Sentences with phrase «film about alien»

John Krasinski directs a spooky stunt of a horror film about alien beasties who will only attack you if you make a sound.

In 1996, director Roland Emmerich released the military science fiction film about an alien invasion - to put it simply - it was INDEPENDENCE...

A film about an alien, played by Shandling, who comes to earth to impregnate a human.

While some argue that all films should be criticised equally, in T3 «s defense is the obvious «what can you expect from a outrageously budgeted film about alien cars and trucks» argument.

In 1996, director Roland Emmerich released the military science fiction film about an alien invasion — to put it simply — it was INDEPENDENCE DAY and that main star alongside Jeff Goldblum, was the Fresh Prince Will Smith.

Without directly acknowledging it in traditional blockbuster ways, it's a sequel to 2008's «Cloverfield,» a found footage film about an alien invasion.

On this episode, the GeekScholars host a spoiler - free discussion and review of Annihilation, a science - fiction, mystery, quasi-horror film about an alien anomaly that forms its own unusual ecosystem on Earth, drastically changing all life within it.

Arrival, with its handwringing worthiness and easy answers, certainly meets these criteria as escapist balm for the masses, but this analysis ignores the fact that M Night Shyamalan's 2002 film Signs is not just a superior film about alien invasion (funnier, darker, more cinematic), but also a stronger allegory for the apocalyptic fever that has gripped America and, by extension, the world.

This strange, experimental film about an alien (David Bowie) who comes to Earth in search of water for his dying planet is experimental and strange in all the ways your expecting, and at least twelve that you're not.

John Krasinski directs a spooky stunt of a horror film about alien beasties who will only attack you if you make a sound.

John Krasinski directs a spooky stunt of a horror film about alien beasties who will only attack you if you make a sound.

I think when your writing a film about aliens from outer space, you have to remember not to alienate your audience.

Yeah, because this looks exactly like Munich, which was exactly like Jurassic Park, which was exactly like Indiana Jones which was almost a copy of Schindler's List which was the blueprint for Jaws and that film directly influenced Catch Me if you Can which led him to make Minority Report which seemed to be another telling of Saving Private Ryan which was loosely based on the character from The Terminal who was in some way based on Djimon Honsou's character in Amistad who was on a boat, just like the captain in Hook which had a black person in it like The Color Purple which is a film about aliens or E.T.s (Extra Terrestrials) who started a War of the Worlds after many Close Encounters in 1941 with the Empire of the Sun...

Not exact matches

At the time, O'Connell was working on a poster for a science - fiction and horror film festival featuring John Carpenter's 1988 cult classic «They Live» about aliens living incognito among humans.

The film captures everything we love about the filmmaker's legacy: Childlike innocence, humor, adventure, cool aliens.

Co-screenwriter Jon Spaihts speaks with Scientific American about the Alien universe and humanity's quest for knowledge in Scott's latest film

In this wide - ranging, humorous talk, Seth Shostak takes a look at Star Wars and other science fiction films from the point of view of a skeptical scientist, tells stories about the movies he has been asked to advise, and muses about aliens from space and how we might make contact with them.

This time to do my Retin - A Update ~ Results on 51 Cosby starred and produced the disastrous Leonard Part 6, about an alien - fighting secret agent, a film that received some of the year's worst reviews and

Just as films about misunderstood benevolent aliens in the 1950s (The Day the Earth Stood Still, It Came from Outer Space) were calling for an end to the Cold War us - and - them mentality, District 9 is likewise making a strong statement about the damage that can be done when refugees are treated with suspicion before being given any compassion.

Commentary 3 — The Picture - Director of Photography Darius Khondji, Prodcution Designer Arthur Max, Editor Richard Francis - Bruce, Richard Dyer and David Fincher talk about the look of the film itself, the color processes used on the print, the locations scouted for the various shots, the detail used in the studio backlot constructions, the style David wanted to achieve and succeeded in doing, the clothing, the grittiness, the absolute black Fincher always wanted in Alien 3 but could achieve until now and more.

Well the film was wide release, so it makes sense there wasn't an entirety of focus on the specifics, but I still think it would have worked better if it was more like the trailers professed intentions; doco style, with vignettes of alien / human scenes that emphasized and helped explain, not found footage either, like for example, after talking about Wikus in the past tense, it could focus on him for a bit then move on, but it stuck with him, and the film changed gears, I just thought it would have been better to focus on other things, as opposed to dumbing the plot down to one man and his battle against the evil government / corporation, and still stay in the doco style, it could have worked, no?

District 9 is partly presented as a faux documentary (rather than a mockumentary, which is what Roger Ebert wrongly labels the film... there is nothing funny about this movie), detailing how 20 years earlier, a huge alien spaceship (think Independence Day) parked itself over Johannesburg and... sat there.

In retrospect, it is a little hard to take Hackman all that seriously in this film, when he was about three years away from getting his butt kicked by a flying alien in tights, but make no mistake, in this film, he's a good deal more groovy than Queens» «Another Bites the Dust»... if not the term «groovy».

As an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himself.

What unravels is then a familiarly convoluted and busy spectacle film about yet another clash between the rival robot alien Transformers involving their human allies, with Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) once more coming to the rescue on the side of the Autobots.

Stewart plays out the film as if it were a traditional «haunted house» film, but because we already know it is about alien life, we merely watch the characters go through predictable motions until the story catches up with what we already surmise, and the only things keeping viewers reeled in are basic questions such as, «why are they doing this?»

