Not exact matches
Recalling John Milius» 1982 hit Conan the Barbarian (another film that launched the
cinematic action career of a then - little - known athlete named Arnold Schwarzenegger), the sword - and - sandal adventure raked in 36 million dollars on its
opening weekend and stayed at the top of the box office in the weeks following its impressive debut.Though he would return to the ring for the remainder of 2002, it didn't take Johnson
long to soften on the prospect of a return to the silver screen — and with the following year's The Rundown, he did just that.
Moreover, in what's arguably a more brazen case of
cinematic larceny, director Daniel Espinosa, best - known for the 2012 thriller Safe House, swipes his anti-gravity stylistics from Alfonso Cuarón,
opening the film with a single, very
long, VFX - heavy take that sends the camera around in gentle swoops from character to floating character as the space station itself tumbles slowly around its axis.
A formalist at heart, Emerson will spend weeks at a time analyzing isolated aspects of
cinematic style:
opening shots, close - ups,
long - take staging.
The
opening cinematic is gorgeous, colorful, surreal, wacky, and mesmerizing, and after watching it I knew that as
long as the gameplay was good I'd be hooked.
The end credits of Knights of the Fallen Empire can
longer overlap with the transition into the
opening cinematic of Knights of the Eternal Throne Chapter I.
A
long and
cinematic opening sequence...