Sentences with phrase «kaiju movie»

At a certain point, you either realize Colossal is not the giant South Korean kaiju movie starring Anne Hathaway that you believe it is going to be and you're fine with that, or you keep thinking writer / director Nacho Vigalondo (Timecrimes) is going to give it to you only to be left unhappily dissatisfied when he steadfastly refuses to do so.

If you saw the original Pacific Rim several years ago, then you might be aware that it was an attempt by Guillermo Del Toro to merge «giant robot» anime with live - action Kaiju movies and a VERY high dosage of Independence Day.

We've been giddy in anticipation for the Anne Hathaway / Kaiju movie since its first trailer.

But South Korean visionary Bong Joon - ho juggles multiple tones and genres, stuffing a seriocomic family portrait down the gullet of a throwback kaiju movie, then dousing the whole thing in withering social critique.

But 14 years after Roland Emmerich's forgettable «Godzilla» remake, Del Toro's «Pacific Rim» constitutes a large - scale attempt to bring Japan's beloved Kaiju movies — their monster films, of which Ishiro Honda's 1954 «Godzilla» is the most famous — to American shores.

Billed as the «Anne Hathaway kaiju movie,» it actually has a lot more on its mind than monster mayhem.

Popular culture has obviously changed dramatically since 1954 when Toho Studios released Ishirō Honda's inaugural kaiju movie, «Godzilla.»

The July 2013 original, directed by Guillermo del Toro, was likewise conceived as an East - West hybrid tailored after classic kaiju movies, the Japanese giant monster genre.

Coming Soon Colossal, that kaiju movie starring Anne Hathaway that we told you about at least year's TIFF is coming out this year and it has such a cute poster (pictured left) and the trailer is also here.

Cloverfield was a kaiju movie with a found footage twist.

Steven S. DeKnight's sequel to Guillermo Del Toro's 2013 love letter to anime and kaiju movies is more coherent than a Transformers movie but not much smarter, Pacific Rim Uprising is at its best when it drops all pretenses and focuses on giant CGI robots fighting giant CGI monsters.

Though sequel to 2013 kaiju movie will take No. 1 this weekend, it will depend on international audiences to turn a profit

Steven S. DeKnight's sequel to Guillermo Del Toro's 2013 love letter to anime and kaiju movies is more coherent than a «Transformers» movie but not much smarter.

Not just say a Pacific Rim sequel or even other Jaeger / Kaiju movies but even whether say studios trust a director like Guillermo del Toro with big budgets.

Sure, it's a love letter to the kaiju movies of Japan, which include monsters like Godzilla and Gamera.

Steven S. DeKnight's sequel to Guillermo Del Toro's 2013 love letter to anime and kaiju movies is more coherent than a «Transformers» movie but...

Cloverfield toyed with scope: The film either blew up found - footage horror to city - destroying proportions or squeezed a kaiju movie into the viewfinder of a digital camcorder.

They were also hesitant to create yet another kaiju movie with films like Pacific Rim and Godzilla being released.

There is not such a thing as reprehensible violence in a Kaiju movie.

Quite what is unclear, although Abrams did suggest while on promotional duties for 10 Cloverfield Lane that the release of movies such as Pacific Rim and the rebooted Godzilla pushed him away from the Kaiju movie format and towards something entirely new.

- Camp value (Ten Commandments, Bad Seed)- Musicals (The King and I, High Society)- Strange snubs (The Searchers received zero nominations despite Oscar's obsession with John Ford)- Delayed foreign grandeur (La Strada and Seven Samurai, 1954 films both, were up for Oscars)- not one but two kaiju movies (Godzilla and Rhodan)... and more.

Colossal benefits from the fact that it's a drama about addiction disguised as a kaiju movie.

I want to see monsters fighting other monsters to the death in the mother of all Kaiju movies.