Sentences with phrase «budget film version»

THE PUNISHER (Grade: C --RRB-: This low - budget film version of the aptly named Marvel Comic — about a vigilante hero with no super powers out to avenge the murder of his entire extended family by a gangster — has some terrific non-digital stunts and an intense lead performance from first - time star Tom Jane.

Reading the Wyndham source novel would also be a better option because this low budget film version comes across as very silly mostly because of said killer plants (called Triffids in the movie, although it is never properly explained quite why).

Not exact matches

Though there have been several film versions of the Christian allegory, the latest version, which is currently in production, will likely be the biggest budget effort to date.

The final version of the state budget includes a provision aimed at boosting the film industry in upstate New York.

The success of the film led to a job directing the 1989 big - budget version of Batman; a darkly lavish, gothic production, the film proved to be a huge hit, securing Burton a place on the roster of A-list directors.His next film, 1990's Edward Scissorhands was the tongue - in - cheek gothic tale of an artificial boy put together by a benign scientist, who dies before he can complete the boy; as a result, the fabricated youth has hedge clipper - like scissors for hands.

A new version of the project comes together, this time with a comeback - minded Nicolas Cage as Lake and Schrader himself directing on a $ 5 million budget (of which $ 1 million is Cage's salary) and a location shoot in Romania (where much of the film is set) and Australia (doubling for Kenya).

This version boasts a slightly bigger budget (and features some out - of - place CGI effects) but suffers from the same problems as the 1986 film.

The film feels very much like a low - budget version of another big screen Star Wars - tinged film based on existing franchises, Flash Gordon, with its cheesy sets and costumes, and juvenile presentation.

Since then he has played a mix of leading roles in small independent films and supporting roles in big budget films such as Peter Jackson's version of King Kong.

Not too long after that, the big - budget Hollywood film version of the musical..

The film nonetheless has a distinctly «budget look» when the green screen backdrops and CGI scenery tends to stick out; despite solid practical production design work by Eve Stewart (Les Miserables), the overall effect is that Victor Frankenstein resembles a cheaper version of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes movies (and their version of Victorian England), visually speaking.

Not everyone digs the aesthetics of this version of Beauty and the Beast, but as a relatively high - budgeted film from the most commercially successful movie studio of the past several years, it is little surprise that it looks as great as intended on Blu - ray.

On the one hand, he is trying to make his version of the kind of low - budget exploitation film that he might have found himself doing in the early days of his career had «sex, lies and videotape» not hit as big as it did.

The uniquely «meta» film, an extended and higher - budgeted remake of an unreleased short film Rogen and co-star Jay Baruchel (Goon, Fanboys) had made about six years prior («Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse»), casts the large ensemble of real - life comedic actors, all playing satirical versions of themselves, while reacting in hilarious ways to the over-the-top craziness that surrounds them.

He's only seen early in the film when Deadpool finds himself locked in the Icebox, but the writers of Deadpool 2 recently revealed that in an earlier version of the movie, Cassidy's part continued on from there, however, the film's budget basically only allowed for one major CGI bad guy, and they chose the other one.

This feels like the film - version of I Am Legend that filmmakers have struggled with at least three times and all failed in somewhat interesting ways (The best of which, The Last Man On Earth, starred Vincent Prince struggling with a very tiny European budget).

There's no fruit in looking at Conquest as a Christ parable, but there's endless fruit in looking at The Passion of the Christ as a big - budget version of an exploitation / snuff film, packed to the rafters with disturbing suggestions about societal order (gays suffer a lot at the hands of Gibson's fantasies — women, mostly, at Fulci's), and flying in under the radar of social acceptability where Fulci's films have been relegated to the fanatic's collection and the last independent movie store in your state.

The 26 - year - old helmer was the man behind «Chronicle,» which made back its $ 12 million budget ten times over on release in February, and since then he's been lining up all kinds of projects; while he won't direct any «Chronicle» sequel, he is attached to a film version of Soviet - themed comic book «The Red Star, «and is developing not one, but two major superhero franchises, in Sony's «Venom «and Fox «s «Fantastic Four.»

Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (Kiah Roache - Turner, 2014) Original low - budget Australian version of the zombie film made as a weekend - warrior effort over several years.