Sentences with phrase «like earlier movies»

We screened the movie early and people have said it's like his earlier movies.

But like earlier movies, including «Corpse Bride» and the similarly Día de los Muertos - themed «The Book of Life,» «Coco» offers a reminder that skeletons, for all their googly eyes and gorgeous bone structure, are not the most emotionally expressive creatures.

And like that earlier movie, which was confined to a 40 - story Brutalist tower, an edifice in which the tenants descend deeper into savagery, Free Fire takes place almost entirely in one building, a derelict warehouse in Boston where bodies start to pile up.

Not exact matches

Stillerman headed up programming at AMC since 2008, taking on the role early in the TV runs of shows like Mad Men and Breaking Bad, two popular and critically acclaimed series that helped transform AMC from a channel running movies to a destination for premier television.

Like Netflix, Amazon (AMZN) is looking to get into the movie production game, promising earlier this year to eventually churn out around a dozen independent films — with budgets between $ 5 million and $ 25 million — every year.

We're excited that people continued to join Prime this holiday, to take advantage of more fast and free shipping options plus new convenient delivery like Amazon Key, as well as early access to Lightning Deals and unlimited streaming of TV shows and movies, including Prime Originals and more,» stated Jeff Wilke, CEO Worldwide Consumer.

Although Netflix was an early pioneer in online movie streaming, the company faces increasing competition, from powerful incumbent players, content companies and Internet rivals like Comcast, Verizon, Blockbuster / Dish Network, HBO and Amazon.

Its most controversial aspect was the early decision to eschew a screenplay and have the movie follow, Pasolini - like, the Good News Bible's rendition of the Gospel of John word for word.

It was Thanksgiving night last week, and while most American's were in a turkey and pie coma, Scott and I were curled up on the couch with these sweet chocolate - covered - bites - of - heaven watching the Christmas movie, Elf, having recovered from our meal earlier like champs.

Sometimes if I happen to wake up really early for some reason, like 5:00 am, I like to read in bed for a bit, or watch a scary movie early in the morning.

I've since found out they offer freeze pops (sugar, water, food coloring) as a form of hydration, occasionally substitute her afternoon snack with «Special Treats» when they're doing a group activity like watching a movie, vanilla wafers... as early as 9:30 am, donut holes when supplied by a generous parent who tends to do it nearly weekly, and then birthday and holiday party treats (which I knew about but have concerns about frequency and being informed when it's happening so I can adjust her other meals accordingly).

It was the early»80s, and Nixon soon fell into the pack of child actors making after - school specials and message movies like Little Darlings and My Body, My Child, in which she and Sarah Jessica Parker starred as the daughters of a woman — Vanessa Redgrave — agonizing over whether to abort a child with severe birth defects.

I wish that early on I had been more careful with my body when it came to stunts, especially in the silly comedies, like Scary Movie.

I kinda looked at him funny (I know what Yoda looked like in the early movies) and he says, «Yea, Yoda was always going around real slow on a cane.

It started to appear in the early 2000s with books like Odd Girl Out and Queen Bees and Wannabes, the book that the movie Mean Girls is based on.

And I like to get there early not just to get a good seat, but also to watch all of the movie previews.

TD: I think that, just like a lot of movies that came out of the late 70s and early 80s, that was the first and most creative era in WIDESPREAD film - making.

Mark The Shark that was my nick name given to me at a early age from my sister I am kind and I like to sing and play the guitar - I like to cuddle and watch a good movie - i tend to like BBW with a nice figure and Older Women I find the most attractive... if that is you send me an e-mail or chat...

While we learn a fair amount about the movie, we get a few too many superficial moments, such as the reels that feel like «greatest hits» from earlier movies.

As a teen comics fan in the early Eighties, I remember all the talk about a new Batman movie, so I really like the parts about the flick's long development; it's cool to know what was going on behind the scenes while we geeks waited anxiously.

Oblivious to both narrative logic and the laws of physics, the cliché - filled San Andreas doesn't nearly have the star power of earlier, better disaster movies it borrows from like «The Poseidon Adventure,» «Earthquake» and «The Towering Inferno.»

Reitman's early career was much more lauded than his last few movies (though, I'm one of the few who liked «Men, Women and Children») but «Tully» is a true return to what the director does so well.

Its flippant vision of the consumer culture in the late twilight of the 70s is unique — almost equal to Repo Man's early 80s take — and frankly, I would have liked to see it in another movie.

She might have made a movie like Katie Couric's «Under the Gun,» a fact - filled polemic that, despite its good intentions, earlier this year became mired in right - wing accusations of manipulating footage.

To me, this review and the last few comments seem like a complete misreading of the film - based, as one earlier commentator stated, on Haneke's earlier work and his particular way of making movies, rather than the actual movie at hand and its context.

