Sentences with phrase «love with the film despite»

Not exact matches

Despite the best efforts of a game cast (and although it fares much, much better than its immediate predecessor), American Pie Presents The Book of Love primarily comes off as a typically low - rent and flat - out needless straight - to - video endeavor - with the pervasive lack of laughs ultimately exacerbating the film's myriad of problems.

The film is quite personal, despite its slow and insistent historical sweep, and it's co-written by Hansen - Love with her brother Sven, based on his experiences as a DJ in the French house scene.

It achieved success, despite being shown in 811 theaters worldwide and having a relatively low box office gross.The film's love scenes between Colin Farrell's character and the then 14 - year - old Kilcher caused some controversy, resulting in the film studio deleting several scenes with Farrell to avoid child pornography accusations.

And that's important, because despite being a fairly serious film about love, loss and family, «Kubo and the Two Strings» goes about telling its simple but layered story with such child - like optimism that it resonates even stronger as a result.

In the post-Moonlight age (and with nominations this year for gay - themed films such as Call Me By Your Name, or those with mild gay content like Lady Bird), we thought it might be time to look back at 10 LGBTQ movies that despite deserving some Academy Awards love got no Oscar nomination (including one — believe it or not — from 2017!).

The results aren't perfect, but despite its flaws, I've fallen in love with this film.

It's hard to believe that any film that starts so promisingly, with Ryan Phillippe full - on punching Sarah Silverman in the mouth, can go so far downhill, but despite its gonzo and engaging opening half hour, the film soon sinks under its own weight, hampered by thin characterization, ludicrous overplotting and a director way, way too much in love with the prose on the page to bother trying to make it sound like dialogue from a human mouth.

The decades - in the - waiting prequel burst into 3,154 theaters with an estimated $ 38 million, despite the fact that it wasn't loved by critics or audiences — critics gave the film a 20 % approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, while audience gave it 61 %.

Despite having made (many with Emeric Pressburger) some of the greatest — and best - loved - British films of the 1940s (The...

While it's clear that Olive loves Bill (she wouldn't have so much sex with him, live with him, or bear his children if she didn't), the focus of the film is the love between the women, and it is so refreshing — and so true to the spirit of these early feminists — that the film has this perspective, despite it ostensibly being about «the Creator of Wonder Woman.»

And despite the films having very little to do with each other, I always personally associate this film with In the Mood for Love by Wong Kar - wai.

Despite Thomas Pynchon's knack for vivid, cinematic language and his own avowed love of film, his novels haven't exactly proved easy to adapt for the big screen, primarily because they're so densely constructed that any adaptation would be, by its very nature, a dumbing down — and even then you'd still run the risk of ending up with something completely incomprehensible.

Alessandro Nivola gives the best performance in the film with a very funny and endearing display as the reckless and egotistical Gavin Harris, Marcel Iures is a strong presence as the boss and Anna Friel (despite sporting a Geordie accent which tends to wander at a moment's notice) is pretty and effective as the love interest.

About a third of the way into Duck Butter, Miguel Arteta's latest film — co-written by its star, Alia Shawkat — Naima (Shawkat) tells her new love interest Sergio (a woman, despite the male - sounding name, played by Laia Costa) that she once hooked up with a man who had been her pen pal.

One needn't look any further than the obligatory inclusion of Leslie Nielsen (Men with Brooms, Dracula: Dead and Loving It), who looks about as dog - tired as this film plays, and who hasn't been in a good one of these flicks in over a decade despite doing practically nothing but.

Kasdan worked with his wife, Meg Kasdan, on the screenplay, and the film isn't afraid to focus on the love that this family shares, despite their personal failings.

Despite being one of the most successful indies in its native UK (it beat out Mr. Turner, Calvary and The Imitation Game, all films with a much higher profile, for the British Independent Film Award), and a decent theatrical release, I don't feel Pride got much love stateside.

After his tenderly passionate debut Weekend and the strained marriage - in - crisis drama 45 Years — led by British New Wave icons Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling — Andrew Haigh continues his ascendancy into the upper tier of British screen talents with his third film and first transatlantic foray: an exploration of horse - rearing culture in the Pacific Northwest entitled Lean on Pete which, despite its divergent milieu from Haigh's previous works, richly and evocatively expands on his earlier films» themes of companionship, stability and the solemn dignity of love.

Despite the fact that David declares that he has been in love with wife Alice ever since he first spotted her in a film class, he is continually imagining her death via everything from carjackings to «convenient acts of God.»

While I don't have any love for the aforementioned film director, Advance Wars is an entirely different story; despite being a sacrilegious Nintendo property, it made an otherwise complicated strategy genre into an approachable engaging game with a deceptively cute art style to go along with the carnage of war.