Sentences with phrase «draw of the first film»

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They publicly proclaimed that West would not be cast in the title role and the casting of Jack Nicholson as Jack Napier / TheJoker, similar to that of Marlon Brando in the first Superman film, was meant to draw both legitimacy and prestige to the title.

To draw out of him natural crying during a scene in the film, for example, Levy played for Goyo «First Breath After Coma» by Explosions in the Sky.

John Cho, who drew my attention for the first time when he appeared in «Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle» (2004), shows another side of his talent here in this film, and he has an unaffected onscreen chemistry with his co-star Haley Lu Richardson, who previously played a substantial supporting character in «The Edge of Seventeen» (2016) and will probably advance further considering her charming presence on the screen.

Its first misstep is to mention The Exorcist film, and with that in mind, we start to draw comparisons much to the detriment of The Last Exorcist.

First, a seven - minute piece called «The Spirit of the Ride» has the director and various other cast and crew discussing how they drew on the amusement park ride for ideas and general atmosphere for the film; the 14 - minute mini-documentary «Dead Men Tell No Tales» (also available in the DVD - ROM content in the two - disc edition) gives a history of the «Pirates of the Caribbean» ride, complete with lots of behind - the - scenes looks at the animatronic pirates and nostalgia - inducing footage from the ride itself.

Ted 2's story is filled with holes, but obviously that's not what's going to draw anyone to this kind of movie and so MacFarlane wisely makes a concerted effort to up the laugh ratio here from what we saw in the first film.

by Walter Chaw Set on the rural highways and dirt byways of Anywhere, America during a long, hot summer, Victor Salva's Jeepers Creepers is a film of two distinct halves — the first astonishingly good, the second derivative — drawn together by a finale that is both fair and surprising.

Like many cinephiles, I was first drawn to Ozu by his serene compositions, the meditative «pillow shots» of train stations and empty rooms that served as scene transitions, and the exquisite way that his films explore the architecture of domestic and urban life.

From the moment the first trailer for director Ryan Coogler's film hit, audiences have been captivated by the bursts of breakneck action, the tangible world of Wakanda, and a sci - fi vision that unabashedly draws from non-Western source material.

Unlike its predecessor (The Fellowship of the Ring), The Two Towers feels too long by half despite the elision of key scenes from the source tome; the picture only picks up during its last ninety minutes, and then only as an unusually well - crafted action spectacle largely lacking in the nuance, pathos, and sharply - drawn characterizations of the first film.

«I am a Flatbush girl», first - time feature director Eliza Hittman said proudly at the world premiere of It Felt Like Love in the Next section (it later went to Competition in Rotterdam), and, while not entirely autobiographical, the film draws from her experience of growing up in this largely working - class neighbourhood of New York City's most populous borough, of these endless summers where you have to escape to the sea with your friends for fear of melting like the asphalt under your feet.

It's round - about journey to the big - screen was a logical conclusion, and while the first was praised as playfully ridiculous and a violent tongue - in - cheek satire on Mexploitation films, this sequel is a long, drawn - out series of mind - numbing beheadings, choppings, limb - hackings and gore - splattering scenes that would make a death camp survivor long for the good old days.

The moment that first draws you into watching Pitch Perfect is when you realise the unusual amount of fans of this film.

Again, in the book, it's Peeta who has drawn Rue (using the same artistic skill that had him so amusingly camouflage himself in the first film), which affects the judges deeply so they mark him high, but none of this is alluded to in the film and so it's really not clear how or why the Rue painting is there and why it's significant.

Drawn into the world of adult entertainment by husband Chuck Traynor, Lovelace was catapulted to international fame with the release of Deep Throat, one of the first pornographic films to garner any kind of mainstream media attention.

Aladdin came at the right time for Disney, capitalizing on the worldwide popularity of Robin Williams and widespread enjoyment of hand - drawn animation months after Beauty and the Beast became the first such film to get a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars.

