A group of diverse individuals are suddenly taken from their homes and flown via helicopter to a futuristic bomb shelter in the desert, one-third of a mile below the surface of the Earth. There, they learn that a nuclear holocaust is taking place and that they've been "chosen" by computer to survive in the shelter in order to continue the human race. The shelter is designed to allow the people to exist underground comfortably for years, but they are faced with a threat nobody could have predicted: a colony of thousands of bloodthirsty vampire bats finds a way into the shelter and launches a series of vicious attacks where they claim the humans one by one.
quot;The Driver" is specialist in a rare business: he drives getaway cars in robberies. His exceptional talent prevented him from being caught yet. After another succeeded flight from the police, a self-assured detective makes it his primary goal to catch the Driver. He promises remission of of punishment to a gang if they help to convict him in a set-up robbery. The Driver seeks help from the player Isabelle to mislead the detective.
Four seedy criminal outcasts risk their lives in pursuit of redemption, both legal and moral, by driving unreliable trucks stocked with nitroglycerine through dangerous landscape to cap an oil well fire in a Central American banana republic. Featuring a trance-like score by Tangerine Dream and a visceral, astonishing performance by Roy Scheider, Friedkin's reinterpretation of Clouzot’s 1953 masterpiece is perhaps the best remake of all time and is among Friedkin’s most daring works. Three sequences alone –a chaotic car crash in Boston, the unloading of charred bodies in a Central American village, and the explosives laden trucks crossing a rickety storm-blown bridge – render Sorcerer a classic and retain their power to make audiences gasp. Released the same year as Star Wars, Friedkin's audacious masterpiece represents the braver road abandoned by the studio system.
Two men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out, and a few months later the satellite crashes. They survive the crash but one man gets killed by survivors and the other man gets caught. The woman stays by the remains of the the satellite but is soon caught by evil punks who have taken power.
After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it will hit it will cause a incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules" but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough fire power. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR who have also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?
在传说中英雄辈出的年代,彪悍的西米里族英雄柯南(阿诺德·施瓦辛格 Arnold Schwarzenegger 饰)为了让心爱的瓦莱里亚复活,只得接受了异族女王塔拉米斯的要求,陪伴女王的侄女珍娜取得魔法钥匙“邪恶之心”。珍娜是远古卷轴上记载的天选之人,只有她才能得到钥匙,开启传说中的宝藏,而塔拉米斯的计划是利用柯南保护珍娜,在成功后把他们全部杀死,塔拉米斯派出侍卫长邦伯塔与柯南同行并暗中监视。柯南一行在路上救下了东方巫师和黑人女战士,加上盗贼好友,七人抵达了藏着邪恶之心的湖中城堡,城中的巫师施法将珍娜夺走,柯南等人力战终于救出珍娜,而这仅仅是冒险之旅的开端……
纽约探员尼克(迈克尔•道格拉斯 Michael Douglas 饰)是个桀骜不驯的离异男子,他最近因渎职嫌疑被风纪部门调查。某日尼克与搭档文森(安迪•加西亚 Andy Garcia 饰)在一家餐厅中偶然遇到日本黑帮的内部火并,二人虽将主犯佐藤(松田优作 饰)捕获,但佐藤抢到的神秘块状物却不翼而飞。日本方面要求引渡佐藤,尼克和文森只得押解佐藤到达大阪,岂料在飞机场,尼克误将佐藤交给了乔装后的黑帮分子。不甘心失去人犯的尼克和文森以观察员的身份,在日方助理兼翻译松本正弘(高仓健 饰)协助下继续调查佐藤一案,他们发现佐藤正与大老板菅井为了制造假钞的铜板火并。不久,文森被佐藤一伙杀害,尼克的处境也愈发艰难,但他固执的要在晦暗的陌生城市中抓到凶手……
Mike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the C.I.A. and while on a case for them, one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to again become mobile. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend.
