Sentences with phrase «book films have seen»

Even traditionally male - heavy fare like comic book films have seen a surge in screen time for women.

Arguably, 2014 has delivered the best comic book films we've seen in one calendar year.

Not exact matches

As has become standard for bankable intellectual property (see the Harry Potter and Twilight franchises), the book is being split into two films, the first of which, An Unexpected Journey, will arrive in time for Christmas.

Meanwhile, Vox recently floated the idea of Fox going all - in on Deadpool by launching a film series, similar to Disney's The Avengers series, that would see his character team up with others from the X-Men comics to form a group known in comic books as the Uncanny X-Force.

You have not seen this costume in a movie on film before, and for a comic book fan, it was mind bending.

A conversation on a film, TV show or book we have never seen will always have limited depth.

Millions of children, says Foxman, who certainly had not seen the film when his book was written, «will absorb the lesson that Jews are «Christ killers.»

This book is the perfect follow up after seeing the film as each page or double spread has an image taken from the film and stickers to add in acting as a great reminder of the film.

The GQ editor went on to claim that the Labour leader was unable to name a single book he had read or film he had seen in the last year.

I've seen the film Eat Pray Love but keep getting told I should read the book, maybe I'll start there and work my way through the list!

It's like reading a book and visualising what the individual character would look and act like, and having that illusion shattered when you see the the film adaption where the actor is not what you visualised... for example Christian Grey

Successful dating is about finding common ground and establishing a connection, so start by finding a film you've both seen or a book you've both read and talking about why you liked it or loathed it.

By using Wattpad Studios, romance writers and dating experts can draw from their own experiences and create stories for other media, and as a result, they have an opportunity to see their stories turned into books, films, and TV shows.

Even if you have never seen the movie, or read the book, you know the name of Alfred Hitchcock's classic film, adapted from Robert Bloch's book by the same name, Psycho.

Ever since the release of the first film adaptation of J.K. Rowling's popular book series in November of 2001, avid fans have waited anxiously to see how the saga would unfold.

She, the filmmakers, and maybe even a few of the kids in the audience have seen it all before — the comic book, the film based on the comic book, the winking that certain movies based on comic books start to do after a few sequels.

A couple of months ago now, the world was finally treated to the superhero film every comic book fan had been waiting decades to see on the big screen: Batman v Superman.

One of the pleasures of «Hallows — Part 2» is to see how the film's production team has expanded on relatively brief passages in the book and turned them into satisfying visual splendors.

Some things that probably factor into the industry's disagreement: Peter Jackson adapted books fifty years old and respected as great literature, the Potter books were being written alongside the first movies; Lord of the Rings centered on adult characters and played to a wider audience with PG - 13 ratings, the first Potter movies were PG, skewed younger, and starred kids (though anyone can see the films matured and so did the fans, many already wrote the series off); finally, where Jackson provided one distinct vision and a cast of respected performers, Potter had a rotating director roster (all of them secondary to Rowling) and limited opportunities for its accomplished actors, giving the brunt of the work to the three kids and spectacle.

One of the better contemporary documentaries I've seen, this film is thorough but accessible, and it's on rock - solid footing, based on the book by journalist Bethany McLean as it is.

While those who enjoyed the Brooks book will likely be chagrined at seeing little of what they enjoyed show up on the big screen, taking World War Z on its own terms as a Hollywood blockbuster, there's still enough entertainment value to be had for those who are OK with the fact that the film doesn't represent the book.

Good sci - fi has all these things, of course, but «bigger» isn't better, and most of the «big» idea movies use «the future» as a setting for action and adventure, whereas true sci - fi films (and books) use that setting to tell human stories in new ways; human relationships (with others, with self, with the environment, etc...) are are the core of the best sci - fi movies we've seen.

OK, obviously none of that happens, except for Wade blowing himself up — and if you've ever read a comic book in your life, or seen a movie, or drawn breath, you know that a superhero film doesn't start with the hero offing himself unless it plans to undo the damage as soon as possible.

As an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himself.

I haven't read McEwan's book, but now that I've seen the film I want to.

(Some critics have seen fit instead to draw a comparison between Denis's film and those of Nancy Meyers, which — though not a knock in my book — is supercilious and pretty wide of the mark.)

