Sentences with phrase «early point of the movie»

Even at this early point of the movie, I still could not see how they would still have this dimwitted jerk as a buddy.

Not exact matches

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this year's top - grossing film so far, came out in early - April and the scattering of big movies around the calendar is one reason why all 2014 films have only grossed about 5.4 % less than all films had last year at this point.

Thus, «giant chunks of space debris clobbering the planet and wiping out life on Earth has undeniably broad appeal,» Meltzer says, whereas «no one in Hollywood makes movies» about more nuanced explanations, such as Clovis points disappearing because early Americans turned to other forms of stone tool technology as the large mammals they were hunting went extinct as a result of the changing climate or hunting pressure.

But at least it provided a talking point, and I think if you book up early for the Summer Screens evenings you can benefit from over 2 weeks» worth of film choices as they play a different movie every night.

But many of those films appear to be major question marks (for both quality and financial success) from this early vantage point, including the upcoming LEGO Movie, the Wachowskis» Jupiter Ascending, Tom Cruise vehicle Edge of Tomorrow, a new Godzilla remake, and Wally Pfister's Transcendence.

What's sad to me, to go back to an earlier point we were discussing, is that people are missing that when they're discussing the meaning of the movie when they talk about it as sexploitation.

Some Marvel movies, particularly early on, feel like they were constructed by Marvel Studios going down a list of important bullet points from the comics rather than being a personal work directed by an actual human, but the company does seem good at recognizing the benefit of allowing a filmmaker to put their stamp...

And the movie never effectively sells the story point that made the earlier films so compelling: why a bunch of outlaws and mercenaries would put their lives on the line for a town that finds itself in the grip of a bad, bad guy.

Giant oversized creatures, lots and lots of destruction, and plenty of cheese make both the game and those movies equally «B.» While Earth Defense Force 2017 was a title released early on in the Xbox 360 life cycle, it immediately gave the series a foothold in the West, where up until that point it was mostly unknown.

I was bummed out I dropped $ 10.25 on a movie that moved me to the point of an early nap - time.

Well, the movie appears to mostly take place in the early - to - mid 1930s — the synopsis says the movie takes place in Europe «between the wars,» (meaning between WWI and WWII), «all against the back - drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing continent» (this earlier synopsis is even more revealing of this point).

When a movie about the African - American experience in Jackson, Mississippi, during the early 1960s bypasses the assassination of Medgar Evers to move on to a plot point about a pie made of human feces, though, one has to question the story's priorities.

These guys help the movie in avoiding that fate while also giving us a positive starting point in the early going of the DC Comics universe.

The sci - fi element doesn't really kick in until about the midway point, however, and so early on, it plays out more like a «Big Chill» - style reunion movie, with Gary serving as the symbolic corpse that reunites the group of friends.

Originally Jerry Goldsmith was down to score it, but delays caused the movie to clash with US Marshals, which he chose to do instead, recommending Broughton for the job (as he had done five years earlier when he was forced to pull out of Tombstone)- though before they got to him, both David Arnold and (bizarrely) Mark Isham were attached at various points.

The point of the tweet, though, was to ensure that the movie doesn't get spoiled, and to explain how some early screenings won't show the full film.

By this point, you may well be weary of hearing about «Back to the Future,» given how much press the time - travel trilogy received when the first movie hit the big 3 - 0 earlier this year, but at some point you'll find yourself wanting to revisit the fun of these three films, and that's when you'll want to have a copy of this five - disc set in your collection.

Even though director Jean Pellerin milks as much suspense out of the script and characters as possible, anyone who remembers those cheesy ABC Movie of the Week disaster movies from the early seventies and «Daylight» with Sylvester Stallone will recognize every plot point.

I usually type out a short summary or try to set - up the plot at some point early on in my reviews, but I feel like it's a moot talking point because if you've kept up with the Marvel movies or have a good idea of what's going on in them, you don't need me to paint a picture about the Infinity Stones, the Infinity Gauntlet or the fight to save the universe.

Haneke makes too fine a point of it by having Georges handle an errant pigeon which has flown into the apartment not by killing it (as would have happened in an earlier movie by the maker of Funny Games) but by gently capturing and freeing it.

There's an early scene involving teeth whitening that incorrectly supposes the sight of McCarthy's teeth and gums will be funny, and at another point, she's catapulted into a wall by a sofa bed, because random physical comedy seems to be the movie's go - to mode whenever a scene or plotline seems to be out of juice.

The movie included several hits from the 80s, as director James Gunn had earlier pointed out in an interview that he needed the old, forgotten classics of the past in the film, as Chris Pratt's character, Peter Quill, belonged to the same era.

Case in point: one early scene shows a somber Freeze wistfully watching old home movies of him and his wife.

In the latter category, there are Pam (Jason Mantzoukas), a gun - toting shopkeeper who sells drugs to kids out of an ice cream truck, and Jason's cousin Nick (Adam Pally), a younger version of Dick who shows up on crutches during the movie's climax for no apparent reason (It might seem like a useless point to raise, but the screenplay somehow lacks logical consistency, such as when Jason scolds Dick for smoking the «gateway drug» of marijuana after the grandson smoked crack earlier).

To that point, the movie version of Katherine Paterson's classic children's novel The Great Gilly Hopkins may serve as an early lesson for young readers and...

While the earlier movies from the 70's and 80's, did give some idea of the size of galaxies, and we traveled around in them a little — Ben's point was that in the current movie — space felt much smaller.

«Although he completed shooting the picture earlier this year, [Director Pete] Travis has not been involved in the current editing phase of the movie, after creative disagreements with producers and executives in charge of the film reached a boiling point,» write Steve Zeitchik and Ben Fritz of the Times.

Conner's A MOVIE (1958) serves as the point of departure for a trio of earlier films that laid the foundation for a cameraless cinema.