Sentences with phrase «film characters like»

Not exact matches

«Bennett has become a master of storytelling through character, and while there are clearly no people in these films, it was clearly a very human story, which we knew a director such as Bennett would zero in on and draw out very real human - like emotions from these poor inanimate objects,» Lennon said.

As the actor who redefined what it means to be The Man in Hollywood with films like «Pulp Fiction,» he simply put too much into the role, making the Octopus one of his least memorable characters to date.

Possible office - friendly ideas might include a time - period theme such as the 1950s or the Renaissance, or employees can dress up like their favorite TV and film characters.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

DB will have wasted more than a year engaged with a surreal investor who has disappeared into the mist like a character in a bad Chinese martial arts film.

The repeated pattern of expansions and recessions is like multiple sequels in a long - running movie franchise — each film shares a similar and familiar landscape but still manages to be different due to the specific causes and characters.

These films celebrate the human spirit and explore themes like God's character amidst the holiday season, what it means to be human or how it feels to fall in love.

In this obscure indie film, two little read - comic books come together in a subtle, dialogue - heavy character study that plays out like a slow - burning portrait of good and evil in the modern world.

Each successive Avengers movie has felt like an exercise in how many characters can fit into one film before it breaks down.

She has a keen understanding of her place in Hollywood, right now — as one of the breakout stars of a beloved sitcom; as the most fascinating character on Legion, one of current TV's most fascinating shows; as a high - profile woman in an industry currently under an enormous amount of scrutiny for how it treats women; and as an actress building a singularly astonishing resume of excellent, low - flying indie oddball films like Ingrid Goes West and Safety Not Guaranteed.

The lead character in novel and film is Lyra Belacqua, a girl who roams from the rooftops and hidden tunnels of an Oxford - like university to the frozen northern wastes and through alternate worlds, trying to rescue children who have been captured by agents of the Church.

Audrey, the moral center of the film and very much a Fanny Price character herself, protests simply, «I like Fanny Price.»

The Black Widow has evolved past her Iron Man 2 part into a far more dimensional character, proving key to the storytelling of films like The Avengers and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Those Star Wars prequels — which took three films to explain the origins of Darth Vader — couldn't escape still having a Darth Vader character, so enter new nemesis Darth Maul (just like Darth Vader, only with a double lightsaber).

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.

There's a scene in the film where Krasinski's character and Emily Blunt's character (who are husband and wife in the film as well as real life), share a romantic moment together as they both wear one earbud, and listen to a song — JUST LIKE JIM AND PAM DID.

These films celebrate the human spirit and explore themes like God's character amidst the holiday season,...

I seem to really like going as female tv and film characters excluding Mckayla, which was a meme.

We felt for the guy like the Emilio Estevez character in the 1985 film The Breakfast Club, the wrestler who duct taped the butt cheeks of the non-athlete in the locker room to please his domineering father.

She almost looks like a cartoon character from Scooby Doo or some Japanese animation film.

We immediately felt landlocked, like the characters in our film's walled off «Homeland».

The film starred four characters looking a bit like David Cameron, Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage, all singing the same tune.

Telegraph, 2 October 2006 Rupert - unleashed and unloved «Like the George Downes character he played opposite Julia Roberts in My Best Friend's Wedding, his most successful Hollywood film, Everett really is the ultimate gay best friend.

The world may someday be full of pop - up images like those imagined in the film Jurassic World, where museum patrons walk through a hall where a projected dinosaur image stands on display, or like the free - standing visuals used by the character Tony Stark in designing his metal suits in the Iron Man films.

It's like Peter Pan, Justin Bieber, or any character Zooey Deschanel ever plays in a film.»

Had the then -67-year-old Hoffman — who brought mainstream culture face to face with autism in Rain Man and went mano a mano with an Ebola - like filovirus in Outbreak — never quite broken character from his 1982 film Tootsie?

For the scientific community, the release of public polls on contentious questions of science usually makes us feel like Bill Murray's character in the film Groundhog Day.

So although these emperor penguins don't dance like the fleet - footed characters in the 2006 animated film «Happy Feet,» they still perform some pretty fancy footwork.

We also wanted to appeal to people who enjoy character driven indie films like the ones Tom has made in the past (Fairhaven & Manhattan Romance).

Five years had gone by and in 1980 during the filming of the movie «Conan», Arnold had got into fantastic shape due to the physicality of the character he was playing and also due to the training that was required to be able to complete the filming — things like running and horse riding.

I look like a main character in a Tim Burton film.

Do you have a special place, where you feel amazing, where you feel like you are in a film and you're the main character?

Wearing Rosie Assoulin, the actress looked nothing like her botched beauty guru character from the film.

Despite the amazing vintage clothing and decor I didn't like either of the characters and found the whole film to be stiff, and painfully slow.

The idea is to make you feel like a character trapped in a horror film.

It's like reading a book and visualising what the individual character would look and act like, and having that illusion shattered when you see the the film adaption where the actor is not what you visualised... for example Christian Grey

It's here than Wan excels, a sign of his fantastic character work to come in films like Insidious and The Conjuring, with his work both fantastically calculated and seemingly chaotic.

M * A * S * H is a 1972 — 1983 American television series developed by Larry Gelbart, adapted from the 1970 feature film MASH, which, in turn, was based on the Oh, I really love mash - up games like this where characters from two different worlds are put together!

In a film which involves a lot of character deaths, it seems like the Token Minority will...

That would be impossible given that there are over 40 of them, and that the film is structured almost exactly like a»90s sketch - comedy show in which characters rarely share more than several minutes of screen time.

But once you are in the zone the characters cease to feel like stereotypes of British culture, and for all its painterly cinematography the film has enough pace to sustain itself beyond its beautiful landscapes.

Even if is not perfect for his awful villains, some unfunny jokes and the character of Captain Underpants not appering much in the film, is still better than any animated movie like Cars 3 o LEGO Ninjago Movie.

From the film critic's POV, some things never change — like Kingsley's astounding ability to bury his background deep inside his character.

The book - like the film - focused much on the main characters.

There's no place for mawkishness in a film like this; such elements might have worked had the movie claimed to be a realistic portrayal of young adults, but when you have a character as outrageous as Stifler, that's clearly not the case.

Like the third «Spider - Man» film, this one keeps introducing too many new characters (with comic actors Eric Idle, Seth Rogen, John Krasinski and others providing voices).

Wigram gives the film its best scenes, probably because Stoppard had never written a character like this and was, therefore, more willing to play with writing choices he had long before exhausted on other characters.

And while the film definitely has a silly side to it (McConaughey's character even has a nasty run of bad luck with animals biting him), it's hardly comparable to a genre classic like «There's Something About Mary.»

Characters that gave the earlier films their spark - the eager - to - please Donkey, one of Eddie Murphy's finest vocal moments, the debonair Puss in Boots, a great Antonio Banderas achievement - are wheeled on and off for what seem like guest spots.

The characters are readymade jokes unto themselves, and the plots unfolding around them seem like little more than scenes found on the film's cutting room floor.