Posts Tagged ‘severed-leg’

300 (2006)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Butler, Gerard | Headey, Lena | West, Dominic | Wenham, David | Regan, Vincent | Fassbender, Michael | Wisdom, Tom | Pleavin, Andrew | Tiernan, Andrew | Santoro, Rodrigo | Cimmino, Giovani | McHattie, Stephen | Kramer, Greg | Ivanovici, Alex | Kelly, Craig
Directors: Snyder, Zack
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It is spring 480 BC, Persian King Xerxes, continuing his father Darius’ master plan to conquer the Hellenic city-states, arrives in Hellas. The previous Persian invasion and diplomatic attempts have already turned most northern Hellas tribes and states to the Persian side. But the people of Athens and Sparta, the largest Hellenic powers at the time, feel quite insulted by the Persian emissaries’ request to surrender to Xerxes, and so slay them. In Sparta, King Leonidas consults the local oracle, who gives two options: Either a spartan king will have to be sacrificed, or Sparta will be burned to the ground. A year earlier (481, BC) a Panhellenic consortium of all southern city-states had already recognized the superiority of the Spartan army (the best organized and trained army at the time) and had declared King Leonidas as supreme commander of the combined Hellenic army. It is then decided that a small force should block Xerxes’ way to southern Hellas in the Thermopylae passage. This passage was, at that time, 12 meters wide. The great historian Herodotus, possibly exaggerating, states that there were 1,700,000 Persians (their true number could have been anywhere from 100,000 to 1,000,000) against 7,000 Hellenic hoplites and slaves, including the 300 men of the Spartan King elite guard. King Xerxes waited four days for the Hellenes to be frightened and eventually surrender and was quite astonished by his opponents’ complete apathy. Xerxes tried to convince Leonidas to drop weapons, give up his position, kneel before him and live on as a local governor under Xerxes. King Leonidas replied “molon lave,” which means “Come and get them.” The three-day battle began, with the 300 Spartans and 700 Thespians (the other Hellenes where sent by Leonidas to protect passages to their flanks) slaying thousands of Persians with minimal losses. The whole Persian campaign would have failed if it hadn’t been for Efialtes, who showed Xerxes a secret passage to the Hellenic flanks. After a final battle led by King Xerxes himself, the Hellenic force was slain and their heroism and glory was written forever in history. From the beginning of the battle, the Hellenes buried their dead in the spot where they fell. Then battle signs where made for the dead of each Hellenic faction. For the Pelloponisians, (including the 300 Spartans) the sign generally read (free translation) “In this place 4,000 Pelloponisians fought 30 millions).” For the 300 Spartans (Lakaedaemonians), the sign reads (free translation) “Oh foreigner, tell the Lakaedaemonians that we are buried here obeying their laws,” meaning that they never hesitated and never retreated from the enemy. The impact of the battle was enormous for both sides. The Persians’ morale dropped to zero, and the Hellenes lost their fear for the Persian conqueror and organized their defense. After several successful battles, the Hellenes ultimately defeated the Persian army and repelled their invasion in the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC.

Venom (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bruckner, Agnes | Jackson, Jonathan | Ramsey, Laura | Cotrona, D.J. | Cramer, Rick | Good, Meagan | Phillips, Bijou | Man, Method | Szajda, Pawel | Sherwood, Davetta | Travis, Stacey | Brown, Marcus Lyle | Pickens Jr., James | Duke, Deborah
Directors: Gillespie, Jim
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After the town freak Ray Sawyer is killed in a freak accident involving voodoo related material, local teens’ bodies soon start piling up. A few of the teens decide to visit a friends house in the swamps of Louisiana to find out if she knows what’s going on, but they soon realize that Ray is possessed by evil spirits of murderers and evil souls and worser…Ray has found the teens and is armed with a crowbar. With only voodoo protecting them, the teens must survive his clutches or become his next victims…

Jarhead (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Gyllenhaal, Jake | MacDonald, Scott | Ming, Lo | Foster, Kevin | Sarsgaard, Peter | Poitier, Damion | Galayini, Riad | Coyne, Craig | Randolph, Katherine | Bell, Rini | Taylor, Dendrie | Morrison, James | Zajic, Arman | Davis, Brianne | Foxx, Jamie
Directors: Mendes, Sam
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Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows “Swoff” (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper’s rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don’t understand against an enemy they can’t see for a cause they don’t fully fathom… Foxx portrays Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford’s scout/sniper platoon, while Sarsgaard is Swoff’s friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA-their elite Marine Unit.

Highwaymen (2003)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Caviezel, James | Mitra, Rhona | Faison, Frankie | Feore, Colm | Currie, Gordon | Roth, Andrea | Jenkins, Noam | Proctor, Toby | Kee, James | St-Onge, Guylaine | Pingue, Joe | Roach, Martin | Bell, Ron | Rutledge, Paul | Jones, Kelly
Directors: Harmon, Robert
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Since the hit-and-run murder of his wife five years ago, Rennie Cray has crisscrossed America in his souped-up, stripped-down ‘68 Plymouth Barracuda, pursuing her killer. The man he seeks in a high-speed, high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse is James Fargo, a merciless, wheelchair-bound pyschopath. Through a series of mechanical innovations, Fargo has turned his rampaging ‘72 Cadillac Eldorado into a monstrous extension of his own twisted body and mind. Now, their deadly battle of wits and wills is about to move into overdrive. And caught in their headlights is a tormented beauty who unwittingly holds the key to their ultimate showdown.

