Sentences with phrase «fantasy sequences»

A handful of fantasy sequences are hit or miss.

His character only takes off during fantasy sequences done in a lively black - and - white line - drawing animation style that illustrate his peculiar brain and ways of thinking.

The filmmakers have injected more fantasy sequences, but these moments are always relevant to the plot, and never distract us from the narrative.

This leads to a ridiculous and funny fantasy sequence that is very well played.

He's helped at every turn by a terrific ensemble cast that completely gets what the film is going for, even in the over-the-top fantasy sequences.

Mired in vaudevillian caricature (there are even numerous fantasy sequences in which Bronson, sporting a Meliés-esque mustache, stands on a stage recounting his exploits to a packed theater), Hardy's take on Bronson is, wonderfully, neither self - important nor self - conscious (note scenes of full frontal nudity in which he is alternately covered in butter and grease paint).

His penchant for younger protagonists and wildly imaginative fantasy sequences certainly engages the mind of the child (and he has a special gift for animating the movements of children), but he has never made his films at the expense of the adults in the crowd.

There are a series of fantasy sequences where Simon imagines his gay online friend as this or that kid from school, a Halloween party with Simon and BFF Leah (Langford) dressed as John and Yoko, and we figure out this Georgia high school has parents hip enough to not mind swearing in front of the kids and not strict enough to care when those kids come home from that party drunk.

First of all, cue the off - grid fantasy sequence as you meet billy barr — a wonderful man locally known as «the snow guardian.»

It combines archival footage with fantasy sequences and an imagined love story, resulting in a multi-layered narrative about artistic expression and the nature of Black gay desire.

The handful of fantasy sequences set inside Maddy's architecture models are appealing, as is the awkward and innocent chemistry between the leads.

Miyazaki really demonstrates his love for planes and there is a breathtaking fantasy sequence involving a fleet of planes flying above the clouds that alone makes the film worth a one - time viewing.

Playing on the popularity of Freudian psychology in the 1940s, this film has Ginger Rogers as a magazine editor who undergoes psychoanalysis to explain her frequent headaches and daydreams, prompting a lot of Technicolor fantasy sequences.

LMD: I loved the breakaway fantasy sequences like the boss flying away on the blue umbrella and the musical number.

And an interspersed sci - fi fantasy sequence that looks like it ate half the film's budget is lame.

This may explain the decision by Jon Amiel, the director of «Creation,» to present Charles Darwin's authorship of «On the Origin of Species» in a weird web of flashbacks and ghostly fantasy sequences.

One on hand, it looks like a fun road trip movie with some amazing fantasy sequences, but on the other hand, it has all the warning signs of Oscar bait with a Big Message more likely to make you gag than cry.

Admittedly the backgrounds of the four major fantasy sequences that anchor the film look impressive for a couple of seconds but like every other element in this film, the art direction is so conceptually underdeveloped it fails to sustain interest.

Even as someone who finds Metallica's music silly (ditto the movie's incoherent apocalyptic fantasy sequences), I was floored by much of the visual imagination.

This time around the past is represented by some truly bizarre fantasy sequences between Jackman and Famke Janssen as Jean Grey, the lover who Logan had to sacrifice in X-Men: The Last Stand.

But Phoebe Cates emerging from the swimming pool in a red bikini in Judge Reinhold's slo - mo fantasy sequence is, like, THE image of the movie.

It might be just as funny (and this movie has some great jokes, including Doris's many fantasy sequences), but it would have been easy to take Showalter's and Laura Terruso's screenplay and make something mean - spirited, in which Doris is the butt of the joke all the time, not the object of the audience's affection herself.

Each step in their not - so elaborate escape plan is told via a special effects heavy fantasy sequence set to loud rock music covers of over-familiar songs in which Baby Doll imagines herself to be a machinegun - toting sex object inspired by computer games and anime.

«That»70s Show» not only nails its era with set and costume design (the latter, the subject of the show's only Emmy win), it also supplies some inventiveness in camera and editing techniques, from split - screen scenes to characters dubbing others to inspired fantasy sequences.

