Sentences with phrase «stranded on»

Eventually, Endurance rendezvous with a NASA space station stranded on a remote planet where they rouse the sole survivor from a cryogenic sleep only to discover it's Matt Damon.

He will be stranded on an alien world, pitted against friend and foe alike, and even have his flowing locks chopped clean off, like Samson or James Hetfield from Metallica.

It's also we get a Marvel movie that doubles as a weird buddy comedy that pairs Thor with Mark Ruffalo's Bruce Banner / Hulk, who spend much of the film stranded on an alien - junkyard planet ruled by Jeff Goldblum's royal Grandmaster, a supreme oddball who finds great entertainment in staging gladiator - style coliseum fights.

Boy is stranded on scaffold while man attempts to kill him.

Stranded on a distant planet with only a mini-gun to defend himself, he takes the fight directly to the Sentients in the ultimate arcade revenge mode.

What's Coming Jan. 1: «E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial» Steven Spielberg's sci - fi classic stars Henry Thomas as a lonely young boy who befriends an alien stranded on earth.

Stranded on a hostile planet, Capt. Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto) and the rest of the Enterprise crew face an alien threat.

It's a very realistic story about a future astronaut stranded on Mars and surviving (on potatoes!)

Stranded on an unforgiving planet and left for dead, an escaped convict wanted throughout the galaxy is forced to activate an emergency beacon knowing full well it will draw bounty hunters and mercenaries to collect his head.

With the crew stranded on a unknown planet and with no apparent means of rescue, they find themselves in conflict with a new ruthless enemy who has a well - earned hatred of the Federation and what it stands for.

His worst fears are soon realized when his Super Sweet 16 birthday party is interrupted by meteors crashing down from the sky, but when he and Amy are stranded on opposite sides of town he charges into the city to rescue her.

Sure, there's a lot of funny lines in The Martian, but the harrowing tale of a man stranded on Mars fighting for survival against impossible odds doesn't exactly scream «Comedy,» and it sure isn't a musical (The Big Short, Adam McKay's financial crisis dramedy is similarly likely to be considered a comedy even if the shoe does not entirely fit).

Directed by Ridley Scott, The Martian is based on Andy Weir's novel (adapted by Drew Goddard) about an astronaut who gets stranded on Mars after a manned mission is forced to abort.

On his third attempt, with this time with a stronger raft, he meets the perpetrator — a red turtle who is intent on keeping this man stranded on the island.

The trailer for M Night Shyamalan's «After Earth» has hit the web, giving fans a sneak preview of the disaster - epic that sees Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) and his father Cypher (Will Smith) stranded on Earth, 1,000 years after cataclysmic events forced humanity to escape.

Though the premise has the makings of a reasonable sci - fi movie — two guys stranded on earth years after civilization — somewhere along the line something has gone very, very wrong.

Damon earned his third acting Oscar nomination for Ridley Scott's 2015 space drama «The Martian» — playing solo for much of the film as an astronaut stranded on the red planet.

Dr Grant reluctantly agrees, thinking that an aerial tour would be safe, and he really needs the money, but things don't turn out as expected, when Dr Grant, the mysterious benefactor, his wife, and an airplane crew of dubious reputation, end up stranded on the island fighting for survival...

It tells of the same events, but from a different perspective: Nolan's film focuses on the thousands of troops famously stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk during World War II; Wright's takes place in the dim hallways of power in London, where politicians led by Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Gary Oldman) debate how to rescue them.

«I'm going to science the shit out of this,» decides Mark Watney (Damon) near the start of The Martian, after the astronaut finds himself stranded on Mars.

Doubling as an effective romance, Zemeckis story of Hanks's FedEx worker Chuck Noland becoming stranded on a deserted Pacific Ocean island after a plane crash, driven to survive by the thought of returning to his girlfriend Kelly (played by Helen Hunt) is one of the director's most restrained (even the music cues by Alan Silvestri don't start till over an hour into the film) and in - command pieces of work that sees the esteemed filmmaker largely hold back on artistic flashes and instead focusing on his leading man Hanks working his magic as the determined Chuck.

That's when you get stranded on the new Island of Palanoi, along with a new batch of survivors and a new batch of predicatable plot devices to hack and club your way through.

There's a plane crash and a little boy is stranded on a mountain.

But with so many British and Allied soldiers stranded on the French beaches in 1940, surrounded by enemy planes at every turn, the probability of their evacuation seemed miniscule, the probability of German invasion extremely likely.

