Sentences with phrase «into walruses»

If you're going to make an involving movie about a madman who surgically turns humans into walruses (yes, you read that right), you'd best whip up a sympathetic hero, credible puzzle pieces and propulsive tension to help sell such an off - putting, outlandish setup.

A lot of people don't like Kevin Smith's Tusk (I'm not one of them) but this minimalist poster foreshadowing Justin Long's character's transformation into a walrus.

Set to World Premiere tonight at the Midnight Madness portion of the Toronto International Film Festival is Kevin Smith's Human Centipede-esque Tusk, about a man (Justin Long) who is surgically turned into a walrus by a mysterious seafarer (Michael Parks), in theaters September 19.

I have large doubts that 20 years ago, following the debut of writer / director Kevin Smith's Clerks, anyone predicted that one day this man would make a film about a mysterious man turning an unknowing participant into a walrus, but here we are.

As we learn of Howe's eerie, walrus - affected backstory, it's not long before it becomes clear that the creepy old sea dog is keen to turn Wallace into a walrus in order to bring him some companionship and let the good times roll.

Whether or not the world needs a film where a man is kidnapped and physically transformed into a walrus is a personal question you'll have to answer in your own space.

Distributor A24 looked on the bright side, noting that it was «the best opening ever in the man being turned into a walrus genre.»

Smith began to speculate this would make a great horror film, where the man actually wanted to turn his house guest INTO a walrus.

Like a psychedelic «Misery» or «The Elephant Man» with a happy ending, but in reverse, Howe traps Wallace with plans to fashion him into a walrus, approximating the only true friend he's ever had — a tusked creature that saved his life when he was young, seafaring military man.

Howe wants to turn Wallace into a walrus, and he has the surgical tools to do it.

A respectable entry into the genre of «I Can't Believe This Thing Got Made» cinema, Tusk follows a podcaster to Nowhere, Canada where he's promptly kidnapped by a disturbed man with machinations to turn him into a walrus.

Based off a premise proposed on Smith's podcast with producer Scott Mosier in which a man gets turned into a walrus, «Tusk» alludes to its origins by focusing on a character who runs a loudmouthed podcast himself.

The plot was inspired by one of Smith's Smodcast podcasts, and involves a mysterious seafarer (Michael Parks) in Bitfrost, Manitoba, who takes a podcaster (Justin Long) hostage and attempts to turn him into a walrus.

The film stars Justin Long and Michael Parks and it's basically about a kid trying to turn another kid into a walrus.

Recently, he has written and directed a trilogy of horror - comedies dubbed the «True North trilogy»; the first film in the series was «Tusk,» about a missing podcaster who gets turned into a walrus, which received mixed reviews.

Now, «Tusk» — a movie about a guy who turns another guy into a walrus — and «Yoga Hosers» — about two girls in Canada who fight one - foot - tall Nazis — I could find money for that.

You even transform into a walrus and enter a sledding race, just like so many of my Christmases as a child.

Not exact matches

Kids can press periscope to hear lifelike submarine sounds and press the launcher to make captain walrus dive into the water with a splash.

To learn about the everyday lives of these difficult creatures, Fischbach and his colleagues have been attaching satellite tags to walruses — a difficult operation in itself, requiring the biologists to land a helicopter downwind of the herd, then slowly wriggle forward on their bellies until they can fire a tag into an animal's thick skin.

Reading the walrus diaries gives the researchers insight into the animals» working lives.

Greenland was a key source of walrus ivory, which was carved into luxury goods such as the famous 12th century Lewis chessmen from Scotland.

Some changes are well - known, such as declines in polar bear populations and stresses to walruses being forced out of their shallow feeding grounds as ice retreats into deeper waters.

In order to determine the efects, if any, of the dietary habits of these natives, the data, as stated, were divided into two groups, namely, (a) those obtained in Hudson Bay and Strait amongst natives who live, to an appreciable extent, upon mixed diets, and (b) those obtained in Baffin and Devon Islands amongst natives whose diets, except for about 2 months in the year, consist of the natural foods of their environment (seal, whale, narwhal, walrus, etc.).

A man (Justin Long) is captured by a maniac (Michael Parks) and tortured, physically and mentally, into becoming a walrus.

