Sentences with phrase «like films the material»

Not exact matches

«Thin films of metals like iron, cobalt, and nickel, unlike 2 - D van der Waals materials, are structurally imperfect and susceptible to various disturbances, which contribute to a huge and unpredictable spurious anisotropy,» said Gong.

Thin films are coated with molecule - thin layers of materials like zinc, silicon, nitrogen, and so on.

While small amounts of materials like zinc or silicon are required to produce thin film devices, Cadien says the costs are not insignificant — they can come in at $ 500 or $ 600 per gram and the current processes are wasteful, dosing surfaces with anywhere from 100 to 10,000 times the molecules required.

Here, the fingerprint material acts like a mask or stencil, blocking an electric current that is used to deposit a coloured electro - active film.

Then, they etched the nanoparticles off the film; the resulting interconnected pores — called «mesopores» because of their size — cause the otherwise stiff material to behave somewhat like a sponge.

In their work with films of DXPs and other organics, researchers found that two problems prevented the films from acting like good MR materials.

«That makes the material very pliable and adaptable — like cling film (or «plastic wrap» as it's also known).

With source material like Oscar Wilde, it's difficult for a film like A Good Woman not to come across as a winner in many aspects.

Goodman's film, while stressing Timothy McVeigh's virtually one - man show in accumulating the needed materials for a bomb which he detonated on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, spends almost half of its ninety - eight minutes giving the backdrop — not way back to third - party structures like the anti-Catholic Know Nothing movement of 1855 but stretching to the mischief - making of two of McVeigh's forefathers.

Like two of the year's other standout American films, Kelly Reichardt's «Old Joy» and Ryan Fleck's «Half Nelson,» it's a movie of ideas in which the ideas flow effortlessly out of the material instead of being plastered on top with a heavy cement roller (as in «Crash,» «Babel» and «Little Children»).

Running 131 minutes, this film of limited consequence still goes dragged out, with excess filler and material that, rather than livening things up, allows you to further meditate upon things like the natural shortcomings and sentimentality, through all of the genuinely strong aspects.

The Kite Runner is one of the best books I've ever read, but the film version, while very faithful, acts like a Coles Notes for those with really short attention spans, or a «Disneyfication» of the source material.

The finished entity feels like a rip - off of a film that ripped - off several rip - offs of Carter's own ancient source material.

After all, the 71 - year - old French auteur, whose film Beau Travail remains one of the great works of the last few decades, has taken an especially grim turn as of late, with movies like Bastards, White Material and The Intruder exploring some of the darker sides of contemporary humanity.

Not only are these scenes a lot longer and more expository than they need to be, but they give the sense of a film crew fighting against the material; the camera chases after the story, rather than grabbing it by the scruff of the neck like a proper adaptation would.

Of course, there doesn't need to be this extra level: perhaps audiences are sick of wiseacre quasi-adult material in family animations, but I felt that Kung Fu Panda 2 was essentially gentle, like the last film.

Don't expect a film like the first one, but expect something familiar with added material to give it some form of originality.

Don't get it twisted, I like those films, choppy editing and all, its just that they has strayed SO far from the brilliant source material.

«Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1» (2010) Box Office Take: $ 960m 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 22 Like many of the titles that languish in the mid-table doldrums here, our issues with «Deathly Hallows Part 1» are similar to those of the «Hobbit» movies: its misshapenness is a factor of trying to spin too little material into too many films.

This time out the film is set in China, so the Middle Eastern inflections of the first score are gone, to be replaced by stuff about as Chinese as Klaus Badelt's The Promise, but like that score it's not hard to enjoy this sort of material as a kind of guilty pleasure.

Despite his antagonistic role in the source material, it looks like Drumm will be a good guy in the film.

But I kept telling the studio, and I kept telling Ryan, I'm like, «No, the director's cut going to come in at like 2:12,»» Leitch explained about his rough cut of the film before elaborating that the extended version contains a montage of Deadpool attempting suicide, some extra material with Domino and alternate takes of existing scenes with different dialogue.

Knowing the source material, I wanted to like this film, the possibilities of how film could open this material up and delver deeper while also utilizing film techniques to condense while exploring different facets of the lyrics were endless.

Filmed in India, «Meru» casts aside other trivia like how the three get several hundred pounds of climbing materials to the base of the mountain.

As expected, this is a visually stunning film filled that looks very much like the source material.

The film didn't do this, as it failed to get to the real person and spent all its time on surface material and marriage spats that looked like artificial acting devices even though the actors had a good screen chemistry together.

While worse films have been able to rely on the cast to lift the material up, the script behind Show Dogs is so lead lined that not even normally charming actors like Will Arnett, Chris Bridges, or even Stanley Tucci, are able to bring this one up from the floor.

Essentially, then, this is a stop through (mostly) all of Linklater's feature films, with the usual testimonials from famous collaborators (Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Jack Black, Patricia Arquette) and fans (Jonathan Demme, Kevin Smith), accompanying some admittedly interesting archive material, although said material tends to be stuff anyone with old DVDs of the likes of Dazed and Confused will have seen already.

