Sentences with phrase «decent film so»

We've seen how Kickstarter can bring projects back from the brink with axed television show Veronica Mars getting the big - screen treatment and DREDDwas actually a pretty decent film so maybe Urban will get his wish and we'll see him handing out judgement once more.

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The film is much too anxious — desperately so — for us to feel that Barry is a fundamentally decent guy.

Maybe if he could actually write a decent script for all audiences and not all black people this film wouldn't of hard both races so hard.

There's so little to say in this film, and if there was a little more heart here, then the final product would have stood as genuinely decent, but as things stand, this effort is not only forgettable, but mean -, if at all spirited, with unlikable characters behind a meandering narrative that mediocrity goes secured.

Overall I felt that this film was decent at best, and it never realizes its potential, but in the larger view of things, this is also the ninth film in the series, so it was only a matter of time for the quality to be downgraded due to lacking ideas in terms of storyline.

The film has been injected with a decent special effects script, so it only makes it all the more frustrating that the impressive CGI tripods and the scarily made up kid aren't supported by a decent script.

So eat your heart out kids, here's Catherine Hardwicke's Red Riding Hood, a film that might have been decent...

Hiltzik also comes up with a decent anecdote, describing a phone call from the MPAA's ratings board: they apparently thought he was gunning for a PG rating and wanted to warn him that the film would be receiving an R. (Hiltzik had feared an X, so it was welcome news.)

But it has some fun moments, a bit of gore now and then and it does a decent job recreating the dark urban grimey atmosphere the first film achieved so well.

I've always had a decent understanding of the way the Academy thinks, so seeing all of the nominated films has been a necessity when predicting the awards.

Snitch (second preview with The Rock, this one not so good), Oblivion (now the third time I have seen this, and my reaction by now is: «blech»), Broken City (I'll be seeing the film this Tuesday at a press screening, and just from the trailer it looks like it could be decent), and After Earth (is it just me, or does anyone else find it annoying how Will Smith keeps pushing his son on us?).

I suppose one could easily and logically compare this to the other car wash film, Car Wash, yet this version is so inferior it makes me respect the original more since it actually created decent laughs even without a plot.

It's relatively short, clocking in at just over 90 minutes, so it can be a decent film to watch as a family.

The heart of the film is the sympathetic characterization by Jordan, who makes Oscar a decent, sincere character, trying to do the right thing having gotten so much wrong in the past (the film's only real flashback is to him in prison being given the tough love treatment by his mother).

But the film is much too anxious — desperately so — for us to feel that Barry is a fundamentally decent guy, which wasn't the case with the antiheroes Scorsese chose.

As in the previous films, Nolan and his co-writer, his brother Jonathan, draw on real - world issues to spice up the fantasy, and with dubious results: with its rampaging Occupy Gotham anarchists, philanthropic billionaires and decent cops who ignore due process, this is so staunchly right - wing it'll thrill all those Fox News anchors outraged by «The Muppets».

I was expecting more from this film (after watching the engaging trailer, and knowing the screenplay is by Nick Hornby), so I got a little disappointed... It is a very decent film, the acting is flawless (Saoirse Ronan can definitely carry a film), the colours, the sets and locations, the costumes are all beautiful and the story does grab your attention... and then it ends: when it seemed the real drama would happen.

END OF WATCH made back almost double its budget on its first weekend in the US, so it isn't like they really need our money, but if you wan na go and see a supposedly decent film, then why not?

There's a decent supporting cast, with Ben Whishaw as a Copenhagen bachelor attracted to Lili (for a long time it's not clear if he knows she's still a man underneath) while the Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts does his handsome best to bring to life a character who feels he's been invented especially for the film — the childhood friend who once found Einar so attractive he kissed him, but whose romantic attentions are now firmly fixed on Gerda.

Fresher writing, a better cast, and more realism to the action could have made a decent film out of this, but this kind of survivalist adventure fare has been done so often that there wasn't any more gold to be mined with this material.

Unfortunately, despite decent acting jobs by the principal cast, the director's decision to inject so much distracting personal drama into the production means the film suffers from an absence of the cinematic momentum necessary to generate the sort of palpable tension which made Black Book a hit.

So... Reitman makes an extraordinary film, follows that up with a TERRIBLE film, and eeks out a decent / good film, and decides to do another film with a terrible screenwriter?

Samantha is, to some extent, the best possible version of the decent, liberal but unavoidably white, middle - class woman, and a patient, inspirational teacher too — but it is Jasmine who, by being so completely herself, makes the film's most important point: No matter how good your intentions, «rescue» is not ever really yours to give.

I truly love a half way decent vampire film, so including the original Buffy on this list was a no - brainer!

The last two Best Picture winners («Spotlight» and «Moonlight») were rather mediocre films, so having a decent film win is certainly a step up.

This is a film that goes against the whole angle of ageism, where it's so hard for women to find decent roles after turning a certain age.

This Adam Sandler film with a budget so badly wants to be Ghostbusters, but while the cast is decent, the writing makes as little sense as its plot about aliens attacking Earth with 80s Atari games.

There were so many directions this film could have been taken in that would have made it not just tolerable but perhaps a decent comedy as well.

Still, the film is being distributed in the US by Sony Pictures Classics some time this fall so it will get a decent push.

So the film was immediately on decent footing.

Source Code looks to be a decent competitor this weekend, since after Limitless people are craving a more exceptional thriller, and so far the former film has actually been rather warmly welcomed.

And Michael bay hasn't made a decent film since, well... ever, that's not to say his movies haven't made money, but then again so did Spiderman 3.

When: October 5th Why: Though it's one of those sequels that doesn't really need to exist, the original film was so much fun (not to mention made a decent bit of coin at the box office) that it's not surprising Fox was so quick to greenlight another installment.

Probably one of the more eagerly awaited sequels in recent memory, Avengers: Age Of Ultron crafted by Marvel Studios / Disney and directed by Joss Whedon, makes a decent entry into the second - film - of - the - franchise market, but does not supersede the original in acting, writing or humor (so one can forget the «The Empire Strikes Back,» «Superman II» and «The Dark Knight» allusions).

The Florida Project (Sean Baker, 2017)-- demonstrating that a so - called «children's film» doesn't have to be saccharine sweet, and can still get decent theatrical distribution in the United States, despite the stranglehold of the multiplexes;

While The Sacrament may indeed be the best film of Ti West's career so far, there's actually a nice batch of decent material to be found in Jourdan McCloure's Children of Sorrow.

So far the 19 year - old has made just two non-Potter flicks — the kids» film, Thunderpants, when he was knee - high to a house elf, and the decent Britflick, Driving Lessons, in 2006.