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Almost everything in this movie, more or less, really happened,» said Linklater during the film's post-screening Q&A.
Almost everything in the movie is in service of answering these questions and, unfortunately, it comes at the expense of character building, emotional stakes, or a compelling story.
With these criticisms clearly laid out it's still hard to completely bash a film that has such a disbandment for structure or sense that it really needs to be up to the viewer to just go along for the ride and laugh at just how silly and surreal
almost everything in this movie is.
Not exact matches
This shirtdress operates as both a beach cover up and resort wear for Tilda, and is modified Dior, as is
almost everything Tilda wears
in the
movie (of course this is when Raf Simons was still there).
No doubt, there is an uncomfortable number of logos being marketed to kids
in the The Lego
Movie, along with the obvious one that's
in the title, but the film as a whole is very much
in the spirit of Cloud Cuckooland: It's a place where the use of X-Acto blades and Krazy Glue breaks the rules but
almost everything else goes.
In a
movie like this,
almost everything depends on the lead actor — and Stephen Dorff does not disappoint.
You have Thor (Chris Hemsworth), a man who has lost just about
everything before the
movie even begins, confiding
in Rocket (Bradley Cooper), a character who has spent
almost his whole life pushing people away.
The Rock, again, because he
almost made me believe
everything in this
movie, despite
everything listed above and the cheesily grayish special effects (viewed, for the record,
in 2D non-IMAX).
Making matters worse, the whole
movie looks like it was shot through the bottom of a green beer bottle, giving
everything an
almost gangrenous hue — including our two studs, who do a fine job
in separate closeups, but never find a common groove.
The action is balletic throughout the
movie, and always
in full frame, without the confusing jump - cut edits used
in «The Bourne Supremacy» and
almost everything Jerry Bruckheimer produces.
«Replete with imagery that shimmers with the kind of
almost otherworldly wonder one might associate with a Terrence Malick
movie... This film does more than just tell a story, it testifies to the sheer loveliness of anything —
everything — when drenched
in silence.»
As Thor
in the Avengers
movies, Chris Hemsworth spends a lot of time showing off his beefy muscles and swinging his magic hammer, but — due to Thor's godly powers —
almost everything he does beyond that is heavily aided by digital effects.
The
movie was screened before an «invited audience»
in a Michigan Avenue theater, where two small groups of audience members laughed loudly at
almost everything, and just about everybody else waited politely until it was over and they could leave.
In other words, almost everything in this film feels like a reference to another movie, but it's expertly assembled to look fabulous from start to finish, with some seriously striking sequences along the wa
In other words,
almost everything in this film feels like a reference to another movie, but it's expertly assembled to look fabulous from start to finish, with some seriously striking sequences along the wa
in this film feels like a reference to another
movie, but it's expertly assembled to look fabulous from start to finish, with some seriously striking sequences along the way.
Everything you need to know about Cyril is summed up, by Manville,
in the
movie's opening moments, during which the character says
almost nothing.
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe) A perfect illustration of the «crisis»
in American cinema, the
movie that seemed to have
everything going for it finally satisfied only a minority: too youthful and Seventies - drenched for older customers, too archaic and Seventies - drenched for the youth contingent, too «morally compromised» for critics.
With many «must - sees» as yet unseen,
in late December, here are the
movies I liked the most from a very good year for cinema — and an historically awful year for
almost everything else:
Far more delicate - seeming
in person than on the screen, Ms. Swinton is dressed
in a loose brown shirt that she'll pull over her legs, knees folded against her chest, several times during the course of our conversation — a charming,
almost alarmingly childlike pose from an actress I most readily associate with ferocious, audacious turns
in Derek Jarman's free - verse celluloid poetry and best - of - bad -
movie appearances
in everything from Vanilla Sky to The Beach to The Statement.
My take: Personally, I don't gravitate toward school - shooting
movies, but
everything I've heard about this one says that it's far from your typical take on the genre, instead focusing on the parents
in a way that
almost turns the film into psychological horror.
However, thematically the game manages to nail just about
everything else, the vast lifeless desert, junk cars and dramatic chases so perfectly replicating the feel of the
movies that by swapping over to first - person driving mode you could
almost believe you were
in Fury Road.
The fact that CO2 has been
almost twenty times higher
in the past, for millions of years at a time without triggering a catastrophe is completely ignored due to the cognitive dissonance of the true believers
in Al Gore's
movie fantasies — as is
everything else that can be explained by natural climate variability.
«Now Al Gore's done his
movie,
almost everything that's been
in his
movie,
in fact
everything has been refuted.