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Modern Warfare (Community)
"Modern Warfare" is the twenty-third episode of the first season of ''Community'' and originally premiered on May 6, 2010, on NBC. In the episode, after the Dean announces the prize for a friendly game of paintball, Greendale sinks into a state of all-out paintball war, with every student battling for supremacy. During the chaos, Jeff's study group teams up in order to last longer in the game. Meanwhile, Jeff and Britta confront their unresolved sexual tension. The episode was written by Emily Cutler and directed by Justin Lin. The episode's plot is a pastiche of multiple action movies, such as '' Battle Royale'', '' Pitch Black'', ''The Matrix'', ''Die Hard'', ''Terminator'', ''28 Days Later'', '' The Warriors'', ''Rambo'', ''Predator'', and the films of John Carpenter and John Woo. The episode came third in its timeslot and received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics praising its writing, direction, and performances; it is often ranked among the show's greatest episod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Community (TV Series)
''Community'' is an American television sitcom created by Dan Harmon. The series ran for List of Community episodes, 110 episodes over six seasons, with its first five seasons airing on NBC from September 17, 2009, to April 17, 2014, and its final season airing on Yahoo! Screen from March 17 to June 2, 2015. Set at a Community colleges in the United States, community college in the fictional Colorado town of Greendale, the series stars an ensemble cast including Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Donald Glover, Ken Jeong, Chevy Chase, and Jim Rash. It makes use of Meta-joke, meta-humor and popular culture, pop culture Meta-reference, references, paying Homage (arts), homage to film and television clichés and trope (literature), tropes. Harmon based ''Community'' on his experiences attending Glendale Community College (California), Glendale Community College. Each episode was written in accordance with Harmon's "story circle" template, a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terminator (franchise)
''Terminator'' is an American media franchise created by James Cameron. The franchise encompasses a series of science fiction action films, comics, novels and additional media, concerning a total war between Skynet (Terminator), Skynet's synthetic intelligence – a self-aware military machine network – and John Connor's Resistance forces comprising the survivors of the human, human race. Skynet's most famous products in its genocidal goals are Terminator (character concept), the various terminator models, such as the Terminator (character), T-800, who was portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger from the The Terminator, original ''Terminator'' film in 1984. By 2010, the franchise had generated $3 billion in revenue. Setting The central theme of the franchise is the battle for survival between the nearly-extinct human race and the world-spanning synthetic intelligence that is Skynet (Terminator), Skynet. Skynet is positioned in the first film, ''The Terminator'' (1984), as a U.S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillian Jacobs
Gillian MacLaren Jacobs (; born October 19, 1982) is an American actress and director. She is known for her roles as Britta Perry on the NBC sitcom ''Community'' (2009–2015) and Mickey Dobbs on the Netflix romantic comedy series ''Love'' (2016–2018). Other television roles include Mimi-Rose Howard on the fourth season of the HBO comedy-drama series ''Girls'' (2015) and the voice of Atom Eve on the Amazon animated series ''Invincible'' (2021–). She has appeared in films such as '' Gardens of the Night'' (2008), '' Life Partners'' (2014), ''Don't Think Twice'' (2016), ''Ibiza'' (2018), ''I Used to Go Here'' (2020), and ''The Fear Street Trilogy'' (2021). Early life Jacobs was born on October 19, 1982, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Martina Magenau Jacobs, works in alumni relations at Carnegie Mellon University, while her father, William F. Jacobs Jr., was an investment banker. (Scroll down to Jacobs entry.) Her parents divorced when she was two years old, and she was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel McHale
