Sentences with phrase «by war sequences»

As bleak as this story is, it's offset by war sequences so large in scale and beautifully animated that you can not help but look upon them in awe.

Not exact matches

For example, the Vietnamese War was the first to be a livingroom, TV affair, and it is not too much to believe that the tide of public opinion finally turned against the whole enterprise in large part because of TV viewers sickened by the continuous sequence of gruesome spectacles on the nightly news.

If the approaching spacecraft has to avoid plowing into smaller fragments, it would be a rather more graceful version of the famous asteroid - dodging sequence in Star Wars — fitting for a mission led by a jet jockey.

That they are able to balance so much character business while careening from one action sequence to the next is impressive, and they do it smoothly enough to make Infinity War «s daunting 160 - minute running time fly by.

Director Hood (Tsotsi) opens strong, with a wickedly crafted opening - credits sequence that shows young mutant Logan and his more feral half - brother, Victor, aka Sabretooth (Schreiber), emerging from Canada's Northwest Territories, circa 1845, to fight side by side in the Civil War, both World Wars, and Vietnam (what, Korea wasn't badass enough?).

Nakia (Lupita Nyong» o: Star Wars: The Last Jedi, The Jungle Book), spy and foreign operative for Wakanda whom T'Challa is in love with, is eager to use the nation's resources to help their African brothers and sisters, in Africa and beyond; our introduction to her comes in a sequence in which she rescues girls who have been kidnapped by, the film suggests but doesn't make explicit, Boko Haram.

Niccol has clearly been inspired by films such as Goodfellas and Boogie Nights, and initially infuses Lord of War with a similar sensibility - complete with period - appropriate rock songs on the soundtrack (ie Eric Clapton's «Cocaine» plays during a drug - heavy sequence).

Actual depiction of the Civil War is pretty much limited to a single gory battle scene at the opening, followed by a corny sequence where Lincoln chats with some young soldiers.

Recounting the extraordinary life story of Louis Zamperini (played by Jack O'Connell, «Starred Up»)-- who ran for America in the 1936 Olympics, survived a plane crash during World War II, stayed afloat for 75 days on a life raft before forced internment in a series of Japanese POW camps — Jolie and company seem to be digging into the Spielberg playbook: The movie offers up sun - dappled nostalgia for Depression - era Southern California, harrowing wartime sequences, and even a shark attack, but it serves them all up with maximum efficiency.

After a stint in westerns, Wellman was chosen in 1927 to direct Wings, a major drama dealing with pilots during World War I that was highlighted by air combat and flight sequences that remain impressive over 60 years later.

Adapted and Americanized from the 1974 novel by popular British author Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File), Dogs casts Walken as Jamie Shannon, one of several mercenaries making a narrow exit from war - torn Central America in the film's opening sequence.

And sure enough, what begins as a clarion call settles into a somewhat familiar period costume drama spiced up now and again with racy sequences nonetheless sobered by the memory of the delirious hedonism of that opening, wherein we get Dracula's backstory as a hero of a holy war, repulsing Muslim invaders in Romania, turning to blasphemy when the vengeful Turks fool his wife Elisabeta (Winona Ryder) into believing that her beloved has died on the battlefield, and gleefully chewing artificial scenery with toothy relish.

«Hacksaw Ridge,» a Lionsgate release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America «for intense prolonged realistically graphic sequences of war violence including grisly bloody images.»

For one thing, the story is almost a beat - for - beat repeat of James Cameron's Aliens, while the visual grammar of both the action sequences and the designs is heavily inspired by the video game likes of Gears of War.

It's terrifying, in other words, even when you can't process what's going on, because of the perspective afforded by its aerial shots of Yanks fire - bombing a civilian population — an acceptable war crime in Dresden and Tokyo, lest we forget — followed hot by chemical warfare in a sequence of flight from slowly - encroaching death that pays a sort of literal homage to Romero's shambling legions.

Solo: A Star Wars Story is rated PG - 13 by the MPAA for sequences of sci - fi action / violence.

Hacksaw Ridge is rated R by the MPAA for intense prolonged realistically graphic sequences of war violence including grisly bloody images.

In a murderous opening sequence, their camp is ambushed by an Arikara war party.

Rated PG - 13 For: war violence including intense sequences of brutality, and for brief language Run Time: 137 minutes After Credits Scene: None Starring: Jack O'Connell, Domhnall Gleeson, Jai Courtney, Finn Wittrock Directed By: Angelina Jolie

- mega creature battles to the sequences of brow - furrowed war - room strategizing and training tutorials run by Rita, whose warrior chops have a lot to do with her having just made it out of her own time loop, has the tenor of a prolonged gaming session.

