Amerigo
21-12-2003, 05:05
Here's the scoop, the nominations are in, for best picture, in the Amerigan International Movie Awards. However we need to cut down the nominations to 5... Vote for the movies you like best below... Five movies with the least votes are cut from the nominations list. Since there are not enough poll options for all movies, please vote via post.
Here are the nominees so far, please vote for 5 of your favorites.
Detailed descriptions of the movies are at the end of this post.
Best Picture:
===Dream Within (6 votes)
=== Lyong-ti (5 votes)
===Revenge of the Killer Sopranos (0 votes)
===Nuke the Cops! (3 votes)
===Cathletics (4 votes)
===Johnnie DeMarko (3 votes)
===Citizen Spam (4 votes)
===Fight Song (3 votes)
===The Ninth Arm (6 votes)
===When Harry Met Himself (4 votes)
Arranged by order of release:
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Title: When Harry met Himself
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Summary: Harry finds spiritual enlightenment by looking deep within and renouncing all worldly possesions. Hilarity insues, especially when he attempts to enlighten a fried chicken leg.
Cast: Ezekiel Farley as "Harry," renowned for his protrayal of His Most Enlightened One in "Honey, I Baptized the Kids." Extremely popular.
Hannah Barbera as "Judith: Harry's Ex," an up-and-coming actress looking to prove something. Virtually unknown, but highly respected by those who do know her.
Budget: 15 million blows to the head in total, a fair amount for a movie this size.
Producers: Produced by Cheese Studios. Best known for its series of educational tapes on Enlightenment, hosted by the Hand of HMEO
Director: Charles Ferdianand III. Directed the hugely popular "A Storm of Sushi." Widely in demand.
Running Time: Ah, but it depends on how much the audience takes away from the movie, does it not?
Hype: "The best movie this year!"- The Arctic Times, Jan 1st 2003
"Ezekiel shines! No, literally, he does!"- The New Arctic Times
"Two protuding digits up!"- The New New Arctic Times
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Movie Title: The Dream Within
Movie Genre: Action/Drama/Horror/Sci Fi/Fantasy
Movie Plot Summary:
In humanity, there are a few random members of society who have access to a new "world" all together when they go to sleep at night. They inhabit this world, and when they fall asleep in it, they awaken in the real world. However, when an evil man (Sid Kusky) discovers a way to force himself into the Realm, he begins killing people there. These murders have a horrifying result - Anyone killed in the "dream world" dies in real life as well. After his girlfriend (Anette Boosalis) mysteriously dies, a young police officer (Star - Dagr Ateunde) pays a visit to his grandmother (Alia Oleveda) who used to talk of such a place when he was younger. She tells him what she knows, but mysteriously dies the same way the next morning. Enraged, he enlists the help of an ageless physic (Trinity Cambronne) who transports him to and from the dream realm while watching over his body. In the dream world, he meets up with a girl from a far away place (Macie Hammet) who is after the same things he is, answers and vengeance. Eventually they learn that not only has the evil man been killing people in the dream world, he has been turning them into his army of dreams, attacking people from the real world in their minds with them. With the help of another freedom fighter (Leif Gadalavarov), he and the girl fight the army of dreams, but the third member of their group betrays them in real life. The evil man, who turns out to be the police chief, slaughters the physic as well as the hero's phyiscal body in the real world. With time running out, the hero kills the traitor and then makes his way towards the evil man, and in a huge climatic battle, he kills the evil man while avoiding temptation to give in to the army of darkness and kill the girl instead. Relieved, he accepts his fate in the dream world, shaping it however he likes it, but the girl says she must leave. Soon after, she returns with a horrified look on her face...the army of dreams has moved on to the real world...and left it in ruins!
Cast: Name - Popularity Level out of 20 - Brief Bio - Age
Dagr Ateunde - 19 - Popular Action star but does other intelligent movies - 25
Sid Kusky - 15 - Once the hottest thing around, he often plays a sophisticated older man - 58
Trinity Cambronne - 17 - An upcoming teen star, Trinity does a lot of horror - 18
Macie Hammet - 18 - A model turned singer turned actress, her looks are only rivaled by her abilities - 26
Alia Oleveda - 7 - Type-casted for always being the "best friend" in movies when she was younger, hasn't had a part in a while- 73
Anette Boosalis - 14 - A good blonde actress, although she often plays the "ditz" in her roles - 23
Leif Gadalavarov - 2 - In only his second movie, good looking Leif has quite a talent for action - 20
Budget*: 18.15 Million USD
Producer(s): Monarch Productions Limited
Special Effects: The visual effects of the army of dreams were all made my highly advanced holograms so that the actors could really interact with them. Many other special effects were used, but most are taken for granted in the Empire nowadays with the introduction of holographic novels.
