Sentences with phrase «epitomic buddy movie»

I also saw the mom - and - son buddy movie featuring Grogen and Streisand.

The language is foul and there is no shortage of violence but the terrific performances make for a very humourous and memorable buddy movie.

Directed by John Michael McDonagh, with Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle Set in the west coast of Ireland, this buddy movie made us laugh out loud throughout the entire film.

A sordid tale that resembles many noir classic films from the forties and fifties, where its protagonists are police partners based on the duality of buddy movies but without the comedy.

Although Bullet to the Head comes nowhere near the pantheon of the great buddy movies, and some fans of the original graphic novel might wince at the changes, there's enough fun to be had...

On one level, this is a buddy movie.

On its simplest level it is the epitomic buddy movie, the film to which we owe everything from Lethal Weapon to Mississippi Burning.

It works well as a cat and mouse thriller and action - packed buddy movie.

There's a buddy movie spirit in the air, the snowy mountain vistas are crisp and clear, and though there are light, spoof - y jokes here and there — Django, able to choose his own clothes for the first time, opts for an electric blue dandy outfit complete with ruffle kerchief — this is not yet so different from other Westerns we've seen before.

Rampage may be trading on the appeal of the game's building - busting writ large, but it's at its best as a buddy movie.

Unlike most buddy movies, it actually takes a while for these two to get along.

«Ride Along», the newest buddy movie which stars Kevin Hart and Ice - Cube, still reigns No. 1 at the North American box office after debuting to...

The two styles never quite mesh, though, and the movie starts to feel Frankensteinish; it's partly a female buddy movie, it's partly a romantic comedy, it's partly a Superbad - style R - rated comedy, and partly a tender character study of a woman whose life is falling apart around her.

The D Films release slate include the polarising, oddball Sundance buddy movie Swiss Army Man starring Daniel Radcliffe and Paul Dano, as well as Natalie Portman's directorial debut A Tale Of Love And Darkness, and Oasis documentary Supersonic.

Bek and Horus's buddy movie stuff made me realize why we don't get Superman movies with Jimmy Olson along for the ride (literally, Horus flies around with Beck a lot, and it always looks stupid).

Mostly a girl buddy movie with innuendo and a few interesting cameos.

Hollywood may not have grown tired of these buddy movies, but we have.

Alas, the film suffers from the usual buddy movie clichés of having most viewer interest brought about from the interaction of the two leads amid the most threadbare and derivative of plots.

The martial arts legend reveals that he will have a big part in this upcoming sequel, and that it will be a buddy movie.

«The Disaster Artist» takes a curiously long time to get to the actual making of «The Room,» and one might expect all that lead - up — during which Sestero and Wiseau move to L.A., where they share the latter's one - room pied à terre — to serve in establishing the foundation for the dysfunctional buddy movie this really ought to be.

And Hong Kong madman Tsui Hark's Jean - Claude Van Damme / Dennis Rodman buddy movie Double Team is one of the most delightfully strange Hollywood movies in existence; it ends, after all, with Van Damme fighting both Mickey Rourke and a tiger in a Roman coliseum that's full of land mines.

With clips from the film, panelists will discuss how creative sound and music contributed to the immersive world of their off - beat buddy movie.

The downside is that instead of making it a straight - out buddy movie, the plot is over-complicated with Jonah's girlfriend played by Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss.

Sebastian Stan says he'd absolutely be in for an»80s - style buddy movie starring his Winter Soldier and Anthony Mackie's Falcon.

The make up and special effects are genius, the acting is class and all in all its a buddy movie.

However, from the arrival of Rey onwards, the film attempts to juxtapose into this dark universe something of the buddy movie, albeit, in a much less frivolous manner than in pictures such as Midnight Run and 48 Hours.

Then give him and Mickey Rourke a buddy movie so they can both can be rich 4 life.

For example, we have «loner» films like Dirty Harry, we have buddy movies like Lethal Weapon, and we have in - between movies like The French Connection.