The happiest of matrimonies the film presents is that between the director and his source material; Stillman, who established himself as a master of upper - caste repartee with films like Metropolitan (90) and The Last Days of Disco (98), feels more at home in Austen's wit - driven world than ever before.

Bold colours, costumes, Austrian pop music (Naked Lunch mix the soundtrack), devilish performances, and candid material seek to match this film with the likes of other psycho - thrillers, such as the work of Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson, Drive, Only God Forgives) and even the deftly affecting films of Alejandro González Iñárritu (21 Grams, Babel, Biutiful).

Amidst those early signs of viewer interest (Blade), franchise launches (X-Men), moments of director / source material synergy (Raimi's Spider - Man) and 18 or so MCU films, Deadpool is recognizable as a triumph of perseverance and (baby) hand - in - glove casting, as well as proof that R - rated superheroing is viable at the box office (which in turn smoothed the way for more serious takes like Logan).

White Materials Kurt [LIKED]-- A great title for an OK film that felt somewhat unfinished.

About his ability to marshal big egos there can be little doubt, but his camera bobs all over the axis of action like a first - year film student, and he shows almost no command of tone, reducing the material's vaguely satirical detours into perversion (incest!

The movie's unexpectedly goofy sense of humor helps to keep things light, and the actors do a good job with the material they've been given, but «Beautiful Creatures» doesn't feel like it was made by a studio that loved the books, but rather the idea of success that a film adaptation might bring — all business and no soul.

Borrowing from Takashi Miike's Audition (seminal J Horror film) source material, Nicolas Pesce had time to dress, finesse his highly anticipated sophomore film and boy did he deliver with what comes across as a Cronenberg's Crash like love story featured in hotel room spaces rather than car wreckage and works as an homage to a plethora of influential filmmakers including De Palma and the Giallo set.

Movie producers are again turning to Broadway for source material for blockbusters, thanks to the mega-success of film adaptations like Mamma Mia and Les Miserables.

Too often «unfilmable» is an excuse for poor source material, where recent works like Cosmopolis illustrate that a perfectly fine film is undercut by a perfectly appalling narrative drawn word - for - word from the source material.

He's been a leading man of film for less than twenty years, aging slowly and gracefully while appearing in a varied array of material for the likes of Steven Soderbergh, the Coen Brothers, and himself.

Plus, it comes with hours of bonus material, like vintage MGM shorts and cartoons, audio commentary by Frank Sinatra Jr. on «Robin and the 7 Hoods» and «Ocean's 11» (alongside Angie Dickinson), featurettes for «Guys and Dolls,» and a 32 - page photo book with movie stills and behind - the - scenes photos from each film.

So pairing the writer - director with equally audacious source material seems like a win - win combination, as Garland takes a budget nearly quadruple that of his last film to adapt Jeff VanderMeer's head - trip novel of the same name, the first in his Southern Reach trilogy.

The character's step - by - step process of fixing his inadequacies would be rousing montage material in another, simpler romance (perhaps like the ones Gordon - Levitt parodies in the film, starring the likes of a humorously clock - punching Channing Tatum and Anne Hathaway).

Noted Marchetti: «As we get closer to the home video / digital release, we'll be releasing new trailers and new materials to make sure the genre fans, who love to collect films like this, know what kind of wild ride they're in store for.»

WHY: Much like writer / director Peter Landesman's previous films («Kill the Messenger,» «Parkland»), «Concussion» is a middling, fact - based story that feels disconnected from its own material.

In the hotel that Colleoni calls home, the furniture is too kitsch and gaudy; the messy marital home of Pinkie looks like a badly put together and unauthentic theatre stage; and the incorporation of bikers doesn't work because Joffe is unable to escape the fact that the source material lends itself to film noir.

Not many of the films that had their world premieres at Toronto felt like best - picture material.

«Star Trek» borrowing from itself is fine (see a good use of ideas from «The Voyage Home» in «Beyond»), but the second J.J. Abrams film plunders «The Wrath of Khan» like Doctor Frankenstein's assistant seeking raw monster material.

It gives the idea of consumerism run wild the short shrift that it deserves (and the cynicism that an intervening quarter - century demands), touching on the original's explanation of the zombies» affinity for the shopping mall and the human heroes» delight at their newfound material wealth before becoming a bracing action film that, like Marcus Nispel's reworking of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the source of which didn't need updating as much as Dawn arguably did), is more firmly entrenched in the James Cameron Aliens tradition than the Seventies institution of disconcerting personal horror film.

«The original material of the novel is such a great story and it has so much to give, then, like a lot of stories that we revisit in the industry, it lends itself very easy to a wider interpretation,» says Natalie Dormer of Amazon's adaptation of Picnic At Hanging Rock, which of course was also a seminal film from director Peter Weir back in 1975.

I like Luc Besson's films, especially his 90s material.

«Certain Women» Hearing a Kelly Reichardt movie described as «divisive» is a little like hearing water described as «wet»: she's a filmmaker whose slow, studied style and dispassionate, cool - to - the - touch approach gains her advocates and detractors in roughly equal measure: our Sundance reviewer found the film «utterly enthralling» and a display of «Reichardt in full command of the material.»