Sentences with phrase «hero film genre»

After the first Deadpool enthusiastically flipped the bird (and hung a moon, and performed a number of other obscene gestures) at the comic - book - hero film genre, what could the creators of the follow - up do for an encore?

Not exact matches

Del Toro, a master of crossing genres, subtly turned his film into a commentary on American social hierarchy, including reinventing the beast as a romantic hero.

The biggest event of its kind in the region, Tidewater Comicon returned to Virginia Beach May 12 - 13, bringing with it many of the iconic creators, writers, and artists of your favorite comic book heroes and villains, along with actors from various genre films and TV shows, uniquely talented vendors, and amazing cosplayers, including Carson Dye, who showed off her stunning Corpse Bride cosplay.

David: If you've read any of my previous reviews of films featuring super heroes, you know this is not my genre of choice.

Jordan's Killmonger has a legitimate grievance, one that rattles our heroes, making them re-think and change their ways — unprecedented for a film in a genre like this one.

We're going to be seeing films of all kinds and genres within this shared universe, and more so than any of the other MCU films, Black Panther feels like an invitation for everyone to take part — to tell stories from unique perspectives and world views, and to bring cultural, ideological, and social ideals to these comic book heroes.

In previous Marvel films, character deaths served their usual superhero - genre purpose: They motivated the heroes into action.

If you've read any of my previous reviews of films featuring super heroes, you know this is not my genre of choice.

But most action films do have something of a right wing perspective (especially the super hero genre) in that they are about re-inforcing rather than challenging the status quo.

«The action genre has long been dominated by male heroes, and it's so exciting to be part of a film that will allow for not just one female action hero but a whole ensemble of very capable, fierce female characters that reject tired stereotypes,» she said.

Diesel became the action genre's lost hero after the first XXX film, in which he played the skateboarding XXX - treme sports guy recruited by Samuel L Jackson to fight for justice.

Neeson, a seasoned action - hero found success in the genre with the film Taken.

Much like Quentin Tarantino's name has done in the past for genre films like «Iron Monkey» and «Hero,» the appearance of del Toro's name gave fans of the Mexican filmmaker something to look forward to.

For the most part, Last Action Hero is a funny and irreverent good time, not only for action movie junkies, but for film buffs that know and love all of the conventions that the action genre holds.

Daggers, however, is director Zhang Yimou's follow - up to the callowly beautiful Hero and, like that movie and a number of others (Ashes of Time, Bride with the White Hair, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Kill Bill, Zatoichi, Warriors of Heaven and Earth, and, in a way, Goodbye Dragon Inn), it belongs to a martial arts / art - house genre of films by hip young directors upgrading genres they loved as teenagers - «martial arts plus.»

King Hu rose to prominence in the 1960s and»70s as a superb director of wuxia films («A Touch of Zen»), a popular Chinese action genre of swords, sorcery and chivalrous heroes.

«That's the genre where I feel like two characters can be the two heroes and the two villains of the film — they are both one another's chief obstacles and one another's chief goal in the movie.

The story, cobbled together by the director and young film enthusiasts Dario Argento and Bernardo Bertolucci, plays like a collection of the genre's greatest hits: the tense, real - time set pieces of High Noon; the mysterious hero of Shane; the encroaching antlike forces of civilization as explored in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

This film didn't impress me quite as much as Call of Heroes did unfortunately, but it's still a solid entry to the wuxia genre.

The biggest event of its kind in the region, Tidewater Comicon returned to Virginia Beach May 12 - 13, bringing with it many of the iconic creators, writers, and artists of your favorite comic book heroes and villains, along with actors from various genre films and TV shows, amazing cosplay, and uniquely talented vendors, including rapper and artist Tonezee.

And it offers up what has to be the last word in fan - service mid-credits stinger, in which our hero borrows Cable's time - travel gizmo to not only undo most of the plot of the film, but also all of Reynolds» previous forays into the superhero genre.

The great shame and irony of Antitrust is that after all the high concept — the creative use of sesame seeds, the Citizen Kane-esque skewering of a media tycoon, the constant reiterations of the hero's intelligence — the film remains a conventional addition to the thriller genre that is slightly better than it should be because of its audacious goofiness, but far worse than it could have been because of its failure to be goofier.

to the Movies finds our egocentric, wildly satirical Super Heroes in their first feature film extravaganza — a fresh, gleefully clever, kid - appropriately crass and tongue - in - cheek play on the superhero genre, complete with musical numbers.»

It's at that point where the story begins: almost every film in this genre, even the more plausible ones, feature a hero who immediately slips into revenge mode.

It's not long before they encounter Mud (Matthew McConaughey, sporting a large snake tattoo and a chipped front tooth a la Jim Carrey in «Dumb & Dumber «-RRB-, who's not only the namesake of Jeff Nichols «brilliantly constructed, emotionally satisfying genre deconstruction, but also the film's hero and anti-hero.

3:15 am (19th)-- TCM — The Lady from Shanghai Most of Welles» films, no matter the genre, feel a little noirish in mood, but The Lady from Shanghai is the real thing, complete with fatalistic hero who gets dragged into a murder plot by a femme fatale (Rita Hayworth).

Encased in a pre-packaged genre that has its own rules for heroes and the women who fly next to them, there was no call to make it a great film beyond the requirements of its franchise formula...

The festival's programmer, Colin Geddes, is one of the truest genre fans I've ever met, and a film hero.

Every moment an exhausting workshop of ideas (and every character the same), The Caveman's Valentine is a concept so «high concept» that it suddenly became clear to me that the film fits into the comic - book genre of entertainment, with Romulus's «Caveman» a slightly more mundane version of Todd McFarlane's urban noir hero, Spawn.

The film foretells the age of the geek hero by at least ten years and sparked a fire for an entire genre of meta madness, my films included.

The film could never feature a giant battle against an army of aliens... or really an army of any kind, but it succeeded by focusing on character — which made it uproariously funny thanks to the sheer awesomeness of its titular hero, but also unique within the genre.

A «nonfiction film» that creates the poetic aura of a narrative film, David mixes most of the audiovisual genres of expressionism, documentary, fiction, avant - garde, video art, visual arts: posters, collages, drawings, to offer the most complete and multi layered vision of a popular hero ever rendered in a film.

It's a film about shoestring, kitchen - sink genre pics made by the fratboy villains instead of the hero geeks, and the cult that's sprung up around it is based on hearty belly - laughs and beer burps.