Sentences with phrase «invasion flick»
An "invasion flick" is a term used to describe a type of movie that focuses on an invasion by external forces or creatures. It usually involves a story where these invaders threaten or take over a place, leading to a conflict between them and the people who try to defend the invaded area. Full definition
His next film, 2002's alien invasion flick Signs, was another massive hit, though one that some people could find fault in.
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Who doesn't love a good alien invasion flick, to remind us all what it means to be human?
The series started in 2013 with The Purge, starring Lena Heady and Ethan Hawke, and was a film very much in the vein of home invasion flick Funny Games.
Despite whispers of a sequel ever since the release of the first movie, it's taken twenty years for the follow - up to the blockbuster alien invasion flick Independence Day to become a reality, and during an anniversary screening of the film, director Roland Emmerich has been talking to Entertainment Weekly about why we've waited so long for Independence Day: Resurgence.
She was the object of Adam Sandler's misguided affection in the comedy Just Go With It and she's currently filming What to Expect When You're Expecting alongside heavy - hitters like Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Lopez, while her action / alien invasion flick Battleship is set to hit theaters next year.
What else can you expect from an alien invasion flick centered on Los Angeles?
A living, breathing celluloid invasion flick led by a breathless ensemble of off - the - grid, in - over-their-head rockers who sell the shit hitting the fan with every quaking splinter of their being, Jeremy Saulnier's grimy, nasty, punk exploitation film is a 12 - gauge blast of ultraviolence that doesn't stop to ask about your feelings as its slashing you up the middle.
And come to think of it, I can't ever remember an alien invasion flick where the leads were already in a foreign country when the intergalactic shizz went down.
The second half of 2011 is seeing a resurgence of the alien invasion flick with «Attack the Block» and «Cowboys & Aliens» recently being released.
from writer / director Guillermo del Toro's great grotesque creature invasion flick, PACIFIC RIM.
The problem with The Purge is that the filmmakers take a great idea and turn it into a basic home invasion flick.
Despite whispers of a sequel ever since the release of the first movie, it's taken twenty years for the follow - up to the blockbuster alien invasion flick Independence Day to become a reality, and during an anniversary screening of the film, director Roland Emmerich has been talking to Entertainment Weekly about why we've waited so long -LSB-...]
It takes the standard alien invasion flick and rejuvenates it by giving it a tenuous connection to a popular Hasbro board game and adding some twists of its own.
A twist, but not by much, of the typical home - invasion flick, Shaun finds herself trapped outside of the home while her children have been taken hostage by the gang of crooks using the house's armaments to their benefit.
Watch the first trailer for director Chris Gorak (Right at Your Door) alien invasion flick The Darkest Hour, with Emile Hirsch facing a pack of invisible electricity - hungry aliens.
Alien invasion flick The Darkest Hour, released this morning, is like a bad holiday fruitcake that somebody tried to spruce up with a zillion lumps of neon - colored, soggy jellybean guts.
The much anticipated home - invasion flick You're Next now has a new poster with the tagline, «Home is where the hunt is».
An interesting set - up and a great performance from Ethan Hawke can't save this film from being nothing more than a boring home invasion flick that doesn't offer anything new or original to its audience.
Those speeches, combined with all of the other combat movie cliches found in Battle: Los Angeles, reveal the film to be little more than a traditional war film disguised as an alien invasion flick, tailor - made for a generation of kids raised on first - person shooters and jitter - inducing energy drinks.