Sentences with phrase «big budget action movies»

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

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).

Not exact matches

Since the «Star Wars» prequels, in which George Lucas was heavily criticized for using too much CGI to create the worlds and characters, many big - budget movies have tried to find that happy medium of practical and visual effects to give the action on screen a more grounded feel.

Moviegoers are finally about to get a break from all of the big - budget summer blockbusters and superhero action movies, as studios move away from large - scale spectacles...

Moviegoers are finally about to get a break from all of the big - budget summer blockbusters and superhero action movies, as studios move away from large - scale spectacles in favor of award - season prestige films.

All are more than competently demonstrated in Rampage, a big - budget action movie about the Rock's race to stop three giant, mutant animals running riot on the streets of Chicago.

But what continues to surprise and impress me (beyond the exciting action, the fantastic costumes, and the impressive special effects) is that unlike other big budget blockbusters and fantasy series, The Hunger Games movies, so far, always manage to make me cry.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening June 11, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The A-Team (PG - 13 for profanity, smoking, and pervasive action violence) Screen adaptation of the pyrotechnics - driven TV series from the Eighties chronicling the exploits of a squad of former Special Service soldiers determined to clear their names after unfairly being branded war criminals.

Samuel L. Jackson also returns for the third movie in the series as NSA Agent Augustus Gibbons, and Jet Li, Tony Jaa, UFC Featherweight Champion Conor McGregor, Indian star Deepika Padukone, Nina Dobrev, Ruby Rose, and Toni Collette also star in the big - budget action - adventure.

Godzilla is an entertaining, big budget popcorn action movie in the way that Michael Bay's Transformers sequels tried to be and failed.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 10, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (PG for frightening images and action fantasy sequences) Third installment in the film franchise based on the C.S. Lewis series of fantasy novels finds Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and Lucy Pensie (Georgie Henley), along with their cousin Eustace (Will Poulter), returning to the magical land of Narnia to embark on a dangerous, seafaring mission taking them to the edge of the world.

As comic book fans demand bigger action (and budgets) for superhero movies, some incredible mistakes have gone completely unnoticed.

The penultimate climax — in the series of climaxes expected of a big - budget action movie — takes us to a cartoony height reminiscent of True Lies or the end of Mission: Impossible: eye - popping but entirely off the grid of credibility.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening April 10, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Dragonball Evolution (PG for intense action and brief adult language) Sci - fi martial arts adventure, based on the Akira Toriyama novel about a young warrior (Justin Chatwin) who, with a handful of friends, sets out on a quest to save the planet from an evil king (James Marsters) bent on world domination.

Looking ahead, Hollywood is counting on a packed lineup of big - budget action movies and sequels to bring crowds back in 2012.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 30, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS Mirror Mirror (PG for action and mild crude humor) Overhaul of beloved classic fairytale has exiled Snow White (Lily Collins) returning to the kingdom to wrest both the throne and a handsome prince (Armie Hammer) from the clutches of the evil queen (Julia Roberts) with the help of seven dwarfs.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening February 24, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS Act of Valor (R for torture, profanity and graphic violence) Action adventure about an elite team of Navy SEALS who embark on a top secret mission to rescue a kidnapped CIA Agent only to uncover an imminent terrorist plot against America.

But for fans of the Gundam series, this is the live - action, big - budget movie spotlight they've been waiting for.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 18, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS Limitless (PG - 13 for profanity, mature themes, violence, sexuality and disturbing images) Bradley Cooper stars in this action thriller about a frustrated writer whose life is transformed after he is introduced to a top - secret, smart drug which enables him to use 100 % of his brain.

One day, we will get a big budget disaster movie that successfully molds great action and a compelling story with the carnage and the horror, and that will be a great day.

Splitting the difference between Michael Mann and Brian De Palma, it's a sequence that could teach any number of big - budget Hollywood movies a thing or four about action filmmaking.

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.

Warner Bros. is understandably worried about sending out a big budget film with unproven talent, helmed by gross - out comedy director like Dobkin making his first action movie.

James McAvoy, on the other hand, proves he has the mainstream appeal required to carry a big - budget action movie, and should he continue to mix roles like these with Oscar bait like «Atonement,» the actor will be well on his way to becoming the next Christian Bale.

No one will mistake Heist for a big budget, big studio feature, but this little action movie looks perfectly fine on Blu - ray.

