapid-fire pace. The flight attendants ask her to turn off her computer, and Lucy asks for a glass of champagne, while also telling one flight attendant to wipe her nose without looking, and the lady's nose bleeds after. Lucy is given the champagne glass and toasts "To knowledge." She sips, and then "40%" flashes onscreen. She discovers a tooth in her glass, and then she spits up three more teeth. Then her skin starts to disintegrate, in plain sight of the passengers and flight attendants. Lucy runs to the bathroom, where her fingers start to disappear, and her face begins to sort of melt. She pulls out the rest of the CPH4 and snorts it, restoring herself to normal, but she passes out.<br />
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Lucy wakes up in a hospital room, with Del Rio and a few other officers and doctors waiting, right after they have apprehended the other mules. She sits up instantly, to the alarm of a nurse. Meanwhile, one of Jang's henchmen, Jii (Nicholas Phongpheth), comes in with more armed men to find the other mules. They take them into a room and cut the drugs out of them after killing them. Lucy leaves the room and is surrounded by armed men. With a wave of her fingers, she is able to put them all to sleep, except for Del Rio. Together, they find Jang's men, and, with her brain function now at 60%, she moves them around the hall and prevents Jii from escaping with the briefcase full of drugs by creating a sort of invisible wall. She swipes the drugs from Jii and starts to leave, but orders Del Rio to go with her. He thinks he is of no use to her, but she walks over to him and kisses him, asking him to come "as a reminder."<br />
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Lucy uses her powers to find a new location, taking over Del Rio's car and driving manically through the streets, admitting she's never driven before. Jang and Jii follow her.<br />
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Lucy and Del Rio find Norman and his colleagues in a university, where she begins to divulge all she has come to realize with her brain power now exceeding that of a normal human being. While this happens, Jang and his men infiltrate the place and start shooting. Lucy gives the rest of the CPH4 to the professors for them to synthesize into a liquid material that goes into her bloodstream. Her brain function goes to 70% and her hands start to turn into a black wormy sort of goo that attaches itself to the computers in the room, giving Lucy more energy from matter, and thereby supplying her with an insane amount of power. As her brain function continues to increase, she manipulates matter in such a way that she seems to erase everything in the room, leaving the professors standing in white space before creating some kind of new age super computer before their eyes. From outside, as Jang's men are shot down by the police, he orders Jii to do something. Jii takes a rocket launcher and blasts through the room, sending Lucy thousands of miles to Times Square. She manages to move time with a wave of her hand. She travels backwards, from early 20th century New York, to colonial times, even all the way to prehistoric times to come face-to-face with the chimp from the opening scene. They touch fingers, sending Lucy through the cosmos and all of space and time, giving her unlimited and infinite power.<br />
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Jang enters the room and slowly raises his gun to Lucy's head. And then she reaches 100%. Her body disappears, leaving her clothes behind. Jang fires his gun at nothing. Del Rio comes in and shoots Jang to death. The black matter in the room disappears and morphs into a flash drive that lands in Norman's hands, thus expanding and completing his research. Del Rio asks where Lucy is. A message appears on his phone saying, "I AM EVERYWHERE."<br />
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The film concludes with an overhead shot of Jang's corpse while Lucy's voice says this is what can be done with life. <i> http://www.themoviespoiler.com/2014Spoilers/Lucy.html</i><br />
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Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02284707021811638033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502772717870209853.post-84226930463806658762014-08-02T20:26:00.001-07:002014-08-02T20:26:18.724-07:00GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Young Peter Quill sits in the waiting room of a hospital, listening to the “Awesome Mix” tape on his Walkman as his grandpa comes out and gets him so he can say goodbye to his mom.<br />
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His dying mom gives him a present and tells him he’s just like his father. She asks for his hand, but he’s too scared to take it. Just then, she dies. Peter runs outside and is abducted by a spaceship.<br />
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26 years later on the planet Morag, an adult Peter Quill AKA The Starlord (Chris Pratt) is searching for a mysterious Orb. He finds it as Korath (Djimon Hounsou) and his henchmen find Peter. After a shootout, Peter escapes and returns to his ship, the Milano.<br />
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His partner/mentor Yondu (Michael Rooker) calls and tells him to give him the orb. Peter decides he’s going to sell it on his own.<br />
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On the Kree Warship, the Dark Aster, Korath reports to Ronan (Lee Pace) that he failed in getting the Orb and that it’s in the hands of Quill. Ronan sends Nebula (Karen Gillan) after him, but before she can go, Gamora (Zoe Saldana) volunteers instead.<br />
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On the planet Xandar, Quill takes the Orb to a buyer and asks what it is because Ronan’s goons were after it too. The buyer suddenly doesn’t want anything to do with it and kicks Peter out of his shop. Outside, Gamora jumps Peter and tries to retrieve the Orb herself. Nearby, Rocket (Bradley Cooper) and Groot (Vin Diesel) see there’s a bounty on Quill’s head, so they join in the fight. It’s not too long before they’re all arrested by Nova HQ and sent to a space prison called The Kyln. Oh yeah, Stan Lee is on Xandar as well, chatting up a young lady.<br />
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Pretty much everyone in prison wants to kill Gamora because she’s the “daughter” of Thanos. Drax the Destroyer (Dave Bautista) has a personal vendetta against her because Ronin killed his wife and daughter, so he wants to avenge them by taking the life of one of his family members in return. Gamora explains that she’s also against Ronin and was planning on double crossing him. Quill steps in and helps argue in Gamora’s favor.<br />
