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时空大挪移
时空大挪移
连载中 | 1960年月

  十九世纪末,亚历山大-哈特德根(Alexander Hartdegen,盖伊-皮尔斯饰,Guy Pearce)发明了一种时光机器,这种机器可以将他带入80万年以后的未来。在那里,他发现人类已经进化成了二个种族:艾洛伊族(Eloi)和莫洛克斯族(Morlocks)……
  跨越19、20世纪的传奇科幻小说作家H.G.威尔斯(H.G.Wells)著成了这部经典小说《时光机器》。在他的那个年代,他被称之为“可以看到未来的人”。然而,如果确实可以看到
  未来,H.G.威尔斯就会惊讶他最著名的小说被搬上了大银幕,而且不止是一次,而是二次。
  自从威尔斯的小说问世100多年以来,许多事情都变了样,但威尔斯对未来的设想以及时光旅行的概念仍然对观众们具有强烈的诱惑力。本片的制片沃尔特-帕克斯(Walter Parkes)评论说:“时间返回到20世纪60年代初,《海底两万里》和《地心游记》这类影片引发了我们无穷的幻想,而这些影片的祖师爷就是乔治-帕尔(George Pal)执导的1960年版的《时光机器》。今天,我们拥有的技术使我们可以打造出一个H.G.威尔斯曾想像过但制造不出来的世界,这是相当令人振奋的。当然,这个故事的基本情节----亚历山大身着马甲、系着领带、外套夹克,爬进了那个美丽的手工制造的维多利亚式机器,进入未来世界旅行----时至今日仍然像当初一样给人留下深刻的印象。”
  这部新片已经很难让人再产生对H.G.威尔斯的联想了。2002年版《时光机器》的导演是西蒙-威尔斯(Simon Wells),他是作者的曾孙。虽然有着家族的血缘联系,而西蒙-威尔斯却工作在动画界,并小有名气,特别是他还是梦工厂史诗般巨作《埃及王子》的合作导演,这是他第一部给人留下深刻印象的作品。
  《时光机器》的故事中,存在着四个不同的世界。威尔斯描绘说:“第一个世界是20世纪之交的纽约。我们先是来到了离我们不远的的将来----2030至2037年。最后我们又到达了一个更远的未来,在这里我们发现艾洛伊人田园诗般的世界里还存在着莫洛克斯人的黑暗世界,这有点象但丁的地狱一样。每个世界都有其独特的视觉风格。”

巨人:福宾计划
巨人:福宾计划
连载中 | 1970年月

  Eric Braeden stars as Dr. Charles Forbin, who has created a supercomputer named Colossus, built solely for the purpose of controlling the nuclear defenses of the Western alliance. It isn't too long after, however, that the Russians announce that they too have built a similar computer for those same purposes on their side--Guardian. And when the two machines begin sharing information at a speed nobody can believe, an attempt is made to disable them.
  This unfortunately just raises the machines' ire; and in retaliation, they launch their weapons at each other's home nations. The result is a chilling scenario that is potentially becoming all too real these days.
  COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT was not a big hit at the box office for various reasons. One is that its cast wasn't exactly well known. Another reason is that its ending isn't exactly a happy one. Still a third reason is that Universal had trouble trying to promote it in the wake of the huge success of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. The latter reason is obvious: Colossus and Guardian, like HAL in the Kubrick movie, become central characters here. The difference here is that while HAL malfunctions due to a programming conflict, Colossus and Guardian remain all too stable, convinced beyond a doubt that they know how to protect Mankind better than Man himself. As the computers point out: "One inevitable rule is that Mankind is his own worst enemy."
  Joseph Sargent's direction is efficient, and the special effects work of Albert Whitlock still manages to work despite its obvious age. An overlooked gem in the sci-fi genre, this should be given a revival.

等待方舟
等待方舟
连载中 | 1985年月

  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.

大帝机器人
大帝机器人
连载中 | 1991年月

  東宝ビデオのシネパック第一弾として、1991年11月8日にリリースされたのがこの『ミカドロイド』である。
  第二次大戦末期、敗色濃厚な日本。その中で帝国陸軍が極秘裏に研究していた秘密兵器、それが人造人間“ジンラ號”。敗戦とともに歴史から抹消されたジンラ號であったが、空襲で埋没した研究所の中、眠り続けていた一体があった。そして今、半世紀の歳月を経て、ジンラ號が東京の地下に蘇る! ふとした偶然でその地下迷宮に迷い込んでしまった若い男女二人は何を見るのか? 未完成の人造人間として老いる事も出来ずに彷徨い続けてきた謎の男、彼は一体何を望むのか? 本作は舞台となる場所と時間が狭い範囲に限定されているため、物語の密度が濃く、一夜限りの幻想的な悪夢のような作品となっている。
  ジンラ號のデザインを担当したのはイラストレーターの明日蘭。蒸気機関車のような旧式なラインでまとめられているジンラ號は一見ユーモラスで鈍重な外見だが、内に潜ませた悪夢と狂気が不思議な説得力を持ち、印象深い仕上がりとなっている。またジンラ號専用武器として設計されたという設定の“100式短機関銃改「ベ式」テラ銃”は、当時の落下傘部隊が使用した実銃をモチーフにいかにもそれらしくまとめられており、ジンラ號の設定をよりリアルな物としている。その他、南部十四年式拳銃や96式軽機関銃などの各種プロップガンもリアルな作動シーンを見せて画面を引き締めている。
  監督を務めたのは特殊メイククリエイターとして有名な原口智生。本作は原口自身が長年あたためてきた企画で、原口の監督デビュー作となった。