Director
Rolf Balcos - Famous director with a list of works too long for any post. Him and his brother Liger Balcos are the most famous movie directors of the present time.
Running Time 3 hours
Rating/Content
Brief nudity - When the girl returns battered and bloody, her thong panties are showing along with her left nipple. For effect of course...
Strong Language - The hero, the evil man, and the traitor continuously spout off. Only 10 f---'s...but 45 others...
Strong Violence - The whole movie is violent, with murders and the war with the army of dreams
Gore - Blood is everywhere as well as guts, brains, and mutilitated humans. (Thing some Resident Evil, some Starship Troopers...different styles)
Sexual Content - The hero and the girl have sex, and while no crotch or anything is shown so that it wouldn't get a dreaded X rating, the implications are huge
Pervasive Language - Some jokes are made at the beginning but this fades as the plot becomes more serious
Disturbing Themes - disgusting murders, dream killings, dream zombies, real world-dream realm connections
Hype Labled as one of the best non-holographic interactive movies in the last decade. Non-holographic interactive movies are a dying art in Steel Butterfly.
Any Additional comments
Rating - R...nothing more...nothing less...
Although it may be pulled off shelves at some international places.
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Movie Title: Revenge of the Killer Sopranos
Movie Genre: B-movie spoof comedy
Movie Summary: A bunch of opera singers and Mariah Carey clones, angry at not getting their 50% pay rise and their Evian mineral water in the backstage area, take revenge by using their vocal 'talents' to wreak havoc on Las Vegas by breaking wine glasses and windows everywhere, with the police hot on their tail. Their chauffeurs are involved in the obligatory high-speed cop chases.
Budget: 31m kaks (US$14.7m)
Special effects: This is a B-movie spoof, therefore very few.
Director: Itasae Murritiko. A student of film studies and music at Farela University, she was a singer and pianist well-known in Kaze Progressa before her attempts to become popular in other nations foundered on the strength of support for Mariah-esque window-shattering singers. (Itasae was an alto reknowned in Kaze Progressa for her deep, sultry voice.) This is her directorial debut, a satirical attack on this dichtomy that higher is better.
Running Time: 74:23. Short and sweet, so more screenings for me.
Rating: G (no, not the highest note sung in the film, though not a bad guess. That would be F#.)
Hype: It's scary... even with your eyes closed.
Additional comments: Features different voices for the singing and the acting in all but one of the female leads - Kata Macaga, scarily-high lead singer for Monaa, also an actress.
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Movie Title*: Ninth Arm
Movie Genre*: Psychadelic Action/Romance
Movie Summary*: Defying rational description, Ninth Arm is an unusual film. Fast paced and revolving around two weddings, a trio of teenagers coming of age, the demolition of a major international conspiracy based out of Iesus Christi, neutralizing an alien invasion, blowing things up, flashback scenes from the Amerigan and Allanean Wars by a pair of veterans, and some psychadelic dream sequences and transitions garuanteed to leave the audience feeling stoned. One wedding involves a simple couple of man and woman, and the other regards the wedding of two men and five women in a traditional Tahar Joblissan group marriage. The background music features several of the most popular Tahar Joblissan groups of the day, and the soundtrack was carefully designed and integrated into the film brilliantly by artistic composing and directing genius Jan Wilhelm.
Cast: Nearly the entire membership of the Taharasopolissa Metropolitan Opera Company, the Taharasopolissa Grinlow Martial Arts Competitive Club, and the Taharasopolissa Shakespearean Productions Company were involved in the production, along with star martial arts demonstrator Ming Sun III, action heroine Mack Zahn, porn star Lovitt Blue, and some lesser known acting talent.
Producer(s): LensEye productions, a major theater organization in Tahar Joblis, and one of few regularly involved in collaborating with foreign film companies.
Special Effects: At times it is difficult to tell what was filmed straight up and what was edited in; the editing team of LensEye productions appears to have no life whatsoever, and their daring cameramen, crews, and cast were willing to take great risks with an apparently unlimited budget.
Director: Jan Wilhelm, an experienced director of traditional space opera films and music videos, now beginning to branch out into other genres.
Running Time: 110 minutes brief edition - full version, probably only released on DVD release in Amerigo after the theater run rather than in movie theaters, runs all the way out to 170 minutes of film. (In Tahar Joblissan theaters, the full version was shown with the addition of a ten minute intermission.)
Rating/Content Frequent nudity, mature sexual content, and frequent action-style violence - not particularly gruesome in nature, but definitively present - mark this as a film for mature audiences.
