Sentences with phrase «characters in movies like»

Sam Rockwell — who usually plays naïve and jovial characters in movies like Galaxy Quest — plays Silk as cold, manipulative, and downright spooky.

The wandering millennial emerges as a kind of stock character in movies like Garden State and Lost in Translation, and then in the work of Noah Baumbach and Lena Dunham (and a host of indie copycats).

Not exact matches

His signature style is to create elaborate narratives and histories for the characters in his video - game videos to make them «like a movie.»

Many of us relate very deeply to characters in movies, and we like to think that we share similar traits to the actor or, more importantly, to the role they play.

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.

His signature style is to create elaborate narratives and histories for the characters in his video games to make them «like a movie.»

Unlike the recent string of TV shows made into movies, like the «21 Jump Street» franchise, Peña said the intention with «CHiPs» is to be more serious in the hopes to make the audience care and be concerned about what the characters are going through.

When you're watching «The Incredibles,» it always feels like there's so much more to discover about the story and the history of the characters, which isn't always the case in Pixar movies.

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.

Stories like these helped me recognize the «good» within people; not the 2 - dementional stereotypical characters that we tend to see in moviesand associate as «bad guys» (dark eyes and a goatee); that is just movie makeup that plays on the social consciences of that era.

If in the case of the movie Contact again, even if Foster's character stayed with him, bought him presents, took care of him when sick, got him b - day cards or cried at his funeral, someone could always say «Well she could be a psychopath and is just pretending to love him because its expected of her or she expects to get something out it like inheritance.»

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

He's like a character in a Noah Baumbach movie (albeit one written by whoever was responsible for Patch Adams).

CNN, so you want us to discuss if Obama looks like a character in a movie that is based on a fictional book?

I thought it was interesting the girls were the sexually - aggressive parties here, since in most movies like this, the male characters are the ones chasing sex.

Abby: Totally, and speaking of Superbad, I thought it was interesting the girls were the sexually - aggressive parties here, since in most movies like this, the male characters are the ones chasing sex.

Everyone who steps onto the screen feels like a fully fleshed out character, not just a cheap rendition of something you've seen in a western or action movie in the past.

I loved the part in the movie «Galaxy Quest» where the far - away space aliens received the transmissions of a Star Trek - like TV show... thought it was real and that the characters were gods who could save them from anything.

Kinda like in the old movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers when Donald Sutherlands character the end of the movie points to the guy on the street and makes that awful screaming noise «outing» the last known human!

A movie like The Exorcist — as controversial as it is — also shows that, contrary to the mad scientist characters who try to seize power from God, God in fact manages to work His will through very flawed, human servants.

In Francis Ford Coppola's 1986 movie Peggy Sue Got Married, one character — a twice - divorced, middle - class real estate broker — sums up the notion that husbands are commodities, like houses: «You should always trade up.

And, unlike the lame Legends of the Hidden Temple TV movie, the network seems like it is attempting to capture the original creative spirit of the series: They're bringing back show creator Jay Murray to executive produce and direct the one - hour movie which will «bring back all of the beloved characters in Rocko's fictional city of O - Town,» according to Entertainment Weekly.

I felt like the character Violet Beauregarde that turns into a giant blueberry in the movie «Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.»

Whether kids put on their favorite Superman costume, or get to build their own lightsaber with a set, many children like dressing up in costumes to role play their favorite movie and television characters.

It has been used for other tv and movie characters like Adrian Monk in the show Monk and Adrian Pucey was a Harry Potter character.

Christie is like some character in an inspirational 80s movie.

I had this strong feeling that time was literally and dramatically running out, like I'm a minor character in a Coen Brothers movie?

«Like Bill Murray's character in the movie Groundhog Day, homeless people in New York have been hearing the same thing over and over again.

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 felt exactly the way the movie wanted me to feel — in awe of characters like Glinda the Good and terrified of the Wicked Witch of the West, with all of her evil doings and demonic intent.

It looks, to me, like it would be the perfect wardrobe for a character in one of the Fast & The Furious movies because of how bright it is.

The main player for the turn selects three cards from his hand and lays them down, describing his character — for example, for a male character: «war weapons collector, spends his holidays in Kazakhstan, likes movies about gladiators.»

But it's a bit like the man - child Steve Carell character in The 40 Year Old Virgin who, towards the end of the movie, makes one tiny change — boxing up his action figures — as a signifier of his life - change into manhood.

Game Republic has crafted a gem of its own that will be often compared with games like Ico and perhaps even Zelda, but the story bond between gamer and characters has truly been mastered in the senses that if one of the characters died (as in story line) then you would shed a tear or two (something movies can hardly ever achieve).

Although Tarantino is adept at filling his movies with explosive and graphic violence (blood spouts from the bodies that get in the way of Django's bullets like geysers bursting forth from the ground), he's also a writer who appears to get immense pleasure from creating memorable characters through the words he puts in their mouths.

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 Mmovie like Cars 3 o LEGO Ninjago MovieMovie.

Adam Sandler still feels like he's playing the same character he plays in all his other movies so to say his performance is getting stale would be an understatement.

Andy Sidaris, may he rest in peace, had a gift, and that gift was creating movies like this, movies where characters like that skateboard guy exist and fit in.

But the great leaps forward in CGI don't necessarily make for better movies, and Shrek the Third comes across as a little tired and uncertain, introducing a parade of new characters that seem more like distractions and diversions than significant figures.

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.

It's great too see the movie's characters like Mumble and Gloria but the Wii controls are used in a gimmicky way that adds very little substance to a game that could have been really fun.

As long as Phillips doesn't slow down, The Hangover grooves along like a racecar, but occasionally the story requires a plot transition or a quiet, character - driven moment, and in those moments the movie's ferocious momentum threatens to leak away.

In the end, the movie tries to get us to like and root for a character it has made us loathe.

Their only foil, is a hulk - sized Dwayne Johnson playing a hybrid of characters he's played before in movies like Journey 2 The Mysterious Island, San Andreas, Jumanji and Welcome To The Jungle / The Rundown.

It sounds predictable, and it is, for there's not a single surprise in the whole damn movie except for Carrey himself, who sells it pretty well even if this character is a bit like the ones from Liar, Liar and Yes Man.

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.

I didn't care about any of the characters and to compare this to Tarantino like dialogue maybe the biggest joke in this movie.

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.

I find a little magic in movies where characters like this capture the attention and the love of people like LuAnn and Tracy.

And since neither the cinematography (by Wyatt Garfield, «Ping Pong Summer») nor the editing (by Jay Deuby, «The Heat») turn the screws on these characters or on the narrative, we never feel that frog - in - a-boiling-pot tension that a movie like this should build.