Sentences with phrase «approach of a movie like»

The condescending approach of a movie like Bad Moms left me squirming in my seat.

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Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her, like its counterpart is not essentially a bad movie, but it does has more serious mistakes than Him, and a main one is the script, because you practically go blind if this turns out to be your first approach to her story, Here the feeling that

Never in a million years would I have guessed that the same filmmaker might turn around and make something like Tangerine, his punk - as - fuck portrait of a much seedier L.A.. It's not just a total creative 180, but kind of the opposite of a sell - out move: Trading a formulaic story for an unpredictable one and a slick Indiewood aesthetic for a gorgeous, radical lo - fi approach, Baker trains his iPhone camera on the kind of characters — black and transgender prostitutes, immigrant cabbies — that the movies rarely acknowledge, let alone put into starring roles.

While Kolma certainly has some fantastical elements, it sounds like it has different sort of supernatural approach than the previous Cloverfield movies.

One of the problems with a movie this long taking that approach is once the overall premise of the film is set up, you feel like you know what is going to happen and the movie has a shocking lack of dramatic tension.

If you're still high on Black Panther and desperate for another hit of your Wakandan faves, you're in luck, but the price of the movie's one - from - every - column approach is that it can feel like you're watching an inartful supercut cobbled together from several movies.

Movies like Leon: The Professional and even Jason Bourne echo throughout the film's exhausting proceedings, but whereas those films had a certain edge in their approach, not to mention solid action set pieces and, most important of all, expressive performances, The Hunter's Prayer serves to be a shoddily - executed version in comparison.

It's not just the prosaic approach the mythically outsized hallmarks of Americana that makes A.J. Edwards's first directorial effort feel like a Malick movie.

The characters in this movie have an odd, child - like approach to plenty of crudeness which makes it all the more humorous and ridiculous.

Slightly similar to The Longest Day in one respect, like that film it told the story of an infamous day from the perspectives of the different sides — the build - up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour is seen from both their perspective and the Americans», with an almost documentary - like approach aided by a lack of genuine movie stars producing a very fine, compelling picture.

Aspects of the film weather Dimension's dubbing — for instance, I like Lam's lean approach to the cops»n' robbers» often - vicious shenanigans: the requisite wiretap is only as complex as Chow taping a cassette recorder to his belly, while the heists entail lots of commotion and gunfire and stuffing bags full with necklaces — none of the sterile, gadget - assisted ballet we see in Robert De Niro movies.

With an approach that emphasises internal feelings and character journeys, over more obvious things like narrative structure and story arcs, this Brazilian - German film challenges audiences to explore a series of important issues in ways movies...

Previous sequels in this franchise haven't remotely approached the quality of John McTiernan «s 1987 classic, but the main reason we're excited about this one is because it's co-written and directed by Shane Black, the guy behind movies like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Nice Guys, and one of Marvel Studios» very best films, Iron Man 3.

I sort of wish that his vibrant personality shone through in I Am as well as it did in person; his statements here were delivered like an interesting university lecture, whereas the movie feels a bit more hectoring in its approach.

With the rest of the cast including Aaron Taylor - Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston and David Strathairn, like Guillermo Del Toro «s monster movie, it's taking an ensemble approach without an A-list, bankable star.

«Certain Women» Hearing a Kelly Reichardt movie described as «divisive» is a little like hearing water described as «wet»: she's a filmmaker whose slow, studied style and dispassionate, cool - to - the - touch approach gains her advocates and detractors in roughly equal measure: our Sundance reviewer found the film «utterly enthralling» and a display of «Reichardt in full command of the material.»

None of the movie should feel like a revelation to anyone with knowledge of America's tainted past; however, the no frills honesty with which McQueen approaches his subject seems the only proper approach to this sad era of history.

There is also the sense that a foul movie like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and its remake should not look too slick or too artful, since its off - the - cuff approach actually adds another level of mystery, terror, and disgust.

In 1978, when the movie opens, Madeline is starring in a stage musical based on Sweet Bird of Youth, and it's typical of the movie's demeaning approach to women that it cuts from a shot of her face on the cover of a playbill lying in a mud puddle to a closeup of her onstage in an extended production number, «Me» («I see me, I like what I see»), that includes a chorus line of hotel bellboys.

But I really quite liked the slow, oblique approach in this film about a wanna - be skateboarder kid who relishes hanging out with the bigger skateboarders at the titular skate park — but there's a death not far from there, and it takes the rest of the movie to slowly reveal what exactly happened that one night near Paranoid Park.

A bold choice that initially seems like Cody and Reitman might be taking the easy way out, it's actually one of the movie's most astute moves, as well as a development that the director's naturalistic, roaming visual approach subtly builds up to.

Visually, The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete looks more like an episode of «The Wire» than the over-stylized trash of Tillman's previous movie Faster, keeping a grounded approach to the cinematography and letting the actors do most of the heavy lifting.

