Sentences with phrase «after the first film did»

After the first film did so much to twist and bypass the now - established formula of the comic - book hero origin story, the new team of screenwriters (Christopher L. Yost, Christopher Markus, and Stephen McFeely) has returned the Asgardian warrior, who is not technically a god but has been mistaken for one in the past, to his home, where he's back to being a fighter for the good of the trillions of sentient beings across the universe.

Not exact matches

After years making slick commercials and music videos, Bay's first feature film didn't just bring a new spice to the buddy - cop movie with the teaming of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.

After Skillshare contacted me about being a teacher and before filming my own classes, the very first thing I did was get an account of my own to check out the platform.

There is some very good news for Gooners if the latest Arsenal transfer rumour turns out to be true, and boy do we need it after the horror film that was our first home game of the Premier League season.

they must film this scene in the first person, the applause and cheering muffled, like they do in war movies after big explosions.

KEY: Ask your hero I already knew after my first degree in geology that I wanted to go into film - making, but I didn't have a clue how.

The pressure off, they're free to make out like teenagers and fall in love, a happy interlude the film covers with smart economy, so as to spend more time on getting to know this «hot grandma» (she's struggling to keep her middle daughter pregnancy - free through high school), as well as the couple's first big fight, occasioned when she wonders why he still doesn't want to sleep with her after nearly 20 dates.

I suspect that many people didn't even make it past the first half hour of Backwoods, but thankfully the film does get somewhat better after that.

While the film does get better after the first half hour, it still has its problems.

The first seven film outings were sober and straight - faced; the eighth go - round (the first after a 38 - year lapse) does a 180 to shamelessly poke fun of the rules established by the genre.

But after the first third — the film is more than 3 hours long — Schindler begins to recognize the horrors that are going on around him and feels compelled to do something about it.

Brad Pitt's portrayal of a bitter individual often lacks the necessary edge, especially in the first half of the film; eventually, after some floundering around, he finds a performance, but it doesn't really come together until just before the very end of the film.

The episodic bent of the film's first half - much of the narrative seems to follow the central characters as they fight one fire after another - does test the viewer's patience to a fairly demonstrable degree, and it's clear that Backdraft, by and large, works best when focused on the rivalry and relationship between the central figures (and how it ultimately affects their respective work).

Fortunately, the film does pick up after the first 45 minutes and has moments where the action and characters do take flight.

After the first Deadpool enthusiastically flipped the bird (and hung a moon, and performed a number of other obscene gestures) at the comic - book - hero film genre, what could the creators of the follow - up do for an encore?

Although they help set the tone at the outset of the film, we don't need more of these scenes after her first action sequence as her character's MO is very clear.

Very rarely do you get a film where you'd go right back into the theatre and watch it again immediately after the first screening and have the same emotions.

The idea that young prodigy Mary (Mckenna Grace) could use her abilities to advance science at large — let alone that it would be her duty to do so — does not enter the film until long after we are first made aware of her special talents.

Pirates of the Caribbean is the first film ever released under the Walt Disney Pictures brand to receive higher than a PG rating (the film is rated PG - 13), and the team assembled to make the film is a virtual Who's who of hot properties: Director Gore Verbinski had a huge hit last year with the spook fest The Ring, Writers Terry Rossio & Ted Elliott were the writing team behind Shrek, Actor Johnny Depp is so extremely selective in his roles no one would ever imagine he'd do a Disney film, Orlando Bloom is fresh off the Lord of The Rings Trilogy, Geoffrey Rush has at least one Academy Award under his belt, and Keira Knightley has become a hot property after her performance in the run away indie hit Bend It Like Beckham.

It's a distinct change of pace after the first section of the film, which is, I think, why I didn't like it as much the first time I saw it, but in fact this part of the story is well done and quite compelling.

I admit I really didn't enjoy this one upon a first viewing, but after watching the director's cut of the film, which is far superior, I really got into this one.

And now, after years in development and at one point moving forward without Wan at the helm (thankfully that didn't last long), we finally have the first trailer and it's unmistakably a James Wan film, brooding with a creeping atmosphere and turning even the most subtle imagery into pure nightmare fuel.

We talked about what it was like to walk on the yellow brick road for the first time, her reaction to the finished film, 3D, doing so much press, and does she get to visit Disneyland for free after being in a huge Disney movie.

I didn't think the latter film was God - awful; it just felt like a letdown after the first Avengers film.

