Sentences with phrase «characters in films like»

Director Thomas McCarthy has made a career of caring deeply for his characters in films like The Visitor and Win Win, and here it's to slowly convince Dinklage's Finbar McBride that his low view of humanity might just be wrong.

Somehow I find the characters in films like this to be much more

It's nice to see a character in a film like this given the complexity to be not merely good or evil but flawed and in the end capable of righting bad decisions.

Not exact matches

«Bennett has become a master of storytelling through character, and while there are clearly no people in these films, it was clearly a very human story, which we knew a director such as Bennett would zero in on and draw out very real human - like emotions from these poor inanimate objects,» Lennon said.

As the actor who redefined what it means to be The Man in Hollywood with films like «Pulp Fiction,» he simply put too much into the role, making the Octopus one of his least memorable characters to date.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

DB will have wasted more than a year engaged with a surreal investor who has disappeared into the mist like a character in a bad Chinese martial arts film.

The repeated pattern of expansions and recessions is like multiple sequels in a long - running movie franchise — each film shares a similar and familiar landscape but still manages to be different due to the specific causes and characters.

These films celebrate the human spirit and explore themes like God's character amidst the holiday season, what it means to be human or how it feels to fall in love.

In this obscure indie film, two little read - comic books come together in a subtle, dialogue - heavy character study that plays out like a slow - burning portrait of good and evil in the modern worlIn this obscure indie film, two little read - comic books come together in a subtle, dialogue - heavy character study that plays out like a slow - burning portrait of good and evil in the modern worlin a subtle, dialogue - heavy character study that plays out like a slow - burning portrait of good and evil in the modern worlin the modern world.

Each successive Avengers movie has felt like an exercise in how many characters can fit into one film before it breaks down.

She has a keen understanding of her place in Hollywood, right now — as one of the breakout stars of a beloved sitcom; as the most fascinating character on Legion, one of current TV's most fascinating shows; as a high - profile woman in an industry currently under an enormous amount of scrutiny for how it treats women; and as an actress building a singularly astonishing resume of excellent, low - flying indie oddball films like Ingrid Goes West and Safety Not Guaranteed.

The lead character in novel and film is Lyra Belacqua, a girl who roams from the rooftops and hidden tunnels of an Oxford - like university to the frozen northern wastes and through alternate worlds, trying to rescue children who have been captured by agents of the Church.

Characters in zombie films are willing to do terrible things to each other because of the fear of zombies and the urge for self preservation, while, in the real world, things like the use of torture (or «advanced interrogation»), preemptive war and drone strikes were being debated as options to fight a threat even scarier than zombies: terrorism.

There's a scene in the film where Krasinski's character and Emily Blunt's character (who are husband and wife in the film as well as real life), share a romantic moment together as they both wear one earbud, and listen to a song — JUST LIKE JIM AND PAM DID.

We felt for the guy like the Emilio Estevez character in the 1985 film The Breakfast Club, the wrestler who duct taped the butt cheeks of the non-athlete in the locker room to please his domineering father.

We immediately felt landlocked, like the characters in our film's walled off «Homeland».

Telegraph, 2 October 2006 Rupert - unleashed and unloved «Like the George Downes character he played opposite Julia Roberts in My Best Friend's Wedding, his most successful Hollywood film, Everett really is the ultimate gay best friend.

The world may someday be full of pop - up images like those imagined in the film Jurassic World, where museum patrons walk through a hall where a projected dinosaur image stands on display, or like the free - standing visuals used by the character Tony Stark in designing his metal suits in the Iron Man films.

It's like Peter Pan, Justin Bieber, or any character Zooey Deschanel ever plays in a film.»

Had the then -67-year-old Hoffman — who brought mainstream culture face to face with autism in Rain Man and went mano a mano with an Ebola - like filovirus in Outbreak — never quite broken character from his 1982 film Tootsie?

For the scientific community, the release of public polls on contentious questions of science usually makes us feel like Bill Murray's character in the film Groundhog Day.

So although these emperor penguins don't dance like the fleet - footed characters in the 2006 animated film «Happy Feet,» they still perform some pretty fancy footwork.

We also wanted to appeal to people who enjoy character driven indie films like the ones Tom has made in the past (Fairhaven & Manhattan Romance).

