Sentences with phrase «disaster of a disaster movie»

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This kind of disaster was the premise of the 2013 movie «Gravity» starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney.

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.

He's enthusiastic about bad disaster movies and sci - fi, and sometimes falls asleep in front of them when Jessica is away.

That style of preparation also resonates with the plots of popular disease - disaster movies, like the recent Contagion.

Hollywood went to work on a series of moderately ludicrous disaster movies — Deep Impact, Armageddon, and Asteroid (featuring the other guy from The Terminator).

We've all seen the movies, we know the disaster scenarios: Extraterrestrial spores return from outer space, and in no time the citizens of Earth are heaps of dust or brain - dead zombies.

Still, he decided to revisit the genre one more time to cowrite and direct a movie about the greatest disaster of them all: 2012.

Soon after the Fukushima disaster, local politicians and national movie stars ate cucumbers to demonstrate the safety of local produce.

A researcher from the University of Southampton has produced a scientific study of the climate scenario featured in the disaster movie «The Day After Tomorrow».

Adding a scene of inexplicable hippo violence in an otherwise generic disaster movie does nothing except remind me of how much wasted potential is up on the screen.

«World War Z» explodes right after the opening scenes, in which we see warnings that things are going awry: news reports of feral animals and dead dolphins, roving mobs and rioters — the usual premonitory noise that opens any disaster movie.

The Disaster Artist is an attempt to tell the story about the making of Tommy Wiseau's The Room, and the friendship behind it, and their dream to become famous, and make a movie that everyone would love.

The result is everything a disaster movie should be, a combination of soap opera and the spectacle of destruction.

Featuring an all - star cast (Paul Newman, Steve McQueen), the movie delivers the goods of a well - crafted disaster flick, but strangely, it was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.

Big dumb disaster movies like 2012 and small indies like The Divide (about an underground bunker full of jerks who fail at survivalism but excel at destroying each other) and the upcoming apocalypse - themed Seth Rogen comedy The End of The World are all surfing the trending death - wave.

A workmanlike cross between a disaster movie and a caper - chase flick... the film never rises to the promise of its awesomely literal title.

Oblivious to both narrative logic and the laws of physics, the cliché - filled San Andreas doesn't nearly have the star power of earlier, better disaster movies it borrows from like «The Poseidon Adventure,» «Earthquake» and «The Towering Inferno.»

The Towering Inferno is a brawny blockbuster of a movie, by far the best of the mid-1970s wave of disaster films.

As he did with Saving Private Ryan and the war movie, Spielberg injects a genre we take for granted — the disaster epic — with the revivifying power of moral seriousness.

«The Towering Inferno» laid the foundation for good disaster movies to come, both in being huge budget and cast wise, and with great special effects that accompany a story that makes you glad you're not one of the people you're watching on the screen.

It also helps that I'm a big fan of these type of «disaster movies», which were so wonderfully frequent during the 90's.

You can admire a movie like Steven Soderbergh's «Contagion» (2011), a realistic rendering of civil breakdown caused by a spreading pathogen, but the horror - film version of disaster in «World War Z» stretches the senses to take in more than you may expect.

Having said that, the movie never quite becomes a disaster of Catwoman - like proportions thanks to Lawrence's intriguing directorial choices and the uniformly superb performances - starting with, of course, Reeves.

Since disaster movies always come in pairs, 2013 also brings Antoine Fuqua's Olympus Has Fallen (March 22), which also depicts a terrorist infiltration of the White House, though one where Aaron Eckhart is the Commander in Chief and Gerard Butler is the bad - ass Secret Service agent.

tape the paper to your tv and haver the most annoying person in the world read the script you banged on ur keyboard and u have an Oscar worthy film if an Oscar judge just walked out of disaster movie.

Don't go see this movie it is a total disaster movie and it's one of my least

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The Disaster Artist is a comedy about the making of The Room, which is widely considered to be one of the worst movies ever made, if not the worst.

Based on that tell - all (which Mr. Sestero wrote with Tom Bissell), «The Disaster Artist» recounts both the making of a friendship and the absurdly inept movie it produced.

