Sentences with phrase «credit screenwriters emmerich»

Both brilliant and dumb, both impressive and disappointing, credit screenwriters Emmerich (Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow) and Devlin for having wonderful ideas despite the lack of talent to follow through with the execution.

Spielberg — along with the screenwriter Zak Penn («X-Men: The Last Stand,» «Last Action Hero») and Cline (who is also a credited screenwriter)-- creates an event film that has to be seen on a big screen to be fully appreciated.

Credit screenwriter Steve Kloves, who wrote every script but that of Order of the Phoenix, with judicious pruning and a knowledge of the epic's internal pressure points, and the technical crew headed by production designer Stuart Craig for visualizing the landscape of Hogwarts and beyond with such lavish, meticulous creativity.

Maybe the fact that Peyton's latest has four credited screenwriters should've been a clue, but brisk is hardly the word for Rampage.

Director Marc Forster and the three credited screenwriters — Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard, and Damon Lindelof — should, of course, also gets kudos.

Apparently none of the four credited screenwriters could come up with much besides Pitt going here and running from zombies and there and running from zombies and somewhere else and running from zombies.

These issues are probably ones that challenged Steve Conrad (The Pursuit of Happyness, The Weather Man), the lone credited screenwriter, and the many others before him who tried to update James Thurber's 1939 short story for modern times.

Keep an eye on the screenplay category: Wilson died in 2005, but he'll be the only credited screenwriter, even though fellow playwright Tony Kushner has since worked on the screen adaptation.

Even the screenwriters get blasted in most of the reviews posted online, similarly to TheWrap's film critic Andy Klein «s review, who said «the four credited screenwriters — the returning Creighton Rothenberger & Katrin Benedikt, plus Christian Gudegast («A Man Apart») and Chad St. John — make things move fast enough to keep you awake, but not fast enough to finesse its plot absurdities past an alert viewer's mind.»

Like Iron Man's Tony Stark, Hal is meant to be a charming wit; unlike him, he has been provided no witty lines by the long list of (unwisely) credited screenwriters.

The three credited screenwriters didn't need either the explorers or the soldiers.

Watts, who is also one of six credited screenwriters, does his part to ensure that this Spider - Man doesn't feel like a retread of either the Raimi / Tobey Maguire trilogy or the Marc Webb / Andrew Garfield pair.

The movie, which has five credited screenwriters, gets the mayhem right, but never quite nails that timing.

by Walter Chaw Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (hereafter Madagascar 3) is easily the best one yet and the product, I'll bet, of co-directors Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath's foray into the rigors of gag - writing for an animated TV series («The Penguins of Madagascar»)-- though I wouldn't discount the influence of credited screenwriter Noah Baumbach, either.

Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, the filmmakers behind Half Nelson and Mississippi Grind, are directing Captain Marvel, while the credited screenwriters include Meg LeFauve (Inside Out), Nicole Perlman (Guardians of the Galaxy), Geneva Robertson - Dworet (Tomb Raider), Liz Flahive & Carly Mensch (GLOW), and Boden and Fleck.

A screenplay, adapted or original, which has four or more credited screenwriters.

«With several credited screenwriters on the final product, director Nikolaj Arcel's movie looks and feels like a series of cautious, nervous compromises and expository panics... Is the movie good enough to do what it's designed to do?

The movie reunites Butler with Christian Gudegast, who was among the phalanx of credited screenwriters on London Has Fallen and now makes his directorial debut.

Credit screenwriter Steve Barancik, who has written a multi-layered story so intricate it reminds me of Robert Towne's award - winning screenplay for «Chinatown.»

Akiva Goldsman is one of the credited screenwriters, and his usual penchant for over-explaining everything is here, but he and his fellow writers still can't make sense of the truncated plot or find reasons for any of this stuff.

David Leitch (Atomic Blonde) directs from a script by returning scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, as well as star (and credited screenwriter) Reynolds.

If anything, some of their individual problems could stand a little more attention; maybe additional details were elbowed out by the four credited screenwriters.

This is especially problematic when, for example, Stern claims that he and Curry rewrote half the script and the credited screenwriter has no chance to rebut the assertion.

The two credited screenwriters might disagree but I don't even know if they worked together on this silly script.

The «scientific» explanation cooked up by the four — yes, four — credited screenwriters (Amy Holden Jones, John Raffo, Rick Jaffa, and Amanda Silver) takes «suspension of disbelief» to new heights, even by monster movie standards.

