Prometheus 2012

The year is 2089 and doctors: Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) are heading an archaeology expedition when Elizabeth discovers a 35,000 year old cave painting in Scotland’s Isle of Skye. Four years later, it’s December, 2093 and now they’re in charge of a scientific team aboard the deep space exploratory vessel: Prometheus. Commander Meredith Vickers (Charlize Theron) and the rest of the crew have just been awakened from a 2 year cryogenic sleep monitored by an android named David (Michael Fassbender). Given a short recuperation period, the crew is gathered for a prerecorded holographic introduction to a feeble old man referring to himself as their “employer”, Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce). He informs them that, “… If you’re watching this, you have reached you’re destination, and I am long dead, may I rest in peace…” He introduces David as, “The closest thing to a son, I will ever have.” And then he explains that he’s spent his entire lifetime contemplating the questions, “Where do we come from; what is our purpose; what happens when we die?” Then he fades away after surrendering the assembly to doctors: Shaw and Holloway. Charlie explains that archaeologists have, through the course of centuries, unearthed numerous pictograms from ancient human civilizations that date back over thousands of years and depict men worshiping giant beings, pointing towards map like images of the universe far beyond the stars. Elizabeth concludes that they are there to seek out what she calls “engineers” that will lead them to “Our creators”.

Yup, Elizabeth and Charlie believe that humans were created by aliens, and Peter Weyland has funded an outer space mission designed to help them find and return evidence to support their theory. He was also secretly hoping they may even discover some sort of fountain of youth or Garden of Eden: as it were; he dreams of immortality. Go figure!

As they approach the new planet, Charlie sees a strange rock formation right in the middle of what looks like a well excavated runway, he directs Captain Janek (Idris Elba) to land their vessel in front of it. Charlie’s excited and immediately requests the survey team to suit-up; Janek suggests that, “There’s only 6 hours left of daylight. Why don’t you leave it till the morning?” But Charlie calmly declares “It’s Christmas Captain, and I want to open my presents.” He, Elizabeth and David suit-up and meet with 3 other scientists to begin exploring the hollow rock formation. While inside, one scientist releases several tiny balls that fly through every tunnel and digitally trace a 3-dementinal map that begins to appear back on Prometheus for Janek and Vickers to oversee. They don’t know it yet, but, they’ve just discovered a ghost ship whose crew bear an uncanny relationship to human beings. However, evidence found throughout the ship will indicate that these distant relatives were not planning a warm family reunion, after all; in fact, they were actually in the process of developing weapons of mass destruction. And Oh My, let me tell ya, we’ve all seen these weapons before!... Now the survivors of Prometheus will have to find a way to protect mankind by delivering these weapons to their rightful destination.

Lockout (2012)

The year is 2079 and unfortunately corruption is still alive and well in Washington D.C.

Ex-CIA Operative, Snow (Guy Pearce) has been arrested and is now being interrogated by the Head of Secret Service - Special Agent Scott Langral (Peter Stormare); Langral wants Snow to tell him what happened in a New York City hotel room the night CIA Agent Colonel Frank Armstrong was killed, but Snow doesn’t trust Langral and is refusing to tell him anything.

 (Apparently, Frank had a package containing evidence about an inside spy selling Top Secret information. Snow was supposed to help Frank deliver his package to the president. But Snow got to the room too late, assailants were already in the room and one of them shot Frank before Snow could kill him. Just before Frank died, he handed Snow his dog tags and a flip top lighter and told him not to let them get it. All of the sudden, lights were flashing and bullets were flying, Snow grabbed the briefcase laying on the floor next to Frank and took off. He managed to make it to the subway station where his buddy, Mace (Tim Plester) was waiting for him on a train, but police had him surrounded so he threw the briefcase into the train and watched it pull away. Mace took the briefcase to another station and hid it in a locker but while he was leaving, his gun fell out of his jacket and accidentally shot a police officer.)

Langral tells Snow that Frank was under surveillance for selling secrets about our space programs, and then he played a recording of Snow shooting Frank from behind. But that wasn’t how it happened. Pretty soon CIA Agent Harry Shaw (Lennie James) enters the room, and Langral steps out. Snow knows Harry and obviously trusts him because he told Harry that Mace has the briefcase. Langral has gone to speak with President Warnock (Peter Hudson) about Snow, and they learn that his daughter Emily Warnock (Maggie Grace) is away on a humanitarian errand.

She’s on a spaceship headed for America’s most efficient means of managing convicted criminals. M.S. ONE, a highly advanced outer space Maximum Security Prison equipped to house over 500,000 of the world’s most dangerous criminals by using a controversial procedure called Stasis (a controlled deep sleep). However, at the moment it’s still in a test phase and currently only holding about 500 prisoners. Emily’s mission is to learn more about the long term effects of Stasis on humans. So in a well secured setting, Emily will get to interview Hydell (Joseph Gilgun), an inmate who has just been awakened from Stasis.

And back on Earth, Langral informs Snow that he has just been convicted of first degree murder and conspiracy to commit espionage against the United States; and his sentence, a 30 year Stasis on M.S. One and it’s effective immediately.

Meanwhile up on M.S. One, there’s been a hostile takeover; Hydell got a hold of a gun, released all the prisoners and now he and his brother Alex (Vincent Regan) are holding the prison guards and staff including the president’s daughter hostage. The president needs Snow to go up to M.S. One, find and safely return Emily back down to Earth. But Snow rejects the idea until Harry secretly informs him that Mace is up on M.S One; Mace is the only one that knows where that briefcase is, and getting that briefcase back is the only way for Snow to regain his freedom. So, with that knowledge Snow accepts the mission. And once onboard M.S. One Snow will need all of his operative skills plus a whole lot of luck; he has to battle the inmates, bypass the security’s technology, get the girl, get Mace, locate their escape pods, get the girl again because the inmates got her back. Oh yes – and the clock is ticking; with no one to monitor the facility’s navigational system they are slowly falling out of space and will collide with Earth within roughly 8 hours: so Special Forces have been deployed to blow the prison up while it’s still in space. And even if they make it off the facility in time, there's still no telling what Snow's fate may be when he returns to Earth.

Ravenous

We are brought into a promotion ceremony for Captain John Boyd (Guy Pearce), who is being celebrated for his heroism while out in the battle field. In his honor, a meal fit for military royalty. HA!

The sight of all that rare meat was enough to make, Me sick! And just GROSS, was the way the other soldiers ravenously devoured the bloody slop, as if none had eaten in many months.

After a few less than encouraging words, from General Slauson (John Spencer). Boyd is given his new post assignment, he is being sent to California’s Fort Spencer.

Upon post arrival we meet the chatty Colonel Hart (Jeffrey Jones) as he describes and introduces us to his company, a mockery of military presence.

One night, a near death stranger shows up from out in the wilderness. The company decides to take him in and try to save him. The next day this victim, Mr. Colghoun (Robert Carlyle) tells a tale of horror, despair and guilt. He admits that he cowardly abandoned a defenseless woman to escape his own presumed fate.

Hart immediately demands they set out to retrieve this woman and bring her back to safety. George (Joseph Running Fox) tries to explain and warn Hart of a native myth - Windigo - which tells of a crazed man that feeds off other men and steals their strength and soul. But Hart dismisses the myth and pushes on with the search.

It’s not long before a bloodbath ensues.

Holy Thin Air! I was beside myself when Boyd’s scurvy ass jumped off the cliff edge leaving Colghoun atop in disbelief!

Oh my god! Can you imagine surviving a trauma, and no one around you believes your story? Then you find out your nightmare will now become your commander. Boyd is about to learn that, there are worse things in life, than to die honorably at war.