Not exact matches
HOLLYWOOD
MAKES MOVIES AND SAYS ISLAM IS THE MOST
VIOLENT RELIGION, AGAIN AMERICA BRAIN WASHING AMERICA
Whereas for many years, people who wished to see
violent movies had to pay an entrance fee and enter a theatre, television sets now were
making such material easily accessible in the home to children below the age of discretion.
You can not blame others when it comes to your child seeing a
violent movie or playing
violent video games because you are supposed to be
making sure that they stay away from that kind of stuff.
Doctors often encourage teens who have sleep problems to
make lifestyle changes — like turning off the cellphone or computer before bed, cutting down on caffeine, or avoiding
violent video games or
movies at night — to promote good sleeping habits.
What's clear is that Gibson has
made a film about family, faith, love and forgiveness all put to the test in an arena of
violent conflict - a
movie you don't want to miss.
In the most pivotal, unforgettable scene, Jen holes up in a cave to engage in a ritual you know from almost every
movie ever
made about
violent heroism: She has to patch herself up.
Such concerns become moot once the picture passes a certain point, however, as Death Wish transforms into just the sort of unapologetically ruthless and
violent thriller that rarely gets
made nowadays (ie its very existence is a delightful novelty)- with the
movie's second half boasting a series of gleefully over-the-top instances of R - rated mayhem (including an awesomely cringeworthy torture sequence involving a scalpel and battery acid).
For Mana, showing up for practice and competing in the meet are acts of open defiance, and Ariki isn't the kind of character you want to
make angry, which pulls the openly conflicted Gen into the center of a potentially
violent situation — one that feels like something out of a Paul Schrader
movie (say, Travis Bickle's foolhardy attempt to liberate Iris at the end of «Taxi Driver») rather than the sort of climax audiences might anticipate from this otherwise Disney - appropriate inspirational drama.
Also worth noting: this
movie, which features the
violent murder of a 4 - year - old and a romance between a pre-teen Natalie Portman and a borderline retarded Italian hit man 34 years her senior (Jean Reno), could NEVER get
made today.
Make no mistake: This
movie is as
violent as it is funny, and its action sequences are as inventive and unexpected as the comedy beats.
It feels odd to say this about a
movie as
violent and funny as Seven Psychopaths, but my favorite parts were when it almost
made me cry.
There doesn't seem to be any limit to the type of
movie he'll
make, with or without credit: a Paul Thomas Anderson
movie, an Adam Sandler comedy, a family film, a
violent one.
The death scenes are getting far more gruesome and
violent with each passing
movie which
makes it a bit more frightening at times.
Shankar and Silna's 1984 Private Defense Contractors has
made a name for itself by producing a string of
violent, filmmaker - driven action
movies and crime thrillers.
The film is another piece of horror - tinged, genre filmmaking — this time the main inspirations are hyper
violent»80s action films like Big Trouble in Little China and The Terminator (again)-- but like the duo's preceding film, it knows what it is, recognizes the flaws of its ancestors, and tries to improve upon them while holding onto that sense of reckless abandon that
makes those
movies so fun.
The rest of the aspects to the film — most notably the charismatic acting style — succeed on so many levels that these moments of confusion remain brief and are hardly a threat to disrupting the film's balance, one's ability to enjoy themselves while watching one of the silliest
violent movies ever, or even
make much of a threat to derailing the storyline much.
The more I try to
make the character come to life in the
movie and depict what he's really about deep inside, that's when the
movie tends to become
violent.
The
movie makes a sudden jump from grim shadows to sun - baked flats, souped - up cars and crossbows; in other words, it swaps vampire - noir for a
violent, urban chase
movie.
A stark, brutal, yet tender prison drama starring Jack O'Connell as a
violent inmate sent to the same lock - up as his jailbird father (Ben Mendelsohn), the film's shot through with a raw energy and authenticity that's closer to «A Prophet» than to most other British films in the genre, with Mackenzie
making the
movie feel like he's bottled up a hurricane of tension, which at any second could kick through the screen at you and hit you with a sock full of snooker balls.
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That
Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For
movies opening December 30, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Iron Lady (PG - 13 for
violent images and brief nudity) Meryl Streep impersonates imperious Margaret Thatcher in this intimate portrait recounting the private life and political career of the former Prime Minister of Great Britain.
In the wake of several
violent attacks on New York, causing all manner of social, political and architectural upheaval, the
movie makes the compelling argument that the willful repression of one's supernatural abilities can lead only to destruction and chaos — a point that harks back to Bryan Singer's «X-Men»
movies, with their resonant subtext equating mutant powers with homosexuality.
