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Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American epic war film directed by Steven  Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat. Set during the Invasion of  Normandy in World War II, the film is known for its graphic portrayal of  war, especially its depiction of the Omaha Beach assault during the  Normandy landings. The film follows United States Army Rangers Captain  John H. Miller (Tom Hanks) and his squad (Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns,  Barry Pepper, Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Adam Goldberg, and Jeremy  Davies) as they search for a paratrooper, Private First Class James  Francis Ryan (Matt Damon), the last surviving brother of four, the three  other brothers having been killed in action. The film was a  co-production between DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Amblin  Entertainment, and Mutual Film Company. DreamWorks distributed the film  in North America while Paramount released the film internationally.

In 1996, producer Mark Gordon pitched Rodat's idea, which was inspired  by the Niland brothers, to Paramount, which eventually began development  on the project. Spielberg, who at the time was forming DreamWorks, came  on board to direct the project, and Hanks joined the cast. After the  cast went through training supervised by Marine veteran Dale Dye, the  film's principal photography started in June 1997 and lasted two months.  The film's D-Day scenes were shot in Ballinesker Beach, Curracloe  Strand, Ballinesker, just east of Curracloe, County Wexford, Ireland and  used members of the Irish Army reserve as infantry for the D-Day  landing.

Released on July 24, 1998, Saving Private Ryan received acclaim from  critics and audiences for its performances (particularly from Hanks),  realism, cinematography, score, screenplay, and Spielberg's direction,  and was placed on many film critics' 1998 top ten lists. It was also a  box office success, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1998 in the  United States with $216.8 million domestically and the  second-highest-grossing film of 1998 worldwide with $481.8 million  worldwide. Additionally, it grossed $44 million from its release on home  video in May 1999. The film won several accolades, including Best  Picture and Director at the Golden Globes, Producers Guild of America,  Directors Guild of America, and Critics' Choice Awards. The film was  nominated for eleven Academy Awards at the 71st Academy Awards including  Best Picture, Best Actor (Hanks), and Best Original Screenplay, and won  five: Best Director (Spielberg's second), Best Film Editing, Best  Cinematography, Best Sound, and Best Sound Effects Editing.

Since its release, Saving Private Ryan has been considered one of the  greatest films of all time and has been lauded as influential on the war  film genre. It is credited for renewing interest in World War II media.  In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked Saving Private Ryan as the  71st-greatest American movie in AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th  Anniversary Edition) and in 2014, the film was selected for preservation  in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as  "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

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Doctor Strange is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel  Comics character of the same name. Produced by Marvel Studios and  distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 14th film  in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Scott  Derrickson from a screenplay he wrote with Jon Spaihts and C. Robert  Cargill, and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as neurosurgeon Stephen Strange  along with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong, Michael  Stuhlbarg, Benjamin Bratt, Scott Adkins, Mads Mikkelsen, and Tilda  Swinton. In the film, Strange learns the mystic arts after a  career-ending car crash.

Various incarnations of a Doctor Strange film adaptation had been in  development since the mid-1980s, until Paramount Pictures acquired the  film rights in April 2005 on behalf of Marvel Studios. Thomas Dean  Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer were brought on board in June 2010 to  write a screenplay. In June 2014, Derrickson was hired to direct, with  Spaihts re-writing the script. Cumberbatch was chosen for the eponymous  role in December 2014, necessitating a schedule change to work around  his other commitments. This gave Derrickson time to work on the script  himself, for which he brought Cargill on to help. Principal photography  on the film began in November 2015 in Nepal, before moving to England  and Hong Kong, and wrapping up in New York City in April 2016.

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Captain America: Civil War is a 2016 American superhero film based on  the Marvel Comics character Captain America, produced by Marvel Studios  and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel  to Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and Captain America: The  Winter Soldier (2014), and the 13th film in the Marvel Cinematic  Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Anthony and Joe Russo from a  screenplay by the writing team of Christopher Markus and Stephen  McFeely, and stars Chris Evans as Steve Rogers / Captain America  alongside an ensemble cast including Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett  Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner,  Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Emily  VanCamp, Tom Holland, Frank Grillo, William Hurt, and Daniel Brühl. In  Captain America: Civil War, disagreement over international oversight of  the Avengers fractures the team into two opposing factions—one led by  Steve Rogers and the other by Tony Stark.

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Ant-Man is the 12th movie of the MCU and 6th Movie of Phase Two.

Ant-Man is a 2015 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics  characters of the same name: Scott Lang and Hank Pym. Produced by Marvel  Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is  the 12th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was  directed by Peyton Reed from a screenplay by the writing teams of Edgar  Wright and Joe Cornish, and Adam McKay and Paul Rudd. It stars Rudd as  Scott Lang / Ant-Man alongside Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, Bobby  Cannavale, Michael Peña, Tip "T.I." Harris, Anthony Mackie, Wood Harris,  Judy Greer, David Dastmalchian, and Michael Douglas as Hank Pym. In the  film, Lang must help defend Pym's Ant-Man shrinking technology and plot  a heist with worldwide ramifications.

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Avengers: Age of Ultron is the 11th movie of the MCU and 5th Movie of Phase Two.

