Sentences with phrase «as a superhero origin»

With Wonder Woman back in the cultural zeitgeist (if the most famous female superhero ever really left it), writer / director Angela Robinson's film serves as a superhero origin story in a more literal and more literary - criticism meaning of the phrase.

Not exact matches

The only slight interest to be derived from this grindingly predictable umpteenth retelling of the old legend — rather thinly disguised, in superhero - style franchise - speak, as the heretofore unknown «origin» of our bow - wielding hero — is how rigorously Scott works against hitting the familiar pleasure centers that these hoary old tales can still stimulate.

The storyline - which follows alcoholic superhero John Hancock (Smith) as he reluctantly allows a struggling public - relations expert (Jason Bateman's Ray) to mold him into a traditionally heroic figure - has essentially been crafted to act as an origin story for the central character, yet screenwriters Vincent Ngo and Vince Gilligan brilliantly ensure that Hancock rarely apes the conventions and tropes that one has come to expect with such a tale (ie one doesn't entirely realize that they're watching an origin story until everything's been said and done).

«Legends» looks at the origins of comic books and superheroes as well as how Batman came to be.

Fantastic Four wasn't received as an interesting if unsuccessful attempt to do something different with a superhero origin story.

Given the origin stories of most of these characters — rooted as they are in the deaths of loved ones, often through the heroes» inaction, real or imagined, it's not a far reach to say that superhero comics are trapped in a process of repetition automatism (or «repetition compulsion»).

By the end of this superhero origin story, Deadpool doesn't evolve as a character nor does he have to.

Teaser trailers have revealed that this modernized interpretation of the Superman origin and mythos will include some deep, probing questions about what it is to live as a god - like orphan on an alien world; however, we've seen little to no action from this Superhero blockbuster.

Taking several pages from the ubiquitous superhero subgenre that currently rules the multiplexes, writers Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless have positioned the latest take on Bram Stoker's infamous bloodsucker as an origin tale with the titular character as the protagonist.

Like pretty much any superhero origin story, the setup was better than the payoff, which, like far too many movies about the origin of a superhero, pitted the newly formed hero against a generic villain with an even more generic plan, as if that's some kind of required challenge for these heroes to have to face each and every time — even if we're just getting to know them.

After spending 2017 palling around with the Defenders, Jessica Jones now has a rep as a vigilante superhero to shirk just as she begins to learn the truth about her own horrific origin.

Solo is a superhero origin story, as such its ceiling is somewhat limited: it's designed around the pleasure of recognition, rather than discovery, the solving of mysteries which didn't need to be solved rather than exploration of a wider universe.

Eighteen films into Marvel's blockbuster franchise they're long overdue, arriving in a «Black Panther» origin tale that also breaks ground as the first standalone film of the modern Marvel era to be led by a black superhero.

Presented almost as a sombre superhero origin story, Darkest Hour then details how Churchill won round his enemies — and there were quite a few — by standing up to Adolf Hitler and refusing to appease him with the various emasculating peace deals that his rivals had been touting.

It's essentially a superhero origin story opening the same weekend as another (Dr. Strange)-- both films dealing with faith and the consequences of betraying said faith.

Director Joe Wright (Atonement) turns what could be a dry history lesson and a peek into the inner workings of the British government into an origin story for a historical figure who, in the minds of many, might as well be a superhero.

Despite some minor alterations to his origin and the emphasis on a love story — a surprisingly touching one, Deadpool stuck the superhero landing as one of the most accurate portrayals of a comic book character in film.

Man of Steel is an unconventional superhero origins films as the focus is not on the discovery and mastery of super-powers, although those scenes are included, but the focus instead is on the character's psychological development.

Black Panther (PG - 13 for pervasive violent action sequences and a rude gesture) Chadwick Boseman handles the title role in this Marvel Comics origins tale which finds the superhero serving as king of an African country before teaming with a CIA agent (Martin Freeman) and a female, special forces unit to avert world war.

As previously reported, Jenkins and Warner Bros. were reportedly working on a historic deal to have her return to direct the sequel to her record - smashing superhero origin story.

Doctor Strange's first cinematic debut, however, gives viewers a quickly paced origin story that feels as familiar as most contemporary superhero stories, where the viewer tags along to see how a man adapts to become something extraordinary, but in every other aspect the film provides relentless spectacle and levity.

In 1973, in what may be the first instance of a comic book superhero losing a battle to save a loved one (outside of an origin story), Peter Parker's girlfriend Gwen Stacy died as Spidey tried to save her during a battle with the Green Goblin.

Another new origin story from Marvel, this time introducing us to Scott Lang as Ant - Man, a superhero who can shrink in size and communicate with ants.

The first trailer for Power Rangers looked pretty cool — as a straightforward superhero origin story — but it did lack humor.

Framed as more of a superhero origin movie than ancient curse mystery, a messy plot unravels fast

Even as yet another superhero origin story, there are some truly next - level visual effects and action sequences in director Scott Derrickson's film, and opening the Marvel cinematic universe up to all the possibilities that come from the realms of the mystical is an exciting prospect.

Even with the sheer number of superhero origin films over the last couple of decades, it's rare and refreshing to see so much detail given to who these characters are as people, until you realise that you're quickly running out of movie.

It could have easily started at a different point in Black Panther «s story, using flashbacks as a means to introduce the audience to his origin — but the conscious choice to dive right into the superhero's origin story is a big W in our books.

At this point, it's just talks of ideas and plans for what Tatum wants to be a solo origin film for the character - one he describes as different from most superhero movies we see.

This is a character who is so unlike the other superheroes in the MCU that you have to do his origin to both show where he came from as well as introduce people to the mystical side of the Marvel universe.

This by - the - book superhero flick made a number of questionable choices in depicting Logan's origin, like Ryan Reynolds» truly baffling turn as Wade Wilson (a depiction so bad that Reynolds fought to get another chance, thus giving us Deadpool).

If you're paying attention, you'll notice that, beyond the fourth wall breaking awareness that this is a movie he's inhabiting, Deadpool's story is basically the same as every other superhero origin story that's been seen in this sixteen year superhero renaissance.

What begins as straightforward superhero / sci - fi action fare, with Cable describing a dystopian, Terminator - like origin, is quickly derailed by Ryan Reynold's Merc with a Mouth, who dispels any notions of seriousness.

Freed from the origin story box, this second installment of the Wade Wilson franchise has its cake and eats it took, taking any number of shots at the superhero sub-genre (and modern blockbuster filmmaking in general) while still crafting a story that makes sense on its own terms and works as a character piece.

My eighth graders begin the year creating science fiction based origin stories for original superhero characters as an introduction to a greater advocacy unit.

So at Level 1 they would have a chance to formulate their origin story, and then as they level up the narrative will follow their development into a fully - fledged, world - saving superhero!

As a bonus, we have Rebecca Senese's ten - story science fiction collection Tales of Possibilities; Thomas K. Carpenter's Revolutionary Magic, a historical fantasy and the first in the Dashkova Memoirs; Annie Reed's A Death in Cumberland, a moody police procedural; Nebula Award finalist Cat Rambo's Neither Here Nor There, a double collection of alt - world and real world fantasy stories; and last but not least, USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith's The Slots of Saturn, the origin story for his fan - favorite superhero Poker Boy.