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At Sanctuary, Ronin reports to Thanos (Josh Brolin) that Gamora is a traitor. Thanos tells him to take care of her and get the Orb. He also notes that Gamora is his favorite daughter, which pisses of Nebula (his other daughter).<br />
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Gamora has a plan to sell the Orb to someone else. Quill, Rocket and Groot agree to help and split the reward. Rocket has a plan to escape the prison. He needs one of the guard’s wrist devices, a prisoner’s prosthetic leg and a battery from a tall column in the prison. As he explains that it’s very important to take the battery last, Groot grabs it first. The alarms go off and security droids fly in. Gamora goes to get a wrist device as Quill negotiates the prisoner’s leg. Drax decides to join in the escape too realizing that eventually Ronin will go after Gamora and then he can kill Ronin himself.<br />
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Everyone gets the stuff they need and make it to a guard station near the top of the prison. Rocket is surprised that Quill actually got the leg and says he didn’t really need it. It was a joke. Rocket rigs up the stuff to turn off the gravity in the prison and to use the security droids as jets to fly the guard station out of the prison.<br />
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They escape, but Quill goes back and gets his walkman from one of the guards.<br />
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Yondu goes to his broker and finds out Quill still has the Orb.<br />
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Everyone on Quill’s ship gets to know one another better. They don’t like each other at all. Soon they arrive at Nowhere (the head of a giant being) to meet with the collector. While they wait for their appointment, Drax, Rocket and Groot get drunk and gamble. Gamora and Quill bond over music. He explains that his mom made him the mix tape of her favorite songs. She listens and likes it. He asks her to dance, but she doesn’t. He says it reminds him of an old fable about other people who didn’t dance. It was called Footloose. He makes a pass at her, but she says she’s not one of the doe eyed girls he’s used to and she won’t fall for his “pelvic scorcery.”<br />
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Before they can meet with the collector, Drax, Rocket and Groot (all drunk) get into a big fight. Drax thinks Groot is dumb and Rocket is tired of people calling him a rodent. The Collector’s assistant fetches them and they all go to meet him. Drax goes off on his own and makes a call.<br />
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The Collector (Benicio Del Toro) opens up the Orb to reveal and Infinity Stone. He explains that it’s an all-powerful thing. There are more of them. They can destroy planets. His assistant is fed up with him and grabs the stone to destroy him. She and everything in the area blows up. Everyone manages to escape, with the Infinity Stone. They decide the safest place to take it is Nova Headquarters. It’s too dangerous to be anywhere else.<br />
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Uh-oh, ambushed by Ronin and his crew. That’s the call Drax made. He was tired of waiting to face Ronin. Yondu shows up too. Gamora, Rocket and Quill take off in little mining ships while Nebula and soon goons chase after. Drax tries to fight Ronin, but gets his ass handed to him. Ronin says he doesn’t even remember killing his family, nor will he remember killing Drax. <br />
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Nebula chases Gamora’s ship above the atmosphere and blows it up. She gets the Infinity Stone and leaves Gamora floating in space to die. Quill calls Yondu to tell him where he is, then exits his ship, and gives Gamora his mask to keep her alive.<br />
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Yondu abducts Quill and Gamora right before they die. This is where we see that it’s the same ship that abducted Quill as a child.<br />
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Onboard the Dark Astor, Ronin tells Thanos that he decided to cut him out of the deal and will destroy Xandar himself…and then go after Thanos.<br />
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Yondu is going to kill Quill for double crossing him, but doesn’t when Quill says that he has a plan to get the Orb back. On board the Milano, the Guardians asks if he really has a plan or was lying. He says he has the start of a plan. 12% of a plan. Everyone scoffs. Quill points out that they’ve already lost so much, that at this point they have nothing to lose. Together they form a plan.<br />
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Quill warns Nova HQ on Xandar that Ronin is coming to destroy them and they should get ready. Rocket is going to blow a hole in Ronin’s ship so Quill, Groot, Drax and Gamora can board it. Gamora is going to cut the power for Ronin’s security and then they’re going to blow him up with a cannon that Rocket made.<br />
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They start the plan. Rocket blows a hole in the Dark Astor and then helps Yondu and his men defend Xandar against Ronin’s fighter ships. Yondu is shot down and uses his arrow weapon to take out an entire platoon of goons.<br />
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On the Dark Astor, Gamora and Nebula get into a big fight, while Drax, Quill and Groot go to the bridge of the ship.<br />
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The Nova ships form a giant net and slow the descent of the Dark Astor. Gamora finally beats Nebula, who falls, landing on a Ravager ship and commandeers it, throwing the Ravager out the window.<br />
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Ronin orders his ships to kamikaze into Xandar. Rocket and Yondu’s men shoot as many of the ships down as they can.<br />
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Almost to the bridge, Drax kills Korrath. Groot makes a shish-kebob out of a bunch of goons and whips them around taking out even more. Everyone makes it to the bridge to fight Ronin. Again, he’s too strong for them, but Quill manages to shoot him with Rocket’s super cannon. It does nothing. Rocket crashes the Milano into the bridge and seems to have destroyed Ronin. The entire ship is plummeting towards Xandar, so Groot forms a giant nest around the Guardians for safety. Rocket is upset because he knows that Groot is doing will end up killing Groot. Groot, who up to this point has only said, “I Am Groot” responds with, “We are Groot”.<br />
