Sentences with phrase «good sequel to the film»

Not exact matches

Comcast's (cmcsa) Universal Studios held the previous single - year box office record, which it set just last year, and the studio has a handful of sequels from franchises that have recently produced billion - dollar films on deck for 2017 — The Fate of the Furious and Despicable Me 3 — as well as the sequel to last year's sleeper hit, Fifty Shades of Grey.

Like a sequel to the film «Enemy at The Gates,» Hathcock became such a thorn in the side of the NVA that they eventually sent their own best sniper to kill him.

This is good news for supporters of the movie as the film drew just $ 3.5 million less than «Despicable Me 2» which is a sequel to the widely popular original released in 2010.

Director James Cameron's 1986 blockbuster follow - up to Ridley Scott's Oscar winning science - fiction / horror flick that became one of the biggest grossing films of 1979 asks a good question to a successful hit... How do you make a successful sequel to a film in which much of the suspense comes from learning about the mysterious monster?

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, one of the most dumbed down action films of 2001 gets the sequel treatment (that everything is getting this year), turns out to be one of the few that actually works better than the original, if only slightly.

That film was similarly shy of new ideas, but the characters were colourful enough to make the mandatory sequels seem promising, as long as there's a good story to go with them.

Think like a man too is a bad movie.But it also ruin think like a man.This is a sequel to think like a man and the sequel was so bad.Predictable, Bad acting, stupid scenes and boring.The 2 good things about this film is kevin hart and some

The second film's success was perhaps even more staggering than the first: The Godfather, Pt. 2 garnered six more Oscars, including a win for Coppola in the Best Director category; Robert DeNiro won his first Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor field; and the movie itself became the first and only sequel ever to win Best Picture honors.Next, Coppola began adapting the Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness, transferring its story to the heart of the Cambodian jungle at the height of the conflict in Vietnam.

Now I like the first Hoodwinked movie very much, and for a low budget CG film its very funny and keeps you entertained, so when I heard they were going to make a bigger budgeted 3 - D sequel I was interested, but the better CG doesn't add to how poorly this film was made, the CG may be better, but the lip synching is terrible and the voice acting isn't that good.

With two Pixar films (Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur), an Avengers sequel, Brad Bird's Tomorrowland, and the first of many planned Star Wars sequels on the calendar for the year ahead, 2015 should easily be Disney's biggest year to date.

The Strangers» pared - down style makes it particularly unsuited for the sequel treatment: Absent some Aliens - style conceptual twist, the best a 10 - years - later follow - up could hope to do is ably copy the original, and it doesn't take long for the new film to indicate it's incapable of doing even that.

With the new film of the space opera saga finally on the big screen and the release of Battlefront's new sequel, both after a decade overdue, it is definitely the best time to be a Star Wars fan.

The philosophy behind the sequel was obviously to focus on the action, and although it cuts into much of the what made the first film that much better, there is enough to latch onto to celebrate the Kung Fu Panda once again, and to let the fireworks begin.

I, on the other hand, really can't recommend this film as I found it to be a missed opportunity to create an effective sequel to a good film.

This is easily one of Eddie's best works and one of the most memorable films he has done thanks to playing that hilarious Klump family (which prompted the sequel).

The unseen events bookending Easy Rawlins» (Denzel Washington) transition from disaffected war veteran to private investigator - namely his former criminal escapades with a trigger - happy associate in Texas (Don Cheadle) versus his further adventures as a fully - fledged gumshoe - unfortunately sound a lot more interesting than the story we are being told, making this feel like a sequel to, or a two - hour trailer for, an even better film.

Watch new trailers for «The Dictator,» «The House at the End of the Street,» Sundance hit «Safety Not Guaranteed,» and more, and get a quick recap of this week's major developments in the film world, including news of sequels to «Anchorman» (good!)

The good news for many fans is that this fifth cinematic outing for the Predators is a sequel to John McTiernan's 1987 film Predator with Stephen Hopkins's 1990 Predator 2 and the two widely disliked spin - off / Aliens tie - in films unacknowledged.

It's never a good sign when a sequel to a horror film comes out a whopping six years after the original installment.

The good news for many fans is that this fifth cinematic outing for the Predators is a sequel to John McTiernan's 1987 film Predator and Stephen Hopkins's 1990 sequel Predator 2 with the two widely disliked spin - off / Aliens tie - in films unacknowledged.

I very well could be wrong, though [Edit: Apparently I'm wrong, as Heat Vision reports that Cooper will indeed be playing the nefarious Green Goblin in either this film or its sequel, after first being a mentor to Peter Parker].

Whether it is the purchase of Lucasfilm, the sequel (and prequel)- isation of Pixar's earliest and best work or the Disney Infinity «multi-platform experience,» the world's most successful film studio is no longer venturing outward in search of material, but rather has turned entirely inward, and is fracking its own landscape of licenses to generate «content.»

Well, what we didn't tell you (because we didn't know) is that it's a prequel to My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument that takes us back to the teenage years of the characters in the 1995 film... And least promising sequel of the week has to be Spring Breakers: The Second Coming, a cash - in scripted by Irvine Welsh and directed by Jonas Akerlund, the man behind such bad - boy music videos as «Smack My Bitch Up» and the 2002 meth - addict comedy Spun.

