Sentences with phrase «elements in a movie like»

How do you balance all those elements in a movie like this?

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It's too bad, though, that back in 2012 something as expectation - logged as The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was the movie Hollywood decided to use for our collective guinea pigging moment, microwaving a beloved world like a bag of robot popcorn and crisping it up to within a millimeter of insanity, exploding every visual element into tiny, exquisitely detailed parts, forcing you to look, LOOK, LOOK!!!

There's no place for mawkishness in a film like this; such elements might have worked had the movie claimed to be a realistic portrayal of young adults, but when you have a character as outrageous as Stifler, that's clearly not the case.

Shearer (smiling and raising an eyebrow): Several places... For every element I found I liked, there was an equally unappealing element, and in this case I suppose Montgomery's line that «certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs» later in the movie is that.

The movie's various problems are compounded by its regrettable lack of strong horror elements, as Gillespie places a consistent emphasis on set - pieces of a decidedly lifeless nature (eg there's a palpably awful Children of Men - like sequence in which Jerry attacks a car full of potential victims).

One of my rules of criticism is to never recommend a movie that has an element of time in the title if it feels like it takes that amount of time to watch the film.

In Lee's Bamboozled, he's invoked (alongside many other silent and early - sound - era performers) as a grotesque specter of racist Hollywood representation — the ghost of minstrelsy past — but writers like Mel Watkins and Champ Clark have complicated the issue by suggesting that there was an element of subversion in Perry's subservience — that the shiftless, feckless caricature he inhabited in so many movies was not a capitulation to the viewership (or the filmmakers) but a bold form of ethnic masqueradIn Lee's Bamboozled, he's invoked (alongside many other silent and early - sound - era performers) as a grotesque specter of racist Hollywood representation — the ghost of minstrelsy past — but writers like Mel Watkins and Champ Clark have complicated the issue by suggesting that there was an element of subversion in Perry's subservience — that the shiftless, feckless caricature he inhabited in so many movies was not a capitulation to the viewership (or the filmmakers) but a bold form of ethnic masqueradin Perry's subservience — that the shiftless, feckless caricature he inhabited in so many movies was not a capitulation to the viewership (or the filmmakers) but a bold form of ethnic masqueradin so many movies was not a capitulation to the viewership (or the filmmakers) but a bold form of ethnic masquerade.

In terms of creating a whole cinematic universe with kinetic elements like the Infinity Stone, with so many directors and writers and different people making the movies, how do you plot that out?

Ed Howard: In all of his films, Todd Haynes takes elements of gaudy tabloid culture and warps them to his own purposes, because he sees — in the lurid stories about sexuality and decadence and violence that we like to tell ourselves, in the celebrity gossip rags and TV news and hyped - up movies — deeper truths about identity, gender, politics, entertainment and sexualitIn all of his films, Todd Haynes takes elements of gaudy tabloid culture and warps them to his own purposes, because he sees — in the lurid stories about sexuality and decadence and violence that we like to tell ourselves, in the celebrity gossip rags and TV news and hyped - up movies — deeper truths about identity, gender, politics, entertainment and sexualitin the lurid stories about sexuality and decadence and violence that we like to tell ourselves, in the celebrity gossip rags and TV news and hyped - up movies — deeper truths about identity, gender, politics, entertainment and sexualitin the celebrity gossip rags and TV news and hyped - up movies — deeper truths about identity, gender, politics, entertainment and sexuality.

The dialogue and tone is undeniably survival - horror, with some elements of the B - movie horror tropes found in other Capcom properties like Resident Evil.

Again, this is an element that can work in a kid's movie if it's done properly, like in the early days of the Shrek franchise; but when your ending gag is a tiger ziplining through Vegas, whilst saying «This is the real life of Pi,» you've pretty much given up.

After watching a film like Pulse, I feel a bit insulted that movie executives think so little about the intelligence of the American movie - going public that the vast majority of the attempts at popular entertainment are completely stripped of anything remotely resembling a thought - provoking element, eschewing those in favor of noise, special effects and music stimuli to try to induce a subconscious reaction in the audience.

The only time someone like Kate Beckinsale could be the most notable element of a movie also starring Farrell and, in supporting roles, Bryan Cranston and Bill Nighy, is when her husband's directing it.

In its swirl of violence and emotion, the new movie feels like a summation of those two most recent pictures, even as it braids together settings and story elements from Jia's earlier films «Unknown Pleasures» (2002) and «Still Life» (2008), his surreally tinged docu - fiction about the incalculable impact of the Three Gorges Dam project.

Though it has a lot of fun playing with slasher tropes and cinema in general (showing the way Max and her friends are affected by elements like musical cues, monochromatic flashback sequences and slow motion within the fictional movie), the film isn't funny or scary enough, ultimately becoming a victim of its own satire due to its insistence on preserving the genre's traditionally bad acting and writing.

Explaining the evolution of the X-Men series and including the more fantastical elements, Singer said «Like Apocalypse — like some of the imagery and characters and stakes [in that movie]-- it's something we haven't seen befLike Apocalypse — like some of the imagery and characters and stakes [in that movie]-- it's something we haven't seen beflike some of the imagery and characters and stakes [in that movie]-- it's something we haven't seen before.

No matter what Square says about trying to add movie - like elements to their games to aid in storytelling, they are obviously in love with their SGI machines and are determined to put them to use at any cost.

Sure, there are goofy elements in these movies Coogler can't avoid (so many montages), and it often plays with sports movie clichés, but Creed is never cheesy or feels like it's pandering only to Rocky loyalists.

With Martin Campbell's Green Lantern we are given a film that feels like a cheap carbon copy of superhero films of the yesteryear; offering elements of comic books movies we have all witnessed before while at the same time lacking in any form of originality.