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The ship crashes. Everyone except Groot is okay. Groot is a pile of twigs strewn all about. It’s not over though, because Ronin is still fine. He sarcastically called Quill and his crew the Guardians of the Galaxy.<br />
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Quill stands up to him and starts to sing the song “Ooh-ooh Child”. Ronin asks what he’s doing, he responds, “distracting you” as Drax and Rocket shoot Ronin again. Quill grabs the Infinity Stone from Ronin. It’s going to kill him, but Gamora tells him to take her hand. He flashes back to when he didn’t have the courage to take his mom’s hand, so he grabs hers. Drax and Rocket grab him too and the power from it is spread between the four of them. They kill Ronin.<br />
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Yondu shows up and demands the Stone as per his original deal with Quill. Quill hands him the Orb. As Yondu and his men take off, one of them notes that he likes Quill ans they’re glad they didn’t take him back to his dad like they were supposed to all those years ago.<br />
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Gamora is upset the Quill gave up the stone, but he reveals that he still has the Orb with the stone.<br />
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At Nova HQ, Peter learns he’s only half human and half something else.<br />
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Yondu opens his Orb and sees the Quill tricked him. Inside is a Troll doll.<br />
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Quill finally opens the present his mom gave him as a kid. It’s a second “Awesome Mix” tape. He asks the Guardians where they want to go. Gamora says, “You lead, Starlord.” He asks if they want something good or something bad…then decides on both. Rocket holds a tiny Groot planted in a pot.<br />
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During the credits, a little bit larger version of Groot dances in the pot to Quill’s music, but stops when Drax looks at him.<br />
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Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02284707021811638033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502772717870209853.post-91405127297392838112014-07-13T19:26:00.001-07:002014-07-13T19:26:36.775-07:00DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Koba steals guns from the human camp and shoots Caesar, but tells the apes that the humans did it in order to rally them behind him to imprison the remaining humans in San Francisco.<br />
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Caesar is not dead, and is nursed back to health by Ellie and Malcolm. His son Blue Eyes tells him everything that has occurred and apologizes for following Koba and not his father. Caesar admits that the apes have more in common with the humans than they think.<br />
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Caesar releases his loyal apes from Koba's prison bus, and confronts Koba at the top of a tower. The two fight as Malcolm confronts Dreyfus at the bottom of the tower. Dreyfus blows the tower using several blocks of C-4 after telling Malcolm that they were able to establish communication with a military base not far from San Francisco.<br />
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Up top, Caesar gains the upper hand and tells Koba he is no ape before dropping him down the tower.<br />
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Malcolm tells Caesar that the military is coming and that the apes will have to find a new home. All apes bow to Caesar, who must now lead them in a war. <i>http://www.moviepooper.com/pooperpg2.html</i><br />
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Almost a decade has passed since the outbreak of the ALZ-113 virus spread across the globe. The human population has mostly died off, while the apes population has thrived and grown. A montage of news reports is shown, with footage of escalating violence among humans that has also contributed to the chaos.<br />
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Caesar (Andy Serkis), leader of the apes, is in the trees with his fellow simians. His lieutenant Koba (Toby Kebbell) keeps an eye out, then alerts Caesar when a herd of deer comes stampeding through the forest. The apes run after them for the hunt, trapping some of them. Caesar's son Blue Eyes (Nick Thurston) goes after a deer, but is attacked by a wild bear. Blue Eyes gets scarred as the bear claws his chest, and Caesar jumps in to help his son. Koba jumps in and takes the bear down with his spear. Caesar thanks Koba for his help.<br />
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The apes return to their sanctuary in the Muir Woods. They have established homes and even an educational system led by Caesar's trusted orangutan friend Maurice (Karin Konoval). Caesar goes to his home to tend to his sick wife Cornelia (Judy Greer). She gives birth to a baby ape. Caesar brings Blue Eyes forth to meet his new brother. Afterwards, Caesar finds Maurice, telling him that he is amazed by how far they have come as a group over the years. Maurice asks him if he still thinks of humans. Caesar admits that sometimes he does.<br />
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Blue Eyes and his friend Ash (Doc Shaw), son of Rocket (Terry Notary), are walking through the woods when a human named Carver (Kirk Acevedo) encounters them. Carver draws his gun defensively, and he shoots Ash. The gunshot alerts the other apes, as well as the humans that Carver is traveling with, led by a man named Malcolm (Jason Clarke). The apes run through the woods to confront the humans. Caesar commands them to leave. Malcolm's son Alexander (Kodi Smit-McPhee) drops his bag and is forced to leave it behind.<br />
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Malcolm and the humans return to their area in San Francisco, reporting to their leader Dreyfus (Gary Oldman) on the group of apes and Caesar's ability to speak. The humans' goal is to gain access to a nearby dam and activate it in order to supply their community with enough limited power to last them for a little while longer. Meanwhile, Caesar gathers his apes and rides into the city on their horses to face the humans. Caesar declares that the apes do not want war, but they will fight back if they must. They also return Alex's bag to him, and Caesar tells the humans to never return to their sanctuary.<br />
