Sentences with phrase «film genre when»

Horror fans will easily notice numerous references to their favorite film genre when it comes to dialogues and typical plot twists.

Not exact matches

When most people think about horror movies these days they think about the traditional slasher film or the recent (and grotesquely named) «torture porn» genre.

And, as a non-reader of the J.K. Rowling books (I'm saving them to read with my daughter when she's old enough) and a non-aficionado of the fantasy genre, I find at least some stretch of every Harry Potter film arcane and a bit dull (usually the parts involving magician - vs.

Still, at a time when animated feature films are in danger of losing their magic because of an oversaturation of ho - hum vehicles, Flushed Away contains enough charm, fun, and adventurous spirit to make us hope this genre is far from withering away.

While the film's reach exceeds its grasp when it comes to deconstructing the western genre and the real life history that it reflects, Hostiles nevertheless makes for a respectable mood piece, as well as an acting showcase for its main leads.

When played against Cabin Fever, the Eli Roth film's genre achievements become clear, and the overwhelmingly stupid theatrics, mostly built on gore, of Wrong Turn remain unmistakably amateurish.

When Beatty first proposed the idea for making this film some seven years ago, the concept of rap as an «artistic» forum for airing the grievances of the dispossessed had some currency, despite the genre's chronic misogyny and threats of violence.

For its genre — ridiculous, subversive films that young people like — it's above - average, and a nice reminder that when you get right down to it, college is pretty silly.

When films tend to recycle ideas under different titles, the genre as a whole suffers, and we have several films in the last few years that show the decline of great horror.

Beyond the Black Rainbow (d. Panos Cosmatos) When the dust settles and the smoke clears, I do wonder if guys like Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and Pascal Laugier won't finally get their due as the spearhead of a horror revolution, the two of them landing with new films in the same year that Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon received a round of applause for their genre - hating The Cabin in the Woods.

But it's a good year when you can think of half a dozen great genre films off the top of your head.

There was a time when genre films were a staple of the moviegoing experience.

Its conclusion an ejaculation of complicated genre reversals and confirmations, Death Proof is a film about courtship, untimely intoxication, bad decisions, and testosterone as a literal elixir taken like a shot of Jaeger when you need to seal a deal.

Robert Totten / Don Siegel — «Death Of A Gunfighter «(1969) A flawed, but nevertheless interesting, minor Western that fits neatly into the revisionist movement in the genre at the end of the 1960s / beginning of the 1970s, «Death Of A Gunfighter» is best remembered as the film that birthed the name «Alan Smithee» (or here in its original spelling, «Allen Smithee»), which became the standard DGA pseudonym when a director took their name off a movie for the next thirty years.

That film is the granddaddy of found footage films, despite the fact that Paranormal Activity gets most of the credit when it revitalized the genre a full eight years later.

Soderbergh inverts the typical action movie genre score by ratcheting up the score during the non-fight sequences, applying that retro - 1970s jazzy horn and percussion score by David Holmes (Code 46, Analyze That) during the dialogue and chases, while turning the music completely off when the film gets explosive for the highly brutal moments of close - quarter, melee combat.

A Borgesian palimpsest, a movie in search of a genre, a lament for film when it was film, a bittersweet critique of the deadening of moviegoers» sensibilities by their immersion in digital graphics — Leos Carax's barmy Holy Motors is all this and more.

By 2016, when the first film was released, superheroes were already funny, but Deadpool 2 imagines an alternate timeline where the genre is still in desperate need of levity.

Poltergeist and TCM are considered two elite films when it comes to the horror genre.

If anything, the film does nt give us enough information when compared to other films in this genre.

This landscape, particularly when viewed in the context of our genre films of the 1970s and «80s, is seen as both a danger and a potential conquest to the white man, while the native people (if present at all) are imbued with a mystical understanding.

When were you writing the script or shooting the film, you were not thinking that you are making a genre film?

Although not nearly the classic in the Western genre as Leone's other films, as an entity unto itself, especially when considering the works of a master director, its complexities make it more than worthwhile.

When it comes to most major movie franchises (especially within the sci - fi and action genre), there's always an argument after the film's release about who the break - out star of the film may be.

A packed slate of genre film awaits him, and at a time when it's never been more fashionable to be into the far out, the Man Who Would Be Sparrow is surely the ace in the pack for any mooted fantasy releases.

Even the films I like from this year I do nt have clear memories of (I saw Women in Love when I was way too young for it in the 1980s), don't truly love (big Altman fan but MASH, is more of a «like»), or I love them more for their historical value or genre personality than for actual quality (Boys in the Band, Aristocrats, Bloody Mama, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever).

