So i wanted to start a Thread where we could post about movies (or series) that have the vibe, plot lines or even the setting of Alan Wake. I will start with some of my picks and also some reasons as to why i chose them.
On his first night with the Hobsons, before Cody goes to sleep, he tells Jessie about a nightmarish creature called "the Canker Man." Jessie brushes the story off and tells Cody that nightmares cannot harm anyone. Later that night, Jessie and Mark are amazed as multicolored butterflies flutter across the living room. Mark tries to capture a blue butterfly to show Cody, as he has a liking for butterflies, but when Cody wakes up the butterflies disappear. The next day at school, he befriends a girl named Annie and antagonizes a mean student named Tate. At home, Cody asks Mark who the child in a living room picture is, and Mark replies that it is Sean. That night, the couple see their deceased child and try to hug him. When Cody wakes up, Sean disappears. Upon realizing Cody's gift of making his dreams become reality, Jessie shows Cody home videos of Sean. Her dead son appears and acts out scenes from the videos. Days later, Mark accuses his wife of using Cody for his gift instead of loving him and takes down the pictures of Sean.
Cody falls asleep at school, and "the Canker Man" appears before Tate and devours him, while Annie watches in horror and screams, waking him up. Meanwhile, Jessie goes to a doctor and complains that Cody has trouble sleeping. The doctor prescribes medication. She mixes it with Cody's drink, unbeknownst to Mark. That night Sean again appears before them but resembles the Canker Man, and Mark cannot wake Cody up. The Canker Man devours Mark and knocks Jessie unconscious. She wakes as Cody calls 911. Suspicious of Mark's sudden disappearance and suspecting domestic violence, social services takes Cody away to an orphanage.
The Wake Forest Historical Museum collection is brightened in many ways by the presence of a particular sample of archival footage shot here in 1939. The filmmaker was H. Lee Waters, a traveling photographer from Lexington, North Carolina who spent the years between 1936 and 1942 making movies of regular people and showing them for a small fee in local movie houses.
I am looking to identify a movie where the world is changed every night and people wake up in a different world. The only scene I can remember is of a City (vaguely 'Gotham' in muted colors) being torn down and then rebuilt while people sleep. IIRC the people are unaware that this is happening. English language, probably late eighties early nineties.
John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has losthis memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders.While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles upon a fiendishunderworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers whopossess the ability to put people to sleep and alter the cityand its inhabitants.
With Remedy's intense blending of live-action footage into their video games, it should be no secret that the creative team behind Alan Wake 2 loves movies and television. You should not take this to mean that the 2023 horror game mimics classic films and has no identity of its own. On the contrary, Alan Wake 2 oozes originality in every moment.
Just like the woods are a place of mystery and strange happenings in Alan Wake 2, so are the woods and mountains a place of magic in this movie. It's easy to see the movie getting a renewed appreciation today with the renaissance of Folk Horror with movies like The Witch and Midsommar, though it itself is not a horror movie.
If you are into movies about serial killers, it is hard to get any better than Silence of the Lambs. Alan Wake 2 starts with two FBI agents investigating a string of murders in Bright Springs, so you should definitely check this film out if this plot line were what brought you into the game.
Parents need to know that Wake Up Sid is a Bollywood coming-of-age romantic drama with positive messages about taking responsibility and finding your place within the world. The film follows the spoiled and irresponsible Siddharth or "Sid" (Ranbir Kapoor), who must figure out who he really is and what he wants in life after his father kicks him out and he goes to stay with his friend, Aisha (Konkona Sen Sharma). There are verbal disagreements and arguments between individuals. While someone is driving, their eyes are briefly covered by another person's hand as a joke. The film has romance through multiple song and dance sequences. People flirt and in one scene, someone is dressed in lingerie. Characters drink at numerous occasions and someone smokes a cigar. Language includes "bloody," "s--t," "damn," and "jerk." The film is in Hindi with English subtitles available. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.
Thesetting is a small town somewhere in the South, where stock expert Russ (ColeHauser) has just lost a lot of people a lot of money by recommending a badinvestment. Even the local Sheriff, named Fowler (Morgan Freeman), isn't toohappy with the guy, since the lawman's brother lost his retirement fund in thedeal, and that becomes a problem for Russ when he starts receiving anonymous,threatening phone calls (The script goes out of its way to make a catch-phraseout of the running threat: "Where will you be the minute you wake updead?").
The next day, the invasion occurs. During that day, they wake up, get in gear, and ship out; hours would have passed during all that. Then Cage manages to kill the Alpha, and get its blood mixed with his own. This must have happened 24 hours after step 2 above, during the hours that Cage was out. Alternatively, it happened to occur exactly 24 hours after step 3, but the hours of him unconscious provides a nice window where if time is reset he wouldn't be able to alter his fate of being sent on the invasion.
my guess is that Cage usually wakes up to the last moment where he regained consciousness. Since he lost consciousness when he was tasered, that's where he wakes up. Now, when Omega is killed, the war is over, so Cage would never have met with the General, and therefore never would have been tasered and lose consciousness. In this situation, the last moment where he regained consciousness is no longer the taser moment, but the nap moment in the helicopter.
