Sentences with phrase «few war films»

Not exact matches

Few films in celluloid history have been as eagerly anticipated as the first installment in the «Star Wars» prequel trilogy, 1999's «The Phantom Menace.»

«Infinity War» will have to close the gap with a few other films.

Or were not a few of them like the General Patton we are shown in the famous (and quite factual) film, relishing the trial and potential glory of combat, loving the strategic game, certainly not wanting to «sit back and watch,» but still ultimately knowing that this «love of war» in them was not an entirely good trait?

Anyone who has attended a Star Trek or Star Wars film on opening day and then gone a few weeks later knows the difference between a piece of art viewed by cult followers and one viewed with casual fans.

Though this version is set 25 years later than the original film, the changes are mostly cosmetic: the visual style is hand - held and more frantic, and the script replaces numerous references to the Cold War with a few glancing nods to present - day politics.

Some are recurrently woven into the film's crazy quilt, others feature as stand - alone major panels; a few more are mere fragments, adding to the sense of a chaotic exquisite - corpse story war held together by the thinnest, most tongue - in - cheek pretexts.

Unlike many war films, this is not a guns and bombs affair and therefore offers few chances to test your system's capabilities.

The first few years of his career following the departure from the show were somewhat lackluster, but Smits eventually landed the role of Senator Bail Organa in the second and third Star Wars prequels, a move that would permanently cement him in film history in the minds of at least one very large fanbase.In addition to his work with the Star Wars franchise, Smits also made an inevitable return to the small - screen mid-decade with a prominent role on NBC's The West Wing during the show's 2004 - 2005 season.

Quite a few of these didn't even make it into 2012: World War Z, The Great Gatsby, Gravity, The Grandmaster (s) and tragically Gangster Squad are among the numerous films to get bumped to 2013.

There's a unique novelty in general to this film's featuring its protagonist as a biopic in the starring role, and as a war film, it has a few other twists, but when it falls to formula, it falls pretty hard, with very mid-20th century Hollywood tropes to its plotting, characterization and, for that matter, fluff which tends to get a little too fluffy for its own good.

At its heart, Black Panther has a fairly standard comic book sort of story: baddie Ulysses Klaue (a rare live - action Andy Serkis: Star Wars: The Last Jedi, War for the Planet of the Apes), one of the few outsiders who knows the secrets of Wakanda, and who had stolen a small quantity of vibranium decades ago, is up to no good again, with a scary dude nicknamed Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan: Fantastic Four, and both of Coogler's previous films) at his side; they must be stopped by T'Challa, Nakia, and the absolute force of nature General Okoye (Danai Gurira), with an assist from CIA agent Everett K. Ross (Martin Freeman: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Sherlock).

One of the very few important or notable films to come out of RKO after World War II, it remains a regular subject of showings at revival theaters, a popular video, and a widely regarded classic.

One of the few sequels that surpasses the original in every way, Empire Strikes Back is one of the closest examples to a perfect film that there is, and anyone who disagrees is either an imbecile or (and most likely this) has formed a biased opinion that Star Wars is a nerd series that they are above (so an imbecile).

Better known in the last few years for directing episodes of such shows as The Wire, Treme, and the American version of The Killing, Agnieszka Holland returns to her native Poland for another film of hers concerning the plight of people during the Second World War.

Anyway, Lord of War become one of the few films that I really liked with Nicolas Cage.

If you can only squeeze in a few films before the Marvel fan in your life FORCES you to see Infinity War, use this guide as your Cliff Notes.

Not many will debate against that Woody Harrelson is one of the greatest actors of his time (this year alone he has appeared in a wide variety of films and given a pair of incredible performances in War for the Planet of the Apes and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), but his portrayal of Texan Lyndon B. Johnson in the biopic about the polarizing political figure simply titled LBJ (directed by Rob Reiner of A Few Good Men fame among other widely regarded classics) is a mixed bag.

From the moment it was announced Rian Johnson would be directing «Star Wars: Episode VIII,» fans have been excitedly wondering what kind of special sauce the director of genre - bending films like «Looper» and «Brick» (not to mention a few of the best episodes of «Breaking Bad») will bring to the universe George Lucas created.

In other words, Boll's latest evokes the form but not the content of such film series as Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean and Star Wars, which means that few if any fantasy fans will be deceived into believing that Dungeon Siege is a legitimate endeavor rather than the same everything - must - go yard sale of clichés and familiar formulas the director mined for his previous work.

Considering the fact that Behind Enemy Lines is one of the few films to have actually had its opening date pushed forward following our declaration of war, I'm not the only person able to spot an opportunity.

Otto Preminger's 1960 film version of Leon Uris's Exodus - about the founding of the state of Israel after the second world war - wasn't quite the critical hit its makers probably hoped for, but was certainly a commercial one and received a few awards too - including an Oscar for its music, by Ernest Gold.

But having the year's top - grossing movie led by a female character has become downright commonplace over the past few years: The «Star Wars» prequel spin - off «Rogue One,» starring Felicity Jones the daughter of an Imperial scientist who the Rebel Alliance and leads a team determined to steal the Death Star plans, was the highest grossing film of 2016, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com.

