Sentences with phrase «high point of the movie»

The comedic high point of the movie, when June Squibb lifts her dress while standing over a headstone, I completely cracked up.

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To achieve the high - definition needed for the big screen, Domino takes images which have been shot on movie film and converts them into a video format by breaking each of the 24 frames per second into a mosaic of 3000 × 2000 picture points.

The one song we see Alexandra deliver, a quietly melancholy cover of the old Doris Day Christmas song «Toyland,» constitutes the movie's emotional high point, with its lyrics imagining an idyllic «little girl and boy land» whose borders, once traversed, can never be crossed again.

The inclusion of an absurd yet thoroughly captivating celebrity cameo, which essentially stands as a high point within the entire series, perpetuates Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb's better - than - expected third - act atmosphere, although, unfortunately, director Shawn Levy ensures that the film concludes with a whimper by offering up an excessively sappy final stretch that just goes on and on - with this underwhelming climax confirming the movie's place as an almost passable concluding entry in a seriously forgettable trilogy.

Although Deadpool 2 repeats the first movie's jokes about the character being a scrappy castoff not good enough for Marvel's higher - profile franchises — at one point, Wade opens the wrong door in Charles Xavier's manor and finds the better - known characters staring back at him in confused irritation — this one has the budget and the clout to allow him to associate with a higher class of co-star.

These represented high points, however, and more often than not, Adams found herself relegated to parts unworthy of her, such as the unevenly received 1985 adaptation of Kevin Wade's play Key Exchange (in which she reprised her stage role) and the histrionic TV movies Lace (1984) and Lace II (1985).

And although the movie spins its wheels in the buildup to its final battle, Spartacus benefits substantially from an absolutely enthralling skirmish that stands as the high point in the proceedings - to the extent that most everything that follows, which comprises an additional 40 minutes or so, is simply unable to avoid an anticlimactic feeling of superfluousness by comparison.

Leaping and bounding through the high points of Alexander's life as his army cuts a wide swath through the known word, it has an epic's budget and a B - movie's spirit.

It does go off the deep end a bit with its borderline slasher movie ending, but it still pays off (albeit with high overhead) thanks to the quality of the characterizations up to that point.

This may look like a basic high - concept comedy (the single - night party movie), and it is to a point, but Sisters is among the best of its kind.

The latest venture from Andy and Lana Wachowski's looks a lot better from a trailer point of view as a high concept sci - fi event movie, instead of positioning the film as a sort of space adventure love story.

But the movie's high point unquestionably belongs to the pair of British sea lions (Idris Elba and Dominic West, «Wire» veterans reunited) who bark at any creature that dares approach their sunning rock.

If you want to know how one can have a good time watching a bad movie, Point Break certainly is high on the list of examples.

Veteran action movie producer Jerry Bruckheimer, scores high points for production quality and effective use of a huge cast of quality actors.

As Rob ushers most but not all of his clients to Earth's highest point, the movie predictably becomes a survival story.

With its gorgeous widescreen compositions and sophisticated look at American male obsession, this stripped - down narrative from maverick director Monte Hellman is one of the artistic high points of 1970s cinema, and possibly the greatest road movie ever made.

Easily the high point of this very solid action movie as mysterious agendas all colide during an opera performance.

Is it shooting fish in a barrel to put «The Emoji Movie,» a film for children that had no aspirations at any point in its creation other than to milk money out of those children's parents, so high on this list?

As is the way of these movies, from The Big Sleep on down, the plot overcomplicates a simple story to the point where things can be outright confusing — especially so when many of the characters are high in the process.

Not that it's a bad thing, of course, as audiences are likely experiencing blockbuster fatigue at this point in the year, but while there are some promising movies on the schedule, you probably shouldn't set your expectations too high.

Like the first movie, one of the highest selling points of this franchise is the nostalgic factor seeing some of the biggest action names back onto the big screen.

In one of the movie's high points, he keeps a standing dinner date with a gun lobbyist (David Koechner) and an alcohol lobbyist (Maria Bello) so that they can complain about their unique jobs.