He doesn't so much have supporting players in the film as he does an extended family of cherished guests who he invites to stay for a while, relax and soak up the ambience: French it girl Léa Seydoux has a part as a maid which may as well be non-speaking; Owen Wilson plays one of M Gustave's concierge brethren and gets a line (if not a laugh); even Tilda Swinton makes a flying visit to Wesworld, caked in gristly prosthetics as an ageing dowager who drops dead after her first and only scene, her passing acting as deus ex machina for an elaborate art heist involving the whereabouts of the apocryphal, priceless chef d'oeuvre, «Boy With Apple».

Aubrey Plaza doesn't look like her usual cool and collected self in the first images from the zombie film Life After Beth.

So confident is this in its brand appeal after the success of the first film, there's not a lot of re-capping exposition (prepare to be mystified if you didn't actually read or see The Hunger Games; I was wishing I had seen it again more recently to get back up to speed).

The Ryan Coogler movie is the first film since Avatar, released eight years ago, to top the chart for five consecutive weekends, and only the third film to do so in 19 years after Avatar and The Sixth Sense.

While Netflix continues to keep ratings information relatively classified, they did release numbers for the aforementioned fantasy film, Bright, saying it drew in 11 million viewers during the first three days after it was released.

I don't hate the film, it panders to me like a MFer, but it is not without its charms, just that the schtick wears thin after a while, it gets its points across pretty much after the first act, then it dawdles its way to a sort of silly finish.

After his scene - stealing turn in the younger McDonagh's crime comedy, Brendan Gleeson returns to do the same in the elder sibling's first film.

The other male entertainers aren't doing too good after Matthew McConaughey's Dallas from the first film has absconded to Europe with «The Kid» from the first movie.

After growing up in the political tumult of France in the sixties and seventies, Assayas followed a path similar to the one traveled by several titans of the French New Wave, first working as a critic for Cahiers du cinéma, then moving on to film projects, including collaborations with André Téchiné and his own feature directorial debut, the 1986 Disorder.

Being a film adaptation of a television show, I wasn't at all expecting much, but I left the theater wanting to watch the movie again in much the same way I did after my first viewing of Olympus Has Fallen.

At our screening, one of the film's writers said he didn't even see The Room until after he turned in the first draft of the script.

II should be noted that the powerhouse first 45 minutes of Die Hard with a Vengeance are breathtakingly done, showcasing one impressive stunt after another across the city streets of New York, filmed on location in a stunningly realistic simulation of real NYC hustle and bustle.

The film picks - up right where the first one left off: After winning the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss thought she and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) were done fighting for their lives in the arena, a victory that cost gamemaker Seneca Crane his life.

I did not expect to like this film as much as I did, and found myself thinking about it many days after I first saw it.

The reputation of Terrence Malick — to whom Green was frequently compared after the release of his first two films — may waver slightly from film to film, but the one thing he doesn't do is dilute or adulterate his formula.

And it's fascinating the way that Buscemi — in his first starring performance for the Coens after three consecutive bit parts — so often operates as our interlocutor in the film: the «sane» one despite his criminality, untouched by the weirdness of «Minnesota Nice,» who merely wants everything to go as planned, and who bit by bit comes violently unglued as it doesn't.

Reservoir Dogs, True Romance and Pulp Fiction (the first two I watched back to back one weekend afternoon, after my friends learned I'd never seen a Tarantino film; I had heard he'd won the Palme d'Or, but didn't know he'd made any other movies) demanded we familiarize ourselves with their influences: film noir, Howard Hawks, Jean - Luc Godard (one of our favorite pass - times was driving around to all the video stores in town looking for a copy of Breathless.

In 1946, deep in the «Patriotic Era» of war films, immediately after the second World War had concluded, while most war movies were playing up the heroic exploits of the war, this film was the first ever to focus on the damage done to veterans.

The first thirty minutes or so are rough to watch and don't provide many genuine laughs, but luckily the film picks up after that.

Scott, who's coordinated but also done stunts himself on films like American Beauty and The Shawshank Redemption, got the Community job after running into former collaborators — Community director Adam Davidson and first assistant director Bob Roe — while working on the Paramount studio lot.

Arguably one of the best superhero movies ever, X2 did wonders to up the ante after the first X-Men film, which Fox saw as a bit of a gamble.

After releasing several stills via social media last week and teasing fans and media by send a back box with the Mockingjay logo stamp on the top, we finally got our first teaser trailer for the film and boy does it NOT disappoint!

Gaining a new appreciation for a film after repeat viewings is one thing, but having to watch it a second time just to take in all you missed the first time around doesn't seem right.

The film's test screenings have reportedly done better than the first Deadpool, and there may even be a secret cameo after the last set of reshoots.

The film takes place a year after the first one, and the usual gang is back, doing a study in sleep disorder at Hell House overnight.

She said that two nights ago after watching the film in its completed form for the first time she did not sleep all night.