Yet, there's a breaking point: our Alien is touched by this man and starts to feel things she hasn't felt before, setting up the perplexing emotions that are about to come in this staggeringly masterful film.

Pearce also did some writing on Pacific Rim, the big alien invasion film that Guillermo del Toro is about to begin shooting in Toronto for Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros..

The sci - fi film about a dystopian future in which Earth is attacked by aliens, which starred Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, and Milla Jovovich, managed to rake in $ 263.9 million at the box office despite lukewarm reviews.

Much more fun is How to Talk to Girls at Parties, an endearingly silly and outré coming - of - age film from Hedwig and the Angry Inch creator John Cameron Mitchell about a trio of punk - obsessed teenagers, led by sensitive fanzine editor Enn (newcomer Alex Sharp), who stumble across a colony of cannibalistic pansexual aliens (among them Elle Fanning) in Croydon during the Queen's Jubilee celebrations.

For a film about space - and - time - traveling agents that encounter various alien species and criminals, Besson's content focusing on Valerian and Laureline's awkward romance.

My actual, real favorites, though, are not the films about contemporary society but more the ones about human psychology: «Alien» and «Aliens,» «Blade Runner,» «2001.»

The internet calmly took this news in by immediately casting about for wild rumors regarding what this might mean for the second film — specifically, the idea that once it was made clear the Captain Marvel movie (coming out in between the two Avengers films) would feature the Skrulls (a race of green - skinned shape changers, for all you non-comic nerds), the fourth Avengers movie would turn its attention to a «secret invasion» storyline, starring said aliens.

It's interesting to see a film about a space alien that doesn't resemble anything we've ever seen before, as most others have some sort of humanoid appearance, (or reptilian, etc.) Indeed, it's a much more plausible depiction of an alien threat than most other sci - fi efforts have featured, almost the opposite in terms of story as The War of the Worlds which featured aliens defeated from exposures to germs and viruses of our own.

Mix that in with a film that includes aliens, a god and an android (among other oddities) and it is difficult to believe that such a movie could be called the «most human» film in a massive franchise, but that's exactly how Anthony Mackie, who portrays the hero Falcon (aka Sam Wilson) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, feels about Avengers: Infinity War.

As the official synopsis puts it: «Part road movie, part science - fiction, part real, it's a film about seeing our world through alien eyes.»

Sci - Fi Movie Page Pick: Based on the classic Robert Heinlein story about alien invaders taking over humans (which served as inspiration later on for the famous 1940s Invasion of the Body Snatchers novel by Jack Finney, which has been filmed three times!).

During the 30th anniversary of Aliens many people from the film talked about the future of the franchise, last we heard it was from James Cameron talking about Neill Blomkamp «s «very strong» script for Alien 5 and Sigourney Weaver revealing her commitments to the Avatar sequels had further delayed the film.

Alien is revered as one of the greatest horror films of all time, as well as one of the greatest films set in space, so what happens when the director of the film that originated the franchise returns to it to provide us back - story about one of the biggest monster movie icons more than three decades after the fact?

Not to mention, the number of alien films released in recent years — a handful of which proved to be mediocre or worse — make it harder to get enthused about yet another blockbuster that feature extraterrestrials in an apocalyptic scenario (the end - of - the - world sub-genre is, likewise, starting to feel over-saturated at this point).

The first two hours of the film consist mainly of Danish farmers and craftspeople arguing about Christian theology in veritable slow motion; the final six minutes, unless you're an alien replicant, will have you on your knees, eyes lifted in wonder to the screen.

Yet for all the ballyhoo about the aliens, the film's status as a first - rate actioner actually depends on the humans.

The elements that are good about Laurel Canyon (and much of the film is quite good) are found in the details of the interactions between Jane and her much younger lover Ian and the early moments between repressed, perfectionist Alex and the mutating influence of the alien hippie vibe of sex, drugs, and rock»n' roll.

The decision came after 8 rounds of voting involving a close runoff among several top films including Guillermo del Toro's THE SHAPE OF WATER about the rescue of an alien creature from the clutches of cruel scientists in a cold war with the Russians, and also earned a BEST ACTRESS AWARD for Sally Hawkins as a mute cleaning lady whose sympathetic performance spoke volumes.

To talk about this really unusual film, Stephen Thompson and I were joined by noted Alien enthusiast Chris Klimek, as well as member station WAMU's Daisy Rosario.

Christopher Lloyd plays the befuddled Lectroid John Bigboote (pronounced «big bootay,» though most people just pronounce it «big booty») is about halfway to Doc Brown in this film (I've always thought ol' Doc Brown was at least half alien).

Battle: Los Angeles, the alien invasion action flick that is about to begin shooting in Louisiana (not quite Los Angeles...) has added quite a few cast members, and on the eve of the shoot star Aaron Eckhart makes some promises about what sort of film we're likely to see when it's all said and done.

The Signs DVD features about five minutes of deleted scenes (no more spooky alien critters, alas), a lengthy making - of documentary with commentaries, and another stellar film from Night's youth — wherein a robot wearing a Halloween mask slowly chases Night through his living room.

Wise used a cast of unknowns for this film about a team of scientist that descend upon a small New Mexico town where a U.S. satellite has crashed and unleashed a deadly alien organism that kills the residents.

Let's be honest with ourselves here: the earliest details about Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant made this film sound like a soft reboot, a way of continuing the series while dismissing as much of the divisive Prometheus as possible.