Results for "sci-fi"
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Movie: Alien (May)Directed by: Ridley ScottTagged by 2 people, last on Feb 03, 2007
Starring: Tom Skerritt, Eddie Powell, Ian Holm, John Hurt, Helen Horton
A commercial towing spaceship picks up a weird distress signal from an alien vessel. The crew decides to head toward the vessel. One of the crew members discovers a nest full of weird eggs. When he gets a closer look, something jumps on to his face. His companions take him back to the ship. The crew is unaware that they are walking on thin ice until the nightmare begins.
Tags: futuristic, the alien, alien, sci-fi, horror, space ship, alien planet, nostromo, alien vessel, eggs ... -
Directed by: Irvin KershnerTagged by 2 people, last on Dec 25, 2006
Starring: Mark Hamill, John Dicks, Milton Johns, Mark Jones (II), Oliver Maguire
Tags: star wars, darth vader, george lucas, sci-fi, dark side, war, vader, snow, rebellion, skywalker ... -
Movie: Blade RunnerDirected by: Ridley ScottTagged by 2 people, last on Jan 03, 2007
Starring: Joanna Cassidy, Carolyn Demirjian, John Edward Allen, Kelly Hine, Daryl Hannah
Based on the novel by Philip K. Dick, Blade Runner is the story of a band of sythetically engineered beings, replicants, and the man who must hunt them down, a blade runner. Rick Deckard is a man haunted by a past that might never have been and a legacy of being the best blade runner in a Los Angeles of the future. Populated by giant corporate pyramids and pyrric industrial plants that light... More »
Tags: sci-fi, future, la, futuristic, noir, film noir, harrison ford, clones, 0, blade runner ... -
Directed by: Richard MarquandTagged by 2 people, last on Jun 13, 2007
Starring: Billy Dee Williams, Kenneth Colley, Warwick Davis, Michael Pennington, Dave Prowse
Tags: star wars, darth vader, george lucas, sci-fi, dark side, war, skywalker, force, space, empire ... -
Directed by: George LucasTagged by 2 people, last on May 05, 2007
Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute. Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo. While the congress of the Republic endlessly debates this alarming chain of events, the Supreme Chancellor has secretly dispatched... More »
Tags: fantasy, action, adventure, star wars, george lucas, sci-fi, science fiction, dark side, anakin skywalker, anakin ... -
Movie: Twelve MonkeysDirected by: Terry GilliamTagged by 2 people, last on Jan 14, 2007
Starring: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Christopher Plummer, David Morse
Terry Gilliam's nightmarish future vision takes place in 1997, after a deadly virus has killed 99% of the human population; forcing the survivors to flee beneath our planet's surface. This leaves the animals to rule the Earth once again. The scientists select James Cole, an imprisoned sociopath, to return to the past and gather information useful in the defense against this contagion. Once back... More »
Tags: futuristic, 12 monkeys, twelve monkeys, sci-fi, post apocalyptic, cyberpunk, time travel, alternative realities, psychological, remake ... -
Directed by: George LucasTagged by 2 people, last on Dec 11, 2006
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Anthony Daniels, Silas Carson, Ayesha Dharker, Joel Edgerton
There is unrest in the Galactic Senate. Several thousand solar systems have declared their intentions to leave the Republic. This separatist movement, under the leadership of the mysterious Count Dooku, has made it difficult for the limited number of Jedi Knights to maintain peace and order in the galaxy. Senator Amidala, the former queen of Naboo, is returning to the Galactic Senate to vote... More »
Tags: action, adventure, star wars, george lucas, sci-fi, science fiction, anakin, family, star, wars ... -
Movie: Sunshine (July)Directed by: Danny BoyleTagged by 2 people, last on Apr 25, 2007
Starring: Chris Evans (I), Cillian Murphy, Cliff Curtis, Rose Byrne, Troy Garity
Fifty years from now, the sun is dying, and mankind is dying with it. Our last hope: a spaceship and a crew of eight men and women. They carry a device which will breathe new life into the star. But deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, their mission is starting to unravel. There is an accident, a fatal mistake, and a distress beacon from a spaceship that disappeared seven... More »
Tags: sci-fi, space, sun, sunshine, mercury, icarus, curtis, evans, byrne, murphy ... -
Directed by: George LucasTagged by 3 people, last on Jan 28, 2007
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid, Samuel L. Jackson
In this final movie we see Anakin Skywalker be twisted into wondering what's right and wrong and finds him self the Sith Lord Darth Vader trying to save his true love. Luke and Leia are hidden away from him.
Tags: star wars, darth vader, george lucas, sci-fi, dark side, anakin, star, revenge of the sith, force, empire ... -
Movie: Akira (Octo)Directed by: Katsuhiro OtomoTagged by 2 people, last on Jan 14, 2007
Starring: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Barbara Goodson, Tessho Genda
In a post apocalyptic Neo Tokyo set in the future, a member of a bike gang is kidnapped by the fascist government, which causes the leader of the gang, a hot headed teen named Kaneda, to search for him. In the mix, Kaneda meets up with an anti-government group of activists, one of them is named Kay, and they set up their attempts to over throw the government. But when the kidnapped biker's,... More »
Tags: anime, sci-fi, akira, cyberpunk, classic, comic book, disaster, political, post apocalyptic, psychic ...