Avatar (2009 film)

The Starving Games (2013)

Actors: Emily D. Haley (actress), Diedrich Bader (actor), Nick Gomez (actor), Beau Brasseaux (actor), Justin Begnaud (miscellaneous crew), Peter Safran (producer), Evan King (actor), Rob Steinberg (actor), Angel De La Vina (miscellaneous crew), Gene Kevin Hames Jr. (actor), Kathy Chambless Oliver (miscellaneous crew), Scott Willmann (producer), Jason Friedberg (writer), Jason Friedberg (director), Aaron Seltzer (director),

Plot: Set in the most depressing corner of a postapocalyptic future, our heroine Kantmiss Evershot (Maiara Walsh) volunteers to take her manipulative younger sister's place in the seventy-fifth annual "Starving Games." In doing so, she must leave behind her smoldering just-a-friend Dale (Brant Daugherty) and team up with the geeky baker's son Peter Malarkey (Cody Allen Christian) in a fight for her life. But wait, there's more! She could also win an old ham, a coupon for a foot-long sub at a six-inch price, and a partially eaten pickle! In The Starving Games, Friedberg and Seltzer's sixth cinematic spoof of box-office hits, the prolific parody duo has its sights trained on the adventure blockbuster The Hunger Games! It's all the laughs and half the calories as they sling dozens of cock-eyed, barbed arrows at sci-fi, action and fantasy films from The Avengers and Oz the Great and Powerful to pop culture characters and celebrities like Harry Potter and Taylor Swift.

Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: All the Laughs... Half the Calories. From the guys who cooked up 'Date Movie', 'Meet the Spartans' and 'Vampires Suck'

Café (2011)

Actors: Sharon Pinkenson (miscellaneous crew), Jennifer Love Hewitt (actress), Jamie Kennedy (actor), Brieann Rich (miscellaneous crew), Alexa Vega (actress), Christopher Brady (composer), John Schuman (miscellaneous crew), Chris Wyatt (actor), Chris Wyatt (producer), Joel Garland (actor), Thomas Walton (actor), Adam Shapiro (actor), Stacy Rowe (miscellaneous crew), Justin Wineburgh (miscellaneous crew), Madeline Carroll (actress),

Plot: A good-hearted musician struggles to find a way to tell his beautiful barista coworker that he loves her, despite the fact that she is in a relationship. Meanwhile, regulars and customers at the café where they work have their own problems and encounters. A police officer keeps his eye on his wayward cousin, who owes money to a charismatic dealer, and a married man contemplates his relationship with a good-looking new acquaintance. However, one customer believes he is in fact the main character in a computer simulation of modern life, set in the microcosm of the café, all designed by a young girl.

Keywords: barista, free-will, omniscience, one-word-title, virtual-world
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: What if the world you lived in weren't real? Everyone deserves a second shot.

Quotes:

Todd: Hey Claire! Sweet shades.::Claire: Yeah, I'm going for the Bono look.

Avatar: [video chatting] How old are you?::Elly: Um, I'm not really... there's no time here, so there's, so I can't really answer that.::Avatar: Okay, where is here?::Elly: In my room.::Avatar: Which is where? What State are you in?::Elly: I'm in the state of endless possibility and limitless dimension.

Movie Woman: Do you often approach strangers after a movie and ask them to get a coffee?::Movie Man: Yeah, that's uh, all the time. Usually I'm wearing a trench coat and I have nothing underneath.::Movie Woman: Right, of course.::Movie Man: No, I'm uh - no I've never done this. Do you often accept invitations from strange men like that?::Movie Woman: I guess I didn't realize you were strange.

Movie Man: This morning I intended to just keep on driving right past where I was going and just keep going into the wild blue yonder, and I ended up at the movies, which is kinda like running away without risking anything.::Movie Woman: The wild blue yonder sounds like fun.::Movie Man: I'm still thinking of going. You want to go?

Earth Mother: [conducting job interview] Let me tell you what I think. Either you want to punish your parents for spoiling you when you were a child, you want to save the poor black man from all the indignities he suffered at the hand of your ancestors, or you had a nanny when you were a little girl. A Jamaican, probably, who treated you better than anybody else. I've had enough bright-eyed kids tell me that all they wanted to do was make a difference in this life. But let me tell you one thing, you're parents did the best they knew how. And as for me and the other white men, you are not going to get a pat on the back for putting your life at risk on our account. My neighborhood is never going to be like your neighborhood. And guilt - guilt is no bridge to build your future on.::Sally: So are you going to ask me any questions, or did I just come all this way to get my mind read?

