Sentences with phrase «action film these days»

There is some good character development which is nice to see in an action film these days.

We were shown Hollywood action films every day.

You can't watch an action film these days without Hong Kong cinema's influence.

How often can someone say that about an action film these days?

Not exact matches

And for every hit like «X-Men: Days of Future Past» there were flops like the raunchy western - comedy «A Million Ways to Die in the West» and Tom Cruise action film «Edge of Tomorrow.»

The former commodities trader was instrumental in the campaign to leave the European Union (EU), and following the referendum's passage, Farage invoked the 1996 sci - fi action film «Independence Day» by declaring June 23 «our independence day» from failed socialist rules, regulations and immigration policiDay» by declaring June 23 «our independence day» from failed socialist rules, regulations and immigration policiday» from failed socialist rules, regulations and immigration policies.

Maybe action films are where we see men's vulnerability these days: Iron Man, Mad Max.

Today's day of lobbying is the culmination of the new film Food Inc.'s social - action campaign, organized by Participant Media for the Child Nutrition Reauthorization.

The action was filmed with 18 3D motion capture cameras and 11 high - definition game day cameras to capture impacts from dozens of angles around the field with the goal to better understand the forces and motions that occur when a player receives an impact.

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There's a curious insistence in Hollywood action - adventure films these days (doubtless aided by the comic books that provide such an increasing amount of their adaptive material) on the centrality of origins, from the X-Men to Batman to Bond and beyond — often, if not always, revolving around daddy issues.

What surprised me is that I had some affection for an action adventure film the way I would have in the days of the Ray Harryhausen's best films.

Mr. Carpenter is an extremely resourceful director whose ability to construct films entirely out of action and movement suggests that he may one day be a director to rank with Don Siegel.

Mangold, a replacement for original director Darren Aronofsky, is new to the superhero genre, and hasn't directed a film since the disappointing 2010 action - comedy Knight and Day, but his approach to The Wolverine (it sounds more like a samurai film than anything else) suggests it should at least be an improvement over X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

With all the emphasis these days on big screen blockbuster action, superhero, sci - fi, and fantasy movies these days, it is refreshing to watch a well - made, well presented, historical based film that can touch you on a personal level.

Comparing this film to bland summer action movies like The Rock, Independence Day and Chain Reaction, is like 8 - track and vinyl.

For though «Insurgent» can't quite do without its pro forma personal moments between characters (the film even includes a sex scene so chaste it wouldn't have disturbed Doris Day in her prime), its heart is not there but in its action sequences.

In the world of live - action films, changing a director when a film is already in production is rare, though it happened this year on the independent western «Jane Got a Gun,» when Gavin O'Connor replaced director Lynne Ramsay after she failed to show up on the first day of shooting in New Mexico.

«Independence Day» was a fantastic action / sci - fi film.

It's an action, comedy, sci - fi adventure that tries and that's more than a lot of films these days.

Last year Alex Slevin of FoG Films tried to crowdfund his fan film, From the Lost Days — Silent Hill 15th Anniversary Film, a live action feature film that adapted both the Silent Hill & Silent Hill 3 video games through Kickstarter.

I think that the mix of the really short shoot (miraculously, Prince Avalanche was filmed in 16 days), with what an action - packed shoot it was, in terms of the amount of scenes we did every day, and the comedic dynamic of the character was something that I never explored before.

What is so disappointing about this is that so often in these action films, we are only allowed to have one heroine who gets to save the day.

Nichey as voiceovers are (and let's ignore the fact that most trailers forgo narration these days), the story seems to resonate with our vision of the sexist live - action film and television business, one that Bell has been a part of since a couple of 2002 «ER» episodes.

The first trailer for FoG Films live action feature film adapting Silent Hill & Silent Hill 3 video games, FROM THE LOST DAYS, has arrived!

The special effects are impressive at times but in this day and age you need more than just special effects to make a successful action / adventure film.

The film is centered on the actions of the former First Lady on the days immediately following the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, on November 22, 1963 in Dallas.

The Tom Hardy - Charlize Theron action epic, the only R - rated film in the top ten, is expected to pick up steam and finish with a little less than $ 30 million over the four days for Warner Bros..

