滑板飞地狱

　　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.

雷•费瑞尔（汤姆•克鲁斯 Tom Cruise 饰）和妻子离婚了，一儿一女都跟母亲生活——因为他的的贪玩懒散，疏忽责任，这个家庭才如此支离破碎。一场外星人入侵的灾难却让他们重新建立起亲密的的关系。
　　这天妻子繁忙，只好把儿女交给雷照顾。电闪雷鸣天色灰暗，一切好像有些异样。 果然，马路上赫然一个庞大的三脚飞行器掘地而起，邪恶的火星人光顾了这个本来平静的小镇。人们四处逃亡，雷也带着女儿奔走逃命，开始了生死历险。当局想尽办法对付外星人，却屡屡失败，整个世界都陷入了恐慌当中。
　　有了父爱的本能，平日吊儿郎当的父亲变得英勇顽强，保护儿女成了他支撑他的动力和信念

　　拥有幸福美满生活的大兵福德·布罗迪（亚伦·泰勒-约翰逊 Aaron Taylor-Johnson 饰），内心隐藏着一个挥之不去的阴影。15年前，他和父亲乔伊（布莱恩·科兰斯顿 Bryan Cranston 饰）、母亲桑德拉（朱丽叶·比诺什 Juliette Binoch e 饰）生活在日本。父母供职于一座大型核电站。就在福德的爸爸生日当天，一场突如其来的灾难摧毁了核电站，他的母亲在灾难中丧生，语焉不详的政府隐瞒真相，以防止核辐射的名义封锁了该地区。但是乔伊却从种种异状觉察到反常之处，十五年来他一直试图揭开当天的灾难之谜，终于发现这一切都是由一只如山一般巨大的怪兽所引起。
　　怪兽哥斯拉从沉睡中苏醒，令人难以预测的灾难席卷而来……

　　After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it will hit it will cause a incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules" but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough fire power. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR who have also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?

　　科学家们在一个小镇的供水系统中下毒，把居民变成杀人狂魔，他们互相残杀，任何人都能通过。