Sentences with phrase «damsel in distress movie»

A simple damsel in distress movie that allows itself to focus on bigger themes, like characters and settings.

Not exact matches

Later in the movie, you will see that these damsels in distress are anything but and predictably will rally to save the day.

If there is a damsel in distress in this movie, it's Black Panther.

«The Legend of Tarzan» is unnecessarily complex for what amounts to a fairly basic damsel - in - distress adventure movie, and that's due to writers Adam Cozad and Craig Brewer's decision to ground the story in actual history.

Usually you have the damsel in distress [but] I don't think there are any damsels in distress in this movie.»

Her character is supposed to be the movie's «damsel in distress,» but she's no wilting prairie flower.

It opens on a mock - instructional film on «How to Take a Bath,» shifts to a submarine trapped at the bottom of the sea where a lumberjack (Roy Dupuis) inexplicably appears, shifts to his story of a feral forest adventure and a damsel in distress, who finds herself transported to an exotic nightclub out of an old Hollywood movie, and so on.

However, when the movie gets underway, she becomes nothing more than a reason for Frankenstein's Monster to redeem his soul and then evolves into your typical damsel in distress figure.

Her damsel - in - distress channels echoes of strong female leads like Sigourney Weaver's Ripley from the Alien movie, though not in the obvious way.

Damsels in Distress (Whit Stillman, 2011) Oki's Movie (Hong Sangsoo, 2010) Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011) The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies, 2011) Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Johnnie To, 2011) The Day He Arrives (Hong Sangsoo, 2011) The Cabin in the Woods (Drew Goddard, 2011) Romance Joe (Lee Kwangkuk, 2011) Let the Bullets Fly (Jiang Wen, 2010) Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011) Life Without Principle (Johnnie To, 2010) Girl Walk / / All Day (Jacob Krupnick, 2011) I Wish I Knew (Jia Zhangke, 2010) The Grey (Joe Carnahan, 2011) Hahaha (Hong Sangsoo, 2010) The Turn Horse (Bela Tarr, 2011) Bernie (Richard Linklater, 2011) The Kid with a Bike (The Dardenne Brothers, 2011) Take This Waltz (Sarah Polley, 2011)

And the movie's love story is surprisingly sweet, especially for those first two - thirds (before Morena Baccarin's Vanessa becomes a generic damsel in distress), something that plays into Reynolds's previous success in the romantic comedy genre.

I don't think there are any damsels in distress in this movie.

Malkovich is chemistry - free with everyone, which is a problem when it comes to leading lady (barely in the movie, completely «harpy,» ultimate damsel - in - distress Catherine McCormack) who he's apparently been intimate with.

For her part, Blake Lively enjoyed how strong a character Carol Ferris is, arguing that she's far from the damsel - in - distress that often pops up in male - driven action movies, not to mention the possibility of becoming the villain somewhere down the line:

She starred in Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress, playing one of the director's singular hyper - articulate moralists, and in Lola Versus, another movie that capitalized on Gerwig's penchant for beguiling, wayward messes.

Damsels in Distress, Whit Stillman's first film in over a decade, is (in the words of Robert Horton) «a blissful movie - real place that sounds and looks not quite like the one we live in.

Aja Naomi King's movie ascendancy as the slave girl Cherry in Nate Parker's blazing battle cry, The Birth of a Nation (based on the Nat Turner rebellion of 1831), is a complete boomerang from the role that made her television rep.. After an assortment of credits in film («Positive Polly» in Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress and Rosa in the underseen comedy The Rewrite) and in prime - time series such as Emily Owens, M.D. and The Blacklist, King was whisked aboard the mother ship of Shondaland's How to Get Away with Murder, starring the inviolable Viola Davis.

The game was named after the de facto villain, a gorilla (which was named after the classic 1933 movie monster King Kong), instead of the player - character Mario (or «Jumpman», as he was named at the time), because designer Shigeru Miyamoto felt Donkey Kong had to be the strongest character in the love triangle displayed on - screen - the game used then - innovative techniques to tell the on - screen story of how the stubborn pet gorilla of «Jumpman» the carpenter steals away his girlfriend, Pauline, and it is up to the hero to save the damsel in distress.