Sentences with phrase «buddy action films»

Though director Walter Hill has made his share of fun buddy action films (including «48 Hours» and its sequel), that formula has been run so far into the ground that only a dinosaur like him would think it's still relevant.

When: June 17th Why: With the «Ride Along» movies, Kevin Hart has proven quite adept at the mismatched buddy action film, providing lots of laughs for audiences.

Not exact matches

If the script feels as familiar as an 80s action buddy film, it might be because Black wrote the script for Lethal Weapon and was a character advisor for Lethal Weapon 2 and 3.

The pursuit of laughs, friendship and criminals in action crime buddy cop films has always been a thriving success with male characters, from ’21 Jump Street» to «Die Hard» to «End of Watch.»

Murphy had scored a big hit just a few months earlier in his film debut, the buddy cop action / comedy 48 Hrs.

The film is a buddy action comedy in the vein of «The In - Laws» and «Midnight Run,» with a splash of 1930s movie slapstick.

In their previous screenplays, Wright and Pegg have very shrewdly thrown genre conventions on their collective ear; they clearly love horror movies and action flicks and buddy comedies, and they understand the structure of those films with such clarity that they can rewrite the rules, scramble up our expectations and wind up with a creation that's both an homage to and a subversion of past classics.

Ernest Tidyman's script tweaks buddy - cop stereotypes by compelling the audience to identify with a bigoted and obsessive loose cannon whose actions grow increasingly questionable, and subverts the tidy moral resolution demanded by genre convention, reflecting a darker, more ambivalent worldview, simultaneously hearkening back to the post-WWII high tide of film noir and resonant with Vietnam - era anxieties and tensions.

The performances save this film from being a standard police cop / buddy action flick.

From the era and «buddy comedy» guise, I originally expected to enjoy it for its non-stop over the top action or silly gags, but this film really shines through the interactions between its characters and the performances.

With Hot Fuzz, he takes the action - packed buddy cop films and does it again.

Joining Ottman on the score is rising action composer David Buckley («Jason Bourne»), together forming an action - comedy buddy - cop band that spins out spot - on spy jazz grooves, club funk and wah - wah guitar jams with a propulsive orchestra, along with a dramatic slice of film noir moodiness.

The film is also, more subversively, both sendup and tribute to the 1980s buddy action comedy.

The new live - action film asks the question: what would happen if Winnie's best human buddy Christopher Robin grew up?

Walter Hill made the jump from literate screenwriter of tough - minded crime films to director of elegantly - made bare - knuckle thrillers and action dramas with Hard Times (1975), a depression - era tale of underground fights with Charles Bronson and James Coburn as business partners in who aren't quite friends but become the first of Hill's guarded buddy teams.

Walter Hill pretty much created the contemporary buddy action movie with 48 Hrs., his first genuine blockbuster and (the grindhouse success turned cult phenomenon of The Warriors aside) his breakout film.

Director Edgar Wright has previously delivered is parody of Zombies (Shaun of the Dead), his parody of buddy - cop - action films (Hot Fuzz), and now takes on Sci - Fi in this latest... a worthy conclusion with the trademark quick cuts and rapid fire witty / silly dialogue.

The action involves a lot of loud gunfire and the breaking of glass, reminiscent somewhat of buddy cop films from the 1980s, a la 48 Hours and the many that followed it, including the Shane Black - scripted Lethal Weapon.

The rest of the film, co-starring Charles «Buddy» Rogers and Richard Arlen (both virtual unknowns at the time) as buddies and fellow pilots, is sturdy studio filmmaking with romance, bonding under fire and rousing «war is hell» action.

Revisit these classic buddy - comedy films and be amazed at what action franchises were once like.

The stars of the action - packed, buddy comedy have just as much chemistry off - set as they do in the film, laughing and finishing each other's sentences throughout the presser.

She and her Georgetown buddy Zal Batmanglij, while they were unable to get work in film, spent that first summer trawling around the country with backpacks living off the grid with anarchist collectives, direct action groups and freegans, dumpster diving and train hopping, which later became rich fodder for their current film, their second together, the terrorist thriller «The East» (May 31).

Black's film is an homage to Raymond Chandler stories (the film is divided into chapters, each named after a Chandler novel), an action movie, a buddy movie and a Hollywood satire with a touch of slapstick and romance chucked into the mix for good measure.

Rad Rodgers» story is reminiscent in concept to a videogaming equivalent to that of Arnold Schwarzenegger action comedy film Last Action Hero as it revolves around young gamer Rad waking up after a marathon night of gaming to find that his retro console has turned itself on, producing a vortex that places Rad as the star of his own videogame with the retro console providing support in a buddy duo team - up scenario as they attempt to save the inhabitants of a jungle and return the Elder Tree as guardian of theaction comedy film Last Action Hero as it revolves around young gamer Rad waking up after a marathon night of gaming to find that his retro console has turned itself on, producing a vortex that places Rad as the star of his own videogame with the retro console providing support in a buddy duo team - up scenario as they attempt to save the inhabitants of a jungle and return the Elder Tree as guardian of theAction Hero as it revolves around young gamer Rad waking up after a marathon night of gaming to find that his retro console has turned itself on, producing a vortex that places Rad as the star of his own videogame with the retro console providing support in a buddy duo team - up scenario as they attempt to save the inhabitants of a jungle and return the Elder Tree as guardian of the land.

Cyanide Studio's Of Orcs and Men is a cross between an action - role - playing game and a buddy - cop film.

A third - person action game with a storyline about two buddies, the game seemed primed for a feature film adaptation, especially given its strong reception among gamers.