Sentences with phrase «good creature movie»

This was a good creature movie.

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There's no one better right now making creature movies, and Del Toro made such a great one you can't hate on the fact that he's the frontrunner to win the Oscar in this category.

Despite their appearance, Susuwataris are good creatures in the movie, mainly they make sure that the family that is moving into the new house is composed of good people.

If you're a brittle star, the answer turns out to be quite well (for an echinoderm)-- although it's a little complicated.The blunt - spined brittle star (Ophiocoma echinata) looks like a claymation creature from an alien horror movie as it moves its disk - like body along the sea floor with unexpected agility.

Kong: Skull Island is a dumb monster movie with some good special effects, some interesting creature designs and plenty of action.

I think this is the best horror movie of 2012 this far because it's not a reboot or a remake, but with lots of horrid zombies and gruesome creatures.

It will be in that moment that you lose your status as Awesome Person Who Takes the Kids to the Movies and Buys Them Candy because it is then that you will have to explain to your child that, in real life, Jim Carrey's character would be considered a delusional pet hoarder endangering the lives of creatures that need special care and that the mean zookeeper is the good guy and not some kind of animal prison warden kidnapper.

If you like silly horror films, then you'll most likely want to watch this film.Veteran horror director Steve Miner (Friday The 13th Part 2, 3, House, Halloween H20) directs this film with wit, and Minder definitely knows how to craft a good, fun, B movie style creature film.

A light - hearted monster movie that offers up plenty of laughs, Lake Placid is still a really fun and well - made creature feature that doesn't ever treat its characters - or the audience - like morons.

Fittingly, Magee adapts the skills he learned on past creature crews to make his first turn in the director's chair a tour de force, with creature design and practical effects that rival the best of the big budget movies going today.

In either a brilliant subversion of creature - feature films, or a top - notch blending of subgenres, a good chunk of the movie is essentially Friday the 13th if Jason Voorhees was Sasquatch.

The movie, which stars Sally Hawkins as a mute woman who falls in love with a scaled creature, also won best score and best production design.

A young actor who's worked with Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen and Warren Beatty, he's already built up an impressive résumé — although too often, he's done fine work in movies nobody saw (Coppola's sibling drama Tetro, the supernatural YA romance Beautiful Creatures) or been relegated to the margins of good movies (Blue Jasmine).

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29 at 9 / 8c — THE NIGHT BEFORE HALLOWEEN Original Syfy Movie starring Bailee Madison (The Fosters, Good Witch) and Anthony Lemke (Dark Matter, American Psycho)-- When a Halloween prank goes wrong, it unleashes a creature that will hunt each of the participants down and kill them, unless they can figure out how to transfer the curse to someone else.

This movie just gave me nightmares, the special effects the sounds, the creatures design were pretty well done, the acting was just good to decent at times, they could do better, the other thing is that they did» t gave a lot of screen time to the creature, it would been really good to see more about it.

This movie just gave me nightmares, the special effects the sounds, the creatures design were pretty well done, the acting was just good to decent at times, they could do better, the other thing is that they did» t gave a lot of screen time to the creature, it would been really good to see

Blade Runner 2049 / The Shape of Water: Can the fantasy creatures that movies have mostly taught us to fear or occasionally to — at best — feel some sympathy for, maybe share our deepest emotional needs?

Despite the life - or - death stakes, this is a funky feel - good movie studded with physical comedy from a surprisingly cute creature, and genuinely exhilarating car chase scenes that employ the eponymous monster trucks with whimsy and verve.

This makes for a good action adventure movie, with a mysterious island, inhabitants other island creatures, and the charm of New York City.

With this established, the movie proceeds to introduce us properly to the characters, and to explore further the world they live in, what with all its rules about being silent, and how best to avoid the creatures that are lying in wait.

There is plenty of rehashed old well known dialog from the first two classic movies, similar shots of the creatures, similar jump moments, the same classic sound effects etc...

With the possible exception of Pixar, no other animation company has a better hit - to - miss ratio: the Oscar - winning short Creature Comforts (1989), those incredible Wallace and Gromit shorts and their 2005 feature The Curse of the Were - Rabbit, the great poultry escapism of Chicken Run (2000), the sheer (or rather, sheared) genius of Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015).

Although this is the kind of movie that works best the less you know, misfortunate souls that saw another British horror flick this year about an underground dweller, Creep, will probably find the story here quite familiar, especially in the look of the creatures.

The movie's unexpectedly goofy sense of humor helps to keep things light, and the actors do a good job with the material they've been given, but «Beautiful Creatures» doesn't feel like it was made by a studio that loved the books, but rather the idea of success that a film adaptation might bring — all business and no soul.

So, Guillermo del Toro's Cold War - era fantasy B - movie romance thriller The Shape of Water, starring Sally Hawkins as a woman who falls in love with a scaled creature kept in a water tank in the research facility she works at, has been named Best Picture at this year's Oscars.

It's not a particularly good movie, but it has far more character than this CGI - dominated remake, a bland and flavorless spectacle centered on muscle - bound Perseus (Sam Worthington), a stiffly stalwart demigod who takes on an odyssey to defy the gods with no more personality than the slick but CGI creatures he battles along the way.

