Sentences with phrase «lesser films of»

Generally considered the lesser film of the Back to the Future trilogy, mostly because it is darker and less in fun than the other two, Back to the Future II is nonetheless an intelligent and well - constructed sequel that succeeds with high energy and clever twists and turns.

Not exact matches

The short film reached 6.5 million YouTube views less than two weeks after its September 2013 premiere, while the free game reportedly topped 500,000 downloads within about six weeks of landing in Apple's App Store.

In fact, of those eight films, five of them have made less at the box office than Crash, which is currently the fifth - lowest grossing film of the past four decades (in terms of sales adjusted for inflation).

For most of the films that were offered in both two and three dimensions this summer, the enhanced versions accounted for less than 50 % of opening weekend revenues.

This was the case recently when Amy Pascal, Sony's co-chairman and chief of its film division, came under intense criticism for her remarks about President Barack Obama and less than flattering statements about high - profile actors, including Angelina Jolie, Kevin Hart and Adam Sandler.

But for serious collectors, nothing less than a tangible piece of the film's history will do.

EASTWOOD: So anyway, we did that and then I went to Tokyo and where they hadn't been too fond of Americans going there and filming, I sold the governor who was actually the mayor of Tokyo, I sold him on the idea that this would be a great thing for the Japanese people that didn't even know this battle even existed much less how tough it was.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this year's top - grossing film so far, came out in early - April and the scattering of big movies around the calendar is one reason why all 2014 films have only grossed about 5.4 % less than all films had last year at this point.

Once stabilized, the film should appear less amateurish than before and less nauseating of an experience.

It's called «Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon» and it refers to the fact that pretty much any actor or actress is most likely just a few roles away (or less) from having worked with Bacon, who has starred in more than 80 films and TV shows.

It plays less like the kind of blockbusters we are all used to and more like a horror film.

Redstone was so upset about the disappointing performance of Mission: Impossible III, which grossed almost $ 100 million less than the previous installment, he blamed Cruise and his controversial behavior leading up to the film's release for costing the studio money.

The company envisions systems that will let consumers download a high - definition, full - length feature film in less than five minutes, allow rural health clinics to send 3 - D medical images over the Internet and let students collaborate with classmates around the world while watching live 3 - D video of a university lecture.

Marketers promoting an R - rated horror film, for instance, are far less skittish about the content accompanying their ad than the marketer of baby shampoo.

Despite the fact that the number of screens showing 3 - D films increased to nearly 15,000 in 2012, moviegoers are showing less interest in the three - dimensional format.

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

But unlike other films with more direct Christian messages, churches are much less likely to buy out theaters in bulk as they did for «Son of God» and «God's Not Dead,» a move that brought those films big returns at the box office.

Considering the subject of the film is more or less an interpretation of Scripture on the big screen, Paul earning $ 12 million is not only surprising, but perhaps another future signpost for Hollywood to sit up and take note.

Though Chaplin later said that, had he known the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, he could not have made the film, the truth and hope of the film were no less important or authentic.

The film has already won a slew of awards — from BAFTAs to a Gold Globe — and is nominated for no less than nine Oscars.

While classification freed directors to use explicit language in marvelous films like Platoon and Something Wild and has allowed films like Out of Africa and Children of a Lesser God to explore the complex nature of human sexuality, it has also given us a series of slasher films — Friday the 13th, with its many parts; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, parts one and two — and films like Brian DePalma's artistically significant but deplorably explicit Body Double.

This is because her life radiates beauty: through her hospitality to friends and strangers alike, through her joyful laugh, through her care of those in need, through her passion for education, through her love of framing things on film through the lens of a camera, through her ability to be patient with her doofus husband, through her genuine love for God, through her sacrificial generosity to those with less than we have, and even through her stubborn refusal to let me get away with any of my trademark snark.

In truth, there are times when the film feels less like an addition to the franchise than it does a remake of the original movie.

Thus males, whose performance is unpredictable and who are in any case secondary attractions for the heterosexual audience of the films, earn far less money than female porn stars, whose appeal is largely visual and whose standard of performance can be counted on.

Wahlberg was met with outrage when it was revealed he earned the fortune to re-film portions of the film to erase disgraced actor Kevin Spacey while Williams reportedly received less than 1,000 dollars (# 728).

