Posts Tagged ‘alien-contact’

Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Rennie | Neal, Patricia | Marlowe, Hugh | Jaffe, Sam | Gray, Billy | Bavier, Frances | Martin, Lock | Davis, Elmer | Kaltenborn, H.V. | Pearson, Drew | Heatter, Gabriel | Bane, Holly | Bradford, Marshall | Brown, John | Burton, John
Directors: Wise, Robert
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A flying saucer orbits the 1950s Earth. It lands in Washington, DC, on the Mall. The lone occupant steps out and is shot by a jumpy soldier. Gort, a large and very powerful robot appears to save him and is able to melt tanks with the slightest bit of his power. The wounded alien orders Gort to stop his rampage and is taken to a hospital from which he escapes in order to learn more about this planet, even moving in as a boarder with an Earth family. When they begin to suspect him, he reveals himself, along with the news that Gort is a member of a race of super-robot enforcers invented to keep the peace of the galaxy that will destroy the Earth if provoked.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Cramer, Grant | Snyder, Suzanne | Nelson, John Allen | Vernon, John | Siegel, Michael | Licassi, Peter | Dano, Royal | Titus, Christopher | Michaels, Irene | Krull, Karla Sue | Scott, Brian Degan | Kovacs, Danny | Proom, Adele | Malpas, Howard | Raff, Karen
Directors: Chiodo, Stephen
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When a small town is invaded by aliens from outer space who are capturing and killing the townspeople, no one takes them seriously. Why? The aliens all look like circus clowns, use weapons that look clown like, and all have painted on smiles. Only a few of the young people in the town realize the danger and of course no one believes them. Armed with an ice cream truck they try and rescue their friends.

Transformers (2007)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: LaBeouf, Shia | Fox, Megan | Duhamel, Josh | Taylor, Rachael | Gibson, Tyrese | Voight, Jon | Anderson, Anthony | Turturro, John | O'Neill, Michael | Cullen, Peter | Bodin, Charlie | Caldwell, Andrew | Cox, Bryan | David, Keith | Doss, Frederic
Directors: Bay, Michael
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A long time ago, far away on the planet of Cybertron, a war was being waged between the noble Autobots (led by the wise Optimus Prime) and the devious Decepticons (commanded by the dreaded Megatron) for control over the Allspark, a mystical talisman that would grant unlimited power to whoever possessed it. The Autobots managed to smuggle the Allspark off the planet, but Megatron blasted off in search of it. He eventually tracked it to the planet of Earth (circa 1850), but his reckless desire for power sent him right into the Arctic Ocean, and the sheer cold forced him into a paralyzed state. His body was later found by Captain Archibald Witwicky, and before going into a comatose state Megatron used the last of his energy to engrave a map, showing the location of the Allspark, into the Captain’s glasses, and send a transmission to Cybertron. He is then carted away by the Captain’s ship. A century later, Sam Witwicky, nicknamed Spike by his friends, buys his first car. To his shock, he discovers it to be Bumblebee, an Autobot in disguise who is to protect Spike, as he bears the Captain’s glasses and the map carved on them. But Bumblebee is not the only Transformer to have arrived on Earth - in the desert of Qatar, the Decepticons Blackout and Scorponok attack a U.S. military base, causing the Pentagon to send their special Sector Seven agents to capture all “specimens of this alien race,” and Spike and his girlfriend Mikaela find themselves in the middle of a grand battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons, stretching from Hoover Dam all the way to Los Angeles. Meanwhile, within the depths of Hoover Dam, the cryogenically stored form of Megatron awakens…

Spaceballs (1987)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Brooks, Mel | Moranis, Rick | Pullman, Bill | Zuniga, Daphne | Candy, John | Wyner, George | Rivers, Joan | Van Patten, Dick | Winslow, Michael | Yarnell, Lorene | Hurt, John | Viscuso, Sal | Graham, Ronny | Bullock, JM J. | Bevis, Leslie
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King Roland of the planet Druidia is trying to marry his daughter Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) to Prince Valium, but Vespa is kidnapped by the evil race of the Spaceballs. The Spaceballs ask Roland a tremendous ransom: all the air of Druidia (you see, the air of Spaceball had serious pollution problems…). The King decides to offer a generous amount of money to a space rogue, Lone Starr, to persuade him to save Vespa. What follows is the parody of a _LOT_ of famous SF movies.

