Showing posts with label 2009. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2009. Show all posts

Sunday, November 28, 2021

X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) BluRay



The early years of James Logan, featuring his rivalry with his brother Victor Creed, his service in the special forces team Weapon X, and his experimentation into the metal-lined mutant Wolverine.

Two mutant brothers, Logan and Victor, born two hundred years ago, suffer childhood trauma and have only each other to depend on. Basically, they're fighters and killers, living from war to war throughout U.S. history. In modern times, a U.S. Colonel, Stryker, recruits them and other mutants as commandos. Logan quits and becomes a logger, falling in love with a local teacher. When Logan refuses to rejoin Stryker's crew, the Colonel sends the murderous Victor. Logan now wants revenge.


SYNOPSIS X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE

In 1845, James Howlett, a boy living in Canada, witnesses his father being killed by groundskeeper Thomas Logan. Anxiety activates the boy's mutation: bone claws protrude from his knuckles and he impales Thomas, who reveals that he is James' birth father before dying. James flees along with Thomas' other son Victor Creed, who is James' half-brother and has a sharp claw-nails and healing factor mutation like James. They spend the next century as soldiers, fighting in the American Civil War, both World Wars and the Vietnam War in 1973. In Vietnam, the increasingly violent Victor attempts to rape a Vietnamese woman and kills a senior officer who tries to stop him. James returns to Victor upon the commotion, and ignorant of his brother’s intent, he rushes to defend him. This results in the pair being sentenced to execution by firing squad, which they survive due to their mutant healing abilities. Major William Stryker approaches them in military custody and offers them membership in Team X, a group of mutants including expert marksman Agent Zero, katana-wielding mercenary Wade Wilson, teleporter John Wraith, super-strong and invulnerable Fred Dukes, and technopath Chris Bradley. They join the team for a few missions, with James using the alias Logan, but Victor and the group's lack of self-control and empathy for human life causes Logan to leave.


Six years later, in 1979, Logan works as a logger in Canada, where he lives with his girlfriend Kayla Silverfox. Stryker and Zero approach Logan, reporting that Wade and Bradley have been killed; someone is targeting the team. Logan refuses to rejoin Stryker, but after finding Kayla's bloodied body in the woods, realizes that Victor is responsible. He finds Victor at a local bar, but Logan loses the subsequent fight. Afterward, Stryker explains that Victor has gone rogue and offers Logan a way to become strong enough to get his revenge. Logan undergoes a painful operation to reinforce his skeleton with adamantium, a virtually indestructible metal. Once the procedure is complete, Stryker orders that Logan's memory be erased so he can be used as Stryker's personal weapon, but Logan overhears and escapes to a nearby farm, where an elderly couple takes him in. Zero kills the couple the following morning and tries to kill Logan, but Logan takes down Zero's helicopter and swears to kill both Stryker and Victor.


Logan locates Wraith and Dukes at a boxing gym in Las Vegas. Dukes, who has ballooned in size due to a guilt-induced eating disorder, explains that Victor still works for Stryker, hunting down mutants for Stryker to experiment on at his new laboratory, located at a place called "The Island." Dukes also mentions Remy "Gambit" LeBeau, the only one who escaped from the island and therefore knows its location. Wraith and Logan find LeBeau in New Orleans, then both fight Victor, who kills Wraith and extracts his DNA. Agreeing to help release mutants that Stryker has captured, Gambit takes Logan to Stryker's facility on Three Mile Island. Logan learns that Kayla is alive, having been forced by Stryker into surveilling him in exchange for her sister's safety. However, Stryker refuses to release her sister and denies Victor the adamantium bonding promised for his service, claiming that test results revealed Victor would not survive the operation. Stryker activates Wade, now known as Weapon XI, a "mutant killer" with the powers of multiple mutants.


While Logan and Victor fight off Weapon XI, Kayla is mortally wounded leading the captive mutants to Professor Charles Xavier and safety. After Logan kills Weapon XI, Stryker arrives and shoots Logan in the head with adamantium bullets, rendering him unconscious. Before Stryker can shoot Kayla, she grabs him and uses her mutant power to persuade him to turn around and walk away until his feet bleed, then succumbs to her injuries. Logan regains consciousness but has lost his memory. He notices his dog tags read "Logan" on one side and "Wolverine" on the other. He pauses upon noticing Kayla's body, but does not recognize her.


