Sentences with phrase «buddy flicks with»
Perhaps it was MTV's way of redeeming themselves for unjustly ignoring the cinematic masterwork that was «Encino Man» back in 1992, but their love for Shore was short - lived; he has since remained nomination - free, despite the brilliant back - to - back - to - back comedic trifecta of «In The Army Now,» «Jury Duty» and, lest we forget, his much beloved buddy flick with Stephen Baldwin, «Bio-Dome.»
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Resurrecting the Champ (PG - 13 for violence and brief profanity) Samuel L. Jackson and Josh Hartnett co-star in this buddy flick about a struggling sports reporter who befriends a homeless boxing legend and in the process learns an important lesson about life which inspires him to reexamine his relationship with his young son (Dakota Goyo).
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.
Run the words of the title together and you get a not - terribly - clever yet not - entirely - awful summary of what the film is getting at when it's not busy being a retarded high - concept buddy cop flick pairing your typical crusty old vet with an earnest rookie who happens to be an alien with a spotted pate instead of a hilarious racial minority.
Director Shane Black (Iron Man 3) was going for a «70s noir buddy - flick type of vibe, set in a smog - covered L.A, complete with gloriously groovy outfits worn by all.
No doubt comedies with road trip elements are becoming second nature to Phillips, who is calling the flick «a buddy comedy without the buddies».
Film Review by Kam Williams Jackie Chan Teams with Johnny Knoxville for Familiar Unlikely - Buddies Flick Jackie Chan made dozens of martial arts movies in his native Hong Kong prior to finding phenomenal success stateside in 1998 co-starring with Chris Tucker in the buddy - comedy Rush Hour.
Here's yet another buddy comedy / action flick where two cops with some sort of barrier join forces and save the day.
A microscopic buddy flick complete with a crusty police captain, a megalomaniacal Mayor Phlegmming (William Shatner) bent on re-election, a sexy single cell (Brandy) who won't give our unfairly - maligned leukocyte the time of day, and a series of breathtaking circulatory car chases (along the Vena Cava Expressway) that take us on a giddy tour through all the major towns of Frank (and a few greasy fly - by - night joints like the club carbuncle), Osmosis Jones is amazingly fun and clever.
This action filled buddy flick is hampered by a slow start and cheap jokes but is graced with a brilliant luster that can sometimes sparkle very brightly.
The bar has been set with buddy flicks that mix comedy and action... Lethal Weapon and 48 Hours.
Other than that, «Bulletproof» is your standard vulgar, mindless, action - buddy flick, albeit with a love story at its center — something that might have marked the movie as a landmark among the kind of fictional relationships that date back to «Huckleberry Finn,» if it weren't trying so hard to deny its identity.
Newcomers might want to know that this all started with 1981's «The Evil Dead,» a horror flick made by Raimi and his college buddies for less than $ 400,000.
He's probably best known for his role in the slasher flick You're Next, but Swanberg's 2013 effort Drinking Buddies earned him plenty of notice as writer / director with a refreshing voice.
Black has a penchant for teaming up badly matched heroes for buddy flicks — he is the writer of the Lethal Weapon series (Mel Gibson and Danny Glover), The Long Kiss Goodnight (Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson), and The Last Boy Scout (Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans), all of which feature two leads with different personalities who must team together or fail — but this may well be his most inventive pairing yet.