Disaster Movie follows the comic misadventures of a group of ridiculously attractive twenty - somethings during one fateful night as they try to make their way to safety while every known natural disaster and catastrophic event - asteroids, twisters, earthquakes, the works — hits the city and their path as they try to solve a sDisaster Movie follows the comic misadventures of a group of ridiculously attractive twenty - somethings during one fateful night as they try to make their way to safety while every known natural disaster and catastrophic event - asteroids, twisters, earthquakes, the works — hits the city and their path as they try to solve a sdisaster and catastrophic event - asteroids, twisters, earthquakes, the works — hits the city and their path as they try to solve a series of

Fortunately for most audiences — although perhaps unfortunately for midnight - movie sadomasochists — The Disaster Artist leans heavily toward the latter, its sublime storytelling and central performances courtesy of Franco (as Wiseau) and his brother, Dave (as Sestero), twisting and then elevating The Room's ultimate legacy into something approaching high art.

By focusing on the creation of one of contemporary cinema's most beloved «so bad it's good» movies, «The Disaster Artist» weaves a potently funny and bizarrely heartwarming story about dreams, determination, creativity, and friendship.

And now director James Franco has made «The Disaster Artist,» a movie about the making of a flop / hit and a genial if strangely mild ode to dreamers and strivers everywhere.

«The Disaster Artist» is a good movie about the making of that bad movie, which is a lot harder to pull off.

Both San Andreas and Rampage are directed by Brad Peyton, and they share a bland disaster - movie sameness — you get a lot of Johnson flying around in a helicopter, surveying damage, trying to warn people of impending natural disaster.

Director Ang Lee creates a groundbreaking movie event about a young man who survives a disaster at sea and is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery.

No one has apparently been able to answer the first two, but director / star James Franco does a hell of a job on the third in «The Disaster Artist,» the story of Tommy Wiseau, the man behind a truly awful movie that became a cult classic.

The giggles - and - grins vibe of The Disaster Artist reinforces the perception he's merely dabbling in movies as a lark.

An ode to bad taste and dubious intentions, the ha - ha comedy «The Disaster Artist» involves one of the favorite topics of the movies: itself.

While Franco's movie is based on a book, which provides a foundation of truth all its own, much of the entertainment value in «The Disaster Artist» lies outside of the film itself.

In the pantheon of movies about the making of a movie — 1995's «Living in Oblivion,» 1999's «Bowfinger,» 2000's «State and Main,» and 2008's «Tropic Thunder» — «The Disaster Artist» is closest to 1994's «Ed Wood.»

Greg Sestero (Dave Franco, left) and would - be filmmaker Tommy Wiseau (James Franco) attend their opening night in «The Disaster Artist,» a chronicle of a beloved bad movie in the «Ed Wood» vein.

However, San Andreas is a great example of how to put a disaster movie on film, the basic thin story and characters aside, this film definitely provides a great workout for your home theater system.

The set of Tommy Wiseau's 2003 movie The Room, dramatized this year in James Franco's The Disaster Artist, was such a circus.

This environmental disaster movie documents the tragedy when the Exxon Valdez dumped 11 million gallons of oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound.

Spanglish is Brooks» unqualified kitchen disaster - a desperate, shapeless, overreaching big - screen sitcom of a movie that just wants to be loved.

Nonetheless, The Disaster Artist remains a loving tribute to Wiseau's creation, because sneakily hidden in the perfectionism of its recreations is the earnest belief that sometimes bad movies can leave as lasting an impression as the good ones, if not more so.

A psychological mystery laced with environmental disaster and alien - scary juju, Alex Garland's elegantly unsettling Annihilation is here to shake up your night at the movies in the most mind - bendy way possible, but without foregoing the pleasures of an ambitious sci - fi entertainment.

Into this season of the Serious Movie, when every other film seems to speak to the troubled times in which we actually live, the fact - based, yet farcical «The Disaster Artist» blows like a fresh breeze, throwing open a window through which we may escape, briefly, from ugly reality.

«The Disaster Artist» is one of the best movies of the year and also easily one of the funniest.