Sentences with phrase «greatest war movies»

Another great war movie from the amazing Sam Fuller.

Darkest Hour boasts a towering lead performance by Gary Oldman, it brilliantly complements Dunkirk, the other great war movie of 2017.

Not exact matches

He likes to say that Star Wars would not have been such a great movie if the director would have come out at the beginning and said to the audience, «By the way, Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father.»

I've done war movies but that doesn't... Because they're always loaded with drama and conflict and all the things that make drama great.

Jim Scott came up with a great idea during a visit to the office of a friend who worked at PepsiCo — putting plastic figurines of characters from popular TV shows and movies, including Stars Wars, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Disney, on top of a bottled beverage.

«I was in «The Book of Henry,» the movie that Colin Trevorrow directed, and we talked about [«Star Wars»] a great deal.

Iger told CNBC on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013, that the standalone movies will be based on «great «Star Wars» characters that are not part of the overall saga.»

Catching up on great movies like Schindler's List, Empire of the Sun, and War Horse (basically, movies scored by John Williams)

Two movies I've seen lately that were unexpectedly great: WARHORSE (I usually can't stand Spielberg — but this is a eloquent anti-war film directed against probably the most senselessly and hugely murderous war ever — World War I. It's an anti-imperial and almost a pro-Porcher movie, until you realize that the first misuse of the heroic horse was making him plowar film directed against probably the most senselessly and hugely murderous war ever — World War I. It's an anti-imperial and almost a pro-Porcher movie, until you realize that the first misuse of the heroic horse was making him plowar ever — World War I. It's an anti-imperial and almost a pro-Porcher movie, until you realize that the first misuse of the heroic horse was making him ploWar I. It's an anti-imperial and almost a pro-Porcher movie, until you realize that the first misuse of the heroic horse was making him plow.)

A recent spate of books and movies look with great nostalgia on World War II.

From Star Wars to Frozen to the latest Pixar movie, movies are a great way to connect and bond with your kids.

With the new Star Wars movie: The Force Awakens, coming out next week, we thought this would be such a great idea!

The Star War's universe of movies represents great technological strides in cinema.

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And if you look back to the great days of «Star Wars» and «Indiana Jones» and those sorts of movies, they weren't based on TV shows, they weren't based on comics.

While recognizing that it's not any sort of great piece of acting by Robert Mitchum or a searing portrait of war, if one accepts The Enemy Below as an action - filled war movie, it's thoroughly entertaining stuff.

I feel this movie wouldve been so much better if a seasoned director had done it like John Singleton... anyway, its just alot of hype because hes the «first» black super hero (do nt tell Wesley Snipes though) and if you really want to see black panther skip the full length movie and see Wakanda in Infinity war... as far as black panther goes he was great in civil war and infinity war, you can skip the 2 hour trip to the land of vibranium.

With a pulse - pounding score by Alan Silvestri, beautiful cinematography from Trent Opaloch, impressive special effects, and an incredible cast, Avengers: Infinity War is more than a great movie, it's an honest - to - god achievement in blockbuster filmmaking.

With the Cold War subtext we take a look back on some of the great, some iconic movies set in and during the Cold War era.

With stunning performances from its cast, the film occur during the First World War, and it shows us the chaos, and considering the fact that this was made in 1930, it's an impressive feat in filmmaking, as what we have here is a picture that captures the fear and agony of combat, and it's a well made movie for its time, and it still looks great after all these years.

As a virtuoso juggling act, Infinity War has no real parallel in popular culture; as a movie, it's an impressive montage of greatest hits until the gut punch of a finale.

Hudd devoted a great deal of effort to bringing theatrical entertainment to the factory workers and more remote villages of England during World War II, though he still managed to play roles in Major Barbara and I Know Where I'm Going, among a handful of major movies.

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Empire strikes back is easily one of the greatest movies ever made and almost universally agreed as THE best Star Wars movie 10 out of 10.

