Posts Tagged ‘Science Fiction’

There have been many attempts in film to make a movie about time travel and even though many have survived the inevitable argument of creating more problems than they solve by keeping the film light it has been possibly the one most difficult plot device ever conceived for film.  Many have always had the thought “if I could go back and do things differently” and therefore we have always dreamed of time travel.  However, it’s something that raises so many philosophical and logical questions. (more…)

Jake Sully [Sam Worthington] is a crippled Marine that has been brought to Pandora to work in the Avatar program to try and get into the indigenous people of Pandora off of some really expensive rock.  Jake gets lost in the woods and brought into the clan with Neytiri [Zoe Saldana] and he is made to learn their ways and understand them until he becomes one of them. (more…)

In the future robotic technology has been perfected and it has been made in such a way that these robots – known as surrogates – can be controlled with the operator’s mind.  This technology eventually becomes mass produced for the mass market and now everyone uses it for everything and most people barely ever leave their homes as their real selves.  Fourteen years after the creation of the technology the first ever murder of an operator via his surrogate has occurred and Tom Greer [Bruce Willis] is out to solve the case. (more…)

Henry [Eric Bana] is a time traveller who can’t control when or where he travels. At the age of six he finds out that he can time travel and has done it ever since. One day he travels back in time to see his future wife, Clare [Rachel McAdams], when she is six and the film follows this magical love story between Henry and Clare. (more…)

In 1982 an alien ship stopped over the middle of Johannesburg, South Africa. Nearly three decades later the aliens, which are referred to as ‘prawns’, are being kept in a militarized slum called District 9. The citizens of Johannesburg have had enough with the aliens in their city and MNU has decided to help relocate the aliens to another area, District 10, and Wikus Van De Merwe [Sharlto Copley] has been made lead administrator to hand out all the eviction notices. While out serving these notices Wikus stumbles upon a silver canister and accidentally sprays himself with its contents. This sets a chain reaction of events that is the film District 9. (more…)

Two years after Megatron [Hugo Weaving] has been defeated and the all spark destroyed we find ourselves back at the Witwicky’s home as Sam [Shia LaBeouf] prepares to leave for college. The Autobots and the US military has made an alliance to help fight all the dispersed Decepticons across Earth. After a huge battle with a decepticon in Shanghai Optimus Prime [Peter Cullen] receives a warning that The Fallen [Tony Todd] is coming to take over this world. (more…)

Klaatu [Keanu Reeves] lands on earth along with a huge unknown organic and mechanical being that is only referred to as GORT. When Klaatu lands in the middle of Manhattan the entire US Army is there to greet him along with a group of top scientists, including Dr. Helen Benson [Jennifer Connelly] who feels that we should not completely fear this alien. Klaatu befriends Dr. Benson, and she is trying to understand why Klaatu is here – on Earth – and at the same time trying to keep herself and her stepson, Jacob [Jaden Smith], safe from this impending doom.

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