What: How does one follow up
a cinematic masterpiece like The Shallows, last summer's Criterion - worthy hit in which Lively literally fights a shark?
There Will Be Blood — As a movie, I'm not sure any other movies this year could compete with
a cinematic masterpiece like this.
I may be able to imagine a way to turn Super Mario Bros. 3 into a free - to - play game, but I do not think it is possible to take
a cinematic masterpiece like the Uncharted series and deliver a single - player, free - to - play game that is not fundamentally broken by the process.
Not exact matches
Just
like the film that precedes it, Aliens is a
cinematic masterpiece.
It's an enduringly fascinating and still - relevant story, so what a shame that writer - director Peter Landesman has made such a clunky film, made to look
like a
cinematic footnote by the definitive picture on the subject, Alan J. Pakula's 1976
masterpiece All The President's Men.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of transcendent filmmaking in the The Lost City of Z and A Ghost Story, it was the age of foolish Spider - Man remakes / reboots / regurgitations, it was the epoch of a magnificent enquiry into belief by the evergreen Martin Scorsese, it was the epoch of the incredulous return of Mel Gibson in a box office hit, it was the season of Michael Haneke shining a light on our uncaring societal malaise, it was the season of manifold more people watching Baywatch, it was the spring of Aki Kaurismäki's warm - hearted but politically pressing The Other Side of Hope, it was the winter of despair at the box office results of
masterpieces like Certain Women, Aquarius and The Death of Louis XIV, we had Yorgos Lanthimos» Kubrickian
masterpiece before us, we had a new Kingsman film before us, we were all going direct to
cinematic Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.
It's a showcase of what a
cinematic masterpiece looks
like in terms of visuals, acting, musical score, and storytelling.
was something — anything — for my senses to latch onto; it didn't feel
like watching a
cinematic masterpiece as much as it did spending 90 minutes looking at a finger painting pummeled into a solid brown smudge by an overzealous child.
Neon Chrome feels
like what might happen if classic
cinematic masterpiece Blade Runner and isometric gorefest Crusader: No Remorse met up, fell in love, and had a top - down shooter baby.