Escape Plan (2013)

Escape Plan (2013)


Plot Summary

Ray Breslin (Stallone) is a man who has devoted his life to making prisons inescapable by going into a prison as an inmate and trying to see if he can break out. And he has done a good job so far. A woman who says she works for the CIA approaches Ray and says that a new maximum security prison where the worst criminals are to be incarcerated, is about to be launched. So she wants him to go and make sure no one can get out. He agrees. So they make the necessary preps by telling Ray who the warden is and they give him a code that the warden will know that he's not a convict, and they plant him with a tracer. But when he's picked up, the ones who pick him up remove the tracer. When he arrives at the prison, he discovers that the warden is different from the one he was told and when he tells him the code, he claims that he doesn't know what he's talking about. He realizes that someone doesn't want him to get out. He then tries to find a way out but he needs help. Another prisoner, Rottmayer (Schwarzenegger) becomes friendly with him. And they decide to work together to get out.

Kaiju Friday: Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (1993)

Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (1993)


Plot Summary

In response to Japan's request for a countermeasure against Godzilla, UN engineers construct Mechagodzilla, a giant robotic version of Godzilla. Nonetheless, Godzilla proves himself a force to be reckoned with against this monstrosity and battle ensues. Meanwhile a research group discovers an ancient Pteradon egg AND a fully grown pteradon as well who turns out to be Rodan. The abscond the egg and it eventually hatches not a baby Rodan but a baby Godzilla! Baby as it's known attaches itself to the lead female scientist. Eventually Baby would be used as bait in taking Godzilla once and for all.

(belated) Kaiju Friday: Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992)

Godzilla vs Mothra (1992)


Plot Summary

The Earth is headed for disaster and when an archeological research team visits Infant Island to find out why, they discover two tiny women who reveal that the Earth is fighting back for all the harm humans have done here and sends out the evil Battra to destroy us. The Cosmos, as the girls are called, offer their help by calling Mothra to battle the creature. Unfortunately, Godzilla also appears and a three way battle begins that threatens to destroy Japan.

Modern Movie Monday: Man of Steel (2013)

Modern Movie Monday: Man of Steel (2013)


Plot Summary

As the planet of Krypton crumbles, General Zod (Michael Shannon) stages a coup as concerned leader Jor-El (Russell Crowe) and his wife send their infant son Kal-El (Henry Cavill) to a distant world called Earth. While the young child travels through space with an object containing the DNA of his home planet, General Zod and his cohorts are sentenced to an eternity in a black-hole prison. Named Clark and raised by kindly farmers Jonathan (Kevin Costner) and Martha Kent (Diane Lane), young Kal-El lives in fear of what might happen should his neighbors learn about his extraterrestrial origins, eventually exploring the world in search of himself. In time, Clark's travels take him to a frozen tundra, where the American government has discovered an 18,000-year-old anomaly buried deep in the ice. Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane (Amy Adams) has just come to investigate when, after venturing out with her camera, she has a profound encounter with Clark. Convinced that his presence on Earth is proof of life on other planets, Lois finds her attempt to publish the story thwarted by her boss Perry White (Laurence Fishburne), who rejects it outright. Later, the airwaves are hijacked by General Zod, who threatens to obliterate the human race if they fail to hand over Kal-El within 24 hours. Forced to embrace his otherworldly origins for the first time in his life, Clark Kent dons the special suit from Krypton and prepares to take a stand against an enemy far more powerful than any he's ever known.

Kaiju Friday: Godzilla vs King Ghidorah (1991)

Godzilla vs King Ghidorah (1991)

Plot Summary

time-travellers from the future warn that Japan will ultimately be destroyed if the monster Godzilla can't be neutralized. They reveal the circumstances of Godzilla's origin: a dinosaur who survived into the 20th Century (and who inadvertently saved a group of Japanese soldiers from American forces during World War II), only to be mutated by atomic testing on his island home. The future people have an audacious plan: to remove the pre-Godzilla dinosaur from his timestream and prevent his mutation. However, things take an unexpected turn, resulting in the creation of a new horror--the three- headed dragon King Ghidrah.

