Posts Tagged ‘artificial-intelligence’

The Animatrix (2003)

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Animation | Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Clayton Watson | Akio Ôtsuka | Terrence 'T.C.' Carson | Dane A. Davis | John DeMita | John Di Maggio | Alex Fernandez | Jack Fletcher | Rick Gomez | Tom Kenny | Phil LaMarr | Matt McKenzie | Keanu Reeves | Kevin Michael Richardson | Rodney Saulsberry
Directors: Peter Chung
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Anthology of nine short anime (Japanese animation) films tied in to the 1999 blockbuster “The Matrix” and its sequels. “Final Flight of the Osiris”: The crew of the hovercraft Osiris attempt to warn their city of an imminent attack. “The Second Renaissance, Parts 1 & 2″: The story behind the war between man and the machines, how mankind scorched the sky, and the creation of the Matrix. “Kid’s Story”: A teenager is contacted by Neo, and manages to escape the Matrix. “Program”: Two warriors battle in a samurai training simulation when one decides to betray his crewmates and re-enter the Matrix. “World Record”: A champion sprinter manages to break free of the Matrix by sheer physical effort during a record attempt. “Beyond”: A young girl searching for her cat discovers a haunted house caused by a glitch in the system. “A Detective Story”: Private investigator Ash tracks a hacker named Trinity through the looking glass. “Matriculated”: A group of humans capture a machine scout and insert it into a ‘human matrix’.

Iron Man (2008)

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Downey Jr. | Terrence Howard | Jeff Bridges | Gwyneth Paltrow | Leslie Bibb | Shaun Toub | Faran Tahir | Sayed Badreya | Bill Smitrovich | Clark Gregg | Tim Guinee | Will Lyman | Marco Khan | Kevin Foster | Garret Noel
Directors: Jon Favreau
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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.

2010 (1984)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Roy Scheider | John Lithgow | Helen Mirren | Bob Balaban | Keir Dullea | Douglas Rain | Madolyn Smith Osborne | Dana Elcar | Taliesin Jaffe | James McEachin | Mary Jo Deschanel | Elya Baskin | Saveli Kramarov | Oleg Rudnik | Natasha Shneider
Directors: Peter Hyams
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In the year 2001, Dave Bowman was taken by the Jupiter monolith and transformed into a powerful being. Now, in the year 2010, Dr. Heywood Floyd, the man held responsible for Discovery’s failure, is going to Jupiter. He and his crewmates must reactivate the psychotic HAL-9000 computer, so they may learn what happened, and they must find out the meaning of Dave Bowman’s last transmission… “My God, it’s full of stars…”

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Keir Dullea | Gary Lockwood | William Sylvester | Daniel Richter | Leonard Rossiter | Margaret Tyzack | Robert Beatty | Sean Sullivan | Douglas Rain | Frank Miller | Bill Weston | Ed Bishop | Glenn Beck | Alan Gifford | Ann Gillis
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
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2001 is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith here on earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well) Evolution then enabled man to reach the moon’s surface where he finds yet another monolith, one which signals the monolith-placers that we have evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and man (Bowman) to reach the monolith-placers, the winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be.

Resident Evil (2002)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | UK
Actors: Pasquale Aleardi | Milla Jovovich | Michelle Rodriguez | Eric Mabius | James Purefoy | Martin Crewes | Colin Salmon | Ryan McCluskey | Oscar Pearce | Indra Ové | Anna Bolt | Joseph May | Robert Tannion | Heike Makatsch | Jaymes Butler | Stephen Billington
Directors: Paul W.S. Anderson
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Something rotten is brewing beneath the industrial mecca known as Raccoon City. Unknown to its millions of residents, a huge underground bioengineering facility known as The Hive has accidentally unleashed the deadly and mutating T-virus, killing all of its employees. To contain the leak, the governing supercomputer, Red Queen, has sealed all entrances and exits. Now a team of highly-trained super commandos including Rain, Alice and Matt must race to penetrate The Hive in order to isolate the T-virus before it overwhelms humanity. To do so, they must get past the Red Queen’s deadly defenses, face the flesh-eating undead employees, fight killer mutant dogs and battle The Licker, a genetically mutated savage beast whose strength increases with each of its slain victims.

