Sentences with phrase «film felt fresh»

There are more stylistic riffs, like the opening «documentary» Peter creates, that make an otherwise fairly safe superhero film feel fresh and not overly manicured.

DuVernay reimagines a world that has been constantly ripped off by other sci - fi films, adding new elements that make her film feel fresh and dynamic.

Jo's gift for character is immense, and what makes the film feel fresh and not just a reboot of what was before is the fact that you're dealing with all these new characters in a different country in a different period of history.

Thankfully, a large portion of the film feels fresh thanks to the filmmakers having faith and trust in both the actors and new characters to guide the story, without reverting to an over-reliance on old, aged warriors to hog the spotlight.

It's the plot twists that help this film feel fresh and alive, unlike most romances of this nature.

They are given a script with familiar elements and they mold them in a way that makes the film feel fresh and yet still very dark and foreboding.

Not exact matches

The Garnier Skinactive 3 - 1 Moisturizer doesn't leave a sticky, pore - clogging film on my already acne prone skin, but rather it evens out my skin tone and leaves it feeling fresh all day / night.

With so few female driven and directed films available, Beguiled feels like a breath of fresh air — albeit one with a general sense of foreboding and violence mixed in.

Jack hands off one of his stories early in the film for his brothers to read and while hints to its plot are dropped, only later does it manifest itself into one of the few scenes in the film that felt not merely fresh to me but touching; briefly, we glimpse an event from the day of the funeral, awkward and uncomfortable, with the kind of details that only siblings might later recall.

Usually, a real film aficionado can spot dozens of these quotes / homages, but they are woven into his films in such a way that the change of context makes them feel not like rip - offs, but fresh, integral parts of a completely new story.

But somehow Sorrentino is able to fashion the film's diverse elements into an emotional narrative that makes it all feel fresh and new.

Two years ago, the scrappy film based on Rob Liefeld's and Fabien Nicieza's Marvel Comics creation felt fresh and subversive, introducing the origin tale of cancer patient - turned - mutant mercenary Wade Wilson.

If it doesn't feel as fresh and bracing as «Ida» did, that film may have been the perfect combination of form and content.

The music still feels fresh and Rian Johnson's film will please the fans with its wonderful visuals and abundance of action.

It is hard sometimes to shake the feeling that this live - action Disney adaptation is relying too much on the 1991 animation, to the point that it almost feels like an extended version of that film; but even so, it offers a fresh and modern look at the classic story that makes it worth it.

The humor and visual aesthetic feel nostalgic and true to the original films, but also fresh and original.

Although there are some places where the film feels like your usual boy - meets - girl tale, it does take a fresh approach to the romance genre.

Which is not to say that Battleship isn't filled with them, just that they feel fresh because of things like the clever way in which the film references the original board game, or the way Jesse Plemmons takes a stock role — the sailor who talks too much when he's nervous — and adds just a few quirks that make him feel like a real individual.

Visually, Shore turns out to be adept at creating a visual shorthand to his film - one that both honors the vast iconography of the Dracula character, while also managing to root that iconography in a new aesthetic (Medieval - style period tropes) that feels fresh when married to this over-exhausted source material.

Because until those last 20 minutes, and in particular in the film's second act, Jenkins flirts with a bevy of ideas that feel fresh to the superhero genre, the most scintillating of which is that Diana could be wrong about how to save the world.

Like Jolie, the writers also do a good job of compartmentalizing each piece of the story so that it feels like a fresh chapter with renewed interest, while also keeping the focus on the emotional / spiritual arc of Louis as a consistent throughline, so that the movie's climax (which is much more metaphoric and spiritual than literal) has significant impact and satisfies in an iconic and moving way that is hard for any film to pull off.

Also in contention must be Fremon Craig's script, which plays to the teen audience with recognisable moments of anguish and glee (the romance subplot involving Hayden Szeto's American / Korean student feels both fresh and warmly familiar) while exploring some very adult emotions; as with the best of the genre, it is a film about teenagers but not just for teenagers.