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Dreyfus addresses the humans, riling them up and fueling their distrust for the apes and their anger for what has happened. He speaks to Malcolm afterwards, who tells Dreyfus that if he is given enough time, he can convince the apes to let him get to the dam and take out the blockage to generate power. Dreyfus agrees and gives Malcolm three days to complete this task. Malcolm prepares himself to go out with a few humans. His wife Ellie (Keri Russell), a nurse, volunteers to go with him, but he wants her to stay home with Alex. Alex overhears and decides to join his father.<br />
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Malcolm and his group travel back to the woods, leaving him to enter the sanctuary by himself. He is captured by gorillas and taken before Caesar. Malcolm explains that he means no harm and only wants to get to the dam. He shows Caesar and the apes the facility with the power systems to prove it to them. Caesar allows Malcolm to carry through with the task, but first he and the others must hand over their guns. The apes break the guns apart. Koba approaches Caesar and expresses his distrust for humans, having been experimented on in the Gen-Sys labs, leaving him with multiple scars. He also doesn't seem to approve of Caesar's affection for the humans. Caesar, however, sees this as a chance to make peace with the humans.<br />
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The humans set up a camp in the woods. One human, Foster (Jon Eyez), points out that what makes the apes stronger is that they don't require power in the same way that humans do, since they can adapt to their surroundings more easily. Carver also addresses Malcolm and Ellie, as they have each lost someone close to them from the virus (Malcolm's first wife and Ellie's daughter).<br />
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Caesar and the other apes prepare for another hunt, but Koba is nowhere to be found. He has taken two other apes into the city where they come across the humans in their compound using their firearms, essentially discovering their supply of weapons to use against the apes. Koba comes across two men, pretending to be a playful chimp, blowing raspberries and hooting. The two men order him to leave, still seeing him as a threat. Koba leaves with a snarl on his face.<br />
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Malcolm, Carver, and Foster work in the dam to remove the blockage. They successfully blow it out, but Carver's leg is wounded. They return to camp for Ellie to treat him, while some apes, including Caesar, come by. Caesar's baby son goes over to the humans. Ellie and Alex immediately take a shine to him, finding him adorable. Carver is less welcoming. When the little ape comes over to a box containing a gun, Carver reacts on instinct and seizes the weapon, aiming it at the apes. Caesar grabs the gun from him and whacks him with it, furious. Malcolm calms Caesar down, and the ape throws the gun into the river. He orders the humans to leave. However, Malcolm and Ellie find Caesar as he tends to Cornelia, who is very sick and weak. Ellie offers to aid her with their antibiotics. Caesar gives them one day to stay to help his wife. Foster forcefully takes Carver back to the truck and locks him there.<br />
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The humans return to the dam to finish their job. Koba comes back after warning the other apes of the humans' weapons supply and nearly attacks Alex. Malcolm protects him, but Maurice steps in and defends both humans. Koba angrily tells Caesar that he believes Caesar loves the humans more than he does the apes. Enraged, Caesar attacks Koba, beating his face until he decides he cannot kill him. Koba extends his hand to Caesar for forgiveness. Caesar accepts.<br />
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Koba returns to the compound to find the same two men sharing a drink. He once again plays up the silly chimp act, entertaining the two men. They hand him their bottle for Koba to drink from, but he spits it out. With their attention diverted, Koba grabs one of their rifles and kills the two men. He leaves with the rifle, then later finds Carver sitting in the van. Koba pulls him out through the window and beats him to death.<br />
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By nightfall, Malcolm and his group have successfully reactivated the generator and are able to play music. Caesar guides Malcolm and the others to a higher level to show them the lights going up in the city. Cornelia has also gotten better. Just when everything looks fine, Koba appears with the rifle. Only Caesar sees him mere seconds before Koba shoots him. Caesar falls from the tree to the ground. Koba flees, leaving only the rifle and Carver's cap, which Blue Eyes comes across. Maurice tells Malcolm, Ellie, and Alex to run as the other apes become frightened and wild. Koba convinces them all that humans have shot and killed Caesar. He rounds up all the males and charges into the city, as Malcolm and his family are forced to hide.<br />
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The humans are celebrating the return of their power by dancing. Dreyfus retreats to his private quarters to check his iPad and see pictures of his wife and two sons, who have since been lost to the virus. He breaks down into tears at the sight of them. He then goes to the control room where another man is trying to get contact through the radio. Suddenly, Koba and his army ride into the compound to lay siege to the humans. Dreyfus gathers a group of armed men to stand over the gates to fire at the apes. He grabs a rocket launcher and manages to hit several targets, killing a few apes. Koba manages to charge with his apes through the gates and break their wall down.<br />
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By daybreak, Koba and his followers have taken humans as prisoners, declaring that they now know what it feels like to be caged. They find two humans, one of which is swinging a post at the apes, which Koba grabs from him. He orders Ash to use it on the man, but Ash shows mercy and says Caesar wouldn't want this. In response, Koba grabs Ash and drags him to a balcony and hurls him over to his death. Meanwhile, Malcolm and his family find Caesar, alive but weakened. They take him away and he leads them to his old home where he was raised by humans. They begin to try and treat his wounds, just as the apes run through the city, now armed with the humans' guns. The apes that refused to follow Koba have been locked in a bus. Blue Eyes sees Maurice, who tells him to protect himself.<br />
