Sentences with phrase «fight films like»

Not exact matches

Early last week, UFC president Dana White announced McGregor had been pulled from the card of UFC 200 because McGregor refused to go to Las Vegas to promote the fight; typical pre-fight promotions like a press conference, filming a commercial, and other marketing events had been scheduled.

Characters in zombie films are willing to do terrible things to each other because of the fear of zombies and the urge for self preservation, while, in the real world, things like the use of torture (or «advanced interrogation»), preemptive war and drone strikes were being debated as options to fight a threat even scarier than zombies: terrorism.

It's a familiar feeling to film buffs who have seen many versions of the shock - twist ending in films like Fight Club...

The second film, set in the Middle Ages, stars knights who fight in «clone - like» shells of metal in competitive games and war.

Some apps allow you to stitch together photos to make a stop - motion animated film, and your child can make it look like Iron Man or a Disney Princess is walking across a room or fighting a bad guy, or have a Lego guy or girl driving a toy car — or anything else your child can think of.

It was like the final scene in a slasher film where the kids think they've fought off the antagonist, only for them to suddenly turn up for one more round.

UFC or ultimate fighting has been around since the early nineties and made an instant impact with fight fans but since the release of films like never back down and red belt mixed martial arts seems to have taken the world by storm and even threat tens to overtake boxing as the number one combat sport.

The pressure off, they're free to make out like teenagers and fall in love, a happy interlude the film covers with smart economy, so as to spend more time on getting to know this «hot grandma» (she's struggling to keep her middle daughter pregnancy - free through high school), as well as the couple's first big fight, occasioned when she wonders why he still doesn't want to sleep with her after nearly 20 dates.

The film doesn't use sound anything like as effectively as Leone, but the fight scenes feel brutal and realistic, particularly in the final showdown (s) between Carver and Gideon.

Their fights with the Avengers are the film's highlights, and a couple of them truly feel like significant threats to Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

The look of the film adds to its feeling almost like a fable, as do the importance of several everyday objects: a torn photograph, an empty water bucket, a child's bright red dress, a pair of scissors, a crutch belonging to Parvana's father (he lost a leg in the fight against the Soviets).

By the end of the 60's the Chinese audience did not like to see too many cuts within the fights of a martial art film.

I think the main point in the film is how the lead protagonist Paul Baumer (like his friends) starts out as a patriotic young German wanting to go off and fight for his country.

There is enough artistry in moments like this and sections of the subway fight which makes you wonder why there isn't more of it in the finished film.

Not only are these scenes a lot longer and more expository than they need to be, but they give the sense of a film crew fighting against the material; the camera chases after the story, rather than grabbing it by the scruff of the neck like a proper adaptation would.

I did like though, that even though the film tackles a controversial subject (euthanasia), Ramon is selfish about it in that he's fighting only for HIS personal right to die with dignity instead of becoming the champion for a cause.

The action sequences and fight scenes in the first two acts of the movie are equally impressive in their staging, taking visual cues from sources that include Coogler's own grounded boxing scenes in Creed, as well as many a James Bond film during a nightclub sequence right out of something like Skyfall.

The details are no long important, but after legal wrangles and creative fights, a 150 - minute cut was released in a few cities in 2011, and then it practically disappeared, resurfacing in early 2012 after a long campaign by fans, supporters, and folks like me who never had a chance to see the film on its original release.

Soderbergh's cinematography is, as ever, superb — a shot of Carano and Tatum in the LED light of an airport departure lounge has the world - weary blearily - lit hum of a John Le Carre film updated for our digital age, while a climactic fight under the morning sun on the beachside shore feels like someone dropped a Donnie Yen battle into a Michelangelo Antonioni art film.

I like focused biopics that don't feel they need to go from cradle to grave, but the focus here gives the film a bit of unearned hero worship, as we see LBJ hold the country together after tragedy and fight for civil rights against caricaturish opponents.

In a scene where the town's men torture Ben to suss out Tom's whereabouts, I was reminded of Elia Kazan's Wild River and that film's establishment of a hero who, towards the end, moans that he'd like to win just one fight.

Stoll gives a solid performance, even if his villain role is a bit generic, feeling more like Obadiah Stane from the original Iron Man film, complete with a prolonged climax in which supercharged hero and supercharged villain fight it out in their respective techno suits.

He did stuff like Troy, that epic fight between Brad Pitt and Eric Bana, and he did the Batman films, the Sherlock Holmes films... He's kind of a legend.

Although the film contains depictions of school kids fist - fighting, a teen couple kissing, and parents drinking, the movie speaks to those times when we feel like we are all alone, and reminds us that we are not.

The movie has even drawn some comparisons to «Trainspotting,» even if the pitch - black comedy feels more like another book - to - film cult classic, «Fight Club.»

Ultimately, it's a showcase for elaborate stunt - work and fight choreography, and, because I'm starting to think of Stahelski's film like the films directed by Yuen Wo Ping, that's totally all right.

