Sentences with phrase «high body count»

Then again, how many horror movies have tried to appeal to lesser emotions than humor with even more gruesome sights, less intelligence, and a far higher body count?

That's right: Just when you thought Emmerich had jumped the shark years ago, the auteur of high body counts whips out a big, swinging nod to his own work, coming full circle at the home base of his perversely destructive desires.

Like this summer's other slapstick cause célèbre, «Pineapple Express,» it's a comedy with as high or higher a body count as the movies it purports to be parodying, and the problem isn't the violence per se but rather the fact that neither movie ever finds a satisfactory balance between tongue - in - cheek and guts - in - hand.

It's easy to forget now, but when a lot of us watched the original Dragon Ball Z run as kids, the tremendously high body count of the early major fight between Earth's warriors and Nappa was relatively harrowing.

Kevin Feige on any concerns about Marvel being able to raise the bar after the high stakes and potentially high body count of Avengers 3 and 4.

Plane crashes with very high body counts — like Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which killed nearly 300 people — don't capture our online attention span any longer than less deadly crashes.

Also pissed me off: the seemingly exceptionally high body count for black characters.

It also managed terrorism in El Salvador in which high body counts were discouraged in favor of selective applications of terror.

(Quebec City has a very much higher body count.)

Olympus Has Fallen comes from a long line of dumb action flicks that are more concerned about high body counts and how many rounds of ammunition can be pumped into nameless causalities at high speeds than little things like plot, logic, and character.

Like its predecessor, it is more or less narratively pleasing, though it suffers from significant plot and character weaknesses — and a distressingly high body count — that take away from the joy of watching its principal cast at work.

• Part of the genius of Burn After Reading is the way it employs the somber aesthetics of an espionage thriller to tell a story that is, at its core, a sex farce (though admittedly one with an unusually high body count).

The movie works both a as a horror film — with a fairly high body count and several gruesome deaths — and as a whodunit.

A particularly high body count to the film may be a bit much for some, although this shouldn't come across as a surprise since one of the lead writers of the screenplay also happens to be William Monahan, the same writer who brought us The Departed.

After his previous stint that racked up a tremendously high body count, John Wick catches the attention of a former associate.

Kevin Feige on any concerns about Marvel being able to raise the bar after the high stakes and potentially high body count of Avengers 3 and 4.

He knows that God will win in the end, he's simply trying to produce the highest body count possible.

If Satan's goal as you say is to produce the highest body count, then Islam would be the last thing he would create!

The low tech aspect, the lack of a suicide bomber, and the fact he easily could have gotten a higher body count would tend to indicate a domestic dumb - dumb.

There are certain elements of pop culture where you can expect a high body count.

Abroad, they do it most often and with the highest body count in war or warlike conditions, where soldiers are the principal agents.

So, as this trend continues, it's more and more likely that the summer blockbusters — movies released from April through July that usually feature robots, monsters, car chases and high body counts — could be more influenced by Chinese moviegoers than their American counterparts.

It's not really a tragedy like King Lear or Hamlet because it doesn't have this high body count most — not everyone, most people do survive this play.

Critic Consensus: The Americans» powerful final season pumps up the volume on an already intense show, concluding the complex series arc with epic familial conflict... and a high body count.

«Oklahoma City» explores McVeigh's reasons for choosing the day (the anniversary of the attack on the Waco compound) and the site (he thought a high body count was necessary to get America's attention) and details the intensive police work that led to his capture only three days later.

Without the 3D aspect, just another cave dive movie with a high body count.

The end result is indeed heavier on laughs, but it also sports one of the higher body counts in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Mangold has made a film that is technically a superhero film but rests its laurels on the dramatic elements that allow the violence within the frame to actually carry the weight of its high body count.

However, while most thrillers of this variant go for the gore-fest and high body count, A Perfect Getaway decides to focus more on story and, as a result, A Perfect Getaway delivers an unexpected and original film.

It may just be me, but it feels like the high body count as a form of entertainment is no longer that interesting or exciting.

Perhaps the most obvious proof of that is the movie's high body count — Cap is the opposite of bloodthirsty, but he acts like a soldier at war with the enemy instead of a superhero dealing with some henchmen, and plenty of soldiers on both sides die over the course of the film.

The distinction for bringing the highest body count and the most excessive amount of gore to the competition goes to Scottish director Lynne Ramsay for «You Were Never Really Here,» the very final film in the festival competition to be previewed for the press today, after a long ten days of screenings.

Despite the fact that the film boasts the highest body count in the franchise (a whopping 21 deaths), the highest amount of bare breasts (director Danny Steinmann got his start in the porn industry) and the most frequent use of drugs, it couldn't make up for the fact that Jason wasn't in the film.

As entertainment goes, the latest Bond works a great deal like Jason X — the tenth Friday the 13th film — except that Die Another Day has more implied sex, a higher body count, and a pace so deadening that it didn't even occur to me until well after the credits had finished to wonder why Epcot Center was in Iceland and why the bad guys were headquartered there.

It's a hard thing to balance, because elements like violent gameplay, high body counts, health pack healing, constant enemy chatter, collectables etc. add a fantastical underpinning that is inherently unrealistic, yet players often accept them as a given.

With a higher body count, quicker pace, and slightly shorter running time than Die Hard, the entire exercise smacks of shorthand, resulting in a breezier, if less substantial and sophisticated, experience.

Teasing a high body count is always a blessing to my ears!

Like before, there isn't much time for Reeves or any of the supporting actors to give any type of performance, as the race to mount a higher body count is on.

Bourne's pursuit of Blackbriar leads him from Madrid to New York City, with lots of action and a high body count ensuing.

Director Rodman Flender (Leprechaun 2, The Unborn) still appears to be cutting his teeth on the horror genre while retaining a high body count and shamelessly flaunting the drug culture.

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, a high body count, and a high - five or two.

Though done with less restraint than Carpenter's classic — higher body count, more explicit murders, and some gratuitous female nudity — «Halloween II» is better than the afterthought it's been treated as.

Opening with not one but two action sequences to let you know that it means business, «John Wick: Chapter 2» doubles down on everything that made the first movie so enjoyable — including a higher body count and headshots galore — resulting in the rare sequel that's bigger and better as well.

It is fast - paced with a high body count.

My books are actually really fun — yes, a high body count — but pacy and full of adventure.

My books are filled with supernatural power, international locations, explosions and high body count.

So far, this may sound like another mindless shooter with a high body count by game's end, but only the second part of that assumption would be true.