Sentences with phrase «in disaster flicks»

But that newborn's crying is as aurally violent as anything you'll hear in a disaster flick or an action movie.)

Also stunning: the flood itself, more chilling than any you've seen in a disaster flick.

Not exact matches

During an early screening of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster flick 2012, which opens today, laughter erupted in the audience near the end of the film thanks to corny dialogue and maudlin scenes (among the biggest guffaw getters: a father tries to reconnect with his estranged son on the telephone, only to have the son's house destroyed just before he could say anything).

Check it out if you want to see a CGI sword - and - sandal disaster flick, but perhaps skip it if you bemoan any scientific inaccuracies whatsoever in modern cinema.

Shawn Levy, who directed such lucrative disasters as the Steve Martin remakes of The Pink Panther and Cheaper by the Dozen, has been brought in by Steven Spielberg to make this conflation of The Champ (the 1931 tearjerker about a drunken boxer redeemed by his long - estranged son, Jackie Cooper) and Rollerball, the futuristic action flick built around a violent popular sport.

Probably the only film in recent months that has been even a little bit consciously political was the environmental disaster flick The Day After Tomorrow.

The Rock (Dwayne Johnson, Furious Seven, 2015) is on a roll and makes big moves in the 3 - D disaster flick, San Andreas.

Thanks to USA Today, we've got a couple of new images from director Brad Peyton's (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island) upcoming disaster flick San Andreas, featuring Dwayne Johnson (Hercules) alongside Carla Gugino (Wayward Pines)... «After the infamous San Andreas Fault finally gives, triggering a magnitude 9 earthquake in California, a search and rescue helicopter pilot -LSB-...]

Films like these and performances like these are really nothing more than the type of acting required in a torture porn movie or a disaster flick.

This time around we take a look at Mamoru Hosoda's The Girl Who Leapt Through Time in a deluxe Blu - ray edition from FUNimation, Michael Felsher's Just Desserts in a stand - alone Blu - ray from Synapse Films, Jeremy Saulnier's critically acclaimed Green Room from Lionsgate Home Video, and finally Norwegian disaster flick The Wave from Magnolia Pictures.

In the advertising for Brad Peyton «s natural disaster flick San Andreas, there's an unspoken promise.

Dwayne Johnson is about to light up our screens in new disaster flick SAN ANDREAS, and in the very near future the former wrestler...

Those characters then do the same things they did in the other films, confirming the suspicion that this film could have been written by a computer programmed with the plots of the last hundred disaster flicks to make the screen.

Sci - fi sequel Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, last week's top film, slipped to third place in its second week of release with $ 14m, for a total of $ 51.6 m. Disaster flick Everest opened in wide release at fourth place with $ 13m.

«Pompeii»: This Carrie - Ann Moss and Kit Harington disaster flick about ancient Rome feels like ancient history, but it actually hit theaters in Feb. 2014.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Disaster Flick Revisits Coast Guard 1952 Rescue off Cape Cod On February 18, 1952, one of the worst nor'easter s in history hit New England.

When: August 8th Why: It's been nearly 20 years since «Twister» was released in theaters and it still looks better than this CG - fueled disaster flick, which doesn't appear to be particularly interested in its human characters at all.

There are some amazing special effects that look like some of the better disaster flicks in the last few years.

Arriving in the pre-9 / 11 wave of disaster flicks, this scene pretty much rewrote the rules.

The pair star in the new flick, The Disaster Artist, a behind - the - scenes look at the making of The Room, with James also directing the film.

This indie disaster flick isn't bad, but as you can see in my review here, it's missing that extra bit that would result in a recommendation on my part.

Unfolding like a classic Seventies disaster flick, San Andreas serves up a smorgasbord ofreadily - identifiable archetypes: the musclebound hero, the effete coward, the damsel in distress, the terminally - nerdy professor, and so on, each played with perfect aplomb by a talented cast.

If you were afraid to swim in the ocean after watching Jaws, you might be just as reluctant to visit San Francisco after seeing this spectacular disaster flick.

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is based on a rather unsavory series of trading cards released by Topps in the 1950s, and it takes its cues from the same sources as this summer's Independence Day — old alien invasion flicks, disaster movies, and big - budget special effects extravaganzas.

James Franco stars as the filmmaker while his brother Dave Franco plays Greg Sestero in «The Disaster Artist»; a comedic retelling of Sestero's 2013 memoir and a look at the making of this iconic flick.

There are countless tales to relate from this tragedy, and rather than focus on several in the schlocky manner of a»70s disaster flick, director Juan Antonio Bayona elected to center on the true - life story of María Belón and Enrique Alvarez, a Spanish couple on holiday with their three boys in Thailand when the tsunami hits.

This disaster flick depicts characters in very perilous situations and includes some sad and disturbing moments.

An inconsistent but mostly interesting disaster flick, The Day After Tomorrow demonstrates the usual strengths and weaknesses seen in the films of Roland Emmerich.

A workmanlike cross between a disaster movie and a caper - chase flick (complete with a climactic 18 - wheeler duel on an endless stretch of straight road that wouldn't be out of place in the more recent Fasts and Furiouses), the film never rises to the promise of its awesomely literal title.

The Wave (R for profanity and shocking images) Disaster flick, set in the fjords of Norway, about a geologist's (Kristoffer Joner) race to save a tourist retreat nestled in a narrow valley from a giant tsunami about to crush everything in its path.

Early in the flick, disaster accompanies one climb and Peter has to cut Dad free so he and Annie can survive.

The film is being helmed by Norwegian director Roar Uthaug, who previously made the disaster flick The Wave, a movie about people caught in a tsunami.

Peerce was already years ahead of American culture's comfort curve by 1967 (in the ensuing decades, his more prominent titles include a meager attempt at mounting Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, the Oscar nominated disaster flick Two Minute Warning and the two The Other Side of the Mountain films).

Maybe the myth of the Hollywood disaster - action flick has been exploded one too many times in real life on tv, YouTube and the video phone to function as cathartic of our repressed fears and internalized anxieties.

They were cheapies, by and large, although with The Swarm director Irwin Allen tried to pull off the same broad settings and large aging - star cast he'd managed in his previous disaster flicks.

When you venture into made - for - TV disaster flicks, you're swimming in some seriously crap - infested waters.

Curious zeitgeist we find ourselves in, this mad desire to erase the past (and note a recent run of disaster flicks as well) and start anew.

Chapter one writer Brian Michael Bendis opens the story in almost stereotypical big action flick style: we see the Phoenix force destroy a planet before heading toward Earth, we meet our heroes (at least the Avengers appear to be our heroes based on how Cyclops acts later in the book... but we'll get to that in a minute) in the calm before the storm, and then disaster befalls New York City.

The fairly solid hypothesis of a slightly enhanced GHE from GHG emissions was / is being twisted into something more akin to a disaster flick in search of a disaster.