Sentences with phrase «hated the film there»

Anderson mentioned in the making of featurette that for the scores of people that hated the film there was always one guy in the room that championed it.

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(CNN)- The deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans amid protests against a film that denigrates Islam has sparked global discussion and debate about whether there is a line between free speech and hate speech and, if so, where it lies.

CNN: Reaction to anti-Islam film fuels debate on free speech versus hate speech The deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans amid protests against a film that denigrates Islam has sparked global discussion and debate about whether there is a line between free speech and hate speech and, if so, where it lies.

I'm not sure the film even needs such a premise to be effective, (in fact, it may distract from the main point a bit... and I hate to think there are people who need it to be reversed in order to empathize), for what really moved me was its depiction of bullying, which is based on real reports from LGBT kids.

The film doesn't take a clear stance in regards of the actual utility of an institution like this, we see how the patients there mock around and make fun of the fact that they are being institutionalized there, and at the same time they hate the way that their parents brought them there, as well as the harsh instructions that they must go through every morning and every day.

In my History of Documentary film course, the classes were always split: there were those who loved it and those who hated it because it didn't tell a story.

The inspiration of the story came from an article Michael Ardnt (who wrote the film) read in a newspaper, where Arnold Schwarzenegger was quoted speaking to a group of high school students: «If there's one thing in this world I hate, it's losers.

There's a real paucity of films about our venomous culture of self - hate and the tyranny of appearance, and a time or two Miss Congeniality seems on the verge of saying something with its odd voyeuristic device of having Gracie wander around with a P.O.V. camera, but in the end the picture is all lip service paid to the altar of sneering asides and being a magnificent prick.

I hate to think that When Marnie Was There (Universal, Blu - ray, DVD) may be the last film to come out of Japan's Studio Ghibli, the great animation studio created by filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away).

George Chrysostomou on nostalgia... Upon reading Anghus Houvouras's piece on why everyone is hating on Ready Player One, a key theme of his argument really hit home — it struck me that there really ise a lot of nostalgia in the current crop of films and TV shows.

Love or hate their films, there's no denying Ti (left) nor AJ's (right) fashion sensibilities.

However, now one such film has come along, and there is, for whatever reason, a sort of eagerness for it to fail, with people anticipating hating exactly the kind of work that is sadly lacking in mainstream film culture.

In fact there are very few films I really disliked from last year (although I tend to not watch films that I'm blatantly going to hate).

«I think there was a little bit of extra critical hate towards it because it's changing the landscape of the movie business,» he said, «but I think «Bright» is maybe a movie that needs to be reviewed by public opinion rather than viewed through the highbrow prism of film criticism.»

Much as I hate to bring such a stunning film year to a close, there's a small pleasure in being able to move on to what 2017 has to offer.

Frances Ha «s proponents are voluble in their support of the film; there's nothing to hate about it, but there's something slightly grating about so much of it.

What's troubling about this picture and stuff like it (the regrettable remake of The Heartbreak Kid is the film Forgetting Sarah Marshall most resembles) is that there's an awful lot of hate and cruelty packed in here front and centre.

There are plenty of «great» films, books, albums, games, that I absolutely hated and that make me itch when people rave about them.

Given the themes of the film, there's not much of a love story, or a hate story, left to compel us.

Watching this film in the cinemas, I didn't feel a shred of hate for it, so there's no need for me to bash this film.

The Tree of Life is one of those films that you either love or hate - there is no middle ground.

Americans are people bound to their pieces of land, the film says — and are by extension bound to the blood and bodies, the love and hate that have lived there before them.

There is either a love or absolutely hate when it comes to his films.

The Family Tree Directed by: Vivi Friedman Starring: Dermot Mulroney, Hope Davis, Christina Hendricks Rating: R Release Date: August 26, 2011 (limited) TRAILER SCORE: 5/10 Thoughts by TSR: Every year there are a number of films I love and a number of films I hate.

There is not a funny gag in the entire film and it actually hurts seeing Jason Lee and David Cross reappearing for the third film (although if I were offered that kind of money, I'd probably do it also knowing full well that I'd hate myself later for it).

1/2 * / **** Image B + Sound A - Commentary C + starring Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy, Ed O'Neill written and directed by David Mamet by Walter Chaw Because we hate Arabs (and women almost as much as we think that Arabs hate women, those hateful Arabs), there are films like David Mamet's patently ridiculous, relentlessly offensive, unintentionally hilarious Spartan.

Some of the gags are funny, and there is an amiable charm that makes the film difficult to hate outright, but when you cut right down to it, Brooks is virtually on autopilot throughout this one, spinning out overused gags that many other vampire spoofs had already explored ad nauseam.

Throughout the film, we witness the transformation of a person starved to prove himself to a person drunk on success and whether you love him or hate him, he got there his way.

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There are few things I've come to hate more than the term «torture porn,» which was coined in the wake of mid-2000s films like Saw and Hostel.

In June 2002, some time after the book had been sold on its own merits to publishers in multiple countries, and optioned for film writes, Rubinstein admitted that she was the author, saying «I think there is a strong tendency among the spectators or the readers of culture to pigeonhole people, and that's the thing that artists hate having done to them.

Now you can either love Man of Steel from Zach Snyder or hate it, but there is no denying that his films really show just how powerful Superman is.

Avi Lewis: There have been a number of reviewers that have seized on the fact that we do something a little cheeky to distinguish ourselves from the climate film genre, with Naomi confessing that she's always kind of hated climate films.