Movies of this type are challenging not only because the characters have to be interesting — which means the actors must be on point all the time — but also since the standard is very high.

From there on it was all downhill, making Shyamalan the career equivalent of Orson Welles who also kicked off his Hollywood career on a high note (with Citizen Kane), but went on steadily downhill from there on until the career low point of doing a voice - over for a lame Transformers animated movie.

Today marks the hump day of Movie Club, that point when, if all goes well, we may start to veer off the trail a bit, not just debating the high - profile, prestigious, or commercially successful movies of the year but giving our own individualized props to the misfits, the weirdos, the flops, even the dogs.

Alfred Hitchcock's intense chase film is the beginning of the modern action movie, a precursor to the James Bond series and a high - point of Hollywood craft.

Like any B - movie worth its salt, the film is blissfully short and to the point: just - fired mechanic Craig (Pat Healy) and his old high - school buddy and current debt collector Vince (Ethan Embry) get drawn into a sick birthday game by rich couple Colin (David Koechner) and Violet (Sara Paxton), who pay the two to complete a series of increasingly harrowing dares for ever - larger payouts.

(Indicative of this movie's cluelessness about women in particular, at one point Lawrence declares that she can't go for a romantic jaunt outside the ship wearing her date - night dress, so she goes commando under her spacesuit — but leaves her high heels on.)

This year marks the 54th annual edition of the open - to - the - public New York Film Festival, the high point of NYC's cinema calendar, which presents a lineup of 25 cutting - edge «main slate» features and movie screenings, along with documentaries, Q&A s and other sidebar goodies.

There does reach a point, however, at which the narrative becomes far too convoluted for its own good, as scripter Fenjves begins overloading the proceedings with periphery characters and subplots - with the aforementioned heist certainly ranking high on the movie's list of hopelessly uninvolving elements (ie it's just endless).

The movie marks the creative high point of Sylvester Stallone's career, and it offers a moving and inspirational look at a bum made good.

«Captain America: Civil War» is the emotional high point of these Marvel movies so far, which makes it the most satisfying yet.

The movie is surprisingly conventional in its approach — a sappy romance, jerks for higher authority, an underdog situation so gone that 60 Hail Marys couldn't save it (and of course, it works out), and artificially created tension points.

My high school offered an elective class that featured one of the English teachers showing great movies and talking about them from an academic point - of - view.

Fortunately, this movie gets bonus points for lush and rich scenery of the city of Barcelona (which suffer slightly from the DVD's fullscreen presentation) and the dance sequences choreographed by High School Musical's Kenny Ortega (who directed this entire film as well).

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The two most obvious reference points are the Harry Potter series and The Incredibles, with dashes of X-Men, Mean Girls, and most any John Hughes high school movie.

The result is a movie that, while perhaps not quite reaching the Marvel high points of The Avengers and Winter Soldier, nonetheless belongs in their immediate company.

The actor, known for playing villains in films including Octopussy and Beverly Hills Cop, is releasing two books on Amazon: Bad Guy, a journal of his time on a Hollywood movie «where the conditions were so appalling, and the directing so absurd, the whole cast was in a state of semi-shock», and Richard II In New York, which records one of his career high points directing the Shakespeare play in 1994.

The 10HD's other unique selling point, we're told, is its use of an Nvidia Tegra 4 processor running its four main cores at up to 1.8 GHz when you need some wellie for gaming and high - def movie playback.

With the high point of family vacations, as well as summer movie blockbusters, Citi's announcement makes the Dividend card one of the most usable and rewarding cards for consumers during the summer months.

Listen to episode 225 for even more games that should be erased from history The high point of Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard: the intro movie

The facial expressions are some of the best you've seen in any game and at some points looks like an high - end animated movie.

In this context Point of View as a collection represents how artists offer up an alternative to mainstream, mass - produced culture's content by combining the imaginative and innovative properties identified with high art with forms and subjects drawn from advertisements, commercial movies, graphic and industrial design, science fiction, and popular music.

As Sanders has pointed out, Jonas Mekas declared the Yellow Movies at the time of their creation «one of the high achievements of the art of cinema.»