Sentences with phrase «enough idea for a film»

Javier Bardem starring in a historical epic about Hernán Cortés» bloody and brutal conquest of Mexico seems like an interesting enough idea for a film.

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Writer Laurence Coriat fails to come up with any fresh ideas for developing characters or storylines, and the film never has enough sense of pace or direction.

It's not quite enough to rescue «Café Society» from the mediocrity that plagues most of Allen's recent films, but for a filmmaker who seems completely bereft of new ideas, it's a lot better than it should be.

But writer Laurence Coriat fails to come up with any fresh ideas for developing characters or storylines, and the film never has enough sense of pace or direction.

Though he desperately tries to make up for it in the final minutes by making his film mean something (Pinbacker mumbles something about being on a mission from God), there's simply not enough time to introduce such a complex idea.

by Walter Chaw Emboldened, perhaps, by the surprisingly good The Other Guys and the surprisingly great Get Him to the Greek, I went into Steve Pink's Hot Tub Time Machine with the belief that its high - concept idea — not the time travel, but the casting of»80s icon John Cusack in a film that would return him to his decade of greatest power and influence — would be at least enough for it to function as a fairly smart nostalgia piece.

Based on Duncan Jones's first two feature films, Moon and now Source Code, the latter of which had its world premiere Friday night here at SXSW, one could say that Jones has a knack not for putting across breathtakingly original ideas in a breathtakingly original way, but for putting across familiar ideas with enough skill, intelligence, and heart to make the end result seem fresh enough.

If you subscribe to the idea that most movies yielding best - actress nominations just aren't quite good enough to be nominated for best picture, your best supporting evidence is to look at the films made by top directors — and then emphatically throw shade at how few of them star women in the first place.

Big - namer Fassbender just wasn't enough to counter a relatively nobody director, John Maclean, and I for one had no idea just how charming the film would be or how much it would ooze eclectic humor.

The movie's existence seems to be predicated on the idea of seeing American soldiers charging into battle on horseback, and while it certainly makes for a cool visual, it's not enough to hang an entire film on.

It is for his funny ideas and skillful inclusion of many pop culture arguments within his films that he has built up a formidable fan base; It is for his oft - amateurish directing that his films aren't polished enough to reach much farther beyond this base.

Although Logan contained enough clues for audiences to get a pretty good idea of what happened during the «Westchester Incident», but director James Mangold has revealed to IGN that he originally planned to make it much more explicit by opening the film with the death of the X-Men.

It isn't exactly a sequel, but it draws on Resolution's ideas clearly enough that The Endless will play much better for people who've already seen their first film, and have their expectations set for Lovecraftian horror, technological mind - games, and some meta ideas about what makes for a satisfying story.