Sentences with phrase «as a buddy movie»

Rampage may be trading on the appeal of the game's building - busting writ large, but it's at its best as a buddy movie.

«Olympus Has Fallen» was a pretty blatant rip - off of John McTiernan's «Die Hard,» so it should come as no surprise that «London Has Fallen» — which is more of a spiritual successor than a literal sequel to the 2013 film — takes a page from another installment in the John McClane series, «Die Hard with a Vengeance,» by staging it as a buddy movie between Gerard Butler «s gruff, no - nonsense Secret Service agent and Aaron Eckhart «s hostage - prone president.

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Sure, it's basically the «just one last job» moment from literally dozens of buddy cop movies, and it's presaging either Tony's ultimate death (in the as - yet - untitled Avengers 4, arriving in 2019) or his «retirement» to some sort of happy family life, perhaps handing off the Iron Man moniker to someone else.

The plot was so weak and generic, it was exactly the same as Ride Along or Central Intelligence and those wannabe buddy cop movies and the jokes were most of the time childish and forced.

It works well as a cat and mouse thriller and action - packed buddy movie.

The ensemble is a disappointment, though some truly hardcore horror fans will like a few of the casing choices, such as B - movie scream queen Barbara Crampton (Body Double, Re-Animator) as the mother, schlock writer / director / actor Larry Fessenden (Habit, The Last Winter) as one of the first victims, and director Ti West (Drinking Buddies, Silver Bullets) as one of the significant others.

It's more playful and comic, with a reluctant hero who has a motley crew of buddies and a mentor with a sly sense of humor as well as justice, and while the stakes a big (stopping a tech giant from weaponizing experimental technology and it to the bad guys), it's not the world - shaking battleground of The Avengers or Thor or Iron Man movies.

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The movie counts on its all - star pedigree to carry its slender storyline a long way — and that'll probably be enough for some folks, who'll simply enjoy the precedent - setting spectacle of seeing Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline sharing the screen as the childhood buddies now grown up and reunited for a geezer - fied fling.

The D Films release slate include the polarising, oddball Sundance buddy movie Swiss Army Man starring Daniel Radcliffe and Paul Dano, as well as Natalie Portman's directorial debut A Tale Of Love And Darkness, and Oasis documentary Supersonic.

Continuing with the formula they've established of taking typically male - dominated genres (raunch comedy, buddy action movie) and inserting a dominance of women into the primary characters, this one sees McCarthy take on the role of Susan Cooper, a well - trained CIA agent who has spent her time in the agency as the desk - bound partner in the earpiece of well - groomed field agent Bradley Fine (Jude Law).

He is the buddy of the director and he looked uncomfortable for the entire picture like he was constantly thinking «are they really making a movie with me as the star?»

Disguised as a buddy, road movie, Mississippi Grind is an intense and intimate story of addiction that reveals the gritty details of a lifetime gambler when he's paired up with one Read More →

The high - profile buddy - cop comedy pushed Tatum even more into the mainstream, and gave him his third Number One movie as a leading man.

However, from the arrival of Rey onwards, the film attempts to juxtapose into this dark universe something of the buddy movie, albeit, in a much less frivolous manner than in pictures such as Midnight Run and 48 Hours.

Mark Ruffalo has previously described Thor: Ragnarok as «an intergalactic buddy road movie with Banner and Thor.»

As I watched it I realized that it was basically an American race - relations movie disguised as a stoner buddy road moviAs I watched it I realized that it was basically an American race - relations movie disguised as a stoner buddy road movias a stoner buddy road movie.

A 1950s atomic monster movie on a modern megabudget, this thriller stars Dwayne Johnson as a San Diego primate specialist whose best buddy, an albino...

; the World Premiere of Chanya Button's debut feature BURN BURN BURN starring Downton Abbey's Laura Carmichael, which takes the road trip buddy movie on its own smart, female - centric spin; Ali F. Mostafa's FROM A TO B, a «dramedy» following three estranged childhood companions who embark on a road trip to commemorate the fifth anniversary of a friend's death and offers a new perspective on life in the Gulf and Middle East; Paul Weitz's GRANDMA, a supremely enjoyable «road movie» starring Lily Tomlin as the gloriously profane septuagenarian whose curt words and emotional armour can't quite mask her broken heart; Bao Nguyen's Saturday Night Live documentary LIVE FROM NEW YORK!

While far from perfect and falling into the expected predictable and trite storyline we've seen before in dozens of other buddy cop movies, «Ride Along 2» certainly works as a broad comedy.

Maybe its dedication to be as 80s as possible means that it does feel more dated than other examples of buddy cop movies.

As the film shifts gear from engaging buddy movie to violent thriller, whilst juggling tonal shifts from the moody, gritty and intense to the comedic and surreal, what would perhaps normally feel cluttered, fragmented or in - cohesive, Maclean relishes in the juxtaposition he creates, handling the tonal shifts with confidence, skill and utter conviction.

Robot & Frank is a sentimental buddy - movie between two unlikely people; well, technically just one as the other is a robot as the title suggests.

Since Adam Sandler has been making Netflix a little less tolerable with the presence of movies such as The Ridiculous 6 and The Do - Over, it only makes sense that his buddy Kevin James follows him over there too.

by Walter Chaw An unlikely romance, an unlikely road movie, and an unlikely buddy picture all in one that somehow works (and with a surplus of charm and sweetness), Joel Hopkins's debut feature Jump Tomorrow could be described as either Harold Lloyd by way of Jacques Tati or Jim Jarmusch by way of Thirties screwball.

Enjoyable for a good 15 minutes or so, mostly due to the scene - stealing powers of the adorable, much - coveted kitty whose name gives the movie its title, this is otherwise a stale, repetitive effort whose one - joke premise — two suburban buddies forced to pass themselves off as gangsters in a grimy underworld where they clearly don't belong — never achieves comic liftoff, much less the richly subversive dimensions typical of Key and Peele's best work.

The Search for Santa Paws is mistitled, misleadingly marketed, and largely a misfire, but coming as it does on the heels of many awful Buddies movies, it doesn't surprise or even offend that much.

If these guys made the movie as an excuse to hang with their buddies, make some dough, and slap together some dumb jokes they've had rattling around in their heads, they should just fess up and embrace it, not try to dupe us into thinking there's more to this movie than there is.

The performance feels like more of a departure than it really is because Sandler often positions himself as an outsider in his movies (especially the early ones)-- and offscreen, too, when he avoids sit - down interviews, makes low - key jabs at mean critics, and surrounds himself with his ever - growing collection of backslapping buddies.

Not as much as «In Bruges,» mind you, but enough to make this action / gangster / buddy movie a worthy sophomoric effort by McDonagh.

Similar to «Hot Fuzz» and «Shaun of the Dead,» each of which works as a genre film (buddy cop for «Hot Fuzz» and zombie movie for «Shaun of the Dead») and a send - up of the genre itself, «You're Next» is a smartly devised horror movie masquerading as a really dumb one.

Other than that, «Bulletproof» is your standard vulgar, mindless, action - buddy flick, albeit with a love story at its center — something that might have marked the movie as a landmark among the kind of fictional relationships that date back to «Huckleberry Finn,» if it weren't trying so hard to deny its identity.

This buddy movie / cop comedy takes its cue from such police - dog stories as «Turner and Hooch» — which it directly references — as well as the 1990 TV pilot «Poochinski,» in which the ghost of a murdered detective ends up inhabiting a gassy English bulldog.

The movie basically paints him as obsessed with her, and maybe that's why everything loses momentum when she's not onscreen; the bumbling buddies thing that he has going with the «criminal mastermind» who thought it all up is fun for a few minutes but then you start missing Tonya.

It's taken all of a week for Dinner for Schmucks to be replaced as the funniest movie of the summer, so far — especially because The Other Guys is the unlikeliest of movies — a funny parody of cop / buddy movies.

6:00 pm — TCM — The Odd Couple Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau have made a lot of movies together over the years, and this mismatched buddy film (written by Neil Simon) remains one of the best, as neatnik Felix (Lemmon) and slob Oscar (Matthau) become roommates and try not to drive each other nuts.