Five years had gone by and in 1980 during the filming of the movie «Conan», Arnold had got into fantastic shape due to the physicality of the character he was playing and also due to the training that was required to be able to complete the filming — things like running and horse riding.

I look like a main character in a Tim Burton film.

Do you have a special place, where you feel amazing, where you feel like you are in a film and you're the main character?

The idea is to make you feel like a character trapped in a horror film.

It's here than Wan excels, a sign of his fantastic character work to come in films like Insidious and The Conjuring, with his work both fantastically calculated and seemingly chaotic.

M * A * S * H is a 1972 — 1983 American television series developed by Larry Gelbart, adapted from the 1970 feature film MASH, which, in turn, was based on the Oh, I really love mash - up games like this where characters from two different worlds are put together!

In a film which involves a lot of character deaths, it seems like the Token Minority will...

That would be impossible given that there are over 40 of them, and that the film is structured almost exactly like a»90s sketch - comedy show in which characters rarely share more than several minutes of screen time.

But once you are in the zone the characters cease to feel like stereotypes of British culture, and for all its painterly cinematography the film has enough pace to sustain itself beyond its beautiful landscapes.

Even if is not perfect for his awful villains, some unfunny jokes and the character of Captain Underpants not appering much in the film, is still better than any animated movie like Cars 3 o LEGO Ninjago Movie.

There's no place for mawkishness in a film like this; such elements might have worked had the movie claimed to be a realistic portrayal of young adults, but when you have a character as outrageous as Stifler, that's clearly not the case.

Characters that gave the earlier films their spark - the eager - to - please Donkey, one of Eddie Murphy's finest vocal moments, the debonair Puss in Boots, a great Antonio Banderas achievement - are wheeled on and off for what seem like guest spots.

What the film does is reimagine other horror films as meta - narratives, except in those cases, the characters never discover the truth about the artifice of their world, as Marty does, just like another fool, Truman Burbank in Peter Weir's The Truman Show, a horror film in its own right.

David Starsky is just the sort of uptight, anal retentive stick - in - the - mud that Stiller's has a lot of success with in films like Meet the Parents and Along Came Polly - while Wilson's Ken Hutchinson is reminiscent of virtually every character in the actor's repertoire (with few exceptions, including his rare dramatic performance in The Minus Man).

For one, throughout the whole film I had a hard time empathizing with any of the characters - which is absolutely crucial in a film like this.

For some, like the main character in this film, it may be an abusive childhood.

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE CHEESE CURDS - My Review of THE HAPPYS (4 Stars) You know that horrible cliché used by filmmakers when they say the location they used is like another character in the film?

The Potter movies showed us their characters getting older in real time: unlike Just William or Bart Simpson, Daniel Radcliffe's Potter was going to grow up like a normal person and never before has any film — or any book — brought home to me how terribly brief childhood is.

While Iron Man bounced back with Iron Man 3 and Captain America flourished with his own trilogy of films, Thor was left behind; a character that, like Hulk, seemed best utilized in team - up movies.

Like the film, characters take the opportunity to play nice, adhering to the social strata of the time, forcing us to give up the more overt subversion of the first film in favor of pure genre immersion.

One of the central characters is introduced from the waist down and to say that the film climaxes in violent, sexual oddity would be like saying «The Avengers» features a few superheroes.

The Allosaurus (the big thing in the jungle with razor sharp teeth at which the characters are shooting) in the film looks clearly like computer graphics, unlike much of the work in «Jurassic Park».

It's adapted by Tracy Letts from his 1993 play (Friedkin also turned Letts's play Bug into a film in 2006), and its theatrical origins do become obvious in the way certain characters are left disconcertingly off screen; the movie is concluded with a long, slow and single - location sequence, which makes it looks oddly like a filmed stage play.

Though the theme of resentment plays a big part in the film, Tom's emotional transformation is taken a little too far, to the point that you're not even sure if you like the main characters anymore.

The script is phoned in and rather than focus on the Autobots like in the cartoon the film focuses on the poorly written human characters who aren't that interesting.

Studi, a great actor who has a long career playing fearsome warriors in films like Dances With Wolves and The Last of the Mohicans, is equally stoic but is given even less character shading.