Posts Tagged ‘parachute’

Iron Man (2008)

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Downey Jr., Robert | Howard, Terrence | Bridges, Jeff | Paltrow, Gwyneth | Bibb, Leslie | Toub, Shaun | Tahir, Faran | Badreya, Sayed | Smitrovich, Bill | Gregg, Clark | Guinee, Tim | Lyman, Will | Khan, Marco | Foster, Kevin | Noel, Garret
Directors: Favreau, Jon
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Tony Stark is the complete playboy who also happens to be an engineering genius. While in Afghanistan demonstrating a new missile he’s captured and wounded. His captors want him to assemble a missile for them but instead he creates an armored suit and a means to prevent his death from the shrapnel left in his chest by the attack. He uses the armored suit to escape. Back in the U.S. he announces his company will cease making weapons and he begins work on an updated armored suit only to find that Obadiah Stane, his second in command at Stark industries has been selling Stark weapons to the insurgents. He uses his new suit to return to Afghanistan to destroy the arms and then to stop Shane from misusing his research.

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Cho, John | Penn, Kal | Corddry, Rob | Conley, Jack | Bart, Roger | Harris, Neil Patrick | Winter, Eric | Reep, Jon | Munoz, Mark | Adomian, James | Voltz, Todd | Christy, Richard | Herschman, Adam | Beals, Jackson | Talai, Amir
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Follows the cross-country adventures of the pot-smoking duo as they try to outrun authorities who suspect them of being terrorists when they try to sneak a bong on board their flight to Amsterdam.

Congo (1995)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Linney, Laura | Walsh, Dylan | Hudson, Ernie | Curry, Tim | Heslov, Grant | Baker, Joe Don | Noh, Lorene | Trainor, Mary Ellen | Rosas, Misty | Pankin, Stuart | Seymour, Carolyn | Rosemont, Romy | Karen, James | Pugin, Bill | Wrentz, Lawrence T.
Directors: Marshall, Frank
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Greed is bad, this simple morality tale cautions. A megalomaniacal C.E.O. sends his son into the dangerous African Congo on a quest for a source of diamonds large enough and pure enough to function as powerful laser communications transmitters (or is it laser weapons?). When contact is lost with his son and the team, his sometime daughter- in-law is sent after them. She is a former CIA operative and, accompanied by gee-whiz gadgetry and a few eccentric characters (including a mercenary, a researcher with a talking gorilla, and a a nutty Indiana-Jones-type looking for King Solomon’s Mines), sets out to rescue her former fiance. What they all discover is that often what we most want turns out to be the source of our downfall.

Without a Paddle (2004)

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Price, Matthew | Hampton, Andrew | Rumbold, Jarred | Snell, Carl | Starr, Antony | Shepard, Dax | Lillard, Matthew | Green, Seth | Bernecker, Nadine | Cormack, Danielle | Stott, David | Somerville, Bonnie | Adsit, Scott | Fairhead, Morgan Reese | Holloway, Liddy
Directors: Brill, Steven
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The legendary high jacker is actually Dan Cooper. DB Cooper is the name of the man arrested shortly after the real high jacker jumped from the plane but was quickly cleared by the authorities. Unfortunately, the newspapers picked up DB Cooper’s name instead of Dan Cooper and the name stuck.

Point Break (1991)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Sport | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Reeves, Keanu | McGinley, John C. | Busey, Gary | Swayze, Patrick | Petty, Lori | LeGros, James | Philbin, John
Directors: Bigelow, Kathryn
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In the coastal town of Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves the ex-presidents. commit their crimes while wearing masks of ex-presidents Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The F.B.I. believes that the members of the gang could be surfers and send young agent Johnny Utah undercover at the beach to mix with the surfers and gather information. Utah meets surfer Bodhi and gets drawn into the lifestyle of his new friend.