Joel Edward McHale (born November 20, 1971) is an American actor, comedian, and television host. He is best known for hosting ''The Soup'' (2004–2015) and his role as Jeff Winger on the NBC sitcom ''Community'' (2009–2015). He has performed in the films ''Spider-Man 2'' (2004), '' Spy Kids: All the Time in the World'' (2011), ''Ted'' (2012) and ''The Happytime Murders'' (2018). He also starred in the short-lived CBS sitcom '' The Great Indoors'' (2016–2017), hosted a reboot of ''Card Sharks'' (2019–2021), and portrayed the superhero Sylvester Pemberton / Starman on the show '' Stargirl'' (2020–2022). In 2020, he hosted a special aftershow interviewing key subjects from the Netflix documentary series ''Tiger King'' and voiced Johnny Cage in the direct-to-video martial arts film '' Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge'' (2020), a role he reprised in the sequel '' Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms'' (2021). He also voices X-PO in '' Lego Dimensions'' (2015– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modern Espionage
"Modern Espionage" is the eleventh episode of the sixth season of the television sitcom ''Community''. It was written by Mark Stegemann, and directed by Rob Schrab. It is the 108th episode overall and was first released on Yahoo! Screen in the United States on May 19, 2015. The episode is the third "paintball episode" of the series after "Modern Warfare" (season one) and the two-part "A Fistful of Paintballs" / "For a Few Paintballs More" (season two). Plot Starburns leaves Vicki's one-woman show and is accosted by Todd in the parking lot. They are both involved in a game of paintball assassin driven underground by Frankie's "Cleaner Greendale" initiative. While Starburns gains the upper hand both players are ultimately defeated by a mysterious player who shoots them with silver pellets. The following morning Frankie asks Jeff to introduce an award to deputy custodian Lapari (Kumail Nanjiani) at the gala for a Cleaner Greendale in order to be seen as denouncing the underground ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Community (season 6)
The sixth and final season of the television comedy series ''Community'' premiered on Yahoo! Screen on March 17, 2015, with a two-episode premiere, and concluded on June 2, 2015. The season consists of 13 episodes released weekly via Yahoo! Screen on Tuesdays. Yahoo! announced in June 2014 that it had picked up the series for a sixth season after NBC had canceled the series in May 2014. Cast Starring * Joel McHale as Jeff Winger * Gillian Jacobs as Britta Perry * Danny Pudi as Abed Nadir * Alison Brie as Annie Edison * Jim Rash as Dean Craig Pelton * Ken Jeong as Ben Chang Recurring * Paget Brewster as Francesca "Frankie" Dart * Keith David as Elroy Patashnik * Erik Charles Nielsen as Garrett Lambert * Richard Erdman as Leonard Briggs * Danielle Kaplowitz as Vicki Jenkins * David Neher as Todd Jacobson * Darsan Solomon as Dave * Yvette Nicole Brown as Shirley Bennett * Martin Mull as George Perry * Lesley Ann Warren as Deb Perry * Craig Cackowski as Officer Cackowski G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For A Few Paintballs More
"For a Few Paintballs More" is the twenty-fourth episode and part two of the two-part finale of the second season of ''Community''. The episode originally aired on May 12, 2011, on NBC. The episode is a continuation of "A Fistful of Paintballs", and picks up from the middle of the paintball game that commenced in part one. The study group realize that the game was a scheme by school rivals City College to destroy Greendale's campus. They band together with other Greendale students to face the City College paintball players to try to save their campus and win the $100,000 prize money for the school. The episode was written by Hilary Winston and directed by Joe Russo. It was partly inspired by ''Star Wars'', and transitions from the Spaghetti Western theme in part one. It is the third ''Community'' episode featuring a campus-wide paintball game, after "Modern Warfare" and "A Fistful of Paintballs". "A Fistful of Paintballs" and "For a Few Paintballs More" collectively are the seque ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Fistful Of Paintballs
"A Fistful of Paintballs" is the twenty-third and penultimate episode of the second season of ''Community''. It is part one of the two-part second-season finale, along with "For a Few Paintballs More", and is a spiritual successor to "Modern Warfare" from the first season. The episode originally premiered on May 5, 2011, on NBC. In the episode, Dean Pelton once again announces plans for a game of paintball, with the winner receiving $100,000. The group slowly teams up to help each other, but they find their friendship with Pierce being put to the test. The group also faces a new threat from a man only known as "The Black Rider" (played by Josh Holloway). The episode was written by Andrew Guest and directed by Joe Russo. The episode is inspired by Spaghetti Western films directed by Sergio Leone. Plot A game of paintball is started by Dean Pelton and "Pistol Patty's Cowboy Creamery", they explain that the reason last year's paintball game was unsuccessful was that the prize was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Community (season 2)