I know you have had fantasy elements in some of your previous movies, like Hanna.

This therefore will probably make the mystery of Kunis» character's realness a deeply embedded element of the film which will pay off wonderfully in repeat viewings, like movies like Fight Club.

This year Wimmer is back with Ultraviolet, an Aeon Flux - like sci - fi movie he claims to have written specifically with lead actress Milla Jovovich of Fifth Element and Resident Evil fame in mind.

Fierce elements stand between him and home in what sounds like a raw - boned survival movie with no wasted gestures.

The telltale signs of their auteurship are still there — the comic regionalism, the genre pastiche, the arresting (if sometimes sterile) cinematography — but increasingly these elements feel like gimmicks in search of a movie.

I also like that there was an element of humor in the characters, which I find is not typical in movies of a more serious nature.

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.

Contemporary cinema may be deep into a phase of emphasising western - like aspects in everything from horror to action movies, and fashioning revisionist takes as well; however, at the heart of this fascination sits the timelessness of the genre's core elements.

«Super There Will Be Blood» has elements reminiscent of Montezuma's Revenge, Super Mario Brothers, the platform movie tie ins like the Super Star Wars games, and probably a few other influences that those well - versed in classic games will recognize.

Like every movie in this genre, there is a criminal element to it and he is it, although director Scott Waugh («Act of Valor») tells us he shouldn't be.

The most disappointing element happens in the final moments of the movie where three characters (I won't tell you which ones) set out to search for others like themselves.

ShockYa: I'd be interested in that element of embraced fear you talk about, especially coming off of an experience like «Mr. Woodcock» (a film Gillespie left during production, with David Dobkin stepping in to direct) where there were disagreements about the final tone of the movie, where you couldn't bridge that gap [between what you and the studio wanted].

The script by del Toro and Matthew Robbins — and, based on the advance material at the time, Steven Soderbergh and John Sayles in uncredited assists — manages to cleverly incorporate elements from mad - scientist movies, giant - insect flicks and traditional monster - on - the - loose tales, and the mere thought of roach - like critters the size of Sylvester Stallone will unnerve anyone with even a hint of a bug phobia.

One of the elements setting «Infinity War» apart from far too many superhero movies is the introduction of a villain who's more than just another fire - breathing, multi-tongued monster - god hell - bent on destroying everything in its way while mouthing platitudes through some kind of filter that makes him sound like he watched «Star Wars» a thousand times and was always rooting for Darth Vader.

Meyers is in her element when the movie plays like classic narrative cinema, unafraid to go for the corny sentiment that she does with more conviction than the attempts at zeitgeist comedy.

It's not as laugh - out - loud funny as Juno nor as lacerating as Young Adult, and in some ways feels like a recombination of those movies» elements: nostalgia, child - bearing, mistimed coming of age, remixed.

But insomuch as it is a personal movie that does contain elements of autobiography, I wanted to feel like I was making a movie in my own backyard.

And Tropic Thunder may strike some as a better summer comedy than we usually get in August, but I for one would have liked it a lot more if so much of the film's elements — the domineering studio boss, the greedy agent, the actor who's «funny» because he talks «like» an African - American, etc. — had not seemed so familiar from past movies.

Every pitfall that The Avengers avoided is present here: The characters take the backseat to an abundance of plot, and the plot is an expansive mash - up of so many elements that the central story starts to feel like the least important thing in the movie.

Using a complex matrix that factors in elements like actorly showiness, grating self - importance, middlebrow sense of grandeur, and the varying degrees to which a movie flatters its audience, the machine has consistently outshined professional prognosticators (who, by the way, are evil).

Just like in nearly every other Pixar and Mouse House animated movie this Century, someone dies early on in «The Good Dinosaur» and Arlo must prove his worth as he battles enemies and the elements trying to make it back home to his family with the help of a new friend, a young cave boy.

It's because his creation is nothing more than a bad hybrid of the overused teen slasher movie («Scream,» «Friday the 13th,» «Final Destination,» take your pick) mixed in with elements from flicks like «Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer,» «The Breakfast Club,» «Back to the Future,» «Saw» and other better cinematic endeavors.

What Luc Bessan does with the movie, just like in The Fifth Element is bring a beautiful sense of style and visuals to the movie that I really enjoyed.

«I think that experience really added to the elements because that's the way filmmakers would have a movie like this back in the»70s, but they would have had twice the equipment that we had.

So while we're engaged with the family elements and introduced to new characters like Cable and Domino, ultimately their impact feels overshadowed by the «oh shit» moments that happen every five to 10 minutes in the movie.

Having Rudd in front of the camera helps the actor carry the comedic rhythms through the movie's more dramatic moments, bringing balance and relief to heavier elements like the Hope / Hank Pym reconciliation story with well - timed everyman charm that is Rudd's claim to fame.

I haven't seen the movie and don't know more about it than anyone else who's been reading about it online does, but it seems that they're using some of the same elements of the Wolverine in Japan stories like ninjas and the Silver Samurai.

Of course, the downside is that something which felt like a pretty big plot element for the new movies could end up leaving a lot of fans feeling like it got sidelined and that they have to go and pay to play a game in order to fill everything in.

How the Ghostbusters license has been integrated into the experience is obviously important, and here we encounter something of a mixed bag, because in many regards it feels like Cryptozoic struggled to incorporate a lot of elements from the movie.

Story elements are delivered via small cut - scenes presented like old fashion movies — it's a nice touch that goes a long way in developing the experience.

It sounds like the plan is for the Uncharted movie to instead be a full - blown origin story for the Nathan Drake character, leaving the door open for the potential sequel (s) to adapt story elements from A Thief's End and the events in the Uncharted games that take place after the flashback in Drake's Deception.