故事发生在纽约,一个专业棒球队里两个球员的故事。Henry是明星投手,Bruce Pearson是普通投手,Bruce和其他球员十分友好,但与Henry投手却十分隔漠,这甚至开始影响球队的命运……
◎简 介
Henry Wiggen是纽约长毛象队( New York Mammoths based on NYY)的明星投手。
(那是自由球员制还未施行的年代,球员的薪水并不高,即使像Henry Wiggen这种明星球员,还得兼营一些副业。在电影中,可看出他还是保险经纪人,而且对理财颇有一套,另外,他还是曾出过书的作家——这就是他 Author 这个绰号的由来。)
而他的室友——也是他保险的客户—— Bruce Pearson,则和他刚好相反。他球技普通,生活习惯又差,平时一副蠢样,在队上根本没人理他。(Henry 本身也很讨厌他,有一次,Henry 逮到Bruce在洗手檯便溺,气得向总教练Dutch投诉。)
但,就在这一年春训之前,一切都改变了。
因不幸而变成好友
Bruce感到身体不适,经医师诊断是何杰金氏淋巴瘤(Hodgkin's disease, or Hodgkin's lymphoma),这在当时是绝症。Bruce的保险是向Henry投保的,在Henry 的陪伴之下,他们一起到专门的医院做进一步诊疗,并得到医院的确认。
Henry听从Bruce的要求,保守著这个秘密。两人回到春训集训地,当时 Henry 和球团的谈薪陷入僵局,Henry 正在「罢训」。但不久他得到消息,球团打算要释出Bruce,於是他接受球团提议的薪资,只不过要加入一条附加条款——他的命运必须和Bruce绑在一起,球团不管要交易还是释出Bruce,都得连他一块送走。
球团答应这个条件。但总教练觉得事有蹊蹺,如之前所述,Henry曾向他抱怨Bruce的不良生活习惯,但怎么突然间,又像是情人一样不可分离呢?总教练私下想尽办法要查个水落石出。
总教练一直找线索,想要知道之前Henry和Bruce到了什么地方、做了什么事,而 Henry就不断扯谎,想出各种理由来掩饰他和Bruce去过医院。
脱胎换骨的表现
Henry还以他的理财知识当条件,和一位老爱奚落Bruce的队友达成协议,希望他不要对Bruce那么刻薄。Henry告诉这位队友Bruce罹患绝症的秘密,并要他守口如瓶。
但这种「秘密」,很快就在队友之间秘密流传,没多久,大多数球员都知道了。忽然间,大家对 Bruce 都特别包容,人人都愿意与他交友。原本这支球队,充满了球技一流的球星,但人人各自为政,谁也不服谁,现在因为Bruce的不幸,球队的向心力竟因而凝聚了起来,此后球队连战连胜。
Bruce原本只是替补捕手,上场机会不多,表现也不理想;因为队友的接纳,他开始有了自信,各项表现都创下生涯新高,到了七月,他已是主战捕手了。
球队最终拿下第一,季后赛一路横扫,夺得世界大赛冠军。而Bruce在球季结束前,就因病重离队,於不久后便病逝了。
电影在Henry的旁白中结束。Bruce的丧礼,球队只有送花,没有代表到场。
◎幕 后
Bang the Drum Slowly ,中译名为「战鼓轻敲」。不过首先要说明的,这个Drum,并不是战鼓,而是送丧时的哀鼓;Slowly,也非「轻」敲,而是「慢」敲。这个鼓声,就像是丧鐘,沉重地、缓慢地敲击著,像是死神逐渐走近的脚步……
本片改编自 Mark Harris 的同名小说 Bang the Drum Slowly 。Mark Harris 总共写了四本棒球小说,这「四部曲」分别是:The Southpaw (1953)、 Bang the Drum Slowly (1956)、A Ticket for a Seamstitch (1957),和 It Looked Like For Ever (1979),书中的主角,都是投手 Henry Author Wiggen。
Bang the Drum Slowly 这个书名,是从一首美国的传统牛仔歌曲 Streets of Laredo (或称为「牛仔悲歌」 Cowboy's Lament )中的歌词改编而来,这首歌,唱的是一位垂死牛仔的临终遗言,原先的歌词,有些用语比较古老一点,而在电影里,歌词有小小的更动,以下是和书名有关的副歌部分:
O bang the drum slowly and play the fife lowly,
Play the dead march as they carry me on,
Put bunches of roses all over my coffin,
Roses to deaden the clods as they fall
啊,哀鼓慢慢击,横笛低声奏,
当他们抬我灵柩时,演奏那送丧曲,
在我棺木上,覆满成束玫瑰,
让那玫瑰,舒缓落下的土块。
A young woman running a wildlife sanctuary in the Australian outback is in for trouble when she is confronted by three kangaroo hunters. Bored with killing kangaroos, they decide to kill the animals in the sanctuary, and when they see how attractive the owner is, they decide to have a little "fun" with her, too. Turns out that they may get a bit more "fun" than they bargained for.