Sentences with phrase «elements of the movie like»

Though lacking the sensationalistic elements of a movie like «Kids», Dollhouse offers unflinching realism, meticulous attention to detail and deliciously wicked humor as it explores the growing pains of a misfit.

The other elements of the movie like the music didn't make an impact on me.

Not exact matches

The pilot uses visual effects generously, both for thrills and as storytelling elements, a style which is complimented by a jittery score that feels a lot like Junkie XL's soundtrack for Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice (great music for a very average movie).

Firstly, it is very important to forget such accessories as hats, heavy belts, cowboy boots — adding any of those elements means increased risk of looking like a caricature from a western movie.

It's a feel good movie without any elements of cheesiness (I can not stand romantic comedies or anything like it).

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.

It would be interesting to see a truly genre - breaking action movie that doesn't just shun the superficial elements (like love interests and wisecracks), but questioned the very idea of using violence to combat violence as the morally Right thing to do.

«Black Butterflies» has all the elements of a good movie like history, literature, excellent cinematography, lots of period detail and Liam Cunningham who can simply do no wrong.

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).

The movie doesn't quite hold together at times, and some of the darker elements (like what it feels like to be shamed and shunned at every moment of your life) are soft - pedaled.

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.

But there's more to it, another element that makes «The Post» feel like such a movie of the moment: Graham is trying to figure out how to look at (and perhaps even love) a man who's done awful things.

It's a testament to George's confident handling of the material... that while it touches on many elements of the national crisis... the project avoids feeling like a bulletin - board movie.

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 masquerade.

Even New Geek masterpieces like PULP FICTION and BOOGIE NIGHTS are merely energetically capable recombinations of elements from other, though often specialty - video - store obscure, movies.

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 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.

While Kolma certainly has some fantastical elements, it sounds like it has different sort of supernatural approach than the previous Cloverfield movies.

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.

I feel like it had great potential to either be a hilarious comedy or a touching drama, but instead, it feels like two different movies awkwardly sewn together, instead of a seamless, singular whole; the comedic elements undermine the dramatic scenes, and vice versa.

And as long as the simply presence of scary movie elements (like ghosts and witches) doesn't freak you out, it's a completely safe movie for children.

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 movie combines a regular, old police procedural thriller with elements of that so - called «torture porn» subgenre the kids seem to like too much.

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.

It just had elements of an interesting movie, a good story, interesting people were attached and so many weird contrasting elements — romance, action, a heist... It just seemed like a mixture of a bunch of different movies, like a lovechild of Clash of the Titans meets Ocean's Twelve.»

While the score by Abel Korzeniowski (of A Single Man, W.E.) is another stand out element of it, the rest of the film feels like a college B - movie, which is pretty much what this is.

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.

Like where would be the element of the movie without him?

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.

As if proving the genius of artists like Klimt by contrast, this movie combines its amazing, golden elements into something far less than the sum of its parts.

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.

«I Am Iron Man» features just about every imaginable detail of making the movie, from pre-production elements like casting and building the suits, to filming and sound mixing.

The movie has elements of a kinder, gentler take on a film like Roger Dodger, which handles a similar protégé relationship with a mentor too unaware to offer any real guidance.

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.

As a massive fan of The Fifth Element (as well as some of his other films), I'd love to see him making movies like this more often, so here's hoping Valerian will prove to be as successful for Besson as Lucy was.

«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.

The movie's most unbelievable elements — the eponymous walk, the heist - like operation of infiltrating the buildings, Petit's zany personality — are all true to life.

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 poster and the comedy element of THE AMAZING CATFISH might recall American indie movies, like LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE.