If video games have an equivalent, it is Hideo Kojima, the brilliant and exhausting Japanese game designer who makes some of the most
interesting big budget action games.
Not exact matches
Normally the science fiction concept of time travel is reserved for
big budget action films, but the idea itself can be much more
interesting within the confines of an indie scale film.
As an astounding Shakespearean director and actor, he is also proven to make
bigger budget films work for him and tell
interesting narratives for characters we didn't think we'd care about i.e. Thor and his live -
action remake of Cinderella for Disney.
Other films meriting mention include Robert Altman «s final picture, «A Prairie Home Companion ``; Mel Gibson «s Aztec - thriller, «Apocalypto ``; Tom Tykwer «s kinetic (perhaps too kinetic) «Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ``; John Cameron Mitchell «s low -
budget erotica,» Shortbus ``; Richard Linklater's live -
action rotoscoped Philip K. Dick adaptation «A Scanner Darkly ``; Spike Lee «s
biggest commercial hit, the entertaining heist film, «Inside Man ``; Michael Mann «s flawed, but
interesting «Miami Vice ``; Bryan Singer «s unfairly maligned «Superman Returns; «Nicole Holofcener «s wryly observational «Friends with Money,» the over-estimated, but enlivening horror «The Descent,» and «13 Tzameti.»
By far the best sci - fi film I've seen yet this year, and proof that international films make for more
interesting dynamics, Snowpiercer is easily the original
action film a summer full of
big budget explosions needs.
Now that Konami seems more
interested in making slot machines than video games, it's doubtful that we'll ever get another
big budget Castlevania
action title from the studio again.