Since this is the very first «spin - off» Star
Wars film ever the company is being...
Clocking in at 2 hours and 32 minutes, The Last Jedi takes the crown for being the longest Star
Wars film ever made.
Early reviews are in and it appears The Last Jedi is another Star Wars success story, with some critics even calling it the best Star
Wars film ever.
It would be the same levels of anger if she told me that The Empire Strikes Back was the worst Star
Wars film ever made.
Despite receiving near - universal acclaim from critics, with some going so far as to proclaim it as the best Star
Wars film ever, the audience score on the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes continues its downward trend and currently sits at 55 percent.
In fact, only two prequels have ever notched such an opening: Minions and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (which many thought would be the last Star
Wars film ever).
Though not a realistic war film, it is one of the most gripping, thought - provoking
war film ever made.
The Thin Red Line, arguably the greatest
war film ever made, ended two decades of silence from Terrence Malick, cinema's wandering auteur.
Full Metal Jacket is a type of ammunition and, more importantly, one of the best
war films ever made.
Samuel Fuller's 1951 Korean war movie Fixed Bayonets does not have impressive special effects, a stylish script, in - depth characterization, or subtle acting, but it's one of the greatest
war films ever.
The characters themselves seem to have just been taken from
every war film ever made without any of the emotional depth or charisma and thus whatever relationships they have seemed forced and unnatural.
Not exact matches
The Force remains strong with the new Star
Wars movie, which is on track to top $ 1 billion in global ticket sales this weekend, making it the fastest -
ever film to reach that level.
Two movies I've seen lately that were unexpectedly great: WARHORSE (I usually can't stand Spielberg — but this is a eloquent anti-
war film directed against probably the most senselessly and hugely murderous war ever — World War I. It's an anti-imperial and almost a pro-Porcher movie, until you realize that the first misuse of the heroic horse was making him plo
war film directed against probably the most senselessly and hugely murderous
war ever — World War I. It's an anti-imperial and almost a pro-Porcher movie, until you realize that the first misuse of the heroic horse was making him plo
war ever — World
War I. It's an anti-imperial and almost a pro-Porcher movie, until you realize that the first misuse of the heroic horse was making him plo
War I. It's an anti-imperial and almost a pro-Porcher movie, until you realize that the first misuse of the heroic horse was making him plow.)
However, this was definitely the most violent and realistic
war film I've
ever seen and I had to look away a lot during the battle scenes.
A
war film unlike any I have
ever seen.
After 18
films, the overlords at Marvel Studios have gathered almost all of their indentured servants, er, star - studded stable together into the
ever - crashing,
ever - booming, and
ever - banging extravaganza Avengers: Infinity
War.
Technically speaking, Avengers: Infinity
War is the third in a series of four planned Avengers
films, and part of an
ever - expanding universe of Marvel
films that's seemingly... infinite.
Based on a novel and probably one of the most realistic
war films I have
ever see.
This
film exams the
ever - increasing strife between locals, suffering from the ravages of
war in Africa, and those profiting from local fishing industries.
The best
film in the star
wars saga because it's filled with action and has one of the most shocking scenes
ever when you know happens.
Otherwise, it's actually not a bad little
film; Joaquin Phoenix amiably treads the line between immorality and charm, Ed Harris is as reliable as
ever as the impotent base commander who is caught in the crossfire and Scott Glenn is a first rate Nazi
war veteran.
Special kudos must be given to
film editor Michael Kahn, whose facility with these completely unhinged battle sequences should shame anybody who's
ever worked on a Michael Bay movie; to cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, who has given these scenes a dull grey cast evocative of nightmares torn from America's sleeping subconscious brain; and to sound designer Gary Rydstrom, who has crafted a World
War II soundscape that rattles and unnerves you even when your eyes are closed.
For whatever reason, Warner Brothers packaged Jammin'the Blues, one of the greatest short
films ever made, alongside Michael Curtiz's feature length Passage to Marseille (1944), a thoroughly mediocre military melodrama so desperate to replicate the success of Curtiz's earlier masterpiece Casablanca (1942) that it reuses most of the principal cast and some of the same story beats about lovers torn apart by
war and self - centered anti-heroes who come to learn the importance of self - sacrifice.
The Ryan Coogler - directed
film becomes only the fourth
film ever to cross $ 100 million mark its second weekend along with Star
Wars: The Force Awakens, Jurassic World, and The Avengers.
With German soldiers advancing all around him, the
war is an
ever present character within the
film, its destruction apparent in every horrific yet stunning frame.
With a reported cost of $ 300 - $ 400 million USD, Avengers: Infinity
War is one of the most expensive
films ever made.
