Credits began following the trademarked opening of a close - up view of a match - head igniting, and the lighting of a sparking fuse, accompanied by a blindingly - fast montage of
action scenes from the film - and of course, Lalo Schifrin's memorable theme music.
Not exact matches
One of the biggest surprises in «Avengers: Age of Ultron» occurs about halfway through the
film when our heroes break away
from the
action for a more light - hearted family - centric
scene on a farm.
Speaking about the
film recently in Los Angeles, Cera — who in this
film, takes some refreshingly bold steps away
from his usual one - note nerd persona — and co - writer / director Edgar Wright (who also did the zany cult classics Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) discussed the meaning of the
film, the stretching Cera had to go through for the role, and the way in which the
film's hyperkinetic
action sequences are really just the same as the dance
scenes in Grease or a Gene Kelly movie.
LEGO The Incredibles, a new video game where players take control of their favourite Incredibles characters in unforgettable
scenes and
action sequences
from both Disney Pixar
films, The Incredibles and the upcoming The Incredibles 2.
All the
action scenes are jerky and being
film from somebody on a trampoline.
His
film moves along quickly and muscularly,
from one serious
action scene to the next, to the extent that it almost stops mattering what the particulars of this conflict are, just that various twists and obstacles are set up engagingly.
Though we are largely spared Leonard Nimoy's stentorian presence as a performer, we must endure his miscalculations as a director: the dialogue
scenes are often hilariously turgid; the
action scenes — when Nimoy can be bothered to descend
from his podium and
film them — are zanily maladroit.
What's absent
from this
scene in the
film is McCandless» sporadic reasoning for doing this — that despite the potency as adventure, it is another in a chain of
actions intent to further mute the memory of his family.
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.
The
action scenes are decent, but the
film's entertainment value comes
from seeing adult stars playing teens very different
from themselves.PG - 13.
Featuring a different kind of performance
from Tom Cruise and a
scene - stealing Emily Blunt, the
action never lets up and the futuristic design of the
film is captivating and memorable.
A five - minute featurette called «Greetings
From Bull Mountain» is the standard five - minute B - roll / soft - sell interview errata that features a few additional male buttock shots; «King of the Mountain» is a two - minute music video that splices action sequences from the film together with bloopers and sets it to music (something resurrected in feature - length form by this year's ESPN's X-movie); and nine chapter - encoded deleted scenes (blissfully sans commentary and running between fifteen seconds and a minute, each) are essentially long «comedy» shticks that prove for as bad as Out Cold was, it could have been even wo
From Bull Mountain» is the standard five - minute B - roll / soft - sell interview errata that features a few additional male buttock shots; «King of the Mountain» is a two - minute music video that splices
action sequences
from the film together with bloopers and sets it to music (something resurrected in feature - length form by this year's ESPN's X-movie); and nine chapter - encoded deleted scenes (blissfully sans commentary and running between fifteen seconds and a minute, each) are essentially long «comedy» shticks that prove for as bad as Out Cold was, it could have been even wo
from the
film together with bloopers and sets it to music (something resurrected in feature - length form by this year's ESPN's X-movie); and nine chapter - encoded deleted
scenes (blissfully sans commentary and running between fifteen seconds and a minute, each) are essentially long «comedy» shticks that prove for as bad as Out Cold was, it could have been even worse.
Unlike its predecessor (The Fellowship of the Ring), The Two Towers feels too long by half despite the elision of key
scenes from the source tome; the picture only picks up during its last ninety minutes, and then only as an unusually well - crafted
action spectacle largely lacking in the nuance, pathos, and sharply - drawn characterizations of the first
film.
The actual dialogue is what brings the
film down the most, apart
from the languid
action scenes.
An extended
scene from the
action crime thriller, «Machete Kills,» has been released, in anticipation of the
film's Blu - ray and DVD release on Tuesday.
We are dropped into the heart of the
action and visual splendour that one expects in the
film from the very opening
scene, set in (an unbelievably pristine) Ancient Egypt.
