Sentences with phrase «many films of its nature»

Deadline reports that the Jungle Cruise movie will be an Indiana Jones - like action - adventure, and Collet - Serra was very much interested in getting his hands on a film of its nature, a potential franchise that he will be able to mould around an A-list Hollywood star like Johnson.

It should also be noted that some of themes throughout the film were surprisingly much deeper than I expected to see in a film of this nature.

The humor is worth mentioning here too, as it's nearly pitch perfect for a film of this nature.

But overall «The Great Wall» is a disappointing film compared to most American fantasy - action films of this nature.

The baffling pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo is bad enough, but you get that in a film of this nature.

Seven Days Sunday is a necessarily bleak retelling of an horrific real - life occurrence, that like many films of its nature raises several possible explanations without ever being able to settle on one.

Based on Philip Roth's novel The Dying Animal, Elegy is a smart, character - driven drama that avoids the traps that other films of this nature (such as the last Philip Roth adaptation, The Human Stain) frequently fall into.

Not only is the salacious and sensationalist male gaze, which is often present in films of this nature, completely absent, but Shortland avoids going through the motions of delivering the obvious plot points to instead focus on the subjective experiences of the character.

Typical for modern films of this nature, the action scenes are filled with shaky handheld cinematography and rapid cuts that mean there often isn't a single well - framed shot in the whole sequence (and if there is it lasts about a nanosecond before being replaced by one that isn't).

The producers should also be commended for hiring inexperienced young actors in the lead and supporting roles rather than the typical seasoned stars of the high school / frat pack genre, who you would normally associate with films of this nature, and they by and large acquit themselves rather well.

In Sicario, then, we get an action cop drama with artistic underpinings, that perfect collision between arthouse and grindhouse that's my dream every time I see a film of this nature.

Will Mackenzie be able to match the epic nature demanded of a war film of this nature and will Chris Pine be up for the accent?

It seems we finally we have a film of this nature that doesn't take itself seriously; if anything, it revels in its own silliness and is acutely aware that the story is just a tad far - fetched.

It treads familiar waters and doesn't offer anything new in story, but the characters are well - drawn, the narrative full of humor and depth, and the themes handled with a maturity that is absent in other films of this nature.

It doesn't help that the story is also a bit depressing for a film of this nature, as if it belonged to a completely different, more somber and unsettling movie.

It's an epic romantic tale of how Dr. Zhivago endures so much to be with the one he loves and all the obstacles that come in their way with one of the most tragic endings that a film of this nature could ever have.

It's as good a track as can be expected from a film of this nature.

One of the tests I always apply to films of this nature, is asking myself if any of the scenarios could work on their own, as a full - length feature.

Director Stephen Frears (The Queen; Philomena) has produced a career making successful films of this nature, about opposites finding comfort that they couldn't find from the family that surrounded them.

Specifically, they were worried that a film of this nature would suffer from negative comparisons to Indiana Jones, because, in their words, it would be impossible to tell a story that didn't resemble the adventures of Harrison Ford's legendary archaeologist, at least superficially.

Not exact matches

The previously filmed season finale of Mr. Robot contains a graphic scene similar in nature to today's tragic events in Virginia.

«As we have been saying for some time, we feel the recent box office has been typical in nature and the result of weaker film product,» said Jacob.

Zuckerberg held court for a little over an hour, discussing everything from the decline of organic reach to the «hurtful» nature of The Social Network film.

It was filmed using a custom - built drone equipped with seven GoPro cameras and operated by a licensed drone pilot due to the complicated nature of the shoot, which included dropping 30 feet into a field of sharp agave; long, continuous shots; and stabilization against the wind.

Kinghorn, while not approving of Tarantino's violence, argues that his films can remind us of the tertiary nature of our mortal life, even though Kinghorn is not convinced that Tarantino's use of humor successfully communicates this message.

The productions of the electronic media, by their nature, evade such distinctions as those between documentary and feature films.

