“The Fifth Elementopens in 1914, deep in an Egyptian temple.
Suddenly, a spacecraft descends, and massive, otherworldly beings known as Mondoshawans emerge.
Blade Runner K (Ryan Gosling) arrives at a protein farm in this bleak wasteland.
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His mission is to retire an older model replicant named Sapper Morton (Dave Bautista).
The scene is quirky and demonstratesRobert Zemeckis’s terrific visual storytelling.
(For example, we get a glimpse of the stolen plutonium under Doc’s bed.)
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He also effectively uses music to set the tone and keep the viewer hooked.
“Moonis yet another example of economical exposition.
Rockwell’s performance is fantastic.
He quickly reveals a lot about Sam’s personality and sense of humor.
More than that, the viewer can immediately sensethe toll that his lonely existence is takingon him.
The opening sequence ofDistrict 9features perhaps the most entertaining exposition in all of sci-fi cinema.
There are shots of riots, crime, alien weapons, and inter-species strife.
I can feel you now.
“The Matrixbegins with an enigmatic, adrenaline-pumping scene.
With superhuman agility and strength, she defeats the officers in a breathtaking fight sequence and escapes.
It’s stellar filmmaking.
“The Thingopens with a stunning aerial shot of the icy, desolate Antarctic landscape.
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The dog is taken in by the American team, unaware of the horrific threat it harbors.
The sequence is well-shot and deeply mysterious, raising all sorts of questions for the viewer.
It’s a great opening for a masterful film that sets the tone and puts the plot in motion.
Young Blade Runner K’s discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former Blade Runner Rick Deckard, who’s been missing for thirty years.
This isJohn Carpenter’s storytelling at its very best;The Thingwould eventually be recognized asa sci-fi classic.
The alien buried in ice is actually alive and has the ability to imitate human form.
The group must find a way to distinguish who the real person is from The Thing and stay alive.
“Aliensdoubles down on the action of the first film, with more guns and way more aliens.
This is followed by a brutal nightmare sequence where she imagines a chest-burster writhing beneath her rib cage.
The setting is shadowy and decidedly creepy, reminding the viewer of the franchise’s horror influences.
The sequence quickly reintroduces the audience to the three main characters, while also being fun and pulse-pounding.
It’s fast-paced too, quickly moving all the pieces into place for the film’s first act.
It all works and is a reminder thatEmpire Strikes Backis the strongest of the three original movies.
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Dave, my mind is going.
I can feel it.”
We see primitive hominids struggling for survival in a barren landscape.
Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.
The scene culminates in the famous match-cut to a futuristic spaceship, illustrating humanity’s technological evolution.
It was undeniably ambitious and could easily have flopped, butStanleyKubrickpulls it off.
Even the hominid suits manage to come across as believable.
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Violence ensues after an extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth finds a kindred spirit in a government agent exposed to their biotechnology.
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When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth–the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
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A team of researchers set out to study an alien spacecraft found in Antarctica, where they also discover an alien body on the site. The alien buried in ice is actually alive and has the ability to imitate human form. The group must find a way to distinguish who the real person is from The Thing and stay alive. John Carpenter’s 1982 film is a remake of 1951’s The Thing from Another World and stars Kurt Russel as the hero RJ MacReady.
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Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.
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After the Rebels are overpowered by the Empire, Luke Skywalker begins his Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued across the galaxy by Darth Vader and bounty hunter Boba Fett.
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After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.