The Best Man Holiday — Hollywood experts were shocked when the sequel to the beloved 1999 film performed so strongly at the box office.

If you were someone, like myself, who thought that Infernal Affairs could have been one of the best action films of the new millennium if only it had some character development, you absolutely need to watch its sequel, Infernal Affairs II, as the entire film is almost nothing but.

«Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest» (2006) Box Office Take: $ 1,066 billion 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 12 Not as well - crafted as it predecessor, but not as bloated as the films that followed, the first «Pirates» sequel «Dead Man's Chest» was still kind of a mess, but still retained enough of the original's invention and charm to remain somewhat palatable.

In a time when sequels and reboots rule the roost, it's somewhat gratifying to see an original film do well at the theater.

I liked some aspects of the film, but the finale was bizarre, well I suppose that's to be expected; the whole film is based in a Strange parallel world and so one has to expect the bizarre and the unexplained but the way the villain was dispatched with was forced and his eye make - up was, well eye make - up when in fact it was meant to be the partial disintegration of his body... If there is a sequel it will be interesting to see where they go.

Now, a whopping five years later, we get the just plainly ridiculous «Hot Tub Time Machine 2», which joins the list of «Taken 3» and (while it could turn out to be a good film) «The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel» as 2015 sequels that had no business being made.

It is believed that Paramount's plan to make a good sequel is to add some edge to the film.

«Ride Along 2» doesn't even feel like it's trying at times, and for a sequel to a movie that was already an inferior copy of much better films («Lethal Weapon,» «Bad Boys»), it definitely shows.

Eisenbergwas recently cast as Lex Luthor in Batman vs. Superman, which begins filming this summer, so there's a good chance that he will move straight on to the Now You See Me sequel immediately afterwards.

It's hard to separate a sequel from its original counterpart, especially with a movie like The Conjuring, which is quite simply one of the very best haunted house movies ever — not only that, but it pretty much set the bar for all future films of its ilk; that's a hell of an accomplishment, to say the least.

My first thought was that this was a sequel to a Roland Emmerich film which shouldn't really come as much of a surprise considering that both he and Bay work in the school of «blow shit up real good».

Reynolds, who was credited as a producer on the original film, is said to have a bigger influence on a sequel — something backed up by the No Good Deed short he posted online.

Highlights include the world premiere of Stake Land 2, the new sequel to one of the best vampire movies ever, which was only recently announced earlier this year after being filmed in secrecy, with Nick Damici and Conner Paolo reprising their roles from the original.

Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds last week (March 4) shared a short film called No Good Deed, which acts as the first glimpse of what to expect from a sequel.

I'm not quite sure why anyone would like to stick to the same film time and time again (there is already a Japanese Ju - on: The Grudge 2 directed by Shimizu, and it seems he will be directing the Japanese third installment, and the American sequel as well!).

This franchise is clearly a valuable property, so it's no wonder that Universal would return to the well with a sequel, this time directed by Cedric Nicolas - Troyan, the visual - effects supervisor on the first film.

Though he'd built up a strong reputation among critics and cineastes in the 1960s with darker character work in films like Cast a Dark Shadow (1955) and the daring masterpiece Victim (1961), he was best known to the public as Simon Sparrow, the heartthrob comic lead in Doctor in the House (1954) and four subsequent sequels.

So I've been waiting the better part of three years to see the sequel of sorts to one of my favorite films of 2007 with another set of great stories told by world class film makers and actors.

Look at «The Hangover», because the first film was so well liked the sequel became an even bigger hit, but because the sequel was considered to be inferior by critics in general, the 3rd film really suffered and paid the price as it came nowhere near the previous films domestic box office grosses.

the only thing that could have made this a much better film is if this was a sequel and we got to find out what happend to kurt russell and kieth david... maybe a trilogy?

This week in home video releases features one of the most talked - about films of last year, a trilogy from one of America's best directors, a documentary about the people who launched the careers of John Belushi and Bill Murray, the sequel to one of the best horror films ever made, and much, much more.

The frustrating lack of narrative resolution which signals further instalments suggests a greater emphasis on comic book excess may well be on the cards; the tracks this sequel lays hardly point to a return to the first film's economy.

I personally think it was a good film and a welcomed sequel to the hopefully not yet completed story line of this character.

The subtext of the (mediocre) first film has become text in the (far better) sequels: the Purge is the authoritarian government's excuse to declare war on the lower class, as the privileged have the resources to survive the night while low - income families get wiped out.

With Claude Rains as Doctor Doom and Peter Lorre as Mephisto (two villains who team up to destroy the Earth), as well as various uncredited sequel - teasing cameos dropped into the climactic battle in the film's final moments — Errol Flynn as Hawkeye; Joseph Cotton as Starfox; Henry Fonda as Hercules — the film earned its nickname «The Biggest Film of All Time!»

Sean Anders, best known for his work on Hot Tub Time Machine, replaced the original film's director Seth Gordon on the sequel to the 2011 hit.

This sequel to the 1999 hit that aspired to be the new PORKY»S — but was really the new FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH — finds the Michigan teens back from college on their first summer break: well - meaning mope Jim (Jason Biggs); sensitive jock Oz (Chris Klein); sophisticate - wannabe Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas), who remains obsessed with a classmate's randy mother following their fling in the first film; and Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas), the nice, regular guy audiences are meant to identify with.