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Blue Eyes finds Caesar's old home and sees Malcolm. He holds his gun up to Malcolm, but Blue Eyes cannot bring himself to shoot him. Malcolm tells him that his father is still alive, leading him to Caesar. Blue Eyes sees the bullet wound and growls at the humans, but Caesar tells him this was Koba's doing. Blue Eyes tells his father that his mother and brother are safe for now, but Koba is amassing more followers due to their fear, and he also tells Caesar that Koba killed Ash, causing Blue Eyes to weep.<br />
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At night, Caesar goes to the attic and finds an old camera with a video of him as a young chimp with his human owner, Will Rodman (James Franco in archive footage), teaching him. Malcolm comes up and asks Caesar who that is. He responds that he was a good man, just like Malcolm.<br />
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Maurice and the other trapped apes break free from their bus and break the humans out. They find Caesar and tell them about Koba's plan to get the female apes and young ones to join him, including Cornelia and their newborn. Together, along with Malcolm, they head out to stop Koba.<br />
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Koba and his followers have gathered at the top of a tower, while Dreyfus and two other men have recently made contact with the military and loaded the tower with C4 explosives to take the apes down. While Caesar and his friends go to face Koba, Malcolm encounters Dreyfus and the men, and draws his rifle to stop them and convince them not to go to war with the apes. Dreyfus refuses to relent, saying he is about to save the human race. He grabs the detonator and pushes the button, causing an explosion that kills him and the two men, as well as any apes within the tower, but Malcolm escapes the blast. At the top of the tower, Caesar comes face-to-face with Koba, still wielding his rifle. Koba once again tries to rally the apes, claiming that together, they are strong. Caesar fights his former ally, while the other apes stand by for Caesar. In the chaos, Koba takes his gun back and begins to shoot at the apes. Caesar dives in and tackles Koba, knocking him off a ledge. As he hangs on for his life, he looks up at Caesar, who pulls Koba's arm up. Koba tells him, "Ape not kill ape." Caesar looks him down and replies, "You are not ape." With that, he drops Koba and allows him to fall to his death.<br />
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The free and surviving apes, including Caesar's family, come up to the tower to reunite as a group. Malcolm goes up to find Caesar and warn him about the incoming military reinforcements that would threaten his family and start a war. Caesar says that an ape has already started a war, and that Malcolm must go and protect his own family. The two of them acknowledge their friendship, but also the fact that the chance for peace is gone. Malcolm slips away, leaving Caesar to stand over the apes, who all bow down to him once again. <i>http://www.themoviespoiler.com/2014Spoilers/DawnPlanetApes.html</i><br />
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Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02284707021811638033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502772717870209853.post-67914260141405496532014-07-10T22:03:00.000-07:002014-07-10T22:05:57.048-07:00TRANSFORMERS: Age of Extinction<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
65 million years ago, a Cybertronian spaceship used devices called "Seeds" to extinguish the dinosaur population on Earth, transforming the landscape into metal that can be used to build new Transformers.<br />
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Present day, and geologist Darcy (Sophia Myles) commandeers a dig in the Arctic and takes in the frozen Transformers to mine their metal.<br />
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In Texas, Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg), a poor robotics inventor, and his business partner Lucas (TJ Miller) buy a bunch of used parts from an old run down theater. Among the parts is an old rusted truck that Cade purchases for fifteen dollars.<br />
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Appearing before a hearing, Harold Attinger (Kelsey Grammar) explains that he launched Operation Cemetery Wind to round up the remaining Transformers on the planet. Certain Autobots were granted amnesty, however most have gone on the run and are being hunted down by Attinger's agents, notably Savoy (Titus Welliver), who lost his sister in the Chicago war five years ago.<br />
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Savoy is working with an intergalactic bounty hunter named Lockdown (Mark Ryan), who is agreeing to help the humans in exchange for Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen). He mortally wounds Ratchet and kills him when Ratchet fails to give up Optimus's location.<br />
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Back in Texas, Cade's daughter Tessa (Nicola Peltz) arrives home to discover the old truck and that Cade is behind on rent and bills. She doesn't approve, but Cade asks her to trust him. <br />
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The next morning, Cade tells Lucas and Tessa that he's been up all night examining the truck and hears a transmission coming from the truck saying "Calling all Autobots!" Cade realizes that this is a Transformer, much to Tessa and Lucas's shock.<br />
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Cade manages to restart Optimus Prime, who tells him that the Autobots are being hunted by Lockdown and that he needs to get to them. Cade sends Lucas into town to collect parts to fix Optimus.<br />
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Unfortunately, Lucas sells them out to the government for a reward and Savoy and his agents arrive and intimidate them. When Cade lets slip that he has Optimus, Savoy points a gun to Tessa's head.<br />
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Optimus storms out of the barn and rescues them. Right at this moment, Shane Dyson (Jack Reynor), Tessa's secret boyfriend, drives up and collects Cade, Tessa and Lucas. They are chased by Savoy and his agents as well as Lockdown. Just as they are about to escape, Lockdown throws a grenade at them. Lucas is incinerated in the blast, but Tessa, Shane and Cade escape in Optimus. <br />
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The threesome are taken to the desert, where Optimus introduces them to the remaining Autobots- Bumblebee, Drift, Hound and Crosshairs. With Cade's help, the Autobots figure out that a company called KSI is behind the execution of the Autobots. Cade, Tessa, Shane and the Autobots travel to their Chicago facility to try to find out who's behind everything.<br />