When the old Legion of Decency held a boycott - type club over the film - maker, and the Protestants through more subtle but no less paternalistic devices promised a docile and bland audience, the industry knew what to expect.

And despite less - than - enthused early reviews, Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great Gatsby has garnered heightened anticipation and excitement over the past few months of lavish themed parties, soundtrack leaks and previews and even special edition fashion lines in the film's honor.

By contrast, if I had simply destroyed a blank, unexposed piece of your film, you would have been much less upset.

«I see us being less of a paper - feeding machine and rather a dispenser of value added substrates like water - soluble flavorings or ingredient - bonded films used for flavor transfer.

In mixed plastics recycle streams such as this, using Fusabond ® improves impact resistance, surface finish, and processability of parts and films... so the recycled material can be made into more sustainable articles with less material loss and higher end - use value.

Significantly, film usage is substantially less thanks to the sealing depth of the bags being reduced on the end seal from typically 10 mm to just 3 mm, and on the back seal from typically 13 mm to just 6 mm.

Less than twenty years later, the hotel established by Lucien Barrière on the Croisette was at the forefront of the beginnings of a cinematic event that became the most important film festival in the world — the Cannes Film Festival.

This is good news for supporters of the movie as the film drew just $ 3.5 million less than «Despicable Me 2» which is a sequel to the widely popular original released in 2010.

However, the two sets of fans have fallen foul to less regal clashes in recent years as a Newcastle fan was filmed punching a horse last season.

A forensic assessment of the filmed recordings by father and son team (Hypothetical Premier League) of every match played in the Premiership and the critical decisions made by referees shows that Arsenal would have finished top of the League (2 points more than they got) and Leicester should have been 2nd (9 points less than they got)-- if the use of video evidence had been used to review important decisions.

There's a little less film on Jackson than most of his peers at the top of the class, but his play in 2017 was so good that there shouldn't be many questions about him.

He ended it with no individual accolades to speak of, a 1 — 2 team record in games he appeared in and less than an hour of film for NBA front office types to pore over.

Mom is beside herself when she realizes that she's been filming a baby sitting in a pile of foamy liquidly poop, she laughs, but I'm sure cleaning that stain will be less than funny.

Yes, Omalu found CTE in Webster's brain while personally funded his quest, but the film's lack of placing Omalu on the shoulders of those who came before him, leave one feeling that the film is telling less than the truth.

It offers less hassle with an impeccable finish and is the best film we've ever applied for ease of application — it should have creased with squeegeeing but it didn't.»

«Our new film has been produced specifically for use in less extreme graphics applications where cost is more of a deciding factor,» said Kim Brewer, Marketing Manager, 3M's Commercial Graphics division.

So yeah, I guess Jumanji, Pitch Perfect 3, Ferdinand, Coco, Wonder and Justice League could combine with the film's less crowd - pleasing elements, honest displeasure from some fans and the various factors that made The Last Jedi into less of an event than The Force Awakens, but that's still a $ 732 million domestic total.

In a recent YouTube campaign film, he complained that «we have gone down the road of mediocracy and compromise, we don't like the idea of excelling of anything because we worry that it implies that somebody is less good».

The film earned just 11.2 % less on its respective opening weekend than The Force Awakens, which is a smaller drop than even The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug -LRB--12.9 %) from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

While film has blossomed in New York — especially since the opening of Steiner Studios in the Brooklyn Navy Yard — the addendum notes that «the industry accounts for less than one percent of the state's employment» and «many of the film industry jobs are temporary.»

Simply put, by employing less expensive semiconducting material thin - film solar cells would be cheaper to make, a fact born out by thin - film solar manufacturer First Solar's world - beating module that costs 73 cents per watt in 2011, albeit before the expense of installing it on the roof.

When the team watched videos of the bees filmed the following day, they found that the sleep - deprived bees performed less precise waggle dances.

Nevertheless, we know less about the potential effects of films that glorify the use of guns.

Although the product didn't contain nanoparticles — the problems were ultimately traced to the formation of a super-thin film — the incident put the concept of nanomaterials (which incorporate particles or components measuring less than 100 nanometers, or about 1/250, 000 inch) squarely in the public eye and raised the question of how to harness their potential while addressing their potential risks.

The flat tips of the diamond anvils are less than half a millimeter in diameter, and the metal film (gray), ruby sphere (red), and pressure medium (blue fluid) are sealed between the diamonds by a metal gasket (solid purple).