Sentences with phrase «as the movie did»

While Madolyn's dissimilar relationships with each mark their differences, her part is more plot - pointy than convincing: her sympathies tend to stand in for yours, as the movie doesn't trust in the ethical and political ambiguities of the movie it remakes, Andrew Lau and Andy Mak's brilliant Infernal Affairs (2002).

Runs only at 64 minutes, which is a good run time as the movie does become a little boring mid way through.

I'd write it all off as something that is, after all, intended for young viewers — but then I'd be insulting their intelligence as cruelly as the movie does.

«Fate» gives fans of the franchise exactly what they want, provided they can ditch logic as easily as the movie does.

The movie of course benefits from being seen on a big screen, as all movies do, but it's proportioned well for home viewing too.

Must have forgotten her, much as the movie does for large swaths of time.)

Oscar Isaac has been impressing for years in films like Inside Llewyn Davis and A Most Violent Year and Ex Machina (also featuring the younger Gleeson as this movie does), and he brings unending charisma and that perfect movie star chin to a Han Solo for a new age.

I think some people went over board on the praise in review, but not as much as this movie does on gratuitous violence and gore.

Joseph Gordon - Levitt deserves every single award, just as this movie does too.

That's not to say he couldn't have done better, as the movie does tend to drag and has a few too many awkward moments.

Mr. Mom is, generally speaking, at its best when focused on Jack's dogged efforts at coping with his new situation (eg a hilarious sequence in which everything that could go wrong does), as the movie doesn't fare quite as well when it leaves the confines of the Butler household (eg an eye - rolling silly interlude detailing Jack's participation in an obstacle course).

Actually, «derivative» probably doesn't apply, as the movie doesn't come across like something that imitates other films.

Let's return to Basic Instinct's opening scene — as the movie itself does again and again.

Cumberbatch is always entertaining to watch, and here he does passing strange things with a Boston accent — although I have a co-worker who swears that's the way Billy Bulger actually talks — and does a politic soft - shoe around his criminal brother even as the movie does a politic soft - shoe around him.

There's an entire thread elided from Hill's picture centred around violence in «old» Earth cartoons — a conversation that would have fit snugly in the mostly - animated Event Horizon, as it turns out, dealing as the movie does with the question of existential representation in a year, 1997 *, at the peak of our digital revolution, with The Fifth Element on the one side and a pinnacle (or nadir) of sorts, Titanic, on the other.

Given the choice between smart people occasionally doing dumb things and dumb people doing reaaaaallly dumb things, I would opt for the former just as the movie does, but neither choice is much of an option.

The script, which while akin to his masterpiece, Pan's Labyrinth fails to engage or entertain us anywhere near as much as that movie did, and the dialogue, particularly some of Hiddleston's lines, are very clichéd and corny, and you can also almost guess where proceedings are going to lead to next.

Maybe this game won't suck as much as much as the movie did.

Not exact matches

That was to be the flagship of a new unit called HuffPost Studios, which would do TV content as well as producing and licensing full - length movies.

Although NBCUniversal's theme park revenue was strong compared to the previous year, the entertainment unit's movie business didn't do so well, thanks to some weak releases such as Ride Along 2 and Hail, Caesar!

But others point to an overreliance on movie tie - ins and a lack of novelty: Star Wars toys didn't sell as well as expected, perhaps because kids see them as a tired formula.

The movie was hot and people were talking about it, but he also thought he could do something much better given his background, so he created some stop - motion videos, such as an animated fight between Optimus Prime and Bumblebee.

Cloud gaming: Services such as Onlive, which stream video games over an Internet connection in much the same way that Netflix does with movies, are already here, but they probably won't be fully viable until the majority of homes have ultra-fast connections.

Peikoff also helpfully answers the burning pop - culture question: If the movie E.T. is anti-adult and anti-science — as, by objectivist philosophy, it clearly is — does that make it inherently evil and irrational?

Disney and Marvel obviously know what they're doing with superhero movies — they've brought some of the biggest franchises to screen — however, at the same time, making every single film need to fit inside the already established franchise starts to limit the amount of creative license any one director can have on future characters as Marvel's Cinematic Universe only grows larger.

