Sentences with phrase «buddy film from»

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The buddy - cop film, with elements of «Lord of the Rings» - style fantasy, only got positive reviews from 12 % of top movie critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

«Bright,» a buddy - cop fantasy film, received a 26 % «Rotten» rating from critics on the reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes after its December 22 premiere.

A sordid tale that resembles many noir classic films from the forties and fifties, where its protagonists are police partners based on the duality of buddy movies but without the comedy.

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.

On its simplest level it is the epitomic buddy movie, the film to which we owe everything from Lethal Weapon to Mississippi Burning.

The film is fairly tolerable as these things go: Wilder takes time off from the steamrolling plot for improvised bits with some actor buddies (including Charles Grodin and Joseph Bologna), and the project as a whole is a lot less mawkish than we've come to expect from Wilder's directorial efforts.

Support work from construction site buddy Woody Harrelson (who lends the film some fleeting, much - needed humour) and Deborah Lee - Furness as the one strong motherly figure in the film is solid and very welcome.

The screenplay by Rogen and Evan Goldberg (from a story co-written with producer Apatow) doesn't really take us anywhere we haven't been before, but it offers a sly take on stoner culture and an accidental buddy film that works...

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.»

The screenplay by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (from a story co-written with producer Judd Apatow) doesn't really take us anywhere we haven't been before, but it gets stoner culture in a way movies haven't really done before, and it offers an accidental buddy film that works.

Alas, the film suffers from the usual buddy movie clichés of having most viewer interest brought about from the interaction of the two leads amid the most threadbare and derivative of plots.

What it has going for it is the fact that it was written by his buddy Jon Favreau, who once again co-stars, and it's directed by their long - time friend Peter Billingsley (aka Ralphie from A Christmas Story) who has also produced many of their films over the years.

With clips from the film, panelists will discuss how creative sound and music contributed to the immersive world of their off - beat buddy movie.

Starsky and Hutch are tethered to a harness of buddy - movie clich s, but their congeniality comes from the actors» chemistry, demonstrated in several previous films together.

However, from the arrival of Rey onwards, the film attempts to juxtapose into this dark universe something of the buddy movie, albeit, in a much less frivolous manner than in pictures such as Midnight Run and 48 Hours.

Smith borrows some faces from the Apatow stable to make this work a little better than some of his films, including Apatow's poster man - child Seth Rogen (who is a perfect Smith alter - ego) and sometime players Elizabeth Banks (as best buddy Miri) and Craig Robinson.

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

As the film shifts gear from engaging buddy movie to violent thriller, whilst juggling tonal shifts from the moody, gritty and intense to the comedic and surreal, what would perhaps normally feel cluttered, fragmented or in - cohesive, Maclean relishes in the juxtaposition he creates, handling the tonal shifts with confidence, skill and utter conviction.

Drinking Buddies is somewhat of a crossover from micro-indie films into a larger budget film for Joe Swanberg; it contains a well - known cast (Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick) and much higher production values (having a dedicated director of photography, etc.) than his previous 14 films.

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.

In charting the relationship of New York headhunter Jamie (Mila Kunis) and her latest professional catch, L.A. - transplant art director Dylan (Justin Timberlake), from pals to no - strings - attached fuck buddies, from estranged ex-friends to partakers of true love, Will Gluck's film spares no platitude.

The film stars Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne, and Steve Carell as veterans and old war buddies on a road trip and despite a tragic core, the film contains the sense of joy we often get from Linklater.

Wilson / Deadpool is sad because his girlfriend Vanessa (Morena Baccarin) has been killed by someone for some reason; Deadpool's buddy from the first film, Colossus (Stefan Kapicic), tries to get him to join the X-Men again to get him out of his funk.

The film is littered with solid Australian actors and performances from Leah Purcell's small role as Farmer's receptionist to Rex's Broken Hill drinking buddies played by John Howard, Alan Dukes and David Field.