Hype:
"After the film, you will not want to leave your seat," said director and composer Jan Wilhelm. "Subliminal messages? What are you talking about? It's a work... of art. Unusual, mind-altering art, yes, but that's simply because it was well done."
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ovie Title*: Citizen Spam
Movie Genre*: Drama
Movie Summary*: Powerful canned meat product factory owner Charles Foster Spam was many things to many people, both in life and, as seen in retrospective here, in death.
Cast: Famous Spaamanian actor Worson Elles leads this all-star cast
Budget*: $E50 million, or about $US20 million
Producer(s): Hulky Productions
Director: Worson Elles also directs this movie, his most anticipated work yet.
Running Time: 119 minutes
Rating/Content: PG
Hype: Powerful canned meat product factory owner Charles Foster Spam was many things to many people, both in life and, as seen in retrospective here, in death. Worson Elles returns in the most anticipated film this year, in his directorial debut. See the all-star cast, and cinematography at its finest. Opening next weekend, in cinemas across NationStates.
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Movie Title: Fight Song
Movie Genre: Sports/Drama
Movie Summary: The Thunderbird A&T War Eagles came into the college american football season with a dead last ranking. But, driven by their coach's motivation, the dead last War Eagles manage, albeit with many close games, a perfect record, and a spot in the national championship, the Gallipoli Bowl. When they get there, they have to face the #1 ranked since the beginning of the season Northern Islands University Seawolves, and they go into double overtime in the game, to end up losing by one point.
Cast:
Character / Actor / Popularity Rating / Description / Age
Coach Keyes - William Dennis - 19/20 - Appeared in the latest blockbuster Foundation as Halifornius Tiberius, very popular actor in Kingsford - 51
Budget: $9.2 million USD
Producer: Mighty Rock Productions
Special Effects: None
Director: Mikas Tanner
Running Time: 2 hours 3 minutes
Rating/Content: PG-13
Language - The coach says the D word 6 times and the S word twice
Hype:
(commercial = buying 30 seconds of time)
(shot of coach rallying the team at half time in the locker room)
Coach Keyes:
You came from nowhere to somewhere in just 10 games. You overcame the critics and the scoffers. You overcame that! And now, we must overcome the Seawolves. Men, when you march back on the field, don't pay attention to the scoreboard. Don't be let down by it. And don't be let down by the fans either. Because, somewhere in that mess, somewhere is the band. And the band, against all the fans, against the score board, against the other team on the field, against everything around them, will play the fight song!
(players cheer, screen fades black. White lettering appears: )
William Dennis
(screen fades, white lettering appears: )
Fight Song
Coming Soon
Anything Else: Based on a true story
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Movie Title: Cathletics
Movie Genre: Computer animation comedy
Movie Summary (and cast): Lou (Jerizae Meritan) is a cute tabby cat - with attitude. After being abused by her owners Rallit (Weran Ovejin) and Arilae (Fentae Wizito), she is determined to show her strength of character and muscle by entering Kaze Progressa's Cathletics - the nationwide sports contest for cats. Aided and abetted by her friend, older Japanese bobtail Etti (Fentae Burzek), she seeks respect. Little does she know that her owners' dog - vicious Rottweiler Ratta (Brizkil Nurvaiy) - has hatched a plot to wreck the games, and has attracted gullible poodle Moof (Uria Rawilen) to help out...
Producers: K-Films
Director: Serina Buskinat. Has directed several cute animations already, this is her first international release.
Running time: 81:18.
Budget: 156m kaks (US$68m)
Rating: PG (mild violence and swearing)
Hype: (35 seconds of advertising required):
[Lou wandering around in her house]
Meet Lou. Seems like an ordinary tabby.
[Lou bursts into a sprint]
But she's faster...
[Lou lifts tiny dumb-bells with her paws]
...stronger...
[Lou jumps at Arilae's dress, scratching it]
...and angrier.
[Camera jumps to the home of the Cathletics, Quarua Island Furry Stadium. Cartoony music plays]
Where better to go for Lou?
[Music stops abruptly. Camera jumps to Ratta at the entrance, growling at Lou.]
Maybe quite a lot of places.
[Music starts again. Camera jumps back to Lou in training]
Starring Jerizae Meritan...
[Camera jumps to Etti helping Lou out]
...and Fentae Burzek...
[Title of film appears in shot of stadium]
Cathletics. Puffing and purring to a cinema near you.
