Sentences with phrase «acted in movies like»

Emma Stone has acted in movies like Crazy, Stupid, Love; The Help; and Birdman, and has been nominated for an Academy Award and two Golden Globes.

Not exact matches

It's almost like we need robots to act like that robot taxi driver in the first Total Recall movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger, a bit edgy and unpredictable.

Back some of these people into a corner with a moral dilemma with limited choices and I think its fair to question whether or not they will act something like the Christian husband did in that movie.

Even though Christians and atheists also perpetrate acts of terror and violence (in places like movie theatres, elementary schools, and shopping malls), many of our neighbors react with particular fear and judgment when the perpetrator is identified with Islam.

they only wants to see good tippy tappy football, they deluded to act like aristrocrat in the movie, says «ah, what a wonderful sight».

And last, Rosicky's «foul» that directly led to the final goal was nothing more than a tap, and Barton dropped like he'd been hit in the back of the head with a cricket bat swung by Vinnie Jones in a bad movie — it wasn't even good acting.

Others like Eric Cantona and Vinnie Jones found a new talent in acting to become movie stars.

If you are in the Boston area (heck for a movie like this you can get to the Boston area), then make sure you act soon to snag tickets, because trust me they won't last long.

SCREENWRITER: You might also say that scientists love acting like starlets on television news and documentaries, blogging, and self - promoting as much as anyone in movies.

Adam Driver is Anakin - like in this movie, but his acting chops are solid, as well.

I am a young looking and acting 69 yr young like to dance swim go out to eat movies plays playing in my pool in the summer i have mini dachounds like to do most activities

Friendly down to earth kind of guy, str8 acting, likes cooking in or outdoors, hiking, biking, reading, watching a good movie.

The Kingdom follows a ragtag group of FBI agents - including Jamie Foxx's Ronald Fleury, Chris Cooper's Grant Sykes, and Jason Bateman's Adam Leavitt - as they surreptitiously arrive in Saudi Arabia to solve a terrorist act against American soldiers, with the bulk of the movie essentially playing out like an overlong and overwrought episode of CSI.

Maximus» incognito return to Rome to fight in the Colosseum (in front of the new emperor, Commodus), his quick rise to fame as the town's winningest warrior, and his big showdown with his old adversary fill the last act of Gladiator — as do a dazzling display of old - time Roman crowd scenes and stadium acts conjured with computerized magic that would have slayed old sandal - movie showmen like William Wyler and Cecil B. DeMille.

Even if you like your movies sick and black, as many people do, it's hard to miss the irony: in the very act of trying to intensify his Southern tale, Friedkin dilutes the impact.

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Like its a good movie if you base it on Spaceys an Devitos acting and the fact it is wel written in the comedy part wth a few really good laugh out loud moments and the story is ok i understand there after a big sale but i do nt understand why a guy whose really religious would ignore his job and talk about religion?

Wow, this movie is awful, I mean the CGI is the worse I have seen this year, (although I, Frankenstein might beat this movie), the acting is horrible, Kellan Lutz is so bland, he makes fellow Twilight star look like Marlon Brando in comparison, the love interest is just as bland, then the

Had Howard built this irony directly into the movie, it might have resulted in a juicy pop - culture jape — that, or some of the eerie, you - are - who - you - act - like gamesmanship that ricocheted through that media - age hall of mirrors, The Truman Show.

McGraw would find continual opportunities to branch into acting in the years to come, appearing in movies like The Kingdom, Four Christmases, The Blind Side, and Country Song.

The smooth jazz score which punctuates the film gives certain sections the feeling of a silent movie, while the long awkward silences in the second act are like a lighter, less absurdist variant on the work of Samuel Beckett or Harold Pinter.

Actually, it's like watching something other than a movie, like a bunch of bad acting, cheesy dialogue and laughably crap special effects, and like this kind of slapstick childish unfunny type of humour, all exploded onto your screen!!!! It's a bit like something you'd see on Disney Channel, like in the same league as Lizzie McGuire.

In his director's statement, Damien Power, who also wrote the script, cites»70s «survival thrillers» as his inspiration, and like «The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,» this movie has the hallmarks of torture porn: gratuitous slaughter, remorseless murderers and gruesome acts.

The action sequences and fight scenes in the first two acts of the movie are equally impressive in their staging, taking visual cues from sources that include Coogler's own grounded boxing scenes in Creed, as well as many a James Bond film during a nightclub sequence right out of something like Skyfall.

For Mana, showing up for practice and competing in the meet are acts of open defiance, and Ariki isn't the kind of character you want to make angry, which pulls the openly conflicted Gen into the center of a potentially violent situation — one that feels like something out of a Paul Schrader movie (say, Travis Bickle's foolhardy attempt to liberate Iris at the end of «Taxi Driver») rather than the sort of climax audiences might anticipate from this otherwise Disney - appropriate inspirational drama.

Will Arnett from Arrested Development breaks down how to act like an arrogant idiot on TV and in movies.

