Sentences with phrase «opening scenes»

Adapted from the novel by Chris Fuhrman, there's some funny dialogue and interesting insights delivered during the course of the film, and had the tone stayed within the bounds set during the opening scenes, this would have been an enjoyable slice of life film with humor and heart.

As he does, «The Little Prince» makes a remarkable stylistic leap from the accomplished but familiar CG environs of these opening scenes (big - eyed, bobble - headed humans; modernist - futurist design influences) into 2D stop - motion animation, bringing the world of Saint - Exupery's original story to life in beautiful handcrafted images based on the author's own crudely elegant watercolors (seen in the book's first printing and all subsequent editions).

No, the explanation for Adaline Bowman's (Blake Lively) unchanging physical form is purely scientific — it's just that the science behind the phenomenon won't be discovered until 2035, according to the omniscient narrator who walks viewers through her unique condition in the film's opening scenes.

«We must atone,» the cult leader shouts in the opening scenes of the trailer from Ubisoft.

Curiously enough, that's exactly what an unhappy teenage misfit named Nadine threatens to do in the opening scenes of «The Edge of Seventeen.»

The lesson from these opening scenes is to never get used to Shutter Island as a locale, because each new setting within it seems as foreign as the one that proceeds it.

Not that it really matters, though, as the movie is otherwise pure nightmare fuel, building in intensity from its artfully uneasy opening scenes to its closing gauntlet of horror.

The opening scenes in the village are staged to take advantage of 3D.

The opening scenes of the game make for an introductory trial of sorts, with players taking out a few low - level enemies and getting used to different attacks, effective ranges, and other battle attributes that are mostly self - explanatory.

The film starts with one of those rare opening scenes that manages to grab you from the start.

I laughed at the wordplay in the film but wasn't expecting the widespread tautological eruptions that followed the film's premiere as everyone bent themselves into self - affirming pretzels to debate its portrayal of torture in the film's opening scenes as if there were only one way to look at the damn movie... as if torture were the only thing worth discussing about the film!

As the stunning Chad Boseman chimes as an elderly Brown in the film's opening scenes, «there's some of me in every record you own».

These opening scenes of Anthony Mann's Strangers in the Night (1944) may seem irrelevant, but they are crucial to his trajectory as a director.

The opening scenes are fantastic, as we see Chazz Michael Michaels and Jimmy MacElroy strut their stuff on the ice.

In one of the opening scenes he boasts about how he hasn't had dinner alone since the «90.

But in the opening scenes, dashing literature professor Richard Haig (played by Pierce Brosnan) channels the spirit of his roguish father Gordon (Malcolm McDowell) and delivers a lecture to his class about how the Romantics were all about instinct and individualism, not about some idealized, Hallmark - penned celebration of love.

In the opening scenes, her father exits the home in a torrent of violence and vulgarity, and her newly single Mom later accepts the offer of a scholarship at the local parochial school for her daughter.

There's so much happening in a vacuum here with deaths all over the place and a wealth of exposition shoved at the moviegoer — brush up on your Horcrux knowledge and character lists, people, else you'll be lost — the film doesn't sustain the real feeling it engenders brilliantly in the opening scenes.

Those opening scenes are pretty shocking for him.

The poet's played by Emma Bell — In the opening scenes — Where Emily embraces doubt — And authenticity.

In the opening scenes, Horton (voiced by Seuss - vet Jim Carrey, earning his keep with vigor) appears lively enough that kids will forget that he's an illustration.

He's one of Coogler's kids from the Oakland basketball court in those opening scenes, lashing out at the very fantasy this comic book movie represents.

Matthew Weiner loaded the opening scenes of Mad Men's finale with homages to Two - Lane Blacktop.

The opening scenes suggest the four — Amy, Jo, Meg (Willa Fitzgerald) and Beth (Annes Elwy)-- are just as spirited as girls today.

In the opening scenes of A Quiet Place, a mother (Emily Blunt) and her children wander the aisles of a devastated supermarket.

The opening scenes of unsavory S&M in the underground club (think a slightly lighter version of «Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom») provide an inclination of the type of depravity hinted at in the film's title.

We may not see the botched casino robbery in action, but the strong simplistic opening scenes are just as accomplished in their ambiguity.

«Each generation has its own epic confrontations it must deal with,» narrates Cleve Jones (Guy Pearce) over the opening scenes of Dustin Lance Black's When We Rise.

It is easy to completely misunderstand the opening scenes of 51st State.

The tension of these opening scenes (and throughout) is simply extraordinary.

From the very outset Resnais sets up the theatrical artifice of the film with opening scenes of repetition and staged production design.

The opening scenes of the film has a younger version of Wayans» Darryl continuously trying to string together lots of cheesy contraptions to get his antenna TV to work, ultimately only responding when he sticks his foot in the toilet.

The humour is forced, the settings are amateur (painted barrage balloons in the London sky in the opening scenes).

There is a mystery at the heart of the movie — it's established in the opening scenes, when we see Orlando visiting a sauna and then puzzling over some missing paperwork — but no crime, other than that of being a sexual minority in an intolerant time and place.

The opening scenes of «The Spanish Prisoner» employ this technique better than I can remember in any of his other works.

Quickly becoming apparent in the opening scenes of the film, Demange is reluctant to let «71 become bogged down in the complexity of political context to the conflict.

say a couple of farm girls in one of the opening scenes, going on like a couple of construction workers and literally chasing after him.

The opening scenes try to convey the sense of a seasoned team of happy agents, working together in an atmosphere of mutual respect and affection.

Things start out fresh and lively; the opening scenes between the Virgin Queen and the gallant Raleigh, laying down his cloak for the queen to cross a puddle, are played for a wink and a nod.

The opening scenes with the Jedi fighting droids and hiding on the planet of Naboo.

Deponia Doomsday contains one of the greatest opening scenes we've ever seen in a Point»n Click / Adventure game, featuring none other than David Hayter.

In the opening scenes, T'Challa becomes the king of Wakanda following his father's death.

«If there's one place where we can come together in these divided times, surely it's to appreciate a show that gives us opening scenes like the one this week...»

One of the opening scenes of The Accountant consists of puzzle pieces being dumped on a table, and that's a fine metaphor for the film....

[Note: In the same year, Planet of the Apes (1968) was given a Special Honorary Oscar for John Chambers» outstanding, convincing makeup (there was no Best Makeup category until 1981)- the Academy members presumably didn't realize the superior, too - believable makeup in the opening scenes of 2001 that included both human actors with life - like masks and infant chimpanzees.]

The opening scenes, which portray Ellsberg's flip from Cold Warrior to anti-war leaker, compress the timeline to the point of distortion.

In the spoiler - sensitive environment of today's entertainment, there may be people who resent the opening scenes of Annihilation, which gives away most of the movie's direction.

Soundtracked to the trembling, ethereal echo of a classical women's choir, the opening scenes swiftly establish the peaceful, slightly alienated conservatism of life on the British island of Jersey — the director's own home territory, and duly evoked with expansive, non-touristic sweep by cinematographer Benjamin Kračun in sharp strokes of seagrass hue.

In the opening scenes of Leon Ichaso's «Sugar Hill» we see a woman (Khandi Alexander) who is clearly addicted to heroin asks one of her kids to help her tighten a strap around her arm so she can inject the fatal drug.

He would work with Forman again on several occasions, most memorably as Salieri's (F. Murray Abraham) phlegmatic valet in the opening scenes of Amadeus (1984).