Land of the Dead (2005)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | France | USA
Actors: Baker, Simon | Leguizamo, John | Hopper, Dennis | Argento, Asia | Joy, Robert | Clark, Eugene | Boland, Joanne | Nappo, Tony | Baxter, Jennifer | Banks, Boyd | Geljo, Jasmin | McCabe, Max | Munch, Tony | Roberts, Shawn | Arce, Pedro Miguel
Directors: Romero, George A.
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The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in skyscrapers and chaos rules the streets, the rest of the survivors must find a way to stop the evolving zombies from breaking into the city.

Saw III (2006)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bell, Tobin | Smith, Shawnee | Macfadyen, Angus | Soomekh, Bahar | Wahlberg, Donnie | Meyer, Dina | Leigh Whannell | Koaho, Mpho | Flatman, Barry | Bent, Lyriq | LaRose, J. | McCabe, Debra | Mandylor, Costas | Russell, Betsy | Luk, Jane
Directors: Bousman, Darren Lynn
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Jigsaw has disappeared. Now aided by his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Dr. Lynn Denlon is unaware that she is about to become the latest pawn on his vicious chessboard. One night, after finishing a shift at her hospital, Lynn is kidnapped by the deranged Amanda and taken to an abandoned warehouse where she meets Jigsaw, aka: John Kramer, who’s now bedridden and on the verge of death. Lynn is told that she must keep the madman alive for as long as it takes Jeff, another of his victims, to complete a game of his own. Racing against the ticking clock of Jigsaw’s own heartbeat, Lynn and Jeff struggle to make it through each of their vicious tests, unaware that Jigsaw and Amanda have a much bigger plan for both of them…

Hunted, The (2003)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jones, Tommy Lee | Del Toro, Benicio | Nielsen, Connie | Stefanson, Leslie | Finn, John | Zúñiga, José | Canada, Ron | Pellegrino, Mark | DeCone, Aaron | O'Quinn, Carrick | Chapman, Lonny | Linn, Rex | Velez, Eddie | Boyd, Jenna | Mackenzie, Alexander
Directors: Friedkin, William
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In the green woods of Silver Falls, Oregon, Aaron Hallam, a trained assassin AWOL from the Special Forces, keeps his own brand of wildlife vigil. After Hallam brutally slew four deer hunters in the area, FBI Special Agent Abby Durrell turns to L.T. Bonham— the one man who may be able to stop him. At first L.T. resists the mission. Snug in retirement, he’s closed off to his past, the years he spent in the Special Forces training soldiers to become skilled murderers. But when he realizes that these recent slaying is the work of a man he trained, he feels obligated to stop him. Accepting the assignment under the condition that he works alone, L.T. enters the woods, unarmed—plagued by memories of his best student and riddled with guilt for not responding to Aaron’s tortured letters to him as he began to slip over the edge of sanity. Furious as he is with his former mentor for ignoring his pleas for help, Aaron knows that he and L.T. share a tragic bond that is unbreakable. And, even as they go into their final combat against each other, neither can say with certainty who is the hunted and who is the hunter.

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

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
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.

Thin Red Line, The (1998)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Penn, Sean | Brody, Adrien | Caviezel, James | Chaplin, Ben | Clooney, George | Cusack, John | Harrelson, Woody | Travolta, John | Koteas, Elias | Leto, Jared | Mihok, Dash | Nelson, Tim Blake | Nolte, Nick | Reilly, John C. | Romano, Larry | Savage, John
Directors: Malick, Terrence
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In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese’s advance into the pacific. A group of young soldiers is brought in as a relief for the battle-weary Marine units. The exhausting fight for a key-positioned airfield that allows control over a 1000-mile radius puts the men of the Army Rifle company C-for-Charlie through hell. The horrors of war forms the soldiers into a tight-knit group, their emotions develop into bonds of love and even family. The reasons for this war get further away as the world for the men gets smaller and smaller until their fighting is for mere survival and the life of the other men with them.

Enemy at the Gates (2001)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Thriller | War
Countries: Germany | Ireland | UK | USA
Actors: Law, Jude | Harris, Ed | Weisz, Rachel | Fiennes, Joseph | Hoskins, Bob | Perlman, Ron | Mattes, Eva | Thomson, Gabriel | Habich, Matthias | Rois, Sophie | Shvedoff, Ivan | Bandi, Mario | Stier, Hans Martin | Schick, Clemens | Matveyev, Mikhail
Directors: Annaud, Jean-Jacques
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During the WWII battle of Stalingrad, two snipers, a Russian (Law), and a German (Harris), are locked in a battle of wills and marksmenship, while the Russian is boosted to the status of hero by a political official (Fiennes).