Sentences with phrase «as the superhero genre»

Tragically, the new project will not simply be a documentary in which Gad employs ever - more complex schemes to get Ridley to cough up some Star Wars spoilers; instead, Variety is describing it as a «subversive take on the superhero genre,» an idea that we can't help but note is almost as old as the superhero genre itself.

On Tuesday, Black Panther began receiving praise for upending the Marvel formula as well as the superhero genre as a whole.

The wilful perversity of Wes Anderson's filmmaking has become as ubiquitous to cinemaland as the superhero genre.

Not exact matches

He's actually pretty terrible at being an efficient hero — crashing through and destroying property in people's backyards and splitting a ferry in half, but it's one of the most refreshing aspects of «Homecoming,» not just as a Spider - Man movie, but in the very crowded genre of superhero movies.

The end result is an uneven piece of work that's at its best in its opening hour, which is as thrilling and engrossing as anything the superhero genre has cranked out in recent years.

While it's hard to deny the ineffectiveness of both Peter Berg's directorial choices and the film's final half hour, Hancock primarily comes off as an engaging and thoroughly innovative spin on the superhero genre - with Will Smith's admittedly impressive performance certainly ranking high on the movie's list of positive attributes.

Mostly, the jokes and the recurrent attempts to tweak the superhero genre serve as a reminder that somebody else has already done it better.

There is real wisdom and honesty in every moment of the film, and that's refreshing in a genre that is built largely on fantasy every bit as disconnected from our reality as any superhero film.

The future of blockbuster films such as these lie with directors like Coogler (and Patty Jenkins, and Taika Waititi), ones who are bringing much - needed new life and ideas to the superhero genre.

The movie doesn't reinvent the superhero genre so much as reclaim and reenergize it — archetypes, cliches, and all — for viewers hungry to dream in their own skin.

And yet, amid all that overdue and well - deserved scorn, the lone aspect of Deadpool 2 that is treated with gravid, wet - eyed sincerity — the thing the film wants us to care most deeply about, that acts as the plot's triggering action — is itself the biggest, oldest, dumbest and most useless superhero - genre cliche of them all.

Then, as told partly in flashback as Arthur (Harrelson) is being interviewed by a court - appointed psychiatrist (the underrated Sandra Oh), the safe distance that gives the audience derails the pace and the film becomes more serious than it ought to, no matter the subject matter and this results in it becoming every «realistic» work that looks down on the idea of either a superhero or the genre.

As Stark now looks to take on the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley), a celeb - terrorist who has bio-engineered a group of Americans into unknowing time bombs, Black begins to take apart the accepted boundaries and structures of the superhero film, and if he still employs a variety of familiar genre tropes, he certainly dismantles as many as he indulgeAs Stark now looks to take on the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley), a celeb - terrorist who has bio-engineered a group of Americans into unknowing time bombs, Black begins to take apart the accepted boundaries and structures of the superhero film, and if he still employs a variety of familiar genre tropes, he certainly dismantles as many as he indulgeas many as he indulgeas he indulges.

Likewise, the current popularity of the superhero genre allows Birdman to be all the more relevant as social commentary - and allows it to land its punches with greater precision (see: the joke about Keaton's character refusing to do Birdman 4).

The director even goes so far as to incorporate imagery cues from the superhero genre (the Superman parallels are hard to miss) and on the whole, the movie has hints of a director who can do some fun things with a big canvas - even if he stills needs some practice with the brushstrokes.

The relationship between Hiro and Baymax is as touching as it is funny, bringing real heart to the superhero genre.

And as even a casual reader of such comics knows, the concept of a short - lived «superhero death» is a long - standing meme of the genre.

Blade, to the fresh eye, free of the fandom surrounding the character, comes across as the kind of film that is probably closer to a B Movie in the action genre than a superhero flick, as it is branded to be.

That in itself is a most grueling feat as Winter Soldier was one of those rare superhero films that transcends the genre with its welcoming 70s political tones.

In the hours surrounding teaser trailer, Trank and screenwriter Simon Kinberg talked with Collider, Empire Online and Yahoo! Movies about their frame of mind for the film and setting it apart from what they see as the commodified superhero action genre.

As a deconstruction of the superhero genre it doesn't quite achieve Watchmen or even Mystery Men status, but there are some technically well - choreographed fight scenes, some great dialogue and solid writing throughout.

With virtually the same tone as they used in their superhero spoof Kick - Ass, filmmakers Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman take another riotously adult approach to pastiche, this time tackling the James Bond genre.

Working unobtrusively but consistently in a decadent Hollywood that's doubled down on sci - fi / fantasy / superhero franchise tentpoles as the end - all - be-all of action movies, Jaume Collet - Serra has been diligently and often ingeniously pursuing another filmmaking model, that of the mid-range budget standalone genre picture.

I love a good popcorn superhero movie as much as the next guy (maybe even more than most critics), but «Logan» shows how deep one can go in the genre if they just approach it in a different way.

Moreover, I hate that modern pop culture is so literalminded as to place a high premium on plausibility, while I'm 99 % sure that knowing the Batsuit could stop bullets off camera, too, is not going to convert any of the haters, whose snotty disdain for the superhero genre is more a fashion statement than an issue of disbelief.

