我们2017

大电影之数百亿

　　以乳鸽店立身的安德森（曾志伟 饰）赴上海创业，却迷上炒房，将妻子气死也未思悔改，这天安德森在影院偶然听到代言新楼盘“碧水云居”的过气演员潘志强（黄渤 饰）放出的“内部消息”，遂再次筹款预抢购新房。与此同时，新婚的昔日售楼小姐罗茜（姚晨 饰）为碧水云居付出五万订金后，惊系该楼盘周边林立各污染源。潘志强担任楼盘主持嘉宾并为售楼公司鞍前马后，只希望对方能为自己的新片注资，不料却被要求退还订金的罗茜纠缠，潘志强心生一计，令罗茜将房转卖安德森，事成后自食其言拒退订金，罗茜无奈只得曝光楼盘内幕，结果引发连串反应，使潘志强与安德森发现自己陷入了开发商之局，于是各人苦思脱身之法……

黑暗杀机

　　杰弗里·怀特、亚历山大·斯卡斯加德和詹姆斯·戴尔共同加盟新片[持有黑暗](Hold The Dark,暂译)，由杰瑞米·索尔尼尔([绿色房间])执导。影片讲述阿拉斯加偏远地区出现野狼杀死孩子的事件，一位专家被派到这里调查，发现事件围绕着一对神秘的夫妻展开。该片将于3月在加拿大亚伯达开拍。

赤脚大仙

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　　Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.　　Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory?　　n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in.　　What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts.　　On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired.　　One thing is for sure; O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places.　　Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.