Sentences with phrase «done war movies»

«I've done war movies because they're always loaded with drama and conflict.

I've done war movies but that doesn't... Because they're always loaded with drama and conflict and all the things that make drama great.

If I'm going to do a war movie, the characters are going to be taking about poetry.

That's what's interesting about [Stanley] Kubrick: he did horror, he did a period piece, he did a war movie, he did a sex movie.

Not exact matches

Prince William and his brother Harry did more than just play with lightsabers when they dropped by the set of the next «Star Wars» movie in April 2016.

But that doesn't mean that all of these MCU villains are bad: they're just forgettable, even in some of the best movies to date including «Iron Man 3,» «Ant - Man,» and «Captain America: Civil War.»

But others point to an overreliance on movie tie - ins and a lack of novelty: Star Wars toys didn't sell as well as expected, perhaps because kids see them as a tired formula.

The company has done well with several of its movie franchises, such as Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar and Shrek, but it doesn't have anything that really compares to the Star Wars library or the Marvel franchise (although Shrek has pulled in about $ 3.5 billion since the original movie in 2001).

Movies like Star Wars have padded Walt Disney's (DIS) box office receipts this year and the company's stock price is in the black, but that doesn't mean CEO Bob Iger is getting a raise.

I think few of us will ever be directly involved with a marketing blitz as big as releasing a Star Wars movie and its related merchandise, but we can watch what the professionals in charge of those events do, and learn some valuable lessons.

Further, echoing what they do with the Star Wars movie openings themselves, buyers could get into stores at 12:01 a.m. on that magical Friday.

Pretty impressive, especially since this doesn't even include the Lucasfilm Star Wars movies (the third trilogy of Episodes 7, 8, and 9 plus spinoff movies) which I am looking forward to as both an investor and Star Wars fan.

Of course, that ship has sailed, but if you'd like to be part of a Star Wars movie, good news: you'll have plenty of opportunities to do so...

Hopefully more than watching the Civil War movie Glory on BBC twice, such as I did tonight while cleaning.

If we want to liken what Jesus did to a movie, it is not a «Good Cop, Bad Cop» scene we should imagine, but Chuck Norris breaking Prisoners of War out of a military prison camp — except without all the shooting and killing.

It doesn't matter whether a movie explores the atrocities of war, glorifies war, or even pokes fun at war — I just can't sit through ninety minutes of human beings blowing each other to pieces without facing the temptation to give up on the goodness of God altogether.

The lesson here: People do like war movies.

Already proving to be one of the most divisive blockbusters in years, hardcore fans» backlash against The Last Jedi didn't slow it down at the box office, with the new Star Wars movie taking in an estimated $ 220 million.

We've always done Fri night movie night by popping a dvd in the computer, but my kids have discovered clone wars and star trek so I have to battle that a bit.

I have a memory of a war movie in which a woman is giving birth in a tank or a submarine (for whatever reason) and even in THAT situation, the men know better than she does how to labor — she's forced to lie down and put her feet up in two bandoliers suspended from the ceiling as stirrups.

They were downstairs watching new Star Wars movie and didn't have a clue what was going on probably.

The war of Charlie Wilson (movie about US support for Afghanistan, I don't know the name of the political instrument, however the movie is entertaining and educational)

Between «Star Wars» and his new movie «Pacific Rim Uprising,» John Boyega has spent considerable time acting alongside things that don't exist — creatures and places that digital magic will...

He said: «If Mr Hollande wants to administer punishment beatings to anybody who seeks to escape [the EU], in the manner of some world war two movie, I don't think that is the way forward, and it's not in the interests of our friends and partners.

they must film this scene in the first person, the applause and cheering muffled, like they do in war movies after big explosions.

You could have watched the entire run of Star Wars movies - but we still don't know who's been seduced to the dark side.

That said, Santorum did once compare the war in Iraq with the Lord of the Rings trilogy in an analogy that showed that he saw the movies, if not read the books.

This movie, in my opinion, does a better job marketing Star Wars than being «it».

I garden, I am named for my uncles KIA in WW2, and deeply interested in war related movies etc, I do not not hunt or fish or camp.

The end of cold war did not mean the end of the spy fiction or Soviet / Russian spy characters in American movies.

