Sentences with phrase «conventions of action movies»

«Black Panther» follows conventions of action movies but also enlarges and revitalizes them.

Not exact matches

While the movie plays off conventions of the genre (the train robbery sequence is a lively homage to Once Upon a Time in the West) it substitutes the amoral fatalism of Sergio Leone's films with the action choreography of Steven Spielberg circa Raiders, not a bad trade.

In their previous screenplays, Wright and Pegg have very shrewdly thrown genre conventions on their collective ear; they clearly love horror movies and action flicks and buddy comedies, and they understand the structure of those films with such clarity that they can rewrite the rules, scramble up our expectations and wind up with a creation that's both an homage to and a subversion of past classics.

For the most part, Last Action Hero is a funny and irreverent good time, not only for action movie junkies, but for film buffs that know and love all of the conventions that the action genre Action Hero is a funny and irreverent good time, not only for action movie junkies, but for film buffs that know and love all of the conventions that the action genre action movie junkies, but for film buffs that know and love all of the conventions that the action genre action genre holds.

In these moments, Blue Streak works both as a satire of action - movie conventions and as a slapstick meditation on the disparity in power between the police and the poor people they protect and serve.

Perhaps that's giving the film too much credit, as it does provide the muscular lead shirtless and wounded, an attractive female who's conveniently found in a bra, and the obligatory sequence of Good Guy defying logic and overcoming opposition that so kindly follows the One - Bad - Guy - at - a-Time rules outlined in the Action Movie Convention.

Finally, someone let him direct his own script, and the result was Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, a riotous riff on the hard - boiled works of Raymond Chandler (chapter titles are all from Philip Marlowe novels: Lady in the Lake, The Simple Art of Murder, The Little Sister, etc), that nimbly satirizes the movie business, detective - movie plotting (there are always two cases that implausibly tie up together), the action hero as idiot and the conventions of the film noir voiceover («Oh shit, back up, back up, I forgot to mention — Jesus, this is terrible narration, it's like my dad telling a joke and saying, oh, I should have told you the cowboy's horse is blue...»).

While Charlie struggles to write his screenplay, Donald panders to every Hollywood convention and decides to script an inane action movie, which is the exact opposite of what Charlie wants to do.

He isn't so much interested in action as atmosphere and his portrait of American culture gives the crime movie conventions a distinctive sensibility.

The work plays on the conventions of teen and action ensemble movies: the same story told from multiple perspectives, the action confined to a short time span, the buildup toward a climactic event followed by the morning after.