Sentences with phrase «effort in a good movie»

Remember when Robert De Niro got nominated for Silver Linings Playbook for reminding Oscar voters that he can actually make an effort in a good movie?

Not exact matches

Generally speaking, movies that involve the Devil's efforts to cross over into our world fare best when there's some basis in reality (ie The Omen and Reeves» The Devil's Advocate).

While the novel of «Fifty Shades Freed» offered a more satisfying and complete arc that showcases how married life has changed the protagonists, for both better and worse, the movie adaptation cut some of the most important plot points, in an effort to create a shorter and more cohesive plotline.

They are staged well, look cool, and really make you appreciate the ahrd work and effort that goes into practical effects, as well as the touch of movie magic that is all but absent in this day and age.

Singing to the mezzanine, the actors all put forth great effort in holding a note, and they had better because the entire movie is spoken in song («Yes, it's true, there's a child / And the child is my daughter / And her father abandoned us, leaving us flat»).

In an effort to try to find better movies, I have been looking through Netflix and sorting things by their ratings.

Anyway when it comes to when / if Avatar wins Best Picture, it will really signal a big change in the way that movies are perceived as artistic and creative efforts.

You'd think that with a more concerted effort to tie in the movie version of Blade with his comic book roots, as well as having the screenwriter for all three movies actually calling the shots from the director's chair, that this third movie wouldn't be plagued by story inconsistencies and confused plotting.

The end result is that the entire movie feels like formula (albeit grounded in almost too - good - to - be-true reality) crossed with efforts to make golf exciting.

Whilst Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban remains the standout effort in both the movie and book series, David Yates» fourth franchise offering in succession returns focus to the elements that made earlier iterations such engaging creations, with the central trio united in friendship as they wage an epic battle of good versus evil.

We're taking our «Beauty vs Beast» series to a film that did well but maybe not as well as expected (no director, no screenplay)- Jordan Peele's masterful horror comedy Get Out, which we just happened to re-watch last night in an effort to reaquaint ourselves with a movie that was fading from memory.

Sean Penn is well known for his humanitarian and activist work around the globe, whether it is raising money for relief efforts in devastated countries, or trying to shine light on tragedies of war - torn countries that may not be on the radar of the average American movie - goer.

However, with what's there, they do get good use out of the stars, with Harrison Ford (Ender's Game) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (Sabotage) recurring throughout the movie just enough to keep their effort above a cameo, and Antonio Banderas gets some good laughs in a comic relief role as the fighter who is always passed over, but really wants to be back in the fold.

High - Rise will be the director's fifth feature film effort — coming off the heels of the rather eccentric A Field in England — and has the potential to live up to Kill List and Sightseers, easily two of the best post-millennium horror movies bar none.

The rules in Hollywood for animated movies are that good animals come from adorable species and children are the primary audience, despite rote efforts at adult entendre.

Not even the best efforts of the always - excellent Guy Pearce can save what is in essence a pathetic cutting - room attempt to wrest the movie back from the abyss of a director suffering a nervous breakdown with eighteen days to go in the shooting schedule and a governing philosophy that believes Orlando Jones would make a good HAL - 9000.

Family films don't often do a lot with sound to engulf you in a world the way an action movie might, but The Santa Clause takes several efforts to make you feel as if you are in Scott Calvin's world with atmospheric effects that are well conceived and realized.

And with a better look at the movie in these first two clips, maybe what we're going to get from Gavin O'Connor is a solid genre effort, no more, no less.

Since this is supposed to be a boxing movie, you would think that there would be a little more effort in making these scenes better, but that simply isn't what happens.

Several strong directorial efforts culminated in a Best Picture Oscar for Argo in 2013 and his new job as Batman has managed to convince many a skeptic amongst comic book movie fans that this is a caped crusader with some grit.

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Alas, it ends up a not very engaging B - movie whose well - intentioned efforts to ground the action in a father - daughter relationship ring false.

It's well worth sticking through the scroll recognizing the hundreds of people who put in their time and effort to make the movie you just enjoyed.

Enjoyable for a good 15 minutes or so, mostly due to the scene - stealing powers of the adorable, much - coveted kitty whose name gives the movie its title, this is otherwise a stale, repetitive effort whose one - joke premise — two suburban buddies forced to pass themselves off as gangsters in a grimy underworld where they clearly don't belong — never achieves comic liftoff, much less the richly subversive dimensions typical of Key and Peele's best work.

For her part, Winslet is trying to do something like what Cate Blanchett did in Blue Jasmine, playing a middle - aged Allen malcontent with gusto, but Blue Jasmine is a good movie and Wonder Wheel f*cking sucks, so Winslet's effort is for naught.

