Sentences with phrase «knockoff characters»

I've seen knockoff characters from famous franchises, as well as some horrifying unspeakable monsters (NSFW!)

I've seen knockoff characters from famous franchises, as well as some horrifying unspeakable monsters (NSFW!)

At 2013's New York Comic Con when Dan Slott was announced as launching the new Silver Surfer series, the writer told Newsarama that Silver Surfer was the first superhero he ever read and it made an impact — even leading Slott to create a knockoff character for his college newspaper called the Nuke Surfer.

Not exact matches

The knockoff videos show those characters in lewd, violent, or disturbing scenarios, but YouTube lists them alongside the official videos from the characters» owners.

It's honestly her intense likability that makes this show so watchable, for of all of the non-fat joke - related mistakes it makes (chiefly its Alex P. Keaton knockoff older son character).

Cold Water, from Olivier Assayas, looked at first like a knockoff of Léos Carax — same inarticulate youthful characters in desperate love, same nowhere landscapes, same slashing use of pop songs — but without Carax's bursts of ecstasy.

Disney's second attempt — after The Sword in the Stone — to adapt a mystical British fantasy novel goes off the rails, thanks to a nonexistent plot and tiresome sub-Tolkien characters (including outrageous Gollum knockoff Gurgi).

A comparatively ambitious effort from filmmaker Charles Band (the Trancers and Puppet Master franchises), this is basically a knockoff of both the Mad Max and Star Wars series, with locales straight out of George Miller and characters straight out of George Lucas.

This Halloween knockoff is fairly forgettable, even by slasher flick standards, but it does feature some early work from character actors like Paul Gleason (The Breakfast Club) and James Rebhorn (Carlito's Way), plus it offers the silver screen debut of Mr. Tom Hanks, here playing (what else?)

Back in the late 1990s, there were quite a number of Tarantino knockoffs to come out — hard - boiled and very violent thrillers that featured lots of quirky characters and attempts at amusing, anecdotal conversations between them that were meant to entertain above push the plot forward.

What people should remember is that «Pulp Fiction,» lousy knockoffs aside, forever changed what we should expect from a movie, in terms of its dialogue, characters and story structure.

There was only so far you could take a character that had gone from villain to antihero to just another 80s action star, and in the movies he was just another knockoff action star from a bygone era.