Sentences with phrase «as an action film»

comedies, as well satires, as well as action films and or plays.

All in all, «X-Men» pulls its weight as an action film worth seeing, while faithfully delivering to the fans all they could expect and hope.

As far as action films are concerned, First Blood Part II delivers everything you'd expect and more.

It such a shame to say so as well, it was promoted as an action film that could be entertaining whilst maintaining some level of intelligence.

This gruesome French horror flick (2016) functions more as a mystery than as an action film, with an endless drip drip drip of revelation that gradually exposes a terrifying world behind the everyday.

It doesn't just work as an action film.

«A little more than 25 years ago, Orion Pictures released RoboCop, a grimly hysterical, hyper - violent satire masquerading as an action film.

As an action film, it's frustrating because lots of nice cinematography is more or less ruined by long and unexciting action sequences that are shot from way too close, and are cut together so confusingly, that they barely manage to offer a respite from the «talky stuff.»

As an action film, it's only sporadically effective.

Catch Me If You Can also works as an action film, due to it's «chase» premise.

Neal Purvis and Robert Wade wrote the screenplay for the film, which is being billed as an action film.

As action films go, you've seen it before, and done better.

The series started out as action films from the very start, and perhaps the reboot will shift the genre of the movie into horror.

Not exact matches

The studio has two more big Marvel releases (Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and Thor: Ragnarok) as well as a live - action version of Beauty and the Beast, two new movies from Pixar Animation Studios (including Cars 3), and a fifth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise (two of the first PotC films grossed more than $ 1 billion apiece).

Cameron also spoke about the lack of older women in action films, compared to older men, as an incentive to include Hamilton in his latest «Terminator» film.

None of the upcoming movies listed over the next two years will have women behind the director's chair and, as Casey Cipriani and Melissa Silverstein of IndieWire have noted, no woman has directed a live - action film for the studio since 2010.

Care without action is as meaningless as a G - rated Quentin Tarantino film.

However, just as you can manage the actual playing of the film, you can exert control over your subsequent actions.

He then starred in indie live action films such as «Edge of Winter» and «Locke.»

Not only was Glover cast as Lando Calrissian in the upcoming Han Solo «Star Wars» film, but he'll also voice of Simba, the rambunctious lion cub who becames the leader of the pride, in Disney's live - action remake of «The Lion King.»

It's closer to an immersive film than a fully interactive simulation, but as Fortune reported when we first checked in on StriVR in 2015, research shows that seeing real humans in action helps the brain refine its timing and stay focused.

Instead of being an amped up version of the original, «Spider - Man 2» is the rare sequel that tones down the action for what could be described as an existential super hero film.

Trump told the crowd that, as a holder of a permit to carry a handgun in New York, an attacker would be «shocked» if he encountered him, and that he would act like Charles Bronson in the 1970s action film Death Wish.

By following Vanier as an old man, the film allows Vanier's body to offer the witness of his words and actions: We are all fragile, and we must love one another.

Any non-Muslim action offends Islam and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam, with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam.

Yes, the action takes place at a Northeastern liberal arts college, «Seven Oaks,» but as I'll argue elsewhere, one of the film's points is how remarkably dumbed - down a place this generalized lib - ed college is once you scratch the surface.

Through the extraordinary actions of ordinary individuals, the film acknowledges self - sacrifice as a kind of supernatural event, one that points to the ultimate salvation in Christ.

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.

Many in Hollywood say they see the spiritual - memoir - turned - movie as the next hot genre, suggesting there are ongoing talks about turning Lauren Winner's «Girl Meets God» into a romantic comedy, Ian Cron's «Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me» into an action flick, Anne Lamott's «Traveling Mercies» into an indie road trip film, Kathleen Norris» «The Cloister Walk» into something really creepy involving monks.»

Moviegoers are finally about to get a break from all of the big - budget summer blockbusters and superhero action movies, as studios move away from large - scale spectacles in favor of award - season prestige films.

The Fate of the Furious (alternatively known as Fast & Furious 8 and Fast 8, and often stylized as F8) is a 2017 American action film directed by F. Gary Gray and written by Chris Morgan.

Mr. Brabeck had prepared a film to show if the baby milk issue was raised (as Baby Milk Action does most years).

The International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) came to Aamir's aid when he called on Nestlé to stop pushing formula and is represented in the film as «The HUB».

During the course of the week of demonstrations in 2003, which were filmed by Swiss television, Nestlé contacted Baby Milk Action to say it was accepting the WHA Resolutions — but again it spun this as Nestlé «taking the lead», the headline in the 7th edition of its «Code Action Report», shown left.

[Baby Milk Action comment: As Camille Selleger said in her opening comments, the film includes actual babies, malnourished after being formula fed, who were filmed in 2013.

Tigers is a new film by Oscar - winning director Danis Tanovic based on the true story of a former Nestlé baby milk salesman in Pakistan called Syed Aamir Raza taking on the industry with the help of IBFAN (the International Baby Food Action Network) when he realises that babies are dying as a result of his work pressuring doctors to promote formula.

Maybe I'm overfamiliar with Ramanujan's story after reading both The Man Who Knew Infinity and Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology many times, but I was exasperated that this religious element was held up as the film's big reveal when Ramanujan's actions already made it obvious that he was a deeply spiritual man.

Our findings suggest that Hollywood continues to rely on gun violence as a prominent feature in its highly popular PG - 13 action - oriented films.»

Violent content was compared with that from the two top - grossing films for adults released in the same year as each of the cartoons, excluding those tagged as «action» or «adventure,» because these are often marketed to children.

Just like the same area of the brain lights up when you eat tasty food, have sex, or watch an action - packed film; a similar mechanism is at play as you increase discipline.

, have sex, or watch an action - packed film; a similar mechanism is at play as you increase discipline.

Love the original animated film as well as the live action one!

WATCH: Some of the best romantic movies are set in London (think Notting Hill, Love Actually, and About Time), but popular feature films such as Skyfall or Sherlock Holmes offer action - packed alternatives.

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Things feel more like a cartoon than a live action film, Freddy is about as scary as a mime, and the lack of tension that dominated the last film is back with a vengeance.

Ok, hobbies... I like photography, travel, all things Greek, reading, sci - fi / action films as well as chick flicks.

The Newlywed Game host Bob Eubanks produced this action film, starring his son Corey as a convict who escapes prison to exact revenge for his brother's death and ends up romancing a small - town sheriff's daughter.

After his action - comedy vehicle Double Take was a January 2001 washout, Jones was poised to team with Ivan Reitman for the latter's summer 2001 sci - fi comedy Evolution.Still, Jones retired as 7 - Up's pitch man in early 2002, and would spend the 2000's nurturing his film and TV career, appearing in Runaway Jury and Drumline, as well as TV shows, like The Adventures of Chico and Guapo and Rules of Engagement.

CHICAGO — Ben Affleck has reached the apex of his already impressive directorial career with the stunning «Argo,» a tight, tense machine of a film, a masterwork that delivers as comedy, action, drama, and more.

The action scenes highlight Rodriguez's trademark ability to choreograph firefights and explosions, but they're doled out with uncharacteristic stinginess between long stretches of exposition that clear up much less than they should, as the film builds toward a climax featuring some strangely underpopulated riot action.