Whit's the Script?

Release date: 24 September 1981 (UK)
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Kurt Russell, Adrienne Barbeau, Lee Van Cleef, Harry Dean Stanton, Donald Pleasence, Frank Doubleday, Ernest Borgnine, Isaac Hayes, Season Hubley, Tom Atkins
Sequel: Escape from L.A.
Distributed by: Embassy Pictures
Budget/Box office: $6M / 25.2M (US)

        ImDb = 7.1/10 RT = 86%/100%

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Gruff Snake Plissken, an ex-soldier turned convict, is sent to Manhattan, now a maximum security prison, to rescue the stranded US President.

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Release date: 23 August 2013 (UK)

Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber

Starring: Jason Sedickis • Jennifer Aniston • Emma Roberts • Will Poulter • Ed Helms • Nick Offerman • Molly Quinn • Kathryn Hann •

Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures

Box office: $270 million

Produced by: Chris Bender; Vincent Newman; Tucker Tooley; Happy Walters

Production companies: New Line Cinema;

        ImDb = 7/10 RT = 44%/100%

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David, a drug dealer, plans to go to Mexico to pick up a shipment of Marijuana. He hires a stripper, Rose, and two teenagers to pose as his family and cross the border without arousing suspicion.

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Release date: 24 January 1986 (UK)
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Starring: Sylvester Stallone • Dolph Longren • Talia Shire • Carl Weathers • Bridget Nielsen • Burt Young • Tony Burton •
Music by: Vince DiCola
Screenplay: Sylvester Stallone
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists

Financials: $28m / $300m

Awards: Golden Raspberry • Marshall Trophy • Golden Screen Award • Golden Trailer Award • 

        ImDb = 6.9/10 RT = 40%/100%

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Rocking agrees to accompany Apollo into the ring one last time in an exhibition boxing match against the unknown Russian Ivan Drago. 

Drago though is far too strong for Creed, and kills him in the 2nd round.  Rocky blames himself, and is determined to defeat Drago.

With the help of Duke and Paulie, he travels to Russia to take on Drago.

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A very special collaboration with our friends from The Wreckfast Club!

Join Mossy, David, Chris and I as we (sort of) run the rule over 1998 Michael Bay blockbuster Armageddon.

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Release Date: July 1st 1998

Director: Michael Bay

Starring: Bruce Willis, Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck, Steve Buscemi, Billy Bob Thornton, Owen Wilson, Michael Clark Douglas, Peter Stormere, Jessica Steen, William Fischer, William Paton, Ken Hudson Campbell, Keith David, Jason Issacs

Financials:  $140m / $553.7m

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NASA astronauts observe that a large asteroid will hit earth in the next eighteen days and destroy life. They realise that their only hope of survival is Harry Stamper, an oil driller.

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Release: 19/12/97

Director: James Cameron

Starring: Leonardo Di Caprio, Kate Winslet, Bill Paxton, Kathy Bates, Billy Zane, Gloria Stuart, Victoria Garber

Score: Celine Dion - My Heart Will….

Financials: $200m / $2.26b

Awards: Titanic won 11 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, but none of the actors or actresses won an Oscar for Titanic. Kate Winslet and Gloria Stewart were nominated for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, but both lost. 

ImDb = 7.9/10 RT = 88%/100%

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Rose, who is being forced to marry a wealthy man, falls in love with Jack, a talented artist, aboard the unsinkable Titanic. Unfortunately, the ship hits an iceberg, endangering their lives.

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Neal, who needs to reach home for Thanksgiving, goes through a series of misadventures when his flight gets cancelled and he ends up meeting Del, a salesman.

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Release date: 12 February 1988 (UK)
Director: John Hughes
Starring: John Candy, Steve Martin, Laila Robins, Michael McKean, Kevin Bacon, Dylan Baker.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Box office: $49.5m / $15m
Edited by: Paul Hirsch
Music by: Ira Newborn
Awards: Funniest actor in a motion picture (Leading role) John Candy


ImDb = 7.6/10 RT = 92%/100%

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** SPOILERS FOR DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE **

Released: 1991
Director: Ron Howard
Cinematography: Mikael Salomon 
Music: Hanz Zimmer 
Score: Bruce Hornsby: "The Show Goes On"
Starring: Kurt Russell, Robert deNiro, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, Scott Glenn, and Jennifer Jason Lee, Rebecca De Mornay, JT Walsh, Jason Gedrick.
Budget: $40m / $152.4m
Oscars:  3 Nominations (Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Effects and Best Soun)


ImDb = 6.7/10 RT = 73%/100%

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Two firefighters of Engine 17 of the Chicago Fire Department are brothers. Lt. Stephen "Bull" McCaffrey, the elder, is experienced, while Brian has labored in his brother's shadow. Brian returns to firefighting after several other careers falter, though Stephen has doubts that Brian is fit to be a firefighter.

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Release date: 22 October 2014 (UK)
Director: David Ayer
Cast: Brad Pitt, Shia LeBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Pena, Jon Bernthal, Jason Issacs, Brad William Henke, Jim Parrack, Javier Samual, Scott Eastwood, Alicia Von Rottberg.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures, Sony Budget: $68m / $211.8m
Cinematography: Roman Vasyanov
Music by: Steven Price
Awards: Won 4/16

ImDb = 7.6/10 RT = 76%/100%

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In the last months of the Second World War, the allies are are into their final showdown.

But things are about to become even tougher for Don Collier (an American tank commander) and his crew, while counter-attacking the enemy.

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A turf battle between New York Citys street gangs rages from Coney Island to the Bronx.

The Warriors are mistakenly fingered for the killing of a gang leader, and soon they have every gang in the city out to get revenge.  

They must somehow make their way across the city to their own turf.

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Release date: 10 May 1979 (UK)
Director: Walter Hill
Starring: Michael Beck, James Remar, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, David Patrick Kelly, Terry Micos, Dorset Wright, David Harris, Marcelino Sanchez, Lynn Thigpen 
Score: In the City - Joe Walsh 
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Adapted from: The Warriors
Budget: $4m / $22.5m
Cinematography: Andrew Laszlo
Awards:  0
ImDb = 7.5/10 RT = 88%/100%

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Forrest, a man with low IQ, recounts the early years of his life finding himself in the middle of some of the world's key historical events. 

But all Forrest really wants is to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart, Jenny.

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Release date: 7 October 1994 (UK)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field, Mykelti Williamson, Daley Joel Osman (Michael Conner & Hanna R Hall)
Story by: Winston Groom
Adapted from: Forrest Gump
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Box office: $55m / $678.2m

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