In a mid-credits scene, Stryker is detained for questioning by MPs in connection with the death of General Munson, whom Stryker murdered to protect his experiment. In a post-credits scene, following the defeat of Weapon XI, his hand crawls out of the rocks and touches his head, which awakens and shushes the screen, revealing that he has survived being decapitated.


CAST

  • Hugh Jackman as Logan / Wolverine
  • Troye Sivan as James
  • Liev Schreiber as Victor Creed
  • Michael-James Olsen as young Victor
  • Danny Huston as Stryker
  • Will.i.am as John Wraith
  • Lynn Collins as Kayla Silverfox
  • Kevin Durand as Fred Dukes
  • Dominic Monaghan as Bradley
  • Taylor Kitsch as Remy LeBeau
  • Daniel Henney as Agent Zero
  • Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson

Friday, November 19, 2021

Arthur And The Revenge Of Maltazard (2009) BluRay



Arthur answers a distress call from Princess Selenia, who is menaced by the nefarious Maltazard.


SYNOPSIS ARTHUR AND THE REVENGE OF MALTAZARD

Three years has passed since Arthur has saved his grandparents home and saved the Minimoys from the evil Maltazard, Arthur stays with his grandparents for the holidays, during which the Bogo Matassalai (a fictitious African society) assign Arthur a series of tests, including camouflage and environmental nonviolence.


Having passed these tests, Arthur prepares to see the Minimoys to celebrate, until his father decides to take him and his mother back to the metropolis. When a spider gives Arthur a grain of rice containing a distress-call, which he believes has come from the Minimoys, he returns to his grandparents' house, where the Bogo Matassalai's attempt to give him Minimoy stature through a telescope fails, and they instead wrap him in vines of increasing tightness until he falls as a drop of sap into the Minimoy Max's bar.


En route to investigate the Minimoys' condition, Arthur and Max rescue Betameche, who leads Arthur to the King. He then learns that Selenia is held by Maltazard, who is inspired to invade the human world by increasing his own size. Maltazard tricks the Minimoys into completing his design. The telescope itself is destroyed in the process, leaving Arthur trapped at his Minimoy size, while Maltazard is free to roam the world.


CAST

  • Freddie Highmore as Arthur Montgomery
  • Selena Gomez as Princess Selenia. Gomez replaced fellow pop singer Madonna, who voiced the character in the original. The character was dubbed by French singer Mylène Farmer in the French version
  • Mia Farrow as Daisy Suchot
  • Lou Reed as Maltazard. Reed replaced fellow rock singer David Bowie, who voiced the character in the original.
  • Doug Rand as Prince Betameche. Rand replaced the Tonight Show’s Jimmy Fallon, who voiced the character in the original.


  • Ron Crawford as Archibald Suchot
  • Robert Stanton as Armand Montgomery
  • Penelope Ann Balfour as Rose Suchot- Montgomery
  • Jean Betote Njamba as Bogo Chief
  • Bogos:
    • Valery Koko Kingue
    • Abdou Djire
    • Bienvenu Kindoki
    • Laurent Mendy
    • Ibrahima Traore
    • Aba Koita


  • David Gasman as Mechanic
  • Alan Fairbanks as Pump Attendant
  • Logan Miller as Jake
  • Snoop Dogg as Max
  • will.i.am as Snow
  • Fergie as Replay
  • David Gasman as King/Bogo Chief
  • Leslie Clack as Ferryman
  • Alan Wenger as Mono Cyclop/DaVinci
  • Barbara Weber Scaff as Miss Perlanapple
  • Jerry di Giacomo as Proscuitto/Guard
  • Paul Bandey as Miro/Unicorn Chief

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Tidal Wave (2009) BluRay



A woman named Yeon-hee (Ha Ji-won) lives in Busan with her boyfriend Man-sik (Sol Kyung-gu) near Haeundae Beach. But, when they find out a tsunami will hit the city, They realize they only have 10 minutes to escape!

Professor Kim, a marine geologist, recognizes the impending danger of a mega tsunami headed straight for Haeundae, a popular vacation spot on the south coast of Korea. He desperately attempts to warn authorities and alert the unknowing vacationers of the 500 MPH destructive force of nature headed their direction.