It reminded me of being a young lad seeing Vincent Price's House on Haunted Hill for the first time in the way that the film mesmerized me from the get go and the score captures the atmospheric intensity to draw the viewer in and never let them go.

Not only does it not really draw us into the action, despite its first - person perspective, but a sizable portion of the film is actually not shown to have been shot by any of the characters we see on the screen.

Though it's unclear if the men framing Mills in this movie are connected to the bad guys from the first two films, the real draw of «Taken 3» (other than the action, of course) is its «Fugitive» - like storyline, which finally gives Liam Neeson a worthy co-star in Forest Whitaker.

Like Michael Dubo de Wit's remarkable film that draws upon the pastel naturalism of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli for what might be their best film in a line of classics, Del Mar's music is the equivalent of those soft brushstrokes on a big screen canvas of visual poetry, a score that profoundly captures a life at first seemingly lost at sea, only to soar under, and above it though its graceful music that touches the silent tides of nature's life force.

If you are a fan of this film I would recommend checking out this new cut but more importantly though the main draw for me is the fact that this extended edition Blu - ray actually includes an additional nine hours of new bonus features, which was not on this film first Blu - ray release.

Is «Real Steel» a first round knock - out film experience - or a boring, drawn out string of weak punches?

Retro was the order of the day when Disney embarked on their first hand - drawn film in several years.

Jordan Peele is in the midst of campaigning for his debut film Get Out as we draw ever closer to Oscar night, where the first - time director is nominated for a cool four Academy Awards.

Chicken Little marks the first wholly Disney produced animated film since their pledge to ditch traditional hand - drawn animation in favor of 3D computer graphics - laden vehicles.

The first half of the film, the setup, is a bit drawn out.

In any case, there hasn't been a well - developed woman in a Mann film since Joan Allen's poor little blind girl in Manhunter, and true to form, Billie is made the cipher who begs her fella not to pursue the course that will lead to his ruin — although we know it's that aura of insuperable testosterone that's drawn him to her in the first place.

When he comes across Amara (Cailee Spaeny), a fellow orphan who's built herself a one - woman jaeger, he's drawn back into the world of giant robots and monsters, with his adopted sister Mako (Rinko Kikuchi, reprising her role from the first film) giving him the final necessary push.

One of the first animated features made in Brazil, «Boy & the World» is a brightly colored, often charming film that juxtaposes simple, hand - drawn animation with kaleidoscopic computer - generated patterns.

While The Force Awakens drew audiences because it was the first new Star Wars film to hit screens in 10 years, it essentially paralleled the story of the original Star Wars (now known as Episode IV).

It's argued that Vol 2 of the Guardians of the Galaxy story doesn't hit the same milestones as the first because the characters felt a little stagnant or not as fleshed out as they were as individuals in the first film, but apart from this, Guardians 2 draws audiences in spades because it's not only consistently fun and hilarious, but because there is true emotional resonance in characters that would never be expected like Rocket Raccoon and Yondu, and Peter's abandonment issues that surface when he encounters his biological father, Ego (Kurt Russel).

«I'm determined to deliver a film that builds on the qualities of the first film and draws on the best aspects of the games whilst giving the audience more nuanced characters, a compelling story and introducing some terrifying new monsters (as well as bringing back a few favourites) and, most important of all... just scaring the s ** t out of everyone.»

The Tomb Raider video game franchise has seen new life since its gritty and realistic reboot from which the film draws its inspiration from, but the first Tomb Raider trailer - like many of our «first looks» at 2018 movies so far - and poster failed to impress.

The plot description of the film drew me in first and then seeing the cast, I couldn't pass up an Amanda Seyfried and Ethan Hawke film.

The original overture has been rejoined to the film for the first time in over 50 years, so this will be a main draw for hardcore fans of the film.

But when I first got interested in Susan Hayward before I'd seen any of her films, what drew me in was the abundant hysteria within the posters, titles, and taglines for her movies.

