Sentences with phrase «little more alien»

After that film's mediocre box office return and slightly above - average critical reception, 20th Century Fox and director Ridley Scott decided to make its sequel a little more Alien - like to please fans.

Not exact matches

Thus did Newman's view of development pose one final, necessary challenge: the need to take seriously the institutional Church, a notion alien to my evangelical world, where a «high» view of the Church typically meant little more than attending morning and evening services on a Sunday.

But as modern wellness gets a little self - serious and oversexed, there's a certain comfort in these things that are more New Age than new: the sprouts that taste like crunchy water, the dusty spices in the mock - tuna salad, the aliens, the old newspaper clippings.

Want something a little more, ahem, tactile, then nip over to Makes and Takes and check out these fun aliens!

The blockbuster beats are a little alien to a series of unrelenting explanation, but Yates offers a firm hold, interested more in the discomfort of violence than a fist - pumping routine.

In retrospect, it is a little hard to take Hackman all that seriously in this film, when he was about three years away from getting his butt kicked by a flying alien in tights, but make no mistake, in this film, he's a good deal more groovy than Queens» «Another Bites the Dust»... if not the term «groovy».

Actually, he reminds me more than a little of Darkseid, the superhuman alien villain that the late Jack Kirby created for DC.

These little toys were more of a»90s favorite, but they began production in the late»80s; the Micro Machines catalogue includes play - sets for tons of flicks that fall under the «genre fiction» category, from Aliens to Indiana Jones to Men In Black.

Little is known about how Captain Marvel will adapt this storyline, outside of the fact that it takes place in the 90s, but it's interesting that the movie will draw more attention to two alien races that are vitally important to Annihilation.

Back in September, Ridley Scott ruled out the possibility of the Xenomorph making an appearance in Prometheus 2, and now the filmmaker has been speaking a little more about the sci - fi sequel, stating that he intends on reintroducing «a fresher form of alien.»

Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant recently released a fun synthetics teaser but here's three more that are a little more straightforward.

The Watch The usual aliens invading earth scenario, however made a little more silly, and real.

«Alien Covenant» almost completely gives itself over to the scary stuff; director Ridley Scott dredges up a little of the «Prometheus» balloon juice (this film is a direct follow - up to that prequel), but he's more interested in an interstellar version of «Friday the 13th,» with a respectable ensemble of actors as the camp counselors and various fanged slimeballs filling in for Jason Voorhees.

I'm liking the alien designs but the human faces seem a little too plastic, but we'll see how they turn out with more polish.

With numerous pop - cultural references, movie references, one - liners, visual gags and spoofs that parodied Hollywood and fairytales: Far, Far Away (Hollywood), Burger Prince (Burger King), Farbucks (Starbucks), Versarchery (Versace), Olde Knavery (Old Navy), Saxon Fifth Avenue (Saks Fifth Avenue), Gap Queen (Gap Kids), Tower of London Records (Tower Records), Friar's Fat Boy (Big Boy), Baskin Robinhood (Baskin Robbins), Banana Kingdom (Banana Republic), Marilyn Monroe's infamous pose from The Seven Year Itch (1955)- when Fiona's dress blows up, Meet the Parents (2000), Ghostbusters (1984), Mission: Impossible (1996), Alien (1979), Flashdance (1983), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), Spider - Man (2002), From Here To Eternity (1953), The Little Mermaid (1989) and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and even more, such as Joan Rivers» red - carpet appearance, and the TV show Cops (parodied as KNIGHTS).

Now a new trailer has appeared and it's bringing us more of the same vibe — a little bit WALL - E, a little Minority Report, a hint of War of the Worlds, a nod to Alien 3 and Pitch Black, some dashes of the video games Portal and Half - Life — a little bit of everything sci - fi really.

She's Ella Swenson (Olivia Wilde), who knows something about Jake before he does and hides a secret of her own, which only ultimately furthers exposition about the alien invaders (The aliens themselves have a few anatomical curiosities, mainly a chest cavity that splits to reveal a second set of arms, but amount to little more than big, green men).

Mara is the revelation, investing Therese with a very gentle witchiness that makes Carol's description of her as «flung out of space» all the more appropriate: she is a little bit of an alien.

Such is the set - up for 10 Cloverfield Lane, an extremely clever sort - of - sequel to the 2008 hit Cloverfield, itself a nifty little gem of a found - footage mockumentary in which a monstrous alien destroyed New York (and maybe more).

Sadly, this is also the final film in the Alien series that I even claim to be part of the story, as subsequent entries do little more than destroy almost every facet that made the first two films so wonderful to behold.

Those speeches, combined with all of the other combat movie cliches found in Battle: Los Angeles, reveal the film to be little more than a traditional war film disguised as an alien invasion flick, tailor - made for a generation of kids raised on first - person shooters and jitter - inducing energy drinks.

The plot had a little bit of everything — high school comedy, sci - fi aliens, somehow feeling a little like Urusei Yatsura but with more of a current shonen flair to it.

With more than a little inspiration from Ridley Scott's Alien - not to mention a dash of John Carpenter's The Thing - the developers at Visceral were out to make the game as terrifying as possible, trapping players in quiet corridors with some of the most horrific enemies in gaming.

Hopeless botch job Aliens: Colonial Marines has received another major patch on PS3 and Xbox 360, which promises to «better protect save data,» fix «some» of the erratic Alien animations and generally polish the turd a little bit more.

The little green men you rescue will also crop up more frequently but this time they are on parachutes and you must stop aliens from attacking them and ensure their safe landing to get points.

The popular alien turn - based strategy game from 1993 got itself a 21st century makeover complete with plasma - injected cut - scenes that show more than a little gore.

Even destroying hoards of spiders, zombies, lizard people, and aliens can get a little bit old when there's not much more to the fight than cookie - cutter enemies, random weapon spawns, and a blood spattered field.

It doesn't ruin the experience, it just makes you wish The Creative Assembly were a little more focused in its desire to pay tribute to Alien.

His very few last works, while ill and living with his parents back in California, manage little more than the fantasy, in what might represent plants, space aliens, or nothing at all.

Hardest to miss was Kevin Berlin's spectacle «Alien Invasion,» which found the PT Barnum - like Berlin herding a glam squad of 6 - foot - tall girls wearing little more than thongs, green body paint, antennae and brandishing light - up ray guns around the pavilion.

I will admit that you are far more creative than I. I would have come up with something less plausible, like mischievous little aliens in another galaxy trying to scare us into thinking we are going to overheat by turning some kind of undetectable ray on us, quasiperiodically.

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It might seem alien at first, but there's little need to be sceptical: the Mi Mix 2 wraps all the home comforts of an Android flagship in an altogether more affordable device, without compromising the design.

It might seem alien at first, but there's little need to be sceptical: the Mi Mix 2 wraps all the home comforts of an Android flagship into an altogether more affordable device, without compromising the design.