Even at this early point of the movie, I still could not see how they would still have this dimwitted jerk as a buddy.

As a comedy it's certainly less effective, never fully convincing as either a pastiche of»70s buddy cop movies or a pitch - black proceduraAs a comedy it's certainly less effective, never fully convincing as either a pastiche of»70s buddy cop movies or a pitch - black proceduraas either a pastiche of»70s buddy cop movies or a pitch - black procedural.

It's also we get a Marvel movie that doubles as a weird buddy comedy that pairs Thor with Mark Ruffalo's Bruce Banner / Hulk, who spend much of the film stranded on an alien - junkyard planet ruled by Jeff Goldblum's royal Grandmaster, a supreme oddball who finds great entertainment in staging gladiator - style coliseum fights.

The film's surprising sense of humor occurs largely during the Hollywood sequences, as Mendez recruits his old buddy and movie makeup master John Chambers (a hilarious and wonderful John Goodman), as well as veteran producer Lester Siegel (an equally enjoyable Alan Arkin), to assist in the creation of the fake production company and film.

«War Dogs» could be the subject of a documentary, one which Michael Moore could do a job with, but prospers as a comedy - drama from direction by Todd Phillips, well - known to mostly youthful movie fans for «Hangover» (three buddies at a bachelor party try to locate a missing bachelor in time for the wedding).

Most of the movie involves a Las Vegas bachelor party and its aftermath, as her fiancee (Jon Favreau) is joined by his buddies (Christian Slater, Jeremy Piven, Daniel Stern and Leland Orser) in a wild booze - and - drugs orgy that ends with them burying bodies in the desert.

Critics praised the film's commitment to humor, and the chemistry of its stars, with USAToday's Brian Truitt saying «Even tonal issues can't upend the magic this movie taps into putting Thor and Hulk together as new best buddies, whether they're throwing down in an arena or having a bromantic heart - to - heart,» while the AP's Lindsey Bahr said «Thor: Ragnarok is the most fun of the Thor movies by a long shot, but it is still very much a Thor movie for better or worse.»

Deadpool 2 director David Leitch describes the upcoming Fast & Furious spinoff starring Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson and Jason Statham as a «buddy movie.»

Directed by Simon West («The Mechanic,» «The Expendables 2»), «Wild Card» ambles episodically from vigilante revenge fantasy to mismatched buddy movie, as Wild comes first to the aid of a woman (Dominik Garcia - Lorido) from his past who's been brutally raped by a pretty - boy gangster (Milo Ventimiglia); and, later, a meek computer whiz (Michael Angarano) who wants Nick to teach him how not to get dirt kicked in his face.

Bringing Down the House isn't so much a romantic comedy as it is a buddy movie, with all of the formulaic comic devices that the term has come to be defined as over the years.

Alison Bagnall's Funny Bunny is a shaggy buddy dramedy about a road trip that doesn't seem to take its characters much of anywhere, in the tradition of the low - budget American road movie that must often elide the potentially money - burning trip undertaken by the protagonists so as to emphasize merely the embarking point and the destination.

In Bruce Van Dusen's American indie road movie, «Backseat,» the uptight intellectual who digs into psychology and philosophy for his small talk and the 10 - watt buddy who embraces urban legend as cultural fact hit the road, in the ugliest car on the planet, to meet actor Donald Sutherland in Montreal.

Mumblecore was yet another classification that was used far more often as an epithet than as a self - descriptor, but it's still a handy way of categorizing those low - key, deliberately kind of aimless, sometimes indifferently filmed movies of the early Duplass brothers» era, producing filmmakers like Joe Swanberg (Drinking Buddies; Happy Christmas), Lynn Shelton (Your Sister's Sister), Adam Wingard (You're Next), Andrew Bujalski (Results), and Lena Dunham (you know who Lena Dunham is).

As Susan Sarandon has pointed out (love this woman, and love how much she talks about this movie), Thelma & Louise basically is an outlaw buddy movie in the vein of Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid.