Sentences with phrase «giant monster movies»

Every larger than life creature feature, from King Kong to Godzilla to Jurassic Park owes a debt to the original The Lost World (1925), the granddaddy of giant monster movies.

The less that is said about Roland Emmerich's disaster of a disaster film the better, but the entire genre of giant monster movies in the tradition of Godzilla from areas beyond Japan is hit or miss at best.

As far as I'm concerned, these effects take giant monster movies to the next level — easily as impressive as the T - Rex fight was in Peter Jackson's 2005 effort.

A critical caveat seems appropriate here: I dig giant monster movies.

I love when a giant monster movie is coming out and the promotional materials give us an idea of just how...

Check out some images shared by the production designer that shows the atmosphere created for the giant monster movie.

«Rampage» is a giant monster movie featuring three genetically - mutated beasts hellbent on destroying a city and a couple of scientists who hope to stop them.

The city spanning giant monster movie from 2008 has been scaled way back in size, with the action confined to an underground bunker for bulk of its runtime.

«When you make a giant monster movie called Rampage there are two things I expect from your finished film.

Johnson was last seen in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, which grossed a whopping $ 1 billion worldwide, and next has the giant monster movie Rampage.

At the end of the day, if you do something as bizarre as giant robots vs. giant monsters movie and by some miracle it grosses $ 411 million worldwide, you should feel lucky.

Not exact matches

Evoked for me pleasant childhood memories of watching such «giant monsters on the loose» B - movies as «Them!

Of course, a movie about three giant monsters destroying anything that gets in their way is expected to have some intense moments, but parents should take caution on bringing their younger children to this one.

Instead, this particular video game movie fits squarely into Johnson's established «brand» and could have easily been an original sci - fi film about The Rock battling giant monsters, had it dropped the references to the original games.

Half the pleasure of giant - monster movies is allowing our suspension of disbelief to buckle like a bridge in Godzilla's path, and true to form, the film saves a few gonzo twists (including one especially outlandish bonus mutation) for the grand finale — an extended set - piece in which the three creatures converge on Chicago, which has typically gotten off easy where natural disasters are concerned.

The action beats and set - ups operate on horror movie rhythms, utterly at odds with the «Every Which Way But Loose» comic relief (George flipping off The Rock, grinning) and the ever - gyrating deployment of George as gentle giant, then killer monster, then monster - killer, then sweetie pie again.

It should have been a no - brainer: The movie is based on a late -»80s arcade game spawned by the creature - feature films of the»50s and»60s, in which one to three players controlled giant monsters as they stomped the bejeezus out of one cityscape after another while the tiny cartoon populace reacted accordingly.

Shot last year in 36 days in New York State's Hudson Valley, the movie is set in 2020, when most of the Earth's population have been wiped out by giant, sightless monsters equipped with tremendously acute hearing.

Another lands in the Everglades and transforms a crocodile into a hideous giant reptile like something out of a Japanese monster movie.

Flipping the script on decades of nuclear - monster movies, the original «Rampage» invites you to play as one of the three havoc - wreaking monstrosities — a giant ape, a Godzilla - like lizard, or an overgrown werewolf.

There are just enough «big» beats — a giant wolf leaping at a mid-air helicopter, George using tanks like toys on Michigan Avenue, all the animals climbing the will - always - be-known-as-to-me Sears Tower — to keep fans engaged, but monster movies should do more than just keep you engaged.

Galactus is just a scary cloud in the movie, but looks more like a regular giant monster or maybe a giant robot in the comic books.

Here's the thing about movies where giant robots beat up on giant monsters: they should be fun.

In «Hellboy» director Guillermo del Toro's new movie «Pacific Rim», which opens in cinemas on July 12, humanity is reeling from a surprise attack by terrifying giant monsters from the deep.

The enjoyable action pic doesn't radically reinvent the giant - monster movie formula.

I didn't like Pacific Rim much, but that could have been my fault for thinking too much about a movie that's about giant monsters vs. giant robots.

After a more than respectable five - week run as the No. 1 movie in America, this weekend the Marvel superhero adventure fell to No. 2, replaced by a different sort of nerd bait: The giant monsters vs. giant robots smash - «em - up...

(Unfolds paper, begins to read) «Pacific Rim Uprising is a movie in which giant robots fight giant monsters.

It is the sequel to 2013's Pacific Rim, a movie in which giant robots fight giant monsters.

Monster movies have scared audiences for decades, but giant monsters are a different breed altogether.

It's a big movie, kind of like Transformers, back in the days when they were pretty good, but with giant monsters.

I make lowbrow art stuff for those who love cartoons, horror movies, sci - fi, fantasy, real american heroes, comic books, sugary breakfast cereals, heavy metal, robots in disguise, giant monsters, space opera, and wild animals!

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Pacific Rim, in contrast, is a model of restraint, which is a strange thing to say about a movie about giant robots fighting giant monsters but it is true.

I don't tend to set the bar very high for movies about giant robots battling giant monsters.

How can a movie about giant robots battling enormous monsters created by one of my favorite directors, Guillermo del Toro be bad?

Some of my all - time favorite movies are coming - of - age stories centered on kids battling monsters, and the Chris Columbus - produced I Kill Giants...

The game, which has been remade a few times since its initial arcade release in 1986, featured a small cast of the usual suspects of big monsters from movies that destroy cities — a big gorilla, and a big lizard — and also a giant wolfman because why not.

Oh, it's just your typical «alcoholic woman returns to her hometown, deals with an abusive friend and accidentally destroys South Korea via a psychic link with a giant monster» movie.

In a movie crammed with special effects — wait until you see the giant tree monsters — Jolie is the most startling and wondrous of all.

, a low - budget monster movie about a man exposed to radiation and becoming a giant ant.

WHY: How can a movie about giant monsters be so boring?

Others were perhaps anticipating the appearance of a giant monster, but when the science fiction elements do eventually arrive, the devastation that greets protagonist Michelle is courtesy of a bio-mechanical race of sentient aliens - a threat that is almost unrecognizable from the first Cloverfield movie.

When a giant movie monster emerges with murderous intent, there's one rule that generally holds true: the bigger the stakes, the more effective the thrills.

Movies about giant monsters descending upon cities are a common sight, as are movies about chronic screwups trying to get their lives back on Movies about giant monsters descending upon cities are a common sight, as are movies about chronic screwups trying to get their lives back on movies about chronic screwups trying to get their lives back on track.

Its origins, however, were modest: While working on his epochal 2006 eco - horror / giant - monster movie hit The Host (the highest grossing South Korean film to date), Bong happened to wander into his favorite comic book store in Seoul.

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Considering that it was a movie about giant robots punching giant monsters, it was actually a bit, well, boring at times, centered, as it was, on the swaggering anti-charisma of leading man Charlie Hunnam.

The script by del Toro and Matthew Robbins — and, based on the advance material at the time, Steven Soderbergh and John Sayles in uncredited assists — manages to cleverly incorporate elements from mad - scientist movies, giant - insect flicks and traditional monster - on - the - loose tales, and the mere thought of roach - like critters the size of Sylvester Stallone will unnerve anyone with even a hint of a bug phobia.

Got any interest in seeing a movie in which Anne Hathaway plays a woman with a drinking problem who comes to realize that she has somehow acquired a psychic link with a horrific giant monster who enjoys stomping all over South Korea?