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Movie Title: Johnnie DeMarko
Movie Genre: Dark Comedy/Drama/Fantasy/Romance/Sci-Fi/Thriller
Movie Summary: Some may think that Johnnie DeMarko is a typical maladjusted teenager. Actually, Johnnie is borderline delusional, beset by visions of a monstrous rabbit which is trying to keep him under its sinister influence. Prompted by this apparition, Johnnie commits antisocial acts while he is undergoing psychotherapy, surviving the vagaries of high-school life and romance, and fortuitously escaping a bizarre death from a falling jet engine. Johnnie battles his demons, literally and figuratively, in a series of intertwining story lines that play with time travel, fundamentalist gurus, fate, predestination and the machinations of the universe.
Cast:
Jeff Glennhale - Johnnie DeMarko
Marie Doss - Dr. Karen Thurman
Andrew Barry - Lillian Pomeroy
Pat Swaddle - Ken Cunningham
Noah Hopkins - Dr. Jim Monnitoff
Mary Malone - Rose Ross
Jenn McDonnell - Gretchen DeMarko
Shawn Sherlock - Rick DeMarko
Budget: $22,000,000 USD
Producer(s): Starlight Films. Produced the cult classic "Mansion of a Million Murders" as well as the musical "The Chong Song".
Special Effects: See Summary.
Director: Rob Bole, most succesful director Sliponia.
Running Time: 118 minutes
Rating/Content: Rated R for
Some Drug Use
Language
Violence
Hype:
"You Can Never Go To Far
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Movie Title: Lyong-ti
Movie Genre: Epic Action-Adventure
Movie Summary: Lyong-ti tells the story of the semi-mythic hero Lyong-ti, who rose from being the fifth son of a rice farmer to become ruler of a vast empire spanning the whole of the present-day Lyong Penninsula region. The movie follows Lyong-ti, through both his battles (filmed on a massive and spectacular scale), and his deep but ill-fated love, finally ending in an allusion to his ?ascension to Heaven? (according to traditional Spyran animism, Lyong-ti is said to have risen to become ruler of Heaven Depending on how seriously this scene is taken, and the religious background of the audience, this may cause some controversy).
Cast: Ieyaren Strain-Takai, Mei Furitaka, Venton Teshigawa. (The first two actors are young and talented, popular for at least one successful film each, though these films did not undergo international release. Teshigawa also has some fame, for his starring role in the drama film Red Falcon , and for his numerous stage roles as a Shakespearian actor.
Budget: 220 million dollars
Producers: Spyran Ministry of Knowledge (numerous propaganda, documentary, and cultural works); Spring Blossom Studios (Red Falcon, Ogawa, Hunt for Blue Dragon).
Special Effects: Due to the epic nature of the film, a large number of effects were used, including advanced pyrotechnics and maximum-realism CG effects, as well as a huge cast of extras employing intricately detailed costumes and props. Particularly notable is the high degree of realism in terms of blood and wounds in the large battle scenes.
Director: Takeshi Kaga (a talented director, very famous within Spyr, and holding some international fame for his work on such films as Ogawa and The Emperor?s Concubine.
Running Time: 205 minutes.
Rating/Content:
Violence
Language (to avoid difficulties with foul language, all profanities in the film, which occur several times, are given in the ancient language of Spyr. Thus, though their role is clear, their meaning is not.)
Mild Sexual Content
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Movie Title: Nuke the Cops!
Movie Genre: Action-adventure spoof
Movie Summary and cast: A freedom fighter from Jaurania known only as 'Escapa' (Nurak Turjill) arrives in Kaze Progressa. His aim is simple - to destroy as much of Kaza as he can. As the country's tough police zero in on him, he opts for desperate measures, and all hell breaks loose, culminating in a seven-minute chase between police cars, Escapa in a tank and his sidekick 'Stalina' (Runib Buntara) in a stolen police helicopter through Kaza, where cars are banned to civilians, forcing the chasers to use any route they can find around buildings...
Budget: 225m kaks (over $90m) - the most expensive film in Progressan history.
Producer: K-Films
Special Effects: 15m kaks were spent on explosions. Stalina's stunt double for the helicopter chase, Burlin Terail - a former air force pilot - is believed to be the first man in history to have executed a barrel roll in a helicopter, and he repeats this trick here.
Director: Gurzik Merilka. Director of several action flicks in Kaze Progressa, this is his first international release.
Running Time: 88 Minutes
Rating/Content: PG-13 (moderate language and violence)
Advertising: (25 seconds)
[Escapa spins aimlessly around a Kaza park in a stolen tank]
He's come to cause carnage...
[Escapa's tank slides into a tram, or so it seems. It just misses]
...but he wasn't even any good at that.
[Cop comes into scene, shoots guns at tank, barely scratches him. Escapa shoots tank gun at cop. Misses.]
Violence doesn't pay for the incompetent...
[Bomb from helicopter lands on copper]
...unless you... NUKE THE COPS!