«Avengers: Infinity War» is not a great movie, but it is certainly good, a popcorn muncher that's thoroughly enjoyable and not at all a let down.

not only is «The Empire Strikes Back» the best Star Wars movie ever made, but it's also one of the greatest movies ever made!

The seventh and final film in Frank Capra's Why We Fight series, War Comes to America is one of history's great propaganda movies.

The greatest sci - fi movie of all time, and proof of how great Star Wars can be when George Lucas takes a step back.

This year's Christmas Day releases are perhaps at the greatest disadvantage in the history of movies thanks to «Star Wars: The Force Awakens.»

The Dogs of War is a clear product of its time and is kindred in some ways to a number of great movies from the»70s.

World War II movies are still a reliable genre — two of the nine best picture nominees of 2017 were set during that wartime — but the Great War, «Wonder Woman» aside, rarely gets much love.

I still love The Last Jedi, I think it is a great Star Wars movie, but it loses massive points in my book for pushing Finn to the side in favor of sad - boy Kylo Ren and his gaslighting of Rey.

In the wider scheme of things, «Tigerland» is not a great movie, but it is solid and unusually heartfelt for Schumacher, and what it lacks in nuance (the director has never knowingly turned in a subtle film), it makes up for in a simplistic but emotive understanding of the mechanics of masculine friendship and rivalry in the shadow of a nationally emasculating war.

Jackson talks a good talk, intent on making this his greatest war scene of all six movies, surpassing Gondor, Rohan and Mordor.

I think even if it wasn't a «Star Wars» movie it would still be this fun, great time at the movies.»

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And it will also go down as the year of «Avengers: Infinity War,» a movie with a cliffhanger, a body count and some pretty great one - liners where its Soul Stone should be.

Great movie about an amazing woman, Katherine Graham, owner of the Washington Post and the decision she faced; betting the Washington Post company's future on whether or not to publish the contents of the so called Pentagon Papers; an 8000 page study detailing how all the presidents since Truman had lied to the american people and congress about the war in Vietnam and the impact it had on the Nixon Whitehouse.

If Platoon doesn?t have the cult status of some other movies on the Vietnam war, it?s not because of the overall quality, because it?s a really great movie.

Considering how that film was not exactly a commercial success, this may not sound like a big deal to many of you but as someone who believes that bleak and bruising comedy - drama to be one of the great unsung movies of the decade — the kind of film that the great Billy Wilder might have made once upon a time — I went into the screening with the kind of over-the-top sense of anticipation that many felt as they walked into «Avengers: Infinity War.»

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«Ran» is a heroic saga of human destiny, a war movie with some of the greatest battle scenes in the history of the cinema, a costume drama of the utmost magnificence — and a crackling good samurai movie chock full of swordplay and palace intrigue.

It's one of the great ironies of Infinity War that a movie jam - packed with good guys and gals finds its true focus in a supremely interesting baddie.

The evolution of the movie «The Post» (2017)-- a story about The Washington Post's 1970s battles with government over its publication of classified information relating to the Vietnam War and Pentagon Papers — reportedly goes something like this: It was a screenplay authored by Jewish writers Liz Hannah and Josh Singer, who presented it to Jewish film producer Amy Pascal, who decided it would «be a great story to tell.»

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.

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It's a pointless endeavor, really, since the movie has already been deemed by nearly every critic as one of the greatest war films (if not the greatest war film) ever made.

The movie's old school conception of heroism and values wouldn't work without some nifty writing — Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely's script makes it clear Steve wants to go to war not to kill the enemy but to keep some other poor soul being killed — and a great central performance by Chris Evans's, who sublimates all the cockiness he displayed in Fantastic Four (and then expertly lampooned in Scott Pilgrim).

Joey, or more adultly, Joe joins the army at the start of the Great War, a period that the movie opts to depict with a series of montages, featuring soldiers on the move, explosions and such.

Sideshow and Hot Toys have unveiled the diecast Movie Masterpiece Series Iron Man sixth scale figure which gives us a great new look at Tony Stark's new armor for the Marvel superhero epic Avengers: Infinity War.