Sentences with phrase «from countless movies»

As I knew from countless movies and TV shows, Sunset was a magical ribbon of asphalt that wound its way from Dodger Stadium on L.A.'s Eastside (where it morphed into Cesar Chavez Avenue) all the way to its western terminus at the edge of the sparkling blue Pacific.

Not exact matches

Even now, running helter - skelter with no visible means of protection from the onslaught of offers from movies, television, records, jigsaw puzzles, animal food, countless other commercial interests and the pack of agentry ten - percenters who latch onto instant celebrities like ticks on a hound, Riggs is a wonder to observe.

Such faces peer out from the covers of countless science fiction books and are often attached to «alien abductors» in movies.

Instead of spending money on countless dates, dinners, movies and many more, just to find out if a person is interested in you and if the relationship works, you'd better try dating online and save yourself from all that trouble.

A junior - league rip - off of Rocky (and countless other boxing films), the movie doesn't just borrow from Stallone's proto - Reaganite blockbuster — it all but samples it, sprinkling in bits and pieces from most of the other go - for - it sagas (The Karate Kid, An Officer and a Gentleman) that Rocky made possible.

This is run - of - the - mill material being presented here, and unless you're a fan of the genre, it's highly unlikely you'll find anything that makes this movie stand out from the countless others.

The movie's story, however, is not from the future but from the past, cobbling together Rocky's rags - to - riches trajectory and countless movies in which estranged fathers and sons find themselves forced together and end up forging a deep bond.

Filmmaker Alejandro Amenábar - working from a script cowritten with Mateo Gil - has infused Agora with an unapologetically old - fashioned sensibility that's clearly meant to evoke the larger - than - life epics of yore, although the emphasis on countless underwhelming elements ensures that the movie remains terminally uninvolving virtually from start to finish.

The movie, shot one week annually for 12 years, has already won countless awards from film critics groups.

In what will surely be pushing the limits of fair use (or create a rights - clearing nightmare for IFC Midnight who picked up the film), «Room 237» cuts together not only footage from «The Shining,» but from every Kubrick film along with countless other works (ranging from Mario Bava to Alfred Hitchock to classic Disney cartoons), strings it all together, and pairs it with audio from interviews with various obsessives who have formulated their own opinions on what the movie really means.

But Allen did perfect the survivalist formula that propelled many disaster movies (and countless horror movies since), in which an assortment of characters band together under the leadership of one shrewd and decisive individual to escape from an enclosed space before time runs out.

The script by director John Hamburg and Ian Helfer (with input from Jonah Hill) is an endless string of comedy bits that have been used in countless other movies.

The devs included countless Easter eggs and nods to the original cartoon, not to mention several direct quotes lifted from the original animated Transformers movie.

Those later elements are really the only thing that sets this apart from the countless other cop - tracks - down - a-killer movies out there, because for all its clichéd plot points and stock characters, it's obvious screenwriters Robert Fyvolent, Mark R. Brinker, and Allison Burnett are more concerned about coming up with graphic death scenes than anything else.

Setting the bar very low, and celebrating the worst aspects of countless «frat» movies from recent history, Search Party should be an unmitigated disaster.

They carry no special qualities, and nothing about them stands out from the countless other horror movie threats we've suffered through over the years.

The paradox of Cameraperson is that almost all of its countless terrific scenes were deliberately excised from other movies.

Like with anything that is popular, the movie's plot has led to countless fan theories; ranging from aspects like the story was all in the head of Rod the TSA agent, that Get Out is a sequel to Being John Malkovich, the important symbolism of the deer, the dramatic irony of Chris picking cotton to lead to his escape, and much more.

In fact, apart from its countless F - bombs (because apparently, nothing says «bad» quite like grown women cursing), it's really a PG - 13 movie at heart, failing to push the boundaries as far as you'd expect from the guys who wrote «The Hangover.»

It's definitely a flawed film, one that overstays its welcome and gets lost in itself plenty of times, but out of the countless movies I've seen this year this one still rattles in my mind from time to time.

The movie contains frequent depictions of deaths from drowning and disease, extensive property destruction, explosions, crashing vehicles, planes falling from the sky, along with countless corpses.

Then, in 2000, he made a very strong feature debut with «Sexy Beast,» which stood apart from the countless British gangster movies at the time thanks to a whip - smart, foul - mouthed Pinteresque script, and Glazer's inventive visuals.

