Sentences with phrase «films at least attempted»

But where those films at least attempted to draw on real social anxieties around urban alienation, or struggled with the interconnectedness of the post-9 / 11 world, 360 just draws on those films.

Not exact matches

Over all, Ms. Handler's attempt to reinvent the form doesn't quite succeed, but the best moments of these films at least are more fun than most documentaries.

This film is just a poor attempt at cashing in on the success of Scream, at least Scream was fun, but this film is plainly bad.

We've seen movies built around this kind of story a million times and while Jordan Canning's film Suck It Up never makes any attempts to transcend its genre trappings, it's at least sporadically amusing.

There is a sobering payoff in terms of the tragic futility of filmmakers» attempt to capture reality — although, if you've seen Noah Baumbach's While We're Young, you may come out of Garrel's film feeling that, unlike failed Parisian documentarists, their New York counterparts at least get to mix some fun with their agony.

The characters act in the way you expect, and despite Cianfrance's attempts to layer the film with long, sweeping moments and beautiful cinematography, it doesn't do much to elevate the story into something more unique, or at least more riveting.

The mockumentary format is at least an attempt to do something fresh in the animated film world, but mockumentaries are only really funny because they mirror real life in an ironic, satirical fashion, often featuring comedians employing a naturalistic ad - lib delivery.

The original film played too easily on sexist stereotypes, and while some similar problems might be present in this new version, at least it's attempting something different with its approach of the material.

What follows is a lengthy (twenty - minute), almost completely wordless chase through the snowy wilderness so unlikely and protracted that it's pretty funny; would that the rest of the film, also funny, at least have made a cursory attempt at heat.

Whether you liked, disliked or haven't seen Snowpiercer, you know that it's a film you have to at least attempt to see because there's a crap ton of noteworthy things to discuss.

But Mark Ruffalo's portrayal of the Hulk has been so popular that a new attempt at a feature - length Hulk film seems almost possible, at least from a customer - demand standpoint.

Ruth's perfectionist impulse to have the best decorations and give the most expensive gifts is an overused conceit in holiday - themed films, but A Bad Moms Christmas at least attempts to mine the deep insecurities that drive Ruth to demand perfection from herself and her daughter and still garner laughs while doing it.

Tom Green's follow - up to Gareth Edwards» inventive «Monsters» does at least attempt something interesting: Just as the first film fused monster - movie sci - fi paranoia with a gentle indie love story to become an offbeat take on genre, «Dark Continent» basically wants to be a war movie with vague sci - fi elements.

Again, we have more characters than the film really needs — I swear at least five of the dwarfs get a single line each — and the screenplay strays outside the original source material in an attempt to paint a broader picture than Tolkein's initial fairy tale - like novel.

Even the trailers, as ambiguous as they were attempting to be, still give away a handful of the film's more potently silly surprises, not the least of which is the beginning of the X-Force team Deadpool will at some point find himself a part of.

It's when the film reaches Candie's plantation that it drops off considerably, largely due to less dramatic tension as well as an unconvincing performance by Samuel L. Jackson as Candie's trusted house slave (while the other actors at least make some attempt at period verisimilitude, Jackson sounds as contempo as he did in Jackie Brown and Pulp Fiction).

There are also attempts to try and turn the film serious on us, but hey, at least it does not end with a court scene or something similarly predictable.

At least with this 1987 film, starring Steve Martin and John Candy as a pair of mismatched traveling companions attempting to get to Chicago from New York City in time for Thanksgiving dinner, the ordeal is a hilarious one.

Crisp, efficient prose and well - rounded characterizations (at least of the guys in the white hats) raise this beyond other attempts to translate the pulse - pounding feel of the Die Hard films into prose.

At least the film had some vague sub-plots going on, but the game doesn't even make an attempt to provide anything of the sort.

The film's writer / director posted on Twitter, «Funky moving Silent Hill poster thingy...» And here it is: Although Bassett has obviously made an attempt to replicate or at least resemble Silent Hill 3 with this film, Open Road seems to be...