While Boyle should be admired for his bravery in tackling a different genre with each new project, it's an absolute disaster when he tries to do so during the course of a single film.

It isn't an accident that Certain Women's closest brush with genre — when attorney Laura's (Laura Dern) enraged client, Fuller (Jared Harris), takes a night watchman hostage — is both the film's only portrait of male indignation, and the only vignette that's deflated in near - comic anticlimax as quickly as it reaches its apex.

An elevated genre film dealing with love, loss and vampires, The Transfiguration stars Ruffin as a 14 - year - old misfit who gets bullied at school and immerses himself in the world of vampires to escape his solitude when he returns home.

Co - writer / director Jenn Wexler knows her shit when it comes to the horror genre, having produced films like Darling and Psychopaths, with The Ranger feeling like an opportunity to make her directing debut for a minimal budget with a relatively thin story.

Yet, doing so would also require that the industry (and critics) embrace the fact that most of such films would, at least initially, be rather underwhelming if not outright bad: after all, it is only through repeatedly practicing the craft of genre filmmaking that, over time, a film industry can elevate its game and make reliably solid films in any given genre — films that can hold their own when compared to those from other nations that excel at genre filmmaking, including Hollywood (the genre filmmaking tradition par excellence), France, South Korea, or Hong Kong.

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Summer camp was an exhausted genre when the film first debuted; now it's as relevant as a spoof of 1950s monster movies.

Featuring the best work from Carrey and McGregor in years (and a reminder of Carrey's phenomenal and chameleonic talents when given the right material), a smart and witty script adapted by the directors from McVicker's novel, and a cracking pace that neither hurries nor languishes, it combines the highlights of the heist and escape genres with dashes of dark humour and irreverence to create a film best described as a wicked delight.

The grumpy room - mate character and the stern father figure are constants of this genre, but whereas other films would have shoved them into the ending somewhere, the writers simply let them gracefully bow out when it feels like their time.

7R: When I talked to Jakob Ihre, he said the locations you chose had a huge effect on how stylized the film ended up being on the spectrum from genre film to realist drama.

When the film was completed, however, Franco and Emmerich surveyed the trailer and marketing materials and concluded that the movie was wrongly being sold as a Pineapple Express genre film.

Directing tandem Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead first hit the indie movie scene when their feature film debut Resolution took the genre by storm, delivering a skin - crawling psychological haunter that still has people talking.

The buzz after Ari Aster's world premiere was that Sundance had produced its first horror great since «The Witch,» but midnight buzz is often a bit, shall we say, genre - biased, and films often sink when they play in the daylight.

It gets to a certain point in the film that when he goes through the withdrawal, time away with his family, part of the film (yet another staple of the recovering drug addict genre), we don't want him to have that triumphant return to music.

When Marvel is willing to really embrace genre — for example, when Thor felt like an»80s fantasy, or Captain America felt like a 70s political thriller (or 40s war film)-- I think they are at their bWhen Marvel is willing to really embrace genre — for example, when Thor felt like an»80s fantasy, or Captain America felt like a 70s political thriller (or 40s war film)-- I think they are at their bwhen Thor felt like an»80s fantasy, or Captain America felt like a 70s political thriller (or 40s war film)-- I think they are at their best.

At a time when action films routinely pass off freneticness as excitement, Drive is a reminder of how powerful the genre can be when every shot and every line of dialogue has a purpose, deployed for maximum impact.

It doesn't neatly fit into any defined genre, and there also isn't any determinable plot one can put a finger on when telling someone else what the film is all about.

When most people think of Walt Disney films, they think of two genres: the animated musical and the live - action family film.

Lelio manages his screenplay's ever - changing tones expertly, even when the film at times seems to be taking on more genres than it can handle.

The film is a bizarre blend of genres when a romantic love story unfolds during a life threatening hostage situation.

With all due respect to the fans of The Sixth Sense, with which others may draw comparisons due to its ending, I'm going to go against the grain and proclaim The Others as the best horror film I have seen since — well, I can't remember since when — unless you consider Silence of the Lambs within the horror genre.

The Western genre has always been pretty precise when it comes to dealing with the decades in which the films were made.

Soderbergh's direction is different than what he's done before, as is his custom, and shows how much of a master of all trades he is when he can make such a good film in a genre he hasn't done before, especially if you consider what a complex piece he has chosen start off with.

The lack of any nominations for his films which are absolute classics and an integral part of cinemas genre history is much more shocking when other filmmakers have simply missed out at the final ballot stage whereas Leone didn't even get to hear the starting pistol fire.