Sentences with phrase «comic inspiration for the film»

Not exact matches

As Wolverine, Hugh Jackman (an Australian with little film experience beyond his homeland) is suitably feral and captures some of the mannerisms of his comic book inspiration (smoking a cigar and saying «bub», for instance).

Launer based the premise of the film on the lyrics to the classic song of the same name by The Clovers, which is a strange form of inspiration for a film, but in its own limited, predictable fashion, it works as a pleasant and occasionally funny comic diversion.

Angela Robinson's new film Professor Marston And The Wonder Women explores the two real - life inspirations for Wonder Woman, Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne; their polyamorous relationship with the superhero's creator, William Moulton Marston; and the comic's depiction of kink.

However, it seems that WB doesn't plan on adapting the comic directly, but rather use it as an inspiration for their live - action film.

Yet, the way the film is presented, it's also hard to fault the creators for the bad elements, as it draws inspiration from many films and comic books of the 30s and 40s that are exactly like this — fantastic stories with trite heroics and corny dialogue to string it together.

The Life Foundation is a shadowy organization from Marvel's comics, best known in the «Lethal Protector» storyline — a storyline we know the film is using for inspiration — for kidnapping Venom and using the symbiote to create five symbiote soldiers of their own: Scream, Phage, Riot, Lasher, and Agony.

The 1980 Borg — McEnroe marathon — one set was decided by an 18 — 16 tiebreaker — previously supplied inspiration for a ribald spoof, 7 Days in Hell, a very funny 2015 HBO special, starring Andy Samberg, that via comic hyperbole had more to say about the era than this film does, with its timid peek inside Studio 54 and its inconclusive scene about Borg and his bride being urged to sell access to their wedding to the tabloids.

Because the comic book studio has put a genre twist on their standard formula for nearly every film: Captain America: The Winter Soldier was a political thriller, Guardians of the Galaxy flaunted its trippy space opera inspirations, Spider - Man: Homecoming recalled John Hughes teen comedies.

Not bad at all if you're going to draw inspiration from the world of films, though the solid laughs, exciting thrills and the terrific comic interplay of its two leads are more like occasional chuckles, lots of noise and violence without much tension, and two passable comic performances from actors who aren't particularly known for their comedic chops in Russell Crowe (Noah, Winter's Tale) and Ryan Gosling (The Big Short, Gangster Squad).

Angela Robinson's new film Professor Marston And The Wonder Women explores the real - life inspirations for the superhero, Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne; their polyamorous relationship with creator William Moulton Marston; and the comic's depiction of kink.

If the movies «Hot Fuzz» imitates are mostly surface pleasures, in a sense it's appropriate for «Hot Fuzz» to mimic that directly — though Wright's film is more enjoyable than most of its filmic inspirations because it is packed with comic detail, from the editing to the sound design to the songs on the soundtrack.