Much like the movie industry, when a particular director skips the sequel, the next
film feels different — and not in a good way.
However, now that Bill hasn't dropped the huge news that The Bride's daughter is alive at the end of Volume 1, the whole
film feels different.
However, the fact that
this film feels different than the original is certainly a good thing.
The part that I believe makes
the film feel different than most is that...
Not exact matches
Using iconic slasher
films as examples, experts say that the
feeling viewers get is no
different from the emotions on screen.
As you watch a
film about a family from a
different culture, say, «I wonder how they
feel.»
Who still import food from their homelands, who stick to their own languages books and
films, and who
feel like they can just carry on living in their own country, just in a
different place.
When the connecting revelation comes, it's more incidental than elegant, and while its tale is compelling, it sometimes
feels like it belongs in a
different film.
Though in an entirely
different time period (1910), the
film shares that
feeling of dread for the smallest citizens, unable to change what has gone on between their own kindred for generations.
There's a tonal dissonance here: The gangster - movie dialogue of these
different groups, as well as a somewhat lame late movie shoot - out,
feel far removed from the terse, beautifully choreographed pandemonium of the
film's first act.
Thankfully, the voice talent gives it their all with Hill and Cross being particular standouts, but they are really livening up a script that at times
feel like a draft or a number of plots from
different films, piecemealed together.
What makes the
film different is its substance, it
feels real, awkward, and doesn't conform to other counselling routine, they have real trouble speaking to each other, they are certainly devoted, but empty.
Annihilation does offer enough surreal horror within its visual spectacle to make it worth recommending to sci - fi fans, but for all the
different interpretations the
film is being afforded by other writers, I can't help but
feel that it is fairly empty thematically.
Her considerable comic talents are impossible to find here in a
film that
feels like it's from a
different era in a bad way.
This «lightness» is thanks to good dark comedy elements and the hopefulness you
feel for a better future at
different times during the
film.
Despite the Hollywood cliche's and the Hollywood
film making, at times this
feels like a
different movie.
This looks, sounds and
feels strikingly
different from any other
film out there — comic book based, or not.
And yet, however considerable the
film's charms (it's first - rate children's entertainment, to be sure), there's something just the slightest bit disappointing in how pro-forma it all
feels: Ghibli geniuses Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki never clung to a house style, making
films with wildly
different looks and tones over the course of their careers, whereas Yonebayashi's first post-Ghibli effort colors well within the lines of stock Japanese animation.
The gore is still there, but the general plotline came to be very predictable (especially the merging of
different timelines and who the antagonist is), and the mysterious dark
feel of the games we got to see in the previous
films has been replaced by pointless narrowed - down bloodshed and, sometimes, humor.
Favreau used pretty much all of the gadgets and SFX from the first
film so there was nothing here that
felt unique and
different — just more.
Perhaps one should buck at the perceivable hubris and tastelessness of Spielberg cloaking his most revealing
film in SS garb, and there's no easy way to forgive that red coat, but rarely has Spielberg's narrative and visual ideas
felt so unpredictable, so distinctly
different, and of such a lilting melancholy.
Nicole Kidman has been brilliant in so many
different roles but this
film feels as if she were slumming.
These golden nuggets of cinematic genius are peppered throughout the
films conservative eighty - four minute narrative, each presenting a
different overall
feel and visual tone to each scene, and it is this impressive variety along with the
films pace and subtle humour that is key to its success.
The
film expresses a longing that may strike a responsive chord with those who have ever
felt the sting of being
different.
Though it
feels a lot like Jeff Nichols» Southern Gothic crime drama, «Mud» (which is ironic since Green reportedly cast youngster Tye Sheridan based on his work in that
film), they're very
different stories apart from the father - son dynamic between the two leads.
As such, like another second - tier Marvel title before it, Guardians of the Galaxy, that allows for some deviation from the core Avengers
films in terms of how things will look and sound, giving us a movie that
feels organically
different in visual design than most we've seen before, even if it still retains the same formula structure of the rest of the MCU features.