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The film follows Dwight (Macon Blair) from bumming around the boardwalk of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, to his sister's suburban home, to the armament - bristling compound of his veteran - turned - one - man - army buddy (Devin Ratray).

Hart and Cube tread no new ground in this routine buddy comedy, which will invite comparisons to films like The Other Guys, Cop Out, and Pineapple Express from myopic moviegoers.

When Augustine Frizzell's buddy - girl comedy Never Goin» Back bows Monday at midnight, it will mark the culmination of a four - year endeavor — an odyssey of sorts mined from Frizzell's own unconventional childhood, and one that required the first - time feature director to completely scrap her original film before re-writing, re-casting, and re-shooting her Sundance debut.

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.

It's clear right from the outset that Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 has been modeled after Disney's inexplicably popular Air Buddies series, as the film boasts a pervasive emphasis on many of the elements that have come to define that abominable franchise (including one - dimensional characters, simplistic situations, and juvenile jokes and gags).

From the bottom, This is the End is the best buddies - in - a-crises film I've seen since Shaun of the Dead and had my abs hurting for days.

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.

I didn't know what to expect from this talk, as Linklater seems cold towards Black in the making - of featurette, but they come across as buddy - buddy here and talk at length about the making of the film.

Not because the latest incompatible cop buddy movie which pairs Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan together is funny — oh no my friend — I'm laughing because this film is so far from funny...

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.

After some discussion of the filming of Jeff Chang's ill - fated bull ride, we discussed the transition from the paranormal romance genre to the world of raunchy buddy comedies.

«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.

David is just a loner about whom nobody would know or care if he disappeared off the face of the earth one day, as another buddy of his from college (Thomas Lennon) puts it near the start of the film.

The film boasts moments of hilarity (especially from Malkovich), but the element of surprise has left this old - guy buddy flick.

Director Hannah Fidell sounds like she's making a stark turn from the tone of her 2013 Sundance film «A Teacher» with this buddy road movie, but it's more who she cast as the buddies that makes it sound promising: Tony Revolori and Jason Mantzoukas.

Although it's an amusing idea for a story from screenwriter Jim Kouf, who would later pen another notable buddy movie, Rush Hour, it's really the off - the - cuff style of Dreyfus and Estevez that makes the film fun.

As you might guess from this buddy - casting coup, Gad came up with the idea for the film, which he's developing along with writers Aaron and Jordan Kandell.

An adaptation of a 2005 novel by Darryl Ponicsan, a sequel to his own 1970 The Last Detail (the inspiration for Hal Ashby's 1973 New Hollywood cornerstone), Linklater's film catches up with the three former Vietnam vet buddies (whose names have been changed from the original), unexpectedly reunited when Doc (Steve Carell) enlists their aid in the grim task of helping to transport and bury his dead son, killed while on duty in Iraq.

The formula that Black continues to use emerges from the subgenre known as buddy cop: from Lethal Weapon to his most recent film, The Nice Guys, the protagonists are a pair of unusual detectives, who are instantly a peculiarity among the unfolding crime story of the film.

One of the best performances in the film comes from John Carradine, playing Power's seafaring buddy who stays on the island paradise while Power returns to England to reclaim his family name and estate.

In addition to those of Freeman, who has terrific buddy sparring chemistry with Affleck; and Hinds, the film also boasts standout performances from James Cromwell as the U.S. President and Liev Schreiber as CIA field operative John Clark (who was played by Willem Dafoe in Clear and Present Danger).

If you've seen the documentary film, Hot Coffee, you may recall the great soundbite from our very good buddy Victor Schwartz, General Counsel for the American Tort Reform Association, who talks about how false descriptions of lawsuits — or even completely made up ones — are pushed out there by his other buddies.

He is elected governor and now he makes bad decision after bad decision, messing with the film industry so his Chic - Fil - A buddy can benefit from more film in GA..