Tidal Wave (Korean: 해운대; RR: Haeundae) is a 2009 South Korean disaster film directed by Yoon Je-kyoon and starring Sol Kyung-gu, Ha Ji-won, Park Joong-hoon and Uhm Jung-hwa. Billed as South Korea's first disaster film,[1] the film released theatrically on 22 July 2009 and received more than 11 million admissions nationwide.

SYNOPSIS TIDAL WAVE

Located on the southeastern tip of the Korean Peninsula, the Haeundae district of Busan draws one million visitors to its beaches every year. The film follows the stories of many characters who all get caught up in a terrible tsunami in which they must make life-or-death decisions.

Five years ago, Man-sik, a Haeundae local, lost Yeon-hee's father due to his mistake in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. Because of this, he could not become involved with Yeon-hee, who runs an unlicensed seafood restaurant, despite her attempts to start a relationship.


Dong-choon and Seung-hyun's grandma team up with Seung-hyun and get involved with some illegal activity to earn money, but end up getting caught by the police. Man-sik finally plans to propose to Yeon-hee.

Geologist Kim Hwi runs into his divorced wife, Yoo-jin. Although Yoo-jin has a daughter named Ji-min and a new boyfriend Hae-chan, they decide not to tell their daughter that Hwi is her real father as they are worried how she might react.

A wealthy college student from Seoul, Hee-mi, accidentally falls into the sea from a yacht. Hyeong-sik, Man-sik's younger brother, is a lifeguard who rescues Hee-mi. Hee-mi becomes angered by the 'violent' rescue and annoys him by following him around and the two begin to fall in love.


Hwi notices that the Sea of Japan (East Sea) is displaying similar activity to the Indian Ocean at the time of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. The Disaster Prevention Agency assures him that South Korea is at no risk, but a large megatsunami forms because of a landslide near Japan and starts to travel towards Haeundae. Hwi realizes that the citizens of Haeundae have only 10 minutes to escape. There is a short earthquake (a little aftershock) at Haeundae. The sea starts receding from the shore, causing mass hysteria as people realize that a tsunami is coming. Thousands of people run for their lives, but the tsunami reaches Haeundae. Dong-choon, Seung-hyun, his grandma, and other people on the Gwangan Bridge are swept away by the sea. A telephone pole collapses, electrocuting everyone in the water, but Man-sik and Yeon-hee survive. Dong-choon awakens on the bridge, but when he tries and fails to light a cigarette, and subsequently discards the lighter out of frustration, it falls into petrol leaking from a tanker, causing an explosion that severs the bridge in half and sends shipping containers flying into buildings on the shore.


Hyeong-sik jumps down from a rescue helicopter and saves Hee-mi in the sea. When Hyeong-sik and the rest of the group are together on the rope, Hyeong-sik realizes that the rope is about to break and only one can go up to the helicopter. He cuts the rope he is connected to and falls into the violent sea. The elevator Yoo-jin is trapped in floods with water, and she talks in tears to her daughter Ji-min on her phone. Yoo-jin is saved by a worker. On the roof, she meets Ji-min and Hwi. The two help their daughter get on a crowded rescue helicopter. Before the helicopter leaves, Hwi tells his daughter that he is really her father. Yoo-jin and Hwi hug each other before they are killed by another megatsunami.

After the tsunami, there is a funeral for the thousands of people who were killed. Among the dead is Hyeong-sik and Man-sik's uncle. Dong-choon finds out that his mother died as well and breaks into tears. Many people help reconstruct the city. Man-sik, while cleaning the ruins of Yeon-hee's restaurant, finds the red ribbon which Yeon-hee said was a 'yes' to his proposal. The movie ends with a scene of Haeundae in ruins, but in a hopeful atmosphere.


CAST

  • Sol Kyung-gu as Man-sik
  • Ha Ji-won as Yeon-hee
  • Park Joong-hoon as Kim-hwi
  • Uhm Jung-hwa as Yoo-jin
  • Yeo Ho-min as Joon-ha
  • Kim Yoo-bin as Jin-soo
  • Kim Jeong-woon as Hyeong-cheol
  • Lee Min-ki as Hyung-sik
  • Kang Ye-won as Hi-mi
  • Son Chae-bin as Eun-so


  • Lee Si-on as Gong-joo
  • Song jae-ho as Eok-jo
  • Byeong-Suk Seong as Dong-choon's mother
  • Kim In-kwon as Dong-choon
  • Kim Yoo-jung as Ji-min
  • Chun Bo-geun as Seung-hyun
  • Seong Yoo-kyeong as You-kyung
  • Kim In-gyoo as You-kyung's dad
  • Hwang In-joon as You-kyung's dad
  • Tae In-ho
  • Song Jae-ho
  • Kim Ji-yeong as Geum-ryeon

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Triangle (2009) BluRay



Yacht passengers encounter mysterious weather conditions that force them to jump onto another ship, only to have the odd havoc increase.