From a grizzled factory worker trying to make ends meet and keep his brother on the straight and narrow in «Out Of The Furnace» to a paunchy con man in «American Hustle,» Christian Bale has once again shown his chameleon - like approach in two movies released within weeks of each otheOf The Furnace» to a paunchy con man in «American Hustle,» Christian Bale has once again shown his chameleon - like approach in two movies released within weeks of each otheof each other.

The MST3K approach has always bugged me on some level — a movie like The Brain That Wouldn't Die deserves a fair shake before the viewing party devolves into hysterical laughter — but I can't deny that this is a pants - wettingly funny piece of work.

«The brutal judgmentalism that has made opening - weekend grosses into a bloodthirsty spectator sport seems to have encouraged an even more brutal approach to film reviewing,» he said, going on to blame the likes of CinemaScore (which gives each major film a rating based on interviews with theatergoers) and Rotten Tomatoes for why interesting movies tank.

By approaching a popular subject in a unusual way, Benson has managed to create a three - hour - movie feel like a lifetime experience that flies by, making for one of the most cherished memories of this year's festival.

But whether she's working closely with her editors or she's leaving them little choice in how to cut her films because of how lean her scripts and footage are, this kind of short, snappy, collage - like approach to storytelling has become Gerwig's «style» — which undercuts the argument that there's nothing distinctive about the way her movies look and feel.

Tatum even talked about the project yesterday, saying that it's still very much in the cards and that the success of distinct and unique movies like Deadpool and Logan, which both opened while Gambit was in limbo, has changed their approach to the film.

Much like Best Picture, this was a two horse race, and while Shaun the Sheep Movie was a lot of fun in its Buster Keaton - y approach, with no discernible dialogue in the whole film, it didn't speak to me the way its betters did.

As the digital revolution has swept through Hollywood like brushfire, Nolan has remained a stalwart champion of shooting on film, and as 3D has increasingly become the blockbuster norm, he has refused to join the bandwagon, advocating instead for IMAX, a variant on the old 70 mm process responsible for the likes of Lawrence of Arabia and 2001, and whose screen - filling images envelop us in a way that only a select few 3D movies (chiefly Avatar and Hugo) have even approached.

If you'd like to know the essence of the comedic approach employed in Epic Movie, it's that they've hired a bunch of comedic actors who look or act similar to those found in the big - budget movies, give them funny names similar to the characters found in those movies, then proceed to find a way for them to get hit in the face, stomach, or in most cases, their testicles.

But even if, like me, you don't know the performer from more than his work in the handful of movies that approached mainstream recognition, you must admit the kudos bestowed here, culminating in Day - Lewis» second Academy Award win for Best Actor in a Leading Role, are deserved.

Of course, similar ideas and approaches happen frequently in movies, so really what we have is a snapshot in time of what it's like to be a young (late 20's to early 30's) New Yorker trying to figure out lifOf course, similar ideas and approaches happen frequently in movies, so really what we have is a snapshot in time of what it's like to be a young (late 20's to early 30's) New Yorker trying to figure out lifof what it's like to be a young (late 20's to early 30's) New Yorker trying to figure out life.

Some of that is in director Todd Strauss - Schulson's approach, which, with its camera gymnastics and overly bold palette, is too polished by half for the movie - within - the - movie to come across as the brand of schlock he's trying to recreate (again adding to a feeling of superiority over material that the movie claims to respect — or at least like).

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In this case, [the approach of creating] the soundtrack was purposefully like a movie score would've been composed.

- the scene at the beginning of a ceremony caused Shimamura a bit of trouble - the lines of the ritual did not properly reflect Zelda's personality, her motivations, her powerlessness, and awkwardness - Shimamura talked about it with Naoki Mori (who was in charge of Cinematic Design, including screenplay, and cutscenes)- the whole thing was rewritten several times, until they arrived at the final result - there's quite a lot of scenes she really likes in the game - her favorite line is the «Yes» Princess Zelda gives as an answer to the Deku Tree in a particular scene - in that scene, Zelda thinks about what she should do, but she can not see it at all - she refuses to give up, and wants to give hope to Link - Shimamura tried to convey all of those feelings through the single «Yes» she spoke - recording felt completely different than for animation, the dubbing of (foreign) movies, or other games - there was no fixed routine of how to approach it, as all different things were being tried out - lines were redone even after other lines were implemented in the game, as the team found better ways to say things - Shimamura finally managed to beat the game the other day, but she wants to keep practicing her shield surfing - Shimamura explains that she really gave it her whole when voicing Princess Zelda, to give her emotions - she hopes that players will remember their memories of Princess Zelda

«I wanted a video game to enjoy scenes like you see in those television programs and movies in which all sorts or objects are flying through space and a fighter craft dodges and weaves through them or a large fleet of starships is approaching to you.»

«If I was to describe the Star Fox series up until now as being sort of a movie series, I guess I'd describe this new approach as something that's more like a TV series for Star Fox.»

If you'd like to see how Activision has applied a more cinematic approach to Call of Duty's marketing, check out Ben Hanson's previous interview with Activision and Infinity Ward heads as they discuss the link between movies and video games.

One of the ways I like to approach the past is in a cinematic way, reimagining the past and projecting towards the future just as movies often do, I find that a fascinating problem.