[Ultra-fast techno-rock music plays as we watch a cop and Escapa run through Kaza's World Cup Hockey stadium, shooting and missing all the time]
The explosive action is coming to your cinema soon!
Here are the nominees so far, please vote for 5 of your favorites.
Detailed descriptions of the movies are at the end of this post.
Best Picture:
===Dream Within (6 votes)
=== Lyong-ti (5 votes)
===Revenge of the Killer Sopranos (0 votes)
===Nuke the Cops! (3 votes)
===Cathletics (4 votes)
===Johnnie DeMarko (3 votes)
===Citizen Spam (4 votes)
===Fight Song (3 votes)
===The Ninth Arm (6 votes)
===When Harry Met Himself (4 votes)
Arranged by order of release:
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Title: When Harry met Himself
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Summary: Harry finds spiritual enlightenment by looking deep within and renouncing all worldly possesions. Hilarity insues, especially when he attempts to enlighten a fried chicken leg.
Cast: Ezekiel Farley as "Harry," renowned for his protrayal of His Most Enlightened One in "Honey, I Baptized the Kids." Extremely popular.
Hannah Barbera as "Judith: Harry's Ex," an up-and-coming actress looking to prove something. Virtually unknown, but highly respected by those who do know her.
Budget: 15 million blows to the head in total, a fair amount for a movie this size.
Producers: Produced by Cheese Studios. Best known for its series of educational tapes on Enlightenment, hosted by the Hand of HMEO
Director: Charles Ferdianand III. Directed the hugely popular "A Storm of Sushi." Widely in demand.
Running Time: Ah, but it depends on how much the audience takes away from the movie, does it not?
Hype: "The best movie this year!"- The Arctic Times, Jan 1st 2003
"Ezekiel shines! No, literally, he does!"- The New Arctic Times
"Two protuding digits up!"- The New New Arctic Times
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Movie Title: The Dream Within
Movie Genre: Action/Drama/Horror/Sci Fi/Fantasy
Movie Plot Summary:
In humanity, there are a few random members of society who have access to a new "world" all together when they go to sleep at night. They inhabit this world, and when they fall asleep in it, they awaken in the real world. However, when an evil man (Sid Kusky) discovers a way to force himself into the Realm, he begins killing people there. These murders have a horrifying result - Anyone killed in the "dream world" dies in real life as well. After his girlfriend (Anette Boosalis) mysteriously dies, a young police officer (Star - Dagr Ateunde) pays a visit to his grandmother (Alia Oleveda) who used to talk of such a place when he was younger. She tells him what she knows, but mysteriously dies the same way the next morning. Enraged, he enlists the help of an ageless physic (Trinity Cambronne) who transports him to and from the dream realm while watching over his body. In the dream world, he meets up with a girl from a far away place (Macie Hammet) who is after the same things he is, answers and vengeance. Eventually they learn that not only has the evil man been killing people in the dream world, he has been turning them into his army of dreams, attacking people from the real world in their minds with them. With the help of another freedom fighter (Leif Gadalavarov), he and the girl fight the army of dreams, but the third member of their group betrays them in real life. The evil man, who turns out to be the police chief, slaughters the physic as well as the hero's phyiscal body in the real world. With time running out, the hero kills the traitor and then makes his way towards the evil man, and in a huge climatic battle, he kills the evil man while avoiding temptation to give in to the army of darkness and kill the girl instead. Relieved, he accepts his fate in the dream world, shaping it however he likes it, but the girl says she must leave. Soon after, she returns with a horrified look on her face...the army of dreams has moved on to the real world...and left it in ruins!
Cast: Name - Popularity Level out of 20 - Brief Bio - Age
Dagr Ateunde - 19 - Popular Action star but does other intelligent movies - 25
Sid Kusky - 15 - Once the hottest thing around, he often plays a sophisticated older man - 58
Trinity Cambronne - 17 - An upcoming teen star, Trinity does a lot of horror - 18
Macie Hammet - 18 - A model turned singer turned actress, her looks are only rivaled by her abilities - 26
Alia Oleveda - 7 - Type-casted for always being the "best friend" in movies when she was younger, hasn't had a part in a while- 73
Anette Boosalis - 14 - A good blonde actress, although she often plays the "ditz" in her roles - 23
Leif Gadalavarov - 2 - In only his second movie, good looking Leif has quite a talent for action - 20
Budget*: 18.15 Million USD
Producer(s): Monarch Productions Limited
Special Effects: The visual effects of the army of dreams were all made my highly advanced holograms so that the actors could really interact with them. Many other special effects were used, but most are taken for granted in the Empire nowadays with the introduction of holographic novels.
