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Making Contact (1985) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Joey
other title: Joey / El secreto de Joey
A nine year old boy named Joey, who after the tragic death of his father, begins to experience psychic powers such as allowing him to move inanimate objects with his mind, set things on fire, and even communicate with his dead father. However, not everything is good for Joey as his newly gained powers accidentally awake an evil supernatural force that is contained inside the body of an old ventriloquist's dummy that Joey found in an abandoned house. The supernatural Dummy shows similar powers to Joey's, and soon he puts the lives of everyone near Joey in danger as the evil Dummy has dark plans for Joey's special powers.
The Noah's Ark Principle (1984) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
Das Arche Noah Prinzip
director: 罗兰·艾默里奇 actor: 里奇·穆勒 / Aviva Joel
other title: 디스트럭션 / Das Arche Noah Prinzip
The year is 1997, and World Peace seems to have come, with most classic weapons of mass destruction having been abandoned. However, orbiting the Earth there is the European/American space station FLORIDA ARKLAB, capable of controlling the weather at any location on the planet underneath. A civil project by nature, it might be abused as an offensive weapon, since it could deliver devastation to any potential adversary simply by creating natural disasters such as storms and floods. No wonder the space station soon becomes the central point in rising political tensions between East and West, next stop World War 3 (as indicated by the tagline "The end of our future has already begun"). We follow the main protagonist Billy Hayes, an astronaut aboard the station, as he wades through a plot of secrecy and sabotage trying to tell friend from foe in the process.
Singularity (2025) [Movie] Douban
Singularity
other title: 奇点
10月28日,罗兰·艾默里奇(Roland Emmerich)探索古代秘史的电影《佚名》(Anonymous)就要上映了,而这之后他又将把目光放到未来,这就是《奇点》(Singularity),近日他接受采访时谈到了这一科幻片计划。
《奇点》是一部关于人和机器的科幻片,艾默里奇说:“这将是一部聪明的科幻片,类似《盗梦空间》那种创作方向,比它还要聪明一点。”
他还承认这部影片受到了美国未来学家、哲学家雷·库兹韦尔(Ray Kurzweil)的很多影响,后者曾出版过《智能机器的时代》(Age of Intelligent Machines)、《灵魂机器的时代》(Age of Spiritual Machines)等畅销书,并成功地预言了电脑将在1998年战胜棋王。《奇点》这个片名也是来自他的书《奇点迫近》(The Singularity is Near),但不是直接改编。
艾默里奇并没有真正见过雷·库兹韦尔,但他非常喜欢《灵魂机器的时代》这本书,他曾买下很多本,逢人便送。“到我家吃晚饭的人大部分出门时都拿着这本书”,他开玩笑说。
《奇点》目前还没有开始选角。影片将于2013年5月17日上映,明年三月在加拿大蒙特利尔开拍——那里也是《后天》(The Day After Tomorrow)的拍摄地。
附:雷·库兹韦尔所说的“奇点”
“奇点”发生在人工智能比人类还要聪明还有有能力的时候,科技发展已经由机器接管,机器也可敏捷地思考、行动和沟通,甚至快到正常人无法理解。机器、或是那些已经机器化的人类——Cyborg掌握了全世界,机器进到加速自我反应的循环,每一代的人工智能都会越来越快,并且成指数加快,到了这个时候,科技爆炸性发展,因为人类文明已经被机器所掌握,所以之后的科技发展无法被精确预测。
奇点是一个极端跳跃性、改变全球的事件,并且永久改变人类的命运。书中预测奇点发生在2045年。
10,000 B.C. (2008) [Movie] Douban TMDB WikiData Skybridge IMDb
10,000 BC
5.1 (123 ratings) director: 罗兰·艾默里奇 actor: 史蒂文·斯崔特 / 卡米拉·贝勒
other title: 史前一万年 / 10,000 BC
A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016) [Movie] TMDB Douban Min reol IMDb WikiData
Independence Day: Resurgence
5.1 (319 ratings) director: 罗兰·艾默里奇 actor: 利亚姆·海姆斯沃斯 / 杰夫·高布伦
other title: 独立日2:卷土重来 / 独立日2
We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.
Godzilla (1998) [Movie] IMDb Douban Min reol TMDB KevGa-NeoDB WikiData Skybridge
Godzilla
6.5 (216 ratings) director: 罗兰·艾默里奇 actor: 马修·布罗德里克 / 让·雷诺
other title: 哥斯拉 / 酷斯拉(台)
French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, including Niko Tatopoulos, conclude that the oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard is loose in Manhattan as the US military races to destroy the monster before it reproduces and it's spawn takes over the world.
2012 (2009) [Movie] TMDB Douban Min reol IMDb WikiData
2012
7.3 (1252 ratings) director: Roland Emmerich actor: John Cusack / Amanda Peet
other title: 2012末日預言 / 2012 3D
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world's leaders race to build "arks" to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world.
Independence Day (1996) [Movie] TMDB Douban Min reol IMDb Skybridge WikiData
Independence Day
7.5 (721 ratings) director: 罗兰·艾默里奇 actor: 威尔·史密斯 / 杰夫·高布伦
other title: 独立日 / ID4星际终结者(台)
Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a force of incredible magnitude has arrived. Its mission: total annihilation over the Fourth of July weekend. The last hope to stop the destruction is an unlikely group of people united by fate and unimaginable circumstances.
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) [Movie] TMDB Douban Min reol IMDb Skybridge WikiData
The Day After Tomorrow
7.8 (1112 ratings) director: 罗兰·艾默里奇 actor: 丹尼斯·奎德 / 杰克·吉伦哈尔
other title: 后天 / 明日之后(港)
After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also shepherding to safety his son, trapped in New York after the city is overwhelmed by the start of the new big freeze.