As we can speed up or slow down the film, likewise we can conceive of the series of instants as running on faster or slower into the future — nothing in the nature of the series excludes this possibility.

While classification freed directors to use explicit language in marvelous films like Platoon and Something Wild and has allowed films like Out of Africa and Children of a Lesser God to explore the complex nature of human sexuality, it has also given us a series of slasher films — Friday the 13th, with its many parts; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, parts one and two — and films like Brian DePalma's artistically significant but deplorably explicit Body Double.

The success of the Mel Gibson film in 2004 was a wake up call to remind us of the astonishing nature of the Passion.

The unsettling nature of this film is assisted by a dreary, colorless atmosphere, as well as the realization that you're watching something truly evil happening onscreen.

Despite the curmudgeonly nature of his job, Ebert expressed a delightful willingness to take each film on its own terms.

And the controversial nature of the film can even provide opportunities for Christians to thoughtfully engage their secular neighbors in a substantial way.

Genuine actors operate within a framework established by the imitative nature of film ¯ hence a good person can portray a bad one, or act out bad actions, without it being a reflection of his or her character.

How do we discern the nature of the faith, if any, displayed within the film?

The film does show the warrior Boromir to be genuinely conflicted about wanting to use the Ring, but it fails to clarify the nature of his quandary.

The beautiful eighteenth - century costumes and setting seduce us into viewing these affairs with a kind of horrified detachment, as though we were watching a «Nature» film on PBS showing the praying mantis being devoured by his mate in the act of copulation.

The Nature MultiPackTM marketed by NMP Systems, a wholly - owned subsidiary of KHS GmbH, groups beverage containers into a stable, easily «openable» or separable pack using dots of adhesive rather than shrink film called «Snap Pack».

Due to the complex nature of the tear film, it is difficult to design an artificial tear solution that is identical to human tears.

If Ross occasionally plays loose with the facts, he remains true to the core of the story, and many of the racetrack scenes evoke more sharply than ever before on film a sense of the surpassing grace and power of the running horse, the sound of rolling thunder of the hooves and a sense of the precarious, perilous nature of the jockeys» existence as they bound along hell - fired at 40 miles an hour, monkeys on a stick, wind - sheared and often screaming at each other in the din.

The movie was good enough to catch the eye of and impress the Walt Disney organization when it had a crew on location in Utah filming one of its first full - length nature works.

Featuring an array of permanent and special exhibits, live programs and educational films that appeal to audiences of all ages, the Nature Exploration Center encourages visitors to explore the natural world and their connections to it.

There's something organic about shooting film that feels like a pleasant match to me with time spent in the quiet, slow, and calm of nature.

As part of the Collections Inventory Project, Collections staff with the Chicago Academy of Sciences and its Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum (CAS / PNNM) conducted an inventory and preliminary condition survey of the museum's motion film collection in 2011.

For Biggs, who is a surprisingly imposing presence given the self - deprecating nature of the characters he plays on screen, the risk of a political film was outweighed by the chance to escape his American Pie persona.

This act of betrayal was the film - makers» effort to justify Bond's philandering nature in later films.

There were other criticisms about the disproportionate number of films made downstate and the temporary nature of the jobs.

When introducing his latest documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival Saturday night, director Alex Gibney joked that he was leaning towards keeping the name of his «mostly finished but not quite done» work the «Untitled Eliot Spitzer Film» because he'd never before made a film where he was «so uncertain about where [he] was going... and what the conclusions would be,» given the «divisive» nature of his subject.

The drawing shows sine waves that resemble waves on the surface of water being reflected from two surfaces of a film of varying width, but that depiction of the wave nature of light is only a crude analogy.

In the study, published today in Nature Communications, the researchers placed a magnetic particle in the center of a liquid film filled with swimming bacteria.

Ecologist Simon Levin discusses his work, including the study of how cooperation is achieved in slime molds, bacterial films and small societies in nature