Sentences with phrase «action picture»

He's also developing a couple of action pictures in which he would also star.

The film itself is as great as it's ever been, with this still standing loud and proud as one of the very best action pictures of all time.

This is a modern action picture played in costume.

The 7.1 mix delivers the goods that you expect from a violent action picture.

First weekend box office is currently the most important measure of any big budget action picture's success.

Otherwise, he put together a decent action picture that would satisfy the intended audiences.

Change the «Best Picture» award into the «Best live action Picture» award.

This thought isn't new, but one doesn't expect to hear it in a commercial action picture.

«Murder at 1600» is a big action picture that works, so these guys did something right.

I don't have any party - in - action pictures since that would be weird to post pics of people, but I do have our theme table photos.

First of all, very cute action picture of your family above.

I'd love to see what he can do with a full - out action picture (with a good script).

Those two films offer the chance to enjoy a rugged action picture without feeling guilty.

One note to begin with: «the first all - black action picture»?

The most critically - acclaimed movie of the summer, a pulse pounding historical action picture with high exit - polling scores as well, may very well repeat at the top of the box office this weekend.

The game wallows in the corny excess of the NES generation, when games like Commando and Metal Gear Solid smuggled the testosterone of Hollywood action pictures into games made for console kids.

This martial arts action picture from Indonesian genre specialists The Mo Brothers racks up a body count of several dozen even before the opening titles.

Most of the truly great action pictures (this isn't trying to be one of them) are spiced with wit.

We'll have a family dynamic... take that and put it on the bigger, more muscular stage of an international action picture.»

A solid example of Japanese animation, this is an adult action picture about comic - book characters who are cyborgs, possibly with a conscience.

Mad Max: Fury Road review - «a scintillating action picture, breathlessly edited, glorious to look at»

The bullying of a motorcyclist and a pursuit by a rival gang aren't rendered with the aggressive cuts and angles we'd expect in violent scenes in the Hong Kong action pictures then ruling Taiwanese screens.

It's daring of McQuarrie, in a big - budget internationally financed action picture such as this, to turn over a fair amount of narrative acreage to a lengthy, methodical scene cutting between a performance of Puccini's «Turandot» and not one, not two, but three assassins lurking in the opera house wings.

«Robin Hood» is a high - tech and well made violent action picture using the name of Robin Hood for no better reason than that it's an established brand not protected by copyright.

However, the fact is that Brian De Palma is perfect for directing some of these high tech summer action pictures.

Director John Sturges (1910 - 92) was known for his manly action pictures and for his beautiful use of the widescreen frame.

For a scant 30 million dollars, the movie has a super-glossy action picture look, with only occasional computer - enhanced crowds, helicopters, and devastation, while the beasts themselves are the work of old - fashioned makeup and blood packs.

«Hanna was going to be a straight - forward action picture until Joe Wright got involved,» she said, «and I was happy with that because I'd never done anything like that before and wanted to see if I could pull it off.

A few fairy tales turned into action pictures.

But in a time when so many action pictures are mindless assaults on the eyes, ears and intelligence, it works as superior craftsmanship.

«Atomic Blonde» may be a delirious exercise in outré nonsense, but it can also be a brutally effective action picture when the inspiration strikes.

Many recent action pictures have improbably young actors cast as key roles or sidekicks, but by skewing older, «Alien» achieves a certain texture without even making a point of it: These are not adventurers but workers, hired by a company to return 20 million tons of ore to Earth (the vast size of the ship is indicated in a deleted scene, included on the DVD, which takes nearly a minute just to show it passing).

Because we live in a time of simple - minded action pictures — with audiences that are less adventurous than those of the 1940s and stars who like to look good at the end — there is the assumption that Johnny will take the direction of growth and happiness (not without some setbacks, of course).

«He photographed the first action pictures of World War II from Tunisia,» Staples says.

«I hate signing action pictures,» he tells autograph - seeking fans.

He covered sports, particularly baseball, and using a bulky Graflex camera and cumbersome five - by seven - inch gelatin dry glass plates, he took amazing action pictures of the stars of his day: Walter Johnson, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, Lefty Grove, Tris Speaker, Rogers Hornsby, Ty Cobb and, of course, Babe Ruth.

How about instead of showing off bloody noses or jacked up body parts, parents just post a distant, live - action picture like this and let us fill in blanks?

«The Peacemaker,» helmed by Mimi Leder, is unquestionably the most heartfelt action picture of the year... admittedly not an arena with a lot of competition.

The new Luc Besson action picture Lucy is an outlandishly entertaining mixture of high silliness and high style.

In a season of clamorous action pictures, dopey comedies and grisly horrors, The Way Way Back is notable for what it doesn't do.

But it strikes me as unlikely that any British action picture released this year will surpass «Flushed Away.»

It's Harry Potter as a full - tilt action picture, yet unlike the mind - numbing action of Transformers, here you feel totally invested in the protagonists» plight.

Here's the oddest element in this tale of Hollywood fine - tuning run rampant: the movie is pretty good — the summer's most urgent, highest - IQ action picture.

... the film was a sensation, becoming a big hit and spawning a whole industry of southern - fried vigilante lawman action pictures.

Lucy is the latest film by Luc Besson, the man who has written, directed, and / or produced such hyperkinetic action pictures as The Fifth Element, The Transporter, Le Femme Nikita, and Taken.

In the wasteland that the summer of 2010 has turned out to be, we'll take our breezy action pictures however we can get them.

Thus it remains largely a noisy action picture, barely different from all the stuff Hollywood keeps churning out.

Smartly - directed action picture stars Jeff Wincott as a cop who risks it all to stop a group of dirty policemen who have worked out a look - the - other - way deal with a drug czar.

Telluride, Colo. — During his 40 years of making sprawling action pictures everything from «Lives of the Bengal Lancer» with Gary Cooper to the original «True Grit» with John Wayne director Henry Hathaway earned a reputation for being, in the words of one screenwriter, «probably the toughest son of a bitch in Hollywood.»

Rampage is nothing more than a silly action picture, it reminded me of last yearʼs Kong: Skull Island, if youʼre going into it expecting to see some kind of great cinema than youʼll be disappointed.