(Delayed) Modern Movie Monday: The Wolverine (2013)

(Delayed) Modern Movie Monday: The Wolverine (2013)

Plot Summary

Logan (Hugh Jackman) has become a hermit, living in the woods alone and haunted by nightmares of Jean Grey (Famke Janssen). One day, Yukio, (Rila Fukushima) who is skilled with a samurai sword, visits Logan and tells him that her master, the powerful businessman Yashida, (Hal Yamanouchi) is dying and wants to see him for the last time. Yashida was a Japanese soldier that Logan saved the life of in Nagasaki in World War II. Logan travels Japan with Yukio and the moribund Yashida offers mortality to Logan but Logan does not accept the offer. While sleeping, Logan has a weird dream involving Yashida's doctor Viper (Svetlana Khodchenkova) and soon Yashida dies. Logan stays for the funeral and the Yakuza tries to abduct Yashida's granddaughter Mariko (Tao Okamoto) during the ceremony. Logan saves and escapes with Mariko, but he is shot and does not heal from the wounds. Logan protects Mariko and tries to find out what has happened to him.

Kaiju Friday: Godzilla vs Biollante (1989)

Godzilla vs Biollante (1989)


Plot Summary

Following the events of Godzilla 1985, scientists collect genetic material from the mutated dinosaur Godzilla's scales. A Middle Eastern country wants the samples for their own purposes, but meanwhile, a lonely scientist combines Godzilla's genetic code with those of a rose and his own deceased daughter. The result is Biollante, an eerie plant of titanic proportions. To make matters worse, a psychic woman detects Godzilla stirring from his volcanic prison. The military sends the flying Super-X2 to stop the beast from thrashing Japan, but eventually Godzilla engages the rapidly mutating Biollante in a fight to the death.

Modern Movie Monday: X-Men First Class (2011)

X-Men First Class (2011)


Plot Summary

 Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were archenemies, they were closest of friends, working together, with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known. In the process, a rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-MEN.

Kaiju Friday: The Return of Godzilla/Godzilla 1985

The Return of Godzilla/Godzilla 1985 (1984/5)


Plot Summary

A reporter named Maki (Ken Tanaka) investigates the disappearance of a ship. He finds the ship and discovers that all the hands have been killed by a giant sea louse except for one. The lone survivor, Okumura (Shin Takuma) then tells the reporter that the ship was attacked by Godzilla (Gojira). Fearing a panic, the Japanese government then takes the survivor into custody to keep him from revealing that Godzilla has returned. However, a Soviet nuclear submarine is destroyed and the situation puts them and the United States on the brink of nuclear war, until the Japanese decide to come clean and admit that it was Godzilla. Soon Japan and the rest of the world are on red alert as they wait for Godzilla to begin his rampage anew.

Modern Movie Monday: X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

X-Men Oriigns: Wolverine (2009)


Plot Summary

Two mutant brothers, Logan and Victor, born 200 years ago, suffer childhood trauma and have only each other to depend on. Basically, they're fighters and killers, living from war to war through U.S. history. In modern times, a U.S. colonel, Stryker, recruits them and other mutants as commandos. Logan quits and becomes a logger, falling in love with a local teacher. When Logan refuses to rejoin Stryker's crew, the colonel sends the murderous Victor. Logan now wants revenge.

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)


Plot Summary

 When a private laboratory supported by the government finds the cure for the mutants, using the DNA of a powerful boy, the mutants have the option of giving up their powers and become human, but their society split. Magneto opposes and decides to join a force to fight against the government and kill the mutant boy. Meanwhile, Jean Grey resurrects uncontrolled by Xavier and with the personality of the powerful Dark Phoenix. She destroys Cyclops and Professor Charles Xavier, and allies to the evil forces of Magneto, making them almost invincible.

Runaway (1984)

It's been a while huh? Well i'm determined not to make this yet another blog I abandon in midstream. So here's a movie I watched over the weekend but first, I WILL do another Godzilla movie on Friday. I kind of got burned out on watching them every week. This Godzilla movie is the last of the Hesei series which will lead nicely into a couple month break. I'm sure seeing Godzilla 1984 will recharge my batteries when we start up again. I will get back to the X-movie X-travaganza starting on the 25th with X-Men United. Til then you'll notice a trend as i'll be starting to go through as many of Randolph Scott's filmography as is possible among other things.

BTW I should explain something else before I go on, If you notice I started this blog more or less in the '30s and now this movie is from the '80s. I tend to cycle through what I have and go chronologically. The way it looks right now the next cycle will end in 1980.

And now for our Feature Presentation.....

Runaway (1984)


Plot Summary

In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.