The premise is inherently far - fetched but the sight of Justin Long sutured into an anthropomorphic - patchwork walrus suit (which resembles Belial from «Basket Case») is profoundly disturbing simultaneously.

It's not every day you come across a film which sees a crazed old man looking to bring back the good times by turning an unsuspecting enquirer into a doting, fish - eating walrus named Mr. Tusk.

As Howard begins doing unspeakable things to Wallace, all the while telling him about how a walrus in the Black Sea was the only creature ever to show him any kindness, Teddy and Ally begin the search for their friend, which brings them into contact with Quebecois private investigator Guy LaPointe (played by a big - time, pseudonymous movie star who is close to unrecognizable here thanks to a fake nose and a ludicrous French - Canadian accent).

Tusk has been one of the most talked about films of 2014 and has drawn in my curiosity since day one with the transformation of Justin Long (Zack and Miri Make A Porno, Jeepers Creepers) into a human walrus.

In closing Kevin Smith assures us that though the trailer doesn't explicitly show it, «We do turn him into a f *** ing walrus.

When Segel decides to give the penguin and the walrus a break, he rolls out the old people who swear and adorable moppets — 50 First Dates is an example of how to turn what was probably an ambitious script into a star vehicle, catering to Sandler's fans by referencing Happy Gilmore and catering to Sandler himself by giving Rob Schneider a large role that continues Sandler's disturbing propensity in all of his films to demean every imaginable Asian target (Schneider himself guilty once before as the voice of an Asian waiter in Eight Crazy Nights).

Tusk Director: Kevin Smith Stars: Genesis Rodriguez, Haley Joel Osment, Justin Long Synopsis: A man is captured by a maniac and tortured, physically and mentally, into becoming a walrus.

C + Tennessee Tuxedo: The Complete Collection Available on DVD The classic 1960's television toon featuring Don Adams as the voice of penguin Tennessee Tuxedo who wanders the zoo with his walrus pal Chumley, getting into all kinds of trouble, all the while educating the audience and making them laugh.

Her husband, Harley, a jolly - looking man with a walrus mustache, bald head and wearing rimless glasses, stepped into her office with an impatient look on his face.

Thus the reader enters into the modern contradictions of the Arctic — walrus meat and convenience food, midnight sun and 24 - hour satellite TV, dog teams and diamond mines — and into the heart of Victoria's internal exile.

At the world's top zoos, you'll run into familiar characters like elephants, polar bears, and walruses, as well as meet lesser - known species like the Thailand clouded leopard and the armadillo - like pangolin from Asia and Africa.

The National Museum of Scotland makes a great full or half - day excursion into antiquity with popular exhibits to include the Lewis Chessman exhibit, a 30 piece walrus ivory chess set dating to the 12th Century, proving to be one of the most significant archaeological finds of its kind.

Much like the first two SNES DKC titles, the score of Tropical Freeze manages to encompass a shocking amount of variety, all while building the atmosphere of the game's world, and turning the simple story of a bunch of apes fighting walruses into something truly epic and beautiful.

The statues raise the dual specter of ambition and failure, whether dealing with strength and skill (a geisha riding a walrus while doing calligraphy, or a cowboy struggling to rope a calf), sickness and obsession (an anorexic dancer, a pair of bodybuilding lovers), and ideas of normalcy and the abnormal (a mother with three children, or three dwarfs urinating into a bucket).

In the summer, no one is allowed to set foot on the shore because of the many breeding walruses, but in October only a few walrus are left, and they don't seem to mind when Ian plugs his toaster into a generator and proceeds to get the bread to the exactly right level of brownness.

Bearded seals are in competition with other benthic (sea floor) feeders, walrus and gray whales, who likewise migrate into the Arctic as the ice melts.

As indicated in the previous outlook for the region, fields of rotten multiyear ice persist off the northern coast of Alaska, with potential impacts on marine mammals (providing a platform for foraging walrus well into the season) and ship traffic.

I provided links to published accounts from past centuries and earlier BBC videos demonstrating that polar bears throughout the Chukchi Sea commonly hunt walrus on land; a fact that Attenborough distorted into a cinematic illusion misrepresenting a natural behavior as a function of catastrophic climate change.

Like ill - fated revelers at an overcrowded rock concert, thousands of Pacific walruses were stampeded to death in 2007 after disappearing sea ice forced them into close quarters on the shoreline above the Arctic Circle.