Sentences with phrase «excellent film adaptation»
Excellent film adaptation of the Highsmith novel..
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The Kite Runner is a powerful, riveting, emotional film that is a faithful adaptation from the excellent novel.
An excellent performance from Genevieve Bujold is the highlight of this filmed play but the modern adaptation of the classic story is clunky.
Like that film, writer - director Gary Ross's adaptation of Laura Hillenbrand's excellent non-fiction washes out as something creepily nostalgic, weightless, and unintentionally disturbing.
Speaking of Swayze and cradling, cast in Francis Ford Coppola's excellent adaptation of S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders as responsible eldest brother Darry, shepherd to wayward Ponyboy (um, C. Thomas Howell — no fooling (Darren Daulton is also in both films)-RRB-, he turns in the film's keystone performance.
The list of icons making appearances was truly unprecedented: Superman soars twice — once in the «return» and the other as Ben Affleck; Crockett and Tubbs exude cool; Ethan Hunt falls short; Captain Jack Sparrow sets the stage for the finale; Jack Black sometimes wears stretchy pants; Huey Long is resurrected and somehow over-played by Sean Penn; the mass appeal of the DaVinci Code novel fizzled onscreen; Robert Altman's amazing career ended with an excellent adaptation of a radio series starring Garrison Keillor's made for radio face; Johnny Depp tried to untrack his career with The Libertine; Nicolas Cage was front and center in the disastrous remake of The Wicker Man, but if the preview is any indication, his sleep - walk was merely a tune - up for this year's Ghost Rider; Woody Allen (with Scarlett Johansson as his muse) re-emerged with his best comedy since Crimes and Misdemeanors; amazingly, Jen and Vince's real life break - up was more entertaining than the film version; and while on - set hook - ups seem to the norm, how could the dreadful You, Me and Dupree have been an aphrodisiac for Kate and Owen?
That the resulting film is excellent viewing distracts from how challenging this adaptation about an orphan, a dreamcatching giant, his violent brethren and the Queen of England must have actually been to bring to life....
Excellent locale work, a brilliant adaptation by Egoyan of the book, great supporting characters and a disturbingly haunting accident scene all add up to one of 1997's best hidden gem films.
An adaptation of Michel Faber's excellent piece of postmodern Victoriana, The Crimson Petal and the White, was filmed last fall in London and Liverpool by Origin Pictures.
I love Alex Garland's films, but I did not find Annihilation to be a particularly excellent adaptation, as I felt it missed capturing the core elements that made Jeff VanderMeer's story so distinct.
So when you say that we don't have a whole lot of information on Mario himself, I guess Mario - fans still don't like to talk about that most excellent of game - movies, the masterwork of adaptation, featuring prolific actor and lovechild of the independent film - scene Bob Hoskins, energetic superstar John Leguizamo and film - legend Dennis Hopper, featuring that most divine of soundtracks, which ended up being such a darling of the criticsphere that it just begged for a reboot?