The look and feel of Insidious was something fresh in the genre, with breathe taking shots, and scares that the film earns.

A repeat viewing feels necessary to watch the film with fresh eyes after the truth is revealed, and if mandatory repeat watching isn't the mark of a good film, I don't know what is.

Their eye for settings is matched by their ability to construct slow - building thrillers, and their skill at making surprising choices allows this film to feel fresh and inspired.

Like watching Stallone tell Jordan to weave in and out of the ropes faster and faster, Coogler's control of his film is so firm, so adept that even as it runs through certain tropes it feels fresh and vibrant and real.

Creed is the seventh film in the series, and unlike many long drawn out franchises, this one feels fresh and rejuvenated.

Like a wondrous love letter to the genre in the 70s and early 80s, the film feels both fresh and familiar.

It's the type of film best seen fresh, as its main pleasures come from that increasingly rare feeling of genuinely not knowing what's going to happen.

«We have a long history of supporting first time filmmakers from around the world, and we felt that this film comes from a director with a fresh voice in cinema, and that it tells a new story in a particularly vibrant way,» commented Michael Rosenberg, president of Film Movement.

Dickinson, in his film debut, almost makes this familiar narrative feel fresh.

Matthew Vaughn throws every cliche into the mix but still manages to give the audience a film that feels fresh, vibrant and alive.

His skills with getting children to appear natural is charmingly in evidence in Beyond The Clouds: the only parts of the film which feel fresh have these child actors flitting about; the rest is dispiritingly same - old.

If you're going to see this film with high expectations that it's going to offer something fresh then you will leave with the feeling that you've purchased a knocked down sandwich from the supermarket at the end of the day, looks ok but not so tasty when you come to eat it.

There is nothing about this film that feels fresh and original.

The film has a particularly fresh feeling, focusing not only on bisexuality but also Iranian American culture, two things brushed aside by Hollywood.

All three films have felt fresh and exciting — this won Paulina García the best actress award at Berlin, and it's gloriously strange and slippery, impossible to pin down — at once funny, uplifting, moving and deeply disquieting.

Once a film becomes buried under popular acclaim it's easy to forget how fresh it once felt.

Of course we were a union film and we still had rules, but we tried to make it feel fresh as well.

The Rocky franchise is now seven films old but Creed feels like a fresh start.

Ti West's period chiller is a modern horror film that feels at once nostalgically hackneyed and invigoratingly fresh.

I set myself the challenge that every film on there had to feel fresh and be accountable...

The post-apocalyptic Outback setting (Fury Road was shot in Namibia) which Miller first had a hand in cultivating way back in 1979 remains unchanged, but the veteran writer / director somehow manages to make the environment of the film feel entirely fresh.

Darkness comes thisclose to reaching sci - fi classic status, but the screenwriters opt to pay homage to old stories instead of charting their own path making it feel more like a remake and not the fresh start suggested by the 2009 film.

Writer / director David Robert Mitchell employs an effectively retro score with a voyeuristic camera to keep you on edge, and the impossible to pinpoint time period allows the film to feel both fresh and nostalgic simultaneously.

The film itself does not rank as one of the studio's greatest, but the female character - driven story gives off a fresh feeling and provides more to look forward to from Pixar (hopefully it won't take them multiple films before getting to another female lead).

This is the first of many conventions Whedon breaks throughout the film, and maybe this is why Serenity feels so fresh.

This mix of horror sub-genres keeps Reeker feeling fresh for a while, but the second half of the film feels very redundant, as we watch these characters get spooked by the titular creature.

Part of what makes «Rachel» feel fresh is the specificity of this upscale boho milieu — it's a world rarely depicted in movies, and Demme, who mixes actors and musicians and friends in the cast, films it with great affection.

What makes Black Panther stand out, and makes it feel fresh and original, is that it is a completely self - contained film.