Sentences with phrase «idea for a movie by»

It's a pretty clever idea for a movie by Landis, combining meet - cute rom - com tropes with slapstick shootout action.

Was it resentment of WFS's arrogant director, Davis Guggenheim, who claimed he got the idea for the movie by passing by a number of struggling public schools while driving his children to their elite private school?

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That idea of Fawkes largely stems from his use in V for Vendetta, a 2006 movie based on the comic books by Alan Moore about a mysterious masked revolutionary who brings down a totalitarian regime, succeeding where Fawkes failed by blowing up parliament.

, The Naked Gun) returns after a 5 year hiatus from the movies with an ambitious, but ultimately undercooked idea for a sports comedy, BASEketball, which is apparently inspired by real game that Zucker and his buddies conceived of while playing around with the driveway hoop.

All of these ingredients are nothing without a solid script, and indeed some fresh ideas to warrant a film conversion, but thankfully Justin Kurzel «s movie, from a screenplay by Michael Leslie, Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, all of whom have good pedigrees, provide a rather entertaining platform for a potential new franchise to jump off of.

For the most part, Detective Pikachu lovingly plays with the idea of a gumshoe detective story by way of Pokémon and treads the line between lighthearted fun and campy storytelling in an entertaining way — which makes all the more sense given that the game will be getting a movie adaptation with Ryan Reynolds.

The first installment a surprise hit that coasted on a novel combination of savvy music design and an affable cast led by Anna Kendrick; there were enough B - sides left over to for a watchable second movie; now, the premise is stretched so thin that someone thought it would be a good idea to pad it with an action - suspense subplot involving Fat Amy's (Rebel Wilson) long - lost father / international crimelord (John Lithgow with a sketchy Australian accent).

One by one, the keepers of our era's biggest franchises, the sacred texts to be drawn on and embellished for generations to come, have had the same bright idea: What if, instead of hiring seasoned hacks or promising but untested newcomers, they gave the movies to actual filmmakers?

The internet calmly took this news in by immediately casting about for wild rumors regarding what this might mean for the second film — specifically, the idea that once it was made clear the Captain Marvel movie (coming out in between the two Avengers films) would feature the Skrulls (a race of green - skinned shape changers, for all you non-comic nerds), the fourth Avengers movie would turn its attention to a «secret invasion» storyline, starring said aliens.

3: «Get Out» or Luca Guadagnino's achingly tender «Call Me by Your Name» will emerge as a popular first choice among Oscar voters, and a film that was made for considerably less than $ 10 million will win Best Picture for the second year in a row, confirming that «Moonlight» changed the game in more ways than one and forever altered our idea of what constitutes an «Oscar Movie.»

It may feature science fiction tropes such as being set in some alternate universe in which human cloning existed since the 1960s as well as clones being harvested for their organs, hardly an original idea (see the 1979 movie The Clonus Horror, which was understandably spoofed by Mystery Science Theater 3000).

While the gameplay is fun enough to check out, the story feels like it was written by someone who glanced at the movie script for half a second and then filled it with a bunch of half realized ideas.

After the whole debacle, the movie was revised and gained an R. By using this example, it could be argued that Blue is the Warmest Colour might gain an R - rating purely based on the idea that lesbian sex between attractive women, is perfect for audience — particularly male — consumption.

Wildly over-praised by audiences desperate for a scary horror movie, this film has little more than the germ of a solid idea followed by a series of predictable cliches.

I've always thought Jack Webb (who plays a tech cop) got a lot of ideas for «Dragnet» from this movie — some of which was directed by the uncredited noir expert Anthony Mann.

The idea emerges in the movie's darkest story line, when Naylor is dispatched by his employers at the Academy of Tobacco Studies to put out a dangerous brush fire: Lorne Lutch (Sam Elliott), a cowboy who spent years posing for cigarette ads, has contracted lung cancer and become a vocal opponent of the tobacco industry.

Played by Seann William Scott — whose idea of acting is to hold one screwed - up, loutish, stoner - dude sneer for the length of whatever movie he's in — Stifler is a one - note, loud - mouthed, sexist oaf.

And having a movie come out during that period and getting a lot of awards attention isn't solving the problem that I think needs to be addressed, which is: What has happened to movies for grown - ups made by people who are still interested in the idea of cinema as an approach?

«The problem that I think needs to be addressed is: What has happened to movies for grown - ups made by people who are still interested in the idea of cinema?»

If you subscribe to the idea that most movies yielding best - actress nominations just aren't quite good enough to be nominated for best picture, your best supporting evidence is to look at the films made by top directors — and then emphatically throw shade at how few of them star women in the first place.

The Cabin in the Woods hasn't hit puberty, and it suggests that the audience for Spam in a Cabin flicks hasn't, either — an idea not only partially debunked by Carol Clover in her Men, Women, and Chain Saws, but one that clarifies this idea that The Cabin in the Woods is an example of what happens when bullies make a movie about something geeks love.