That first movie, 1977's Star Wars, is to date still the only one (and one of the very few science fiction films, period) to have garnered a Best Picture Oscar... Read

The Force Awakens: The most successful Star Wars film to date, commercially speaking, The Force Awakens was basically A New Hope with a few adjustments.

There's never been any confirmed word on her contract, but she's definitely in Infinity War — having been spotted filming in Scotland by multiple sources — and few name actors sign on with Marvel for less than three movies.

Various comments from directors of Marvel movies, characters rumors, and plot points set up in more than a few films, all seem to point to the MCU being totally different after Infinity War.

It's been a few weeks since Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Star Wars: Episode VIII — The Last Jedi) took us back to a galaxy far, far away, and that film is still one of the only things the internet can talk about these days.

Rising star: Elizabeth has a few anticipated projects in the works, as she recently wrapped up filming for Avengers: Infinity War

With a few exceptions — the Roald Dahl adaptation The Witches (1990), or the non-Vietnam War Joseph Conrad adaptation Heart of Darkness (1993)-- the subsequent films failed to pierce public consciousness as keenly as his earlier works.

If Avengers: Infinity War ends with a lead - in to Annihilation, Marvel Comics may be hoping to catch a few fans whose interest was piqued by the film.

As a toddler, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea put me to sleep even faster than Star Wars did (sorry), but I always cut the film significant slack for having suffered an amputating pan-and-scan video transfer, as this was Disney's first and ultimately one of its few CinemaScope productions.

By way of comparisons, the last few Marvel films to open in China were Black Panther with $ 66 million, Captain America: Civil War with $ 98 million, and Avengers: Age of Ultron with $ 84 million (at current exchange rates).

Paul Franklin has made his mark in cinema in the dizzying world of visual effects, having done work on the likes of a few Harry Potter films, a Bond movie, and most recently, Captain America: Civil War.

Captain America: Civil War made news a few weeks back when it was announced that a partnership between Sony and Marvel had been made and that Spider - Man would appear in the upcoming film.

Teasing that the latest outfits «can do even new and stranger things,» Reed revealed that Ant - Man's gear is a mesh of what was seen in the first film and Captain America: Civil War, albeit with a few updates.

Elizabeth has a few anticipated projects in the works, as she recently wrapped up filming for Avengers: Infinity War.

While this is certainly a message that few would find fault with, with better films about the experience of combat vets returning home, setting the film up in the Iraq War and then delivering manipulative and mawkish drama where realistic portrayals should be isn't the way to go about it.

With just a few weeks left until the film hits theaters, the marketing blitz has started to hit the small screen, and two new Solo A Star Wars Story TV spots have arrived to tease the spin - off that could start a whole new franchise.

We've got just a few weeks left until we find out whether Han Solo's origin film is worth a damn when the spin - off Solo: A Star Wars Story hits theaters.

It took 18 months to shoot each portions of «Infinity War» back - to - back (the sequel is due out subsequent summer season), placing a stranglehold on a few of our absolute best film stars, like Chris Hemsworth and Anthony Mackie.

A few weeks ago, I had a chance to talk to Joe and Anthony Russo about Avengers: Infinity War and how they were able to achieve everything that they did with the film including how they kept everything that happened in the film a secret from everyone including the actors.

Schaffner came from TV, and while he has few of the obnoxious visual affectations of the TV - trained director, he tends to restrict the most significant actions and relationships in his films to spatial arenas that could be served very adequately by the tube rather than the Panavision screen: the real convention hustle in The Best Man takes place in hotel rooms, hallways, and basements; the tensest moments in his strange and (to me) very sympathetic medieval mini-epic The War Lord are confined to a small soundstage clearing or that besieged tower; the battle scenes in Patton are hardly clumsy, but the real show is George C. Scott; and Nicholas and Alexandra comes alive only after the royal family has been penned up under the watchful eyes of Ian Holm and then Alan Webb, far from the splendor of St. Petersburg or the shambles of the Great War.

Just a few months after his cinematic breakout, Chadwick Boseman's Black Panther will make his third film appearance in Avengers: Infinity War.

McFarr's also got a few other prolific films under his belt, having performed stunts for Captain America: Civil War, Furious 7, and the Hunger Games movies series.

It was a hit that got overlooked when another 20th Century Fox science fiction film, a little thing called Star Wars, opened just a few weeks later, but a cult following kept it alive through revival house, college campuses, and video releases ever since.

As British double agent Archie Hicox Fassbender is one of the few good things about Tarantino's patchy, frustrating war film.

... Speaking of Phase Three, The Hobbit star Martin Freeman has teased his mystery role in Captain America: Civil War, while Marvel chief Kevin Feige also offered up a few words on the the film itself: «Civil War is a relatively simple story,» states Feige.

Anthony Hemingway (with assistance from George Lucas) has done something few directors have been ever able to achieve — he has created a war film almost completely devoid of drama, passion or interest.

We've seen hundreds of films about the Second World War, usually focussing on those on the front line, or the millions of minorities who lost their lives under the Nazi regime, yet films focussing on the ordinary German civilians seem to be few and far between.

During the original release of Star Wars in May 1977 Twentieth Century - Fox released no fewer than four versions of the film to North American theaters.