"Pandorum" The last vestiges of humanity aboard the spaceship Elyseum, many who have just awoken from cryogenic sleep, must contend with an outerspace psychosis called 'Pandorum' and dangerous, fast-moving, flesh-eating cannibals who have infested the ship. Science-fiction and horror fans will love this movie, but others may not. The special effects were excellent and the space vampires were truly scary. The movie starred Dennis Quaid and several other semi-familiar actors.
"Food Inc." Fascinating documentary about where the food we eat comes from. It focuses on factory farming, to grain, to "Genetically Modified Organisms" or "GMOs". It was especially interesting how many products are derived from corn, some of which are non-food. It was scary how, according to the movie, corn-fed livestock may harbor harmful bacteria; which has caused many illnesses and some deaths. Well worth seeing.
"9" An animated movie for adults with the voice talents of Elijah Wood ("Lord of the Rings"), Martin Landau, Crispin Glover ("Back to the Future"), Christopher Plummer, Jennifer Connelly, etc. A cartoon in which the human race is annihilated by man-made machines and in our place are man-made burlap machines with human qualities, who are hunted by these evil war machines. Some of the evil, killing machines resemble machines from "The Matrix" and the walking spaceships from "Star Wars" and "The War of the Worlds" movie, and of course "The Terminator". Not very original, but is visually intriguing.
"Knowing" (2008?) (On home video)
In 1959 at a Lexington, Massachusetts elementary school a time capsule is buried underground. While most other students draw pictures as part of the capsule one odd little girl writes a sequence of numbers on a sheet of paper and when the teacher takes the paper from her she runs off and uses her fingernails on a door to continue, until her hands are all bloody. Fifty years later, Caleb Kessler, a young boy, gets ahold of this paper when the time capsule is unearthed. Caleb's father, played by Nicolas Cage, is a recent widower and M.I.T. professor. He is shown in class discussing "determinism" vs. randomness in the universe. When Cage's character glances at the paper with numbers he inputs the numbers into his computer and comes to the conclusion that the numerals seem to prophecy many of the major dates, casualties and possibly locations of many disasters over the last fifty years. Professor Kessler (Cage) comes to believe that the little girl even predicted the end of the world. Meanwhile, strange men start following Kessler and his son and the daughter and granddaughter of the little girl from fifty years before. Suspenseful, interesting and with dazzling special effects.
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