And like those previous movies mentioned this really is more of a dramady then a striahgt comedy or drama, but alot
lighter than the other movies.
Not exact matches
The
movie is both a star vehicle and an ensemble piece; the
other actors revolve around Newman yet give off more
than just his reflected
light.
Other ’79 films remembered with more -
than - average fondness include: Nicholas Meyer's Time after Time, Ettore Scola's Down and Dirty, John Hanson and Rob Nilsson's Northern
Lights, Arthur Hiller's (and Andrew Bergman's) The In - Laws, Diane Kurys's Peppermint Soda, Sydney Pollack's The Electric Horseman, Oldrich Lipsky's Nick Carter in Prague, or Dinner for Adele, Jim Henson and James Frawley's The Muppet
Movie, and Don Sharp's The Thirty - nine Steps.
With off - the - shelf shootout and showdown scenes that differ from any
other over-the-top action fare only in their gloomy
lighting, «The Punisher» can't begin to measure up to the popcorn vengeance of Mel Gibson's Payback or the moody, provocative, primal reprisal of Steven Soderbergh's The Limey In fact, even the cheap, cheesy 1989 B -
movie adaptation of the same Marvel comic book (with dramatically lumbering Dolph Lungren in the title role) was more entertainingly bad
than this picture.
It's not a film that needs to be seen on the big screen, but Life of the Party is more
light - hearted and jovial
than most
other movies playing in theaters right now (independent and big - budget films alike) and should please the steadfast members of McCarthy's fanbase.