Sentences with phrase «feel of movies from»

But Roach takes that theatrical style, mixes it with the look and feel of movies from Trumbo's era (including politically - themed dramas like Elia Kazan's «A Face in the Crowd,» a favorite of Roach's) and whips up a playful, stylized, slightly melodramatic tone.

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Though at times the movie feels like a laundry list of all the ways Jobs could be cruel to his closest companions, small moments of compassion prevent the filmmakers from portraying him as completely heartless.

The story of his previous startup, Mako Surgical, could be a blockbuster movie («RoboDoc») about a dreamer from Hollywood (Florida) living hand - to - mouth, overcoming all odds to build something the experts said was impossible: A futuristic robot that gave surgeons the real - time «feel» of flesh, sinew and bone.

I hardly knew where to look first or where to go first: it's a disorienting feeling to stand in front of a building you sort of recognize from dozens of movies but have never been to yourself.

John also confirmed that the new movie would include four songs from the original movie (remember, Elton John was a key staple of the old soundtrack): «Can You Feel the Love Tonight?»

Mead offers a less compassionate portrayal of a freelance, multifaith minister who offers brides and grooms a smorgasbord of options for ceremonies, including the fabled «Apache Indian Prayer» («Now you will feel no rain / For each of you will be shelter to the other»)-- which originates not from Apache tradition but from a movie starring Jimmy Stewart — and a ceremony she concocted in which the bride and groom dab honey on each other's tongues.

It's not often that one leaves a movie theater feeling speechless, but anyone on the right side of the culture wars who views the recent film Blast from the Past will find his jaw scraping the sidewalk» and not out of disgust.

On that rainy February day, Turner told me that he'd come back from Iraq and felt like the bomb defuser in the movie «The Hurt Locker,» who goes into a grocery store and is overwhelmed by the mesmerizing variety of cereals.

I'm talking about the kind of «feel bad» that comes from watching one of those men - are - evil movies on Lifetime TV, starring some actress whom you either thought was dead or a much bigger star, and it feels so good to feel so bad about the men in your life even though 10 minutes ago you loved your husband just fine?

This was a game Nick and I devised many years ago to start watching a lot of variety from our amazing movie collection when we felt we were watching Asian horrors or comedies all the time.

And while making these small, delicious truffles it felt like the spirit of love ran from the apartment into the truffles and made them magical;) Seriously, just like the movie «como agua para chocolate» (like water for chocolate)-- where all the food she makes absorbs her tears, feelings and mood which are passed on into the people who eat it.

With Stowell, learning quirky and mundane tidbits about her felt like a refreshing distraction from the elephant in the room: she wrote homework questions, despite wanting to avoid homework in high school; she was part of a lab group that focused on eating competitions; she had a nail polish collection; she loved watching terrible movies; she used to play rugby, realized she wasn't good at it, and then switched to ultimate frisbee.

Fred Armisen eviscerated the governor during Weekend Update (Armisen - as - Paterson: «I'm a blind man who loves cocaine, who was suddenly appointed governor of New York; my life is an actual plot from a Richard Pryor movie») and his impression at times felt incredibly inappropriate.

With a movie resolution of 1280 X 720 at thirty frames per second and a micro-SD card with enough storage for several flights, you'll get a great feel for what things look like from above!

Prior research has shown that the use of entertaining media produces a «recovery experience,» that helps us to psychologically detach from work stress and relax, but also provides mastery experience (e.g., when you beat a computer game or watch a thought - provoking movie) and a feeling of control during leisure time.

I try to eat healthy most of the time but when I feel like a burger, pizza or chocolate — I will have it And yes — everyone is saying that Blade Runner is soooo good and I was just there sitting like — hell no?!!! Apart from ryan Gosling who looks amazing as usual, that movie was sooo boring

I LOVE fall!!!! Halloween is to me what most people feel about Christmas I love everything from the rich fall colors, cool air, yummy comfort foods (when you can finally cook in a kitchen that isn't 100 degrees) and scary movies to enjoy under cozy blankets in the dark with fall scented candles burning...... Love Thank you for getting me excited over the coming of my favorite season!!!!!!

Our collection of Captain America leather jackets consists of designs from every movie, you can channel your inner Steve Rogers and put on a Captain America Leather Jacket and feel the greatness of the Cap.

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit is now on Blu - ray in a 25th anniversary edition, though as far as I can tell the primary function of the anniversary distinction is to make me feel old (with the secondary function of selling more copies); apart from the upgrade of the movie to high definition, it's mostly a rehash of the Vista Series DVD that came out a decade ago.

I wish the movie gets lots of awards.This whole week I've been trying to watch whole old horror comedy movies from 70s - 80s, then, I watched this from 2014, I felt the brilliant old times, comedy but smart.

The film lacks any kind of real «action», which makes it a departure from Mann's other work like Heat or Last of the Mohicans, but it still feels like an action movie because of the aggressive way in which Mann directs it.

Not the trainwreck it's been advertised as but still nowhere near the term of «passable,» I Love You, Beth Cooper feels like a forgotten relic from a time capsule of 1980s teen movies.

There's a tonal dissonance here: The gangster - movie dialogue of these different groups, as well as a somewhat lame late movie shoot - out, feel far removed from the terse, beautifully choreographed pandemonium of the film's first act.

I have gravely mixed feelings about every movie on Marc Forster's résumé, from «Monster's Ball» to «Stranger Than Fiction» to «The Kite Runner» to the 2008 Bond film «Quantum of Solace,» but the guy is undeniably a stylistic virtuoso with a Michael Winterbottom - like ability to jump around from one genre to another.

