Sentences with phrase «fun genre flick»
Once the trailers started coming out, it was fairly clear this wasn't going to be a good movie in the sense of a The Departed or a Godfather, but an over-the-top fun genre flick, and that fits the post-Oscar-hopeful January moviegoing season perfectly.
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The tweaking of genres — the prison - escape flick in Chicken Run; monster horror in Were - Rabbit — in ways that made fun of cinematic tropes while also rapturous embracing them has elevated Park's work way above the standard notion of «it's a cartoon, it's just for kids.»
What works best about Insidious, which is about as adoring a love letter to Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist as a good film can get, is how it takes horror flick concepts both old and relatively new and mixes them up, blender - style, and the result is a 95 - minute fun - time ass - kicker that has as much love for the genre as it does in making you pounce out of your seat.
It's no fun to rip a genre flick by Canadian maverick Bruce McDonald, who makes movies with real zeal and, as recently as 2008, riffed smartly on horror movie tropes in his quasi-zombie drama Pontypool.
Co-written by director Edgar Wright and star Simon Pegg, this gory zombie satire is filled to the brim with charming English wit, but even though the comedic duo (best known for the hit Brit TV show «Spaced») tirelessly pokes fun at their favorite zombie flicks, they still respect and follow every one of the genre's rules.