Tim Burton's direction is fantastic — the only scenes he doesn't wow with are the ones both he and the viewer are bored with — Danny Elfman's score makes the movie in a way no one's done since John Williams and the original Star Wars trilogy, Michael Keaton's mesmerizing and there's a whole lot of good stuff.

The movie makes it seem like the war didn't break Louie and that he came home and just got on with his life... hence he was «unbroken».

All those movies I just mentioned are quite likely at least a little bit better than this one, but «World War Z» is without question the biggest thing ever done in this genre.

In this movie's climactic scene, as Harry and Voldemort face off amid the rubble of war - torn Hogwarts, there are not one but two long moments in which we see Harry's powers, represented by a greenish bolt of light, do battle with Voldemort's, a yellowish bolt.

«We don't trade lives,» Captain America (Chris Evans) tells his compatriots in Avengers: Infinity War, essentially summing up Marvel's ethos over the past 18 movies: Leave no men, women, children, or any other life form behind.

According to U-571, Americans captured the first German Engima machine in 1944 that brought about the turning point of the war; in reality, the Polish revolutionaries (why didn't Wajda get a chance to make this into a movie) stole it from the Germans in 1941 and gave it to the British who struggled to decipher its complicated encoding style.

I feel this movie wouldve been so much better if a seasoned director had done it like John Singleton... anyway, its just alot of hype because hes the «first» black super hero (do nt tell Wesley Snipes though) and if you really want to see black panther skip the full length movie and see Wakanda in Infinity war... as far as black panther goes he was great in civil war and infinity war, you can skip the 2 hour trip to the land of vibranium.

One of the problems «World War Z» has faced all along is that it looks like a high - concept zombie - apocalypse movie (adapted from Max Brooks» novel, told as a series of first - person accounts) but it's really something we don't see that often these days, an old - fashioned Hollywood star picture.

MovieMan, In Pan's Labyrinth it didn't bother me, because the Spanish Civil War was approached more like an atypical backdrop for a fantasy movie, unlike in District 9, where the film purports itself to be an allegory by having Johannesburg as the setting.

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.

I think a story with... I don't want to say «broader appeal» about a movie on its way to becoming the most successful ever, so let's say «more conventional plotting» could have been created for Infinity War if it had opened with Thanos already possession of 3 or 4 of the stones.

If having pure fun at a «Star Wars» movie is wrong, I don't want to be right.

Beyond its best little moments, the movie is addressing a serious issue, and it feels awfully churlish to complain that its earnest depictions of soldiers in psychological pain isn't novel enough, or that Koale's performance is a little shakier than Teller's, or that the movie doesn't have much to say about the Iraq War in particular, or that it eventually tries to pass off a lack of resolution as an abbreviated happy ending.

There are striking similarities between certain, um, elements in this film and «Avengers: Infinity War» — a fluke of timing, surely; the movies don't even share a studio (yet).

Paul Bettany's crime boss Dryden Vos might be the first major player in a «Star Wars» movie to make no impression at all, but the actor was probably doing the best he could under the circumstances; he replaced Michael Kenneth Williams, who was not available for reshoots and was originally cast as a CGI character, so he was probably playing somebody who had to be rewritten on the fly without damaging the surrounding narrative architecture.

Obviously we can't fit all of Iran's political problems of the last 30 years into a 2 hour movie, but I did feel that the movie was trying to give us a message on what we should think or feel based on a two sentence explanation of a decade long war.

I always felt it was a backlach against the horrible star wars movies that were coming out in the early 2000's — Blizzard said: «we can do that type of story way better» and they did.

I don't know what director Angelina Jolie thinks her movie Unbroken is, but the last thing it seems to be is the story of Louis Zamperini, the Olympian and war hero whose life story was told in Laura Hillenbrand's New York Times - bestselling book «Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption war hero whose life story was told in Laura Hillenbrand's New York Times - bestselling book «Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption ``.

Indeed, it is a uniquely dreamlike, lushly romantic, highly erotic and prototypically Coppolaesque version of the story - a movie that does for the vampire genre what «The Godfather» did for the gangster saga, and what «Apocalypse Now» did for the war movie: raises it to the level of grand opera.

After you get a successful movie like «Star Wars», what else is there to do?