Sentences with phrase «first reel»

Some may find their patience tested beyond breaking point in a long (two and a half hours) movie whose first reel or so is easily its weakest.

Mae West dominates the film's first reel as Flowerbelle Lee, a self - reliant woman who is abducted by a mysterious masked bandit during a stagecoach holdup.

And while the egregiously lugubrious first reel seems destined to turn off most viewers, the film's late - in - the - game surprises do ensure that one's patience is eventually rewarded (albeit in an awfully mild manner).

But Rob Reiner's sensitive, dramatic distillation of self - destructive teens whose boredom and rage reaps abuse and self - destruction on their parents and themselves holds attention and builds empathy from first reel to last in this searing examination of despair and tough love.

If this was a film that broke down half way through the first reel we'd all demand our money back.

This is my first Reel Mower.

Like Private Ryan, Gladiator charges into heart - pounding battle just minutes into the first reel.

The first reel can be found on a counter in the lobby while on easy or normal, but on hard it is found in the small room behind the food counter.

Racecar - driver - turned - mill - worker Jason Statham not only loses his job before the end of the first reel, he loses his wife, gets framed for her murder, and winds up in a prison where warden / network executive Joan Allen rules with a frown and a severe pantsuit.

Setting the stage is what you do in the first reel of a movie, not for the first 99 minutes before you take us to the actual story.

The first reel of the film is taken up by a big wedding scene, bringing together two token gay characters who hated each other throughout the series and are now inexplicably exchanging vows before the holy vessel of Liza Minnelli — who also performs at the party with a hideous cover of «All the Single Ladies».

Although she's dead by the end of the first reel, her influence lingers as she taunts ex-husband Larry (Larry Poindexter) from beyond the grave in flashbacks and sexy visions that culminate in Strain's Erica glaring up at him from her corner of a three - way, promising, «You'll never be rid of me» as he watches, sad - faced and helpless, like a kid who dropped his ice - cream cone.

The idea of properly introducing the eponymous monster in the first reel might seem to go against the genre's rules of suspense, but it's crucial to the tone of the film: it moves us past the usual build - up and straight into the conflict typically reserved for the final act.

Don't worry about the friend too much; he disappears without further mention after the first reel (ouch).

There is a shot in the first reel of Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel that will feel awfully familiar to devotees of the Anderson canon.

Moviegoers hip to the true identities of Tyler Durden and Keyser Söze should figure it out by the end of the first reel, when the filmmakers have already begun to...

Fortunately, they devised a boffo climax that almost, but not quite, tops the audacity of the film's first reel and helps you forgive the distended midsection.

In the spirit of full disclosure, I've got to admit that I'm inclined to respect any movie that can send a full row of audience members scurrying for the door before the end of the first reel.

Mission accomplished — in the first reel.

While the film's relentless forward momentum is one of the film's great assets, one can not help but wish that he eased up somewhat, if only during the first reel, to give the audience time to digest and make sense of it all.

Things kick off in the tail section, the revolution's underway before the end of the first reel, and Curtis and co. (whose ranks also include Octavia Spencer and Ewan Bremner as parents in search of their kidnapped children) keep on pushing to the front without catching a breath.

The film starts familiarly, covering all of the important camp counselor stuff from the original Friday the 13th within the first reel, then fast - forwards thirty years and switches focus to a nubile, athletic group of disposable twentysomethings who lack common sense and are stomping around the woods at Crystal Lake in search of pot plants.

The first reel is simply too short at less than seven minutes long, and as a result the film feels even slighter than it should.

At the most basic level, the two - reel comedy short tended to be evenly split in half, with the setup in the first reel and the conclusion in the second, usually filmed at two different locations (often the second reel has two locations intercut).

Think of With Love and Hisses evenly divided between the train location of the first reel and the camp location of the second, or Love «Em and Weep with the office location for the first reel and the intercut restaurant and home locations for the second.

At the first reel change, he seemed inclined to talk, started to lean forward, but Rotheram, wanting to keep the film moving, busied himself with the projector.

When you are awarded a replay on your outhole - bonus, press both flippers when the first reel has stopped.

Ever Is Over All (1997) first reeled me in — a video vignette that received extra pop - culture attention this year when one of Beyoncé's music videos from Lemonade cited it.