Director
Rolf Balcos - Famous director with a list of works too long for any post. Him and his brother Liger Balcos are the most famous movie directors of the present time.
Running Time 3 hours
Rating/Content
Brief nudity - When the girl returns battered and bloody, her thong panties are showing along with her left nipple. For effect of course...
Strong Language - The hero, the evil man, and the traitor continuously spout off. Only 10 f---'s...but 45 others...
Strong Violence - The whole movie is violent, with murders and the war with the army of dreams
Gore - Blood is everywhere as well as guts, brains, and mutilitated humans. (Thing some Resident Evil, some Starship Troopers...different styles)
Sexual Content - The hero and the girl have sex, and while no crotch or anything is shown so that it wouldn't get a dreaded X rating, the implications are huge
Pervasive Language - Some jokes are made at the beginning but this fades as the plot becomes more serious
Disturbing Themes - disgusting murders, dream killings, dream zombies, real world-dream realm connections
Hype Labled as one of the best non-holographic interactive movies in the last decade. Non-holographic interactive movies are a dying art in Steel Butterfly.
Any Additional comments
Rating - R...nothing more...nothing less...
Although it may be pulled off shelves at some international places.
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Movie Title: Revenge of the Killer Sopranos
Movie Genre: B-movie spoof comedy
Movie Summary: A bunch of opera singers and Mariah Carey clones, angry at not getting their 50% pay rise and their Evian mineral water in the backstage area, take revenge by using their vocal 'talents' to wreak havoc on Las Vegas by breaking wine glasses and windows everywhere, with the police hot on their tail. Their chauffeurs are involved in the obligatory high-speed cop chases.
Budget: 31m kaks (US$14.7m)
Special effects: This is a B-movie spoof, therefore very few.
Director: Itasae Murritiko. A student of film studies and music at Farela University, she was a singer and pianist well-known in Kaze Progressa before her attempts to become popular in other nations foundered on the strength of support for Mariah-esque window-shattering singers. (Itasae was an alto reknowned in Kaze Progressa for her deep, sultry voice.) This is her directorial debut, a satirical attack on this dichtomy that higher is better.
Running Time: 74:23. Short and sweet, so more screenings for me.
Rating: G (no, not the highest note sung in the film, though not a bad guess. That would be F#.)
Hype: It's scary... even with your eyes closed.
Additional comments: Features different voices for the singing and the acting in all but one of the female leads - Kata Macaga, scarily-high lead singer for Monaa, also an actress.
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Movie Title*: Ninth Arm
Movie Genre*: Psychadelic Action/Romance
Movie Summary*: Defying rational description, Ninth Arm is an unusual film. Fast paced and revolving around two weddings, a trio of teenagers coming of age, the demolition of a major international conspiracy based out of Iesus Christi, neutralizing an alien invasion, blowing things up, flashback scenes from the Amerigan and Allanean Wars by a pair of veterans, and some psychadelic dream sequences and transitions garuanteed to leave the audience feeling stoned. One wedding involves a simple couple of man and woman, and the other regards the wedding of two men and five women in a traditional Tahar Joblissan group marriage. The background music features several of the most popular Tahar Joblissan groups of the day, and the soundtrack was carefully designed and integrated into the film brilliantly by artistic composing and directing genius Jan Wilhelm.
Cast: Nearly the entire membership of the Taharasopolissa Metropolitan Opera Company, the Taharasopolissa Grinlow Martial Arts Competitive Club, and the Taharasopolissa Shakespearean Productions Company were involved in the production, along with star martial arts demonstrator Ming Sun III, action heroine Mack Zahn, porn star Lovitt Blue, and some lesser known acting talent.
Producer(s): LensEye productions, a major theater organization in Tahar Joblis, and one of few regularly involved in collaborating with foreign film companies.
Special Effects: At times it is difficult to tell what was filmed straight up and what was edited in; the editing team of LensEye productions appears to have no life whatsoever, and their daring cameramen, crews, and cast were willing to take great risks with an apparently unlimited budget.
Director: Jan Wilhelm, an experienced director of traditional space opera films and music videos, now beginning to branch out into other genres.
Running Time: 110 minutes brief edition - full version, probably only released on DVD release in Amerigo after the theater run rather than in movie theaters, runs all the way out to 170 minutes of film. (In Tahar Joblissan theaters, the full version was shown with the addition of a ten minute intermission.)
Rating/Content Frequent nudity, mature sexual content, and frequent action-style violence - not particularly gruesome in nature, but definitively present - mark this as a film for mature audiences.
Hype:
"After the film, you will not want to leave your seat," said director and composer Jan Wilhelm. "Subliminal messages? What are you talking about? It's a work... of art. Unusual, mind-altering art, yes, but that's simply because it was well done."
