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Re: What Movie You Been Watching Recently? « Reply #300 on Aug 18, 2009, 3:40am »
TAKEN
Seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. Bryan is a retired agent who left the Secret Service to be near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim manages to convince her reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda lets it slip that they are alone in Paris. Using this information an Albanese gang of human traffickers kidnaps the girls. Kim barely has time to call her father and give him information. Her father gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free. The kidnapper wishes him "good luck," so Bryan Mills travels to Paris to search for his daughter and her friend.
To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, and love.
Joined: May 2005 Gender: Female Posts: 7,484 Location: Michigan
Re: What Movie You Been Watching Recently? « Reply #301 on Aug 19, 2009, 4:05am »
District 9
Thirty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees, the last survivors of their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa's District 9 as the world's nations argued over what to do with them.
Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over the aliens has been contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens' welfare -- they will receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens' awesome weaponry work. So far, they have failed; activation of the weaponry requires alien DNA.
The tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when an MNU field operative, Wikus van der Merwe, contracts a mysterious virus that begins changing his DNA. Wikus quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the most valuable -- he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. Ostracized and friendless, there is only one place left for him to hide: District 9.
Actors Sharlto Copley Wikus Van De Merwe Jason Cope Grey Bradnam-UKNR Chief Correspondent/Christopher Johnson Nathalie Boltt Sarah Livingstone/Sociologist Sylvaine Strike Dr Katrina Mckenzie John Sumner Les Feldman-Mil Engineer William Allen Young Dirk Michaels Greg Melvill-Smith Interviewer Jed Brophy (II) James Hope-Police Officer Kenneth Nkosi Thomas Anthony Bishop (II) Paramedic David Clatworthy MNU Doctor Mike Huff MNU Doctor Anthony Fridjhon (II) MNU Executive Andre Odendaal Mike Van Kerland Louise Saint Claire MNU Medical Scientist Norman Anstey MNU Lead Medical Technician Nick Boraine Craig Weldon Robert Hobbs Ross Pienaar Simo Magwaza MNU Mercenary Sonni Chidiebere MNU Mercenary Matt Stern MNU Mercenary David Dukas MNU Mercenary
To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, and love.
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