Motor racing has never translated quite so well into «inspiring Hollywood sports movie» as some other sports — there have been a few high - profile efforts along the way (John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix, Le Mans with Steve McQueen, Tony Scott's risible but successful Days of Thunder) but nothing that quite sits alongside the likes of Rocky or Hoosiers in people's affections.

«The Exorcist» is one of the best movies of its type ever made; it not only transcends the genre of terror, horror, and the supernatural, but it transcends such serious, ambitious efforts in the same direction as Roman Polanski's «Rosemary's Baby.»

For the rest of us, who like his more recent efforts, seeing this in hopes that Bruce Almighty could be another The Truman Show, we can only sit through it in disappointment that such a good idea for a movie would play everything so safe and predictable.

The movie closes with Karyn Kusama's Her Only Living Son and it's ultimately clear that this is the most effective effort in the bunch, with the short, which is eventually revealed as a sequel to a well - known horror property, boasting a compelling subject matter that builds and builds before reaching its appropriately grim finale - which ensures that XX does manage to end on a positive note that's nevertheless unable to compensate for the ineffectiveness of all that came before.

But no, instead two TV writers (Dennis McNicholas, a Saturday Night Live scribe who inflicted The Ladies Man movie on the general public, and Chris Henchy, Entourage) make absolutely no effort to stretch themselves and instead regurgitate humor that would fit much better in just about any movie starring Seth Rogen.

Mr. Mom is, generally speaking, at its best when focused on Jack's dogged efforts at coping with his new situation (eg a hilarious sequence in which everything that could go wrong does), as the movie doesn't fare quite as well when it leaves the confines of the Butler household (eg an eye - rolling silly interlude detailing Jack's participation in an obstacle course).

He tackled the «genre parody» material to slightly better effect 13 years ago in the original Scary Movie; at best, his latest effort allows him room to work his improvisational skills but must be considered a sideways career step.

Of course he's been in terrible movies, but when it comes to Costner and his performances, you're pretty much always gonna get his best efforts.

Final results of these movies vary big time, some become lame efforts, where we think it was not right in the first place to go for the movie adaption, but some on the contrary and to our surprise turn out to be the best examples of how a video game should transform into a movie.

Along with some fairly dull commentary tracks (the first by director Oliver Stone, in which he so graciously delivers morsels of wisdom like «This is Will Jimeno driving to work,» and a second by the real - life Jimeno and some of his rescuers), the two - disc effort also includes nine delete / extended scenes because, well, the movie was already too long, and a three - part making - of documentary running nearly an hour long.

This arc would have been compelling had it made any effort to engage the audience but philosophical and ideological ramblings (which seem to have this weird effect on the movie star) offer a painfully obvious exit for any theatergoer not well - versed in the Coens» tendency to wander aimlessly every now and then.

It's not like a good writer cost more than a bad one, and I am sure the guy who has written 3 terrible TF movies in a row is not given a small check for his effort.

In his debut genre effort, comedian Jordan Peele delivers one of the flat - out best horror movies of the decade.

Anniversaries, TV shows, movies, documentaries and even little old publishers with good intentions and limited funds can draw people's attention to the wealth of truly classic literature available in individual slices for less than a cup of coffee, but it takes a co-ordinated and sustained effort, based on nothing more or less than a belief in the inherent worth, to individuals, to society and, especially, to children and young people, of great books and of the power of reading.

B) Generally if a consumer has sunk $ 200 + in a device to consume something (e-reader: books, blu - ray player: movies, etc) they're more likely to buy more of those items than they otherwise would in an effort to be able to tell themselves that initial investment was a good one.

Capcom have really put a lot of effort into directing the voice actors to fit the characters they portrait so well it is one of those games with cut - scenes where you don't want to skip to continue to the action but take them in as if you were watching a movie.

Emphasizing the effort its put into capturing the feel of the original Top Gun film in its upcoming PC / PS3 video game adaptation, developer Doublesix made sure to include footage that looks like it's taken right from the movie and a pretty good cover of the iconic «Danger Zone» theme in this trailer for the arcade - style aerial dogfighting game.

An investigation of two 1971 exhibitions — Contemporary Black Artists in America at the old Whitney, and The DeLuxe Show, an abstract art show in a Houston movie theater — English's book «looks at many black artists» desire to gain freedom from overt racial representation, as well as their efforts — and those of their advocates — to further that aim through public exhibition...

He is a brain cancer activist known for the short films «The Assignment» and «Dear John McCain,» with several film projects in pre-production, such as «Maria Canje» (as well as the novel version, to be released soon) and «Ohneka,» a paranormal movie about a Native American vengeful spirit.Accordingly, he is currently leading the effort to curate a groundbreaking film called «Rise of the ICO,» which will provide viewers with a multiple - perspective look at how the crypto world is evolving.