One of the best
lines in the film goes to Lorenzo when he tells Julieta that he may be «turning into one of Patricia Highsmith's obsessive characters» only the real mystery here is why Almodóvar's latest lacks the timbre and matronly mettle it promises.
Not exact matches
This approach would call foul on all sorts of things: Moses wielding a sword but not a staff; Moses being chatty but Aaron having almost no
lines; Moses killing lots of people and fighting
in the Egyptian army; no «staff - to - snake» scene; no repeated utterances of «let my people
go»; no «baby Moses
in the Nile» scene; and every other deviation the
film takes from the narrative
in Exodus 1 - 14.
Set
in 1959, the narrator reflects back on the events from the present, highlighting the novelty of the encounter
in the
film's opening
line: «I was twelve
going on thirteen the first time I saw a dead human being.»
«This
goes in line with the acceleration
in the technology developed by
film line manufacturers with wider and faster machines.
In fact, after the Sooners» coaches studied all their game
film of 1967, Fairbanks said that «our average gain on all plays
going over Kalsu, including short yardage and goal
line plays, is 6.2 net yards rushing... This is what we coaches grade as... near perfection.»
Compared to Malick's sumptuous art
film, Marton's old
Line looks awfully naive, and yet it
goes a great deal further
in grappling with the author's touchy subtext of soldierly love.
If you
go back to 2007 there was this really big
line up for a new
film getting promoted
in my country and was made there called D - War.
In the case of Silver
Linings Playbook, which is one of the best
films of the year, there is a popcorn bowl of glory to
go around.
The kind of character who spouts pithy
lines like, «when science shits the bed, I'm the one they call to change the sheets,» with a smile on his face, Morgan's Russell is a definite winner
in a
film that already has a lot
going for it.
Goold shoots the
film with a fine restraint, never coming off dull or dry
in the two - hander and courtroom scenes and never
going over the
line into exploitative sensationalism for a story about a grisly crime.
There's plenty of interesting and potentially incredible
films hidden
in the 2017
line - up, so let's get
going.
Sam's sudden reappearance
in their lives is further complicated by the onset of the soldier's post-traumatic stress, but
gone are the heavy - handed
lines about the nature of good, evil, and death from Bier's
film.
Perhaps New
Line films are treated differently from Warner ones because though the combo's design is identical to others from the parent company,
Going the Distance does not suffer from the video woes that have become increasingly common from them
in recent years.
, eventually
going so far as to agree to let her life be
filmed 24/7 and broadcast to the world,
going «fully transparent», as she coins it,
in one of the many cheesy sell
lines the movie gives its characters to shill out.
But Marvel, like most major studios with hundreds of millions of dollars on the
line, is not known for calling an audible just prior to production of arguably the most massive tentpole
film in their roster, any more than it's
going to green - light a Black Widow
film until well after Jennifer Lawrence has made one of her own.
Per the
film's trailer, it appears this time returning auteur Adam McKay will be fearlessly tackling the period's race politics with a similarly incisive eye to that he previously brought to bear on gender perception
in the 1970s, and with a laundry list of Hollywood power players
lining up for cameo roles like this is goddamn Altman or something, suffice to say that it's
going to be an effort to stay classy till Christmas, but we're
going to have to try.
In this episode, she begs off the premiere party for the
film Brett worked on,
goes to a bar for some «me» time and winds up meeting a divorced father (John Ortiz, Silver
Linings Playbook).
She
went on to cite a specific
line: «the silent image of woman still tied to her place of bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning,» revealing that the
line triggered a memory that she will use
in her new
film.
It's an agreeable flawed
film,
in other words: Officially reduced to a commentator for blind audience members («Damn, I ripped the fuel
line,» Marty blurts out to a puddle forming beneath the De Lorean), Fox's comic spark is almost out
in this
go «round — and don't get me started on Elisabeth Shue (replacing Claudia Wells
in the sequels as Marty's gal, she turns
in generic work that only aggravates Jennifer's maddening disposability).
I'm a Fantastic Four fan as it is, and I hope bringing the franchise
in line with the X-Men
films, tonally, if not chronologically, will
go a long way toward perhaps getting some of the detractors to change their tune.
Going down the
line in the Director predictions, we can feasibly see a name like Kathryn Bigelow pop up during the precursors for «Detroit,» though the
film's divisive last - third will likely keep her out of the hunt.
This comes after it was revealed actor Spiderman actor Tom Holland improvised the
line «I don't want to
go» before he died
in the arms of Tony Stark — we did warn you about the spoilers — making it pretty clear that directors Joe and Anthony Russo are pretty relaxed about letting actors come up with their own suggestions during the shoot of the
film.
The fear
in 1990 as reflected by the
film is more along the
lines of a surety that we were all
going to kill ourselves, though its themes are so inconsistent and muddled, even down to the lore (do the zombies feel pain?
We see Tommy
go through endless re-takes involving only a few
lines of dialogue, an awkwardly staged sex scene, a scene that has no significance to the rest of the
film, and a suicide
in which the actor writhes on the floor
in pain after shooting himself
in the head.
Elsewhere, one is pleased to see Ida among a foreign
film line - up that includes a rare entry from Estonia, and any mention of the blisteringly exciting Whiplash
goes down well with me: supporting actor JK Simmons must be one of the firmest locks on the award
in Oscar history.
I suppose it's sort of damning with faint praise
in a way, but it's remarkable that some composers seem to emerge from the production
line formerly known as Media Ventures as excellent
film composers
in their own right who
go on to bigger and better things.
The multimedia display of iconic
film costumes opened Wednesday night with a VIP preview, welcoming Oscar - nominated and winning costume designers like Martin Scorsese «s
go - to Sandy Powell, Julie Weiss («Frida»), and the man behind Bradley Cooper «s trash bag look
in «Silver
Linings Playbook», Mark Bridges.
