By Joshua Tyler
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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
We are launching this exploration of neglected science fiction with, in an appropriate way, a film marketed almost entirely with giant robots, Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow.
He begins with these giant robots attacking in 1939 New York and the story follows Sky Captain, played by Jude Law, while heading a team of Ace hot shots to investigate the disappearance of a scientist who disappeared in the retro-filure world of the film.
It is strongly stylized, too stylized for the public of the time, but it is also part of its charm. It goes a little too much above CGI and the use of flexible focus objectives, but Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow is a fun and family science fiction film that fits comfortably in a double feature film on Sunday afternoon with a classic past Disney efforts like Swiss family Robinson.
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
These days if Ashton Kutcher We remember at all, it’s like a tabloid personality, but in 2004, he seemed to become a large box office draw. And his best film is, without a doubt, The butterfly effect.
He plays a student who experiences Panus breakdowns during periods of extreme stress.
A psychologist recommends starting to hold a detailed newspaper of his life, to help him manage his inexplicable memory loss.
Years later, Evan begins to reread his newspapers, in the hope of losing these old memories which remained hidden from him. It is then that he discovers that by doing this, he can travel in time towards focal points of his life and potentially change them.
The butterfly effect Use the dark story of his main character as a jump point to build an entire life, and does a fantastic job to show how disgusting changes can have for you and the others.
It is one of the best time travel films in recent decades and it never gets respect.
The island (2005)
When it was released in 2005, The island was ransacked, above all, because it was a film by Michael Bay. And while the film suffers from some of the usual excess of Bay, it is more limited and well structured than the transformative style messages for which it is the best known.
Ewan McGregor Plays Lincoln Six Echo, of which we tell ourselves is one of the rare human survivors remaining in a kind of global holocaust.
His best friend is Jordan Two Delta, played by Scarlett Johansson, a woman whom he cannot touch due to highly applied proximity restrictions.
The island Tells us from the start that the naive world of Lincoln Six Echo is a total lie, the pleasure is to look at him to discover it, and to escape from it. He quickly became a wild and energetic hunting film in the future that is somewhere around 2050.
Enter limited expectations and expect to spend time watching Michael Bay explodes things up to a sufficiently solid science fiction plot. When it comes to pleasure, The island Delivered.
V for Vendetta (2006)
V for Vendetta is an idea. A subversive, uncompromising, sometimes naive idea.
Based on the series of homosexual comics written in 1982 by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, V for Vendetta tells the story of a England close to the future led by an oppressive government and a man, known only under the name of V (Hugo Weaving), who maintains to destroy it.
The Wachowski brothers’ script is an absolutely faithful adaptation of its source equipment, just changed enough to update it and translate it correctly on the screen.
Hugo Weaving is incredible like V, acting under a steep and somewhat silly mask that completely covers his face, his eyes or everything he could use to transmit the slightest emotion. However, V is the most passionate and most passionate character in the film.
But it is Evey de Natalie Portman who becomes the real heart of the film. V is an unstoppable force; Evey is a real person, taken in his fatal rebellion.
V is called an idea, and by weaving the playing him, it is indeed a very powerful idea.
La Fontaine (2006)
Some films bombard because they are bad, others because they are badly announced. The fountain failed because he flew over the head of the public.
Too intelligent for popcorn in search of pleasure researchers, author director Darren Aronofsky turned out to be a matter of love or hate. Critics praised him as one of the greatest films of all time, either confused and unable to treat what they had watched.
The fountain then opened on Thanksgiving in 2006 against overwhelming competition as Casino Royale And Happy Feet. He was sentenced from the start.
The film is intentionally obtuse, and part of his genius is that each person who sees him will take something different from it.
My interpretation is that it takes place both in the past, the present and the future at the same time. He follows a man, played by Hugh Jackmanwho finds the secret of immortality and maintains to resuscitate his wife.
But it’s just my interpretation. There are others. You will have yours. Watch The fountain And share it with us.
KNOW (2009)
Awareness was not a box-office flop, although you never know the way the film remembered now.
The 2009 film with Nic Cage as a MIT teacher who discovers a mysterious list of figures buried in a time capsule.
The figures precisely predict each major disaster in the past 50 years and indicate future catastrophic events. While Koestler rushes to stop imminent fate, he discovers a deeper, perhaps supernatural or stranger Explanation linked to the fate of humanity.
He has received mixed criticism, and this reaction has approximately ended the career of completion of big budget superproductions of Alex Proyas, a filmmaker previously announced as a science fiction genius for his work on films like The crow And Dark city.
Of all his films, Proyas had the most control AwarenessThis may be why his lukewarm reception has damaged his career so considerably. His genius shines in the final product, and Awareness is much better than what he remembers, which is worth disseminating if you have not given a chance.
Men’s children (2006)
Freshly out of Harry Potter’s third film, filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron received praise for criticism for his 2006 science fiction film Men’s childrenBut the film had only very modest results at the box office and it has since disappeared from the conversation.
It took place at the beginning of the 21st century, an era when women stopped having babies. It essentially describes our real and current future if the modern birth rate continues to fall.
As is the case now, no one knows why; They just stopped. It is now 2027, science is powerless, governments are in ruins and society has dissolved in complete anarchy.
The suddenly entirely infertile human race will extend in the next seventy or seventy years.
Cuaron’s film takes a depressed and dark tone from the start. The human race has no hope, and humanity embarks on the streets engaged in the field of daily life knowing that everything will soon be dust.
Clive Owen plays a living man with hope or direction, simply passing the movements while humanity ends. This changes when he comes across a pregnant woman and finds himself on the run, trying to protect her while governments and terrorists pursue them.
Despite this, Cuaron refuses to let it be transformed into a new post-apocalyptic recovery of The fugitive. Instead, the film is more interested in exploring the consequences of a future in which man is made, and conversely, the Hope effect can have on despair.