Librarian: Quest for the Spear, The (2004)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Wyle, Noah | Walger, Sonya | Newhart, Bob | MacLachlan, Kyle | Hu, Kelly | Fisher, David Dayan | Curtin, Jane | Dukakis, Olympia | Brenner, Lisa | Martínez, Mario Iván | Kusatsu, Clyde | Gollas, Alejandra | Montini, José | Moreno, Jessica | Llera, Mauricio
Directors: Winther, Peter
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When a magical artifact is lifted from his library, a meek librarian sets out to ensure its safe return. To do so, however, he enlists the service of a woman with exceptional martial arts skills - who becomes the enforcer in the relationship.

Extreme Ops (2002)

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: Germany | Luxembourg | UK
Actors: Sewell, Rufus | Graves, Rupert | Castaldi, Jean-Pierre | Wilson, Bridgette | | Joe Absolom | | Sawa, Devon | Löwitsch, Klaus
Directors: Duguay, Christian
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A film crew travels to the Austrian Alps near the (former) Yugoslav border to film three extreme sports enthusiasts being chased down by an avalanche for a commercial. What they don’t know, however, is that they’re filming near the secret hideout of Slobodan Pavle, a Serbian war criminal. Accidentally catching him on film, they become locked in a life-or-death chase through the mountains that includes skiing, snowboarding, sky diving, white water rafting, helicopters, motorcycles, and base jumping.

Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Myers, Mike | Knowles, Beyoncé | Green, Seth | York, Michael | Wagner, Robert | Sterling, Mindy | Troyer, Verne | Caine, Michael | Savage, Fred | Mizota, Diane | Inaba, Carrie Ann | Matsuhisa, Nobu | Himelstein, Aaron | Zuckerman, Josh | Adams, Eddie
Directors: Roach, Jay
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He’s found his mojo, baby, and now Austin Powers (Mike Myers) is back again in this shagadelic comedy-adventure! The “sshhh!” hits the fan when Dr. Evil and Mini-Me escape from prison. Joining forces with the superfreaky Goldmember, they kidnap Austin’s father, master spy Nigel Powers (Michael Caine), in a dastardly time-travel scheme to take over the world. Before you can say “Shake Your Booty,” Austin cruises to 1975 and teams up with sexy Foxxy Cleopatra (Beyonce Knowles) to stop Dr. Evil and Goldmember from their mischievous mayhem. With Michael York, Robert Wagner, Seth Green, Mindy Sterling and Verne J. Troyer.

DOA: Dead or Alive (2006)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Pressly, Jaime | Valance, Holly | Carter, Sarah | Aoki, Devon | Malthe, Natassia | Roberts, Eric | Marsden, Matthew | White, Brian J. | Chou, Collin | Kosugi, Kane | Boyer, Derek | Crewes, Martin | Howey, Steve | Lin, Song | Liu, Fang
Directors: Yuen, Corey
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A number of fighters are invited to DOA, an invitational martial arts contest. They travel to the tournament island by plane, until they have to jump out mid-flight with parachutes, and then have until sundown to reach the main island to be entered into the tournament. Fighters are then pooled against one another in a knock-out style tournament, with the loser of a battle sent home, and the winner progressing to the subsequent round. The plot revolves around four female fighters who begin as rivals, but subsequently find themselves teaming up against another force.

Top Secret! (1984)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Kilmer, Val | Gutteridge, Lucy | Cushing, Peter | Kemp, Jeremy | Villiers, Christopher | Clarke, Warren | Ditson, Harry | Carter, Jim | Tagoe, Eddie | Sharif, Omar | Jellinek, Tristram | Mitchell, Billy J. | Wiley, Major | Klauber, Gertan | Mayes, Richard
Directors: Abrahams, Jim | Zucker, Jerry | Zucker, David
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This time Zucker and Abrams are spoofing, most notably, Elvis films and WWII spy movies. Val Kilmer stars as Nick Rivers, a handsome American 50s-style rock and roll singer. While performing in East Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful heroine and becomes involved with the French Resistance.