Short Circuit (1986)

Monday, April 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve Guttenberg | Fisher Stevens | Ally Sheedy | Austin Pendleton | G. W. Bailey | Brian McNamara
Directors: John Badham
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Number 5, one of a group of experimental military robots, undergoes a sudden transformation after being struck by lightning. He develops self-awareness, consciousness, and a fear of the reprogramming that awaits him back at the factory. With the help of a young woman, Number 5 tries to evade capture and convince his creator that he has truly become alive.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Edward Furlong | Robert Patrick | Earl Boen | Joe Morton | S. Epatha Merkerson | Castulo Guerra | Danny Cooksey | Jenette Goldstein | Xander Berkeley | Linda Hamilton | Ken Gibbel | Robert Winley | Peter Schrum
Directors: James Cameron
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Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has managed to send a protector back to attempt to save John and his mother Sarah.

Appleseed (2004)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Animation | Sci-Fi
Countries: Japan
Actors: Ai Kobayashi | Jûrôta Kosugi | Yuki Matsuoka | Asumi Miwa | Akimoto Tsubasa | Jack Aubree | William Bassett | Michael Forest | Yuzuru Fujimoto | William Knight | Takehito Koyasu | Steve Kramer | Michael McConnohie | Toshiyuki Morikawa | Ryûji Nakagi
Directors: Shinji Aramaki
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In a utopian society created at the end of the third world war, a female warrior who has been plucked from the badlands begins to see cracks in this new facade. And what does this community have planned for the rest of humankind?

Transformers (2007)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Shia LaBeouf | Megan Fox | Josh Duhamel | Rachael Taylor | Tyrese Gibson | Jon Voight | Anthony Anderson | John Turturro | Michael O'Neill | Peter Cullen | Charlie Bodin | Andrew Caldwell | Bryan Cox | Keith David | Frederic Doss
Directors: Michael Bay
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A long time ago, far away on the planet of Cybertron, a war was being waged between the noble Autobots (led by the wise Optimus Prime) and the devious Decepticons (commanded by the dreaded Megatron) for control over the Allspark, a mystical talisman that would grant unlimited power to whoever possessed it. The Autobots managed to smuggle the Allspark off the planet, but Megatron blasted off in search of it. He eventually tracked it to the planet of Earth (circa 1850), but his reckless desire for power sent him right into the Arctic Ocean, and the sheer cold forced him into a paralyzed state. His body was later found by Captain Archibald Witwicky, and before going into a comatose state Megatron used the last of his energy to engrave a map, showing the location of the Allspark, into the Captain’s glasses, and send a transmission to Cybertron. He is then carted away by the Captain’s ship. A century later, Sam Witwicky, nicknamed Spike by his friends, buys his first car. To his shock, he discovers it to be Bumblebee, an Autobot in disguise who is to protect Spike, as he bears the Captain’s glasses and the map carved on them. But Bumblebee is not the only Transformer to have arrived on Earth - in the desert of Qatar, the Decepticons Blackout and Scorponok attack a U.S. military base, causing the Pentagon to send their special Sector Seven agents to capture all “specimens of this alien race,” and Spike and his girlfriend Mikaela find themselves in the middle of a grand battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons, stretching from Hoover Dam all the way to Los Angeles. Meanwhile, within the depths of Hoover Dam, the cryogenically stored form of Megatron awakens…

I, Robot (2004)

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Genres: Action | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Will Smith | Bridget Moynahan | Alan Tudyk | James Cromwell | Bruce Greenwood | Adrian Ricard | Chi McBride | Jerry Wasserman | Fiona Hogan | Peter Shinkoda | Terry Chen | David Haysom | Scott Heindl | Sharon Wilkins | Craig March
Directors: Alex Proyas
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Set in a future Earth (2035 A.D.) where robots are common assistants and workers for their human owners, this is the story of “robotophobic” Chicago Police Detective Del Spooner’s (Smith) investigation into the murder of Dr. Alfred Lanning (James Cromwell), who works at U.S. Robotics, in which a robot, Sonny (Tudyk), appears to be implicated, even though that would mean the robot had violated the Three Laws of Robotics, which is apparently impossible. It seems impossible because.. if robots can break those laws, there’s nothing to stop them from taking over the world, as humans have grown to become completely dependent upon their robots. Or maybe… they already have? Aiding Spooner in his investigation is a psychologist, Dr. Susan Calvin (Moynahan), who specializes in the psyches of robots.