Sentences with phrase «by other aspects of the film»

But while previews have eerie music and depictions of spooky creatures, Entertainment Weekly writer Chris Nashawaty says the film «forgets to be scary,» Variety writer Peter Debruge says there are «vacancies where the scares should be,» and Guardian writer Peter Bradshaw wrote that he is «less convinced by [director Guillermo Del Toro's] Halloweeny ghosts» than by other aspects of the film.

Not exact matches

After the excitement of David Arnold's three scores for Emmerich and then the brief diversion to the great John Williams on The Patriot, the change in musical approach since Kloser (later joined by Wander) took over is so extreme, it doesn't really make sense — it's hard to talk about any of the previous four Kloser / Wander scores for Emmerich without repeatedly using the word «bland» — I've just never been able to reconcile the outlandish extravagance of every other aspect of the films with the understated timidity of their scores, which seem to serve no purpose whatsoever.

This updated version follows the formula of other Romero remakes by upgrading the visuals and production value while at the same time gutting the story of any satirical or sociological aspects leaving a competent but rather generic horror film that barely explores its underlying concepts, instead relying on by the number horror film «scares» and gore.

Other than the monster, all aspects of this film are backed by either scientific or historical research.»

Like those other films, Gallery is divided into a series of segments highlighting different aspects of the institution: the tour guides explaining a work or an artist; the craftsmen and women building frames, gallery spaces, designing and testing lighting; restorers at work fixing paintings damaged by time; and administrators debating the best ways to persevere the museums brand and grow its audience.

This wild concept of chaos reigning in a suburban neighborhood has its edge reduced by its incomplete image of characters, an aspect that affected Get Him to the Greek in the past, and has made for slower moments in other Stoller films (on the other hand, when characters were solid like in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, they lead to a great introduction for a bare - all Jason Segel).

The Wedding Planner passes by with ease and this makes it passable entertainment while it lasts, yet every aspect of the film is so derivative of other films, one could almost rightfully claim to have seen it without actually viewing it.

While in other Hollywood - produced films about perversions of authority on the high seas, such as the various versions of Mutiny on the Bounty (Frank Lloyd, 1935; Lewis Milestone, 1962) or Billy Budd (Peter Ustinov, 1962), a comparatively ordinary voyage is complicated by the disastrously warped personality of a deranged (thus, socially maladjusted) captain (Charles Laughton, Trevor Howard, Peter Ustinov), in Botany Bay the obscure and torturous solipsism of the captain colours every aspect of the voyage: he does not stand out as exemplary, but instead characterizes the «transportation» process itself.

Hop over to the other similarly sterling yakker to hear DP Peter Deming (later cinematographer for David Lynch, Wes Craven, and Sam Raimi), co-screenwriter Richard Jefferies, and composer Terry Plumeri go into all aspects of the production, such as the possibility of a remake, the Chris Walas film The Vagrant (also written by Jefferies), and how the film was so very angry.

More effort is put forth into the look of the film than in every other aspect, and I suspect that viewers prone to being mindlessly entertained by sparkling lights and whirring sounds will be mollified by the many scenes of bombastic flash and sizzle.

Directed by Steven Spielberg and adapted to the screen by Zak Penn and the novel's author, Ernest Cline, the film's primary concern with finishing the game above all else forces all other aspects of the story to ring hollow.

JU - ON: The Grudge for Wii is a Haunted House Simulator where accessibility and instant scares are given priority over all other game aspects, The title is inspired by the Japanese classic horror movie, JU - ON, on which the American release of the hit horror film «The Grudge» was based upon.

Fan art, or fanart, are artworks created by fans of a work of fiction (generally visual media such as comics, film, television shows, or video games) and derived from a series character or other aspect of that work.