Sentences with phrase «film knockoff»

But it's important to regard the series as a whole, and with the eighth installment («The Fate of the Furious «-RRB- opening this weekend, now is the perfect time to chart its bizarre evolution from action film knockoff to genuine pop culture phenomenon.

Not exact matches

Film Farsi refers to the vulgar genre films and Bollywood knockoffs that were popular under the shah, typically featuring women in miniskirts and scenes of debauchery in second - rate cabarets.

In a year that's offered a shameless, derivative Amblin knockoff («Super 8») and a worthy Amblin successor («Attack The Block»), «Real Steel» is the time - capsule copy that supplies both the strengths and shortcomings of the films in its milieu, resulting in a work of entertainment that will be some ten - year - old's all - time favorite as surely as «The Goonies» or «E.T.» was for ten - year - olds 25 years ago.

I thought that Free Fire might be reminiscent of the rise of Tarantino knockoff films in the 90s (The Big Hit, 2 Days in the Valley, Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, Suicide Kings) but this movie actually made me yearn for a Tarantino knockoff.

This is the kind of film that considers myriad instances of Canadians saying «aboot» and a knockoff of Lucky Charms called Pucky Charms to be the epitome of wit.

Going by its title alone, The Autopsy Of Jane Doe sounds like a Faces Of Death knockoff or maybe one of those Japanese gore videos from the»80s like the one that made Charlie Sheen call the cops because he thought he was watching a real snuff film.

Shot last year, the film (a USA / France / Czech Republic co-production) is directed by Ian Edelman (HBO's «How to Make It in America»), with a story that follows 2 detectives working in NYPD's Luxury Goods Recovery Unit, who are responsible for taking down bootleggers selling knockoff consumer items.

Indeed, Nispel's film is so slow - moving that it blows its one lead — it was actually completed before the battle - heavy spectacle of 300 and Apocalypto, but still manages to look and sound like a leaden knockoff.

It also provides a revisionist take on «The Room's» own transformation from failed Tennessee Williams knockoff to inadvertent comedy, recasting the film's long - delayed premiere as the moment the switch happened.

The film plays like an Alien knockoff, where unfortunately its many heart - pounding and genuinely gory sequences are diminished by goofy moments that don't work, such as Jake Gyllenhaal (playing loner space vet and medic Dr. David Jordan) solemnly reading parts of Goodnight Moon.

We're a long way from McDonagh's last film, Seven Psychopaths, which was a gleefully glib (albeit frequently hilarious) meta cartoon crime caper, like what Charlie Kaufman might make if assigned to write a Tarantino knockoff with his fictional brother Donald.

A largely forgotten film from 1990, «Hardware» stands out as a wonderful piece of original sci - fi that rose above a batch of cheap «Terminator» knockoffs at the time.

The Last Days on Mars will likely only appeal to two groups of viewers: the ones who've never seen any of the films that this one lifts ideas liberally from, and the ones who have seen them all and can't get enough of their b - movie knockoffs, no matter how imitative they are.

Now Willis is 62, and while he continues to find regular work (10 film credits over the last three years), he is no longer one of the biggest movie stars in the world — but he rarely if ever phones it in, even when the vehicle he's driving is a low - rent knockoff.

As clever as some of the dialogue here might be, most notably a conversation between El Monstrou and a 15 - year - old girl about to celebrate her Quinceañera, it's also where the film feels the most like a thinly veiled Tarantino knockoff.

First, there was the bulldozer of Bridget Jones's Diary, followed by Sex and the City and the books of Jennifer Weiner, and all of their filmed equivalents and knockoffs and offshoots, from The Wedding Planner to Bride Wars, The Devil Wears Prada to Confessions of a Shopaholic.