Sentences with phrase «making creature movies»

There's no one better right now making creature movies, and Del Toro made such a great one you can't hate on the fact that he's the frontrunner to win the Oscar in this category.

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Universal was making real cheesy movies like Revenge of the Creature from the Black Lagoon (sic).

Despite their appearance, Susuwataris are good creatures in the movie, mainly they make sure that the family that is moving into the new house is composed of good people.

Make it a family movie night with the beloved blue creatures in the fully animated, all - new take on The Smurfs when Sony Pictures Animation's SMURFS: THE LOST VILLAGE debuts on digital June 20 and on 4K Ultra HD / Blu - ray + Digital, Blu - ray + Digital and DVD July 11th.

In contrast to the images from Frankenstein movies, the man - made creature would barely eke out an existence in the pampered confines of a laboratory flask.

Looking more like a creature out of a Steven Spielberg movie than one of our closer primate relatives, Callithrix saterei made its official debut as a new species of marmoset in 1996.

Reuniting disaster - resistant star Dwayne Johnson with his «San Andreas» director, this brainless big - screen monster - smash movie assumes that audiences want to see the Rock stop three enormous mutant creatures from destroying American metropolises, when in fact, it's the gleeful prospect of witnessing just that kind of spectacular CG devastation that gave the game its name — and presumably got the movie made.

A light - hearted monster movie that offers up plenty of laughs, Lake Placid is still a really fun and well - made creature feature that doesn't ever treat its characters - or the audience - like morons.

The narrative's shift into its comparatively uneventful midsection, which mostly follows the protagonists as they walk through the Shimmer and make interesting / horrifying discoveries, suffers from a somewhat hit - and - miss feel compounded by an overlong running time (ie portions of the second act could've used some trimming), with the movie benefiting substantially from a continuing emphasis on sequences of a thoroughly engrossing nature (eg the crew is attacked by a vicious hybrid creature).

Fittingly, Magee adapts the skills he learned on past creature crews to make his first turn in the director's chair a tour de force, with creature design and practical effects that rival the best of the big budget movies going today.

The original 2001 movie starred Justin Long and Gina Philips as a brother and sister who run across a creature known as the Creeper, who feasts on body parts to make it part of its own.

The «Graboids» make for very interesting creatures and this movie chooses to leave their origins unexplained.

I like to enjoy the characters in a comedy but in this movie the two parents are just always fighting, the two kids are just wretched little creatures, and all the people around them just always give bad advice and make their lives even more difficult.

This makes for a good action adventure movie, with a mysterious island, inhabitants other island creatures, and the charm of New York City.

The biggest flaw B Movie monster movies make is showing their monster too early, killing off the suspense of wanting to see what the creature looks like.

Giant oversized creatures, lots and lots of destruction, and plenty of cheese make both the game and those movies equally «B.» While Earth Defense Force 2017 was a title released early on in the Xbox 360 life cycle, it immediately gave the series a foothold in the West, where up until that point it was mostly unknown.

The movie's unexpectedly goofy sense of humor helps to keep things light, and the actors do a good job with the material they've been given, but «Beautiful Creatures» doesn't feel like it was made by a studio that loved the books, but rather the idea of success that a film adaptation might bring — all business and no soul.

Another child make friends with an unlikely creature in the 2016 movie Pete's Dragon.

John Krasinski's supernatural thriller A Quiet Place already has a good hook in the form of unseen creatures who kill people when they make noise — as seen in the movie's short Super Bowl teaser — but this expanded trailer adds an extra scary angle with the reveal that Emily Blunt's character is pregnant.

I had assumed that the Minions were unnatural creatures, perhaps the result of a genetic experiment by their supervillain master Gru (voice of Steve Carell), who makes a brief appearance as a teenager near the end of this movie in order to justify its existence in the world of the movie's predecessors.

Its oceans contain Dr. Seuss seascapes and teem with goofy digitized sea creatures — the 60 - foot, fluorescent jaguar shark, a rhinestone - encrusted bluefin, glowing «electric jellyfish» that wash up on shore, etc. (A fish able to turn itself inside - out appeared in the trailer but didn't make the cut for the movie.)

There was a time when war movies at least tried to have a «war is hell» message, but by making its protagonists faceless alien creatures instead of flesh and blood humans Battle: Los Angeles doesn't even try.

It makes sense, as Warner Bros. and Legendary are building towards a Kong vs. Godzilla movie that will build off of Skull Island and the foundation Gareth Edwards set with Godzilla, and one imagines there will be a mighty big Monarch connection to whatever other creatures are found on Skull Island.

Budding filmmakers itching to make their own Creature Feature should view Anaconda as a modern lesson in overused monster movie techniques.

Bert was given the nickname «Mister B.I.G.» which refers to his initials and to his love for making movies about giant creatures.

Just this evening at the San Diego Comic - Con I caught up with Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (review) helmer Troy Nixey, who made his feature - length directing debut with the film, a remake of the 1973 made - for - TV movie of the same name about a family that discovers murderous tiny creatures living in the basement of their new home.

Greenlighted by the studio to capitalize on the franchise while it was still hot, Dante and screenwriter Charles S. Haas (Matinee) made the film they want to see, and being the creature - feature lovers and film fanatics that they are, this meant a movie for people who saw things the same.