Triangle is a 2009 psychological horror film written and directed by Christopher Smith and starring Melissa George and Michael Dorman. The film was released in the United Kingdom on 16 October 2009. George portrays a single mother who goes on a boating trip with several friends. When they are forced to abandon their ship, they board a derelict ocean liner, where they become convinced that someone is stalking them.






SYNOPSIS TRIANGLE

While preparing to take Tommy, her autistic son, on a boat trip with her friend Greg, Jess hears the doorbell ring, but no one is there. She arrives at a harbour in Florida without Tommy, explaining that he is at his special needs school, and boards Greg's boat. She meets his married friends Sally and Downey, Sally's friend Heather, and Victor, a runaway teen living with Greg. While out at sea, a storm approaches, and they pick up a distress signal while radioing the coast guard. The storm capsizes the boat, during which Heather is swept out into the water. The others climb onto the overturned boat when the storm clears.


They board an ocean liner as it passes; it appears to be deserted yet there is fresh food in the dining room. Jess experiences a growing sense of déjà vu as they explore. They find Jess's keys near a display case for Aeolus, the ship's namesake. Jess spots someone watching them and Victor gives chase. She and Greg find "Go To Theater" written in blood on a mirror. She returns to the dining room, where the food is now rotting. Victor, covered in blood, tries to kill Jess; she fights him off. She hears gunfire and follows it to a theater, where Greg lies dead of a gunshot. Sally and Downey say that Greg told them Jess shot him. A burlap-masked shooter kills them and chases Jess; she disarms the shooter, who tells her "You have to kill them; it's the only way to get home" before falling overboard.




She hears yelling and sees herself and the others alive on Greg's boat. After they board, Jess becomes the earlier unseen figure: she drops her keys near the display case, is spotted, and attempts to warn Victor when he chases her, only to accidentally impale his head on a wall hook. She finds dozens of duplicates of the shooter's outfit, shotgun, her own locket, and a note saying to kill them all when they board. She takes a shotgun, intending to "change the pattern", but the shooter, another Jess, kills Greg and Downey before mortally wounding Sally.


The first Jess chases Sally, who sends the distress signal heard on Greg's boat. Jess catches up to her on a deck filled with dozens of Sally corpses, and Sally succumbs to her wound as, below them, the newest Jess kills the shooter Jess. The overturned boat returns again, and Jess realises the loop restarts once everyone is killed. Desperate to stop the loop, Jess sets everything from the first loop into motion, with herself as the shooter. After she is disarmed during the fight on the front deck, she urges her counterpart to kill everyone, and falls overboard.




She awakens washed ashore and discovers that it is the same morning. She returns home and watches from outside her house as her double abuses Tommy out of anger toward his autism. Promising to change, she distracts her counterpart with the doorbell, then kills her, puts the bagged body in the car trunk, and leaves with Tommy. A gull hits their windscreen and dies, but when she picks it up and disposes of it, she sees a pile of dead gulls. Realising that she is still trapped in the loop, Jess hurriedly drives away, but crashes into a truck and Tommy is killed and the earlier double (whom Jess killed) is seen dead at the scene. In the aftermath, the real Jess stands watching the accident scene. A taxi driver approaches and she accepts a ride to the harbour. After promising to return, she joins the others on Greg's boat, starting the loop again.

CAST

  • Melissa George as Jess
  • Michael Dorman as Greg
  • Rachael Carpani as Sally
  • Henry Nixon as Downey
  • Emma Lung as Heather
  • Liam Hemsworth as Victor
  • Joshua McIvor as Tommy
  • Bryan Probets as Cab Driver

Monday, November 15, 2021

Last Ride (2009) BluRay



A young boy travels across Australia with his father, who's wanted by the law for committing a violent crime.

Last Ride is a 2009 Australian drama film directed by Glendyn Ivin. It is based on the novel The Last Ride by Denise Young. The film follows a young boy (Tom Russell) accompanying his father (Hugo Weaving), who is wanted by the police, across Australia.