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ovie Title*: Citizen Spam
Movie Genre*: Drama
Movie Summary*: Powerful canned meat product factory owner Charles Foster Spam was many things to many people, both in life and, as seen in retrospective here, in death.
Cast: Famous Spaamanian actor Worson Elles leads this all-star cast
Budget*: $E50 million, or about $US20 million
Producer(s): Hulky Productions
Director: Worson Elles also directs this movie, his most anticipated work yet.
Running Time: 119 minutes
Rating/Content: PG
Hype: Powerful canned meat product factory owner Charles Foster Spam was many things to many people, both in life and, as seen in retrospective here, in death. Worson Elles returns in the most anticipated film this year, in his directorial debut. See the all-star cast, and cinematography at its finest. Opening next weekend, in cinemas across NationStates.
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Movie Title: Fight Song
Movie Genre: Sports/Drama
Movie Summary: The Thunderbird A&T War Eagles came into the college american football season with a dead last ranking. But, driven by their coach's motivation, the dead last War Eagles manage, albeit with many close games, a perfect record, and a spot in the national championship, the Gallipoli Bowl. When they get there, they have to face the #1 ranked since the beginning of the season Northern Islands University Seawolves, and they go into double overtime in the game, to end up losing by one point.
Cast:
Character / Actor / Popularity Rating / Description / Age
Coach Keyes - William Dennis - 19/20 - Appeared in the latest blockbuster Foundation as Halifornius Tiberius, very popular actor in Kingsford - 51
Budget: $9.2 million USD
Producer: Mighty Rock Productions
Special Effects: None
Director: Mikas Tanner
Running Time: 2 hours 3 minutes
Rating/Content: PG-13
Language - The coach says the D word 6 times and the S word twice
Hype:
(commercial = buying 30 seconds of time)
(shot of coach rallying the team at half time in the locker room)
Coach Keyes:
You came from nowhere to somewhere in just 10 games. You overcame the critics and the scoffers. You overcame that! And now, we must overcome the Seawolves. Men, when you march back on the field, don't pay attention to the scoreboard. Don't be let down by it. And don't be let down by the fans either. Because, somewhere in that mess, somewhere is the band. And the band, against all the fans, against the score board, against the other team on the field, against everything around them, will play the fight song!
(players cheer, screen fades black. White lettering appears: )
William Dennis
(screen fades, white lettering appears: )
Fight Song
Coming Soon
Anything Else: Based on a true story
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Movie Title: Cathletics
Movie Genre: Computer animation comedy
Movie Summary (and cast): Lou (Jerizae Meritan) is a cute tabby cat - with attitude. After being abused by her owners Rallit (Weran Ovejin) and Arilae (Fentae Wizito), she is determined to show her strength of character and muscle by entering Kaze Progressa's Cathletics - the nationwide sports contest for cats. Aided and abetted by her friend, older Japanese bobtail Etti (Fentae Burzek), she seeks respect. Little does she know that her owners' dog - vicious Rottweiler Ratta (Brizkil Nurvaiy) - has hatched a plot to wreck the games, and has attracted gullible poodle Moof (Uria Rawilen) to help out...
Producers: K-Films
Director: Serina Buskinat. Has directed several cute animations already, this is her first international release.
Running time: 81:18.
Budget: 156m kaks (US$68m)
Rating: PG (mild violence and swearing)
Hype: (35 seconds of advertising required):
[Lou wandering around in her house]
Meet Lou. Seems like an ordinary tabby.
[Lou bursts into a sprint]
But she's faster...
[Lou lifts tiny dumb-bells with her paws]
...stronger...
[Lou jumps at Arilae's dress, scratching it]
...and angrier.
[Camera jumps to the home of the Cathletics, Quarua Island Furry Stadium. Cartoony music plays]
Where better to go for Lou?
[Music stops abruptly. Camera jumps to Ratta at the entrance, growling at Lou.]
Maybe quite a lot of places.
[Music starts again. Camera jumps back to Lou in training]
Starring Jerizae Meritan...
[Camera jumps to Etti helping Lou out]
...and Fentae Burzek...
[Title of film appears in shot of stadium]
Cathletics. Puffing and purring to a cinema near you.
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Movie Title: Johnnie DeMarko
Movie Genre: Dark Comedy/Drama/Fantasy/Romance/Sci-Fi/Thriller
Movie Summary: Some may think that Johnnie DeMarko is a typical maladjusted teenager. Actually, Johnnie is borderline delusional, beset by visions of a monstrous rabbit which is trying to keep him under its sinister influence. Prompted by this apparition, Johnnie commits antisocial acts while he is undergoing psychotherapy, surviving the vagaries of high-school life and romance, and fortuitously escaping a bizarre death from a falling jet engine. Johnnie battles his demons, literally and figuratively, in a series of intertwining story lines that play with time travel, fundamentalist gurus, fate, predestination and the machinations of the universe.