Monster Trucks: A big truck made of scrap material and a strange creature take charge in this animated movie.

«If people see this movie and there is somehow whitewashing involved in a creature feature that we made up then I will listen to that with my whole heart,» Damon said.

Yet I left the theater with admiration for all those elements that make a movie worth seeing: the lush cinematography (Dan Laustsen), the makeup and special effects that bring the creature to vivid life, the vibrant score by Alexandre Desplat and the performances (especially Hawkins, Jenkins, Spencer and Jones).

He's still an obsessive drawer (he has a book of drawings for every movie he makes), but creating the creatures and robots of «Pacific Rim» meant working in an entirely different scale.

Admittedly, the production value has improved with more characterful creature effects and the claustrophobic locations make for more scope for suspense, but the pedestrian direction and tired formula makes the film feel like a TV movie with little in the way of flair or imagination.

Guillermo del Toro, who allegedly makes horror movies but who mostly makes supernatural fairy tales, tells a story about a mute cleaning woman, played beautifully by Sally Hawkins, who forms a romantic connection between, essentially, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, played equally beautifully by Doug Jones.

in the above trailer, she's echoing the classic line from James Whale's 1931 film of Frankenstein, just one of the myriad of movies to deal with man - made creatures.

Mike (Billy Crystal) and Sully (John Goodman) are the creatures assigned to harvest the screams of a cute little girl named Boo, but what makes the movie more than just a cleverly executed trifle is the commitment to world - building.

As much as it parallels heartwarming child - meets - creature movies, Okja is definitely not E.T.. It's a sweet and strange tale that has relevant ideas but is overstuffed with eccentricities and tonal cocktails that make it exhausting and at times, frustrating to watch.

Initially, these Transformer - like creatures that sound as though they could be voiced by Liam Neeson, or even Peter Cullen himself, feel as though they came from a completely different movie — and genre — but not only does Aronofsky eventually go on to integrate them into the narrative well enough to make them feel like a natural part of this world, but he also adds backstory and character features that make them one of the most curious and enjoyable parts of the film.

Other notable 3 - D horror movies of the era included Robot Monster, now infamously remembered as one of the worst movies ever made, and Creature from the Black Lagoon, which introduced the last great Universal monster of the 20th century, the Gill - man.

The movie's unexpectedly goofy sense of humor helps to keep things light, but «Beautiful Creatures» doesn't feel like it was made by a studio that loved the books, but rather the idea of success that a film adaptation might bring — all business and no soul.

Guillermo del Toro's escapist fantasy - romance The Shape of Water was the biggest winner, the story of a young woman's love for a captured sea creature — with best picture and best director, setting the official seal of approval on what is, by any measure, a beautifully made movie to which audiences have responded with distinctively sensual delight.

There are creatures, environments, and situations that make the first movie look like a trip to Kindergarten.

EXTRAS: In addition to a feature - length documentary on the making of the movie, there's a behind - the - scenes look at the cast table read, featurettes on creature design, visual effects and shooting the climactic lightsaber battle, as well as some deleted scenes.

I call these films «Tammy Faye Baker» movies because they cake on the make - up in a desperate attempt to hide the hideous creature underneath.

Director Chris Wedge (Epic) makes the jump from animation to live action with Monster Trucks, a film looking to resurrect the 1980s family creature features for a new generation of movie goers.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 14, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (PG - 13 for epic battle scenes and scary images) Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings trilogy) directed this adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novel about a human - like creature with furry feet (Martin Freeman) who is prompted by a wizard (Ian McKellen) to embark on an epic with 13 dwarfs to wrest control of a lost kingdom from the clutches of a fearsome dragon.

In this case, it shifted toward the highly professional, sincere, phantasmagoric work of a man who loves Creature From the Black Lagoon more than the people who made that schlocky Universal monster movie from the 1950s.

Thoroughbreds was also a big - buzz movie at Sundance, where Taylor - Joy won praise for her performance as a wealthy prep schoolgirl whose friendship with a troubled outcast (Olivia Cooke) leads to a sinister symbiosis — there are echoes of Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures, but the movie has an icy tone all its own, and themes related to class (suggested by the title) and technology that make the movie unique.

Referencing B movies like Creature from the Black Lagoon, Shannon told Vanity Fair that he and del Toro had early conversations «about the notion that back in the day, when Hollywood was making these kind of creature movies, Strickland would have been more like tCreature from the Black Lagoon, Shannon told Vanity Fair that he and del Toro had early conversations «about the notion that back in the day, when Hollywood was making these kind of creature movies, Strickland would have been more like tcreature movies, Strickland would have been more like the hero.

«The new film is less influenced by stop - motion movies than it is by Akira Kurosawa,» the director said, via The Film Stage, and added: «I really liked these TV Christmas specials in America... I always liked the creatures in the Harryhausen - type films, but really these American Christmas specials were probably the thing that really made me want to do it.»

At first this approach seems counter-intuitive for a movie filled with fantastic creatures, structures and situations, but it ends up being effective for that very reason: it makes you feel as though you're seeing a record of things that are actually happening, and it makes «Coco» feel gentle and unassuming even though it's a big, brash, loud film.