Sentences with phrase «big budget disaster»

Long - time Roland Emmerich collaborator Dean Devlin directs Geostorm, a big budget disaster movie with so much devastation it can only be described as «Emmerich-esque».

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.

Not exact matches

The only nominee that now looks out of place in such company is The Towering Inferno, a big budget, star - studded disaster movie from producer Irwin Allen, whose previous effort The Poseidon Adventure was more deserving of such acknowledgement.

Because that's what people to go the movies for, to see big budget recreations of disasters that are all too real.

The lead in Roland Emmerich disaster pic «The Day After Tomorrow» gave him an early taste of bland, big - budget (smash hit) spectacle, though he also auditioned to play the title character in «Batman Begins,» and was briefly lined up to take over the role of Peter Parker in «Spider - Man 2» when health issues / contract negotiations looked to rule out Tobey Maguire — now there's an interesting what - if scenario.

Actor Dwayne Johnson returns to the big screen with the newest disaster flick San Andreas, a film that will no doubt continue Johnson's string of high budget, low payoff films that have plagued his career Read More →

By Pete Hammond hollywoodnews.com: What does it say about the current state of Hollywood that movies with gargantuan budgets, big stars and endless hype are, as of the turn of the new year, being rated anywhere from disappointing to disasters, while smaller films from directors not exactly known -LSB-...]

As a metaphor for retooling the mechanics of storytelling in the face of big - budget disaster, it's perfect.

After the disaster of a year we've had in the big budget spectacle realm, from Oz: The Great and Powerful and Jack the Giant Slayer through Man of Steel and Pacific Rim, nearly every major release with a 100 + million dollar budget has been either dreadful or disappointing.

is based on a rather unsavory series of trading cards released by Topps in the 1950s, and it takes its cues from the same sources as this summer's Independence Day — old alien invasion flicks, disaster movies, and big - budget special effects extravaganzas.

Armageddon was a part of one of Hollywood's notorious big - budget showdowns, losing a «race for the screen» with Paramount's competing asteroid - disaster picture Deep Impact.

Four years after his last effort - 2000's The Patriot - director Roland Emmerich returns with a big - budget disaster flick.

The reality, however, is that this is still nothing more than a big - budget Hollywood studio disaster flick about gargantuan genetically mutated animals destroying Chicago, and trying to say the picture is more than that would just be a waste of breath.

Pictures have unveiled a new trailer for the upcoming disaster film Geostorm, and it's certainly a big - budget disaster movie.

Pictures have debuted the second full trailer for their upcoming disaster movie Geostorm, the new big - budget adventure which will arrive in cinemas...

The past couple of decades have seen the appearance of so many gigantic CG waves in big - budget movies that they almost qualify as stock henchmen, popping up as bonus disaster - porn footage in movies that don't actually take place in the ocean or even on a shoreline.

The Day After Tomorrow, the latest big - budget SF disaster flick, broaches — or stumbles over — the issue of global warming, or what I prefer to call Bush weather, a topic that's surely worthy of some reflection.

Pictures have debuted the second full trailer for their upcoming disaster movie Geostorm, the new big - budget adventure which will arrive in cinemas in October.