Cast:
Jeff Glennhale - Johnnie DeMarko
Marie Doss - Dr. Karen Thurman
Andrew Barry - Lillian Pomeroy
Pat Swaddle - Ken Cunningham
Noah Hopkins - Dr. Jim Monnitoff
Mary Malone - Rose Ross
Jenn McDonnell - Gretchen DeMarko
Shawn Sherlock - Rick DeMarko
Budget: $22,000,000 USD
Producer(s): Starlight Films. Produced the cult classic "Mansion of a Million Murders" as well as the musical "The Chong Song".
Special Effects: See Summary.
Director: Rob Bole, most succesful director Sliponia.
Running Time: 118 minutes
Rating/Content: Rated R for
Some Drug Use
Language
Violence
Hype:
"You Can Never Go To Far
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Movie Title: Lyong-ti
Movie Genre: Epic Action-Adventure
Movie Summary: Lyong-ti tells the story of the semi-mythic hero Lyong-ti, who rose from being the fifth son of a rice farmer to become ruler of a vast empire spanning the whole of the present-day Lyong Penninsula region. The movie follows Lyong-ti, through both his battles (filmed on a massive and spectacular scale), and his deep but ill-fated love, finally ending in an allusion to his ?ascension to Heaven? (according to traditional Spyran animism, Lyong-ti is said to have risen to become ruler of Heaven Depending on how seriously this scene is taken, and the religious background of the audience, this may cause some controversy).
Cast: Ieyaren Strain-Takai, Mei Furitaka, Venton Teshigawa. (The first two actors are young and talented, popular for at least one successful film each, though these films did not undergo international release. Teshigawa also has some fame, for his starring role in the drama film Red Falcon , and for his numerous stage roles as a Shakespearian actor.
Budget: 220 million dollars
Producers: Spyran Ministry of Knowledge (numerous propaganda, documentary, and cultural works); Spring Blossom Studios (Red Falcon, Ogawa, Hunt for Blue Dragon).
Special Effects: Due to the epic nature of the film, a large number of effects were used, including advanced pyrotechnics and maximum-realism CG effects, as well as a huge cast of extras employing intricately detailed costumes and props. Particularly notable is the high degree of realism in terms of blood and wounds in the large battle scenes.
Director: Takeshi Kaga (a talented director, very famous within Spyr, and holding some international fame for his work on such films as Ogawa and The Emperor?s Concubine.
Running Time: 205 minutes.
Rating/Content:
Violence
Language (to avoid difficulties with foul language, all profanities in the film, which occur several times, are given in the ancient language of Spyr. Thus, though their role is clear, their meaning is not.)
Mild Sexual Content
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Movie Title: Nuke the Cops!
Movie Genre: Action-adventure spoof
Movie Summary and cast: A freedom fighter from Jaurania known only as 'Escapa' (Nurak Turjill) arrives in Kaze Progressa. His aim is simple - to destroy as much of Kaza as he can. As the country's tough police zero in on him, he opts for desperate measures, and all hell breaks loose, culminating in a seven-minute chase between police cars, Escapa in a tank and his sidekick 'Stalina' (Runib Buntara) in a stolen police helicopter through Kaza, where cars are banned to civilians, forcing the chasers to use any route they can find around buildings...
Budget: 225m kaks (over $90m) - the most expensive film in Progressan history.
Producer: K-Films
Special Effects: 15m kaks were spent on explosions. Stalina's stunt double for the helicopter chase, Burlin Terail - a former air force pilot - is believed to be the first man in history to have executed a barrel roll in a helicopter, and he repeats this trick here.
Director: Gurzik Merilka. Director of several action flicks in Kaze Progressa, this is his first international release.
Running Time: 88 Minutes
Rating/Content: PG-13 (moderate language and violence)
Advertising: (25 seconds)
[Escapa spins aimlessly around a Kaza park in a stolen tank]
He's come to cause carnage...
[Escapa's tank slides into a tram, or so it seems. It just misses]
...but he wasn't even any good at that.
[Cop comes into scene, shoots guns at tank, barely scratches him. Escapa shoots tank gun at cop. Misses.]
Violence doesn't pay for the incompetent...
[Bomb from helicopter lands on copper]
...unless you... NUKE THE COPS!
[Ultra-fast techno-rock music plays as we watch a cop and Escapa run through Kaza's World Cup Hockey stadium, shooting and missing all the time]
The explosive action is coming to your cinema soon!