Sentences with phrase «majority of films made»

Princess Cyd only occasionally stumbles into melodrama with the majority of the film made up of subtle moments between characters.

Not exact matches

While the level of edginess or rauchiness has greatly varied from film to film, the vast majority lack even the slightest degree of subtext, which is ultimately what made Landis» work distinctive and subversive.

Unlike the vast majority of his contemporaries, however, he could truly act as well as make music, delivering superb, natural performances in films for directors like Martin Scorsese, Sam Peckinpah, and John Sayles.

The majority of this film is made tolerable by Farrell's second emotionally convincing performance in a row (following «Saving Mr. Banks»).

Fight fans should know, though, that bouts only make up the opening and closing rounds of the film, with the majority of Southpaw following Hope's sudden, tragic, decline and subsequent personal rehabilitation.

Nostalgia and movie sequelitis are the two main ingredients that invite back the majority of films from yesteryear looking to make a big screen impact yet again.

Mosab's father, however, still believes him a traitor and has disowned him much like the majority of Palestinians, a point Schirman makes a bit too much on the nose by having Mosab deliver a lengthy speech near the film's end, culminating in choking back and wiping away tears.

Writer / director Martin McDonagh - making his debut here - has infused the majority of In Bruges with a deliberately - paced, overly talky sensibility that undoubtedly reflects his background as a playwright, and it's certainly difficult not to admire the fervor with which both Farrell and Gleeson tackle their respective characters and the film's ample dialogue (the actors» heavy accents does make it difficult to make out every word, admittedly).

I think that's one of the things that makes it rewatchable; you can appreciate the majority of the film, and just roll your eyes at the Hollywood ending.

Lesley Coffin: I read in the film's press notes that a majority of the crew was made up of women.

Whenever I see «inspired by a true story» in the credits, I translate that to mean that the idea for the film may be based on a real person, but the majority of the story and its characters are fictitious and made - up for dramatic purposes.

Now, though, eight films in (the majority of them, after the second, made from non-franchise scripts retooled for franchise inclusion), the puzzle box seems to fall into the hands of not archaeologists of pleasure, but hard - bodied co-eds who aren't interested in discovering new, unknown experiences so much as shitting around in the usual slasher - film fashion and accidentally freeing some wise - cracking, cosmic hook - wielding genie.

However, given that the subject is, to say the least, touchy, the fact that this film was even made is worthy of at least some kudos to Maher for having the guts to potentially offend the vast majority of people in the country, and perhaps the world, with his expression of doubt in their beliefs and his own belief that, though many individuals have found great benefit from the ancient scriptures, religion ultimately does more harm than good when looking at it in its totality from a global historical scale.

Simien's film takes place at Winchester University, a predominantly white, prestigious university where we're introduced to six significant characters: Sam White (Tessa Thompson), the biracial activist who overcompensates her blackness; Lionel Higgins (Tyler James Williams), the black homosexual who lives in an all - white residence building, and feels little sense of belonging; Colandrea «CoCo» Conners (Teyonah Parris), the white - washed blogger who acknowledges racism yet chooses to ignore it in fear of non-acceptance from the white majority; The Dean (Dennis Haysbert), who has worked hard his whole life solely to over-emphasize his superiority and intelligence towards white corporate men, specifically the president of Winchester; The Dean's son Troy (Brandon Bell), who spends his college career doing things to make his father happy and impress the white majority; and Kurt Fletcher (Kyle Gallner), the privileged, ignorant son of the President of Winchester.

The camaraderie of past films that the majority of the actors have developed over the years is what makes Hotel Transylvania an enjoyable film.

It's good to look at these lists to remind ourselves that since the majority of films are made by men, so too is the work that's considered both the funniest and the best.

He makes sure that for the majority of the film, he won't be your buddy.

The film also weaves in lots of scenes that are meant to make us think that Barnum was the first 21st century - style «woke» white straight man in America — a goodhearted fellow who gave circus jobs to outcasts of one kind or another (talk about a big tent: the repertory company includes African - Americans, little people, giants, conjoined twins and a bearded lady), not just because they happened to possess certain talents or physical characteristics that Barnum could exploit (often by appealing to the majority's prurient interests or bigotries) but because the onetime poor boy Barnum sees himself in their striving, and wants to build a theatrical - carnival arts utopia in America's largest city with help from his new partner, rich kid turned playwright Philip Carlyle (Zac Efron).

