Archive for January, 2000
Charlie’s Angels
Based on the popular 70’s TV show, three cute chicks work for the mysterious “Charlie”. They are the female ‘James Bonds” of our time. They get to blow stuff up, kick the cr*p out of people, and wear really tight clothing, all whilst trying to retrieve stolen software and balance in high heels.
Charlie’s Angels DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.60 out of 10 (36866 votes)
Director: McG
Actors: Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Bill Murray, Sam Rockwell, Kelly Lynch, Tim Curry, Crispin Glover, Luke Wilson, John Forsythe, Matt LeBlanc, Tom Green, LL Cool J, Sean Whalen, Faye Dunaway,
Tags: Comedy, Adventure, Action, action-heroine, anagram, anonymity, anonymous-backer, based-on-cult-tv-series, based-on-tv-series, bloopers-during-credits, boat, catfight, cellular-phone, character-name-in-title, compound-bow, disco-dancing, dominatrix, helicopter, martial-arts, moonwalk-dancing, race-car, retina-scan-faked, satire, scrabble, secret-agent, sequel, sex-appeal, slow-motion, special-effects, spoof, spy, spy-hero, spy-spoof, studio-logo-segues-into-film, sword-cane, voice-recognition, white-room
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Snatch.
Turkish and his close friend/accomplice Tommy get pulled into the world of match fixing by the notorious Brick Top. Things get complicated when the boxer they had lined up gets the shit kicked out of him by Pitt, a ‘pikey’ ( slang for an Irish Gypsy)- who comes into the equation after Turkish, an unlicensed boxing promoter wants to buy a caravan off the Irish Gypsies. They then try to convince Pitt not only to fight for them, but to lose for them too. Whilst all this is going on, a huge diamond heist takes place, and a fistful of motley characters enter the story, including ‘Cousin Avi’, ‘Boris The Blade’, ‘Franky Four Fingers’ and ‘Bullet Tooth Tony’. Things go from bad to worse as it all becomes about the money, the guns, and the damned dog!
Snatch. DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 8.00 out of 10 (79229 votes)
Director: Guy Ritchie
Actors: Jason Statham, Stephen Graham, Alan Ford, Brad Pitt, Dennis Farina, Rade Serbedzija, Robbie Gee, Lennie James, Vinnie Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Mike Reid, Jason Flemyng, Andy Beckwith, William Beck, Ewen Bremner,
Tags: Crime, Comedy, Thriller, accidental-killing, arson, bare-knuckle-fighting, baseball-bat, black-comedy, blood, blood-splatter, boxing, cannibal-pig, death, desert-eagle, diamond, diamond-theft, dismemberment, dog, england, fake-gun, fast-motion-sequence, fight-scene, fixed-fight, gambling, gangster, gay-slur, gypsy, hare, heist, hit-by-car, hit-in-crotch, hunting, impalement, kidnapping, london-england, loss-of-mother, machine-gun, milk, murder, neo-noir, nonlinear-timeline, obesity, pig, profanity, rhyming-slang, robbery, russian-mafia, severed-finger, shot-in-the-chest, shot-in-the-eye, shot-in-the-face, shot-in-the-head, shot-to-death, split-screen, stun-gun, thick-accent, title-spoken-by-character, unintelligible, violence, vulgarity
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Vertical Limit
A high-adrenaline tale of young climber Peter Garrett (Chris O’Donnell), who must launch a treacherous and extraordinary rescue effort up K2, the world’s second highest peak. Confronting both his own limitations and the awesome power of nature’s uncontrollable elements, Peter risks his life to save his sister, Annie (Robin Tunney), and her summit team (Bill Paxton and Nicholas Lea) in a race against time. The team is trapped in an icy grave at 26,000 feet - a death zone above the vertical limit of endurance where the human body cannot survive for long. Every second counts as Peter enlists the help of a crew of fellow climbers, including eccentric, reclusive mountain man Montgomery Wick (Scott Glenn), to ascend the chilling might of the world’s most feared peak to save her.