While Black Panther will almost certainly experiences some drop - off in its second week, one thing is for certain: It has already left its mark on the superhero movie genre and, more importantly, the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a whole.

As the YouTube critic Really That Good pointed out in November, superhero films as they've been produced in the last decade belong to their own innovative genrAs the YouTube critic Really That Good pointed out in November, superhero films as they've been produced in the last decade belong to their own innovative genras they've been produced in the last decade belong to their own innovative genre.

It's hard work composing a superhero theme song; that's what Hans Zimmer gave as his own explanation for leaving the genre behind.

He may be heavily tipped for an Oscar for his performance as Doctor Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, but British actor Eddie Redmayne is looking to stretch his acting muscles in the superhero genre.

Taken as a whole, Civil War is an impressive accomplishment for Marvel Studios and provides further proof that there's far more storytelling potential in the superhero movie genre than many people believed back when the MCU began with Iron Man in 2008.

It was also a year where even genre skeptics could give in to superhero domination, as so many superhero films turned out good or even great (there's six on this list).

What they find in there is both easy to figure out (stuff is mutating), beautiful and scary and weird (stuff is mutating) and inexplicable (most of the why and a bunch of other side mysteries), explored in a mostly unsatisfactory blend of arthouse stillness and genre thriller scares, part of a burgeoning subgenre of sci - fi films that I suppose function as a counterweight to the more populist nonsense of superhero sc - fi.

In addition to the plethora of comic book - based superhero movies in the next few years, there are a variety of other films such as science fiction, fantasy and action under the umbrella description of «genre.»

Just as Tim Burton's Batman set a new standard for superhero movies in 1989, Danny Elfman's musical score remains one of the genre's most iconic compositions.

Like our list of comic book - based superhero movies and other genre movies, we're not including production info such as cast, crew or plot; this is just an easy - to - read look at what's to come in North American theaters.

Luckily, the movie lives up to the hype quite well, delivering a unique spin on the superhero genre that serves as a welcome breath of fresh air.

If «Superman» is low on this list, that has to be because most of our voters don't really view it as science fiction: sure, it kicks off with the destruction of an alien planet, but the superhero movie has now become its own genre, largely divorced from those that bore it.

By comparison, upcoming filmmaker - driven efforts such as M. Night Shyamalan's Glass and Rick Famuyiwa's Past Midnight (starring Keanu Reeves) aim to further mix things up by incorporating different genre elements into the (superhero) mix.

In this way the superhero genre is just as dull as the biopic, with their obsession with This Caused This!

And it would have been nice for a superhero movie that vocally wants to subvert the genre to present Morena Baccarin's Vanessa, the love of Wade's life, as more than just your standard superhero girlfriend.

And as 2016's Deadpool made clear, the greatest of those powers may be his complete self - awareness: The majority of jokes in Deadpool were focused on flaying the titular hero and the superhero industrial complex, whether that meant poking fun at Reynolds's career and Fox's run of bad superhero movies or inserting raunchy one - liners and superfluous gore into the movie's big action sequences in order to earn its rare - for - the - genre R rating.

Like Hart's 2016 directorial debut «Miss Stevens,» an indie charmer inspired by her tenure as a young high school teacher, the roots of «Fast Color» grew from personal experience — and a frustration with the ways the same characters and stories kept being told within the superhero genre.

After nearly 11 years of studio hesitation and apparently enough sexual favors for Wolverine, Deadpool finally has his own superhero movie (something that star Ryan Reynolds has fought long and hard (see, I can make sexual innuendos too and use parentheses inside of parentheses) for to see come to fruition), and with opening credits featuring billings such as «some really hot guy» and «an overpaid tool» the tone is set for an irreverent and refreshing outing from a genre slowly entering a phase of stagnation and repetitiveness.

Black Panther stands out as a groundbreaker not just within the superhero genre, but in Hollywood in general — from the Gil Scott Heron track sampled throughout the trailer, to the Kendrick Lamar soundtrack, to the hair and makeup and set design, to Coogler's vision of what an African, technological utopia could look like (Wakanda is a capital city that's nothing like the Western or Asian - influenced visions of the future we know well — one of the most notable differences?

As Cornell «Cottonmouth» Stokes, a deeply corrupt mover and shaker who comes to blows with Mike Colter's titular superhero on the streets of modern - day Harlem, Ali crafts a multilayered antagonist within a genre whose mammoth commercial success rarely hinges on in - depth character work.

Part of that, frankly, stems from uncertainty as to what exactly Doom's powers are, after a fleeting demonstration of them that feels closer to horror than the superhero genre.

Such genre cross-pollination might make both films more appealing to Academy voters who otherwise wouldn't look twice as superhero fare.

Logan's Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar nomination came as a big surprise, and could mean big change in the industry for the superhero genre.

As a Latina film journalist who hopes to make genre films in the future, I took the opportunity to ask Del Toro his thoughts on the assumption that women simply aren't interested in making monster, dinosaur and superhero studio films.

This is a full - throttled tale of revenge and love with a series of references to other movies of the same genre, from common tropes like the superhero landings or heroic moments to iconic remarks regarding the relationship between Batman and Robin, as well as the Daredevil mantle.