Sentences with phrase «interesting film idea»

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The idea is that these films become agents for real change, not just an interesting evening of entertainment, according to the website announcing the film festival.

If nothing else, full - on live access to the candidate is an interesting take on the idea of political transparency, though we can assume that a certain amount of staging and filtering will be taking place — it's an integral part of life on the campaign trail whether you're being filmed or not.

Like manufacturing and like film we need to ensure that we reward investment by and in the music industry, and I was very interested to see the BPI's idea of a corporation tax break for higher investment levels in A&R — the music industry's R&D — to help develop new talent.

The Hearse is a pretty interesting idea for a horror film.

In the end, this is again a very good horror comedy which needs to focus less on the main characters (lets face it, they are cliches and the interest of this whole movie is to the idea behind it) and more on the variety of monsters that were created for this film.

Its interesting ideas and the moments in which it does come together ultimately redeem it, as least as a passing diversion, but it is the least essential Harry Potter film since Chamber of Secrets.

What is interesting is (like some original sci - fi concepts) back in 66 when this film was made the idea was of course deemed fantasy, these days I don't think it is, well with robots anyway.

There are interesting ideas knocking about inside the film, including that electricity is also a form of magic and that sometimes the wisest thing to do with power is to reject it.

I like the idea of the rebellious women in such a male dominated era and the toughness of Madeline Stowe here, it's not a film that holds your interest too well.

«John Carter» is certainly an interesting idea for a film, with a power struggle on an alien world and an outsider affecting the balance, but sadly it never ends up fully working.

Luckily Bruce Willis was interesting in his role, unfortunately the script just didn't deliver on its ideas, and it ended up being a forgettable film not worth your time.

The film had an interesting idea, but suffered from poor development and it's as if the screenwriters weren't that interested in creating a terrific final chapter in the Apes franchise.

As the title suggests, it's a film more interested in the birth and nurturing of ideas and their relationship to society than it is in extracting a crude drama from Darwin nervously pressing a knife to God's throat.

Unfortunately, there is no definitive direction and the film drags despite the interesting idea behind it.

Even more interesting, in an interview with Nerd Report, Pearce said his «gigantic, bold idea» gives everyone involved the tools to, potentially, link all of these movies back to the original films:

Javier Bardem starring in a historical epic about Hernán Cortés» bloody and brutal conquest of Mexico seems like an interesting enough idea for a film.

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.

He's playing with so many interesting ideas when it comes to race that I wish the film felt a bit more satisfying in its payoff, even if that disappointment is amply offset by the pure intensity of the final scenes, during which Peele displays a skill with horror action that I didn't know he had.

The idea of shooting an intimate human drama in 3D is interesting but ends up adding nothing, bar making Benoit Debie «s photography feel muddier and dimmer in a film already rendered in a low - contrast palette of browns and greys.

By the rules of teenager - centric action films this makes him Sam's natural arch-nemesis, and «Dark of the Moon» runs with that by the genuinely interesting idea of secret Decepticon collaborators among the human race, helping them with their plans.

There have actually been plenty of improvements and generally interesting derivations on the idea of transformable robots to suggest development of the concept on the scale a big - budget feature film should be able to offer, and «Dark of the Moon» offers several new iterations.

Lifeforce is an interesting concept for a film that is based around space vampires, and with that being said, it is an idea that should have been great, but as it stands, only ends up being good.

By far the best part of the film are the scenes set in the Judge Dredd style mega city which owe a great visual debt to Blade Runner and the idea of a futuristic society ruled by the church is a really interesting one.

Airheads is fun for what it is, but the idea for the film is interesting and the humor is silly and good, mindless entertainment.

With that being said, it's no wonder that Disney ventured into more live action films and computer animated features, which at least brings much more interesting ideas, concepts and storylines to a film.

Following a relationship on one day a year over more than 20 years is an interesting idea, and this film features a solid cast and some genuinely moving situations.

The key problem is the decidedly dull script, which throws up a handful of decent ideas, but fails to do anything interesting with them — one of the characters is obviously meant to represent the misogynistic attitudes behind the Gamergate controversy, but the film is content just to push that to its extreme and turn him into a full - on murderous scumbag, rather than explore it in any depth.

The film has plenty of flaws but should be entertaining for sci - fi action fans, thanks to interesting world - building, captivating existential ideas, and cool robo - action.