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At the Chicago office, Joshua Joyce (Stanley Tucci) meets up with Darcy to discuss matters. Joshua tells her that KSI has now replicated their own Transformers from the metal from the deceased Autobots, dubbed "Transformium". KSI has built their own prototypes- Stinger and Galvatron.<br />
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Cade gets busted by security while snooping around in KSI and is brought to Attinger. The Autobots storm the building to rescue him and Optimus confronts Joshua, promising that KSI will pay for what they've done.<br />
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Attinger sends Galvatron and Stinger after them, but Galvatron malfunctions during the battle. Lockdown arrives and wounds Optimus and takes him into his ship, Tessa unintentionally scooped up as well.<br />
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Aboard Lockdown's ship, Lockdown tells Optimus that the "Creators" want Optimus back to do what he was meant for. He imprisons Optimus and Attinger sends Savoy aboard the ship to collect one of the Seed bombs from the beginning.<br />
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Cade, Shane and the Autobots storm the ship and rescue Tessa. The Autobots free Optimus and Cade collects an alien gun from Lockdown's weapons vault. The Autobots escape in an escape pod of the ship, while Cade, Tessa and Shane are rescued by Bumblebee.<br />
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The Autobots regroup and discover that Galvatron is in fact Megatron. Megatron's head was used as the basis for the Galvatron prototype and he managed to infect the other prototypes. They also reason that is Galvatron gets the Seed, he'll use it to extinguish the human race. The Autobots vow to stop Galvatron, but after that, they're done protecting the humans.<br />
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Cade calls Joshua and informs him to Galvatron's plan. Joshua is given the Seed by Attinger as part of their deal. Joshua had intended to detonate the Seed in an uninhabited area and use the resulting Transformium to build more prototypes. Joshua tries to back out of the deal, but Attinger won't let him. <br />
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Galvatron takes control of the KSI prototypes and launches an invasion of Hong Kong to take the Seed. The Autobots arrive, but the escape pod crashes, stranding Optimus, Drift and Crosshairs in the jungle. Hound and Bumblebee are left to fight the prototypes.<br />
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Joshua meets up with Cade, Tessa and Shane with the Seed in tow. Attinger sends Savoy after them to take them out. Cade fights Savoy and throws him out of a three story window. He meets up with the others as Hound wards off the prototypes.<br />
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In the jungle, Optimus discovers that the escape pod has prisoners- the Dinobots. He manages to "tame" them and rides them into battle.<br />
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The battle rages on and Bumblebee kills Stinger. Lockdown arrives in his ship and uses a magnet to suck up cars and boats and drop them on the street as the humans try to escape. Optimus manages to take out the magnet, but Lockdown fights Optimus and impales him with his own sword.<br />
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As Cade tries to help, Attinger attacks him. Optimus manages to kill Attinger before Shane and Tessa tow the sword out of Optimus. Optimus overpowers Lockdown and splits him in half.<br />
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Galvatron escapes and vows revenge. Optimus tells the Autobots that because there is a price on his head, it is not safe for him to be on Earth. He charges the Autobots with protecting the Yeagers before blasting into space to find whoever hired Lockdown.<i> http://www.themoviespoiler.com/2014Spoilers/Transformers4.html</i><br />
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Rodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02284707021811638033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502772717870209853.post-2028543004619117312014-06-18T10:32:00.003-07:002014-06-18T10:35:47.454-07:0022 JUMP STREET<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The film starts with a "Previously on 21 Jump Street" opening, featuring a brief recap of the last film in which Officers Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) were partnered up and became friends after they took down the drug dealers Mr. Walters (Rob Riggle) and Eric Molson (Dave Franco), up to Captain Dickson (Ice Cube) assigning them their newest assignment - going to college.<br />
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Schmidt bemoans the fact that he and Jenko are taking online courses instead of actually being there. They then head to Metro City Port to take on an assignment. There, they find the wanted drug lord, The Ghost (Peter Stormare), a man who is said to have made connections with the Mexican cartel. Schmidt dresses up as a cholo and gets in character to infiltrate the gang, but Jenko knows he sucks at improvising. The two meet Ghost and his men in a warehouse, where Schmidt plays up his role while Jenko is unconvincing. Ghost lets them into his truck to check out his supply. The two open a crate and an octopus jumps on Schmidt's face, inking in his mouth. In their panic, the two drop their accents and are found out. Ghost and his men shoot at Schmidt and Jenko and make their escape in the truck. Jenko hops on top of the truck to catch the goons, while a nervous Schmidt tries to climb over. His foot gets caught in a net and he falls, dangling over the edge of the truck. Jenko walks to the front and breaks the windshield, nearly arresting Ghost, until Schmidt gets on top of the truck and hits a beam, getting himself and Jenko caught with the net onto the beam, letting Ghost and his men get away.<br />
