![]() But even though Spartan finds it very difficult to adjust to life in the future, he soon proves that sometimes the old ways are still the best options. San Angeles police officer Lenina Huxley (as played by a very young Sandra Bullock) suggests that Spartan be freed as well to help take down Phoenix. And Phoenix’s uncontrollable rampage is far too much for the future authorities to handle. When the psychopathic killer Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) frames Spartan for murder, both men are cryogenically frozen before Phoenix is awakened decades later. Sylvester Stallone stars as John Spartan, an LAPD sergeant who is known as “the Demolition Man” because of the property damage he leaves in his wake. And we still haven’t figured out how to use the three seashells. The present is rapidly catching up to the future year of 2032, as seen in Demolition Man. But they can’t hide forever… Demolition Man To protect themselves from Quaritch’s vendetta, Jake and Neytiri take their family into hiding and attempt to make new allies among the Na’vi. When humanity re-invades Pandora, Jake learns that his old adversary, Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), lives on through his recorded memories in a cloned Avatar body. The Way of Water picks up 16 years after the original film, as Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and his wife, Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), live peacefully on Pandora while raising a family, including their adoptive daughter, Kiri (Sigourney Weaver). Through a content-sharing deal, James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water is streaming on Max, and it might be the last new 20th Century Studios release to do so. Avatar: The Way of Waterĭisney’s gain is apparently also Max’s gain. Ex-LAPD officer Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes) turned his back on the law to deal in memories, much to the chagrin of his friend, Lornette “Mace” Mason (Angela Bassett).īut when Lenny comes across a memory recording of Iris (Brigitte Bako) being raped and murdered, it thrusts him deeper into the dangerous criminal underworld. In the near future, memories recorded on SQUID devices have become the drug of choice in Los Angeles. Strange Days 20th Century Studiosĭirector Kathryn Bigelow and her ex-husband, The Terminator‘s James Cameron, collaborated on Strange Days, an underrated sci-fi classic from the mid-90s. ![]() Why couldn’t the sequels to The Matrix have been as good as The Animatrix? The Wachowskis invited a number of anime filmmakers to expand their Matrix universe, and the result was a visually stunning anthology movie that explores the genesis of the war between humanity and the machines, unexpected stories of love and betrayal, and prequel tales that set the stage for The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.Įven without the benefit of the tie-ins to The Matrix’s universe, The Animatrix is a terrific accomplishment in its own right. The Animatrix Warner Home Videoĭirectors: Andy Jones, Mahiro Maeda, Shinichirō Watanabe, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Takeshi Koike, Kōji Morimoto, Peter Chung ![]() Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) is one of the best players in OASIS, and perhaps one of the few who has a real chance to win the contest Alongside his friends and allies, Art3mis (Olivia Cooke), Aech (Lena Waithe), Sho (Philip Zhao), and Daito (Win Morisaki), Wade dares to take on the malevolent Innovative Online Industries in an attempt to keep their virtual world for the players. Before Halliday died, he left behind a contest for players to compete in for ownership of the OASIS. In the future world of Steven Spielberg‘s Ready Player One, the Earth is so screwed up that most people spend all of their time in the OASIS, a video game-like virtual world created by the late James Halliday (Mark Rylance). And she’s about to find out the hard way. However, she has no true concept of what humanity is really capable of. When the woman begins feeling empathy for one of her victims, she flees her fellow aliens and attempts to determine if she has an identity of her own. The reason that this film stands out is that Under the Skin refuses to explain its premise in simple terms, and Johansson’s character never even gets a real name. ![]() Under the Skin StudioCanalĪsteroid City‘s Scarlett Johansson stars in Under the Skin as an alien woman who seduces men and feeds them to some kind of alien void. ![]() In need of some more streaming recommendations? We also have guides to the best movies on Max, the best shows on Max, and what’s new on HBO and Max that are worth looking through. ![]()
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