When Eddie Murphy (Beverly Hills Cop, Trading Places) became available, the project changed
from a spiritual adventure
film to an
action - comedy, with each
scene reconstructed in order to play more for laughs than for drama or awe.
Poor integration of live
action and archive footage jars early in the
film, when Giamatti appears alone on - screen in what must have been a chaotic
scene, 30 yards
from the motorcade.
Deepwater Surveillance (17:40) consists of twelve clips
from secondary cameras running during the
filming of
action and stunt
scenes, giving you the feel of being a fly on the set.
Leslie Odom Jr, Michael B. Jordan, Nate Parker, Kevin Phillips, David Oyelowo and Elijah Kelley portray some of the heroic Tuskegee Airmen in a
scene from Lucasfilm's epic
action film Red Tails, in theaters January 20, 2012.
Just imagine having to shift through 70 hours of footage that came
from the 5 «HBO» cameras and then the 2 - 3
film cameras used to capture the
action taking place outside of the ring — and that was just for the boxing
scenes.
Check out the new behind - the -
scenes video
from the production of Lucasfilm's epic
action film «Red Tails» below.
Despite the more refreshing
scenes (it has its share) it still falters
from typical
action plot points that seem to infest every
film he's in.
Schaffner came
from TV, and while he has few of the obnoxious visual affectations of the TV - trained director, he tends to restrict the most significant
actions and relationships in his
films to spatial arenas that could be served very adequately by the tube rather than the Panavision screen: the real convention hustle in The Best Man takes place in hotel rooms, hallways, and basements; the tensest moments in his strange and (to me) very sympathetic medieval mini-epic The War Lord are confined to a small soundstage clearing or that besieged tower; the battle
scenes in Patton are hardly clumsy, but the real show is George C. Scott; and Nicholas and Alexandra comes alive only after the royal family has been penned up under the watchful eyes of Ian Holm and then Alan Webb, far
from the splendor of St. Petersburg or the shambles of the Great War.
From there the
film is pumped up
action / adventure fantasy, with big effects sequences and
action scenes as the race of giants, who have a taste for humans, skin, bones and all, menace the humans.
Director / Screenwriter (and part - time comic book writer) Joss Whedon's love for comics is apparent right
from the start with an opening act that would be the climax in many
action films and carries through to one of the more spectacular final battle
scenes you're likely to see for years to come.
The plot here is entirely predictable but as with Ozu's family dramas the real meat is in the
film's visual aesthetic and cultural context, at once captured most intensely during a
scene where Teresa witnesses a financial crisis - related suicide with all the suddenness of an Alfonso Cuaron
action sequence and Chen captures her jaded shock by shooting her
from low angles through light - heavy filters.
The tediously forestalled twists suck away time
from what should be the
film's focus — its
action — and leaves only two
scenes worthy of celebration.
Writer / Director David S. Goyer penned the first two
films, and perhaps therein lies the fatal flaw: Blade: Trinity refits the Stephen Dorff vampire leader with whiny / pouty Parker Posey; Donal Logue's dismembered but persistent supporting vampire
from Blade is riffed in Trinity by a less talkative and more beefy goon; and the need to top each
action scene once again pads the latest sequel to an unnecessary two hours.
Without giving much consideration to the context that breed such an environment, bar a couple of fleeting
scenes where one of the Day's gang attempts to find work as a farm hand, it begs the question as to what the
film is trying to accomplish by focusing on the gang; especially when the
film's ephemeral style distances the
action from reality, laying blame on the gangs for Day's downward spiral into a life of crime and not the faulty idealism behind the myth of American opportunity.
The reasonably - coherent and sensible
action scenes interspersed throughout the
film are replaced by a full - scale battle, a swirl of mud - brown and grey with the kind of shoddy camerawork and random editing we've come to take as normal
from 21st century Hollywood.