Vertical Limit DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.40 out of 10 (14584 votes)
Director: Martin Campbell
Actors: Chris O’Donnell, Robin Tunney, Scott Glenn, Izabella Scorupco, Bill Paxton, Nicholas Lea, Alexander Siddig, Robert Taylor, Temuera Morrison, Stuart Wilson, Augie Davis, Steve Le Marquand, Ben Mendelsohn, Roshan Seth, Alejandro Valdes-Rochin,
Tags: Thriller, Adventure, Action, accident, avalanche, blizzard, blockbuster, brother-sister-relationship, crevasse, cricket-game, death, dexamethasone, edema, epic, frozen-body, helicopter, himalayas, ice-cave, islam, k2, kashmir-conflict, lack-of-oxygen, military-installation, morse-code, mountain-climbing, mountaineer, mountaineering, nitroglycerine, nurse, outpost, pakistan, parricide, pulmonary-edema, religion, rescue, rock-climbing, sacrifice, title-spoken-by-character
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Gladiator
Maximus is a powerful Roman general, loved by the people and the aging Emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Before his death, the Emperor chooses Maximus to be his heir over his own son, Commodus, and a power struggle leaves Maximus and his family condemned to death. The powerful general is unable to save his family, and his loss of will allows him to get captured and put into the Gladiator games until he dies. The only desire that fuels him now is the chance to rise to the top so that he will be able to look into the eyes of the man who will feel his revenge.
Gladiator DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 8.20 out of 10 (147070 votes)
Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris, Derek Jacobi, Djimon Hounsou, David Schofield, John Shrapnel, Tomas Arana, Ralf Moeller, Spencer Treat Clark, David Hemmings, Tommy Flanagan, Sven-Ole Thorsen,
Tags: Drama, Adventure, Action, 2nd-century, afterlife, ancient-rome, animal-attack, archery, arena, arrest, battle, battle-scene, betrayal, blockbuster, blood-splatter, bloody-violence, botched-execution, brother-sister-relationship, caesar, caravan, catapult, chariot, child-murder, colosseum, corruption, crossbow, crotch-grab, death-during-filming, death-of-hero, death-of-protagonist, decapitation, dismemberment, dog, dungeon, emperor, epic, escape, face-slap, famous-score, father-son-relationship, flaming-arrow, flying-debris, forest, freedom, gambling, general, germany, gladiator, gore, graphic-violence, hanging, headless-horseman, helmet, historical, honor, hyperrealism, impalement, incestuous-desire, jealousy, leadership, loss-of-father, loss-of-son, loss-of-wife, martial-arts, murder, murder-of-family, mutilation, nephew, no-opening-credits, north-africa, parade, patricide, person-on-fire, political, profanity, redemption, regicide, revenge, roman-empire, senate, senator, severed-hand, severed-head, shot-in-the-chest, shot-in-the-leg, single-mother, skip-motion, slave, slavery, sliced-in-two, snake, spain, sport, stabbed-in-the-arm, stabbed-in-the-back, stabbed-in-the-foot, stabbed-in-the-leg, stabbed-in-the-side, stabbed-in-the-throat, stabbed-to-death, stabbing, strength, stylization, suffocation, sword, sword-and-sandal, sword-fight, tiger, time-lapse-photography, title-spoken-by-character, torso-cut-in-half, tragedy, tragic-ending, tragic-hero, vengeance, violence, war, warrior, wetting-pants, widow
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Proof of Life
In a mountainous South American country, drug-dealing rebels kidnap Peter Bowman, a US engineer who works for an oil company’s subsidiary. The company calls in a negotiator, Terry Thorne, an Aussie ex-soldier based in London. When the subsidiary goes bankrupt, the oil company washes its hands of the matter and pulls Thorne. Bowman’s wife Alice begs him to stay. She and Peter’s sister cobble together some money, Thorne talks ransom terms with the cash-strapped rebels, and Peter, chained high in the mountains, is sustained by a photo of Alice. When the politics of the situation change, so must Thorne’s strategy. And what can Alice and he do about the attraction growing between them?
Proof of Life DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.10 out of 10 (13690 votes)
Director: Taylor Hackford
Actors: Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, David Morse, Pamela Reed, David Caruso, Anthony Heald, Stanley Anderson, Gottfried John, Alun Armstrong, Michael Kitchen, Margo Martindale, Mario Ernesto Sánchez, Pietro Sibille, Vicky Hernández, Norma Martínez,
Tags: Drama, Thriller, Action, based-on-article, based-on-book, big-company, cocaine, commando, commando-raid, corruption, dam, drug-war, dysfunctional-marriage, escape, forced-march, grenade, guerilla, gun, handgun, helicopter, hostage, insurance, jungle, kidnapping, machine-gun, man-trap, marxism, mercenaries, money, negotiation, negotiator, petroleum, pipeline, pistol, poverty, prisoner, radio, ransom, rescue, revolution, revolving-door, rifle, rocket-launcher, sas, sniper, south-america, terrorism, waterfall
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Road Trip
A group of raucous, college buds living the Frat life decide to have a blowout with a Road Trip of insane proportions. Dad’s car, hard partying, nubile and Nubian Princesses, a boa constrictor and Tom Green make for a great trip down comedy lane.
