Not exact matches
While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies
like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The
Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots
like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.
And all those yellowing Vintage paperbacks of the authors who were considered especially significant when I was in high school or college — Camus, Faulkner, Sartre, Mann, Gide, and so on — dissipated
like a pale morning fog without any profound sense of
desolation descending on me.
Jesus looked into the future and saw the rising tension of his day culminating in the destruction and
desolation of the people and the land he loved;
like the prophets of old, he foresaw the doom of judgment meted out, not on the heathen only but upon his own nation, its leaders, its people, its temple.
I
liked, for instance, the Magnetic Fields, whose lead singer Stephin Merritt writes lyrics of
desolation and misery — but who has said that «Sincerity has no place in popular music.»
Thus his vision, beginning with man accepting, affirming, even willing the death of God in a radical sense, ends with man willing to participate in the utter
desolation of the secular or the profane, willing to undergo the discipline of darkness, the dark night of the soul (here Altizer's affinity with the religious existentialists, who may not have God but who don't at all
like not having him, is clearest), while the possibility of a new epiphany of the sacred, a rebirth of the possibility of having God once more is awaited.
In the
desolation of East Antarctica lies a mountain range
like no other: phantom peaks buried from view beneath thousands of meters of ice.
by Angelo Muredda And so arrives Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The
Desolation of Smaug (hereafter Hobbit 2), landing at its appointed hour a year after its predecessor's mixed debut
like a job application received after the position has already been quietly filled.
So far, they are nowhere near as good as The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but I feel
like The Hobbit: The
Desolation of Smaug was heading inRead More →
That means it's time for big blockbuster films
like The Hobbit: The
Desolation of Smaug as well as award films
like Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.
However, Rainer «quite
liked» the second movie, «The Hobbit: The
Desolation of Smaug,» writing that «there's much more eye - catching mayhem....
It's a very hard - edged film, one of those comedies that make you laugh because they go uncomfortably close to the edge of despair: Paula's life in limbo is one of isolation and
desolation, and her misadventures here are
like a descent into hell.
And yet, thanks to intriguing new characters
like Tauriel, the fascinating execution of Smaug, and a couple of swell set pieces, The
Desolation of Smaug is a more enjoyable experience than An Unexpected Journey.
The
Desolation of Smaug becomes far more engrossing when it turns its focus to new characters
like the elf Tauriel (Evangeline Lilly) or Bard the Bowman (Luke Evans).
The
Desolation of Smaug is at its best when it looks
like the actors are on actual sets, but far too often Jackson opts for CG - assisted acrobatics over practical stuntwork, turning his actors into animated characters.
The Sessions Promised Land Broken City Side Effects Amour Take This Waltz Beasts of the Southern Wild Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Oz, The Great and Powerful Side By Side A Separation Wreck - It Ralph Compliance Admission The Silence The Prodigal Son Evil Dead Flashdance Days of Heaven Jurassic Park 3D Double Indemnity Room 237 To the Wonder The Place Beyond the Pines ParaNorman Iron Man 3 The Paperboy The Great Gatsby Bernie Star Trek Into Darkness Oblivion Now You Seen Me All Good Things End of Watch Lars and the Real Girl The Way Way Back Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil Behind the Candelabra Man of Steel Beautiful Creatures Stoker Not Fade Away Identity Thief Mama This is the End V / H / S The Heat White House Down The Exorcism of Emily Rose World War Z The Blue Umbrella Monsters University Despicable Me Modern Times The Conjuring Red Pacific Rim The Wolverine We're the Millers Fruitvale Station Lee Daniels» The Butler Seven Psychopaths Bachelorette Blue Jasmine Chronicle
Like Crazy The Spectacular Now Austenland Hot Fuzz The World's End Best Worst Movie The Possession Isidious: Chapter 2 Prisoners Anna Karenina Don Jon Enough Said V / H / S / 2 The Ward Gravity Captain Phillips Nebraska Honeymoon Suite We Are What We Are Winter in the Blood Truth or Blood The Search for Simon Ghost Light They Will Outlive Us All Hot «n Bothered Casual Encounters A Better Life Mud 12 Years a Slave Much Ado About Nothing (2013) About Time Thor: The Dark World Only God Forgives Frances Ha Salinger Dallas Buyers Club JFK The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Frozen Philomena Parkland Delivery Man Prince Avalanche The Hobbit: The
Desolation of Smaug Upstream Color Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa What Maisie Knew The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza) Lovelace Saving Mr. Banks The Secret Life of Walter Mitty August: Osage County The Wolf of Wall Street American Hustle
Like the theatrical editions of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit: The
Desolation of Smaug is an incomplete film.
While I certainly enjoyed the first trailer for The Hobbit: The
Desolation of Smaug, I
like the second one even more.
Just
like the previous trailer for «The
Desolation of Smaug,» the preview saves its look at Smaug until the very end.
The Battle of the Five Armies is, on the whole, more enjoyable than The
Desolation of Smaug, but it feels
like a film that's been padded out to fill the 144 minute running time.
After a killer cliffhanger in «
Desolation of Smaug,» there are a few things we'd
like cleared up before it's all over.
He talked about the technical advancements they made to create Smaug, how they decided to visualize Smaug's speech, the time required to render visual effects
like the billion coins in Smaug's vault, just how many people worked on the film, the
Desolation of Smaug extended edition, and so much more.
So far, they are nowhere near as good as The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but I feel
like The Hobbit: The
Desolation of Smaug was heading in the right direction.
Even Link looks
like he could've been a double for Legolas in The
Desolation of Smaug, with his armored shoulder - pads, lengthy blue scarf, and new green get - up.
Like Jackson's other Middle - earth films,
Desolation of Smaug receives an Extended Cut just in time for the next installment's release.
The narrative that they came up with — semi-crazed breakdancers with LED lights threaded through their clothing make their way through urban
desolation after electricity has disappeared — combines aspects of movies
like «28 Days Later» with first - rate documentary reportage of the havoc the storm rent on the urban landscape.
In Edgar Allan Poe's story The Fall of the House of Usher, the doomed, hypersensitive Roderick Usher plays blues -
like guitar music and paints abstractions that suck the mind into their
desolation: it is an uncanny prophesy of the noble despair of Rothko, who is of all America's creative giants the most pessimistic.
Trailers for movies
like Pacific Rim and The Hobbit: The
Desolation Of Smaug show vivid color, though they do lack the sense of depth a glossy display can provide.