SYNOPSIS LAST RIDE

A father and his young son flee from the law across the limitless Outback of Australia, and their doomed journey achieves a sad magnificence in "Last Ride." Only gradually do we learn the reason for their flight. The father has a deep love for his boy, but he is a damaged man with a violent nature, and in the course of this great film, the son becomes capable of reaching hard conclusions and acting on them.

Before I tell you anything else, I want to describe one heartbreaking scene. There is a vast flat salt lake in Australia, Lake Gairdner. When it is dry, they hold speed trials there. In some seasons, it lies beneath a thin sheen of water. Kev and his son Chook, driving a stolen SUV, set out across it, and the visual effect is bewildering: There has been no explanation, and the car seems to be driving on water. The lake is miles across, and the SUV is the only thing moving toward the horizon.


Chook (Tom Russell) has been along on this trip for days, as they travel sometimes on foot, sometimes in stolen vehicles, sometimes eating canned beans, sometimes rabbits that they shoot. Most nights, they sleep by a campfire under the stars. Kev (Hugo Weaving) steals money where he can, and when he ties up a woman who has been kind to Chook, the boy's eyes appeal to her for forgiveness.




His father won't tell him what happened to cause them to flee, but in flashbacks, we see the boy's fragmented memories as he tries to piece it together. Sometimes his father strikes and frightens him. As they drive on the lake, Chook tells Kev, "You ain't a proper dad!" Kev stops the car, and they fight. He throws his son out of the car and drives away. Soon the boy is alone, a moving speck on a shimmering mirror. He walks on defiantly, but finally halts and hunches down and begins to sob.


If "Last Ride" were made of scenes like this, it would be a bleak experience. It is not. A scene like this is balanced by a night when he rests in his father's arms and is told how to find the stars of "The Seven Sisters," the Pleiades. "Black fellas reckon one of them came down to earth," his dad says. The day before, while staying in a national park, they'd been warned by an aboriginal ranger that camping was forbidden there. But Kev tells the ranger he was trying to give his boy some experience in the bush, and that's good enough for the ranger.




Their odyssey has taken them through towns and down back roads and off-road. They have visited Maryanne (Anita Hegh), an old girlfriend of his dad's, who warned them they couldn't stay but let them rest for one night. Chook and her dog made close friends. Then they had to move on. Walking in a dusty, empty town, they came across the "Afghan Heritage Museum," a small house with a porch holding Afghan costumes and carvings. Here Chook was able to sleep secretly for a night. On another night, the boy shoplifted some sparklers from a gas station, and the father and son played with them on a small skateboard deck.


CAST

  • Hugo Weaving as Kev
  • Tom Russell as Chook
  • Kelton Pell as Lyle
  • Anita Hegh as Maryanne

Sunday, November 14, 2021

Inglourious Basterds (2009) BluRay



In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.


SYNOPSIS INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

In 1941, SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa interrogates French farmer Perrier LaPadite as to the whereabouts of a Jewish family, the Dreyfuses. Landa suspects the Dreyfuses are hiding under their floorboards and, in exchange for the Nazis not murdering his family, LaPadite tearfully confirms it. The soldiers shoot through the floorboards, killing all but one of the Dreyfuses; Shosanna, a daughter, escapes.

Three years later, Lieutenant Aldo Raine recruits Jewish-American soldiers to the Basterds, a commando unit formed to instill fear among Nazis by killing and scalping them. They include Sergeant Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz, Sergeant Hugo Stiglitz, a rogue German soldier, and Corporal Wilhelm Wicki, the group's translator. In Germany, Adolf Hitler interviews German soldier, Private Butz, the only survivor of a Basterd attack, who reveals that Raine carved a swastika into Butz's forehead.

Shosanna Dreyfus is living in Paris, operating a cinema under the name Emmanuelle Mimieux. She meets Fredrick Zoller, a German sniper famed for killing 250 Allied soldiers in a battle. Zoller stars in a Nazi propaganda film, Stolz der Nation (Nation's Pride). Infatuated with Shosanna, Zoller convinces Joseph Goebbels to hold the premiere at her cinema. Landa, the head of security for the premiere, interrogates Shosanna. Shosanna plots with her Afro-French lover and projectionist, Marcel, to set the cinema ablaze during the premiere, killing the Nazi leaders in attendance.