Road Trip DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.30 out of 10 (18512 votes)
Director: Todd Phillips
Actors: Jessica Cauffiel, Ellen Albertini Dow, Breckin Meyer, Seann William Scott, Amy Smart, Paulo Costanzo, DJ Qualls, Tom Green, Rachel Blanchard, Anthony Rapp, Fred Ward, Andy Dick, Ethan Suplee, Horatio Sanz, Rhoda Griffis, Marla Sucharetza, Edmund Lyndeck,
Tags: Comedy, Adventure, austin-texas, cannabis, cheating, childhood-sweetheart, college, dirty-videotape, drugs, female-full-frontal-nudity, foot-fetish, foot-lover, four-best-friends, fraternity, french-toast, girlfriend, gross-out-comedy, interracial-sex, knoxville-tennessee, mistaken-identity, mistaken-mail, mouse, nerd, nudity, party, person-eating-mice, politically-incorrect, road-movie, road-trip, roommate, school-bus, sex, snake, sperm-bank, story, teen-sex-comedy, university-of-tennessee, videotaped-sex, vulgarity
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Meet the Parents
A Jewish male nurse (Ben Stiller) plans to ask his live-in girl friend (Teri Polo) to marry him. However, he learns that her strict father (Robert DeNiro) expects to be asked for his daughter’s hand before she can accept. Thus begins the visit from Hell as the two travel to meet Mom (Blythe Danner) and Dad, who turns out to be former CIA with a lie detector in the basement. Coincidentally, a sister (Nicole DeHuff) also has announced her wedding to a young doctor (Thomas McCarthy). Of course everything that can go wrong, does, including the disappearance of Dad’s beloved Himalayan cat, Jinxie.
Meet the Parents DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.00 out of 10 (47700 votes)
Director: Jay Roach
Actors: Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Teri Polo, Blythe Danner, Nicole De Huff, Jon Abrahams, Owen Wilson, James Rebhorn, Thomas McCarthy, Phyllis George, Kali Rocha, Bernie Sheredy, Judah Friedlander, Peter Bartlett, John Elsen,
Tags: Comedy, airport, anxiety, bathroom, black-eye, blockbuster, born-again-christian, cat, cia, climb-through-window, drug-references, ex-boyfriend, father-daughter-relationship, father-dislikes-daughter's-boyfriend, father-in-law, female-flight-attendant, fire, gazebo, hospital, jewish, lie-detector, lost-luggage, male-nurse, marriage-proposal, mercedes-benz, mishap, nicotine-addiction, nipple, nose-bleed, nurse, nursery-school, offence, plane, profanity, remake, romance, screwball, sex, swimming-pool, toilet, urn, volleyball, water-volleyball, wedding, wood-carving
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Cast Away
Hanks stars as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer whose personal and professional life are ruled by the clock. His fast-paced career takes him, often at a moment’s notice, to far-flung locales - and away from his girlfriend Kelly, played by Helen Hunt. Chuck’s manic existence abruptly ends when, after a plane crash, he becomes isolated on a remote island - cast away into the most desolate environment imaginable. Stripped of the conveniences of everyday life, he first must meet the basic needs of survival, including water, food and shelter. Chuck, the consummate problem solver, eventually figures out how to sustain himself physically. But then what? Chuck begins his true personal journey. After four years, fate gives Chuck a chance to fight his way back to civilization, only to find an unexpected emotional challenge greater than all the earlier physical ones. His ability to persevere and to hope are a product of his life-changing experience.
Cast Away DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.30 out of 10 (40285 votes)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Actors: Paul Sanchez, Lari White, Leonid Citer, David Allen Brooks, Yelena Popovic, Semion Suradikov, Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Peter Berg, Dmitri S. Boudrine, François Duhamel, Michael Forest, Viveka Davis, Nick Searcy, Jennifer Choe,
Tags: Drama, Adventure, airplane-accident, blockbuster, burial, cabin-fever, cargo-plane, castaway, christmas, coconut, coral, fire, hunger, imaginary-friend, inanimate-object-in-cast-credits, ingenuity, isolation, loneliness, lost-love, mail-carrier, presumed-dead, product-placement, raft, rain, sailing, self-dentistry, spear-fishing, storm, stranded, suicidal-thoughts, suicide-attempt, survival, thirst, time, tooth-extraction, tropical-island, volleyball, whale
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