Sentences with phrase «better than the actual film»

Body horror film The Void actually had a raft of brilliant posters (that proved better than the actual film) but we're big fans of this deceptively simplistic one, not least because it's reminiscent of the iconic artwork for Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.

Sounds like one of those movies when the performances are better than the actual film itself.

It can't be a good sign when the menu screen looks better than the actual film.

Not exact matches

as a kid i grew up with transformers for toys, but didn't watch the actual show (aside from beast wars) until last year, so i wouldn't consider myself a fan boy, but when a tv show based around toys from the 80's has better dialog, humor, character development, and plot than a high budget Hollywood film, you know something is wrong with the film industry.

Very Bad Things likely read better as a screenplay than it plays on film because the idea of what's going on is funnier than the actual execution.

The actors aren't all well cast (I counted only about three I'd consider to be above average for their respective roles — Acker as Beatrice, Fillion (Waitress, White Noise 2) in the supporting role of Dogberry - the only time the audience I viewed the film with laughed at anything in the film that came from actual dialogue, rather than the injected slapstick and actors occasionally comical facial expressions, came from Fillion's delivery - and British actor Paul Meston in the minuscule part of Friar Francis) The rest often appear as though they're reciting lines without any sense of meaning in the words they are saying, and when one of those happens to be the male romantic lead, that's one hell of a liability.

Given that this film starts right away on a note that combines the macabre with the impish, in a scene where Ed Gein — the inspiration for Norman Bates — kills his brother while Hitchcock (who was not present at the actual crime scene) looks on, it is clear that the filmmaker is out to give us a good ride rather than to actually probe the depths of the great director's psyche.

The New York Times said the film «creates wonder with great flair and feeling,» IndieWire called it «the best Marvel movie so far, by far,» and USA Today noted the film was adequate at «dealing with the consequences of age - old colonialism and exploring isolation at a time when actual countries are building borders rather than breaking them down.»

Other faux trailers included «Don't,» «Thanksgiving» and «Werewolf Women of the S.S.,» and while they were all certainly better than the two main films («Planet of Terror» and «Death Proof «-RRB-, they were never meant to be actual full - length motion pictures (director Robert Rodriguez had different idea with this one, obviously).

I do like the cast, and for the sake of everyone involved, I hope the actual film proves to be much better than this trailer looks.

Released last week, this is definitely one of the best short fan films we have seen, using some great camera angles, what feels like an actual Panaglide camera that Carpenter would die for, slow burn suspense, and a killer performance from leading actress Suzee Dunn playing «Jamie», who is stalked by Myers for no apparent reason (other than it's Halloween).

Some of the funniest people working in film today, including Kate McKinnon, Vanessa Bayer, TJ Miller, Rob Corddry, Jillian Bell, Matt Walsh, Randall Park, and Jason Bateman are in Office Christmas Party, as well as Olivia Munn who is a better actress than she is given credit for but isn't nearly as funny as she thinks she is, and Jennifer Aniston who gets upstaged at her own schtick by Actual Funny Person Jillian Bell.

The strong supporting cast also tries, but even the great John Carradine (easily the best thing about the film) and Anthony Quinn (who seriously out - swaggers Power here) can't change the fact that the bloated script slows the scenes to a trot, and Mamoulian appears far more interested in directing the light of shadow across the faces of his actors than in the actual actors.

His commentary here is a lot better than on the actual feature film because he really zeroes on these specific scenes and makes his point a lot quicker than he does when he has the entire movie's running time at his disposal.

Larson is the best thing about the film, but she's punching below her weight, serving mostly as a prop to back up a larger point, rather than getting to craft an actual character from the ground up.

Equals is what the film industry calls high - concept — since its world operates within a clear what - if scenario — but the actual concept in which leads Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult are marooned isn't any better than one of those games they play in acting studios.

The relationship between Doug and Eva in particular provides some of the film's best «quieter» moments, and while much of Goon 2 is little more than a well - crafted sitcom of a movie, there's always something to be said for a sitcom that treats its characters, however broad and silly, as actual human beings.

The best I managed were a couple of smirks, mostly based on situational comedy rather than actual attempts at jokes - but the young couple of 16/17 were laughing their asses off at every fart joke - line, so I guess we know which audience is really captured by the film.

As TCM's Oscar - celebratory month winds down, they've still got a few new ones to throw at us — the first musical to win a Best Picture Oscar, The Broadway Melody, shows on Monday; an actual good Merchant - Ivory film in A Room With a View turns up on Thursday; and fantastic underrated film noir The Killers plays on Thursday; finally, one of my personal all - time favorite films, Stage Door, hits the screen late Saturday / early Sunday (trust me, picture quality is higher than the still above; couldn't find a decent cap).

Nancy (Lake Bell) and Jack (Simon Pegg) meet cute via a consciously gimmicky romantic - comedy misunderstanding — he mistakes her for his blind date because she's carrying a smarmy self - help book (which his actual intended date pressed on her in a spirit of Good Samaritanism), and she decides to play the role — but rather than stretching this nonsense out to the end of the film and turning it into a barrier to their relationship, Morris and Palmer dispense with it early, then find new ways to play havoc with the budding relationship.

It's not much better than the film's actual ending.

A gallery that compares production sketches of Leonard's many tattoos with actual photographs is good for nothing more than a single look; a feature with more repeat value is a DVD player - ready duplication of the film's official website (otnemem.com), here simply labeled «Memento» (or «Otnemem,» depending on which version of the special features menu you happen to land on).