The story follows an astronaut who gets stranded on Mars and faces a battle to survive long enough to make his way home.

The film is a thriller about two strangers who become stranded on a mountain following a crash.

Basically, what we have here is a version of Agatha Christie's «Ten Little Niggers / Ten Little Indians / And Then There Were None» (depending on which decade of political correctness your edition was published), except instead of a bunch of strangers stranded on an island, they're stuck in an elevator.

The IMAX format, however, gives moviegoers a chance to see the movie as Nolan intended — epic scale to tell the epic story, set at the outset of World War II, when British civilians in small vessels crossed the English Channel to rescue more than 300,000 British and Allied soldiers surrounded and stranded on the French beach of Dunkirk.

The first trailer for the Alien - director's new space adventure has a Nasa astronaut stranded on Mars with only his wits... and a potato

It's simple tale of a man stranded on a deserted island — and the red turtle that destroys his raft every time he tries to leave — has been hailed as a masterpiece at film festivals around the world.

However, he survives and now he's stranded on an alien planet with no way of calling for help — or so the synopsis says.

Kirk and his crew are stranded on a remote planet at the mercy of Krall (Idris Elba).

The crew investigate a distress signal, get stranded on a planet, have to fight aliens and then escape to save the residents of a nearby space station.

Oscar hopefuls turned Oscar disappointments are the other big new releases, with Angelina Jolie's inspirational chain - letter on film «Unbroken» making its way to Blu - Ray; stirring in its action sequences (aerial fights, men stranded on the ocean), it becomes lugubrious as soon as it focuses on Louis Zamperini's torture in concentration camps.

The «mole» focuses on the men stranded on the beach trying to avoid German bombs and gunfire while hoping for safe passage on a ship.

Tiff will screen Ridley Scott's sci - fi adventure The Martian, which has Matt Damon stranded on Mars and Chiwetel Ejiofor and Jessica Chastain trying to save him.

E.T. is a modern fairytale about the relationship between a lonely 10 - year - old boy, Elliott (Henry Thomas), and an extraterrestrial stranded on earth whom he helps - «E.T. go home».

[I thought] it might be weird,» Damon said, «if, after taking a year and a half off, I played another dude stranded on a planet.»

Then, when that crashes, the two — he's a doctor and she's a journalist — are left stranded on a cold mountain and must find...

Summary: Stranded on a cruise ship with a bunch of zombies - evil lurking in dark places.

After a few teases, Fox delivers a full look at the Ridley Scott sci - fi drama, which stars Matt Damon as an astronaut stranded on Mars.

Lost in a jungle with teeth around every corner, the Kirby's finally confess that they have come to rescue their 14 - year - old son who was stranded on the island eight weeks ago, due to a parasailing accident.

STARRING: JENNIFER LAWRENCE; CHRIS PRATT; MICHAEL SHEEN DIRECTED BY: MORTEN TYLDUM AMovieGuy.com's RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) In Passengers, two of the most beautiful people in the world find themselves awake and stranded on a spaceship with 90 years left till it reaches its destination.

A journalist and a doctor stranded on a snowy mountaintop after a plane crash must rely on another to survive.

Harboring and guarding the map is an adorable, globular droid called BB - 8, who's stranded on the desert planet Jakku when his master, Resistance ace pilot Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac), is captured by the First Order.

Earth to Echo (PG for action, peril and mild epithets) Kid - friendly sci - fi, reminiscent of E.T. (1982), about a trio of adolescents (Astro, Teo Halm and Reese Hartwig) who surreptitiously come to the aid of a homesick alien stranded on Earth.

A highly enjoyable, zestily acted team - building exercise, with Matt Damon playing the team of one, director Ridley Scott's «The Martian» throws a series of life - or - death scenarios at its resourceful botanist - astronaut, stranded on Mars but making the most of it.

For a big budget movie about a lone astronaut who gets stranded on Mars, the spacesuits in The Martian are surprisingly sober in terms of design.

Here, Dano is Hank, desperate, lonely and ready to commit suicide after being stranded on a desert island and losing all hope of seeing home again.

For Matt Damon's character in the upcoming sci - fi film «The Martian» — an astronaut who gets stranded on Mars and must struggle to keep himself alive — Monday's announcement from NASA that it has found signs of liquid water on the planet comes a tad too late.