CAST

  • Brad Pitt as Lieutenant Aldo "The Apache" Raine, the battle hardened commanding officer of the Basterds.
  • Mélanie Laurent as Shosanna Dreyfus / Emmanuelle Mimieux, a young Jewish cinema owner whose family was executed by Landa.
  • Christoph Waltz as Standartenführer Hans "The Jew Hunter" Landa, a ruthless SS officer.
  • Eli Roth as Sergeant Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz, a brooding member of the Basterds who executes Nazis with his baseball bat.
  • Michael Fassbender as Lieutenant Archie Hicox, a British commando and former film critic who assists the Basterds on their mission in France.
  • Diane Kruger as Bridget Von Hammersmark, a German film star turned spy for the Allies.
  • Daniel Brühl as Fredrick Zoller, a German army soldier whose story is made into a propaganda film.
  • Til Schweiger as Sergeant Hugo Stiglitz, a former German army soldier who murdered numerous Gestapo officers and is recruited by the Basterds.
  • Gedeon Burkhard as Wilhelm Wicki, the translator and Austrian born member of the Basterds unit.
  • Jacky Ido as Marcel
  • B. J. Novak as Smithson "The Little Man" Utivich, member of the Basterds unit.
  • Omar Doom as Omar Ulmer, member of the Basterds unit.
  • Samm Levine as Gerald Hirschberg, member of the Basterds unit.
  • August Diehl as Sturmbannführer Dieter Hellstrom
  • Denis Ménochet as Perrier LaPadite
  • Sylvester Groth as Joseph Goebbels
  • Martin Wuttke as Adolf Hitler
  • Mike Myers as General Ed Fenech
  • Julie Dreyfus as Francesca Mondino
  • Richard Sammel as Sergeant Werner Rachtman
  • Alexander Fehling as Sergeant Wilhelm
  • Rod Taylor as Winston Churchill
  • Sönke Möhring as Butz and Walter Frazer
  • Paul Rust as Andy Kagan, member of the Basterds unit.
  • Michael Bacall as Michael Zimmerman, member of the Basterds unit.
  • Carlos Fidle as Simon Sakowitz, member of the Basterds unit.
  • Ken Duken as "Mata Hari" soldier
  • Christian Berkel as Eric
  • Anne-Sophie Franck as Mathilda
  • Léa Seydoux as Charlotte LaPadite
  • Tina Rodriguez as Julie LaPadite
  • Lena Friedrich as Suzanne LaPadite
  • Jana Pallaske as Babette
  • Rainer Bock as General Schonherr, member of the Nazi high military command.
  • Michael Scheel as General Frank, member of the Nazi high military command.
  • Buddy Joe Hooker as Gaspar
  • Christian Brückner as Kliest
  • Hilmar Eichhorn [de] as Emil Jannings
  • Patrick Elias [de] as Jakob Dreyfus
  • Eva Löbau as Miriam Dreyfus
  • Salvadore Brandt as Bob Dreyfus
  • Jasper Linnewedel as Amos Dreyfus
  • Bo Svenson as an American Colonel in Nation's Pride
  • Enzo G. Castellari as a Nazi General at the Nation's Pride premiere (credited as "himself")
  • Samuel L. Jackson (uncredited) as the narrator
  • Harvey Keitel (uncredited) as the voice of the OSS Commander
  • Bela B. (uncredited) as an usher
  • Quentin Tarantino (uncredited) as an American soldier in Nation's Pride and a scalped Nazi.

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Up (2009) HD



Up is a 2009 American computer-animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film centers on an elderly widower named Carl Fredricksen (Ed Asner) and an earnest boy named Russell (Jordan Nagai); by tying thousands of balloons to his house, Carl sets out to fulfill his dream to see the wilds of South America and complete a promise made to his late wife, Ellie. The film was directed by Pete Docter and co-directed by Bob Peterson, who also wrote the film's screenplay with Docter, as well as the story with Tom McCarthy. The music was composed by Michael Giacchino, who had also composed music for The Incredibles and Ratatouille.

Originally titled Heliums, Docter conceived the outline for Up in 2004 based on fantasies of escaping from life when it becomes too irritating. He and eleven other Pixar artists spent three days in Venezuela gathering research and inspiration. The designs of the characters were caricatured and stylized considerably, and animators were challenged with creating realistic cloth. It was Pixar's first film to be presented in Disney Digital 3-D.

