Sentences with phrase «from opening scenes»

is littered with mistakes, omissions and misrepresentations from the opening scenes.

Africa has had a rare yet distinct place in popular science - fiction, from the opening scenes of Stanley Kubrick's iconic 2001: A Space Odyssey, depicting the mysterious appearance of a black monolith in the cradle of civilization, to the recent success of Neill Blomkamp's debut movie District 9, a multi-layered allegory on South Africa's recent internal and external tensions.

The work is transposed from the opening scenes of the colonially - inspired film A Twist of Sand (1968), where the unidentifiable figures are about to be executed by an unknown source.

You'll hear all about what Dan Aykroyd thinks of the upgraded design of the iconic proton pack, which quips Bill Murray brought to reprising the role of Peter Venkman, why the librarian ghost from the opening scenes of the original film returned, and much more.

From the opening scenes, featuring a frantic boss battle, to the stealth elements later on I really felt part of something.

It's an eerily abstract film of vague motivations and ethereal imagery (exaggerated by the worn state of the source prints) from the opening scenes.

As the head of the local police force, Woody Harrelson is reliably great, with perhaps more of a gentle, affecting edge than we might expect from the opening scenes.

From the opening scenes on Mt. Everest to shots with helicopters to echoes and the pinging of tennis balls, the rear speakers contributed a positive sense of atmosphere.

From the opening scenes, an irresistible glow is established.

And the ending is so heavily foreshadowed, it practically flashes onscreen in neon lights from the opening scenes.

From the opening scenes, Reed establishes a tension: strangers ominously eye their movements through the airport and a young boy on a bicycle, an otherwise unobtrusive figure of innocence playing in the streets, tails their taxi and makes lazy figure - eights outside their home, a lone building jutting out of the rubble and ruins of their sector of the city.

From the opening scenes it already felt similar to Stand By Me, as we follow two kids learning about life and how to grow up through the adult situations that they encounter and haphazardly get involved in.

Apart from its opening scenes, which show the terrorists praying on the morning of September 11, United 93 plays out in real time, alternating between airplane's terrified, heroic passengers and the workers and government officials on the ground trying to divert disaster.

The lesson from these opening scenes is to never get used to Shutter Island as a locale, because each new setting within it seems as foreign as the one that proceeds it.

From the opening scenes, with Marco's crew crouched around a poker game in the back of a military vehicle, with Wyclef Jean's «Fortunate Son» blaring from the sound system, it is clear that this film has a political head on its shoulders.

From the opening scene, it's easy to empathize with Haller, unjustly locked up and improperly medicated because the authorities believe his mutant powers are in fact schizophrenia.

Some surviving Swedes from the opening scene pop up again but by this time we share Jack's sense of burnout.

From the opening scene of pale young men racing barefoot along the beach, full of hope and elation, backed by Vangelis's now famous anthem, the film is utterly compelling.

From the opening scene on it plays on horror stereotypes and cliches for the effects of humor and unpredictability in the plot - and to mixed results with both ends.

«Real Steel» hooked me from the opening scene when we see Charlie's robot fight a bull.

From the opening scene where Anthony, played by Luke Wilson is escaping from a mental hospital with the aid of his best friend Dignan, played by his brother and co-writer Owen Wilson, we know this movie is out there.

This is all apparent right from the opening scene.

From the opening scene with the atrocious b rated acting and fake police, to the horrible motor - bike scene with the terrible acting kids, this movie was pure rotten.

On the way they stumble across the homestead from the opening scene, and pick up the only survivor, Mrs. Quaid (Rosamund Pike), still clutching her dead baby.

From the opening scene Southside With You sets the tone of a late summer day on the streets of Chicago at the tail end of that decade we've all suddenly become enamored with nostalgia for.

Franco wisely plays Longo as a serial charmer, from an opening scene in Mexico where he beds a German tourist, to a phone call to Finkel's wife Jill (Felicity Jones) that brims with surface - level pleasantness.

From the opening scene, featuring Thor dangling upside - down in a net and talking to himself, it's clear the tone of this adventure will be drastically different.