As for the Divergent series, we will have to wait until 2016 and 2017 to see those climactic, cinematic events, and instead we are currently faced with the second film, Insurgent, based on the second book by twenty - something Veronica Roth.

I've only read the first five books (and even that was a few years ago) and seen even fewer of the film adaptations.

A UK poster has arrived online for the upcoming drama Denial along with a featurette which sees director Mick Jackson, stars Rachel Weisz and Timothy Spall, and author of Denial: Holocaust History on Trial, Deborah Lipstadt discussing the film; take a look below... Based on the acclaimed book Denial: Holocaust History on Trial, Denial recounts Deborah E. -LSB-...]

Even if you've never seen the 1989 film or read Stephen King «s book, you can probably guess that it's not long before a dead human being ends up buried in that cursed graveyard.

I never liked the Wachowskis and didn't much like the book cloud atlas either, so naturally I wanted this movie to fail, however, it was probably the best movie i've seen all year, and i've never had such thoughtful conservation aobut a film until after watching it.

Martina, the former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer, rose to acclaim for composing films like The Neon Demon, Drive, and Contagion, and fans were eager to see what he'd do with his first comic book film.

The most valid verdict I believe is that a gaggle of 16 - year - olds were really excited to see it, they had enjoyed the previous films and had adored the books as kids.

In a positive way it reminded me of Shirley Jackson's haunting novel «The Lottery,» and offers another perceptive version of the institutionalized brutality of children manifested in the Japanese film of 2000 called Battle Royale (the author has stated she did not see the film until after writing the book).

Starring Serkis in the role of Baloo, alongside Rohan Chand as Mowgli, Christian Bale as Bagheera, Benedict Cumberbatch as Shere Khan, and Cate Blanchett as Kaa, the film looks to be a darker take on Rudyard Kipling's book than we've ever seen on screen before.

But it says a lot that half way through the year, the film that leaps to everyone's mind when sussing out the best of what we've seen is a comic book adaptation.

This film, penned by Drew Pearce & Shane Black, features some of the best dialog between characters that has been seen in most movies to date, let alone a comic book flick.

I really wanted to start calling him Armie Hammy since most of what he's been given in this film are lines that would fit more into children's books than in an action movie that has more violence within the story than most young Disney fans might be accustomed to seeing.

I've heard the book goes into far more detail, and I would be interested in reading it to see if it answers some of those questions the film glosses over.

I mean all of these films are due for an upgrade of some kind, I especially would be interested to see how a more book accurate Phantom of the Opera would fill out, but hopefully with more Christine and less... ugh Raoul.

Once in a while, you'll see story sequences that I can imagine would be much more entertaining if they had voices or cool effects but instead they play like short silent films as if you're reading a comic book with no text.

There are three other previous filmed versions of the book that I have never seen: a silent film from 1926, a noirish film from 1949 (with Alan Ladd), and a hip - hop version — entitled G — from 2002.

Vikander: Joe Wright had seen a film I'd done called «Pure» and we had lunch and we talked about the book.

His groundbreaking «Avatar» opened the book on the modern artistic use of 3 - D, and this film is the next chapter — the most accomplished, persuasive use of that technology we've seen from then until now.

This film truly is spellbinding, and although I have never read the book or seen the play, I am sure that this is the best screen adaptation that has ever been done.

Trust me when I say this: I have seen plenty of movies that are extremely faithful to great books, but they are CRAP FILMS!

There have been a few bits that I would have liked to have seen in the films that were cut (Dumbledore's funeral in HBP being the main one) but overall had to accept that no film is a direct copy of a book.

Then the film fast - forwards, and we see that Pete has continued to live in the forest with Elliott (named after a character in Pete's favorite book) for the last several years.

Frantic horse - trading in recent years has seen scuffles over one title after another, with films often premiering within 24 hours of each other in different events and — most seriously of all — both festivals being scooped by the boutique Telluride event that screened films that had been booked as world premieres.

She has written screenplays in the past, including the 2011 «Fright Night» remake, and rather than necessarily seeing the books «Sharp Objects» and «Dietland» as one - off films, she saw the open - ended possibilities for making them into series.