Sentences with phrase «film was in trouble»

I knew this new film was in trouble when I heard De Bont talking about being able to do all the things Jackson described in her book that the original film had to skip due to the technical limitations of the era.

Neither Sheridan nor Cooke sets the world alight, and when even the likes of Ben Mendelsohn are having an off day, you know a film is in some trouble.

If the film's best scene involves Jack and Cathy playing a mind game with Viktor at a dinner table, this film is in trouble, because it casts its evil mastermind as one of the most easily duped simpletons to nearly take down a nation.

is the moment the film is in trouble.

Not exact matches

His previous films are almost unanimously dark, complex and interested in the inner torment of their troubled protagonists.

Because this little film about the troubles with fracking in New York is pretty damn good.

At one point a woman in the film says to a friend, «some of the animals we used to have in this bush here we have to describe to our children... we are in trouble... some of the fish we used to have in this river we have to describe to our children».

Some of the research covered in the documentary includes scientists who are identifying and characterizing planets orbiting other stars (the other planets in our solar system would likely be more trouble than they're worth to make comfortable, the film argues); an engineer building a rocket fueled by plasma, the same charged particles found in our sun; and a team building a fleet of robots that could construct habitats before humans even arrive at their destination.

I don't suppose Adam Lambert was ever considered for the role of Freddie Mercury in the troubled biopic Bohemian Rhapsody (on which filming was It's hard for me to be happy with things, says Adam Lambert.

Despite Sonny's previous loyalty, the Vances fear trouble and contact a hitman... [/ font][font = Century Gothic][/ font][font = Century Gothic] «Coastlines» is a disappointing movie from Victor Nunez whose two previous films, «Ruby in Paradise» and «Ulee's Gold,» were well - acted, low - key and emotionally resonant depictions of small town Florida.

As I said, the problems this film faces are the same troubles that kids films that try to impress everyone has, a clash in tone.

Trouble Every Day shrouds itself in the aesthetic of vampires and zombie lore; the poetry and pain in that film are innate in the seduction of venereal destruction, the entanglement of love and sex, love and hate, sex and death.

The film feels like it's been assembled by committee, and news stories about the film's troubled production bear this out: after an initial round of photography during which the ending was being crafted almost on the fly, the film's release was delayed so that a new ending could be written and shot in an attempt to glue together two halves of a story that still don't feel like a whole.

The trouble is, you can probably fill in the rest without having seen the film.

The directing is also weak, and has trouble keeping a consistent tone, yet Melissa Etheridge provides a strong theme song («In Roxy's Eyes») that captures the spirit of film.

It is a welcome surprise to see a lighthearted Western that places its importance more on the characters than on the famous real gunfight depicted - and the deep - focus shots are beautiful -, but still the film has trouble with maintaining the focus and pacing in the second act.

«Clean» might be a film in code about the most infamous of all rock - and - roll widows, but I hope not, since Allison Anders» «Sugar Town» had already done a fine job of eviscerating (again, in code) this woman, who nevertheless, love her or hate her, arguably served the important and underrated function of muse for the troubled drug - addled musician.

Following the turbulent and troubled lives of a group of young Scottish heroin addicts, the film takes a sympathetic view of the problem of drug addiction - rather than chastising them for the situation they find themselves in, it is sympathetic to the addicts» struggle and the vicious circle that traps them and slowly destroys their lives.

Based on the autobiographical novel by Jan Guillou and set in the mid-1950s, the film relates the experiences of a troubled young man who's enrolled into a hidebound private school.

(Returning as that bar's proprietor, T.J. Miller is sufficiently underused here that, if it's true his offscreen troubles have led to his firing, few fans will miss him in future films.)

That aspect of the film is clearly in a fight with all the «why did you come here» Syd Field motivational padding between its troubling setpieces, and it's a very studio - suit move to assume that the only way to give «meaning» to a film is to have people talk about it.

His films of the late»50s became more personal and daring, particularly The Trouble With Harry (1955) and Vertigo (1958), in which the dark side of romantic obsession was explored in startling detail.

Both film and protagonist are troubled works in progress that shuffle and meander and frequently falter, but occasionally sing.

Leitch's film is entirely earnest in its emotions, even saddling the hero with a troubled teen to mentor.

The actor spent the remainder of the decade turning in solid performances in a number of diverse films: he could be seen as an actor with a troubled past in An Awfully Big Adventure (1994), a very sympathetic Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility (1995), Eamon de Valera in Michael Collins (1996), a has - been sci - fi television star in Galaxy Quest (1999), and a grumpy angel in Dogma (1999).

