Sentences with phrase «final reel»

The phrase "final reel" refers to the last part of a movie or story, typically when everything comes together and the end is revealed. It is like the climax or conclusion of a film. Full definition
Note: final reel of isolated track badly faded and muffled.
Invigorated by taking a caustic swipe at the studio machine with The Player, Altman enjoyed a golden years» renaissance with Short Cuts and Gosford Park providing final reel highlights.
After a number of archival film elements were scanned at 4K resolution at Warner Bros.» in - house Motion Picture Imaging lab in Burbank, the original camera negative of the film came to light, providing the basis for the majority of the restoration — that is, until the negative's inferior final reel necessitated dipping into another archive altogether.
A murderous flock of crows (largely computer generated) pick up where Hitchcock's feathered fiends left off, before a completely unnecessary final reel twist that kills the film stone dead.
The film's final reel take a turn toward the ridiculous that really dampened my enthusiasm, and I'm a big believer in a great ending, but I am able to look past that to see what is great about this film.
A dinner sequence with David's hastily - sketched love interest Elizabeth (Elisabeth Shue) is taken from Beetlejuice (and Emily's wardrobe is an ape on Wednesday Addams's), the opening car ride to the remote destination sprinkled with liberal flashes of a doomed New Year's Eve party is a flat rip - off of The Shining, and the shower curtain / butcher knife stuff as well as most of the ridiculous final reel is Psycho all over again.
And if The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya lacks the sweep and complexity to match The Wind Rises, the tender ambiguity of its telling — even after the shattering final reel — wounds in a similar way.
Does the sinister whirlpool of Devil's Kettle play a role in the proceedings or is final reel discovery of a certain murder weapon mean it's just a scientific red herring?
The visual effects don't really show up until the final reel, but they do well enough.
The feelgood movie isn't just a maudlin, happy - ever - after fable with a final reel that sets your heart aglow.
Talent is involved everywhere in Derailed, and it all gets trashed in the final reel for the sake of teasing and then appeasing a bored November audience.
The final reel of Camp X-Ray is actually kinda terrible, but that's not enough to undo all the excellence that has come before.
The film is let down by inauthentic dialogue and plotting that unravels rather embarrassingly in the final reel.
In this sequel, the dog and his young owner are separated, only to be reunited in the final reel.
Full of hilarious one - liners and sidesplitting slapstick, Whistling in the Dark is also quite suspenseful — especially in the final reel, wherein the best line is delivered by the pop - eyed potential murder victim.
Within the film's final reel, Darwin sits down and writes his book in what seems to be an abnormal burst of energy.
Piety has no place here, nor do tears until the final reel.
If the raptors truly were intelligent, they'd have eaten the final reel.
In the end Jeff, Who Lives at Home is a pleasing but slight comedy which stumbles in the final reel only because it buys too easily into the infantilising film - school concept of third - act redemption.
It would have made more narrative sense to keep Bakare's scientist, a paraplegic who's delighted at his fortune finding himself in a zero - gravity profession, up and about for the final reels.
In his feature directing debut, Daniel Petrie Jr gets maximum mileage out of the derring - do of the final reels while emphasizing comic relief earlier on.
(That said, it's worth mentioning a final reel shot of remarkable gristle; the sort of thing that may linger more vividly in the minds of any 12 - year - olds cadging on the classics than the actual plot.)
Audiences deserve much better than its final reel, no matter the name of the movie.
It's a cynical, joyless film that seeks a final reel redemption for Russell's dirty cop but still can't help tacking on an unearned final dramatic punchline.
Containing laughably high levels of violence, sex and sadism that become near numbing by the final reel, Eaten Alive!
We know right from the outset that the real aim here is to show that the bickering Wishbones love each other really and will learn how to exorcise their demons and live together as a happy family, all in time for the final reel.
But the effects in the final reel of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie have to be seen to be believed.
There are some gender gymnastics going on in here, complicated by Dahl's declaration that she's a lesbian (and by Riddick's promise that he'll be «balls deep» in her by the final reel), but I fear not much is ever made of any of it.
Yes, the film kind of falls apart in the final reel, but by that point it's earned more than enough goodwill to balance out the weaker areas.
Duval may be the sedentary and retiring sort but he unearths hidden reserves of courage in time for the final reel.
In one of the more positive reviews, The Independent's Geoffrey Macnab praised the cast and initial build up, yet said how «in the final reel, the film begins to unravel».
It's a film about family, at the frankest level, a sentiment suggested early in an intensely subtle scene before being pressed all too firmly in the final reel.
They scream at each other with dialogue that doesn't soon like actual people and the movie plods forward until Kitamura finally unleashes some insanity in the final reel.
However, the unintentionally hilarious butchery of the final reel is quite nasty, of course, but nevertheless satisfying in its overall pointlessness and its a comeuppance free - for - all.
During the final reel, we are treated to explosions and landslides.
In its final reel, the film risks becoming very maudlin.
The end results are plenty of production details, backgrounds on cast and crew members, and with the exception of the final reel, the pacing is pretty brisk; it's only their admiration for actor Arthur Dignam that results in dead spots during the film's denouement.
Williams's vivid portrayal goes a long way in making his arc understandable without any concrete reasoning, yet an explanation for his behavior is served up in the final reel, a writing decision that feels unnecessary and trite.
He's dutifully sincere and in awe of the efforts that crafted the film's striking look, but with zero info on the novel, script adaptation, lead actors, memorable character actors, and Mamoulian's obvious style and use of heavy subtext in so many scenes (including the heavy religious iconography that goes bonkers in the final reel), it's a huge lost opportunity for film fans.
There are still plenty of things to see in Crimson Peak, but unfortunately the trailer shows multiple shots from the final reel of the film.
It's another classic source of conflict taken out of Hill's playbook, as we know that - despite the good - natured ribbing and sex gags (that Ferguson frowns upon in front of the boy)- this is all going to blow up by the final reel.
Hathaway and Chen track their cyber-terrorist from L.A. to Hong Kong to Jakarta in a cat - and - mouse game that doesn't bother introducing the mouse until the final reel.
All these kids do is eat, drink, see movies, smoke a joint, bathe together, masturbate, and have sex — until one of them tosses a Molotov cocktail in the final reel.
Interesting how the two main locations, which are hundreds of miles and oceans apart, are used to create the mood but don't jar at all in the final reel.
Trends of the Year: Sex addiction (Don Jon, Thanks for Sharing), shipwrecks (Gravity, All Is Lost), the skin trade (Lovelace, The Look of Love), taking the White House hostage (Olympus Has Fallen, White House Down), the apocalypse as comedy (This Is the End, The World's End), slow cartoon protagonists who nonetheless win the big race (Turbo, Planes), likable character actors who are revealed to be villains in the final reel (Star Trek Into Darkness, White House Down, The Lone Ranger)
Long is too bland as a champion of individualism — his final reel grandstand speech, a call to arms for drop - outs everywhere, falls dreadfully flat.
She starts the picture by dancing provocatively over the opening credits, and in the final reel she is blasting away bad guys with a machine gun where her right leg should be.
The final reel, in particular, is solid, which counts for a lot.
By the final reel, the script twists for the mere sake of twisting, going for the cheap shock at the expense of all logic or sense of reality.
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