Sentences with phrase «epic scale story»

The film never stopped feeling like the audience was experiencing an epic scale story.

Not exact matches

Recalled in Laura Hillenbrand's 2010 book and here made grandly episodic in the manner of cinematic versions of the Bible and The Hobbit, Louie's story is ideal for such epic scale, yet it's also too complicated to be reduced to such notorious generic confines.

By the end, I was impressed with the epic scale of the story, the expensive special effects and the high production values, but I also had a distinct feeling of «is that all there is?»

MG: The story is quite epic; where you ever concerned about the scale of the story before making it?

Thompson hinted at «sabotage and epic - scale battles» in Battlefront 2's story mode and said that Iden's droid will play «a big part of the moment to moment gameplay.»

A powerful epic - scale Western with a rich story full of nuances, following a complex character of dubious motivations in a search that stretches for many years - an anguishing journey set against the imposing vastness of the Monument Valley desert with stunning panoramic shots.

Not only are «Get Out,» «The Shape of Water» and «Blade Runner 2049» some of the very best films of 2017, but from the no - budget indie realm («Prevenge,» «A Ghost Story,» «Transfiguration,» «Raw») to expensive studio epic scale («War for the Planet of the Apes,» «Kong: Skull Island») and newly blazed ground out of the predominantly formulaic superhero («Logan,» «Wonder Woman,» «LEGO Batman») and Star Wars («The Last Jedi») factory farms, fantasy filmmakers tried their hardest to be smart, visually adroit, sometimes startlingly innovative and — strangest of all for this escapist format — humanely, emotionally credible.

This is no sweeping, big - budget epic; rather it's a small story with bearing on the experiences of millions more, and it gets that across without ever losing sight of the personal scale on which it's being told.

An amazing counterpart to the big budget epic Everest is the true story of a small group of adventure - seekers who looked to be the first to scale one of the massive mountain's more difficult peaks.

The IMAX format, however, gives moviegoers a chance to see the movie as Nolan intended — epic scale to tell the epic story, set at the outset of World War II, when British civilians in small vessels crossed the English Channel to rescue more than 300,000 British and Allied soldiers surrounded and stranded on the French beach of Dunkirk.

Having been on the Croisette before with his debut film Un 32 août sur Terrre (Un Certain Regard), and the Directors» Fortnight was home for his epic short Next Floor and sobering Polytechnique, the Quebecois helmer saw his critically lauded Incendies and Enemy receive a pass from the fest, but it was this work that ultimately convinced backers with deep pockets to have the auteur filmmaker move onto large - scale productions (Prisoners, Story of Us, the Blade Runner sequel), and in turn Sicario is now among the hopefuls for the Palme d'Or.

Joseph Gordon - Levitt, playing French daredevil Philippe Petit, isn't the kind of A-list name these epic true - life stories might once have commanded, but that doesn't explain the scale of the flop.

Like his work on Interstellar, Hoytema's photography for Nolan's Dunkirk renders epic - scale sets and a high stakes story with gentler beauty, using colour to find emotion in the frame, rather than Pfister's harsh, vacuous lighting.

And South Park Bigger Longer & Uncut remains their defining statement, a work combining epic scale (a land war with Canada, a trip to the depths of Hades, a daylight raid on the Baldwin compound) with intimate character comedy (Satan's grief over his lover Saddam Hussein's infidelity is genuinely touching), wrapped in a biting commentary on censorship and topped off with belting show tunes worthy of West Side Story.

«Hoytema's photography for DUNKIRK renders epic - scale sets and a high stakes story with gentler beauty, using colour to find emotion in the frame.»

So in terms of scope and scale this year's «Uncanny X-Men Annual» is a story that's both intimate and epic?

Told with tremendous feeling, this is a true - life epic on an intimate scale: a deeply affecting story of home and family — of two men's lives and deaths, and of a daughter's great love for them both.

Grandin's account of Ford's forced urbanization of the jungle is larger than life, with the scale and weight of an epic story.

Players will be led through a dramatic story of massive scale that features breathtaking visuals and an epic adventure made possible only by the power of Xbox 360.»

Boat story time was my favorite part of the game along with just taking in the immersive visual backdrops, imo its more like an interconnected hub world where everything looks and feel much grander in scale then it really is and its done very well in that aspect GOW is essentially to different games at the same time, a great storytelling quiet time with rich lore on the one side and brutal precise hard hitting combat on the other, mixed up with perfect pacing and a couple of epic cliffhangers at the endd

The latest title from the award - winning studio presents a deep original story in which heroes and villains engage in epic battles on a massive scale in a world where the line between good and evil has been blurred.

We also saw the debut of War Zone, a brand new multiplayer mode that aims to emulate the epic scale of Halo 5's story missions.

With a soundtrack that is a melancholy fusion of Bluegrass and classic Folk accompanying tales penned by an eclectic group of writers, this game uses small - scale stories to build an overall narrative that is as epic as the factual history of America as a whole.

In Defiance 2050's version of San Francisco, players are transported to a dynamic open world where they can explore and fight in skirmishes and story - driven missions on an epic scale.

Overall, Skyrim VR's great story, epic scale, and freedom to roam make it every bit as good as the original.

It's one of the best - looking video games of the modern era, a Norse epic that weaves an overarching mythological tale together with a smaller - scale, personal story about grief and family.

-- Defeat five gigantic beasts and their jumper swarms through nine city busting levels — Experience the story with action packed video content — Complete epic missions to upgrade over 45 levels of abilities and special moves — Build your Battle Machine and Power Up in a unique double scale environment — Pick your fight and match up in Battle Mode with 75 badges to collect and complete

- Franklin Sirmans, New York Times In her large - scale canvases Julie Mehretu aspires to produce «over-the-top epic narratives,» stories of our time.

The exhibition brings together for the first time, the entire ensemble of Matthew Barney's multi-part River of Fundament project, comprising the symphonic film of epic length (5 hours) River of Fundament, large - scale sculptures, drawings, photographs, story boards, and vitrines.

Haus der Kunst present Matthew Barney: River of Fundament on view March 16 — August 17, 2014, an exhibition that brings together for the first time, the entire ensemble of Matthew Barney's multi-part River of Fundament project, comprising the symphonic film of epic length (five hours) River Of Fundament, large - scale sculptures, drawings, photographs, story boards, and vitrines.

This publication records a new, large - scale video installation based on his personal experiences in Upper Egypt, where, with the collaboration of local children, he restaged the epic story of a local shaman.

As the story goes, and it is well known enough not to bear repeating, in 1952, when Frankenthaler was all of 23 years old, she painted «Mountains and Sea,» an epic - scaled abstraction (86 5/8 by 117 1/4 inches) now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.