The movie could have been much improved by slicing a few frames from each shot, and reining in Rust's weirdness just a bit % u2014so as to not contribute to the lumbering, hallucinogenic feel of his initial characterization.

I have a feeling I'd get more out of this from the MST3K perspective but you're better off watching Forbidden Planet as This Island Earth is the low - rent, poor man's version of that movie...

But this also means that when major, life - changing events happen in the world of the Marvel movies — like the ending of Infinity War, in which half of all sentient beings in the universe are erased from existence — they're rarely given the weight they should have, beyond some of the characters expressing, «I am feeling bad about this.»

Full cooperation from the film production team provides faithful implementation of the movie's look - and - feel.

It's fairly tedious stuff that's compounded by a lack of narrative momentum and an almost aggressively deliberate pace, with, in terms of the latter, the movie's slowness ultimately preventing the viewer from working up any interest in (or enthusiasm for) the protagonist's feel - good antics.

The film does falter when Letts and Friedkin choose to take it outside of its theatrical origins, especially in a motorcycle scene that feels like it came from another movie, but it's a minor complaint.

Which is only to say that «Shrek the Third,» directed by Chris Miller and Raman Hui from a script with a half - dozen credited begetters, already feels less like a children's movie than either of its predecessors.

When nobody involved has any sense of urgency about their mission, when every few moments somebody feels the need to stop and SLOWLY expound on «We took their land from them» and the like, when one and all have to quickly change their socio - ethnic worldview over the course of the picture, your movie quickly outstays its welcome.

But while the sequel benefits from Reynolds» superhuman charisma as the charmingly annoying, katana - wielding protagonist, the film nevertheless feels too much like more of the same: more of the same gross - out gags, more of the same irreverent jokes, more bits where Deadpool has to regrow severed limbs to the disgust of everyone around him, more running commentary on the movie he's in....

It's clear that Killer's Kiss requires a great deal of patience from the viewer, as much of the movie's first half suffers from the feel of a rather unimpressive student film - with director Stanley Kubrick exacerbating this feeling by suffusing the proceedings with needlessly ostentatious visual choices.

(2004), an Americanized version of a popular feel - good Japanese movie from 1996, then portrayed the visionary film director Stanley Kubrik in the HBO biopic «The Life and Death of Peter Sellers» (2004).

They might even be the best part of the film, but only because the rest of the movie feels patched together from scraps, including some sentimental interludes that seem designed to give it «heart» but merely come off as insincere.

For all its sincere intentions, Kruishoop's script feels cobbled together from newspaper headlines and bits of other movies rather than real, lived experience.

Good: Starscream is a lot cooler in this movie, Best computer - graphics for any movie to date, Original Optimus voice, Bumblebee vs. Barricade scene was awesome, Decent story, but the Unicron story is a million times better Bad: No Hot Rod or Soundwave, Shia LeBeouf, Ending, Futile attempts to connect to classic scenes, lines and concepts, No Stan Bush soundtrack, Some immature humor ruined a lot of the movie for me, Poor dialogue I really expected a lot from this movie and am very critical about my feelings towards it - Overall Michael Bay made a good movie, but he made it appeal to the masses (immature jokes and a lot of action) and it gave up a lot of other crucial aspects to the story and quality of the Transformers franchise.

It is, quite frankly, rather astonishing just how uninvolving and underwhelming Confidence reveals itself to be, with the movie, right from its opening frames, assuming a palpably generic feel that's reflected in its eye - rollingly mannered dialogue and plethora of telegraphed plot twists (ie Doug Jung's lazy screenplay seems to have emerged directly from a template for movies of this ilk).

And although the movie spins its wheels in the buildup to its final battle, Spartacus benefits substantially from an absolutely enthralling skirmish that stands as the high point in the proceedings - to the extent that most everything that follows, which comprises an additional 40 minutes or so, is simply unable to avoid an anticlimactic feeling of superfluousness by comparison.

The movie is a whirlingly divergent romp, blending serious violence with outrageous comedy, but it has the feel of oral history, of lives and times rescued from oblivion.

I like Lawrence's performance best when she actually gets to do some spy stuff, like in a centerpiece scene that feels flown in from a different movie, in which Dominika cultivates a boozy senatorial staffer played by Mary - Louise Parker (making the absolute most of a little).

At its sloppy heart, this is meant to be an affirming movie, but the filmmakers could have taken a cue from one line of dialogue: «Don't just feel special.

Even though it relies on a gripping feel of intense paranoia, this is an overlong sci - fi / horror movie that suffers from certain problems in logic and kills its tension with long passages that make the pacing irregular, not even being smart enough as an allegory like the original film.

If it's been a while since you've felt the cold blast and hard crunch of midnight - movie meanness, Zahler's shaping up to be your guy — the one selling illicit thrills out of the trunk of a well - restored, vinyl - topped LTD — and with «Brawl,» he sets himself further apart from his more schlock - minded contemporaries in cult cinem

But purely in terms of the experience you go through from watching a movie, I feel absolutely certain that Killing Gunther would have been exponentially better if Arnie's involvement was kept secret.

The riotous colours of Dia de los Muertos are then carried forward into the fluorescent bodies of the spirit animals that support the dead, although the main one here — a flying tiger — is so overpoweringly large, it feels as if it has swooped in from another movie.

Mostly, this effects - heavy film from director Brad Peyton (who previously directed Johnson in «San Andreas» and «Journey 2: The Mysterious Island») has the unpretentious feel of a 1950s monster movie, with a rogue science project unleashing a trio of genetically edited beasts bent on destruction.