A typical weekend down the shore takes a bizarre turn into the mysterious New Jersey Pine Barrens as six girls and five obnoxious fist-pumpers become the unsuspecting targets of a mentally-deranged killer.
查穆先生（罗伯特·雷德福 Robert Redford 饰）是一名老木匠，他总喜欢给孩子们讲一个关于龙的故事，故事中的龙居住在位于太平洋西北部的茂密丛林中，查穆先生说他曾经亲眼见证过龙的存在。女儿格蕾丝（布莱丝·达拉斯·霍华德 Bryce Dallas Howard 饰）对于这个父亲已经讲了一百万次的故事不屑一顾，她认为这绝对是父亲信口胡说乱编的故事。 一次偶然中，格蕾丝遇见了一个名为彼得（奥克斯·弗格雷 Oakes Fegley 饰）的男孩，男孩告诉格蕾丝，他没有亲人也没有家，唯一的朋友便是一条名叫艾略特的飞龙。皮特的叙述让格蕾丝想到了父亲的故事，两者之间有着惊人的相似，为了证实彼得的话，格蕾丝踏上了寻找龙的旅途。
未来的世界，人类已能轻松穿梭于星际之间，在太空中展开商业活动。“诺史莫”是在太空活动的众多星际商业运输船之一。一次，它完成任务满载太空矿石返航地球时，突然收到了一组奇怪的信号，由于这可能是求救信号，飞船接到指令前往信号源地进行搜救。 经过一段飞行后，飞船终于抵达信号源发出的地方。船员们发现此处果然有一艘坠毁的飞船，只是，经过一番搜索，他们发现该船的船员们都早已死亡，化为化石。此时，留在“诺史莫”号的第三指挥官里普利已经破译出该信号并不是求救信号，而是警告信号！队员的生死搏斗开始了！
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.