Avatar: This whole freewill thing, I don't get it. Why did you build it into the program?::Elly: When you can go either way, but you choose to do the right thing, there's nothing more gratifying to me than that.::Avatar: But what if I choose wrong?::Elly: You won't.::Avatar: How do you know?::Elly: I know everything.::Avatar: [pondering] Then that's not really freewill, is it.::Elly: Sure it is. I know because I'm not subject to time. Which is just another construct of the program. I know what you'll do it, but I'm not making you do it.::Avatar: Hmm. And I guess you can always shut it down if it's not going the way you hoped.::Elly: I don't hope Craig. I program.::Avatar: I want to be like you. Elly.::Elly: You are. I programmed you in my image.

Elly: [explains what she would do if free to do anything] I would create a virtual world, filled with beauty and opportunity. And everyone and everything in that world would ultimately be one. But they just didn't know it.::Avatar: Why would you do that?::Elly: So that through their own effort and striving, every element in that world could overcome the boundaries that divide them. And they could form this incredibly strong and vital bond, that could have never even been conceived of had the pain of it's opposite didn't exist.::Elly: There's no more brilliant light than that which follows complete darkness.

[last lines]::Elly: You're not going to be deleted, Craig.::Avatar: But you said, game over. The end.::Elly: It *is* over, Craig. You ended it just by the willingness to give yourself completely. That's the point. The whole game, the billions of avatars in their situations and trials, tribulations - every so often one of you does that. And then, they're no longer bound to the game, 'cause they've already won.

Plastic Incarnation: A Performance Film by Treiops Treyfid (2010)

Actors: Hans Fjellestad (composer), Hans Fjellestad (actor), Brad Cooper (editor), Brad Cooper (director), Roger Fojas (actor), Treiops Treyfid (director), Treiops Treyfid (actor), Michelle LaVon (actress), Treiops Treyfid (producer), Maggie Rose Lally (actress), The Little Red Writer (actor), Nichole Hanley (actor),

Plot: The aim of Plastic Incanation is to portray the realities of the current 'oil age' in which we are immersed, in deconstructed form. The film includes several performers, abstract improvised music, elaborate costumes made from recycled elements, Butoh-inspired dance, and pattern-based choreography. Created by Los Angeles artist, Treiops Treyfid.

Genres: Drama, Short,

Turbo (2009)

Actors: Justin Chon (actor), Jermaine Stegall (composer), Justin Lutsky (editor), Volney McFarlin (miscellaneous crew), Erika Cervantes (writer), Ilram Choi (actor), Sasha Knezev (producer), Kaylon Hunt (producer), Jarrett Lee Conaway (producer), Jarrett Lee Conaway (writer), Jarrett Lee Conaway (director), Alice Hunter (actress), Vai Tiare (actress), Jessen Noviello (actor), David Lehre (actor),

Plot: It tells the story of Hugo Park a misspent youth whose only outlet for angst is a 4D fighting video-game called "Super Turbo Arena". When Pharaoh King, the Michael Jordan of cyber-sports, announces a tournament to determine who will join his pro-team, Hugo sets his eyes on the prize. But, Hugo isn't the only gamer who wants fame and glory. If Hugo wants to win he's going to have to beat Shamus, the all time Turbo champ at the local Pandemonium arcade, and Ruse Kapri, a feisty prep girl that knows how to win. Realizing he can't win on his skill alone, Hugo turns to his brother Tobias a former kick-boxer whose last match left him wheel-chair ridden. Together the two will mend old wounds and see if a washed up street fighter can teach a troubled teen how to become a virtual gladiator!

Keywords: fighting-game, fistfight, martial-arts, violence
Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Short,
Taglines: Select your character.

Slipstream (1989)

Actors: Murray Melvin (actor), Marc Wolff (miscellaneous crew), Bill Paxton (actor), Elmer Bernstein (composer), Roshan Seth (actor), Geoff Freeman (miscellaneous crew), Robbie Coltrane (actor), F. Murray Abraham (actor), Ben Kingsley (actor), Bruce Boa (actor), Mark Hamill (actor), Heathcote Williams (actor), Ricco Ross (actor), Terry Rawlings (editor), Gary Kurtz (producer),

Plot: In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by man's pollution and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, planning to get the bounty himself. These in turn try to hunt the two men down.

Keywords: adventurer, airplane, airplane-crash, ammunition-seller, android, arms-smuggling, arrest, artifact, aviator, balloon
Genres: Adventure, Sci-Fi,
Taglines: From the depths of the earth. To the edge of existence... The hunt is on! The world we know has been changed. Not by man, but by nature itself. A science-fiction spectacular!

Quotes:

[first lines]::Will Tasker: It's over! It's finished! End of chase!