Independence Day (1996)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pullman, Bill | McDonnell, Mary | Goldblum, Jeff | Hirsch, Judd | Colin, Margaret | Smith, Will | Fox, Vivica A. | Quaid, Randy | Loggia, Robert | Rebhorn, James | Fierstein, Harvey | Baldwin, Adam | Spiner, Brent | Duval, James | Jakub, Lisa
Directors: Emmerich, Roland
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On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference. It is soon learned by the military that a number of enormous objects are on a collision course with Earth. At first thought to be meteors, they are later revealed to be gigantic spacecraft, piloted by a mysterious alien species. After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere, David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable technician, discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less than a day. On July 3rd, the aliens all but obliterate New York, Los Angeles, and Washington. The survivors set out in convoys towards Area 51, a strange government testing ground where it is rumored the military has a captured alien spacecraft of their own. The survivors devise a plan to fight back against the enslaving aliens, and July 4th becomes the day humanity will fight for its freedom. July 4th is their Independence Day…

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Thomas, Henry | Wallace-Stone, Dee | MacNaughton, Robert | Barrymore, Drew | Coyote, Peter | Martel, K.C. | Frye, Sean | Howell, C. Thomas | O'Dell, David M. | Swingler, Richard | Toth, Frank | Barton, Robert | Darrell, Michael | Berkson, David | Carlberg, David
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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While visiting the Earth at Night, a group of alien botanists is discovered and disturbed by an approaching human task force. Because of the more than hasty take-off, one of the visitors is left behind. The little alien finds himself all alone on a very strange planet. Fortunately, the extra-terrestrial soon finds a friend and emotional companion in 10-year-old Elliot, who discovered him looking for food in his family’s garden shed. While E.T. slowly gets acquainted with Elliot’s brother Michael, his sister Gertie as well as with Earth customs, members of the task force work day and night to track down the whereabouts of Earth’s first visitor from Outer Space. The wish to go home again is strong in E.T., and after being able to communicate with Elliot and the others, E.T. starts building an improvised device to send a message home for his folks to come and pick him up. But before long, E.T. gets seriously sick, and because of his special connection to Elliot, the young boy suffers, too. The situation gets critical when the task force finally intervenes. By then, all help may already be too late, and there’s no alien spaceship in sight.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Dreyfuss, Richard | Truffaut, François | Garr, Teri | Dillon, Melinda | Balaban, Bob | McNamara, J. Patrick | Kemmerling, Warren J. | Blossom, Roberts | Dodds, Philip | Guffey, Cary | Bishop, Shawn | Campbell, Adrienne | Dreyfuss, Justin | Henriksen, Lance | Connally, Merrill
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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Cableman Roy Neary is one of several people who experience a close encounter of the first kind, witnessing UFOs flying through the night sky. He is subsequently haunted by a mountainlike image in his head and becomes obsessed with discovering what it represents, putting severe strain on his marriage. Meanwhile, government agents around the world have a close encounter of the second kind, discovering physical evidence of otherworldly visitors in the form of military vehicles that went missing decades ago suddenly appearing in the middle of nowhere. Roy and the agents both follow the clues they have been given to reach a site where they will have a close encounter of the third kind: contact.

Contact (1997)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Malone, Jena | Morse, David | Foster, Jodie | Blake, Geoffrey | Fichtner, William | Chester, Sami | McNeil, Timothy | Surillo, Laura Elena | McConaughey, Matthew | Skerritt, Tom | Strozier, Henry | Chaban, Michael | Martini, Max | King, Larry | Garner, Thomas
Directors: Zemeckis, Robert
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Contact, based on the novel of the same name by Carl Sagan, is the story of a free thinking radio astronomer (Jodie Foster) who discovers an intelligent signal broadcast from deep space. She and her fellow scientists are able to decipher the Message and discover detailed instructions for building a mysterious Machine. Will the Machine spell the end of our world, or the end of our superstitions? Will we take our place among the races of the Galaxy, or are we just an upstart species with a long way to go?

Iron Giant, The (1999)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Drama | Family | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Aniston, Jennifer | Connick Jr., Harry | Diesel, Vin | Gammon, James | Leachman, Cloris | McDonald, Christopher | Mahoney, John | Marienthal, Eli | Walsh, M. Emmet | Bergman, Mary Kay | Johnston, Ollie | Angel, Jack | Bird, Michael | Borisoff, Devon Cole | Bumpass, Rodger
Directors: Bird, Brad
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“Iron Giant” is based upon the 1968 story,’Iron Man,’ by the British poet laureate Ted Hughes. The film is about a giant metal machine that drops from the sky and frightens a small town in Maine in 1958, only to find a friend named, Hogarth, that ultimately finds its humanity and saving the towns people of their fears and prejudices.

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: McGregor, Ewan | Portman, Natalie | Christensen, Hayden | McDiarmid, Ian | Jackson, Samuel L. | Smits, Jimmy | Oz, Frank | Daniels, Anthony | Lee, Christopher | Castle-Hughes, Keisha | Carson, Silas | Laga'aia, Jay | Spence, Bruce | Pygram, Wayne | Morrison, Temuera
Directors: Lucas, George
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A maturing Anakin Skywalker goes to the dark side of The Force and becomes Sith Lord Darth Vader. We experience the transformation in a dark, scary yet thrilling climax. The story here logically sets up the events of Episode IV, the original 1977 Star Wars movie in which Darth Vader goes to war against his own children, Luke and Leia.