Up debuted at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival on May 13, 2009, and was released in theaters in the United States on May 29. It was well received by the media for its characters, themes, narrative, Asner's vocal performance, and Giacchino's score, as was the montage of Carl and his wife Ellie growing old together. Organizations like the National Board of Review and American Film Institute named Up as one of the top 10 films of 2009. It earned $735.1 million worldwide, and became the sixth highest-grossing film of 2009. Up earned five nominations at the 82nd Academy Awards, winning two for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score, and also received numerous accolades.

SYNOPSIS UP

Carl Fredricksen idolizes explorer Charles Muntz. When accused of fabricating the skeleton of a giant bird he brought back from Paradise Falls in South America, Muntz leaves, and vows not to return until he has captured one alive. Carl meets a girl named Ellie, also a Muntz fan, who confides her desire to move her "clubhouse"—an abandoned house in the neighborhood—to a cliff overlooking Paradise Falls. The two later marry and live in the restored house, and Carl works as a balloon salesman. Suffering a miscarriage and unable to have children, they decide to save up to go to Paradise Falls, but are constantly forced to spend their savings on more urgent needs. Now elderly, Carl finally arranges for the trip, but Ellie falls ill and dies.


Years later, Carl, now retired, stubbornly holds out in the house while the neighborhood around him is replaced by skyscrapers. When Carl accidentally strikes a construction worker during a mishap, the court deems him a public menace and requires him to move to an assisted living facility. However, Carl resolves to keep his promise to Ellie to go to Paradise Falls, turning his house into a makeshift airship using thousands of helium balloons and flying away. Russell, a young "Wilderness Explorer" who visits Carl in an effort to earn his final merit badge for assisting the elderly, becomes an accidental stowaway. Before Carl can land and send Russell home, they encounter a storm which drives them all the way to South America.


The house lands on a table-top mountain (mesa or tepui) opposite Paradise Falls. Carl and Russell harness themselves to the still-buoyant house and begin to walk it across the plateau, hoping to reach the falls before the balloons deflate. Russell encounters a giant, colorful flightless bird, whom he names "Kevin". They then meet a Golden Retriever named Dug, who wears a special collar that allows him to speak and who vows to take the bird to his master. The next day, they encounter a pack of aggressive dogs led by Alpha, a Doberman Pinscher, and are taken to their master, who turns out to be an elderly Muntz. He invites Carl and Russell aboard his dirigible, where he explains that he is still searching for his giant bird. When Russell notices the skeleton's resemblance to Kevin, Muntz becomes hostile, believing they are attempting to capture the bird themselves.


Carl, Russell and Dug flee, and are pursued by the dogs. Kevin saves them, injuring her leg in the process. Carl agrees to help her get home, but just as Kevin is ready to reunite with her chicks, Muntz captures her and starts a fire beneath Carl's house, forcing him to choose between saving it or Kevin. Carl saves the house and eventually reaches the falls, but Russell is upset at Carl for abandoning Kevin. Carl looks through Ellie's childhood scrapbook and is surprised to find that she has filled in the blank pages with photos of their marriage, along with a note written from her hospital bed, thanking him for the "adventure" and encouraging him to have a new one.


Reinvigorated, Carl goes outside, only to see Russell flying away, using some balloons and a leaf blower, to rescue Kevin. Carl throws out his furniture and keepsakes, lightening the house enough to follow. Muntz captures Russell, but Carl and Dug board the dirigible and free both Russell and Kevin. Muntz pursues them to Carl's house, but they escape by jumping back to the airship, while Muntz gets caught on some balloon lines and falls to the ground. The house, having lost too many balloons, descends out of sight through the clouds.


Carl and Russell reunite Kevin with her chicks and fly the dirigible back home, taking all of Muntz's dogs with them. Russell receives his "Assisting the Elderly" badge, and Carl presents Russell with a grape soda bottle cap that Ellie gave to Carl when they first met, which he now dubs "The Ellie Badge". Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Carl, his house has landed on the cliff beside Paradise Falls, fulfilling his promise to Ellie.

CAST

  • Ed Asner as Carl Fredricksen
  • Christopher Plummer as Charles Muntz
  • Jordan Nagai as Russell
  • Bob Peterson as Dug


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