A mess of a
film this one.Plot
lines confused and blurred.It seems to have been made up as they filmed.All the American cliques are there.Ugly brutal men
in a one horse town, yet the place is full of emotionally wounded gorgeous women.The men are macho and the women inconsequential.The acting is rather uneven, veering from impressive,
going down to Benny Hill.This is Cages best role thus far, but his normal low standards means his acting is still below par.The plots descends into a quagmire of nuttiness and by the end is daft romantic nonsense.A tighter script was needed, the director needed to be replaced to stop the
film's plot wandering off
in all directions and finally someone with greater gravitas was needed to take on Nicholas Cage's part...
Ira Levin's novel The Stepford Wives was first
filmed in 1975 by Bryan Forbes — a dark thriller about the lengths the men of the town of Stepford will
go to
in order to keep their wives
in line, with a chilling score by Michael Small; it wasn't a huge success at first but
went on to become something of a cult favourite and had its own kind of cultural impact.
It doesn't matter that nearly all Ben's moments
in the
film are all strictly by the book,
in a strain of gangster humor
going back at least to George Raft's insouciant
line about his lawyers, «all Harvard men,»
in Some Like It Hot.
Well, we know he does because this is based on a true story, and while Zwick does give that 1972 match the appropriate space
in the
film, he's wisely more concerned about the
line between genius and madness, and if it was worth Fischer essentially
going crazy for the world to be gifted with his still unparalleled play.
Went to see it based on the earlier positive review but my opinion of the
film falls more
in line with this one.
Yul Brynner (The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments) may have only five
lines in the
film, but he is brilliant as the gunslinger
gone berserk, chasing after the hapless Richard Benjamin (Love at First Bite, Saturday the 14th) for the latter half of the
film.
The
film loses some of its imaginative pop as the frenetic pacing of Christmas subsides and Arthur decides to
go against the orders of Santa and Steve, who assumes he will be next
in line to take on the mantle of Santa Claus (There's a rich history to the tile, although we have to wonder what happened to Santa Claus the 18th, whose portrait is missing from the wall), to transport Gwen's gift directly to her home.
While it's likely that this will get a better edition down the
line, the
film itself isn't
going to be able to look or sound any better
in HD than it does here.
Poor
line readings often
go hand
in hand with badly written dialogue, but when the stale narration stops and Lively's character and her stilted
line deliveries are pushed into the background of the
film, things immediately improve.
Discussions were
going on
in the
line about the
film actually being real, some even talking about how they heard the bodies of the three filmmakers were never found.
Worst offenders are Stallone's screenplay (which, aside from its tin ear and stunning stretches, unerringly
goes on for one
line too long
in every exchange) and Stallone's decision to have his brother Frank not only provide a handful of remarkably bad songs for the picture but also appear
in the movie
in the most unintentionally hilarious moment, thrusting his guitar like a stringed phallus
in an already unintentionally hilarious
film.
These numbers fall
in line with the early indications that Deadpool 2 was
going to surpass the box office success of the original
film.
There other flubs
in The Next Best Thing (such as a
line where Robert mentions it's the 21st Century
in a scene that,
in the
film's time frame, should be set around 1993; or the fact that Robert's sole love interest, a cardiologist, has no name and is rather comically listed
in the closing credits as «Cardiologist»), but to
go over them would be as pointless an exercise as the entire
film is.
According to a Sony casting call that
went out
in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, Anna Faris is already listed as being the first new cast member on board
in addition to the original
line - up from the first two
films.
In a droll exchange with his former bandmate Ivan Schrank, played by Rhys Ifans, Schrank recalls the old adage «Youth is wasted on the young», to which Greenberg replies, «I'd go further, I'd go life is wasted on... people» — one of the few really funny lines in the film, basically summing up the message of the movi
In a droll exchange with his former bandmate Ivan Schrank, played by Rhys Ifans, Schrank recalls the old adage «Youth is wasted on the young», to which Greenberg replies, «I'd
go further, I'd
go life is wasted on... people» — one of the few really funny
lines in the film, basically summing up the message of the movi
in the
film, basically summing up the message of the movie.
When America
went to war
in 1941 after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hollywood did too: Marquee
film directors, struck by patriotism, became officers overnight and shipped out to the front
lines with cameras, mounting their own propaganda campaigns.
Unfortunately, the paper - thin chain of events that could be called a plot turn our heroes away from playing around
in the sky, and the
film quickly
goes from «Flight of the Navigator» meets «The Fast and the Furious» to a watered - down version of «Behind Enemy
Lines.»
Naturally, there's a lot of playing around with duality, repetition, mirrors, doubles, from the get -
go, and although the
film's not explicitly wrapped up (the ending is a bit of a mystery / clusterfuck) there are a lot of clues and
lines in there; namely that our lead may have a split personality.
The
line of
films I'm grateful to have seen
in 1976
goes clear around the block, especially
in the category of non - ’76 reruns which I have just managed to catch up with.
As
film went on, Heineman was struck by the way
in which the
lines between good and evil became increasingly blurry, and became obsessed with the pursuit of clarity.
Your enjoyment of the
film will primarily depend on what sort of entertainment you're looking for
going in, as it delivers plenty for action junkies, and a decent amount of sex and violence, but somewhere along the
line, Don Winslow's original book gets lost
in place of the more sensational side of things.
But top honors — and surely an Oscar nomination —
go to Robert Mitchum as Eddie Coyle, here denied the customary sardonic heroism that has seen him through previous loser roles (some perfect «Mitchum
lines»
in the novel have been dropped from, or toned down
in, the
film).
They had to make their choices and they didn't
go for the
film except
in the crafts categories (7 nominations, all below the
line).