Speaking to Variety's chief film critic Scott Foundas, Mann discusses growing up in Chicago, becoming interested in crime stories, the visual ideas he had for the film, the nonfiction book he discarded but still credited, the influence of real criminals and past films (particularly his eye - opening time shooting The Jericho Mile in Folsom Prison), choosing Tangerine Dream to do the score (a decision he still second guesses), the film's writing (including basing characters on real crime figures), casting, explosive stunts, changes made from the shooting script, and the modernist narrative.

by Walter Chaw There's the seed of an interesting idea in Neil LaBute's Possession — something traceable to A.S. Byatt's melodramatic novel of the same name: the film's one clumsily extended trope that it is about keepsakes and the desire for memento mori and memento amor as it manifests amongst intellectuals.

It isn't an amazing film, but it has enough interesting ideas going on with some pretty great practical effects that make it a slightly above average film.

Other topics this film is interested in: anti-Semitic sentiment in France, the systemic and lofty ambitions of France's cinema to boost itself through nationalist rhetoric, uneducated young women and another half - dozen ideas scattered helter skelter.

The film appears as interested in developing the strange relationship between Korben and the two young women as it is in exploring the possibility that Kate can really speak with spirits (for a far superior TIFF film that explores this idea, see Olivier Assayas» «Personal Shopper» starring Kristen Stewart).

I would say Phone Booth is at least worth a look due to being an interesting idea for thriller, as well as for its attention - grabbing style which works magic on a purely visceral level, much in the way it did in the similarly implausible film, Joy Ride.

The film also raises some interesting ideas about the nature of humanity, consciousness, and one's soul.

It is a film with interesting, grand ideas and some of the most stunning manifestations of David Cronenbergian body horror that Ive seen.

As the idea evolved, it became more interested that the way I want a film to look is not a good fit for a found footage movie.

But little kids always make everything scarier, and the film's central idea — that babies can see ghosts — might be enough to keep this interesting.

An interesting idea, but unfortunately, the film's narrative and emotional engine operate as mechanically as the titular, dead - eyed glamazoids.

The film's nominal story involves a terminally ill mother, a corpse found floating in the ocean, and a tentative teen romance; as usual, though, Kawase is mostly interested in having these characters speak her ideas aloud, handing them endless turgid dialogue about nature, death, and the link between the two.

Coen Brothers films can be brilliant (No Country for Old Men, A Serious Man), or not (The Ladykillers, The Hudsucker Proxy), but they're always crafted with interesting ideas.

To those not interested in the greater ideas presented in the film, Barton Fink — despite its artsy and meaningful storytelling — should really appeal to anyone with a taste for black comedy (a subgenre the Coens rarely blunder.)

Interesting, too, is the inescapable idea that the only genuinely convincing relationships in the film are homosexual, and that the picture could be read with profit as an escalating evolution of father relationships from low to positively Christian (mad steward Denethor and son Faramir, Frodo and Gollum, Gandalf and the hobbits, Aragorn and mankind)-- but part and parcel with the oft - fascinating subtext and beautiful images is a parade of useless cameos (please, enough Cate Blanchett), de rigueur expository flashbacks, and the squandering of opportunities to locate the genuine interest in unlikely epic heroes (women and, essentially, children), rather than just pay lip service to them.

Over the years, Andrew Niccol has proven himself to be a more - than - capable director of commercially risky films interested in the idea of «identity».

And while the cliched idea of a body switch comedy might not seem appealing on the surface, director David Dobkin keeps things interesting by pacing the film like a runaway train.

This idea of knowledge as the primary corruptor is echoed in Capt. Newport's (Christopher Plummer) declaration towards the end that «Eden is around us still,» with Eve's fall (Pocahontas, never called such during the film, is baptized — then corseted — after being rejected by her people for warning Smith of an attack) echoed in what we know to be the history of the Native Americans and the Britons» colonial interests alike.

The idea of some answers to these mysteries could perhaps be enticing if I cared about any of the characters, anything about their world, or the film did anything to ignite an interest in its plot rather than offering up vague teases at answers that never come and do nothing but try to hook the bait in for the next entry.

An interesting idea that relies on copying better films in the genre than standing out on its own.

So, we already had the idea for the story by the time we watched it, but it was just interesting to see... because that film is quite bittersweet for an MGM musical, and I think we liked those ideas.

«At the same time, I always wanted to make a film about children — very influenced by The Little Rascals --[and] I thought this would an interesting opportunity to take that [idea], make an entertaining film, but deliver a message with it.»