Sentences with phrase «like a formula film»

Alas, it is very much a Hollywood treatment, full of glossed - over characterizations and trumped - up conflicts (the other school educators are painted as the villains), and, at best, we are given everything we expect, delivered tidy and sterile like a formula film always tends to.

It's a boxing movie that hits most of the stations of the boxing genre - the cruelty of the business, the devotion of the trainer, the ring as the crucible of disgrace or redemption - but it's nothing like a formula film.

Not exact matches

A new film aims to equip health workers with the information they need to answer questions like, «Which formula is the best?»

It makes the viewer willing to excuse the film's flights of fancy, like a fiery action sequence in a hidden room where escape follows a familiar movie formula, or a denouement that feels a bit padded.

But the simplicity of the formula makes the film read like a cautionary tale that a traveling troupe of actors would perform for medieval villagers.

The film lumbers along like your typical romantic comedy, and doesn't do anything new with the formula.

Much like Gladiator and countless other stories in a variety of genres, this rags - to - riches tale can't hide its formula, even though it's easy to get lost in the film's formidable scope.

It's obvious that this film isn't meant to compare to some of the classic like Raiders of the Lost Ark, but I did like it's more «down home» approach to the adventure formula.

In the case of The Interpreter, truth is nothing more than the sum of all the facts, lined up like soldiers by the film's rigid formula.

As much as I'd like to blame the trailers for misleading viewers, this is not an easy film to market, and as such, most ticket buyers walked into their screening ready for a simple, familiar formula: Seth Rogen + raunchy R - rated comedy.

A common film formula found in 1980's slapstick comedies is the riches - to - rags storyline in which a wealthy character is subjected to living like a member of a lower class.

As such, like another second - tier Marvel title before it, Guardians of the Galaxy, that allows for some deviation from the core Avengers films in terms of how things will look and sound, giving us a movie that feels organically different in visual design than most we've seen before, even if it still retains the same formula structure of the rest of the MCU features.

For a formula film, it's watchable stuff for those who tend to like these sorts of films.

Along with its Rambo pedigree, Homefront definitely feels like a film that would have been par for the course as a release in the 1980s, when Stallone himself, along with Arnie, Chuck Norris, Van Damme, and the rest of the Expendables ilk, would all make films with this very basic formula.

With films aimed at mature audiences gaining in popularity, «My Old Lady» seems like a sure - fire formula for a hit.

In the middle part of Anderson's career (circa «The Life Aquatic» and after), some critics began to complain about the familiar stylized elements of his films being a crutch and formula, diorama - like to the point of aestheticizing the emotions of the story (to be fair, some prescribed elements — the slow motion endings, that Futura font, the expected Kinks or Rolling Stone song — were starting to feel a little mechanical at a certain point).

That movie represents a much more explicit look at the concept of molding a woman in your image of what you want her to be, positioning itself as a rebellion against the manic pixie dream girl tendencies of films like (500) Days of Summer or Garden State, often the result of lazy writing that had a tendency to treat women simply as a formula to complete the man's desires.

It is educational, heartfelt, and adds immeasurably to the enjoyment of the film, although as with New Line's excellent Infinifilm format, my wish is for the studios to reserve such treatment for films that actually deserve it instead of formula dreck with questionable scholarly value like Driven and Blow.

The Zack Snyder formula mentioned usually involves heavy use of slow motion, and most of his films have a particular look to them — like they're all sent through the same filter before reaching the screen.

In recent years we've gotten fresh takes on old formulas with films like The Conjuring and The Innkeepers that gave me hope that horror wasn't lost, but 2014 has been a dire stretch of one weak performer after another and I can only trust that Hollywood is paying attention and will see the tide turn in the near future.

Though director Walter Hill has made his share of fun buddy action films (including «48 Hours» and its sequel), that formula has been run so far into the ground that only a dinosaur like him would think it's still relevant.

Starring comic book movie veterans like Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chris Evans, Idris Elba and Zoe Saldana, the film is really an A-list lineup of talent in a movie that is, for the most part, forgotten in favor of films like «RED» that use a similar star - packed formula.

As the assembly line formula is vigorously, aggressively, tactlessly applied, the film melts down and explodes in their face like a sick, slick hundred - million dollar bukkake.

However, like those two grisly thrillers, I can still compare it to the Usual Suspects and Seven, two films that have developed the formula for many psychological thrillers of the past decade.

Admittedly, the production value has improved with more characterful creature effects and the claustrophobic locations make for more scope for suspense, but the pedestrian direction and tired formula makes the film feel like a TV movie with little in the way of flair or imagination.

The screenplay is gutsy, as Marvel could have just rested on its laurels and continued to churn out formula films like they did with its prior two Phase 2 flicks, Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World, which had a few interesting insular developments but added very little to the overall universe as a whole.

Like so many Hollywood films made today, Dreamcatcher started off promisingly and quickly resorted to formula.

Whereas that film focused more on the couple's budding sexual tension than any tangible extraterrestrial threat, Green and co-writer Jay Basu hew closer to the formula seen in pics like «Independence Day» and «Battle: Los Angeles,» in which U.S. troops are sent to deal with the aliens, albeit indirectly.

From the very beginning, Doctor Strange felt like an outlier in the interconnected men - in - capes world of Marvel Comics, though the character's debut in the equally dense Marvel Cinematic Universe follows the company's film - studio formula closely: Doctor Strange is an origin story, a love story, a framework for vintage pop songs and huge action set - pieces.

But while, for example, Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy certainly don't feel like they're in the same genre, many of the Marvel films do follow a similar formula.

Samuel Fuller spent most of his career in B pictures, creating ultrapersonal, formula - defying films that got little notice from workaday reviewers but impressed sharp critics like Andrew Sarris and Manny Farber.

It's a role that's suited to his weaknesses as an actor and can't district from the film's adherence to formula that his Marvel cohorts like Chris Pratt and Chris Hemsworth have done.

Like Cuarón's film, Birdman soars on a purely cinematic imagination, defying formula, expressing ideas in completely visual ways.

If that sounds like a typical dual - threat formula popcorn and prestige for Smith, its nothing compared to the films adherence to awards - bait bromides.

Granted, it's probably like pointing out that most American slasher films follow the same formula, but still, what's the point in remaking a movie we've already seen?

Fans of the original film may not feel the remake is better, but those who enjoyed the fun that was 2001's Ocean's Eleven, The Italian Job steals the formula like the best of pros.

The formula of Persona, that of two individuals, usually isolated in a setting with which at least one of them is unfamiliar, embroiled in actions and conversation that erode their individual senses of self, has become the gold standard, bubbling back up to the surface in recent films like Certified Copy, or Venus in Fur or this year's The Duke of Burgundy.

Until Dawn is a successful homage to the tried and true formula of the stereotypical slasher film genre, mirroring the likes of the iconic Scream series, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and the recent classic, Cabin in the Woods.

The game received near universal acclaim from reviewers for taking the open world formula and drenching it in the style of classic Western films like A Fistful of Dollars and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.