This film shares elements of story and tone with numerous members of the sci - fi / horror / alien genre, including two in particular (an all - time classic, and a recent Oscar winner).
Not exact matches
The score, by Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury, shifts effectively between incongruous acoustic guitar and oppressive breathing - synth sounds that I associate with Denis Villeneuve's Arrival — a
film with which Annihilation
shares more than a few
elements.
There are striking similarities between certain, um,
elements in this
film and «Avengers: Infinity War» — a fluke of timing, surely; the movies don't even
share a studio (yet).
But while the two
films share a few design and musical
elements in common, Book of Life has none of the lived - in, realistic feel of Miguel's Santa Cecilia family.
It's an unabashedly high concept premise that's employed to positive effect by director John Landis, although it does go without saying that the lion's
share of praise for the
film's success belongs to both Aykroyd and Murphy - as the actors» exceedingly engaging work ultimately proves instrumental in smoothing over some of the more questionable
elements within the narrative.
As usual, there was no grand unifying
element linking all of the year's finest
films, but there were some
shared themes and motifs: grief, and coping with it; strained family bonds; the responsibility (and burden) of religious faith; and, of course, cars.
No word on what the tone of the
film will be as of yet, although from the sound of things it'll
share quite a bit in common with the rest of his work; a combination of morbid and absurdist comedy with the occasional heavy dramatic
element... and plenty of foul language.
Both
films share many motifs and themes as well as other
elements, such... Read more»
Both
films share many motifs and themes as well as other
elements, such as non-linear narrative structure, the extensive use of the color red, and interpretations of vintage songs.
However, it
shares with those
films many of the director's creative trademarks including fantastical
elements, rich characters, emotional complexity, and an atypical narrative arc.
Basically, both
films share some of the same strengths, though those
elements are less effective here.
Sunshine is more of a purist sci - fi
film than has come out in recent years, perhaps just a shade less esoteric than another notable entry, Soderbergh's remake of Solaris, less philosophical than Aronofsky's The Fountain, less menacing than Alien, less action - oriented than Armageddon or The Core, and definitely far less jocular than Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, although it
shares many story
elements and themes from all of them.
Years earlier, he also co-created the 1993 Arnold Schwarzenegger
film Last Action Hero which
shares several meta -
elements with Ready Player One.
It
shares one major
element with that
film: it centers around the 1984 miners strike, where the coal miners stopped work for almost a year in an (ultimately unsuccessful) attempt to stop Margaret Thatcher's attempt to close down the pits.
In short, it's because the two
films will
share common
elements, but will ultimately be very different blockbusters.
Centering on the use of domestic and recycled materials, this program of short
films illuminates formal and cursory
elements shared between fine - art abstraction...
By placing the viewer in the position of voyeur, Tracey Snelling calls attention to the ways in which
film noir and other
elements of popular culture have shaped our
shared consciousness.