Such is the case of Amour, the movie that brought Mr. Haneke — an Austrian filmmaker who has worked in Austria, Germany, France, and the U.S. — to a place neither devotées nor detractors (and there are plenty of both) likely would have predicted: Accepting an Oscar for Best Foreign Film earlier this year, and giving a U.S. - televised speech in his proficient but careful English (if you didn't catch it, he was like the anti-Roberto Benigni).

In Lee's Bamboozled, he's invoked (alongside many other silent and early - sound - era performers) as a grotesque specter of racist Hollywood representation — the ghost of minstrelsy past — but writers like Mel Watkins and Champ Clark have complicated the issue by suggesting that there was an element of subversion in Perry's subservience — that the shiftless, feckless caricature he inhabited in so many movies was not a capitulation to the viewership (or the filmmakers) but a bold form of ethnic masquerade.

The movie packs a lot in, and the quick pace of early scenes can feel like running on a treadmill, but Belle settles into a nice rhythm.

Rodriguez explained in early interviews that he wanted the movie to feel like any of these stars could be the lead, something that reflects the «87 PREDATOR.

Similar shifts characterize most of Fuller's late films as well as his 1980 novel, which veers from quaint in - jokes — such as naming all the French officers after French film critics who championed his earlier movies, including (Luc) Moullet, (Bertrand) Tavernier, and (Henri) Chapier — to terse epigraphs that suggest the dark poetry of someone like Lautreamont:» «Why are you crying?»

There are not, as yet, many underdog sports movies about volleyball, and the early moments of The Miracle Season make that seem like an oversight.

To be fair to your son, our four - year - old girl — who at the end claimed that she did like it — during the early expository scenes exclaimed loudly, «This movie is dumb.»

The last of Schwarzenegger's early ones, before megastardom called with Conan two years later, this TV movie plays like a 100 minute dream sequence imagined by Naomi Watts» character in Mulholland Drive.

It's like how if you're Jewish, you'll go see Woody Allen's earlier movies, like Manhattan, and you'll really get it on another level.

I'm not quite going to get sucked into the studio yet, I'm not going to try and be too lofty, I'm going to regress a bit emotionally, and make a very hardcore genre flick that's for my former self and the friends that I grew up making movies with who taught me camera techniques, and introduced me to directors like early Peter Jackson and Martin Scorsese.

In the Nineties and the early 2000s, attempts to make black superhero movies tended to play like Blaxploitation - lite, running the gamut from intentionally hilarious (1993's Meteor Man and 1994's Blankman) or hilariously bad (Steel and Spawn, both 1997).

Failing that, however, the movie looks like a powerful and tense ride, and if the early reactions are that good then it will definitely be worth checking out in theaters this fall.

In the movie's early scenes, the queasy feeling that these two don't even like each other is so palpable it leaves a residue of sourness that extends through the rest of the film.

i did not like watching this movie very much in fact thought about walking out on it very early on.

Like Whedon's first «Avengers» movie, Snyder's «Justice League» falls into three parts: the assembling of the team, the team's faltering early battles and internal squabbling, and the slam - bang finish in which — spoiler alert — good triumphs over evil.

To borrow a line from one of Spielberg's earlier movies, it seems like the inventors of the Oasis «were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.»

Some Marvel movies, particularly early on, feel like they were constructed by Marvel Studios going down a list of important bullet points from the comics rather than being a personal work directed by an actual human, but the company does seem good at recognizing the benefit of allowing a filmmaker to put their stamp...

What nearly dampened my enthusiasm was the rabid, unbridled praise from early viewers who were quick to throw out words like «masterpiece» and «the greatest superhero movie ever made».

Many of Stone's earlier movies, as overheated as they sometimes were, did provide an opportunity for energetic hams like James Woods, Tommy Lee Jones and Woody Harrelson to chew the scenery entertainingly.

The film is clearly shot in the early 2000's, but like all great movies still feels timeless despite the passing of time.

There is one perfect moment in Breaking In that one goes to see a movie like Breaking In for and it comes relatively early on.

Even Walton Goggins (who is really great in the movie) feels like a familiar Tarantino character we would have seen from an earlier, better Tarantino movie.

The movie is far, far better than the trailer which was blatantly offensive and made The Help seem like it would be nothing more than a chick flick set in the early 1960s.

Where the film goes from there thankfully isn't as predictable as you might expect, even if «Dean» does feel pretty familiar at times, like an early Woody Allen movie by way of Zach Braff.

Again, this is an element that can work in a kid's movie if it's done properly, like in the early days of the Shrek franchise; but when your ending gag is a tiger ziplining through Vegas, whilst saying «This is the real life of Pi,» you've pretty much given up.