A few scant days since word broke that the Kick - Ass 2 writer / director is developing an X-Force film for 20th Century Fox comes word that Sony is looking to secure his services for an action film called Go Fast.

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mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

I love the narrative structure of the film, telling two different stories about the parents of a boy who is supposedly killed - in - action, and the story of the boy on assignment at a remote military outpost (where nothing happens all day).

They're also the kinds of places that Kormákur's camera loves, as embracing as he is of the modern - day action - film aesthetic of deliberate imperfection.

Black Hat is a Decent weekend action film if your looking for something to watch but you'll probably forget about it after a few days.

We are only two days away from the official release of Netflix's Bright, a cop action - thriller horror film starring Will Smith (I Am Legend), Joel Edgerton (The Gift), and Noomi Rapace (Alien: Covenant, Prometheus).

Specifically, she recalls how, on the same day a «tough adult female friend» confronted Kramer about his actions against Dushku, a stunt on the film's set went «wrong,» putting the child actress in the hospital with broken ribs.

Day and date with video stores: Martin Scorsese's Oscar winner «Hugo,» the horror film «Beneath the Darkness» and the direct - to - DVD action film «Bounty Hunters.»

The film starts off gloriously enough with a brilliantly filmed action piece set in Mexico City's Day of the Dead parade, but Mendes and crew soon settle into a muddled, anti-climactic mishmash of old tropes and familiar ideas.

In more recent years one such work of brilliant badness was Samurai Cop, an early 90's action film that looked like it was shot in 2 days for 2 dollars and inexplicably starred the late (great) Robert Z'Dar.

A hopelessly generic action movie that fully deserves the direct - to - DVD treatment, it's the kind of film that Cage has been making a little too frequently these days.

Since then Ashley has been taking over the action genre with strong female roles in films like «The Day» and recently in «The Marine 3: Homefront».

Though the 1991 animated film got the live - action hybrid treatment just last year, Disney is still eager to invite more fans to be its guests ahead of the Memorial Day weekend.

However, a guy named Mike emailed me a few days ago, telling me that the creators of the «The Hobbit» action figures was very upset about the news of the film being split into three, as some of their action figures for characters who would not appear in the first film after all where already marked «An unexpected Journey» characters.

It's also close in feel to Brett Morgen's 30 for 30 documentary on OJ Simpson's famous Bronco chase, and, like that film, Berg slowly pieces together the action of the day — a minute's silence for the Newtown massacre's victims, the Red Sox's home game — to give a sense of a calm before the chaos.

Of the small sampling of Hong Kong films I've seen, the ones I've liked best are not usually the pop action blockbusters but some of the so - called art movies, which in some cases have been box - office failures (largely because there is no art - movie market in Hong Kong): Yim Ho's Homecoming (1984), Wong Kar - wai's Days of Being Wild (1990), Stanley Kwan's Center Stage (1991), and Yim Ho and Tsui Hark's King of Chess (1991).

Fantastic Planet, the Sydney horror, sci - fi and fantasy film festival, will kick off on the 22nd of March for eleven days of mind - bending, gut - wrenching action.

The film is Anderson's best live - action feature — his best feature, period — since Rushmore, in part because, like that film, it takes as its primary subject matter odd, precocious children, rather than the damaged and dissatisfied adults they will one day become.

The setup is over quicker than you can say «I know kung fu,» and from there on you it's on par with the first «Raid» film: non-stop, brutal and flat - out cool action, shot more like golden era John McTiernan than modern day slice - and - dicers like Michael Bay or Paul Greengrass.

James Mangold for caring about all the right things in his work and blessing us with Logan and Copland, Refn for Drive alone, Stallone for giving us Rocky and THE «Just keep going» monologue that everyone in the arts needs when they have that inevitable bad day, Joe Carnahan for being able to blend heart stopping action with character drama and Phil Joanou for making my favorite film of all time with State of Grace (1990)(I'd love a Cinephilia and Beyond piece on it someday...)

The filmmakers have repurposed the action from the seedy streets of 1980 New York to modern day Los Angeles and have bathed the film in dreamy, high - resolution digital photography that is all wrong.