The film focuses in particular on the playwright's troubled relationship with her daughter Lorraine who was just 10 when her mother died.

Nothing in the film is real enough to care about past the moment, or serious enough to trouble an audience's sleep.

All we learn about Max and Annie, aside from their love of games, is that they live in the kind of antiseptic suburban comfort that seems to be a given for protagonists in these films — and they're having trouble conceiving.

But while this comment may be true of some Carpenter films - like Big Trouble in Little China - it does not take the context into account.

Synopsis: In a film that plays with the idea of straightforward storytelling, a group of troubled people find that they are linked in unpredictable wayIn a film that plays with the idea of straightforward storytelling, a group of troubled people find that they are linked in unpredictable wayin unpredictable ways.

Legal troubles aside, Priestly continued to appear in films throughout the 2000s (Cherish, Die Mommie Die, Homicide: The Movie), and joined Joss Whedon's Tru Calling in the role of Jack Harper, a man determined that the dead not be revived by Tru.

The setting is Hollywood's troubled transition to sound, and there is just enough self - reflexive content (on the eternal battle between illusion and reality in the movies) to structure the film's superb selection of numbers.

A superb film in every respect, La Vie En Rose is one of the essential biopics and not since Clint Eastwood's Bird has a picture been this vivid in showing the conflicted and troubled side of famed artist.

Directed by Catherine Hardwicke, the woman who scored with another film portrayal of troubled youth in Thirteen, the look and sounds of the 1970s are accurately recreated, even if some of the costumes look like they are more suited for Halloween than the actual mid-1970s.

Certainly Hendricks, longtime backup singer and secret girlfriend to Ray Charles, led a life fascinating enough to merit a film, but it was Regina King's performance in Ray as the saucy, troubled chanteuse that compels her inclusion on this list.

The film stars Rory Culkin as a troubled man who is determined to reunite with his first love, risking everything in the...

Look at Halloween, The Fog, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, They Live, and this review's subject, Escape from New York: That's quite a run of films that are well remembered by many fans today, even if they didn't all set the box office ablaze.

Trouble is, Bolger isn't a good actress — in this film at least.

Director Barry Sonnenfeld badly needed a hit after Wild Wild West and Big Trouble and so he went down the tried and tested route of making a sequel to his most popular film so far, the entertaining Men in Black (not a film that was exactly crying out for a sequel, but still).

If the film is anything like the trailer, it could be in trouble because it's entirely full of cheap jump scares.

The film plays like an awkwardly edited clip show of highlights from his troubled life and career — complete with all the booze, drugs and womanizing that's become commonplace in the subgenre — jumping from scene to scene with little direction or purpose.

The latter delivers the best line of the film: «If your beard controls you, then you're in trouble.»

O'Connell, who also appeared in the 2014 prison drama Starred Up and thriller» 71, set in Belfast during the Troubles, said he was «honoured to be considered... especially for films I feel incredibly fortunate to have been a part of».

The trouble is that, like every on - screen male, Stillman allows himself to fall under her spell, and the result is a film whose dramatic dice is so loaded in its anti-heroine's favour that it fatally undermines her victory.

Some of the Things that happen over the course of the decade or so the film spans are as follows: Tomas (Franco) is already having trouble with his girlfriend Sara (Rachel McAdams) in the course of struggling to write a novel, when on the way home one evening, he's involved in an accident that brings him into the orbit of a single mother Kate (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and her young son Christopher.

Filmed in appropriately dim shades of winter, The Innocents is a beautifully acted story of the many ways devotion can be expressed in times of great trouble.

It is certainly not a film for everybody and most definitely not for kids unless you want them to get in trouble on their last days of school for repeating many of the new things they'll learn.

Every blowsy harridan who ever beset W.C. Fields; character actresses like Gale Sondergaard or Minna Gombell, who could always be counted on to make big trouble in»30s films; even Lucile LaVerne, the moustached hag who made the Gish sisters» lives hell in Orphans of the Storm and served as the model for the witch in Disney's Snow White - none of these is an evil patch on Midler here.

The trouble is I had forgotten all those films in - between.

Though the times are troubled — the Korean War rages in the background, and attitudes toward both sexuality and mental illness, as depicted in the film, were less than enlightened — everything looks like a dream.