Sentences with phrase «in superhero movies as»

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He's actually pretty terrible at being an efficient hero — crashing through and destroying property in people's backyards and splitting a ferry in half, but it's one of the most refreshing aspects of «Homecoming,» not just as a Spider - Man movie, but in the very crowded genre of superhero movies.

The movie, which focuses on the titular superhero who is king of the fictional African country of Wakanda, is forecasted to pull in as much as $ 165 million in domestic box - office gross for its debut over the four - day President's Day holiday weekend.

In fact, Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins was the first woman to direct a superhero movie and the film ended up as the highest - grossing movie ever helmed by a woman (along with being last year's third - highest grossing film domestically).

Also, you'll get a surge in business every time a superhero movie comes out, and hopefully some lasting customers as a result.

Following Thor: Ragnarok in 2017, we'll get a slate of brand new heroes, including Black Panther (starring Get On Up «s Chadwick Boseman as Marvel's first black superhero), along with Captain Marvel (which will be Marvel's first female - starring film) and an Inhumans movie in 2018.

In Mystery Men, a movie from a few years back, William H. Macy, Ben Stiller and Hank Azaria starred as a trio of lesser superheroes with fairly unimpressive superpowers.

Moviegoers are finally about to get a break from all of the big - budget summer blockbusters and superhero action movies, as studios move away from large - scale spectacles in favor of award - season prestige films.

Play silks have been one of the most open - ended play things in our home from superhero or king's capes to rivers and merman's tails, they make beautiful backdrops to puppet shows (and more currently stop motion lego movies), they're used as ambient window coverings and are often the main structure of creative forts.

Okorafor said she was buoyed by the global success of the summer box office hit «Wonder Woman» — the first superhero movie to star a woman since 2005 — with the character hailed as a new role model for girls and a break away from sexism in Hollywood.

But Black Panther breaks the Marvel mold for so long that in some ways, it's disappointing when it reveals itself as just another superhero movie — albeit one that gives the world a hero that so many fans have long desired and deserved.

As the superhero movie world shudders in the immediate wake of Avengers: Infinity War (a film I was pretty bored by), this week on store shelves lands Ryan Coogler's (Creed) Black Panther, one of the most successful films of the decade and a surprise hit across the globe.

The movie doesn't reinvent the superhero genre so much as reclaim and reenergize it — archetypes, cliches, and all — for viewers hungry to dream in their own skin.

OK, obviously none of that happens, except for Wade blowing himself up — and if you've ever read a comic book in your life, or seen a movie, or drawn breath, you know that a superhero film doesn't start with the hero offing himself unless it plans to undo the damage as soon as possible.

Except for Will Smith in Hancock, and Samuel L. Jackson as Frozone in The Incredibles, and of course Halle Berry and Anthony Mackie in other Marvel Universe pictures, plus Wesley Snipes in Blade (if you want to press the point) and Robert Townsend in The Meteor Man (which should not be forgotten), there simply have been no black superheroes in the movies.

Here we in turn find the movie's co-stars Hart and Helms introducing the picture, as Hart argues, «Wearing a cape does not make him a superhero.»

News broke last week that James Franco was set to star in his first superhero movie (since Sam Raimi's Spider - Man) as Jamie Madrox, aka Multiple Man, in a film of the same name.

He's also no stranger to superhero movies, having played Batman's primary gadget provider Lucius Fox in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy - not to mention starring as the most super-powered being of all in Bruce Almighty and Evan Almighty.

Paul Rudd still stars as Ant - Man, Michael Douglas plays Henry Pym, the inventor of the shrinking formula in this version of the movie (and not the original superhero like he is in the comics) and Lily who recently revealed a few more details and said her character Hope Van Dyne «is the daughter of the founders of The Avengers, Ant - Man and the Wasp» which will no doubt lead to lots of confusion as we know from the MCU Ant - Man and The Wasp weren't in those original movies (she's referring to what happened in the comics).

Based on her revealing and flashy outfit, some fans wondered if Harley Quinn is just another product of the male gaze, as that's often the case for women in superhero movies.

Marvel Disney may have The Avengers as the ultimate team - up movie, but 20th Century Fox now has Days of Future Past as the ultimate mutant superhero movie that not only bridges all the gaps in the X-Men franchise, but actually resets any of the continuity mistakes made by the previous movies.

«Deadpool» will have a comedic edge lacking in most super-serious superhero movies, and the role Miller has been offered serves as an additional comic voice to compliment Deadpool, who often breaks the fourth wall and speaks directly to the audience.

Speaking with Empire as part of the magazine's cover feature for the upcoming superhero movie, The Wire alum talked about the rigorous process of getting in the zone to play his role.

Aquaman will also feature a strikingly different world from that of other superhero films - something that also extends to other upcoming superhero movies, such as Marvel Studios» Doctor Strange (which dabbles in supernatural horror) or even 20th Century Fox's Wolverine 3 (an R - Rated film with a modern - western vibe).

Here's what's new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video - on - demand, and other streaming services... Chadwick Boseman as Prince T'Challa, aka Black Panther (2018, PG - 13), in the first Marvel superhero movie built around black hero.

It sounded more like the music from Forest Gump then what should be in an intense superhero movie such as this.

«Doctor Strange» McAdams made her superhero movie debut in 2016, starring as a surgeon opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in the Marvel film «Doctor Strange.»