That movie was a success by pretty much any available metric: box office (an eye - popping $ 980 million worldwide), critical appraisal (89 percent approval on Rotten Tomatoes), and the countless millions of American children (two of whom reside in my house) who spent weeks singing the movie's anthem, «Let It Go» — a likely shoo - in for Best Song — from the moment they got up in the morning to the moment they were asleep at night.

Kurt Russell is known for his iconic roles in countless movies, whether he played a badass (The Thing, Tombstone, Escape From N.Y.) or a goofball (Big Trouble in Little China, Overboard, etc.) He's one of the very rare stars who can be cool and funny simultaneously — and Russell thinks Chris Pratt is like that too,...

Aside from one misjudged hallway run soaking, in which Winslet and DiCaprio's heads insufficiently replace those of stunt doubles, and some computer - generated extras in distant shots of the ship, the movie's countless illusions stand up to scrutiny, even the frame - by - frame high definition variety.

This is the lasting appeal of Jack Finney's novel, «The Body Snatchers» and why its concept has inspired countless science fiction movies throughout the years - from three versions of the novel itself (in 1956, 1978 and 1994 as Body Snatchers by director Abel Ferrara of Bad Lieutenant fame) to Heinlein's The Puppet Masters (finally in 1994) and the 1980s remake of The Thing - all of them dealing with people being surreptitiously taken over by alien presences.

Kathryn Bigelow's «Point Break» and Michael Bay's «Bad Boys II» are both referenced and commented upon, while, slightly less directly, «Hot Fuzz» checks off every item on the list of action movie clichés from countless films.

For every success like AMC's Breaking Bad offshoot Better Call Saul, there are countless failures — did the world really need a movie from the Bourne universe that stars Jeremy Renner, or, for an older example, the entirety of The Scorpion King?

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Alas, our lovable little David succumbed to the bookselling Goliath in the movie... as (at the time) did countless indie bookshops, facing ruthless competition from Borders and Barnes & Noble.

Four years later, Fifty Shades has yielded a major Hollywood movie, countless parodies and no shortage of opinions from those who have and those who have not read it.

While there are countless different shows and movies to choose from, naturally, we love the ones about animals.

Santa Monica 45 miles from the Disneyland ® Resort Discover 3 1/2 miles of sun - washed sand seen in countless movies and TV shows.

Each token allows you to take a spin to receive an item that can be used for playing and building in the toybox, items you get range from blocks, to mountain terrains, to even key parts and places from Disney movies throughout the ages, these include Cinderella's Castle which you can have from the beginning to Pride Rock from the Lion King and that is just the two I have, there are still countless others that still elude me in the vault.

they generate no money from anywhere else especially SONY who doesn't make stereos, cameras, HDTVs, Music, Movies and countless other products, there's just no way they could ever afford it.

There were countless b - movie rejects out to destroy your neighborhood, but everything told us it was all in good fun, from the zany art style and off - kilter arsenal to the soundtrack, which balanced serious spooks and savvy silliness.

From the countless spawns of movies to the archaic, yet ever - prominent releases of comic series, heroic icons are recognized throughout the world and many wonder what it would be like to be one of these fabled fighters of justice.

Square Enix's upcoming RPG Final Fantasy 15 has already amassed countless spin - off content including mobile games and movies, but that isn't stopping the publisher from announcing yet another spin - of project — an MMO title which is being produced for mobile platforms.

While other movie stars, singers, and performers have painted in the past — ranging from David Niven to Sylvester Stallone, from Frank Sinatra to Tony Bennett (Antonio Benedetto), from Kim Novak to Juliette Binoche, among countless others — to explain this phenomenon is more complex than meets the eye.

He's done work for many composers; designers; book writers, including J.K. Rowling; film directors; singers; artists; individual software developers; movie producers; film companies ranging from small ones to Dreamworks; software companies from one - man startups to Apple, Microsoft and Sun; recording companies; electronics manufacturers, including Sony and Motorola; car companies, including Porsche and Ford; apparel companies, including Columbia Sportswear; perfumery and skincare companies, including Amway, L'Oreal and Mary Kay; and a countless number of other clients, big and small.

Sites like IMDB as well as Rotten Tomatoes and countless other websites or mobile applications (such as flixter, etc.) all use movie posters and images from movies as part of their content which is more or less the selling point of their business (or maybe more accurately how they convince users to keep using).