上世纪40年代,纳粹及其邪恶轴心的战火烧遍世界各个角落。居住在布鲁克林的小个子史蒂夫·罗格斯(克里斯·埃文斯 Chris Evans 饰)心系国家,一心上阵杀敌,可是糟糕的体格让他始终被征兵办拒之门外。偶然的机会,在德籍科学家厄斯金博士(Stanley Tucci 饰)的帮助下,这个小个子男孩得以走入兵营,并接受了博士的试验,化身成为高大健壮、膂力过人的超级战士。与此同时,德国纳粹红骷髅部队的首领约翰·施密特(雨果·维文 Hugo Weaving 饰)依靠超自然的力量建立起一支超级战队,企图称霸全世界。 为了营救好友,史蒂夫以美国队长的形象闯入施密特的军营,正邪两大超级战士的战斗就此展开……
Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.
Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory?
n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in.
What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts.
On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired.
One thing is for sure; O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places.
Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.
正就读中学的少年迈尔斯(沙梅克·摩尔 Shameik Moore 配音)意外被一只遭受放射性污染的蜘蛛咬伤,随后身体发生奇特的变化。偶然机缘,他目睹了蜘蛛侠(克里斯·派恩 Chris Pine 配音)和犯罪头目金并(列维·施瑞博尔 Liev Schreiber 配音)的战斗。为了阻止金并利用时空对撞机扰乱宇宙,蜘蛛侠最终壮烈牺牲。可未过多久,来自平行宇宙的颓废的彼德·帕克(杰克·约翰逊 Jake M. Johnson 配音)出现在迈尔斯面前。为了阻止金并的阴谋,并帮助这个帕克返回自己的宇宙,他们闯入金并的老巢。在这一过程中,二人遭到章鱼博士和徘徊者的狙击。与此同时,来自其他宇宙的女蜘蛛侠、暗影蜘蛛侠、蜘猪侠、二次元蜘蛛妹相继出现。 他们合力与恶势力展开斗争……
研究者对同年龄组的两个家庭做了跟踪调查:一对是IQ为130的天才组合,夫妻和睦,但是无嗣,正当两人准备作试管婴儿之时,男主人却在自慰中意外死亡;另一个家庭,都是IQ 80的低能夫妻,天天吵架,不过却人丁兴旺,不仅三代同堂,而且家族甚大。根据这个调查,研究者选择了一个自愿 者鲍尔斯(卢克•威尔逊 Luke Wilson 饰)做冷冻实验,不想实验出了差错,500年后他醒来后,却成为地球上最聪明的人。他被盲打误撞地选做了总统的候选人,支持他的甚至还有5届自由搏击冠军。在盛大的竞选现场,他只能硬着头皮面对选民演说,对于目前的种植、沙尘暴等问题,他提出的是灌溉这一看似离谱的解决办法。而且,还得到了选民的拥护,然而这个美梦迅速破灭了,他开始遭到谩骂、攻击,甚至是性命堪忧……