Before getting into how spectacular the action sequences truly are (and trust me, they save the blockbuster from plundering to the bottom of the ocean), it must be said that Oscar - nominated Kon - Tiki directors Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg have no idea whose story the movie should actually belong to, starting out as Henry Turner's (Brenton Thwaites) quest to free his cursed father at sea Will Turner (Orlando Bloom in a glorified cameo along with Keira Knightley as his partner Elizabeth Swann) to locate the Trident of Poseidon subsequently lifting that curse, and while the ultimate goal of the movie for all characters is finding said artifact for different reasons, by the end it's hard to fault the audience if they have forgotten all about that plot element and are just living in the moment of Jack Sparrow and company battling an army of decomposing, undead ghost pirates led by Captain Salazar.

I went into Catching Fire with very low expectations, but left thoroughly entertained by the darker and intense tone of the movie and with a better understanding of the idea the author had for her books.

is a deliriously biblical portrait of the artist as a godlike monster (for the record, I liked it), this new film by Paul Thomas Anderson offers a more graceful and far more complicated version of the same idea... Quiet, moody, and deeply perverse (I'll say no more), this fascinating movie reminds us that Anderson is the kind of alchemist - director who can turn somebody ordering breakfast into a classic scene.»

So the idea in Genisys is that John Connor (now played by Jason Clarke, Zero Dark Thirty) and the gaggle of characters established in the other movies are finally going to crush Skynet for good.

A few scenes fleetingly mitigate the almost total dearth of laughs by injecting weird poignancy: a return visit to the stripper played by Heather Graham plays out an interesting idea about the passage of time since the first movie in 2009, and Melissa McCarthy livens up the picture in a couple of scenes as a pawn - shop proprietress with eyes for Alan, suggesting that maybe what the otherwise hopeless case needs is the love of a good woman.

Rumination of such sublime ideas are channeled by great pieces of art, and Hors Satan ranks among the better movies of the year for that reason.

Dream worlds in movies are nothing new — witness the oeuvre of David Lynch or, for a less highfalutin example, the Nightmare on Elm Street series — but the visual ideas put forth by Singh are spectacular and unique; there's an atmosphere of excess that hasn't even been reached in Lynch's famously bizarre work.

It opens on a trio of movie folk — a director (played by Robbe - Grillet himself), a producer (actual film producer Paul Louyet), and a secretary / script supervisor (Catherine Robbe - Grillet — you get the idea)-- boarding a train (the Trans - Europ - Express, naturally) and brainstorming a story for a film about drug trafficking between Paris and Antwerp.

Their radical ideological agenda would spark within Visconti a taste for Marxist ideals.4 Visconti threw around a number of ideas for his first movie, including an adaptation of Giovanni Verga's realist story L'amante di Graminga, a proposal rejected by Italy's then Fascist government censors.

A funny idea for a movie, but almost completely undone by its own ugly paradox.

If they could, Marvel probably would have resurrected the idea for a Black Widow movie by now.

Whilst many have already given credit to the originality of the central plot about a curse being passed on by having sex, let us not forget the works of directors such as David Cronenberg and, if you want to go even more bizarre, Frank Henenlotter, who have both made films involving the distortion of sex and the idea of sex being the conduit for bad things to happen, And granted, the actual threat in It Follows is a supernatural one rather than one of the body turning on itself, but how many curse movies have there been since Ringu convinced us all that video tapes were credible vessels for evil beings from other dimensions to cross over and kill us?

Franco simplifies things in The Disaster Artist by changing the source of Tommy's inspiration for The Room; he gets the idea to make his own movie from an offhand remark by Greg.

Better are the movies that seem to have laser vision, boring holes into whatever it is they're about, mining their subject — be it an idea in the script, an idea about who's starring in it, or literally anything else hovering in the world of the movie — for every uncomfortable or unexpected nuance, every glint of irony or emotion, availed by the premise.

«So by the time I had even this basic idea for this movie he was writing the melodies that became the score and songs.»

Nicolas Winding Refn: «Yes, the song that basically explains the movie is the College song («A Real Hero»), because that, just by [coincidence], had a lyric that also described my idea for the movie.

The movie came out of another collaboration between Franco and Kinberg, The Hardy Men, which Kinberg scripted and is being scripted by Rodney Rothman as a potential project for both James and Dave Franco and sounds like another pretty amazing idea.

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I get the idea, certainly, and Cryptozoic have tried to imitate the movie by having Galloping Ghouls run away and other more aggressive types head straight for when, but when you combine this strange movement with the other things I mentioned it creates a set of mechanics that feel... off, and very susceptible to the whims of fate.

Antoniades tells me that he was inspired by the movie Fargo for this idea, which famously opens with the message «This is a true story» despite being an entirely fictional tale.

He later elaborated on this idea by announcing plans for Nintendo theme park attractions and movies.