But while many people may think that the
action scene has moved on to other parts (mostly Thailand and South Korea, plus a mini-boom of excellent American direct - to - video
films like «Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning» and its ilk), there's still a lot to offer
from the once reigning king of cinematic punches and gunshots.
The
film's
action scenes are also competently done (if not exactly up to those in last summer's unfairly maligned sci - fi adventure
from Fox, Titan A.E.).
Check out the latest
action - packed behind the
scenes videos
from the set of the upcoming
film «The Avengers» by director Joss Whedon (The Cabin in the Woods, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and starring Chris Evans (Captain America: The First Avenger), Chris Hemsworth (Thor, Red Dawn), Mark Ruffalo (Date Night, Shutter Island), Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man 3), Scarlett Johansson (Nick Fury), Jeremy Renner (The Raven, The Hurt Locker) and Samuel L. Jackson (The Killing Game, Iron Man).
Norwegian director Roar Uthaug (The Wave) and cinematographer George Richmond (The Kingsman: The Golden Circle) give the
film an effectively gritty look, but they never quite manage a consistent or coherent tone; it veers wildly
from over-the-top
action antics, to a grim
scene in which Lara is clearly traumatized after drowning a henchman in a muddy puddle.
Also on hand are six «Deleted
Scenes» (9:05, HD), the
film's «Gag Reel» (7:19, HD) and a pointless «A-Team Theme Mash - Up Montage» (1:36, HD) of
action clips
from the feature, and the
film's «Theatrical Trailer» (2:25, HD).
Their
film features perhaps the first
action scene we've ever seen where we cared more about what was happening in a character's relationship than how many kills he was about to rack up — and then, once it was done, felt simultaneously exhilarated by the visceral power of what was happening immediately, and the emotional stakes of what that set piece took him (and us) away
from.
has everything that was great about the first two
films: chainsaws, sharks that eat D - listers,
action scenes divorced
from the laws of physics and product placement galore.
A Chan
film wouldn't be complete without comedy, and while he does some great physical gags that emerge
from the
action scenes, the best comic moments do not come
from Chan but co-star Anita Mui.
Compelling car chase
scenes with nods to
action films from days gone by scream throughout, and, when it gets right down to the nitty gritty, Arnold and crew still deliver thrills with a smile.
This is the same big
action scene teased in the first photo
from the
film, though now that we have a full trailer there's obviously a whole bunch of thrilling
action to see.
The «Game of Thrones» star confronts Lily James» Elizabeth Bennet in a
scene from the upcoming
action - horror
film.
From there we are subjected to retreads of the first
film, unfunny jokes, and
action scenes that aren't thrilling in the slightest.
One probably expects a
film starring Keanu Reeves would be filled with
action, but aside
from one
scene (two if you count watching him eat an entire cupcake), Generation Um
As one would expect
from the filmmakers behind «The Matrix» and «Speed Racer,» the
film is colorful and filled with top - notch special effects and
action scenes; a chase through the skies of Chicago moves so fast that it's a wonder of construction, and it doesn't wear out its welcome like a few other set pieces, including a climactic showdown on Jupiter (the planet).
The
film was funny as hell and I laughed
from beginning to end, but what stood out the most was the end - credits
scene that had a very catchy song and comedicly foreshadowed upcoming sequels, merchandise,
action figures, contract disputes, and video games.
Eros's nice two - disc edition of the
film includes a packed bonus disc featuring all the
film's trailers and TV spots, behind - the -
scenes featurettes on the
film's
action sequences and key musical numbers, as well as a collection of 30 complete (but, alas, unsubtitled) song
scenes from other
films by producer Boney Kapoor.
Mostly all the
action scenes work well as we would expect
from a Bay
film but the
film isn't filled with them as we've come to expect
from him.
This
film provides the strong example that CG can be matched with live -
action to justify reality —
from the fantastically choreographed
scenes to the extreme details in every space explosion, to the shots that take the viewer's perspective
from third person to first person.
Ahead of the Blu - ray and DVD release, three deleted
scenes from George Miller's post-apocalyptic
action film have made their way online.