The second season of the television comedy series ''Community'' premiered on September 23, 2010 and concluded on May 12, 2011, on NBC. The season consists of 24 episodes and aired on Thursdays at 8:00 pm ET as part of Comedy Night Done Right. Cast Starring *Joel McHale as Jeff Winger *Gillian Jacobs as Britta Perry *Danny Pudi as Abed Nadir *Yvette Nicole Brown as Shirley Bennett *Alison Brie as Annie Edison *Donald Glover as Troy Barnes *Ken Jeong as Ben Chang *Chevy Chase as Pierce Hawthorne Recurring *Jim Rash as Dean Craig Pelton *Richard Erdman as Leonard Briggs *Dino Stamatopoulos as Alex "Star-Burns" Osbourne *Erik Charles Nielsen as Garrett Lambert *John Oliver as Professor Ian Duncan *Danielle Kaplowitz as Vicki Jacobson *Charley Koontz as Neil *Luke Youngblood as Magnitude * Jordan Black as City College Dean Spreck *Malcolm-Jamal Warner as Andre Bennett *Greg Cromer as Rich Stephenson *Betty White as June Bauer *Andy Dick as Helicopter Pilot/Tin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Woo
John Woo Yu-Sen SBS (; born September 22, 1946) is a Hong Kong filmmaker, known as a highly-influential figure in the action film genre. He was a pioneer of heroic bloodshed films (a crime action film genre involving Chinese triads) and the gun fu genre in Hong Kong action cinema, before working in Hollywood films. He is known for his highly chaotic "bullet ballet" action sequences, stylized imagery, Mexican standoffs, frequent use of slow motion and allusions to ''wuxia'', film noir and Western cinema. Considered one of the major figures of Hong Kong cinema, Woo has directed several notable action films including ''A Better Tomorrow'' (1986), '' The Killer'' (1989), '' Hard Boiled'' (1992) and '' Red Cliff'' (2008/2009). His Hollywood films include ''Hard Target'' (1993), '' Broken Arrow'' (1996), ''Face/Off'' (1997) and '' Mission: Impossible 2'' (2000). He also created the comic series ''Seven Brothers'', published by Virgin Comics. He is the founder and chairman of the produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Carpenter
John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, actor, and composer. Although he worked in various film genres, he is most commonly associated with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s. He is generally recognized as one of the greatest masters of the horror genre. At the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, the French Directors' Guild gave him the Golden Coach Award, lauding him as "a creative genius of raw, fantastic, and spectacular emotions". Carpenter's early films included box office and critical successes like '' Halloween'' (1978), ''The Fog'' (1980), ''Escape from New York'' (1981), and ''Starman'' (1984). His other productions from the 1970s and the 1980s only later came to be considered cult classics, and he has been acknowledged as an influential filmmaker. These include '' Dark Star'' (1974), '' Assault on Precinct 13'' (1976), '' The Thing'' (1982), ''Christine'' (1983), ''Big Trouble in Little China'' (1986), '' Prince o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Predator (film)
''Predator'' is a 1987 American science fiction film, science fiction action film directed by John McTiernan and written by brothers Jim Thomas (screenwriter), Jim and John Thomas (screenwriter), John Thomas. It is the first installment in the Predator (franchise), ''Predator'' franchise. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the leader of an elite paramilitary rescue team on a mission to save hostages in guerrilla-held territory in a Central American rainforest, who encounter the deadly Predator (fictional species), Predator (Kevin Peter Hall), a skilled, technologically advanced alien who stalks and hunts them down. ''Predator'' was written in 1984 under the working title of ''Hunter''. Filming ran from March to June 1986 with creature effects devised by Stan Winston; the budget was around $15 million. 20th Century Fox released the film on June 12, 1987, in the United States, and it grossed $98 million worldwide. Initial reviews were mixed, but the film has since been considered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
