Sentences with phrase «favor of films like»

Starring comic book movie veterans like Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chris Evans, Idris Elba and Zoe Saldana, the film is really an A-list lineup of talent in a movie that is, for the most part, forgotten in favor of films like «RED» that use a similar star - packed formula.

In fact I am quite shocked to tell you that in my Top 20 Most Likely To Oscar chart page (being revised at the moment) I missed only two of these fifteen (Command and Control and The Witness) in favor of films like Newtown and Miss Sharon Jones.

Not exact matches

While a considerable number of women favor tear - jerkers or love stories, men find their enjoyment from action films or adult entertainment like Adult Avenue DVD's.

Like the film, characters take the opportunity to play nice, adhering to the social strata of the time, forcing us to give up the more overt subversion of the first film in favor of pure genre immersion.

Much like the love potion in this film you will quickly ignore this lovefest in favor of other more superior films.

Like the abominable «Napoleon Dynamite,» director Jared Hess» second feature will doubtless capture the hearts and minds of 12 - year - old boys everywhere, even if Nacho Libre sacrifices the earlier film's aggressive mean - spiritedness in favor of gentle slapstick lunacy.

There's a certain kind of film I see at many festivals: oblique, short on narrative and incident (or filled with repetitive incident), shot in a style that favors long (distance and time) shots of people doing nothing, or doing mundane things like crossing the street in real time.

Most of his best 1950s films were westerns, which like his war pictures favored slowly escalating personal tensions over wanton gunplay.

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 rest of the film is spent resolving this dispute, with Robert against the entire underworld still seeming like a pretty one - sided fight in his favor.

Obvious Child felt like a revelation in the wake of a festival that had distressingly begun to favor glamorously stripped - down Hollywood stars posturing in films that reveled in cheap nostalgia and grating quirkiness.

I still feel like we were being lectured and that means the film is condescending to those not part of the intended emphasis on the religion favored here.

Of all of the films directed by women this year (And there have been many), most have favored it over the MORE «important» stories — like Bigelow's trauma at the Algiers Motel, or Dee Rees» Mudbound or Dayton and Faris» Battle of the SexeOf all of the films directed by women this year (And there have been many), most have favored it over the MORE «important» stories — like Bigelow's trauma at the Algiers Motel, or Dee Rees» Mudbound or Dayton and Faris» Battle of the Sexeof the films directed by women this year (And there have been many), most have favored it over the MORE «important» stories — like Bigelow's trauma at the Algiers Motel, or Dee Rees» Mudbound or Dayton and Faris» Battle of the Sexeof the Sexes.

Unlike the kitschy films of someone like John Waters (whose Hairspray came out only a few years prior to this), Dottie Gets Spanked skips obvious laughs in favor of tighter storytelling.

A big part of the reason why comes from the film playing more like a comical character study with a world events backdrop, letting us see the craziness that would be front page headlines through the filtered and skewed view of a man whose own political views stemmed more through favors and paybacks than through heartfelt convictions.

Like its predecessor, the film favors a dark, foggy palette driven by shades of gray.

Particularly notable: Finding Nemo eschews a big - name voice cast in favor of talented character actors like Albert Brooks and Allison Janney, a lesson that too many recent animated films have failed to learn.

However, what the future holds for the Rock will certainly depend on wise choices, and while we can overlook the fact that The Scorpion King is a bad film in his favor, a career of these will make Johnson seem more like the Brian Bosworth for the new millennium.

Thank goodness for small favors, like Shankman's relatively subtle direction (relative only to the first film's Shawn Levy) and the stilletto delivery of Bonnie Hunt as Tom's wife Kate.

As stated above, the film is heavy on style, favoring a washed - out look most of the time that makes things like Tonto's bird and even the Lone Ranger's white hat really pop.

The one thing I can say in its favor is that Amanda Peet (Syriana, A Lot Like Love) is quite good in it, and Dermot Mulroney (The Wedding Date, Must Love Dogs) is more than adequate in his role (that's two films in a row for Mulroney featuring people dying of cancer before they can see their next Christmas — The Family Stone is his other), but even then, they aren't quite enough to elevate the terrible script into something remotely approaching believable or plausible.

Stevens relates his initial enthusiastic response to the script, as well as his favored description of the film as being like «Captain America gone very, very wrong.»

2:30 p.m., Hall H — Warner Bros & Legendary Pictures Probably the biggest ticket of the weekend, this sees Warners eschewing the chance for a last minute push for «The Dark Knight Rises» (like it needs it) in favor of the first look anywhere at next summer's big superhero film, Superman reboot «Man of Steel.»

Here, Godzilla's default disinterestedness and the film's elegiac depiction of a sudden urban warzone — one which mainly eschews the triumphalism of ascending missiles in favor of shattered glass and base - jumping soldiers both falling from the reddened sky like teardrops as abstractions of Barber and Penderecki fill the soundtrack — add up to $ 160 million worth of roaring existentialism.

Though the Oscars don't typically favor genre films, Get Out could be one of the rarities to make the cut, joining the ranks of predecessors like The Silence of the Lambs and Rosemary's Baby.

But the inert interview framing narrative does no favors to the film or Natalie Portman's straining lead performance, and Larraín's attempts to convey the spirit of the era feels like watered - down Todd Haynes, minus the fascination with mystique, glamour, and forms that can make Haynes» work enticing.

While I like the idea of Kit's character his role in the film is under - developed, and I would have had no issue with it being cut in favor of other things.

With the likes of Han Solo, Chewbacca, Leia and even Luke returning to join a new cast of heroes perhaps the intent was to make the first of the new trilogy feel very familiar to fans of the original trilogy before fading out the old guard in favor of the new characters and diverging from previous plots for the next two films.

Solid film that did us all the favor of treating us like we had a brain to tell a fun story... really not much more too it than tat.