Sentences with phrase «made film of this ilk»

But much like Babe or even the Shiloh films, a decently made film of this ilk will surprise grown - ups in how successfully they can transfix their target audience.

Not exact matches

Thematically, this is family friendly stuff, of the Ron Howard Apollo 13 ilk, and the film's visual power, featuring the work of Scott's returning DoP Dariusz Wolski, makes this 3D space epic seem superbly outfitted.

As an episode of «Twilight Zone» or any one of its ilk, this would have made for a fascinating shorter film, and would not have suffered from the heavy padding and flaccid side stories that bog all momentum down to a crawl.

Along with its Rambo pedigree, Homefront definitely feels like a film that would have been par for the course as a release in the 1980s, when Stallone himself, along with Arnie, Chuck Norris, Van Damme, and the rest of the Expendables ilk, would all make films with this very basic formula.

Good performances by the main actors does make it a cut above most horror films if its ilk (though Joe Anderson's German accent is far from authentic), and there is a very effective creep factor involved in the choice of antagonist, a wildly growing, mimicking plant that can grab, infest and devour its victims in the most grisly and stomach churning ways possible.

Just as other films of its ilk (The Phantom, The Shadow), the updating of the material involves keeping the core of what makes the Green Hornet the Green Hornet, while stuffing it into a modern - day action and comedy style.

Where this film lacks in comparison to his other earlier films of a similar ilk is it is missing that gut punch moment, that moment that forces you to make a judgment on the character (a really good example of this is Jason Patric «s nausea - inducing takedown of Catherine Keener «s character in Your Friends and Neighbors).

Roger Corman and his ilk became the leaders of cheap and fast film - making.