The three lead actors — along with Tom Hollander as the perverse villain Isaacs, Olivia Williams, Jason Flemyng and Jessica Barden as the British family Hanna meets in the desert — have the kind of acting chops you don't usually see in movies like this, and they display them as much as Seth Lochhead and David Farr's script lets them.

As anyone who sat through the last three «Pirates» movies might expect, «The Lone Ranger» is too complex for its own good, culminating in a long - winded third act that feels like it'll never end.

We assume that Johnson will assume the role of Buchanon in the new movie, which looks like another sure - fire hit for the wrestler turned acting superstar.

Films like these and performances like these are really nothing more than the type of acting required in a torture porn movie or a disaster flick.

I kept waiting for its multiple arcs and ideas to gel and then McDonagh went in another direction in the final act (almost commenting on expectations for a movie like this in the first place) and I left thinking that the result was more shallow than I had hoped it would be.

Sure it's got James Franco, but the real star of the movie is Andy Serkis, whose motion - capture computer - enhanced performance as a smart ape named Caesar just won him an acting nomination alongside actors like Nick Nolte and Christopher Plummer, who didn't act standing in front of a greenscreen in a bodysuit.

He was large, imposing and pumped up like the Michelin man, but could not act, and seemed like yet another wrestler whose ill - advised bid for movie stardom would end in failure.

Little goes according to plan, people get hurt, bad guys don't act predictably and all the rehearsals in the world can't ensure the split - second precision the movies convince us that units like Seal Team Six provide with the effortlessness of Superheroes.

It's weird, because the movie is at its funniest in third act, even though it's usually not like that.

After an uncomfortable beginning in which Mrs. Claus acts like kind of a crazy nagging shrew (he's Santa, for heaven's sake, cut him some slack), executing Frost's predictable plan seems to take up three - quarters of the movie, followed by a quick and equally predictable resolution.

I know there's little to no middle - ground (Although the last time I heard this complaint, it was from Seth Rogan or Judd Apatow or someone else who isn't in any position to be complaining about not getting to make shit movies), but it's not like the five or so major studios release 60 movies a year and then act like we should be grateful for the scraps.

Danny Glover in 2012 acted like he was in a real movie about the world ending, not a phoney - boloney effects showcase.

The connection to Cloverfield (which Abrams and Burk also produced) was added late in the overall development cycle, which might be why the final act of the film feels like the characters have suddenly been dropped into another movie.

The mother and the 7 homeschooled children, 6 boys and 1 girl, are essential prisoners in their own home, where the boys» only relief and only window to an outside world lies in the access they are granted to recorded movies, which they constantly watch and then elaborately reconstruct, acting out scenes from the likes of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Goodfellas.

Who wouldn't want to see a character like Terence Fletcher, played by J.K. Simmons (Juno, Upcoming Justice League movie as Commissioner Gordon) in front of a live audience, using funny profanity, hollering, and acting like a maniac at a lovable character like Andrew Neiman, played by Miles Teller (War Dogs, Bleed for This)?

The acting is what you'd expect from a bunch of lame ducks, but all you really hope for in movies like this is that no one pulls a Matthew Lillard and overdoes it to the point of distraction.

The acting isn't great, but it least it doesn't have an overcaffeinated Robin Williams in it like «Jumanji» did, not to mention the atrocious special effects that movie had.

Nicolas Cage plays the father, and although it's nice to see him acting like a maniac — that's his true cinematic calling, not going around in action movies like James Stewart on steroids — the material is so bad that his presence is a distraction.

Though it has a lot of fun playing with slasher tropes and cinema in general (showing the way Max and her friends are affected by elements like musical cues, monochromatic flashback sequences and slow motion within the fictional movie), the film isn't funny or scary enough, ultimately becoming a victim of its own satire due to its insistence on preserving the genre's traditionally bad acting and writing.

Poor Mativo acts like bait a lot in this movie, and the scene of him in the tree led me to uncomfortably remember the guy in the tree in Django Unchained.

Johnson, who has successfully transitioned into the world of movies (leaving his wrestling career behind him until his inevitable return), has adequately proven his acting ability in quirky, family friendly roles like «Tooth Fairy» and «Journey 2: The Mysterious Island» and shown he can bust heads alongside the best of them in films like «Pain & Gain» and «Furious 7.»

The idea is that the Deadpool in the spin - off film could take an entirely different take on the character (i.e. a take actually based on what the character looked and acted like in the comics), but he had to first appear in the Wolverine movie.

The bad acting (except for one actor, more on him in a sec), the tacky special effects, and the general misuse of the circus motif contributed to form a movie that isn't very scary, isn't very funny, and isn't as cute as the filmmakers would like you to believe.

Hollywood sweetheart Mary Elizabeth Winstead once again proves that she has been outgrowing the image of teen boys» crush Gwen Grayson / Royal Pain in Disney's Sky High back then, with more matured acting range through movies like Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Smashed or recent summer newcomer TV show on the comedy scene — Braindead.