Sentences with phrase «budget movie so»

I mean, it was a low - budget movie so we were in the middle of nowhere in this crappy little motel.

Not exact matches

We really have a lean and tight budget (no cell phones, no cable TV, no eating out, no movies, etc), but there are still so many areas we could cut back, and we struggle with what is the right thing to do.

There are so many dating options out there to choose from, depending upon your interests, budget, While couples often resort to the standard date night options, such as dinner and a movie, sometimes creative dating ideas are necessary to keep things

And so he has, for $ 30 million — still a relatively modest budget, as action movies go.

Now I like the first Hoodwinked movie very much, and for a low budget CG film its very funny and keeps you entertained, so when I heard they were going to make a bigger budgeted 3 - D sequel I was interested, but the better CG doesn't add to how poorly this film was made, the CG may be better, but the lip synching is terrible and the voice acting isn't that good.

As it often happens with this kind of low budget artsy movie these days, the look is so polished that after a while it starts feeling fabricated.

The fire fights are often better than what you see in big budget movies, and it's not so PC that it turns all the terrorists into blue eyed neo-nazis.

But what continues to surprise and impress me (beyond the exciting action, the fantastic costumes, and the impressive special effects) is that unlike other big budget blockbusters and fantasy series, The Hunger Games movies, so far, always manage to make me cry.

(Actually, there are different estimates of the movie's budget out there — people have cited numbers anywhere from $ 75 million to $ 85 million, but Box Office Mojo says $ 82 million, so let's go with that.)

So it looks like Javier Bardem is no longer officially on board as Roland, assuming he ever actually was, though Howard seems to still be committed to the ambitious joint movie / TV adaptation plan, Universal's budget skittishness be damned.

Found - footage horror thriller Unfriended was a welcome surprise back in 2015, when its commitment to a simple but ingenious premise — everything that happens in the film does so on the laptop screen of doomed teenager Shelley Hennig — managed to overcome a lot of the typical low - budget horror movie flaws.

It never feels cynically niche - marketed or fundamentally bored with itself, the way so many big - budget American movies do.

To get away from the idea of gritty low - budget Noir or any B - movie sense (and because the spy films from James bond on down were making so much money), Warner and Newman went the big time Hollywood route with an all - star cast for the first Harper film including Lauren Bacall, Shelley Winters, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh, Pamela Tiffin, Robert Wagner, Strother Martin and made it a point it was Hollywood getting gritty on its own big time terms.

The first big - budget Mummy movie was so flimsy that it failed to hold up on home video, which is where I saw it for the first time.

But then a funny thing happened: Ever so gradually, word got out about just how awful the movie was — how this near - tragic waste of an estimated $ 6 million budget might be appreciated as an accidental comedy — and audiences started coming to see for themselves.

Frank Darabont — «The Shawshank Redemption» Ok, so Darabont does have directorial credits prior to «The Shawshank Redemption» (for TV movie «Buried Alive» and short, no - budget «The Woman in the Room,» also based on a Stephen King story).

And yet Snyder still manages to command gigantic budgets for his so - called «dark» superhero movies.

Rudderless may have a low budget, but it's not so low that the movie doesn't look great on Blu - ray.

Considering that the movie was budgeted at $ 120 million, it is doubtful that Hulk would turn a profit for its studio, so don't go holding your breath for any sequel soon.

Daniel Brühl, who plays a rare non-powered villain, said this movie's budget was so huge that you could make 20 films from it.

It would be indefensible to label HOWARD THE DUCK the worst big - budget movie ever made, so let's just designate it one of the worst big - budget movies ever made.

This snappy 1944 espionage thriller, made on a budget comparable to an ambitious American B movie, finds romantic adventure in wartime intrigue in Algiers as Mason flees the Nazis with vital information for the Allies, or so he tells the American girl (Carla Lehman) who becomes his ally.

This one was interesting because we shot it in the Dominican Republic, so it was a very low - budget movie but we shot in the exotic location.

Long - time Roland Emmerich collaborator Dean Devlin directs Geostorm, a big budget disaster movie with so much devastation it can only be described as «Emmerich-esque».

As I recall, I said the exact same thing about the last movie directed by Louis Leterrier, Unleashed, so I think he has found a niche job in case directing big budget action flicks doesn't pan out.

Anyway, despite being just another slasher movie with a very silly name, by Hollywood's definition it was a success (ie it turned a profit) and so a sequel, with a bigger budget and worse script, was inevitable.