David Caesar imbues his film with exquisitely animated fantasy sequences that put a lot of bigger - budgeted films to shame, but above all this is a story with heart.

Also only on the DVD is the 14 - page Oliver & Company Scrapbook consisting of concept art (12 stills including some for an unused fantasy sequence), story development (5 storyboard stills), character development (20 stills of sketches and model sheets including some for deleted characters), behind - the - scenes photos (11 images), poster designs (5 stills), and merchandise (4 album and storybook covers).

What distinguishes the TV series from the movie is that it injects blasts of unexpected comedy involving surreal fantasy sequences.

Billy's love interest in the movie is played by Cates, and it didn't hurt that the brunette star was white hot off one of the most talked - about swimming pool fantasy sequences of the»80s in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

On the surface, Youth in Revolt seems to be the perfect hipster coming of age movie; with it's obscure pop songs, absurdist fantasy sequences, and Michael Cera.

If self - sacrifice is the ultimate show of faith, then a recurrent fantasy sequence in which Julian submits to being figuratively castrated by a man with a blade (whom we later discover to be Chang) is a gratuitous sign of his enslavement to the maternal phallus.

Although not critically well received, Antonioni's cult classic remains a milestone of psychedelic filmmaking with its beautiful desert landscapes, hypnotic fantasy sequences, and a tailor made soundtrack from artists such as The Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd.

In fantasy sequences illustrated like old - fashioned picture books, he battles giant blue gorillas, rescues his parents from sharks, flies through space.

The series stars Chris Diamantopoulos, who is wonderful in everything, but gets saddled here with two parts: one good, as the dead father who teaches his youngest, introspective son via fantasy sequences garnered from the book he leaves his boys; the other not good, as the living twin brother who is mostly dopey and unreliable and is essentially just the fourth kid that Hayes has to deal with in the house.

A LITTLE PRINCESS is adapted respectably by screenwriters Richard LaGravenese and Elizabeth Chandler, meticulously produced, opulently designed — particularly in the colorful fantasy sequences — elegantly photographed by cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki and adequately (in the case of Eleanor Bron,

Between those moments, however, are too many gags that don't work, namely a bunch of unfunny fantasy sequences: recurring appearances by a groovy Jesus Christ (also played by Ferrell), a strained send - up of Armageddon, and, most painfully, a supermodel photo shoot.

His hopes are played out in imaginative, swoony fantasy sequences.

You also added fantasy sequences towards the end of the film where Julia's character is remembering her former life with her husband, these scenes were not in the book so could you talk about the importance of adding them in order to make the film work?

In addition to changing the story's setting, screenwriters Richard LaGravenese and Elizabeth Chandler add a layer of Indian mythology to the tale, allowing director Alfonso Cuaron the chance to punctuate the riches - to - rags fable with a series of lush, imaginative fantasy sequences.

Now toss in a handful of dream / fantasy sequences as well, and it makes it all the more odd that the film struggles to maintain a sense of pacing, with things considerably sagging in the middle.

An Ideal Husband had hints of My Fair Lady, with a touch of Tony Blair's Third Way, while Earnest was tricked out with fantasy sequences and desperate lunges of physical comedy.

There are more than a few structural similarities to Beauty, including the typical but still wonderful Thomas Newman score, an older man who becomes sexually infatuated with a young girl, and a series of fantasy sequences (minus the rose pedals).

Or, to some extent, the fantasy sequences in The Singing Detective, in which Michael Gambon reminisces (or fantasises) about singing old jazz standards in a club.

If all that wasn't enough, there is a fantasy sequence in Porco Rosso which is worth the price of admission alone.

The films weren't shy about using flashy action and fantasy sequences to amp up the movies» appeal.

And the fantasy sequences in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty — which stars Stiller as a Life magazine photo editor with escapist daydreams — yield some of its funniest moments.

«There's a fantasy sequence where we shot on a desert ranch that was infested with rattlesnakes,» said Hurwitz.

«Airplanes are beautiful dreams,» notes Caproni in one of pic's fantasy sequences.