As writer and director, Lucas unabashedly uses «Star
Wars» to pay tribute to all the grand adventure
films ever made, be they westerns, swashbucklers, fantasies or space operas.
However, the limited U.S. release by Newmarket
Films will allow anyone with an interest to have an opportunity to see one of the most finely - crafted World
War II
films ever made.
From there, the
film swiftly spirals into one mystery after another, making for an utterly gripping psychological drama infused with the
ever - present Cold
War paranoia of the midfifties.
It may not be called Infinity
War, but the second
film is still clearly going to be the conclusion of the fight against Thanos, who has, after all, been set up as the biggest of Big Bads
ever since the stinger at the end of the first Avengers.
His character, Lazarus, is a «very serious Oscar - winning actor» who is cast for a role originally written for a black man in the most expensive Vietnam
war epic
ever filmed.
It's interesting to see a
film about a space alien that doesn't resemble anything we've
ever seen before, as most others have some sort of humanoid appearance, (or reptilian, etc.) Indeed, it's a much more plausible depiction of an alien threat than most other sci - fi efforts have featured, almost the opposite in terms of story as The
War of the Worlds which featured aliens defeated from exposures to germs and viruses of our own.
It's a pointless endeavor, really, since the movie has already been deemed by nearly every critic as one of the greatest
war films (if not the greatest
war film)
ever made.
Set months following a devastating World
War III, the
film posits a world in which most of the Northern Hemisphere has been contaminated with radiation poisoning and people are moving down to Australia in order to escape the slow - moving but
ever encroaching radiation dust.
Monitor
film critic Peter Rainer called «Wind,» which was billed as Miyazaki's final
film and the story of which is partly based on fighter plane designer Jiro Horikoshi's life, «visually as beautiful as anything he's
ever done,» though he noted that «the collision between poetic fancifulness and grim reality, between peace and
war, never falls into focus.»
The Empire Strikes Back: Not just the best Star
Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back is also one of the best
films of * any * kind
ever.
Simon is only too happy to admit that The Last Jedi is everything he has
ever wanted from a Star
Wars film.
What could have been a re-tread of every
war film you've
ever seen became an achingly tense drama of survival and failure, with some of the best cinematography of the year.
As Avengers: Infinity
War looms
ever closer, fans have become increasingly worried by the absence of Jeremy Renner's Hawkeye from the marketing for Marvel's ensemble
film, leading to speculation how much of a role he'll actually play.
War films, when done right, can be some of the most harrowing cinema
ever witnessed.
«Infinity
War» cost an estimated $ 300 million to produce, making it one of the most expensive
films ever made.
Disney's stand - alone
film Rogue One: A Star
Wars Story opened to a massive $ 155 million, scoring the second - largest December opening
ever behind last year's Star
Wars: The Force Awakens.
«Children Of Men» For a
film which is, ostensibly at least, science fiction (it creates one of the most coherent, fascinating futuristic dystopias
ever seen on screen), «Children of Men» sums up our
War - on - Terror, immigration - panic era better than any contemporary drama could.
Brolin is not only a respected and sought - after actor known for his fierce, tough guy charisma, but as he also portrays Thanos, the actor is the centerpiece of Marvel Studio's biggest
film ever, Infinity
War.
Ever since Black Panther was announced in Captain America: Civil
War I have been salivating waiting for T'Challa to get his own feature
film, when the trailer dropped and that Run the Jewels track played I knew that this movie was going to deliver.
And speaking of Darth Vader, no Star
Wars film will
ever be able to recreate the magic of the reveal that the armor - clad Sith is actually Luke Skywalker's father.
LOS ANGELES November 29, 2016 — In support of the upcoming action / horror
film UNDERWORLD: BLOOD
WARS, the latest installment in the blockbuster UNDERWORLD franchise, Screen Gems has partnered with the wildly popular platform Snapchat to develop the first -
ever sponsored interactive 3D Lens to reach their 150 + million daily users and allow the studio to communicate with Snapchatters in the most...
takes us back to many different genres of filmmaking from the 1940s, including historical epics,
war films, musicals — tap dancing Frank Sinatra musicals and Esther Williams musicals with vibrant colors, rich black and whites — all the while allowing Deakins to do what he always does with any movie he's working on whether it's the shittiest
film you've
ever seen or the best — making it 100 % better just by having shot it.
Her face has been reconstructed, but she's still unrecognizable; after
war, the
film asks, can we
ever be the same again?
Directed by Mick Jackson from a screenplay by novelist / playwright Barry Hines and nominated for seven BAFTA Awards, «The most terrifying and honest portrayal of nuclear
war ever filmed» (The Guardian) has now been fully restored from a 2K scan for the first time
ever.