Mismatched buddy movies have been a constant staple of Hollywood since the year dot and Shane Black's 1987 hit Lethal Weapon is still pretty much the benchmark to which all others adhere to, the stars in perfect alignment with regards to script, actors and direction.

The casting is key in any buddy movie and although Crowe and Gosling may not be the obvious choice for a team - up it is that off - kilter chemistry that keeps you watching in the face of a plot that gets bogged down way too early and spends the rest of the film playing catch - up.

The two have pretty good chemistry working and fighting together, which keeps some interest; but those expecting something stimulating out of this buddy movie won't find it.

It includes reenactments of the movie's key scenes, but it's also an endearing buddy movie.

Basically, we're in buddy movie territory, where the plot takes a backseat to the interaction between the two lead personalities.

The Hitman's Bodyguard won't be enjoyable for people well - versed in 80s buddy movies like Midnight Run, 48 Hrs., or Lethal Weapon, and the recent gems of the subgenre like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang or The Nice Guys.

Rudolph's deadpan worked perfectly against Haddish's dynamic energy: These two should definitely get cast in a buddy movie.

; the World Premiere of Chanya Button's debut feature BURN BURN BURN starring Downton Abbey's Laura Carmichael, which takes the road trip buddy movie on its own smart, female - centric spin; Ali F. Mostafa's FROM A TO B, a «dramedy» following three estranged childhood companions who embark on a road trip to commemorate the fifth anniversary of a friend's death and offers a new perspective on life in the Gulf and Middle East; Paul Weitz's GRANDMA, a supremely enjoyable «road movie» starring Lily Tomlin as the gloriously profane septuagenarian whose curt words and emotional armour can't quite mask her broken heart; Bao Nguyen's Saturday Night Live documentary LIVE FROM NEW YORK!

The reason is we didn't have high hope for Patrick Hughes, who directed Expendables 3, and this road trip buddy movie undoubtedly survives on individual performances (by Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson) and character chemistry.

It's the classic buddy movie combo of big»n' loveable and small»n' sarky.

As the film shifts gear from engaging buddy movie to violent thriller, whilst juggling tonal shifts from the moody, gritty and intense to the comedic and surreal, what would perhaps normally feel cluttered, fragmented or in - cohesive, Maclean relishes in the juxtaposition he creates, handling the tonal shifts with confidence, skill and utter conviction.

However, with stunning visuals, a nearly perfect voice cast, winks and nods galore and enough to grab the attention of both children and adults this fun somewhat generic soppy buddy movie still delivers high and is up there with the best recent animation movies.

The most common failing of the macho buddy movie — especially of the «boys» night out» genre — is its treatment of women; by placing us in complicity with a group of rowdy males, we're usually coerced into sharing their fears, delusions, and resentments toward women.

A «buddy movie» version of Drop Dead Fred, Ted feels like a cross between Short Circuit, You, Me and Dupree and The Wedding Singer, but with added pot and pooh jokes....

Affleck has combined a thunderous action flick, a haunting buddy movie and a touching love story, and you can rarely glimpse the joins.

The buddy movie about Karl Rove and Lee Atwater's college years follows the future political consultants on a cross-country road trip to Washington, D.C.

OK, so it's not the Iron Man / Hulk buddy movie of our dreams (which I guess we kind of already got in the Avengers movies), but this sounds like fun all the same: Mark Ruffalo's understanding is that Thor: Ragnarok will be a buddy movie starring the God of Thunder and the Hulk.

Last Flag Flying is firmly planted in the undemanding lowlands of the buddy movie.

Hot Pursuit is a half baked attempt at a comic version of a Thelma and Louise - style female buddy movie.

Smith and Kline sounds like a pharmaceutical company, but here they team up for, among many other things, a sly variation on the buddy movie.

Seth Rogen stars and co-writes the screenplay with his writing partner Evan Goldberg (Superbad, Pineapple Express), and together they create a buddy movie and a «bromance» for the Green Hornet and Kato.

Robot & Frank is a near - future science fiction film that is one part character study and one part buddy movie.