Part war movie, part doomed romance, overfull with artful and exciting action sequences (the No Man's Land assault led by Diana is worth the cost of admission alone), and all told some pretty subversive content for a populist DC superhero film ---- and easily the best outside of Nolan's Batman films, from that expanded universe ---- this is a charismatic, crowd - pleasing, comic book conversion that works on every conceivable level.

«Solo: A Star Wars Story,» A Walt Disney Studios release, is rated PG - 13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for «sequences of sci - fi action / violence.»

The same scenario played out along slightly different lines in 1999 when Saving Private Ryan — whose battle sequences transposed some of Platoon's brutal modernism to the context of World War II — earned Steven Spielberg a second Best Director Oscar but the film was upset in the Best Picture category by Shakespeare in Love, a film whose virtues were perceived to be more literary than visual.

Avengers: Age of Ultron Rated PG - 13 for intense sequences of sci - fi action, violence and destruction, and some suggestive comments Available on DVD, Blu - ray and Blu - ray 3D This second Avengers movie finds the group at war with an artificial intelligence robot named Ultron, built by Tony Stark / Iron (Robert Downey, Jr.), who, instead of protecting the world decides to destroy it instead.

Nevertheless, those sequences, and their mid-credits siblings, are now expected, and anticipated, by audiences, so much so that many have long wondered how many Avengers: Infinity War might have.

Captain America: Civil War (PG - 13 for extended sequences of violence, action and mayhem) 13th episode in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series finds the Avengers split into a pair of adversarial factions, freedom lovers led by Captain America (Chris Evans), and a pro-government camp led by Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.).

The barroom brawl sequence is a hoot, employing hundreds of stuntmen and craggy character actors throwing each other through windows and smashing all manner of chairs, bottles, and tables over each other's heads — instigated by a dueling song between North and South war veterans as a lively warm up for Casablanca «s famous «Marseille» number.

What follows is around an hour of brutal war sequences as the boys fall back, establish, fall back, establish, get injured (sometimes mortally, by the enemy and by the terrain — the film has the best falling sequences ever), concluding once Marcus finds safe haven in a village where a certain cultural tradition of hospitality ensures that the villagers, poorly - armed and untrained, will stand in front of someone they've welcomed into their circle.

And in other Infinity War and Avengers 4 news, Nebula actress Karen Gillan has been chatting about her experience working on the two movies, while Elizabeth Olsen announced that she's wrapped production by sharing a set video featuring the Scarlet Witch in a stunt sequence...

The IMAX / ARRI 2D digital cameras being used for the films will be employed by the Russo brothers for certain action sequences in their upcoming Captain America: Civil War, so they should be well - versed in the technology by the time Infinity War rolls around.

Unbroken is rated PG - 13 by the MPAA for war violence including intense sequences of brutality, and for brief language.

Hailed by the New York Times on its Paris release as «one of the great films in motion picture history,» Raymond Bernard's Wooden Crosses, France's answer to All Quiet on the Western Front, still stuns with its depiction of the travails of one French regiment during World War I. Using a masterful arsenal of film techniques, from haunting matte paintings to jarring documentary - like camerawork in the film's battle sequences, Bernard created a pacifist work of enormous empathy and chilling despair.

That sequence picks up on a thread from 2016's Captain America: Civil War, which introduced Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa, by revealing that James «Bucky» Barnes is no longer in cryogenic sleep.

This Means War is rated PG - 13 by the MPAA PG - 13 for intense sequences of fantasy violence and action.

Instead, the mid-credits sequence showed us that there is a very real threat lurking in the cosmos, and judging by the Infinity War footage that was shown at D23 / San Diego Comic - Con 2017 (where Thor was shown floating out in space), it looks like the hero and his people are anything but safe.

Here, private utterance becomes part of a larger choral arrangement as the collection widens to include erasures of The Declaration of Independence and the correspondence between slave owners, a found poem comprised of evidence of corporate pollution and accounts of near - death experiences, a sequence of letters written by African Americans enlisted in the Civil War, and the survivors» reports of recent immigrants and refugees.

For a series to go from weighed down by cutscenes, spouting nonsense about nuclear war and secret Cold War contracts with a few simple stealth sequences to a full blown open world stealth sandbox masterpiece (and on the PC too) was quite the surpriwar and secret Cold War contracts with a few simple stealth sequences to a full blown open world stealth sandbox masterpiece (and on the PC too) was quite the surpriWar contracts with a few simple stealth sequences to a full blown open world stealth sandbox masterpiece (and on the PC too) was quite the surprise.

Earth Wars is full of fast - paced combat sequences broken up by short jogs of running through levels to get to the next fight scene.

«Linguaggio è guerra» (Language is War)(1975) comprises 88 photographs in a sequence, transformed by cuts and montage.