Sentences with phrase «film from the alien»

Annihilation follows the familiar form of science fiction horror found in films from Alien to The Cloverfield Paradox, with a cast of characters in isolation, slowly being picked off by a force they don't understand.

Do not expect this to be anything like Alien, this is a standalone film from the Alien series.

Not exact matches

Keaton's character, Adrian Toomes, is used to explain a key plothole from 2012's «The Avengers»: What ever happened to all of the alien weapons and tools left on Earth after the film's end battle?

The most expensive and technically ambitious film ever made, James Cameron's long - gestating epic pitting Earthly despoilers against a forest - dwelling alien race delivers unique spectacle, breathtaking sights, narrative excitement and an overarching anti-imperialist, back - to - nature theme that will play very well around the world, and yet is rather ironic coming from such a technology - driven picture.

So Shostak — who has advised Hollywood on a number of feature films, including 1997's «Contact» — thinks this year's surge may just be part of Hollywood's regular cycle, which tends to feature waves of alien movies from time to time.

The exhibition's heart is the Curve gallery, filled to bursting with spacecraft, alien warriors, dinosaurs, and props and film clips from Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Alien, Stargate, Interstellar and Metropalien warriors, dinosaurs, and props and film clips from Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Alien, Stargate, Interstellar and MetropAlien, Stargate, Interstellar and Metropolis.

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.

Epically bad in virtually every way imaginable, Battleship follows several one - dimensional characters as they attempt to defeat a squadron of heavily - armed aliens - with the film, impressively (and laughably), incorporating elements from the eponymous children's game.

From here on out, War of the Worlds is one lengthy but always gripping chase film as the massive alien tripods stalk hapless humans over hill and dale, blasting them into ash with vicious, serpentine ease while the military runs afoul of their seemingly invincible shields.

If you look at the start of the film carefully, when the crew is first getting into the alien mothership, you can see what look like pockmarks on a wall from zap gun fire, I think.

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.

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

The first half of the film builds suspense by putting the group through a number of classic hunting situations — from the perspective of the prey — being flushed out by dogs [though these alien «dogs» have all kinds of horns, spine razors and bad attitudes]; a booby - trapped companion; wandering into deadfalls, and the like.

By the way (and this has nothing to do with my opinion on the film, I'm just curious from an in - movie logistical standpoint), how long after they went in were the aliens supposed to be evicted?

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».

Garland, who also adapted the screenplay from the book by Jeff VanderMeer, has crafted a beautiful film that visits an alien terrain while remaining very human and personal.

To anyone new to Stranger Things Imagine ET, Aliens, The Goonies, The Thing, IT and many other 80's -90's Science Fiction / Horror films books mixed together that was infused of so many pop culture references from the same time that they become hard to keep track of at times well THAT is pretty much Stranger Things in a Nutshell!

The aliens who created this environment are not shown as the film ends on this very mysterious note, which has been a source of much commentary and has inspired meanings ranging from: it's all rubbish to something divine has happened.

Plus most of the Decepticons don't even look like Transformers they look more like robotic aliens from another film «Batteries Not Included» and «Short Circuit» springs to mind, the Decepticon disguised as a female student was the worst offender.

In the season three episode Apocrypha, Krycek was left to die in an abandoned silo with an alien ship.This allowed Lea to take a starring role in the series Once a Thief - which followed on from the 1996 John Woo film - alongside Ivan Sergei.

The film engages both the head and heart and should be seen by anyone looking for a thoughtful respite from the summer's car chases, hyperactive aliens and gratuitous

A load of fun, as the senior citizens from the original film come back to Earth to help their alien friends.

The film engages both the head and heart and should be seen by anyone looking for a thoughtful respite from the summer's car chases, hyperactive aliens and gratuitous bloodstained mayhem.

A cool prologue involving trillionaire CEO Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce) and the synthetic from Prometheus, David (Fassbender), gave me hope at the very beginning that Ridley Scott was going to pull off an Alien trifecta (Covenant is the third film he's directed after the original two).

If only he protected us from the scientific incorrectness of so many other films: «Jurassic Park» (cloning dinosaurs through embalmed mosquitoes is preposterous), «Alien» (a mouth inside a mouth would choke it to death) and «Raiders of the Lost Ark.» (Closing your eyes does not protect your head from being exploded, shriveled, or melted by pissed - off angels.

Ridley Scott's much anticipated prequel / sequel to his hit film Alien and the polarizing Prometheus will be moved from it's October release into the summer in August while «The Predator» will come out in March 2018 with the director of The Monster Squad and Shane Black returning to pare up for the sequel to the 1987 classic.