Stephen Sommers» live - action big budget G.I. Joe movie gets a late Summer 2009 date: August 7th 2009.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening September 23, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS Abduction (PG - 13 for sexuality, teen partying, intense violence and brief profanity) John Singleton directs this action thriller about a teenager (Taylor Lautner) who ends up on the run from a team of hit men when he tries to determine his true identity after seeing his baby photo on a missing persons website.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening May 8, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Next Day Air (R for violence, drug use, pervasive profanity and brief sexuality) Action - oriented crime caper about the comedy of errors which ensue after a couple of hapless hoodlums (Mike Epps and Wood Harris) are mistakenly delivered a large package filled with bricks of pure cocaine.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 5, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS Alice in Wonderland (PG for fantasy, action, violence, scary images and smoking) Tim Burton directs this animated sequel to the Lewis Carroll children's classic revolving around now 19 year - old Alice's (Mia Wasikowska) return to the whimsical kingdom for a reunion with the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen) and other childhood friends, and to end the Red Queen's (Helena Bonham Carter) reign of terror.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening August 7, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (PG - 13 for mayhem and graphic violence) Action - oriented thriller about an elite team of gadget - equipped, military spies who venture to the ends of the Earth in search of the international arms dealer (Christopher Eccleston) masterminding a diabolical plot to plunge the planet into complete chaos.

But in the end it's mostly a good big - budget sci - fi action movie that's been marinated in «Star Trek» flavor packets — and thus not terribly different from the 2009 «Star Trek» reboot or its sequel, «Star Trek Into Darkness.»

«Gravity» may not have much more on its mind than «Speed,» but it's a relief to see an unconventional big - budget studio movie that doesn't hew to the same old pounding action beats, or person - to - person physical violence.

It's a slow burn of a buddy cop thriller that sticks to the most basic of action movie clichés, entirely ignoring the CGI and overzealous plotting of the last twenty years of big - budget cinema.

The impressive special effects, exceptional fight choreography, and explosions of the Korean casino scene would be at home in most big - budget action movies.

It's a tribute to both Reynolds and director Rodrigo Cortes that they were able to take such a claustrophobic, one - actor situation and turn it into a movie as intense as most big - budget action flicks.

So it goes without saying that directors are probably lining up to cast him in their big - budget action movies.

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

Like all of these big - budget, big name movies it plays by established laws carved out of a need for action, explosions, A-listers looking buff and references to other assets within the studio's ever - expanding Universe.

The big - budget action blockbuster Real Steel isn't officially Rock»Em Sock»Em Robots: The Movie, but it's about as close as it can get without risking litigation.

Still, the North American performance should make every studio uncomfortable with the idea of putting Jack Black at the center of a big budget live - action family movie.

With so many big - budget action movies flopping at the box office this past summer, it's crazy to think that a quaint genre film like «A History of Violence» would handle its action sequences with the most panache.

Resident Evil had a budget of $ 32 million, which is certainly not the largest amount, but that's still a bigger budget than some of the other top action movies released that year.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening August 26, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS Columbiana (PG - 13 for violence, sexuality, intense action sequences, disturbing images and brief profanity) Revenge thriller, set in Bogota, Colombia, about a young girl (Zoe Saldana) who grows up to be a cold - blooded assassin after witnessing the murder of her parents.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 3, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Warrior's Way (R for graphic violence) Western action fantasy, set in the Badlands, about a martial arts master (Jang Dong Ton) who emigrates from Asia to America to retire in peace, only to have to pick up his sword again to defend his adopted hometown and a beautiful local gal (Kate Bosworth) from the returning gang of marauders who had made her an orphan many moons ago.

Fitting neatly into the limited expectations I had for the movie, Avenger: Age of Ultron is nothing more and nothing less than a big - budget action movie that takes no risks and delivers no surprises.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening January 16, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Chandni Chowk to China (Unrated) Action comedy about a humble chef (Akshay Kumar) from Delhi who moves to China after being mistaken by a couple of visitors from the Orient as the reincarnation of an ancient war hero.

But this is a new age for Kia, and the 2016 Kia Sorento isn't a straight - to - DVD movie, it is a big - budget summer action flick.

The mostly male audiences have been attracted to the real - world settings, blockbuster action sequences that resemble those of big budget movies, and extensive online options that let them compete against other players via the Internet.

The current generation of gaming has frequently been compared to the movie industry, with bigger budgets, more emotive narratives, and action sequences that could be seen in your favourite action blockbuster.

This one is combining big action with big horror, which is really the first time we've done that because the first movie was relatively a low budget film.