VanderMeer has already praised Garland's Annihilation for being even «more surreal» than his source material and having what he has referred to as a «mind - blowing» ending - an ending that is likewise drawing praise in the first wave of social media reactions to the film.

The first feature is a «Storyreel Picture - in - Picture Experience» where you can view the theatrical cut with a early version of the film that features rough animation, hand - drawn storyboards and other artwork.

Initially screening at a number of art house theaters across the U.S., the first live action film from director Yeon Sang - ho drew in scores of watchers, infecting both critics and zombie enthusiasts.

Of course, this isn't the first time fans were clamoring for a comic book film to draw the gaze of the OscarOf course, this isn't the first time fans were clamoring for a comic book film to draw the gaze of the Oscarof the Oscars.

In an interview with THR for The Shape of Water — a romantic fairy tale about a woman (Sally Hawkins) and amphibious humanoid (Doug Jones) set in 1960s Baltimore — del Toro revealed that the film's inspiration was drawn from the happier ending he imagined for The Creature from the Black Lagoon since he first saw the film as a 7 - year - old.

Not as commendable were the slick but forgettable Leatherface, the first disappointment by French filmmaking duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury; the Spierig Brothers» Jigsaw, part 8 of the exhausted Saw series; the dull Amityville: The Awakening by Franck Khalfoun, usually a respectable genre director, who does still add his share of clever touches (and meta moments, like when a group of teenagers watch the original Amityville Horror in the «real» Amityville haunted house, into which one's family has just moved); Open Water 3: Cage Dive, whose shark - franchise designation was tacked on as an afterthought, not that it helped to draw in audiences (in an anemic year for great whites, 47 Meters Down takes the prize for the best shark film); Jeepers Creepers 3, a super-limited release — surely in part because of director Victor Salva's history as a convicted child molester — which just a tiny bit later would probably have been shelved permanently in light of the slew of reprehensible - male - behavior outings in recent months.

Whilst at times difficult to watch, Grave of the Fireflies is more than a film, it's a masterpiece of human endeavour, and the hand drawn tragedy echoes every cry of anguish that has sounded throughout the centuries, ever since we first learnt to kill our own kind.

The end of the film features a «battle royale» between the motley array of mostly no - name costumed good guys and costumed bad guys, which begs the question as to how most of these characters who are seeing each other for the first time can draw the distinction between them to make sure they are only fighting nemeses on the other side of the law.

Unlike Sean Baker, who found great success in his 2015 street drama Tangerine, interestingly among the first few feature films to dabble in Apple, Soderbergh's implementation tends to draw attention to style and like the worst of found - footage (which this film mercifully isn't), ends up more as a gimmick than the product of creative budgeting.

With a group of characters who are «extremely distinct, exceptionally convincing and well - drawn,» and Lavie displaying «a strong singular voice, a well - defined point of view... and an unusual clarity» for a first - time filmmaker, the film has the flaws often present in a debut, but makes up for it with the freshness of the new voice on display here.

You'll naturally all remember already that Superflex is the art collective responsible for the first film on my 25 - strong schedule at the London Film Festival this year, The Mærsk Opera, a film that remains one of #LFF2017's best even as the fest draws to a close.

Filmed by EL Education, «Austin's Butterfly, a true story about a Presumpscot Elementary School first - grade student who was tasked with making a scientific drawing of a tiger swallowtail butterfly, shows the impact of feedback and revision on creating high - quality work.

First, I've always been drawn to military fiction and films, but a few years ago I read Fearless, the biography of an extraordinary Navy SEAL who died in combat.

Shaw Shank Redemption EssayYou may have been asked to write on the topic, «Discuss.The Shaw shank Redemptio n'The first thing a Shaw shank Redemption essay must do is to give a little information about the background by stating that this is a film that has been directed by Frank Darabont who has paid special attention to the different kinds of oppositions and conflicts such as: Freedom vs. imprisonmentCharity vs. brutalityInnocence vs. guiltWhile drawing our attention to these binary Continue reading