Sentences with phrase «big budget action»

While the summer is technically over, there is always a trickle down of big budget action movies and Antoine Fuqua's remake of the western classic, a remake of Seven Samurai later becoming The Magnificent Seven (1960), comes riding into most theaters near you, and it's a damn good time.

As a result of Miller and Lord's decision, The Lego Movie blossoms into a thematically rich deconstruction of big budget action movies and conformist consumer culture that takes full subversive advantage of its position in the film market as a «product» movie.

As I recall, I said the exact same thing about the last movie directed by Louis Leterrier, Unleashed, so I think he has found a niche job in case directing big budget action flicks doesn't pan out.

Affleck has had quite a decade, after his breakout hit Good Will Hunting alongside pal Matt Damon, he went on to star in a string of hits (and misses), headlining quite a few big budget action films.

I think it's commendable that they deviated from the white dude template for big budget action games.

Big budget action czar Michael Bay is putting Decepticons to the side in January, when «13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi» will hit theaters.

Neither Charlize Theron nor Nicholas Hoult are stranger to big budget action fare after films like «Prometheus», «Hancock» and the «X-Men» series.

The Dolby Digital 5.1 track is serviceable, though not as aggressive as some new big budget action films.

If video games have an equivalent, it is Hideo Kojima, the brilliant and exhausting Japanese game designer who makes some of the most interesting big budget action games.

Ehhh... Big budget action movies are tired, overdone, headache inducing crapfests these days.

Horror games have seen a big uptick in quality in recent years with the influx of indie titles that have challenged the dated formula of big budget action.

I guess what they came up with worked well as a big budget action / adventure, although I thought some parts of the story was too serious for its own good.

As a writer and director, Jonathan Mostow has made a name for himself in the big budget action genre, even with only a handful of credits.

It astounds me that a big budget action extravaganza can fail at the age old technique of greenscreen (think Treebeard carrying Merry and Pippin in The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers), yet this highbrow love story can succeed.

First weekend box office is currently the most important measure of any big budget action picture's success.

But while it hits those beats, it doesn't look or sound like a big budget action comedy, often veering into the style of an indie suspense thriller.

SKIP THIS MOVIE IF: you believe summer movies should be filled with special effects and big budget actions and superheroes and mutants and aliens.

American Ultra also benefits greatly from absolutely face - numbing cinematography, worthy of a big budget action flick, a kick - ass soundtrack, and some novel storytelling devices, and the emotional subtext between Phoebe and Howell.

We may never get a proper, big budget action / adventure game based on the Earth's Mightiest Heroes, but the success of turn - based social RPG Marvel: Avengers Alliance suggests fans are willing to accept substitutes.

If your book is a heartfelt tale of tragedy and love, don't have an explosive cover that looks the poster for a big budget action movie (unless it's a heartfelt tale of tragedy and love with a lot of explosions).

The beginning of the end most likely came in 1997, when the release of An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn gave the alias (played by Eric Idle) his first leading role in a motion picture, as «a rookie filmmaker with the unfortunate name Alan Smithee [who] realizes he's an unwitting studio puppet, being forced to make a big budget action film he knows is horrible.»