Sentences with phrase «disaster films i've seen»

Not exact matches

Groups of young friends who go to see some of the more death - focused horror films in vogue of late will routinely take bets on which stock character will face a grisly end soonest, as when viewing the Final Destination series» a film series that is, essentially, the apex of the set - piece disaster horror movie as orchestrated by MacGyver.

Or if you've seen any disaster film in the last thirty years.

Married to a Mexican industrialist, Samuel Ramos (Marc Anthony), Lisa apparently endures their stressful existence because she likes to party and have her hair done; though you see none of this during the film's 142 minutes, she expresses remorse about her choices, later, after disaster befalls them.

Married to a Mexican industrialist, Samuel Ramos (Marc Anthony), Lisa apparently endures their stressful existence because she likes to party and have her hair done; though you see none of this during the film's very long - seeming 142 minutes, she expresses remorse about her choices, later, after disaster befalls them.

Obviously, the big question regarding The Disaster Artist is whether you need to see The Room before watching it, or if experiencing the cult hit enhances this film.

You could say if you've seen one disaster film you've seen them all.

As an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himself.

After lambasting him for his disaster of an action film 12 Rounds, I now see that as a director he was hideously robbed of the fame CutThroat Island should have brought him when the box office of its time failed to recognize the greatness inherent in pirate epics.

«I have to say, this Alien: Covenant is going to be — I'm really excited to see it and everybody in the film was saying that there's a film that we all wan na see, it's much scarier than Prometheus, but it's got that sort of same scope as Prometheus, that imminent sort of disaster feel, that Alien had,» he continues.

I was just thinking about The Disaster Artist, and that here is a film with a scene in it where you see how abusive this man is to a woman.

This is definitely one of the most effective and emotionally affecting disaster films I've seen in a long time.

For anyone who's seen Efron's work — most recently That Awkward Moment, quite possibly the year's worst film to date — this could spell disaster for the film, which already seems like it's on a galactic crash course.

James Franco completely transformed into Tommy Wiseau while making The Disaster Artist - as readers can see in our exclusive clip from the film.

She also recently appeared in the Mark Wahlberg disaster film «Deepwater Horizon» and will be seen in Alex Garland's «Annihilation,» which is due out later this year.

The film sets up some of the main characters early on pretty much in the same way we've seen in countless disaster movies, but it takes a real turn after the bombing and chronicles the incredibly complex and far - reaching operation that immediately went into effect.

If you have seen the disaster that that film turned out to be, then you pretty much get the idea where this one is headed.

Hereafter Rated PG - 13 for mature thematic elements including disturbing disaster and accident images, and for brief strong language Available on DVD, Blu - ray and Video on Demand When I first saw this film a few months ago, I didn't really have much love for it.

Is The Disaster Artist a funnier and more complete film having seen the incoherent train wreck that is Tommy Wiseau's 2003 released disasterpiece The Room (including a general familiarity with its toxic production)?

A heavy drama boasting an all - star ensemble (including Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, Brad Pitt, and more) playing men who watch the world burn to ashes around them from a credit and housing disaster only they saw coming, the film operates in a dark world of complex real estate jargon and impending Wall Street doom.

The rest of the film can be rejected, even at the intellectually contemptible level of disaster flicks, for such inept conceptions as a volcano that throws fireballs nowhere except straight at the hotel, and a tidal wave that must be only about one block wide, for all that the tranquil sea views from just up the beach indicate; and for trembly special effects the like of which hasn't been seen since the DeLuxe Color Allens at the turn of the Sixties.

It presents a future in 2022 that seems unlikely not because we're not currently on the verge of some great ecological disaster, but because rough math suggests that the Heston character would've been born the year before the film's 1973 release and thus his declaration that he'd never seen a grapefruit (or grass, or cows) should worm its way into the audience consciousness as Soylent Green's statement that it's not serious, thoughtful science - fiction, but rather soapbox and screed timed to coincide with, in 1972, the first international conference on climate change.

Though Darren Aronofsky's latest film doesn't excite me as much as some of the projects he's departed over the past few years, it's encouraging to see a director of his quality being given the money required to do a big movie like this the right way, especially after the disaster of «The Fountain.»

Although The Disaster Artist maintains a great reverence for The Room, the film can be seen as a funny comedy about how such true - to - life absurdities can be a catalyst for such a terrible yet mesmerising piece of art.

The behind - the - scenes production of The Room features prominently in the new film but viewers don't have to see it to appreciate The Disaster Artist.

Despite the fact that they were roommates once and see each other pretty frequently in Hollywood, believe it or not, The Disaster Artist is the first film that sees both Francos working as co-stars.

«The ending was really moving to me in a way that really helped me see this whole thing from a different perspective,» he said of the film, whose distributor, A24, recently put up a Disaster Artist billboard above Highland near where The Room one once loomed.

In that spirit, Cedric Nicolas - Troyan's The Huntsman: Winter's War (hereafter Huntsman 2) reminds a lot of pleasant disasters like Ladyhawke and Krull, with its biggest crime maybe being that it's not ridiculous enough, given how the fantastic commitment of Charlize Theron, reprising her role from the previous film (which I'm sure I saw and probably reviewed), seems ultimately squandered.

We may be in the minority on this, considering the warm reception that has greeted the film at festival screenings, but The Disaster Artist struck us as less a movie than an over-extended Funny Or Die skit packed with celebrity cameos — which is to say, it makes little sense if you haven't already seen The Room.

Indie darling Mark Duplass of the Duplass Brothers makes a highly convincing argument in behalf of the Spielberg - backed box office disaster Joe Versus the Volcano — a movie that is probably one of the most underrated, smartest, subtlest films you've never seen.

James Franco's The Disaster Artist continues to add to its cast, with Variety reporting that Sharon Stone has signed on to play a Hollywood agent in the film, which charts the making of the 2003 cult classic The Room and sees Franco portraying director Tommy Wiseau.

On why seeing Franco's critically panned 2002 film, Sonny, made Wiseau realize that Franco was the perfect fit to adapt The Disaster Artist (via the Los Angeles Times):

But when the end credits roll, you'll get to see clips from the original film alongside The Disaster Artist's exceptionally well - timed reenactments.

An inconsistent but mostly interesting disaster flick, The Day After Tomorrow demonstrates the usual strengths and weaknesses seen in the films of Roland Emmerich.

However, The Disaster Artist is one of the best films of the year, a must - see dramedy that is gut - bustingly funny, sentimental, and compelling.

A warm and empathic exploration on friendship and failure, The Disaster Artist relishes the almost alien peculiarities of Tommy Wiseau and the stunningly inept making of The Room without abjectly mocking it, which if you've seen the film in question is almost impossible to pull off.

Rewriting a Charles Randolph script already commissioned by Brad Pitt's company, Plan B (Pitt has a cameo as the film's quasi-counterculture conscience), McKay turns Lewis's dense source into a blackly catastrophic comedy, a story of greed, venality, incompetence and barefaced corruption in which the good guys are the renegades who see disaster coming and stake their shirts on the apocalypse.

As if there weren't enough doomsday - themed films released last year, 2013 will see no less than five different movies on the topic — that is, if you include «World War Z.» But before audiences flock to theaters to watch stars like Brad Pitt and James Franco try to survive the end of days, writer / director Todd Berger's «It's a Disaster» offers a darkly comic tale about a group of friends (and one stranger) who are forced into an impromptu therapy session following a biological attack on the city.

You may have heard of «The Room» or watched a few clips from the movie on YouTube, and you can certainly enjoy the absurdity of «The Disaster Artist» without having seen the original film.