Captain Underpants: The Epic First Movie Rated PG for mild rude humor throughout Rotten Tomatoes Score: 87 % In spite of great reviews from both critics and audiences, as well as a large base of fans of their kids graphic novels, this animated superhero flick landed with a relative thud in theaterIn spite of great reviews from both critics and audiences, as well as a large base of fans of their kids graphic novels, this animated superhero flick landed with a relative thud in theaterin theaters.

There are hiccups in its ambition, but it's hard not to get swept up in all the technologies, characters, and politics crammed into the movie's compelling dramatic conflict, which casts the charismatic Michael B. Jordan — the star of Creed and Coogler's debut, Fruitvale Station — as the most complex villain in the post-Dark Knight cycle of superhero blockbusters.

Blade, to the fresh eye, free of the fandom surrounding the character, comes across as the kind of film that is probably closer to a B Movie in the action genre than a superhero flick, as it is branded to be.

As reported by Inverse, she said, «Recently I marched up with a couple of other women who work in Marvel and [asked Kevin Feige] «How about a movie with some female superheroes?

It's a superhero movie in the same sense as Kasi Lemmons's sorely underestimated The Caveman's Valentine: based on a literary source, it's itself intensely literate, sprinkling Mandarin and Sanskrit in with, late in the game, a language of our hero's own devising to which he devotes reels of obsessive notes.

Although best known for his roles in such films as «Gladiator,» «L.A. Confidential» and «Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,» Crowe is of course no stranger to superhero movies: He played Superman's father Jor - El in 2013's «Man of Steel.»

I have a feeling that Emma Stone, who will also have her own superhero movie coming out in 2014, could be a standout as Keaton's daughter.

After a more than respectable five - week run as the No. 1 movie in America, this weekend the Marvel superhero adventure fell to No. 2, replaced by a different sort of nerd bait: The giant monsters vs. giant robots smash - «em - up...

As superheroes continue to dominate the box office, Screen Rant has compiled a list of famous (and infamous) comic book deaths that we want to see in movies and TV shows.

As this hilarious teaser for the teaser trailer points out, the people behind Reynolds» previous onscreen incarnations in X-Men Origins: Wolverine effectively ruined him by taking away the character's defining potty mouth (not to mention the whole thing being one of the worst superhero movies ever made).

In the hours surrounding teaser trailer, Trank and screenwriter Simon Kinberg talked with Collider, Empire Online and Yahoo! Movies about their frame of mind for the film and setting it apart from what they see as the commodified superhero action genre.

In addition to juggling the six primary superheroes from the first Avengers movie — and their many cohorts, including Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders)-- Whedon sought to introduce two new adversaries, the robotic Ultron (James Spader) and monocle - rocking Baron Strucker (Thomas Kretschmann), as well as three new figures with much more ambiguous motivations, Vision (Paul Bettany), Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), and Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor - Johnson).

The Deadpool movie was, well, all but dead until it was revived in 2012, when the uber positive response to a test reel put together by current director Tim Miller and featuring Reynolds as Deadpool convinced the powers with the money that a hard R - rated superhero movie was viable.

Of course, as The A.V. Club reported last year, women made up the majority of movie audiences for the fourth year in a row in 2013, and they like action - packed superhero movies, though they prefer them with female protagonists.

Captain America: Winter Soldier artfully dodges nearly every typical superhero movie problem (as well as general sequel problems) with a stunning grasp of mood, total commitment to a «square» character, a smart choice of villain, and thrilling action scenes that feel authentically dangerous (a complete rarity in blockbusters) rather than like stop - and - gawk «setpieces» with no actual stakes.

Sometimes a superhero is only as good as his enemies, and that's definitely true in the upcoming Captain America movie.

The nineteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is the Russo Brothers» most epic team - up superhero movie yet, featuring Thanos (Josh Brolin) as the main villain who's taking matters into his own hands.

Thus, the reference to Birdman: a movie about an actor attempting to erase the memories of his superhero alter ego by staging a serious play; a movie in which an actor's superhero alter ego follows him like a ghost, reminding him it's the hero people want to see, not the washed - up actor and his play; a movie that exists as a rebuke to the tights - clad tentpoles that have taken over the industry.

Working unobtrusively but consistently in a decadent Hollywood that's doubled down on sci - fi / fantasy / superhero franchise tentpoles as the end - all - be-all of action movies, Jaume Collet - Serra has been diligently and often ingeniously pursuing another filmmaking model, that of the mid-range budget standalone genre picture.

I love a good popcorn superhero movie as much as the next guy (maybe even more than most critics), but «Logan» shows how deep one can go in the genre if they just approach it in a different way.

So we've established that Marvel knows it has a problem with female representation in its superhero movies, and it's probably going to make great strides in fixing that problem as soon as it possibly can.

While Black Panther will almost certainly experiences some drop - off in its second week, one thing is for certain: It has already left its mark on the superhero movie genre and, more importantly, the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a whole.

This continuation of the Man of Steel and Batman v Superman movies in the DC universe brings together six main superheroes: Ben Affleck as Batman, Henry Cavill as Superman, Jason Momoa as Aquaman, Ezra Miller as The Flash, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, and Ray Fisher as Cyborg.

DC Films» Justice League is dismissed as being a middle of the road superhero movie in Screen Junkies» official Honest Trailer.