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Pirates
of the Caribbean
The
Curse of the Black Pearl
Genre:
Crime / Gangster / Action
Director: Gore Verbinski
Distributor: Walt Disney
Cast:
Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, Jack Davenport,
Keira Knightly (and more)
Set in the Caribbean Sea in the 17th
century, this is the story of a gentleman rogue of a pirate,
Jack Sparrow (Depp), who teams up with the daughter (Knightley)
of a governor (Pryce) to stop the evil plan of a ship of
dangerous pirates (led by Rush) who are trying to reverse
an ancient curse that leaves them stuck between life and
death, with the light of the moon revealing their skeletons,
like some kind of undead monsters.
Sinbad
Legend
of the Seven Seas (2003)
Genre:
Animation / Romance
Director: Tim Johnson & Patrick Gilmore
Distributor: Dreamworks
Cast:
Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dennis
Haysbert, Joseph Fiennes (and more)
This movie follows one of the many adventures
of the famous Arabian sailor, Sinbad (Pitt) (which isn't
one of the seven great voyages documented elsewhere). The
adventure starts when Eris (Pfeiffer), the goddess of Chaos,
steals the "Book of Peace", and frames Sinbad
for the crime. Setting out to prove his innocence (and save
the life of his best friend, Proteus the Shapeshifter, voiced
by Fiennes), Sinbad travels to the realm that Eris resides
in, where he is challenged by terrifying monsters which
include a giant scorpion, a giant serpent and the Roc, a
40-foot-tall bird made of ice and snow. Even if Sinbad can
defeat all of these monsters, he also has to deal with the
effects of Eris' golden "Apple of Discord", which
has the ability to turn friends into enemies when thrown
in their midst. Zeta-Jones plays Marina, Proteus' girlfriend,
who stows away on Sinbad's ship to make sure that he fulfills
his mission.
LXG
The
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Genre: Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
Director: Stephen Norrington
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Sean Connery, Peta Wilson,
Stuart Townsend, Tony Curran, Jason Flemyng (and more)
Based very loosely on the Alan Moore graphic
novel epic of the same name, this is the story of a group
of characters drawn from famous works of literature, including
Captain Nemo, Allan Quatermain, The Invisible Man, Mina
Murray and Dr. Jekyll, banding together to combat criminal
undertakings of the highest order near the turn of the 19th
century. Rather than remain true to the comic roots, the
film also incorporates Tom Sawyer and Dorian Gray, in an
apparent effort to keep the cast from being entirely without
Americans, and it is set in New York.
Source: IMDB.com/YahooMovies
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