Theater or Renter: August 2009
Theater or Renter: August 2009 includes five SF movies G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, District 9, Ponyo, Shorts, Halloween II, The Final Destination. Will we watch? Will we rent? or do we even care?
Rules of the Game: Watch the trailers. Rate the movie. Then share with us your comments: does the movie, it’s trailer and buzz make you want to watch it in the theater, rent it, or not interested at all, and why?
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra:
Release Date: AUGUST 7th
Listed as: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Studio: Paramount Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, Hasbro, Di Bonaventura Pictures
Director: Stephen Sommers
Produced by: Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Bob Ducsay, Brian Goldner, Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum, Stephen Sommers
Written by: Screenplay: Stuart Beattie, David Elliot, Paul Lovett Story: Michael B. Gordon, Stuart Beattie, Stephen Sommers Comic book: Larry Hama
Stars: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Byung Hun Lee, Sienna Miller, Rachel Nichols, Jonathan Pryce, Saïd Taghmaoui, Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Ray Park, and Dennis Quaid
The Plot / Story: Ten years in the future the Cobra Organization raises to terrorize all nations of the earth. With only one group to stop them Duke forms the G.I. Joe, a top secret team of elite soldiers. Yo Joe! (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
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District 9:
Release Date: AUGUST 14th
Listed as: Sci-Fi
Studio: WingNut Films, QED International, Key Creatives, Wintergreen Productions
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Produced by: Peter Jackson, Bill Block, Ken Kamins, Paul Hanson, Elliot Ferwerda
Written by: Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
Stars: Jason Cope, Robert Hobbs, Sharlto Copley
The Plot / Story: Twenty-eight years after their first contact the alien refugees, now living in District 9, welcome is wearing thin. Their care is handed over to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens' welfare but very interested in getting their weapon tech to work unfortunately the tech requires alien DNA to work. After an accident that changes Wikus van der Merwe's DNA the MNU field operative quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the most valuable, for he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
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Ponyo:
Release Date: AUGUST 14th
Listed as: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Studio: Studio Ghibli
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Produced by: Toshio Suzuki
Written by: Hayao Miyazaki
Stars: Noah Cyrus, Frankie Jonas, Tina Fey, Matt Damon, Liam Neeson
The Plot / Story: A juvenile fish named Ponyo wants to become a human girl. In pursuing her goal, she befriends a five-year-old human boy, Sōsuke and they go on a mad capped adventure together. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
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Shorts: The Adventures of the Wishing Rock:
Most refer to the name of this film as "Shorts"
Release Date: AUGUST 21st
Listed as: Family, Fantasy
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Produced by: Robert Rodriguez
Written by: Robert Rodriguez
Stars: Jimmy Bennett, James Spader, Kat Dennings, Trevor Gagnon, Jon Cryer, Leslie Mann, William H. Macy
The Plot / Story: Toe Thompson's discovery of a colorful, wish-granting rock causes a stir in the suburban town of Black Falls, and grand-scale chaos occurs when the object falls into the hands of local adults. Can Toe and his two newfound friends save the residents of Black Falls from themselves? (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
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Halloween II:
Release Date: AUGUST 28th
Listed as: Horror, Thriller
Studio: The Weinstein Company, Dimension Films
Director: Rob Zombie
Produced by: Malek Akkad, Andy Gould, Rob Zombie
Written by: Rob Zombie
Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Mane, Sheri Moon Zombie, Brad Dourif, Danielle Harris, Scout Taylor-Compton
The Plot / Story: Family Is Forever... At least if your brother is Michael Myers. He returns to his home town of Haddonfield, bringing death in his wake, to bring "closure to the secrets of his past". (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
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The Final Destination:
Release Date: AUGUST 28th
Listed as: Horror, Thriller
Studio: New Line Cinema
Director: David R. Ellis
Produced by: Craig Perry, Warren Zide
Written by: Eric Bress
Stars: Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, Haley Webb, Nick Zano, Krista Allen, Andrew Fiscella, Jessica Ritchie
The Plot / Story: On what should have been a fun-filled day at the races, Nick O'Bannon has a horrific premonition in which a bizarre sequence of events causes multiple race cars to crash, sending flaming debris into the stands, brutally killing his friends and causing the upper deck of the stands to collapse on him. When he comes out of this grisly nightmare Nick panics, persuading his girlfriend, Lori, and their friends, Janet and Hunt, to leave... escaping seconds before Nick's frightening vision becomes a terrible reality. Thinking they've cheated death, the group has a new lease on life, but unfortunately for Nick and Lori, it is only the beginning. As his premonitions continue and the crash survivors begin to die one-by-one — in increasingly gruesome ways — Nick must figure out how to cheat death once and for all before he, too, reaches his final destination. The film is shot in HD 3-D (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)
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District 9