While watching the movie, we always notice Cage waking up, obviously shocked by the death he experienced just moments ago. But what if he just got that memory that very moment (or just before) similar to how dreaming works. If you've ever wondered why you always wake up after a dream, it's primarily due to you remembering only the dreams right before waking up; even if some time has passed since then.
Alpha death is just an autonomic response for a day reset, but I think the Omega blood gave Cage the ability to DECIDE when to wake up. He subconsciously wanted to wake up earlier than being handcuffed at the base, so he woke up in the helicopter.
Based on the other answers I came to the conclusion that when cage killed Alpha it set a spawn point for him that was placed 24 hours prior to Alpha's death. In other words he respawns at the military base. Later on he loses the ability, but regains it after killing Omega. This event sets a new spawn point which is 24 hours prior to Omega's death. Since he managed to kill Omega earlier during the day than he killed Alpha, his spawn point is also earlier. In other words he wakes up in the helicopter.
Cage and Rita are both retired from military. Having Omega's blood in him, Cage is linked to, and has visions of, other Omegas floating in space, or perhaps a Super-Omega somewhere on it's base. He tries to warn the authorities, ends up being zapped by police or guards, wakes up on a dissection table, just in time to intercept the surgeon's hand holding the bone saw. He must now escape the psych facility, reunite with Rita, convince a new crew to follow him, break into a military base, hijack a spacecraft, and destroy the Omega/Super-Omega base.
This leaves the subconscious anchor. He wakes up from every reset. Perhaps, his previous consciousness can only be uploaded to a pliable brain. An unconscious brain would probably be considered pliable. The issue with this is he sleeps the night before the fight. He is also unconscious then. This is why I suggested an unconscious cue. He probably relates that specific moment as the beginning of his death. This would also suggest there is some feedback between Cage and the Omega. With the Omega dead, Cage was in full control. He reset himself to the day before to another unconscious state, the helicopter.
Amid lockdown, people are catching up on Bollywood movies during their free time. The films are an excellent source of entertainment during these days. Some prefer comedy films, while others like action movies. But the feel-good movies are enjoyed by everyone. It can lift up your mood any time at any given time. It has a pinch of humour. romance and tragedy. So we bring you the top 10 feel-good films to binge-watch over the weekend.
WAKE ISLAND (1942) is one of a pair of World War II films released on Blu-ray late last summer by Kino Lorber.
WAKE ISLAND was released alongside the very enjoyable RED BALL EXPRESS (1952), which I reviewed here.
WAKE ISLAND kept being pushed further down in my review stack by the ongoing wealth of new Kino Lorber releases in the ensuing weeks, but I'm happy to say I finally caught up with it. I'm not sure "enjoyed" is the appropriate word to describe my response to such a sad story, but I found the film worthwhile and even educational, starting me on a path to reading more about the real battle.
I've always been interested in World War II films and find movies made in the early days of the war, when the outcome was uncertain, to be particularly fascinating. WAKE ISLAND was released by Paramount Pictures only eight months after the beginning of the siege of Wake Island. It was followed a few weeks later by the equally grim MANILA CALLING (1942) from 20th Century-Fox.
The Battle of Wake Island began almost simultaneously with the attack on Pearl Harbor; thanks to the international dateline, December 7th in Hawaii was December 8th on Wake Island, so in essence they were attacked on the same day.
The Japanese attacked Wake Island repeatedly for over three weeks, as any hopes for resupply or rescue for the men stationed there dwindled. After great loss of life, the battle concluded with the U.S. surrender on December 23rd.
WAKE ISLAND is a thoughtful and moving film, and though the end is sad, the stirring patriotism served to inspire its original audiences nationwide. It still evokes strong emotions today, not just as a film, but thinking both of what the real heroes of Wake Island endured and what the audiences of this film were experiencing in the early months of the war.
Brian Donlevy stars as Major Caton, who arrives on the island just before the action commences. Donlevy is an actor I've increasingly come to appreciate over the past couple of years; he always brings his "A" game, and that's no exception here. Donlevy has any number of outstanding scenes, with the best possibly being when he approves what he knows is almost certainly a suicide mission for pilot Lt. Cameron (Macdonald Carey).
Other men under Donlevy's command are played by Robert Preston, William Bendix, and Rod Cameron; Cameron plays the only man to leave the island, taking a report of Japanese tactics and conditions to Hawaii. Albert Dekker plays a construction contractor who initially clashes with Donlevy but ultimately passes up an opportunity to leave, remaining to offer his skills in defending the island.
The terrific cast includes many familiar unbilled faces, including Barbara Britton, Dane Clark, Hugh Beaumont, Hillary Brooke, Mary Field, Don Castle, Alan Hale Jr., Phillip Terry, and James Millican.
WAKE ISLAND was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Director John Farrow was likewise nominated for the Academy Award, as were William Bendix (Best Supporting Actor) and screenwriters W.R. Burnett and Frank Butler.
WAKE ISLAND was filmed in black and white by William C. Mellor and Theodor Sparkuhl. It runs 88 minutes.
Kino Lorber's Blu-ray is a typically good-looking print which also has excellent sound. Extras on the Blu-ray disc include the trailer and a commentary track by Steve Mitchell and Steven Jay Rubin. The disc includes half a dozen trailers for additional films available from Kino Lorber.
Thanks to Kino Lorber for providing a review copy of this Blu-ray.
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