Posts Tagged ‘hopelessness’

Toy Story 2 (1999)

Monday, May 12th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Allen, Tim | Cusack, Joan | Grammer, Kelsey | Rickles, Don | Varney, Jim | Shawn, Wallace | Ratzenberger, John | Potts, Annie | Knight, Wayne | Morris, John | Metcalf, Laurie | Harris, Estelle | Benson, Jodi | Ranft, Joe
Directors: Lasseter, John | Unkrich, Lee | Brannon, Ash
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While Andy is away at summer camp Woody has been toynapped by Al McWiggin, a greedy collector and proprietor of “Al’s Toy Barn”! In this all-out rescue mission, Buzz and his friends Mr. Potato Head, Slinky Dog, Rex and Hamm springs into action to rescue Woody from winding up as a museum piece. They must find a way to save him before he gets sold in Japan forever and they’ll never see him again!

Taxi Driver (1976)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Shepherd, Cybill | Boyle, Peter | Foster, Jodie | Keitel, Harvey | Harris, Leonard | Brooks, Albert | Abbott, Diahnne | Adu, Frank | Ardito, Gino | Argo, Victor | Avery, Garth | Cohn, Harry | Cunningham, Copper | Dickson-Weinberg, Brenda
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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Vietnam vet Travis Bickle is 26, a loner in the mean streets of New York City, slipping slowly into isolation and violent misanthropy. In solving his insomnia by driving a yellow cab on the night shift, he grows increasingly disgusted by the low-lifes that hang out at night: “Someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.” His touching attempts to woo Betsy, a Senator’s campaign worker, turn sour when he takes her to a porn movie on their first date. He even fails in his attempt to persuade child prostitute Iris to desert her pimp and return to her parents and school. Driven to the edge by powerlessness, he buys four handguns and sets out to assassinate the Senator, heading for the infamy of a ‘lone crazed gunman’…

Bully (2001)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Renfro, Brad | Miner, Rachel | Phillips, Bijou | Stahl, Nick | Pitt, Michael | Fitzpatrick, Leo | Garner, Kelli | Franzese, Daniel | Paulding, Nathalie | Sutta, Jessica | Amatrudo, Ed | Raulerson, Steve | Clayton, Judy | Lilly, Alan | Colletti, Irene B.
Directors: Clark, Larry
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After finding himself at the constant abuse of his best friend Bobby, Marty has become fed up with his friend’s twisted ways. His girlfriend, a victim of Bobby’s often cruel ways, couldn’t agree more and they strategize murdering Bobby, with a group of willing and unwilling participants in a small Florida town. In the midst of their plotting, they find themselves contemplating with the possible aftermath of what could happen.

No Man’s Land (2001)

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: Belgium | Bosnia-Herzegovina | France | Italy | Slovenia | UK
Actors: Djuric, Branko | Bitorajac, Rene | Sovagovic, Filip | Siatidis, Georges | Valcke, Serge-Henri | Kremer, Sacha | Eloy, Alain | Nadarevic, Mustafa | Diklic, Bogdan | Callow, Simon | Cartlidge, Katrin | Ribic, Tanja | Zavrsan, Branko | Utjesanovic, Djuro | Tanovic, Mirza
Directors: Tanovic, Danis
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After various skirmishes, two wounded soldiers, one Bosnian and one Serb, confront each other in a trench in the no man’s land between their lines. They wait for dark, trading insults and even finding some common ground; sometimes one has the gun, sometimes the other, sometimes both. Things get complicated when another wounded Bosnian comes to, but can’t move because a bouncing mine is beneath him. The two men cooperate to wave white flags, their lines call the UN (whose high command tries not to help), an English reporter shows up, a French sergeant shows courage, and the three men in no man’s land may or may not find a way to all get along.

NeverEnding Story, The (1984)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA | West Germany
Actors: Oliver, Barret | McRaney, Gerald | Garrett, Drum | Cooksey, Darryl | Gilbert, Nicholas | Hill, Thomas | Roy, Deep | Prückner, Tilo | Gunn, Moses | Hathaway, Noah | Oppenheimer, Alan | Bromley, Sydney | Hayes, Patricia | Stronach, Tami
Directors: Petersen, Wolfgang
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Chased by school bullies, reprimanded by his father for daydreaming too much Bastian is lost in his own world. Bastian escapes school bullies one rainy day by hiding in an old used book store. After explaining his predicament to the old clerk Bastian notices a large leather bound book with a symbol of two snakes intertwined into an emblem. Soon after the clerk warns Bastian that this book is not for him Bastian, rushes away with it “borrowing” it, while the clerk is in another room. Taking refuge in the attic of his school Bastian opens the book, and a world of fantasy. Learning that the wonderous, beautiful land of Fantasia is being destroyed by a terrible “Nothing” Bastian is taken deeper into the story. Soon discovering the ChildLike Empress is deathly ill, the cause; she needs a new name. A young warrior named Atreyu is called and Bastian follows his adventures, unknowing that he, himself is slowly being written into the mysterious book. Soon realizing that he is now written in the book Bastian realizes that the only one who can save Fantasia is him.

Fight Club (1999)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Norton, Edward | Pitt, Brad | Bonham Carter, Helena | Meat Loaf | Grenier, Zach | Arquette, Richmond | Andrews, David | Maguire, George | Bondurant, Eugenie | Cabot, Christina | Colston, Sydney 'Big Dawg' | Singer, Rachel | Cronenweth, Christie | De Zarn, Tim | Buzzington, Ezra
Directors: Fincher, David
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You’re young. You have an easy, well-paid deskjob. You have a condo, Swedish furniture, artistic coffee tables and a fridge full of condiments. Yet you feel emotionally and spiritually empty. You eventually find comfort in going to support groups for lukemia and cancer victims when there’s nothing wrong with you until they’re hijacked from you by another faker. Then you meet Tyler Durden, a man that shows you that not only can you live without material needs but that self-destruction, the collapse of society and making dynamite from soap might not be such a bad idea either.