From an opening scene in a prison fist fight to a staunchly bland climax finding him lost in an «unknown» realm when he's forced to shrink himself to fit between molecules (something resembling the resting place of Big Hero 6 mixed with the twilight hour of James Wan's «further»), Scott Lang is never a fully fashioned personality, some accidental prototype linked with schlocky zeal to the film's other do - gooder via a conflicted father / daughter bond.

«Get Out» is not a film that takes breaks for comedy routines (even if Howery allows a little relief, it's often in the context of how he's convinced all white people want black sex slaves), keeping us on edge and uncertain from the opening scene to the final one.

From its opening scene slowly falling down Violet's closet in a continuous panning shot that makes her hat boxes and skin - tight dresses seem more like a modern city than a wardrobe, Bound quickly proves itself as a tightly constructed (and unexpectedly funny) lesbian noir with incredible camerawork, solid acting by the entire cast and tight pacing that'll keep you feeling empathizing with Violet, Corky and Caesar as their high - stakes game take several reversals of fortune.

From the opening scene one can not possibly approach the rest of the film with a straight face.

Aside from the opening scene — during which you can hear all your fellow patrons unwrapping candy and chewing popcorn with their mouths open — it's about as noisy as any other horror film.

From its opening scene, the film willingly exposes itself to unfavourable comparison by opting to start at the exact same time and place as the critically acclaimed documentary.

Thanos has the upper hand from the opening scene and it's the heroes who are struggling to stay on top of the chaos that follows.

From the opening scene, which patiently observes Eric Marsh (Josh Brolin), a supervisor at the Prescott Fire Department in Arizona, preparing and packing his gear before training a group of firefighters, it's clear that the film's interests lie in the intricacies and minutiae of firefighting and disaster prevention.

The Shape of Water establishes that it's taking place in a surreally magical version of our world (circa 1962) from the opening scene of its heroine, Elisa Esposito, floating in an aquatic dream.

From that opening scene in which a deliberately - male alien creates life, through to the daddy issues felt by both Elizabeth and another character, the man's role in the creation of life is the topic du jour.

MacDowell is sublime as Ann Mullany in Sex, Lies, And Videotape, right from the opening scene, in which she blushes and stammers and can't keep from laughing when Ann's therapist asks her whether she masturbates.

I must concede that he does his best in what is otherwise a sinking ship from the opening scene on.

From the opening scene, Spielberg leaves no doubt in your mind that this is going to be a spectacular adventure.

The most notable supporting characters being, Mercutio (Harold Perrineau), and John Leguizamo's Tybalt, whose menacing dialog delivery and screen presence got me hooked into this slick adaptation right from the opening scene.

This is an absolutely solid piece of work that commands your attention from the opening scene and even though it has a quiet, reflective tone to it, it sustains it's vice-like grip and refuses to let go.

There were rumors that Chris Hemsworth would reprise his brief role as George Kirk, James Tiberius Kirk's (Chris Pine) late father, from the opening scene of J.J. Abrams 2009 Star Trek movie.

Apart from the opening scene, which incorporates special effects to help create a massive dry dock that serves as a prison (the prisoners hauling a ship into it with lines as thick as tree trunks), and a few brief establishing shots, which include dramatic rises and falls of the camera through space and time as each new stage of the story begins, Les Misérables keeps us in close — sometimes very close — proximity to the actors.

It's clear from the opening scene of Michael Haneke «s controversial 2001 classic The Piano Teacher, available in a new HD digital transfer on Blu - ray from The Criterion Collection, that some severely repressed feelings are lurking under the surface.

She pours plenty of emotion into Katja from the opening scene to the dramatic conclusion.

Telegraphed from the opening scene to the final moments, only some insightful or complex characterization would warrant this story now.

From the opening scene, with the black «A model» careering across the dusty landscape, cars dominate the iconography of Ray's film.

by Sean Rom «Asghar Farhadi's tough, penetrating film, A Separation has you in its grip from the opening scene.»

This movie should have been made after the 1st one:) The movie didn't let up and from the opening scene I knew it would get better....