Parts of it
feel slapped together and the last 15 - 20 minutes seem like the last reel of a totally
different film.
I'm always looking for
films with a Christmas theme or backdrop that have a little
different feel around this time of year, so it will be interesting to see if I ever return to All is Bright, but right now I'm not that eager.
The subject and reasons behind it aren't problematic and there are a few smirks, but it all
feels tedious and dull, as if they have been lifted from a
different film altogether (a Lifetime
film, perhaps), slowing the
film to a crawl despite the sight of Morgan Freeman's and his rousing talents.
Emily Blunt delivers an extraordinary performance in the lead role (rather than simply acting drunk, she plays Rachel as an alcoholic desperately trying to look sober), but it
feels like she's in a
different film — one that isn't marred by soapy plot turns and Taylor's messy direction.
Both of these things have a heavy influence on Star Trek Beyond, and both tie in to the way that the
film takes a more grounded, less spectacle - driven approach that
feels different from what Abrams had done with the series, while still very much within the same spirit.
Winter's Tale
feels as if the two star - crossed lovers are in
different films.
Despite the elaborately mannered physical affections of Eddie Redmayne's performance, the
film never successfully evokes how it might
feel to have another person, of a gender
different from your biological assignment, emerging inside you.
When we saw Hayao Miyazaki «s «The Wind Rises» the next day, we were unaware that the director was about to announce that it would be his final
film, but even then, it
felt like a fitting career summation; a very
different, and highly personal piece of work delivered in traditionally gorgeous Ghibli - stylings.
Structurally speaking, it's very familiar to those that came before it — rape and revenge are its main ingredients after all — yet Fargeat's
film feels like something entirely
different.
Jonathan Mostow: It's true that we did apply a heavy style to underline the oddness of the world and give the
film a
different, arresting
feel — but I'll leave the comparisons to others.
I do
feel that the
film redeems itself in its finale, but even on second viewing, the tonal shift creates a rift in our protagonist's character that
feels more suited to a
film of a
different genre.
This
feels like a Cliff's Notes production, with pieces of six
different — and sadly better —
films cobbled together into a single story.
We wanted it to
feel different and represent what's unique about the
film.
What was striking to me about Amour was how much it looks like other Haneke
films — with the same macguffins, the same uneasy tracking shots — and yet how
different it
feels.
The A.V. Club: You have these two very
different films coming out back - to - back as a result of the legal issues involved in The Green Inferno, but Knock Knock actually
feels like an inverted companion piece.
Although I'm slightly embarrassed to admit this, I
feel it's important to note that if, like me, you've never read Wolfe's novels, you won't be at a disadvantage; the point of the
film is how much the two men needed each other in very
different ways.
The overall
feel and tone of the
film seems to be in constant flux, often making it
feel as though you are watching several
different movies all at the same time.
Although the
film finds a few clever ways, there are only so many
different ways you can skill someone with swords so by the end it
felt monotonous.
Hong Sang - soo has built a career out of incrementally modulating the same core story over and over, and it's surprising how often this approach yields
films that
feel markedly
different to his previous ones.
«Marty's new
film is so tonally
different from what he last put out it made me
feel like I was atoning for all those good times I had with Jordan Belfort and company in his Wall Street - based bacchanalian.
Both About Time and Ruby Sparks are about manipulation, but where Kazan makes sure to consider the dark side of it all, Curtis revels in About Time's Britishness and charm, confronting these themes through a completely
different lens that further marginalizes McAdams» character and then skips off into the sunset with the sort of weepy
feel good climax you expect from a
film with Richard Curtis» name on it.
Left with a similar
feeling after the last Spiderman
film i.e. I've just paid good money to see the say
film again but with
different actors....
Release: Friday, July 10, 2015 (limited)[Netflix] Written by: Sean Baker; Chris Bergoch Directed by: Sean Baker How I
felt when I first tucked into indie dramedy Tangerine — yes, that
film, the one shot entirely on the iPhone 5s — and how I
felt when the last scene faded to black couldn't have been more radically
different... Continue reading Tangerine
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