Sentences with phrase «budget films seem»

A huge mix of medium to large budget films seem to have got extra production value from using Vancouver for location and stage work, I'm sure they'll be able to do the same for Deadpool.

Not exact matches

In what seems like a plot straight out of a low - budget science - fiction film, scientists have revived a giant virus that was buried in Siberian ice for 30,000 years — and it is still infectious.

In the ten years since Rings, cynicism seems to have grown exponentially, especially online, where fans and haters from all over the world congregate to determine the worth of a film, and certainly a big budget 4,000 - theater holiday season fantasy film.

For a film with a $ 150 million budget to look like television is unconscionable and it seems absurd that no one was able to convince Jackson not to adopt the format, or at least not to try it out on a franchise with so much riding on it.

Below are 50 additional noteworthy films — including both big - budget tentpoles and smaller indie and foreign films — that either have confirmed 2013 release dates or seem extremely likely to reach theaters this year.

Some of the idiocy that is being poked at for laughs doesn't seem so strange when you look at YouTube comments and E! Many of the things that are wrong with this film stem from the fact that it is very low budgeted and didn't get much financing from its studio.

The film is not without it's flaws, but with a well played role by Harry Treadaway an up and coming young Actor, low budget Independant film which has it's predictable moments but that makes the film seem natural as if a true story.

Guy Hamilton's direction lacks enthusiasm and pace, while even the art direction — long the Bond films» real secret weapon — seems to have fallen to a shrunken budget.

You get a sense of what differentiates Romans from the citizens of Pompeii, the geography and culture of the place, and the production values seem solid enough for what was probably a mid-to-lower end of high - budget film.

The story is complete shit and the characters seem to get worse with each new film, but Bay manages to raise the action and budget of each film to drown out the horrible shit.

With a $ 40 million budget, the film will make a profit, but this seems a case where a potentially profitable film suffered from the misfortune of getting caught in the wave of a massive event film.

The Blu - ray is less presentable than those holding most new films, but the technical shortcomings seem inherent to this super low budget shoot.

Scoring noticeably fewer films than before, he has concentrated on big - budget studio material at the expense of everything else, seeming to leave behind the smaller movies with which he attracted much of the praise afforded him over the years.

The trailer seemed very different than the source material, but over-proliferation of zombie - related content obscures how much of anomaly this picture really is: zombies have always roamed through low - budget settings, but what if someone had some serious dime to throw down on a zombie film?

James Cameron seems to only think Big - Budget studio films exist.

Also like those films, something gets lost in the translation, as what might work within the confines of a modestly budgeted Asian film seems all too ridiculous when big stars and budgets get injected into the mix.

Of course, both of those films were also quite bad, but Convergence suffers from a budget that can't do it's story justice and a director that can't seem to find the proper way to stage or present situations.

While I no doubt have been spoiled by regular exposure to excellent Blu - ray transfers, the 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen presentation of Swimming to Cambodia seems a tad disappointing even for a standard definition release of a low - budget 25 - year - old experimental film.

But things feel malformed from the off, which begins with a lot of people saying a lot of portentous things, and continues to the assassination itself, which is more than underwhelming, in part because of what seems to be a pretty tight budget — Landesman watches Giamatti as he films the shooting, but there doesn't seem to be anyone else in Dealey Plaza except him.

The biggest thud to date seems to belong to Lay the Favorite, a film whose budget IMDb estimates to be $ 26.4 million and whose box office tally from 61 theaters in its only weekend of tracking was a pitiful $ 20,998.

With Chef, he seems to be returning to his roots by writing, directing, and starring in a film that is far smaller in scale and budget compared to those films.

All those changes do not seem to have had the intended effect domestically, where Retaliation grossed $ 122.5 million, a soft sum even by March standards that was $ 7.5 M beneath the film's reported production budget.

Netflix and that type of Internet distribution seems to be the way, at the moment, that low - budget and even medium - budget films will get their distribution.

So pairing the writer - director with equally audacious source material seems like a win - win combination, as Garland takes a budget nearly quadruple that of his last film to adapt Jeff VanderMeer's head - trip novel of the same name, the first in his Southern Reach trilogy.

This decision gave the film a grander feel for the viewer so it didn't seem like a low budget horror film.

squanders an interesting opening on a generic action finale there's nothing offensively terrible about it.This is a low - budget (8 million dollars) original sci - fi concept starring two women and multiple people of color, there's credit to be given to Scott Free Productions, 20th Century Fox, and Scott for producing a movie that seemed to approach film - making exactly the way it should be done with diversity.

It seems that Hollywood has woken up to the vast store of talent that exists in the low - budget milieu, and more and more, the calling - card small film or successful TV stint is being used as a conduit to gain a higher profile and a bigger budget the next time out.

The visuals do seem consistent with what we see from other averagely - budgeted 1980s films and the 1080p picture undoubtedly offers significant gains over the DVD transfer I remember being somewhat appalled by a few years back.

