Sentences with phrase «make terrific movies»

They would also make terrific movies.

Many are convinced that their books would make terrific movies, and spend time and money trying to bring their stories to the silver screen.

There's no doubt they would make terrific movies, with their vivid characters (both human and dragon), their exciting battle scenes and their lush and varied historical settings.

Sorry Laika: you make terrific movies, but we've got to call you out on this.

Black Panther director Ryan Coogler made a terrific movie about boxing two years ago with one of the actors from the Marvel movie, Michael B Jordan.

Not exact matches

The language is foul and there is no shortage of violence but the terrific performances make for a very humourous and memorable buddy movie.

Director Ryan Coogler, who wrote the script with Joe Robert Cole, has made only two much smaller movies before — Fruitvale Station and Creed, both terrific — and had given us no indication that he could handle action fantasy like this... and he does a magnificent job.

The cast is terrific, and there are a couple of sequences that made me laugh out loud, but the movie as a whole is baffling.

The movie makes terrific use — more than once — of Led Zeppelin's «Immigrant Song,» which formed the basis of the brilliant trailer for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo several years back.

Director Jonathan Demme has an impossibly rich CV of female empowerment («Married to the Mob»), musical euphoria («Stop Making Sense») and failed American dreams («Melvin and Howard»), and this movie lets him do everything he's terrific at.

But director Patty Jenkins pulled off a minor miracle by giving the Amazonian princess a terrific origin story wrapped up in a fast - paced and well - made movie.

Reynolds has not only succeeded, he (along with a big - budgeted production, a great director and the returning screenwriters (Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, and himself) have made a terrific, exhilarating movie.

This is not quite enough of a conceit to sustain a full - length movie — «Paul» would have made a terrific short film — but there are incidental pleasures all along the way.

There's a terrific story inside this well - made but bloated movie, as if director - cowriter Crowe simply couldn't figure out which elements he most cared about, so he included everything.

Packed with surprising revelations, the movie makes terrific use of shady American espionage agencies and villainous...

Here are my favorite lines from this terrific film, widely considered to be one of the greatest American movies ever made.

Part of this triumph of meaning over style is surely Sunday's point, but it also suggests that, like von Trier, Nossiter is capable of making only half a terrific movie.

The movie is competently made and there are definitely signs that Sheridan could grow into a terrific director, but he's not yet operating at the same level as Villenueve or Mackenzie.

Eva Longoria plays Kate's friend Theresa, and her relationship with husband Bobby (a terrific Mel Rodriguez) would have made a far superior movie to what is presented here.

It's a perfect movie, made with technical brilliance and performed by a terrific cast.

An amazing film, from the battle scenes ripped off by Spielberg in Saving Private Ryan, to the Noh influences in make - up, costume and acting, the brilliant use of color, and the terrific, non-method acting, especially by Nakadai and Mieko Harada, who as a combination Lady MacBeth, Edmund character is one of the great movie villains of the 80s.

There's nothing there that makes Shanghai look like a disaster, and in fact the many reviews from releases of the film outside the US suggest that Shanghai is fine — not a terrific movie, not a horrible one.

Certainly tears are part of the grieving / healing / accepting process, but tear - jerking by filmmakers is not enough to make up for deficiencies elsewhere, any more than an abundance of terrific action choreography makes up for a lack of character development in a martial arts movie.

If Iannucci only made movies about idiotic pols for the rest of his days, I would be completely fine with that, especially when he's got a terrific cast like this one at this disposal.

It's a terrific film, one that shatters stereotypes about race and gender in tentpole blockbusters, explores important ideas about black culture and Afrofuturism, and is a genuinely fun, well - made movie to boot.

Teen girls have made terrific subjects for movies lately (I'm thinking of The Edge of Seventeen, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, and Eighth Grade, which premiered at Sundance in January), but there's still a persistent bias against the idea that serious filmmaking would center on teen girls.

Just as the wonderful Whiplash wrings terrific drama and tension from the unlikely world of jazz drumming, you'd be hard - pressed to make a pitch for a thrilling movie to be made about the cut - throat world of the domestic heating oil business, but JC Chandor has done just that with his third feature.

But since the evacuation of the 338,000 men across the English Channel isn't really depicted in Darkest Hour, the two movies don't so much compete directly in terms of telling a story — but they do enhance and compliment each other and make a terrific double feature seen back - to - back.

Giamatti did a terrific job with what could have been a thankless role and comes extremely close to making the movie about his character instead of the titular magician.

Smart dialogue intersperses a by - committee soap opera plot in a movie made better than the sum of its shaky narrative by three terrific actors.

About two minutes of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which opens Friday in Bay Area theaters, shows that, at some point, a terrific Ben Affleck Batman movie could have been made.

Just recently on the GameCritics.com podcast, we talked about how many eighties action movies would make terrific IPs for games and how it was near criminal that there isn't a Big Trouble in Little China video game.

With as many great movies as the Coens have made, surely «True Grit» is among their most broadly accessible without losing the dark edge and technique that makes them so terrific.

The movie was far from successful at the box office last holiday, but my prediction is that this home video release could very well make this terrific film a new Christmas classic.

Ellen, I think it would make a terrific TV movie... any bids??

She's not only a terrific author, her books have been optioned and are currently being made into a Hollywood movie.

Currently, Paramount is talking about Roses Are Red that I think has the makings of a terrific movie.

I thought the screenplay was terrific, but nobody would make the movie, finding it too technical, too chaotic and too fast - moving.

For a pair of closed - back headphones (which, mercifully, doesn't leak out much sound at all), these do a terrific job of making music, movies, and games sound wide and expansive.