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Save the Green Planet! (2003) NeoDB WikiData ReviewDB IMDb TMDB Douban
지구를 지켜라!
director: Jang Joon-hwan actor: Shin Ha-kyun / Baek Yoon-sik …
other title: Save the Green Planet / Save The Green Planet …
A young man believes that his country's leaders are actually toxic reptilian aliens sent down to launch a takeover of his beloved Earth. So he decides to abduct them and force the truth out on camera in his basement that doubles as a film studio and torture chamber.
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Oldboy (2003) Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb NeoDB Test
올드보이
7.7 (22 ratings) director: Park Chan-wook actor: Choi Min-sik / Yoo Ji-tae …
other title: Old Boy / Oldboy: Hævnen …
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.
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Pulse (2001) NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
回路
8.4 (5 ratings) director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa actor: Kumiko Aso / Haruhiko Kato …
other title: Pulsação / Kaïro …
In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.
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Snakes on a Plane (2006) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Snakes on a Plane
director: David R. Ellis actor: Samuel L. Jackson / Julianna Margulies …
other title: Snakes On A Plane / Serpentes a Bordo …
FBI agent Neville Flynn boards a flight from Honolulu, Hawaii to Los Angeles, escorting a key witness to testify against a mob boss at an upcoming trial. An on-board assassin releases a crate full of hundreds of deadly venomous snakes in an attempt to eliminate the witness. Flynn and a host of frightened passengers and crew must band together to survive the slithery threat.
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John Q (2002) Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB
John Q
director: Nick Cassavetes actor: Denzel Washington / James Woods …
other title: John Q. / John Q. - Verzweifelte Wut …
John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.
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Almost Famous (2000) Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb
Almost Famous
7.8 (6 ratings) director: Cameron Crowe actor: Billy Crudup / Frances McDormand …
other title: Quasi famosi / Quase Famosos …
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band, Stillwater.
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Texas Rangers (2001) WikiData IMDb
Texas Rangers
director: Steve Miner actor: James Van Der Beek / Rachael Leigh Cook …
other title: Texas Rangers : La Revanche des justiciers
Ten years after the Civil War has ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly to form a company of Rangers to help uphold the law along the Mexican border. With a few veterans of the war, most of the recruits are young men who have little or no experience with guns or policing crime.
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Wet Hot American Summer (2001) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Wet Hot American Summer
director: David Wain actor: Janeane Garofalo / David Hyde Pierce …
The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who struggles to keep order while she falls in love with the local astrophysics professor. He is busy trying to save the camp from a deadly piece of NASA's Skylab which is hurtling toward earth. All that, plus: a dangerous waterfall rescue, love triangles, misfits, cool kids, and talking vegetable cans. The questions will all be resolved, of course, at the big talent show at the end of the day.
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Rambo (2008) NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
Rambo
director: Sylvester Stallone actor: Sylvester Stallone / Julie Benz …
other title: John Rambo
In Thailand, ex-Green Beret John James Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn neighboring Myanmar to rescue a group of Christian aid workers who have been kidnapped by a ruthless local infantry unit.
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Hot Rod (2007) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Hot Rod
director: Akiva Schaffer actor: Andy Samberg / Jorma Taccone …
other title: Hot Rod - Uno svitato in moto / Hot Rod - Loucos Sobre Rodas …
For Rod Kimble, performing stunts is a way of life, even though he is rather accident-prone. Poor Rod cannot even get any respect from his stepfather, Frank, who beats him up in weekly sparring matches. When Frank falls ill, Rod devises his most outrageous stunt yet to raise money for Frank's operation -- and then Rod will kick Frank's butt.
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Natalia Lafourcade Spotify
Natalia Lafourcade
release date July 5, 2002 publisher: Sony
Jan. 23, 2026 listened
Great début, full of verve & joy.

(Except for Mírame, Mírate, which is so out of keeping with the rest of the album that I suspect a record exec insisted on having a formulaic ballad.)
2000s Mexico NataliaLafourcade Pop Spanish
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I Am Not an Animal (2004) WikiData IMDb TMDB
I Am Not an Animal
director: Peter Baynham actor: Steve Coogan / Julia Davis …
other title: Non sono un animale
I Am Not An Animal is an animated comedy series about the only six talking animals in the world, whose cosseted existence in a vivisection unit is turned upside down when they are liberated by animal rights activists.
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Species III (2005) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Species III
director: Brad Turner actor: Robin Dunne / Robert Knepper …
other title: Species III - Specie mortale III / Species 3 …
After she delivers her child in an ambulance, alien Eve is killed by a half-breed. Fortunately, Dr. Abbot scoops up the baby alien and escapes. In time, the baby grows into a gorgeous blonde named Sara and begins her quest to find a worthy mate. But Sara is also savage and leaves a trail of deaths in her wake. This carnage makes chemistry student Dean question whether to help her race or not.
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TripFall (2000) TMDB IMDb WikiData
TripFall
director: Serge Rodnunsky actor: Eric Roberts / John Ritter …
other title: Ostaggi della follia / Tripfall - Das Todestrio …
A serial killer turns the life of a family on vacation into a nightmare.
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Hot Fuzz (2007) TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban
Hot Fuzz
7.2 (18 ratings) director: Edgar Wright actor: Simon Pegg / Nick Frost …
other title: Hot Fuzz - Esquadrão de Província / Hot Fuzz - Zwei abgewichste Profis …
Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he miss the excitement of the big city, but he also has a well-meaning oaf for a partner. However, when a series of grisly accidents rocks Sandford, Angel smells something rotten in the idyllic village.
Jan. 16, 2026 watched
A parody of action movies while also a loving homage to action movies, with not one wasted line or frame!

Rewatched in #Comedon watch party on Mastodon
2000s Action ActionComedy Comedy EdgarWright
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Sí Spotify MusicBrainz
Julieta Venegas genre: Pop / Latin / Pop Rock / Rock
release date Nov. 18, 2003 publisher: BMG
Jan. 14, 2026 listened
The first three tracks are good but the rest feels like filler.
2000s Mexico Pop PopRock