But, like so many films that want to suggest violence only leads to more violence and unhappiness, this
movie tries to
make that point by appealing to those who find entertainment and happiness from
violent depictions in
movies.
Photographed by Tom Hoops for Lab MagazineNicolas Winding Refn, the Danish auteur whose
made a career of candy colored
violent films after grimier
movies at home, is both exactly what you'd expect and unexpected.
It is just the most amazing thing to watch: «The World's End» becomes a totally different kind of
movie about halfway through — intense, paranoid,
violent — yet maintains the dry, rapid - fire wit that
made its earlier scenes such a joy to watch.
As brutally
violent as the film gets, Saulnier never loses his grip on its sense of levity,
making Green Room a prime candidate for fans of midnight
movies.
Featuring a predominantly male ensemble that amounts to McDonagh's ad hoc repertory troupe, the film is cheerfully
violent on all manner of topics including the nature of
movie -
making itself, and its «meta» quality is sure to divide audiences, who will either be entranced or irked by what's on view.
Unfortunately, the guns seem ever present, as this mix of cute kids
movie and very
violent cop thriller doesn't quite mesh,
making it too intense for most kids, while too scattershot in its approach for most adults.
Action
movies grew more
violent and intense,
making them less palatable to general adult audiences and of greater interest to young males, a demographic being simultaneously courted by graphic shooter video games.
The fact that the film is exploiting the history of slavery in the USA in order to
make a triumphantly
violent movie is no more controversial than Inglourious Basterds «exploitation of Nazi atrocities during World War II.
Writer - director J.C. Chandor
makes movies about people in danger of drowning — morally so in the Wall Street snake pit of «Margin Call,» literally so in the sea saga «All Is Lost,» and now financially in «A Most
Violent Year.»
Takashi Miike's 100th film, in which an immortal warrior kills what seems like 10,000 swarming swordsmen, could very well be the most
violent samurai
movie ever
made.
It is by far the most
violent Disney - branded
movie we've ever seen, its hard - PG - 13 carnage
making this a poor choice for kids who might still be able to find Depp's shtick entertaining.
What does strike you early on though is just how
violent the filmmakers have
made this
movie.
Unlike many other science fiction
movies, the action scenes are never gratuitously
violent (see: The Colony) or lapse into uninvolving videogame - style action (see that unnecessary 300 sequel and about 80 % of all Hollywood action
movies made nowadays).
Footage seen by our own Sean O'Connell shows us that the trailer has been digitally altered to
make it a bit less
violent than the actual
movie will be.
The second
movie is only called Keoma here, although IMDb and Wikipedia
make note that this 1976 film has also been titled Django Rides Again, Django's Great Return, Desperado, and The
Violent Breed at various times.
Scorsese himself holds the film in high regard, once describing it as «the most
violent [film] I ever
made,» which is a fairly bold claim from a filmmaker who has brought us some of the most brutal scenes in
movie history.
He set out to
make a brutally
violent action
movie, and he succeeds.
Have A Nice Day is a
violent, brutal animated film from China,
made by writer / director Jian Liu, that can pretty much be described as a Tarantino
movie.
On the video side, where all extras are encoded in HD, we begin with «No Regrets: The
Making of Blue Ruin» (18:56), which features surprisingly traditional cast and crew sitdowns, minimal behind - the - scenes footage and pictures, and some brief clips of auditions and even Saulnier and Blair's
violent childhood
movies.
Andrew takes a licking and keeps on ticking in one of the most emotionally
violent movies ever
made about the birthing of a musical artist.
Plus, the fact that this
movie goes from a simple story about a bunch of psychopaths kidnapping dogs for extra cash into something as ridiculous as a deliriously
violent showdown in the middle of the desert
makes it that much more viciously entertaining and unpredictable.
So, I don't buy the argument that they were
made to be
violent by games or music or
movies etc..
Playing on the pervasiveness of images of destruction and devastation in the news and in Hollywood
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Major motion picture studies filed a copyright infringement suit against two companies that
made and distributed copies of
movies with sexual and
violent content removed.
Halloween has become a kind of adult holiday (which was not at all true a few generations ago), and with adults and teens dressing up as figures from horror
movies and going to extremes to scare other adults (a harder task than scaring a little kid), we need to
make sure there is a firm line against
violent / bloody / gory and generally horrific images.
Kevin Bacon is the latest
movie star
making the switch to the small screen in The Following, a crime series — developed by horror master Kevin Williamson (Scream)-- being described as the most
violent show on television.