John Krasinski's supernatural thriller A Quiet Place already has a good hook in the form of unseen creatures who kill people when they make noise — as seen in the movie's short Super Bowl teaser — but this expanded trailer adds an extra scary angle with the reveal that Emily Blunt's character is pregnant.

EXTRAS: The Blu - ray release contains seven featurettes covering a variety of topics, including production and creature design, filming the action sequences, as well profiles on the Wachowskis and the movie's lead characters.

Inspired by the 1954 Universal Studios monster movie classic Creature from the Black Lagoon, del Toro's take on the unique relationship between a mute woman (Sally Hawkins) and an amphibian man (Doug Jones) held captive in a research facility has dominated this awards season with a Best Picture win at the Critics» Choice Movie Awards, and a Best Director win for del Toro at the Golden Glmovie classic Creature from the Black Lagoon, del Toro's take on the unique relationship between a mute woman (Sally Hawkins) and an amphibian man (Doug Jones) held captive in a research facility has dominated this awards season with a Best Picture win at the Critics» Choice Movie Awards, and a Best Director win for del Toro at the Golden GlMovie Awards, and a Best Director win for del Toro at the Golden Globes.

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* Asked how he feels about going from very small indie films to a massive, effects - driven fantasy / comedy, Green said: «Well, just like probably all of you guys like to see different kinds of movies every week — a little of this, a little of that — it's fun professionally to, like, get in the ring and design creatures and have guys in suits and puppets and just, y ’ know, bring in all this stuff... I remember when I was a kid, and if something like «Behind The Scenes of Return of The Jedi» would come on, I'd just be glued to the screen, wishing that one day I'd be able to get my hands dirty doing something like that.

Overall, «Beautiful Creatures» is a better movie than one would expect from the trailers and the story.

This Best Picture winner is way more than just a movie about a woman who falls in love with a fish creature.

After Guillermo del Toro turned a creature feature into a best picture Oscar winner, films with B - movie plots, from Rampage to A Quiet Place, are also edging their way to the top

Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water (2017, R), a monster movie turned romantic fantasy about a mute janitor (Sally Hawkins) and an amphibious creature held captive in a government lab, won four Academy Awards, including best picture and best director.

Initially, these Transformer - like creatures that sound as though they could be voiced by Liam Neeson, or even Peter Cullen himself, feel as though they came from a completely different movie — and genre — but not only does Aronofsky eventually go on to integrate them into the narrative well enough to make them feel like a natural part of this world, but he also adds backstory and character features that make them one of the most curious and enjoyable parts of the film.

We learn a lot about how movies feature these creatures as well as their specific «performances» in the films.

Raimi has assembled his own band of technical wizards and movie magicians on the project, which includes cinematographer Peter Deming («Mulholland Dr.,» «Drag Me to Hell»), two - time Academy Award ® — winning production designer Robert Stromberg («Alice in Wonderland,» «Avatar»), Oscar ® - winning film editor Bob Murawski («The Hurt Locker,» the «Spider - Man» trilogy), veteran Oscar ® - nominated costume designer Gary Jones («Spider - Man 2,» «The Talented Mr. Ripley»), visual effects Oscar ® winner Scott Stokdyk («Spider - Man 2,» «Spider - Man») and Academy Award ® — winning special makeup artist Howard Berger («The Chronicles of Narnia» series), who will create the looks of several of the unique denizens of Oz, including creatures such as the Whimsies, the Tinkers and the Winkies, as well as the ghastly look of the Wicked Witch of the West.

Guillermo del Toro's escapist fantasy - romance The Shape of Water was the biggest winner, the story of a young woman's love for a captured sea creature — with best picture and best director, setting the official seal of approval on what is, by any measure, a beautifully made movie to which audiences have responded with distinctively sensual delight.

EXTRAS: In addition to a feature - length documentary on the making of the movie, there's a behind - the - scenes look at the cast table read, featurettes on creature design, visual effects and shooting the climactic lightsaber battle, as well as some deleted scenes.

The movie will recount the tale of a rabbit (Peter played by actor - host James Corden) and his gang of friends who will take on the local villain Mr. Thomas McGregor (Domhnall Gleeson), the farmer who can not stand the furry creatures and does his best to get rid of them.

We do get the quite familiar shots of bystanders running down the street, glancing back in fear — a must for any monster movie, and it should be noted that Godzilla films have a legacy of multiple creatures, as well as the man versus nature theme.

The movie is marked by perhaps the best aquatic shots you will see on the screen in 2017 of a huge but lovable creature about nine feet tall, similarly lonely, isolated, penned inside a glass body of water.

Here — and to be fair the previous movies as well - they are just dumb Alien - like creatures with no technology at all.

A mythical creature from the Pacific Northwest inspired the names of both the tool used to map specific products on Amazon.com to titles on IMDb — the Internet Movie Database that Amazon owns — as well as the «Bigfoot» building.

Well, there's at least one pair of ghostly creatures who seem to have a lot of downtime — Kayako and Toshio, the creepy, violent mother - son pair from Japanese horror movie Ju - On.