The farm scenes in particular (the poor city is reduced to only a few locations (that look like sets actually) and seems much smaller than the town in Sunrise are really stunning: much of the film feels like Days Of Heaven was the film Murnau actually wanted to make (same location: wheat field in the upper midwest, attacked by a natural disaster, though Murnau doesn't appear to have the budget for his hailstorm whereas Malick could afford locusts).

Although Morgan squanders an interesting opening on a generic action finale there's nothing offensively terrible about it.This is a low - budget (8 million dollars) original sci - fi concept starring two women and multiple people of color, there's credit to be given to Scott Free Productions, 20th Century Fox, and Scott for producing a movie that seemed to approach film - making exactly the way it should be done with diversity.

Paul Thomas Anderson for teaching me that it's ALL about the script and if you have the right actors directors don't have to do anything on set but be a fan, Lumet for his films and his book, a young directors» must read, Coppola for his courage in filmmaking, Steven Soderberg for refusing to ever be put in a box and pushing the form as far as he can, Kathryn Bigelow for giving masterclasses in action, James Cameron for Terminator 2 and prove big budget cinema can still be perfect cinema, Sean Penn for bringing his acting chops to directing, David Mamet for his scripts and his dialogue, Nolan for having more heart than most people seem to give him credit for (Memento, Rises, Inception and Interstellar all made me cry.)

Like the film «Brooklyn,» likewise concerning a recessive - seeming female protagonist working in early»50s New York City retail, «Carol» evokes the past on a modest but extremely crafty production budget.

Production budget doesn't seem to be readily available for Blair Witch (though I haven't looked that hard), but Death Note is DEFINITELY a bigger budget film.

The scene seems perfect, and the fact that the film has an old mill will save on the budget — a plus since they are already out of money.

Presumably the byproduct of a super low budget, the film doesn't always look and sound the best, facts the DVD seems to draw attention to.

While the film is still clearly another low budget affair, the special effects look to be well done, and new Pinhead actor Paul T. Taylor seems to be doing his best to live up to Doug Bradley's legendary portrayal of the character.

A very low - budget film noir from the end of that genre's initial period of popularity, 1959's City of Fear seems a criminal carrying a canister of radioactive material (which he believes to be something else) around Los Angeles, threatening himself and others.

It was clear that Blakeson was set for a Christopher Nolan - style career path, moving from low - budget indie thriller to bigger - scale films, but, like fellow Brit Rupert Wyatt, who went straight from the excellent «The Escapist» to the mega-budgeted «Rise of the Apes» without passing Go, Blakeson seems to be skipping a few steps, and going straight for the tentpole.

Swanberg's inclusion is a notable one, as the film has been referred to as helping to establish a new (and somewhat on the nose) subgenre that mixes the low budget and improvisational style of mumblecore with the horror setting («mumblegore» if you will), and the conversations here take on a casual, loosely scripted feel that would not seem out of place in a film like Computer Chess or The Puffy Chair.

Plus director Bryan Singer «s last film, «Jack The Giant Slayer,» was by some distance the worst of his career, and early marketing materials made it look like «DOFP» had a tiny scope that belied its budget (the second most expensive in Fox's history, after «Avatar «-RRB-, and made it seem like some kind of mid -»90s vision of the future.

There's no better indicator of how much the film industry is changing than the fact that a Scorsese gangster film starring De Niro, Pacino, and Pesci seems risky, and Netflix is the safe haven to make the big - budget picture of your dreams.

Some big - budget projects that seemed guaranteed to find audiences didn't, while independent films that «weren't particularly strong on the page» turned out «beautifully» (but didn't always find audiences).

Since the budget here was considerably lower than most films of this type, Ross draws outside the lines by making this story in the absurd world of Panem seem taken from the very reality shows that they hold so dear.

Nolan seems to think the Wally Pfister photography can sell any scene, whether it's one of the most boring chase sequences in a big budget film (but it's at twilight and Pfister makes it look great) or if it's ostensible lead Christian Bale and his romantic interest, Marion Cotillard, letting the rainy afternoon bring out their passions.

The print utilized seemed perfect, as one would expect from a recent, big - budget film; I never noticed any grain, scratches, or spots of any kind.

This Must Be the Place is an unusual film whose commercial limitations will seem understandable to those who didn't contribute to the film's reportedly $ 32.5 million production budget that only director Paolo Sorrentino's native Italy did its part to recoup.

It's his biggest film in scope and budget, and seemed from a distance as if it could turn out to be his most conventional — at least if it fell into the structural traps that so many biopics do.

In everything from the score to the costumes and hairstyling, McGuigan seems to think that there's no such thing as too much, a lavishness that just isn't supported by the film's obviously modest budget.

Audiences seemed to sense that Prom was just going to place a big - screen surcharge on the type of thing they'd normally watch for free, and without any larger box - office incentives (3 - D, a certified heartthrob, a pre-established character), the film barely recouped its paltry $ 10M budget.

In fairness, I could see why he was duped, because it seems half of this film's budget and effort went into making a pretty awesome DVD cover.