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The guys meet with Chief Hardy (Nick Offerman) over their latest screw-up. Hardy suggests that this wouldn't have happened if they just did the undercover Jump Street program again like last time. He adds that even though nobody had faith in their reboot, the guys got lucky, and now they have double the budget to move ahead with a new assignment (an obvious meta joke to the sequel). The guys are sent to the Vietnamese church across the street since the Koreans bought back the church on 21 Jump Street, and so they must now report to 22 Jump Street. There, the guys are impressed by the high quality look to the headquarters and see that Jenko's nerd friends from high school are now interns. They report to Dickson, who tells them they're going to MC State to investigate the appearance of a new drug called WhyPhy (stands for "Word Hard? Yes. Play Hard? Yes."). The guys receive a file on a victim of the drug, Cynthia Watson. She was high on WhyPhy and fell out her window to her death. They are also given a picture of Cynthia exchanging the drug with an unknown suspect.<br />
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Schmidt and Jenko make it to MC State, once again under their aliases of Brad and Doug McQuaid, and get adjusted to their dorm and returning to college life. They meet the Yang Twins, Keith and Kenny (The Lucas Brothers), who have a very interesting twin connection. The guys then head to some classes to try and find any possible dealers. Schmidt takes a psychology class and is immediately thought to be a narc. Jenko takes a history class taught by a professor (Patton Oswalt) that presses Jenko to question his lectures, since that's what he thinks college is all about in order for someone to find themselves. The professor also admits to sleeping with two students. The guys later go to an open mic night for slam poetry where Schmidt meets a pretty girl from his class named Maya (Amber Stevens). He goes up on stage to do a weird poem in honor of Cynthia, which gets a few laughs.<br />
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With no leads, Schmidt and Jenko realize they need to consult an expert. They go to prison to visit Mr. Walters, who brags about having a vagina and being Eric's bitch (the latter denies it and begs the guys to get him out). Walters takes a look at the picture of Cynthia and the suspect, and he mocks the guys for not looking at the picture closely to see that the suspect has a tattoo on his arm of a bazooka with "BOOM" written in a cloud. The guys visit a tattoo parlor and ask the tattoo artist if he remembers giving that tattoo to anybody, and he thinks he gave it to a football player with a red mohawk. Jenko recognizes the description to match a guy from his history class named Rooster (Jimmy Tatro).<br />
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The guys try out for the football team. Jenko immediately strikes up a friendship with another player named Zook (Wyatt Russell). Both Schmidt and Jenko try to keep an eye on Rooster and get a look at his arm to find the tattoo. Jenko shows impressive skills on the field, catching the attention of the coach (H. Jon Benjamin). Zook invites Jenko to a party at his frat house later that night, with Schmidt tagging along despite Jenko telling him he should stay behind. Jenko gets in with the frat guys, while Schmidt gets too close to Rooster in trying to find the tattoo and is sent away. While Jenko parties with Zook and the other frat boys, Schmidt runs into Maya and hangs out with her at the art building. He ends up sleeping with her in her dorm room. Meanwhile, Jenko joins Zook and Rooster on the football field where Jenko finally gets a look at Rooster's arm. He DOES have a tattoo, but it's of Rooster's high school football team, called the Red Herrings (get it?). Turns out that Zook has a tattoo on his arm as well - a bazooka with "BOOM" written next to it.<br />
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Schmidt wakes up and meets Maya's rude roommate Mercedes (Jillian Bell). She mocks Schmidt for looking old and for the way his sex with Maya sounded. She leaves and Maya tells Schmidt that Mercedes was Cynthia's roommate, and that Maya let her stay with her because she felt bad, even though she hates Mercedes. Schmidt then joins up with Jenko at the headquarters to report to Dickson, still with no leads, though Schmidt brags about having sex to Dickson, who gives him daps to show approval.<br />
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The guys meet up in their dorm, where they're eating blondies. The Yang Twins inform them that those are laced with WhyPhy. Later that night, the guys sneak out at night and infiltrate Zook's frat house as they are going over who they would like to recruit for their frat. As they listen in on the frat, they hear a great approval for Jenko to join, but no love for Schmidt. Zook thinks they should let him in since he's always with Jenko, but Rooster thinks he'll jeopardize whatever they have going on. Schmidt knocks over a mannequin and makes a loud noise, forcing him and Jenko to run before Zook finds them. The guys make it to their dorm but are caught by Zook and his guys, and then are stuffed in a trunk. There, they begin to feel the effects of the WhyPhy and start to trip out heavily. Schmidt experiences a dark and unpleasant trip while Jenko has a colorful and happy high. When they're pulled out of the trunk, they find that Zook and the other frat boys are merely hazing them for initiation. They subject Schmidt and Jenko to drinking games. Jenko excels and impresses the boys while Schmidt is uncomfortable and clumsy. When the last task involves pigs (and possibly pig shit), Schmidt walks out. Jenko follows and tries to convince him to stick around and have fun, but Schmidt wants no part of it. Jenko eventually starts spending more time with Zook while Schmidt is left alone.<br />
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Schmidt receives an unwelcome surprise from his parents as they visit him for Parents Weekend, not realizing he's undercover again. They meet Maya, and Schmidt's mom embarrasses him again. It gets worse when Schmidt finds out that Maya's dad is Dickson. They sit down to eat with Schmidt's parents and Maya's mom (Queen Latifah), which gets awkward after Dickson realizes that Schmidt slept with his daughter. He angrily throws food from the tables and makes a scene.<br />
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Maya is angry at her dad for being too controlling, so while she starts to hook up with Schmidt again, he decides they can just talk. They chat about Schmidt's high school experience (the undercover one) At the same time, Jenko is working out with Zook, trying to get him to spill details on Cynthia and WhyPhy. Zook appears dodgy and insists that he knows what he's doing. After talking to Maya, Mercedes shows up again and tells Schmidt that Cynthia got some sort of medication from the psychology professor, Dr. Murphy (Marc Evan Jackson).<br />
