Sentences with phrase «great fantasy film»

A great fantasy film and a real set up for what is to come.

The final scenes in the saga of Harry Potter look «right» but don't produce the awe of truly great fantasy films that comes with true artistic interpretation.

Not exact matches

A great Japanese fantasy tale, filled with epic samurai upholding social order ahead of their own lives.The film does a great job of showing that duty and honor to ones lord is far more important than adventure.

The film had great set design and art pieces, but it's not really like a blatantly fantastical fantasy — it is shot and depicted almost like a historical fiction with some bizarre creatures in it.

I think it would be a great idea to have more diversity of content in this site (an early review of Beloved was a pleasant surprise some weeks ago) but right now the balance is definitely in favor of sci - fi, fantasy, horror, action, and some crime films created for a demographic probably best described as «geek».

This may not be the greatest sci - fi / fantasy movie ever made, but if you are willing to put up with a snail - paced film with an interesting story, this should be on your «want to see» list.

An interview with Michael J. Bassett (8:51) allows the filmmaker to speak at greater length of his love of fantasy fare, his intention for a serious tone, the film's casting, dismissed ideas, and religious themes.

A literary adaptation of a coming - of - age story, with links to Charles Dickens» classic «Great Expectations,» the film leaves you with the wish that Adamson would stick to fantasy — at least in that world there's some fun to be found.

Clocking in at a brisk 103 minutes, «The Great Wall» has very little on its mind beyond its B - movie premise, operating like a weird hybrid between a Hollywood swashbuckling adventure and a Chinese fantasy film.

The film opens on the island of Themyscira, a paradise island created by the god Zeus and hidden from the real world by a protective shield, and the film stays there for a while as we follow Diana from curious little girl to fully trained warrior princess but once Steve Trevor's fighter plane crashes there and Diana realises there is a war being fought in world she does not know of that is not too far away then we swiftly get brought into London in 1918 and this shift from fantasy into a «real world» scenario gives the film a greater sense of depth, and when combined with characters that you actually care about then Wonder Woman is head and shoulders above all of the other DCEU movies on the strength of that alone.

However, the latter situation is looking to be challenged by Zhang Yimou's The Great Wall: a historical China fantasy blockbuster filmed in the English language with a Hollywood blockbuster budget and an international superstar cast led by Matt Damon.

Fritz Lang's «Scarlet Street» (Kino) is one of his greatest films, a beautifully tawdry noir melodrama of sour lives and curdled fantasies, with Edward G. Robinson as a hen - pecked husband who becomes obsessed with scheming, shallow streetwalker Joan Bennett, and Dan Duryea as a vicious pimp who plots to take Robinson for everything he has.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug by Hope Madden The fantasy film genre boasts some great sequels, even when those... read more →

The reputation of the former next great hope of Hollywood fizzled out after a string of poorly received films and ill - conceived forays into effect - driven blockbuster fantasy, but now the low - budget thriller Split has proven to be his critical and commercial comeback.

But overall «The Great Wall» is a disappointing film compared to most American fantasy - action films of this nature.

Check out another great poster from the upcoming fantasy film «Beowulf» by director Robert Zemeckis and starring Angelina Jolie, Ray Winstone, Brendan Gleeson, John Malkovich and Anthony Hopkins.

Check out another great poster from the upcoming fantasy film «Beowulf» by director Robert Zemeckis and...

These are great fantasy Viking names, and those along with the actors playing them should give one an idea of the film's tone.

Matt Damon stops by New York Comic - Con to promote his upcoming film - fantasy / adventure The Great Wall - and to celebrate his birthday.

The details: Set in a ritzy Swiss spa, Paolo Sorrentino's follow - up to The Great Beauty stars Michael Caine as a world - famous conductor navigating relationships with his daughter (Rachel Weisz) and his best friend (Harvey Keitel, playing a celebrated film director), while simultaneously being inundated by memories, fantasies, and regrets.

Matt Damon became the center of controversy over the summer with the debut of the first U.S. trailer for «The Great Wall,» the action - fantasy epic from Legendary Pictures, which was criticized for focusing on the white American star over the film's Chinese talent, including ingénue Jing Tian, boy band breakout Junkai Wang and renowned director Zhang Yimou («House of Flying Daggers»).

This trailer finally shows off some of the big visuals, and they're as great / insane as I was expecting from Wright's first fantasy / blockbuster film.

Lee Toland Krieger's romantic fantasy film comes much closer to working than I expected when it played in theaters, thanks largely to strong production values and a great supporting turn by Harrison Ford.

One sequence resembles the unveiling of the dream city of Shangri - La in Frank Capra's Lost Horizon, another recalls the casino action in half a dozen Bond films, while still others rescue the exotic excitement of jungle - adventure fantasies from the colonial condescension of Great White Hunter movies.

Whilst I appreciate that kids might find The Deathly Hallows pretty boring, it's great to see a kids» fantasy film that isn't simply two hours of disorienting CGI and explosions.

In this time of dark fantasy films («Snow White and the Huntsman,» «Prometheus «-RRB-, violent war dramas («For Greater Glory «-RRB- and bland adult comedies («What to Expect When You're Expecting,» «Lola Versus «-RRB-, it's refreshing to see a fun, colorful movie the whole family can enjoy together.

It is a fantasy scene that takes place in Monument Valley, where John Ford shot his great Westerns, and indeed the one film that Emilia and her mother mention in the movie is «Stagecoach.»

Though the fantasy film sounds great in theory, the trailers don't look very promising, particularly in regards to its uneven tone (is it for children, adults or the whole family?)

The paintings depict the wilderness and fantasies about great adventures with references to memories from the artist's early life in Kiruna, films he has seen, places he has visited or the smallness of humanity in the face of nature.

Bright might not have been great film, but it did introduce viewers to an intriguing fantasy world; it just didn't explain any of it.