We've all been to this movie but, as often as not, it doesn't have a happy ending, for a few important reasons.

Most startups, as much as the movies would have you believe, don't run like clockwork.

If he can convince American voters that what they're beholding has as much to do with the egos of the actors as with the egregiousness of his acts, he has inoculated himself against Robert Mueller, and he shapes the movie that's made of this.

In the 1920s, individual states were beginning to censor movies and the federal government was threatening to do so as well.

As the director of your own movie, don't forget the lessons that Hollywood knows so very well, that everything starts with the team.

Emanuel, previously described as «the pre-eminent power player» in Hollywood, said he didn't believe Weinstein's activities were an open secret across the movie industry.

It was fun to see a modern - day interpretation of a silent film, but it didn't bring much more to the table than that gimmick, and it doesn't hold a special place as a memorable and impactful movie the way its fellow nominees «The Tree of Life,» «Midnight in Paris,» and «Moneyball» do.

«I think my movie, personally, is one of the most important films that have ever been made in America... I don't know if anyone is going to see it, but I feel the film is going to take care of itself in time and be around as long as there are films.»

Though it didn't win, the same can't be said for some other movies that are just as terrible.

Retailers — except for those online — generally had fewer customers, as did entertainment businesses like movie theaters.

Many sports fans saw this year's rise of Leicester City as the soccer equivalent of the fictional Bad News Bears, although in the movies, the lovable losers didn't win the championship.

I have no doubts that the rest of the mainstream, including the CBC, will some day take games as seriously as they do TV, movies or technology.

As for the movie, Burry didn't want to say much before the release.

Avnet (whose father, Jon, is a veteran Hollywood director and producer as well as the studio's co-CEO) told Fortune the studio wanted to maintain the film's authenticity — they wanted viewers to think the horror film playing out in real - time might really be happening — so they avoided marketing the movie and, in fact, they did not even run the idea by Snapchat before proceeding.

The company has done well with several of its movie franchises, such as Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar and Shrek, but it doesn't have anything that really compares to the Star Wars library or the Marvel franchise (although Shrek has pulled in about $ 3.5 billion since the original movie in 2001).

Seriously, just try to name a popular science - fiction movie, book, or television series released in recent years that doesn't portray the future as a stomach - dropping, throat - lumping nightmare.

Policy or no policy, wearing your face - computer to the movies probably constitutes as Glasshole behavior, a quality Google itself warns against in the company's handy Google Glass do's and don'ts guide.

And even when the dialogue grew more critical — as some writers questioned the movie's refusal to deal with issues like misogyny or anti-Semitism — it didn't hurt ticket sales.

While Microsoft and Sony trip over themselves trying to position their consoles not merely as consoles but as «entertainment centres» (movies, music, games, etc.), modern TVs are to a large extent already doing this natively through telecom companies.

Still, the inclusion of dramatic actors such as Cruise and Kidman on the overpaid list does lend credence to the fact that paying an actor large amounts of money to star in a movie is pretty risky, if not foolish.

No matter how much Netflix spent to buy, say, a movie about a road trip to pick up a lounge chair (yeah, we didn't see The Puffy Chair either), others could turn around and distribute it just as easily.

As for Owning Mahowny, the movie wasn't exactly a box office hit, but it did garner impressive reviews, which shouldn't surprise anyone considering its protagonist was played by one of the greatest actors of our time.

In short, tattoos make women seem more promiscuous, facial piercings don't exactly help you come across as smart, and (as you'd expect from watching any Vin Diesel movie), for men, shaved heads convey dominance.

And if the coming big releases «Jumanji» or «The Greatest Showman» (a Fox movie, by the way) do knock «The Last Jedi» from the top spot in the coming weeks, Disney still earned $ 5 billion - plus at the worldwide box office for the third year in a row (Warner Bros. hit that mark this year for just the second time in its history) and is likely to surpass WB as the top - earning studio at the domestic box office for the year.

The New York Times cited anonymous sources involved with The Birth of a Nation as saying that Fox Searchlight does not plan to change course on its promotion of the film, which includes plans to have Parker tour U.S. universities and churches as the public face of the movie.