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay has made herself into a force to be reckoned with in Hollywood, so it is only fitting that she be the first African American woman to direct a movie with a budget of over $ 100 million with «A Wrinkle in Time.»

Unlike a typical big - budget production like X-Men, he says «we don't get to make it with the budget of most superhero movies, but we get to make it the way we want to make it, so that's even more exciting than having a catered lunch.

On the other hand, after several months of big budget movies, it's not so bad to sit back and relax with a harmless movie like this.

This B - movie made on an epic budget is so over-the-top that the earlier you start giggling the better.

Though now it looks like this movie should outgross its budget within its first two days, so hopefully they'll be more willing to splurge on Catching Fire.

The first «Purge» movie was an incredibly stupid horror - thriller dragged down by its comically far - fetched concept, cardboard villains and idiotic characters, but it also made a lot of money on a micro-sized budget, so it was hardly a surprise when Universal greenlit another installment.

Blumhouse Productions, the predominantly horror movie studio which sometimes whiffs and other times knocks grand slams with its horror movies (but always does so on a budget designed to maximize profit) is the home of Happy Death Day.

The movie does have some pretty impressive production design considering its presumably small budget, so it's a shame to see all that hard work wasted on a director more interested in unnecessary visual flourishes (like a POV shot from a water bucket) than focusing on important things like character and story.

But even better and more notable was his turn in «Ant - Man» in which he created probably the film's most memorable, endearing (and funny) character, in motormouthed «master thief» Luis, whose uniquely intricate way of telling a story is maybe the best character attribute written into any big - budget movie (so far) this year.

So the low - budget, German - produced drama «A Hologram for the King», based on a 2012 novel by Dave Eggers, is definitely a change of pace for one of the biggest movie stars on the planet.

The movie has made a little more than $ 3 million so far from American audiences, which isn't great with a $ 15 million budget to recoup.

As adapted and shot by writer - director Leslie Greif, Funny Money suffers from a low budget look that has this one tagged as a straight - to - video or basic cable release, with video textures, spotty use of the generic soundtrack, and sets and props that give off that «we found this stuff lying around, so let's use it for the movie» quality to them.

What else... I mean, there's no point in talking about something so absurdly god - awful, but these big budget movies and the effects are on par with The Last Starfighter for CG and Superman IV for flying effects.

Smartly shot for a very modest budget of $ 30 million (lots of strings were certainly pulled to get such a cast of famous personalities onboard), Rogen and Goldberg know where and when it's most effective to go for special effects (this does not feel like a low budget Hollywood film), and they do so without letting visuals or star egos get in the way of making a very funny movie.

(Like so many of the movie's Earth - set sequences, this expository scene is set in a car and looks so cheap that it comes as a surprise when, minutes later, one discovers that the production had the budget for a space station set and a cast of more than two people.)

So it goes without saying that directors are probably lining up to cast him in their big - budget action movies.

It's a bit hard to believe that they would turn down a movie with so many huge stars in it, but perhaps the proposed budget was still too much, even after they made cuts.

The past couple of decades have seen the appearance of so many gigantic CG waves in big - budget movies that they almost qualify as stock henchmen, popping up as bonus disaster - porn footage in movies that don't actually take place in the ocean or even on a shoreline.

So it's more than a little surprising to see Liman's name on the credits for «The Wall,» a gritty, low - budget war movie featuring limited violence, more talking than action and a mere three characters, one of whom is unconscious for most of the movie and another who never appears on camera at all.

Alison Bagnall's Funny Bunny is a shaggy buddy dramedy about a road trip that doesn't seem to take its characters much of anywhere, in the tradition of the low - budget American road movie that must often elide the potentially money - burning trip undertaken by the protagonists so as to emphasize merely the embarking point and the destination.

Woo, of course, needs no introduction: best - known for Hong Kong action movies such as the ultra-violent Hard Boiled, his mega budget Hollywood output has so far been patchy ranging from the likes of Mission Impossible 2 and Face / Off to Broken Arrow and Hard Target.

The second factor is that the budget is so much less than the first movie ($ 17M versus $ 27M, and that's not counting for inflation over the 10 - year gap), and boy does it show.

I hate to dock this movie because of what I attribute to the limitations of low - budget filmmaking, but I do so with the hope that this is just a stepping stone on a greater path.

And so the studio gave him millions (the estimated budget was $ 125 million) and out came this dog turd of a movie.