Sentences with phrase «buddy film between»

The trailers make you believe that Ragnarok is simply a buddy - buddy film between Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) and Thor, but there's actually a lot more going on both below and above the surface.

Not exact matches

The scenes between him, Wilkinson and their clubby buddies are the film's best, although two key speeches written for Hunt, significant diversions from the original play, are brave efforts by Himelstein to bring meaning to the adaptation.

Nor does it hurt his film that this is mostly a two - hander between two A-list actors, Jonah Hill and James Franco, who are buddies in real life yet convince us in the audience that have met for the first time in prison.

The result is a drab road trip film, a cross between Grumpy Old Men and National Lampoon's Vacation, as the aged Bryson (Robert Redford) and his crude former buddy Katz (Nick Nolte) set out to hike the Appalachian Trail.

For a buddy - cop film to be good the chemistry between the two cops has to work and it totally does in this film.

For example, we have «loner» films like Dirty Harry, we have buddy movies like Lethal Weapon, and we have in - between movies like The French Connection.

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.

We've got everything from silly buddy comedies, big splashy commercial comedies, more esoteric indies, and even a couple of films that toe the line between comedy and drama.

The palpable tension between Gary and his quartet of friends, which — despite sounding somber — achieves plenty of humor in a continuous string of passive - aggressive clashes that Gary never comprehends (He even forgets that his buddies have said he has a «selective memory,» and when they tell him he never accepts that he's wrong, he takes it as a compliment), comes to a head just as the film reveals the sinister workings of the sleepy little town.

The whole movie has maintained a modern feel due to the core buddy relationship between the nutty lead characters (one an evil rube, the other a slick, selfish double - crosser), and Morricone's score really enhances the character relationships and the film's offbeat sensibilities.

Their heroes, such as they are, end up locked in an ideological opposition that somehow echoes a deeper, more pervasive tension in American life: the parasitic rivalry between Daniel Day - Lewis's monomaniacal capitalist and Paul Dano's maliciously self - denying man of the cloth in the 19th - century California landscape of There Will Be Blood (07); the uneasy mentorship that Philip Seymour Hoffman's charismatic cult leader develops with Joaquin Phoenix's broken - down vet as they move through the strange, suspended vision of Fifties America in The Master (12); and now, in Anderson's newest film Inherent Vice, the antagonistic buddy romance that emerges between a pothead PI and a shell - shocked, crew - cut detective as each navigates the splintered world of Los Angeles in the early, paranoid Seventies.

«Olympus Has Fallen» was a pretty blatant rip - off of John McTiernan's «Die Hard,» so it should come as no surprise that «London Has Fallen» — which is more of a spiritual successor than a literal sequel to the 2013 film — takes a page from another installment in the John McClane series, «Die Hard with a Vengeance,» by staging it as a buddy movie between Gerard Butler «s gruff, no - nonsense Secret Service agent and Aaron Eckhart «s hostage - prone president.

We've learned that the game will feature a standalone story set between 2009 film and its sequel due in 2014, and that the game will focus on two - player co-op, with the players taking on the roles of bestest buddies Kirk and Spock.

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