In fact, the only real science fiction in the film is used to keep the characters locked in an apartment from fear of alien invasion.

The battle scenes between the military's exosuit army and the mimic aliens are the absolute highlights of the film, delivering what feels like a technologically upgraded battle from World War II.

«Ridley Scott did the first film, and he inspired an entire generation of filmmakers and science - fiction fans with that one movie and there have been so many films that stylistically have derived from it, including my own Aliens, which was the legitimate sequel and, I think, the proper heir to his film.

The first film work from the terrifyingly young Levi, the score is both organic and alien, as woozy as a dream and as persistent as a nightmare, living up to the title and digging into your very bones and remaining there for days.

With all of the marketing for the new Alien movie, the so - called sequel to Prometheus, you might have been asking, what of the two survivors from the first film, Elizabeth and David?

And while most of that film centered on the sexual tension between a publishing heiress and the photographer sent to fetch her from an alien - ridden «infected zone,» the world its characters inhabited and their ultimate goal were both defined by a looming alien threat.

AVP 2 continues directly from the ending of the first film, with an alien / predator hybrid causing the ship to crash land back on Earth.

Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), after trying and failing to match Ebony in wisecracks and firepower, gets sucked into the ship, and it's up to Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) to rescue him, with an assist from Spider - Man (Tom Holland), a pop - culture geek who wonders if he's in the middle of an «Alien» film, and who Tony outfits with anti-gravity armor.

The plot — initially incomprehensible, but easier to figure out once it gets rolling — posits that only an alien known as Leeloo (Milla Jovovich in the film's most affecting performance) has the power to save our world from being destroyed by an approaching fireball of pure evil.

Each giant robot and alien looks real and none of the CGI takes away from the film.

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.

Although Alien: Covenant doesn't answer all of the questions or tie up all of the loose ends stemming from Prometheus (2012), it goes a long way towards cleaning up that hot mess, and it's easily the most satisfying Alien film since the 1980s.

From George Lucas» frustratingly blah «Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace» to Ridley Scott's sleep - inducing «Alien» bummer «Prometheus,» so - called origin films often fail to live up to, or even approach, the magic of the original.

We are only two days away from the official release of Netflix's Bright, a cop action - thriller horror film starring Will Smith (I Am Legend), Joel Edgerton (The Gift), and Noomi Rapace (Alien: Covenant, Prometheus).

In the opening moments of Prometheus, a strange, monk - like alien — looking more like a human than the xenomorphs we're used to from 1979's Alien, the film with which Prometheus shares a universe — disintegrates himself into a ralien — looking more like a human than the xenomorphs we're used to from 1979's Alien, the film with which Prometheus shares a universe — disintegrates himself into a rAlien, the film with which Prometheus shares a universe — disintegrates himself into a river.

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.

The title makes the film sound absurd, but from what I've seen (a good amount) it looks as if Jon Favreau and his cast and crew have assembled a film that has the potential to go above and beyond a silly «hey, what if cowboys fought aliens?»

It's clear she has the physicality for it, and given she is a woman playing in a genre thats dominated by men, it's hard not to measure her against the likes of Linda Hamilton (the Terminator films), Sigourney Weaver (the Alien franchise), Charlize Theron as Furiosa from Mad Max Fury Road, and several others.

Pretty quickly, the film turns into a horror show, with the airborne, microscopic spores from a plant on the planet serving as the way those killer aliens end up in their human hosts (Scott offers a microscope - level shot of the infection entering a crewmember's body through his ear canal, which is simultaneously frightening and deviously amusing).

Prometheus divided fans and critics alike as it wasn't quite the direct prequel and tone audiences wanted from a new Alien film.

Horrendous dialogue aside, the setup and energy cloud aliens are serviceable, but Jon Spaihts» script doesn't give any of the characters depth or something to do aside from scurry from locale to locale for the rest of the film.

It's cool to see the return of two iconic sci - fi / action franchises such as Alien: Covenant and now Predators which both can hopefully bring back and add the things we loved from the original films.

The Darkest Hour cribs its dopey premise, concerning invading alien balls of light with the nasty habit of reducing humans to ash heaps and bent, naturally enough, on world domination, from other, better alien - invasion films (read: any version of War of the Worlds).

The ending of the film is (understandably) extremely dissatisfying to series fans, and while the emptiness of the final shot does have a sense of the respect to it, for those who've been riveted in Ripley's story since Alien, there appears to have been nothing gained from a story or theme standpoint.