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Schmidt and Jenko sneak into Murphy's office to find something, but Murphy walks in and thinks they are there for a counseling session, mistaking the two for a gay couple. The guys sit down for the session, spilling their feelings toward each other, like Jenko feeling that Schmidt is too clingy and Schmidt feeling that Jenko is never listening to him. Murphy mentions something about embedding, in which details and such are glossed over and ignored or misinterpreted, leading the two to realize that perhaps Zook is not the dealer in the photograph, but that he is instead buying from Cynthia. They also deduce that she and the other dealers were hiding the WhyPhy in the library books since nobody goes there and would not bother to check them out.<br />
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The guys report to Dickson again, who is still pissed at Schmidt for sleeping with Maya. When Jenko deduces that fact, he goes wild and runs around headquarters laughing and telling everybody "SCHMIDT FUCKED THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER!" Dickson gets back at Schmidt by tasing him in the balls. He adds that they have no more money in their budget.<br />
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Schmidt goes to the library to investigate while Jenko heads to the field for a football game. In the library, Schmidt sees Ghost and his goons waiting for someone. Schmidt texts Jenko to come by, persistently sending messages after messages until Jenko leaves the game to join him. They make enough noise to attract one of Ghost's goons to come over. Jenko pretends to give Schmidt a blowjob to draw attention away from themselves, but Jenko gets angry when the goon calls them "faggots". Jenko headbutts him, and Ghost recognizes him and Schmidt as cops. They take out their guns and begin shooting, forcing the guys to run. They run out to the campus where Jenko gets a helmet-shaped car. Ghost and his goons chase them in a hummer. They go all across the campus, causing an insane amount of property damage. During the chase, Jenko tells Schmidt that he got a scholarship to play football at MC State and that Zook invited him to be his roommate. They drive onto the football field, and the brakes are out. They both jump out of the car where it crashes and explodes onto the goal post. Schmidt is taken into custody for questioning, but not before letting Jenko stay behind so he can take the fall for him. He leaves campus, and Maya is mad at Schmidt for lying to her.<br />
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Jenko keeps hanging out with Zook and the other college kids while Schmidt goes back to park duty. Dr. Murphy is arrested after traces of WhyPhy were found in his office. Hardy declares the case closed. However, Schmidt looks into the case file to dig deeper. He and Jenko meet up in the park. Schmidt learns that Ghost has been paying for a student's tuition, while Jenko informs him that a large supply of WhyPhy is headed for Puerto Mexico for spring break. They decide to team up again and head down there to finish the job themselves.<br />
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The guys make it to Puerto Mexico and come to a big party on the beach. WhyPhy is being sold everywhere, and they find the person taking all the money - Mercedes. They follow her to a warehouse where they discover that she is Ghost's daughter, and they are organizing a network to distribute WhyPhy across the country. Even the Yang Twins are in on it. When Mercedes sees that they are both high on the drug, she almost kills them until Schmidt and Jenko try to arrest them. They are outnumbered by all the goons, so Dickson and the rest of the Jump Street division come in after following Schmidt's tracking device. As everyone opens fire, Ghost grabs Mercedes' bag with the money and runs. Dickson runs after him, but sees Maya in the warehouse partying with others. He stops to tell her that the girl always gets kidnapped during these climactic chases, only to have the tables turned when Mercedes shoots him in the foot and abducts him. Schmidt and Jenko split up so that Schmidt takes a Lamborghini (which upsets Jenko since he spent the whole movie wanting to drive a Lambo), while Jenko chases after Ghost. He manages to fight off his goons on the beach, using a stoned girl as a weapon.<br />
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Schmidt awkwardly drives the Lambo to a hotel where he catches up with Mercedes. They have an uncomfortable fistfight in a room where Mercedes keeps trying to kiss Schmidt, even though she continuously denies trying to do that. She knocks him off her and runs for it until Schmidt catches up to her. Dickson, having made it out of Mercedes' car, aims his gun at Mercedes, but she holds Schmidt at gunpoint. She is taken down by Maya, who whacks her over the head with a metal fish. Dickson and Maya arrest Mercedes, leaving Schmidt to join Jenko in catching Ghost.<br />
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The guys meet up and find Ghost trying to escape in a helicopter. A goon shoots at them, with Schmidt trying to take a bullet for Jenko (as he did in the last movie), only for him to jump too early, so Jenko gets hit in his arm again. Jenko kills the goon and makes it to the helicopter as it takes off. Jenko jumps off the roof and grabs onto the helicopter, with Schmidt successfully making the leap as well. As they fly over the beach, Jenko slips and Schmidt catches him. He orders Jenko to reach into Schmidt's shorts to grab a grenade. They slip and fall from the helicopter, but Jenko manages to throw it into the helicopter, destroying it and the whole supply of WhyPhy (Ghost is later revealed to have survived the explosion). As the two land in the ocean, they are applauded by the whole crowd, including Rooster and Zook.<br />
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Dickson congratulates the guys for fixing their screw-up, and then tells them their next assignment - medical school. This carries into the credits, as Dickson keeps assigning them to new schools, which pave the way for a bunch of fake "Jump Street" sequels, taking them places such as culinary school and a flight academy, with cameos from Bill Hader, Anna Faris, Richard Grieco (reprising his original "Jump Street" role as Booker), and even Seth Rogen as a temporary replacement for Schmidt. It goes further when it spawns fake merchandise such as a video game, action figures, and an animated series, ending with badass car chases and explosions. <i> http://www.themoviespoiler.com/2014Spoilers/22jumpStreet.html</i><br />
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