Will Tasker: [as plane banks to try to go over some high mountains] We're gonna make it! We're gonna make it! [the plane hits the mountainside and explodes]

Wizards (1977)

Actors: Heinrich Himmler (actor), Ralph Bakshi (director), Adolf Hitler (actor), Ralph Bakshi (producer), Ralph Bakshi (actor), Ralph Bakshi (actor), Ralph Bakshi (writer), Peter Hobbs (actor), Bob Holt (actor), Susan Tyrrell (actress), David Proval (actor), Mark Hamill (actor), Susan Anton (actress), Susan Anton (actress), Richard Romanus (actor),

Plot: In a post apocalyptic future that appears as a blend of World War II Europe and J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, a pint-size wizard named Avatar must save the world from a band of fascist mutants controlled by his evil twin brother, Blackwolf, who likes to confuse enemy armies by projecting films of Adolf Hitler speeches during attacks. Painted live-action footage of advancing Nazi armies contrasts with Saturday-morning-cartoon-style animation of fairies and elves as Avatar travels through various magical and radioactive realms on his quest. Aiding him are the beautiful Fairy princess Elinore, hot-blooded warrior elf Weehawk, and Peace, a misunderstood robot rebelling against his Blackwolf-controlled programming. A bizarre and psychedelic meditation on magic vs. technology, this ultimate futuristic fantastic epic cult film still finds an audience on college campuses and will prove quite rewarding to viewers in the right frame of mind.

Keywords: 2d-animation, anti-nazi, anti-technology, assassin, assassination-plot, blood-spatter, comic-relief, critically-acclaimed, cult-director, cult-film
Genres: Adventure, Animation, Fantasy, Sci-Fi,
Taglines: The ultimate futuristic fantastic epic A fantasy vision of the future. An epic fantasy of peace and magic.

Quotes:

Avatar: Oh yeah... one more thing: I'm glad you changed your last name, you son of a bitch!

Max: Fritz! Fritz, get up for God's sake! Get up! They've killed Fritz! They've killed Fritz! Those lousy stinking yellow fairies! Those horrible atrocity-filled vermin! Those despicable animal warmongers! They've killed Fritz! Take that! Take this! Take that, you green slime! You black hearted, short, bow-legged...::Fritz: Max! Max, I'm okay! I'm okay max. Just a scratch. Look I'm all right.::Max: Oh. Oh, damn. There you go again, stepping on my lines, raining on my parade, costing me medals. Oh, damn. [Accidentally shoots Fritz] Ohh. Oh, Fritz? Fritz, get up for God's sake! Get up! They've killed Fritz! They've killed Fritz! Those lousy stinking yellow fairies! Those horrible atrocity-filled vermin! Take that! Take that! They killed Fritz!

Avatar: I'm too old for this sort of thing. Just wake me up when the planet's destroyed.

General: [guffaws] If this is the great Avatar, then I am a warthog's uncle!::Weehawk: Funny you should say that.::[hurls his sword, skewering the general]

Blackwolf: Brother, there is no need for me to destroy you. Surrender! Surrender your world!::Avatar: [clapping] You always did need an audience you sap.

Weehawk: So, what are elves good for?

Elinore: I have always been good, and could even... be better sometimes.

Avatar: [to companions] I'll be right down, Heroes!::Avatar: [leading Peace by a rope] Allright, creep, Now before I untie you, I wanna tell you a couple of things, and I want you to listen, and listen carefully. This has been the biggest bummer of a trip I've ever been on; but if you let me down, or you hurt my friends, especially the broad, I got stuff planned for you that'll take twenty years to kill ya.::Peace: ...no pain...::Avatar: ...And you'll be screaming for mercy in the first five seconds.::Peace: Peace wants love... wants free... will help.::Avatar: [jerks leash] Look, just get us there, ya got it?

Hawk: Hey, c'mon Lardbottom, get up. Blackwulf's callin'.::Lardbutt: I don't wanna go.::Hawk: Hey, when Blackwulf calls, we go.::Lardbutt: I don't wanna fight any more...::Hawk: Ya gotta!::Lardbutt: I don't wanna hurt things any more!::Hawk: Hey... you're so stupid...::Lardbutt: [jumps up] Listen, Hawk, I ain't stupid; Just listen! Y'know what I mean, trees, birds, butterflies? Everything's got a right to live! Y'know what I mean?::Hawk: Hey... hey... waitaminnit...::Lardbutt: Everything... everything's got a right to live... the butterflies... Why can't...::Hawk: [kicks Lardbutt to get his attention] Blackwulf's got a secret weapon that makes us invincible. We can't lose.::Lardbutt: [shoulders weapon, tramples Hawk] Right, left, right, left, right...

Avatar: [to Weehawk] You know, the world owes you much, kid. Even if we don't take another step.