Avengers: Age of Ultron is a 2015 American superhero film based on the  Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers. Produced by Marvel Studios  and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the sequel  to The Avengers (2012) and the 11th film in the Marvel Cinematic  Universe (MCU). Written and directed by Joss Whedon, the film features  an ensemble cast including Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark  Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle,  Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Cobie Smulders,  Anthony Mackie, Hayley Atwell, Idris Elba, Stellan Skarsgård, James  Spader, and Samuel L. Jackson. In the film, the Avengers fight Ultron,  an artificial intelligence obsessed with causing human extinction.

The sequel was announced in May 2012 after the successful release of The  Avengers, with Whedon set to return as writer and director in August.  Whedon updated Ultron's origin for the film to involve the MCU's  Avengers team, and introduced the characters Quicksilver and Scarlet  Witch to whom Marvel shared the rights with 20th Century Fox. Casting  began in June 2013 with the re-signing of Downey. Second unit filming  began in February 2014 in South Africa with principal photography taking  place between March and August, primarily at Shepperton Studios in  Surrey, England. Additional footage was filmed in Italy, South Korea,  Bangladesh, New York state, and around England. With an estimated net  production budget of $365 million, the film is the second most expensive  film ever made.

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This is the part where I usually just copy and paste from the wiki page,  but this movie is not the best movie that I ever seen.  I can't even  label it a good movie.  It's not bad, but it's not that good.  It's  better than some movies, but we can't really compare to other 80s  movies.  This is something that we talked about where we are all over  the place.  Somehow we were able to tie in with video games and started  to talk about other movies. I just realized that I been typing too much  on here and decided to still copy and past from Wikipedia about Howard  the Duck.

Howard the Duck is a 1986 American science fiction comedy film directed  by Willard Huyck and starring Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, and Tim  Robbins. Based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, the film  was produced by Gloria Katz and written by Huyck and Katz, with George  Lucas as executive producer. The screenplay was originally intended to  be an animated film, but the film adaptation became live-action because  of a contractual obligation. Although several TV adaptations of Marvel  characters had aired during the preceding 21 years, this was the first  attempt at a theatrical release since the Captain America serial of  1944.

Lucas proposed adapting the comic book following the production of  American Graffiti (1973). After multiple production difficulties and  mixed response to test screenings, Howard the Duck was released in  theaters on August 1, 1986. Upon its release, the film was a critical  and commercial failure, and was criticized for its humor, performances,  inconsistent tone, and the appearance of the title character, though the  effects and soundtrack were mostly praised. In the years since, it has  been considered among the worst films of all time although it has later  become popular among audience and gained a cult following through home  video releases.[4] It was nominated for seven Razzie Awards (winning  four), and made about US$38 million (US$15 million domestically)  compared to its US$30-37 million budget.

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Guardians of the Galaxy (retroactively referred to as Guardians of the  Galaxy Vol. 1) is a 2014 American superhero film based on the Marvel  Comics superhero team of the same name. Produced by Marvel Studios and  distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 10th film  in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Directed by James Gunn, who  wrote the screenplay with Nicole Perlman, the film features an ensemble  cast including Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, and  Bradley Cooper as the titular Guardians, along with Lee Pace, Michael  Rooker, Karen Gillan, Djimon Hounsou, John C. Reilly, Glenn Close, and  Benicio del Toro. In the film, Peter Quill and a group of  extraterrestrial criminals go on the run after stealing a powerful  artifact.

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier is the 9th movie of the MCU and 3rd Movie of Phase Two.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a 2014 American superhero film  based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America, produced by Marvel  Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is  the sequel to Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and the ninth  film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by  Anthony and Joe Russo from a screenplay by the writing team of  Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. It stars Chris Evans as Steve  Rogers / Captain America alongside Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan,  Anthony Mackie, Cobie Smulders, Frank Grillo, Emily VanCamp, Hayley  Atwell, Robert Redford, and Samuel L. Jackson. In the film, Captain  America joins forces with Black Widow and Falcon to uncover a conspiracy  within the spy agency S.H.I.E.L.D. while facing a mysterious assassin  known as the Winter Soldier.

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Marvel's Thor: The Dark World is the 8th movie of the MCU in Phase Two.

Thor: The Dark World is a 2013 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Thor, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to Thor (2011) and the eighth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Alan Taylor from a screenplay by Christopher Yost and the writing team of Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. It stars Chris Hemsworth as Thor alongside Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins, Stellan Skarsgård, Idris Elba, Christopher Eccleston, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Kat Dennings, Ray Stevenson, Zachary Levi, Tadanobu Asano, Jaimie Alexander, and Rene Russo. In the film, Thor and Loki team up to save the Nine Realms from the Dark Elves.

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The Rocketeer is a 1991 American period superhero film from Walt Disney Pictures, produced by Charles Gordon, Lawrence Gordon, and Lloyd Levin, directed by Joe Johnston, that stars Bill Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton, Paul Sorvino, and Tiny Ron Taylor. The 1991 film is based upon the character of the same name created by comic book artist and writer Dave Stevens.

Set in 1938 Los Angeles, California, The Rocketeer tells the story of stunt pilot Cliff Secord who stumbles upon a hidden rocket-powered jet pack that he thereafter uses to fly without the need of an aircraft. His heroic deeds soon attract the attention of Howard Hughes and the FBI, who are hunting for the missing jet pack, as well as the Nazi operatives that stole it from Hughes.