Sentences with phrase «film jettison»

Not only did this film jettison Apatow's career it also made Steve Carell a household name.

However, it turns out that this film jettisons the played - out formula of the Taken trilogy, cramming a fast - paced storyline into a 16 - hour span.

Not exact matches

J. Michael Straczynski's original script was jettisoned in favor of an unfinished one by political thriller specialist Matthew Michael Carnahan (State of Play, Lions for Lambs), with «LOST» - alum script doctors Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods, Cloverfield) and Damon Lindelof (Star Trek Into Darkness, Prometheus) brought in later to write a host of reshoots, including a new climax and ending to the film (the repeated use and imbibing of Pepsi products during these scenes would indicate the source for much of the additional reshoot budget), that pushed the release date from a winter of 2012 release to the summer of 2013.

It's not merely that Stoller's film is long (clocking in at just over two hours), it's that so much of its time is misappropriated; plot threads with Tom's parents (David Paymer and Mimi Kennedy) and Violet's mother (Jacki Weaver) could be jettisoned entirely, with that time freed up to examine in greater interesting detail Tom's emotional waywardness.

Even the mood - setting narration, lifted almost directly from the story and used to chilling effect in the original film, has been jettisoned for no apparent reason (some changes are just trivial: all character names are the same save Neeson's, which was Markway in the story and first film).

What the film lacks is genuine suspense, because for all of its twists and turns, the set - up never reels us in effectively enough to bother paying attention when things become odd, and all interest is jettisoned in time for the epilogue where all is supposed to be explained.

Any suggestion from the last film that we're at least responsible for our enemy's mutation is jettisoned along with anything like the cinematic sheen professional misanthrope Alexandre Aja brought to that project, replaced here by childish line - drawing and comparatively juvenile notions of what's gross and what's scary.

What You Need To Know: Greenlit almost immediately after the billion dollar success of «Alice In Wonderland,» this fantasy film ended up being a sweet security blanket for Sam Raimi after being jettisoned off «Spider - Man IV.»

He wouldn't have had to jettison the morals of the first film and could write his own arguments.

While the»80s Berlin - set «Atomic Blonde» was a violent, colorful, sexy and darkly absurdist film, Russian spy thriller «Red Sparrow,» directed by Francis Lawrence, is epic, methodical and unfortunately plodding, jettisoning thrills for a stultifying moodiness.

So it's very frustrating, particularly the last half hour of the film, when dialogue is largely jettisoned in favour of imagery and sound design and music.

I could watch the film over and over again and it has quickly jettisoned itself into one of my favorite movies of all time.

The aesthetic of deep - focus, long - duration takes that Desplechin developed in earlier films has been jettisoned, replaced by the visual equivalent of turntable scratching (as we see Ivan do as DJ of the town dance).

Working with Disney was apparently a long - held dream for Bradbury, though he probably didn't much enjoy the tortured post-production on the movie as director Jack Clayton's vision for the film was radically altered by the studio, including the jettisoning of Georges Delerue's rich score.

The laid - bare poignancy and touching immediacy of these films are exactly the kind of thing that is too often jettisoned by studio pictures; they're part of what makes indie film great, and connection with those common themes are, let's hope, a trend that we'll continue to see in independent film this year.

Neal and Del take jobs at a loading dock to pay for the train tickets that actually get them home, for example — the type of fuss that jettisons itself when a film starts barrelling towards the conclusion.

In Jem and the Holograms, a 1980s cartoon is revamped into a feature film, jettisoning the mystery - solving roles of the cartoon characters and leaving behind oodles of unimpressive music.

Where the first film made you wonder if everything experienced were real or just part of the program, this time out the doubts are jettisoned.

The movie - which follows several soldiers as they arrive on a small island hoping to escape the zombie menace but must instead contend with an ongoing feud between a pair of rival clans - opens with some promise, admittedly, as writer / director Romero effectively returns to the atmosphere established by 2007's Diary of the Dead (with the decision to jettison that film's handheld visual style certainly working in its favor).

In its uniquely closeted, cornered off, undemonstrative and aloof way, this brilliant albeit maddening film manages to jettison subtext in favour of cinematic spectacle.

Even in the market place, companies like Netflix are jettisoning film publishers because of the racketing up of the price (Netflix dropped Starz).