It's not quite as awful as Lynch's last effort, the horror - comedy «Knights of Badassdom,» but while the idea of watching a scantily - clad Hayek fight her way through yakuza henchman and prostitutes - turned - assassins may sound like a ton of fun, «Everly» is never able to match its B - movie aspirations, instead forced to flounder in the gutter like the filthy, exploitative grindhouse film that it is.

In the wake of the international success of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the film sounded like a rip - off, featuring martial arts fighting and battles between massive armies.

That is a link you somehow made, to make the claim that I then shouldn't like Fight Club (which is even weirder, because I have never stated my opinion about that film, so you don't know whether I like it or not).

The film most like it from that year is David Fincher's Fight Club, in that both aspire to be plangent black satires but ultimately end on flaccid off - notes: the one with the idea of an organized posse of anarchists destroying our financial infrastructure, the other with a homophobic Republican gunning down gay Best Actor winner Kevin Spacey in his last role as accidental Christ before he took on the crown and sandals permanently and on purpose.

What You Need To Know: With director Paul Greengrass having made a name for himself in two relatively distinct areas — the tense conspiracy action thriller (the second and third «Bourne» films) and based - in - fact films about recent historical events («United 93,» «Bloody Sunday,») «Captain Phillips» seems like it could play to his strengths in both areas, as it's a gripping, tense, fight - for survival type tale that has added weight and heft for being lifted from a real - life incident.

We're close to the action in this film, often shot from low to the ground, more like a «Bourne» film than a superhero movie, and the focus is more on fight choreography than editing.

Sue Short comments that «like the Final Girl of the slasher film, it is Jill rather than Mo who displays the courage and resourcefulness of a true survivor, realising the need to fight to stay alive.»

I personally am shocked that the film is nominated for a screenplay award and supporting actress (nothing against Melissa McCarthy because she is an awesome) but if that's all Hollywood needs from a script is a bunch of women fighting like 8 year olds and pooping in the street, please let me know and I will have my brothers write you up a screenplay in a few hours.

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.

Nonetheless, those redoubtable boutique labels like the Criterion Collection and Arrow Video are still fighting the good fight: dedicated to rescuing the oddball and the obscure, treating them to rejuvenating digital brush - ups, and leavening them with contextual supplements worthy of any film - school curriculum.

Like the vast majority of new studio films in 2017, Fist Fight looks great on Blu - ray.

Charlie Kaufman went from TV scribe to red - hot screenwriter in 1999 with «Being John Malkovich,» and his timing couldn't have been better: That's a year the industry looks back upon as being a flashpoint of American indie cinema, with rule - breaking, ambitious films like «Pi,» «Boys Don't Cry,» «The Blair Witch Project,» «Three Kings» and «Fight Club» in multiplexes.

It's not the music itself that puts the film over, although hard - core bangers like «Fuck tha Police» still trigger both your exultation and fight - or - flight response.

When you start thinking about the film's themes of fighting for gender equality and standing up to a man like Riggs, you realize how it mirrors the current fight in a post-Trump election.

But it's telling that films like The Big Red One and Platoon don't follow that structure, as both Samuel Fuller and Oliver Stone actually fought in wars, unlike many a war movie writer or director.

That new perspective is the way the film looks like an action movie, filled with car chases and fights and shoot - outs, while behaving in a way more akin to a musical (For further evidence of the musical's influence, one need only look to the opening credits, which has the hero dancing around the city, as an assortment of visual gags highlight certain lyrics).

Tangerine at its worst feels like shouting and Three Stooges slapstick with a nasty undercurrent of violence — it's hard not to think of a moment where Alexandra prepares to fight a would - be John by saying she has «a dick, too» when Sin - Dee spends the middle portion of the film savaging Chester's small, blonde paramour.

Finalists: It was a great year for action, largely thanks to George Miller's new action masterwork but even in less perfect films there were inarguable standout sequences like the choreographed unbroken take on the Johnson vs. Sporino fight in CREED or the Hulkbuster Suit vs. Hulk in AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON both of which were so strong it's unfortunate to leave them out of the top five.

Teasing, «My hand strength is like vice grips,» the action stars reveals images of himself filming fight scenes on the set of «Jumanji.»

This therefore will probably make the mystery of Kunis» character's realness a deeply embedded element of the film which will pay off wonderfully in repeat viewings, like movies like Fight Club.

Director Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) produced the flick, which was helmed by Chris Gorak — who worked in the art department on films like Fight Club and Minority Report before he first tried his hand at directing with the 2006 thriller, Right at Your Door.

In places, it's a traditional intrepid - team - fights - beasties movie with echoes of films like Alien.

With a title like Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight, you'd think it'd be safe to assume HBO Films» upcoming release was a sports film.

Unlike the last few years, there are now at least three films that have a very good chance of winning the Best Picture trophy at the Oscar ceremony in February, and it looks like we'll be witness to a pretty intense fight to the finish line.