Outdoor sequences, which make up the majority of this film, are colorful and detailed without bleeding.

The vast majority of stars opted to wear black in solidary with with Time's Up — the movement launched following the sexual harassment scandal which engulfed Hollywood after an avalanche of allegations were made against film producer Harvey Weinstein.

The majority of the film has been done in front of a greenscreen, and Snyder has to be given credit for somehow making an $ 80 million film look like it had twice the budget.

Famously, and infamously, the majority of the films of Sam Peckinpah were made — and unmade — in the editing room.

Yet it is the drastically different ways in which these two stories are told that makes the films stand apart from one another — and from the majority of feature films currently in multiplexes.

A summer movie event that has literally been a decade in the making, Avengers: Infinity War is the new capstone of Marvel Studios» ambitious master plan to bring the majority of their comic book heroes to cinematic life — not in separate, stand - alone films, but rather in an intricate web of interlocking narratives, each of which features various plot points and isolated moments (some buried within or after the closing credits) that have laid the groundwork for the events depicted here.

Unlike the majority of time - travel films, it doesn't make the mistake of having the travellers acclimatise easily to their new environment — Thibault and André remain confused innocents throughout, constantly amazed at the wonders of modern life.

There's some 2D effects that act as effective anchoring points to the film's depth and projection, which make up the majority of the film's blurriness factor.

With Falk and Arkin doing the majority of the heavy lifting, filled to the brim with one memorable sequence one after the other, without a doubt this is one of the great buddy comedies ever made, and for those who have never seen it I suggest giving the film a look right away.

The majority of Joe Swanberg's directorial career has been making micro-budget indie films such as Kissing on the Mouth, LOL, and Hannah Takes the Stairs, which many consider to be early pioneers of the mumblecore (yes, I said it) movement.

This is what makes his first and only feature, Martha Marcy May Marlene, such a brilliant exercise in psychological terror, and despite the fact that it's neither a horror film nor much of a thriller, it generates a more foreboding sense of dread than a majority of the most recent entries in either of those genres.

Wholly unsurprisingly, Rob Schneider and Adam Sandler top the list, joining Ashton Kutcher and Kevin James in having had the majority of the films they've made panned.

A majority of the films they program at the festival are small features made on extremely limited budgets that become the breakout project for many people.

Once these premises appear, Loach spends the majority of each film illustrating how the current economic system makes achieving these goals hugely difficult.

2 disappointed the majority of fans, mainly because Tarantino is the kind of director who refuses to make the same film twice.

Since the move to digital made it so much easier to simply lay down temporary music, something the director feels is a good match to the film they're shaping, the pernicious effect of pre-existing music has leeched into the vast majority of scores.

Making the prospect of more Shades even likelier is the film's heavily female (75 percent) and majority under 30 (55 percent) audience, a once - dismissed demographic group whose power at the box office continues to grow.

A disappointment surely tied to copyright limitations, the subtitles and closed captions do not provide song lyrics, making them of little use for the majority of the film.

Because a majority of the film's premise has Caleb literally testing Ava to see if she has the capacity to be human, the audience is focused in on every word she says and motion she makes.

Eiji Ishida: I decided to make Antarctica the stage for this game to pay respects to the vaunted tradition in science - fiction disaster films where the majority of the «unprecedented danger» starts in Antarctica.

The platforming which makes up the majority of the experience is actually pretty good, but the brief length, easy difficulty and puzzling deviations from the film all take away from the game and leave it feeling underwhelming.

The majority of the sculptures on show resemble ritualistic totems that reflect the seasons and echo the figures and clothing found in ancient Japanese theatre (that was also appropriated by David Byrne of Talking Heads for his famous «big suit» during the band's Stop Making Sense concert film made in 1984).

This is why the vast majority of science and environmental and nature film - making is so painfully bo - ho - ho - ring.

These thin - film solar panels are becoming more common, although traditional glass - or laminate - coated panels continue to make up the majority of the solar panel market.