Apparently the film's credited screenwriter, Rebecca Blunt, may not be an actual person.

Garrone, one of four credited screenwriters, braids his three stories together in an arbitrary, pass - the - baton style that continually stalls the film's momentum.

Some may be concerned to see Aline Brosh McKenna as the credited screenwriter.

Director Scott Derrickson, also one of three credited screenwriters, comes to Marvel from a background in horror.

Sounds great on paper, and I would probably be less critical if this wasn't a John Woo movie, but the result is disappointing, with an underdeveloped script and characterizations (there are seven credited screenwriters!)

Discredit goes to the three waves of credited screenwriters — Jeff Pinkner, Oscar - winning wordsmith Akiva Goldsman and Oscar - nominated veteran Susannah Grant.

It would have been nice if one of the three credited screenwriter of Horrible Bosses thought enough to write characters for the protagonists.

Do we credit screenwriter Steven Zaillian («Schindler's List») or screenwriter Aaron Sorkin («The Social Network»)?

I'm not sure if I'm more surprised that it took three credited screenwriters to come up with a script this inept than I am that Ramis actually shot film with a script at all.

A pen in the eye, a neck - snapping fall from a pool table are the nature of the chain of less - than - imaginative demises dreamed up by a veritable platoon of credited screenwriters.

While Meyers and credited screenwriters Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa deserve a fair amount of thanks for that, most of it goes to the cast.

Iranian - born director Babak Najafi («Sebbe») and the four credited screenwriters — the returning Creighton Rothenberger & Katrin Benedikt, plus Christian Gudegast («A Man Apart») and Chad St. John — make things move fast enough to keep you awake, but not fast enough to finesse its plot absurdities past an alert viewer's mind.

With a screenplay that might have turned into the brainchild of sub-committee (Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth and John - Henry Butterworth are all credited screenwriters), it's a wonder that the plot is as airtight as it is.

I'm grateful that Forster and the three credited screenwriters (Joe Carnahan's brother and «Lost» alumni Drew Goddard and Damon Lindelof) do something different than expected for a film of this scale.

In fact, the only factor about the screenplay that is remotely surprising is the presence of Mike White, the acclaimed writer of the likes of «School of Rock» and «Beatriz at Dinner,» as one of the credited screenwriters.

The four credited screenwriters (Joel and Ethan Coen, Richard LaGravenese and William Nicholson) telegraph ideas about fortitude, faith, and pride without piercing to the heart of hard - shelled characters.

As a space - opera lampoon, Space Station 76 is incoherent primarily because it's never clear what director Jack Plotnick and the film's five credited screenwriters are attempting to spoof.

Belgian artist Peyo created The Smurfs using a pseudonym and the five credited screenwriters for the little blue characters» second big - screen adventure probably wish that they could have done the same.

In a nicely written scene (John Logan, who scripted Coriolanus for Ralph Fiennes, is one of the three credited screenwriters), Bond and the new Q (tousle - haired lad Ben Whishaw), meet on a bench at London's National Gallery, facing Turner's The Fighting Temeraire, a seascape of a retired three - masted warship being hauled away for scrap by a steamer.

Seven credited screenwriters polish a story only parents can appreciate, though most moms and dads will miss half the movie because they'll be explaining jokes and themes to their befuddled youngsters.

He eventually left the FBI over «mismanagement,» but, assisted on the script with credited screenwriter and director Daniel Ragussis, so authenticity shouldn't be an issue for this new Daniel Radcliffe movie.

The second commentary features Emi Mochizuki and Carrie Evans, the top two of four credited screenwriters.

His satirical - absurdist sensibilities are abundantly visible on You Don't Mess With The Zohan, where he's one of three credited screenwriters, and gloriously glimpsed in the «Dunkaccino» scene of Jack And Jill, a bad movie for which he is not a credited screenwriter, but does receive a songwriting credit on the fake Al Pacino - starring Dunkin' Donuts ad that is one of the movie's few flashes of demented inspiration.

He wrote this film with two other credited screenwriters, Gabriel Dowrick and Steven Elder, and while the dialogue isn't exactly Mametian — or Schwarzeneggerian, for that matter — he makes himself a noble hero and keeps the emoting mostly within his limited range.

And now here it is, Rules Don't Apply, and it's exceedingly uncomfortable, a film that leaves Beatty, acting here as co-star, director, producer, and credited screenwriter, exceptionally vulnerable.