Sentences with phrase «feels like a superhero movie»

However, it is gleefully nihilistic, and it takes a different approach to what has become a fairly familiar story form at this point, right at the moment when it feels like superhero movies either have to evolve or die.

Because of this, Ragnarok often feels like a superhero movie made by people who want to mock superhero movies.

The 11 - foot CGI Hulk may look a little cartoonish, the addition of rabid Hulk dogs is downright lame, and the use of comic book panel editing is an acquired taste, but it still looks and feels like a superhero movie, even if it didn't turn out exactly the way we wanted it to.

What's strange is that this doesn't feel like a superhero movie until the characters turn up in their suits and display their arsenal of thingamabobs, and that's a compliment.

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And your dislike of Wilshere is proportional to you love for Ramsey, in a way that both of your feelings are on the level of superhero movies you obviously like.

(CNN) Black superheroes have reached the screen before, but seeing the collective weight of Marvel / Disney thrown behind a blockbuster like «Black Panther» still feels like a cultural watershed, one that the movie exuberantly embraces.

Nobody has ever seen anything like «Black Panther» — not just an entire civilization built from the metal stuff inside Captain America's shield, and not even just a massive superhero movie populated almost entirely by black people, but also a Marvel film that actually feels like it takes place in the real world.

As a rule, these movies basically work, most of them, even if they sometimes feel more like a product, launched, than a superhero world, imagined.

Well I saw it, it was fun... like someone else said I felt like you just werent meant to take it as seriously as other superhero movies like TDK.

The storytelling vocabulary of superhero movies doesn't have to be constricted (FX's extravagantly inventive TV series «Legion» is proof) but it feels quite constricted here; it always has been, notwithstanding occasional outliers like «Thor: Ragnarok,» «Black Panther» and «Ant Man.»

It's taken a decade and 18 films, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe has finally produced a superhero movie that feels like it was ripped from the pages of a comic book.

What separates «Black Panther» from the Batmans, Spidermans and Iron Mans of the creaky, big studio superhero genre is that it looks and, more important, feels nothing like the usual bloated franchise movie that takes no chances and plays by genre rules.

That doesn't bug me with Iron Man becuase that is Tony Stark in a nutshell, but otherwise there's not a whole lot of other superhero movies where it feels like anyone actually gives much of a shit about each other.

Captain America: Winter Soldier artfully dodges nearly every typical superhero movie problem (as well as general sequel problems) with a stunning grasp of mood, total commitment to a «square» character, a smart choice of villain, and thrilling action scenes that feel authentically dangerous (a complete rarity in blockbusters) rather than like stop - and - gawk «setpieces» with no actual stakes.

Does it seem both groundbreaking and classic because it doesn't feel like a modern superhero movie, especially those with the Marvel brand?

With Martin Campbell's Green Lantern we are given a film that feels like a cheap carbon copy of superhero films of the yesteryear; offering elements of comic books movies we have all witnessed before while at the same time lacking in any form of originality.

There was a time when a big, shiny, new superhero blockbuster felt like a major movie event.

Captain America met my expectations of what a superhero movie should be, but it did nothing to hide the contentment of nearly everyone involved to do good enough, nothing more, nothing less; it also felt no need to mask the fact that it is, like Kenneth Branagh's Thor, merely a wind - up for Joss Whedon's upcoming The Avengers.

I can't see how anyone could be dissatisfied with this movie I preferred it to the other two as I think it captured batman perfectly bane was perfect how anyone can disagree after batman and robin is beyond me??? Cat women was perfect there was no poor casting IMO character development was fine story was fine and beautifully shot soundtrack stunning all involved made an absolute masterpiece even tho I guessed most plotpoints in advance they still felt like a surprise to me I don't see the point in any other superhero franchise making any more movies as bb tdk and tdkr will never be surpassed

This feels like the ultimate ensemble superhero movie and I'm worried that the more they try to pack into two - and - a-half hours, the less we'll get out of it.

Movie review: Deadpool 2 Ryan Reynolds still has the magical combination of charm and smarm that makes Deadpool unique in the superhero universe, but this highly self - aware sophomore effort feels like being at a party where everyone is taking selfies.

The $ 502 million domestic Beauty grossed was more than all but seven movies: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, James Cameron's record - setters Avatar and Titanic, Jurassic World, landmark superhero movies The Avengers and The Dark Knight, and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (which kind of feels like the outlier here).

The pilot tends to get bogged down in too much cool, flashy gadgetry, and cheesy effects, and has moments of chatty info - dump that can be overwhelming, but those are small quibbles for a show that feels like a 44 - minute superhero movie.

I felt like they did on «Watchmen» where they were like, «okay, it's so deconstructed,» but I kind of feel like now I think about it, many people thought that «Watchmen» was a superhero movie, just like they thought «Sucker Punch» was an action movie.

That's the way I feel about Matthew Vaughn's «X-Men: First Class,» and I only grudgingly went with the slightly positive, because I walked out of the theater feeling like I had just watched an okay superhero movie.

In many ways it felt like it was borrowing the best parts of other superhero and action / adventure movies (Thor, Captain America, even a dash of Indiana Jones) while still carving out its own unique identity.

And still, I feel like typically when a movie of this size comes out, sure the primary focus is on the superhero, but there's also a lot of it on the supporting characters.

They're certainly moving the camera a lot — frankly it feels like they're auditioning for a superhero gig and not for nothing, they're up for the Flash movie — and making some choices, like using models for transition scenes instead of typical cutaways or beauty shots.

This makes the film feel less like a superhero movie than like the fantastical cinema of Guillermo Del Toro or Bong Joon - Ho, romantic horror extremists who fill their films with grotesque comedy beats and heartfelt sociopolitics.

Logan receiving screenplay attention is especially rewarding, considering how that movie feels like the most mature superhero film ever made.

I know The Avengers raised the bar to astronomical proportions for the next phase of Marvel universe movies, but with its goofy humor, weak plot, and unnecessary romance, to me the film felt like a superhero chick flick.

The hard truth is superhero movies aren't for everyone and it feels like Hunnam's style may not fit the genre.

I'm drawn to the superhero movies that feel like they have plausible stakes at hand.

Andy Sandberg's dopey variation on Pearl Jam's «Alive,» focused on how all the younger stars in the room might go over to the dark side of superhero movies, felt like a crass and superficial interpretation of that career move (especially in the year of «Black Panther»).

If you feel like there seems to be a lot going on for a superhero movie, you are correct in your assessment.

As she first appeared, I thought that Gwen Stacy felt like someone really wanted to get Emma Stone into a superhero movie.

That's the movie's biggest issue: bells and whistles aside, it feels like just another superhero story.

Black Panther may be Coogler's first superhero movie, but in truth, the heroes at the center of his films, including Oscar Grant, have always felt bigger than their real - life counterparts, if only because of Coogler's willingness to lean into treating them like the heroes of a movie.

One of the best things about Logan, the hard - R superhero movie currently taking the box office by storm, is its finality: It really does feel like the last word on our current big - screen incarnation of Wolverine.