Kaiju Friday: Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla (1974)

Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (1974)


Plot Summary

 Aliens intend to take over the planet and, just in case Godzilla tries to interfere, have built a mechanical version of him to put an end to his interference. The Earth humans summon the legendary King Caesar to assist Godzilla in the battle.

Kaiju Friday: Godzilla Vs. Megalon (1973)

Godzilla vs Megalon (1973)


Plot Summary

 The underground kingdom of Seatopia sends out Megalon, a giant beetle, and Gigan to destroy the above ground dwellers. In an attempt to stop them, an independently thinking robot brings Godzilla into the fight.

The Iron Mistress (1952)

The Iron Mistress (1952)


Plot Summary

In 1825, Jim Bowie (Alan Ladd) travels to New Orleans to sell the output from the sawmill he runs with his brothers. He soon meets the beautiful Judalon de Bornay (Virginia Mayo) who seems to have most men wrapped around her little finger. She clearly likes him but when he tells her he's leaving, she manipulates one of her beaus into challenging him for a duel. Bowie survives the confrontation but devises a plan to sell the not only his lumber but also the family mill and invest it in land. Within a couple of years, the Bowie brothers are quite rich and Jim meets Judalon again - only this time she is married. It doesn't stop her from manipulating those around her. Jim's business interests lead to a bloody duel where several people are killed and a confrontation with local saloon owner and crook Black Jack Sturdevant. (Anthony Caruso) After Sturdevant tries to kill him on the trail, Bowie is rescued by a beautiful Mexican woman and decides to make his home in Texas.

Kaiju Friday: Godzilla Vs. Gigan (1972)

Godzilla Vs. Gigan (1972)

Plot Summary

Aliens from space plan to conquer the world using space monsters Gigan and King Ghidrah, which they control from their secret headquarters inside the head of the Godzilla-replica building at a theme park. The only thing that can stop them is the combined efforts of Godzilla and Anguirus.

(Delayed) Modern Movie Monday: X-2: X-Men United

X-2: X-Men United (2003)


Plot Summary

After the events on Liberty Island, everyone at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters is settling in. Magneto (Ian McKellen) is locked up in a plastic cell, Rogue (Anna Paquin) and Bobby Drake (Shawn Ashmore) have finally gotten together, and Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) has set off to find his origins. But it won't stay quiet for long. After a mutant attack on the President, everyone starts to fear any type of mutant. William Stryker, (Brian Cox) a military man cum scientist who plans to stop all mutants, takes over the school, causing Wolverine and his team of mutants to go into hiding. Stryker has managed to capture Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and will use him to create another version of Cerebro. Wolverine and the team must now team up with their enemy, Magneto, to stop Stryker before it's too late

X-Men (2000)

X-Men (2000)


Plot Summary

In the near future, when children are being born with a special X-factor in their genes, giving them special powers and making them mutants, the seeds of a new Holocaust are being sown by Senator Robert Kelly. (Bruce Davison) The situation brings into opposition the fellow mutants and former friends, Erik Lehnsherr, a.k.a. Magneto, (Ian McKellen) and Professor Charles Xavier. (Patrick Stewart) While Xavier wants a peaceful means of stopping the hatred toward mutants, Magneto seeks to even things out with a machine that would speed up the mutation process in all humans, making everyone equal. To stop Magneto, Xavier brings together a special group of mutants called "X-Men" to stop him. In the meantime, two mysterious mutants emerge: Logan, (Hugh Jackman) a powerful and aggressive mutant with no past, no memories, and a young girl named Rogue. (Anna Paquin) Their quests for identities eventually land them in the sights of Xavier and Magneto, but for what purpose?

Modern Movie Week: Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)


Plot Summary

 The latest mission of the USS Enterprise takes them deep into space to rescue an endangered species from an active volcano. However, once again Captain Kirk's reckless behavior compromises the mission and nearly gets him booted from Starfleet. Turning back to his mentor Captain Pike, Kirk is demoted to a cadet and has to start over. But when an evil force attacks Starfleet HQ and kills Captain Pike in the process, Kirk takes command and takes the Enterprise deep into the "forbidden zone" and the planet Kronos. While forces between Starfleet and the Klingon army are hostile enough, it isn't helping that a Starfleet traitor is manipulating the two sides into a possible war. Will Kirk, Spock, and the rest of the crew stop the war before it's too late? And what awaits the crew of the USS Enterprise on their forthcoming five year mission?