It takes seeing
an awful lot of movies to appreciate just how terrible Devil's Due is.
«Roman and I have worked together for many years on
an awful lot of movies,» wrote Anderson in an email, «first on «The Life Aquatic,» where he shot numerous strange and complicated shots.
I realize that isn't much of an endorsement, but there are
an awful lot of movies out there demanding your attention, and this one's just fine.
Not exact matches
It takes an
awful lot of material to fill three discs, especially when, in the case
of Ridley Scott's Oscar - winning Gladiator, the
movie has already been packaged twice (a theatrical cut and a «Director's Signature» cut).
While weed was a big part
of the comic misunderstandings that fueled the plot
of the first
movie, and works in similar fashion here as well, the fact is that both films operate on a higher plane than an
awful lot of sludgy spliff flicks.
That's an
awful lot of white people for a
movie so clearly set in Japan (George Takei is not the only Asian - American actor out there, people), but that's a subject for a longer conversation.
Where a
lot of movies that are hailed as
awful at least have some personality (either as light or as mean as it may be,) Fantastic Four is devoid
of that.
January and February are traditionally dumping - ground time, so a
lot of truly
awful movies usually have paraded past my eyes by this time each year.
For a
movie that is supposed to be a visual spectacle, it spends an
awful lot of time violating the classic rule
of cinema by telling instead
of showing.
While almost none
of the
movie makes an
awful lot of sense in the logic department, the action is great fun and nearly non-stop, all the while giving us an army
of scenery - chewing performances from the likes
of Depp and Geoffrey Rush (who makes just a perfect «evil» pirate captain, as opposed to Depp's «good» pirate captain).
(It might dawn at some point in the film that this is exactly like an execrable Spanish sex farce called Kilometer 0 — and if it does, hand - in - hand with that recognition is the realization that you've wasted an
awful lot of your brain retaining memories
of terrible
movies.)
This trailer makes it look like a mash - up
of TAKEN, THE TRANSPORTER, the BOURNE franchise and other high - octane based
movies and although this isn't always a bad thing, the international trailer shows an
awful lot of what to expect.
We spend a
lot of time examining skeletons in the closets
of major celebrities - the god -
awful horror
movies where... read more →
Hook and Tiger Lily have a romantic subplot that no one cares about and Peter spends a
lot of time being a really
awful brat — which jives with what a selfish asshole Peter Pan is in literature, so at least they got that right — and there's a giant blind crocodile but Hook never loses his hand because Warner Brothers thought they were launching a franchise and could do that in another
movie.
Yes, there are a
lot of indie
movies and some are great, some are good and some are downright
awful but it's like anything else.
After an underwhelming climax the
movie takes an
awful lot of time setting up a sequel, which I suppose is inevitable unless this thing really tanks — in which case we'll just wait a few years to see a new version starring another Academy Award winner.
The
movie showed an
awful lot of defects.
For a
movie that doesn't really work, I've found myself recommending it to an
awful lot of people.
The
movie, The Fifth Estate, spends an
awful lot of time, plane hopping around the continents and across the world.
A
lot of that blame falls on Michelle Morgan's
awful screenplay, which can't seem to decide what kind
of movie it wants to be, teetering between broad comedy and a darker character piece.
A comic - book
movie, a heist
movie, and a biopic about the Iran - Contra affair might not seem to have much in common, but in the new trailers for each
of these
movies, they're all being sold the same way: with music that sounds an
awful lot like Kanye West's «Black Skinhead.»
People typically have an
awful lot on their mind, and stuffing their heads with details
of lots of scientific findings is not really likely to happen or be productive — what is needed is an overall impression
of the urgency
of the problem and enough evidence being presented to show that his conclusions
of importance and immediacy are based on solid scientific information (and the
movie demonstrates a
lot of this).