Sentences with phrase «many modern blockbusters»

In that time, blockbusters like The Dark Knight and Lord of the Rings have proved that the modern blockbuster is growing up.

The two - disc Batman 25th Anniversary Blu - ray set will include a featurette that shows how Tim Burton's movie paved the way for modern blockbusters.

With only two or so hours of story time, the movies have been forced to sacrifice swaths of her material, and while the scripts have been largely models of adaptation — most, this one included, are by Steve Kloves — the emphasis on action (and interminable games of quidditch) was also a concession to the action - imperative of the modern blockbuster.

Here Whedon and Goddard look like they're abandoning their convictions for what their film should be, and pandering to modern blockbuster viewers and their incessant craving for elaborate action sequences and expensive special effects.

To a certain extent this is symptomatic of modern blockbusters in general, which Simpson and Bruckheimer had a fair amount of influence in shaping.

It's fashionable, of course, to praise modern blockbusters for going «dark,» as if that by itself is genuine evidence of challenging an audience.

Just as they did with «21 Jump Street» and «Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs» before this most ambitious undertaking, co-helmers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller irreverently deconstruct the state of the modern blockbuster and deliver a smarter, more satisfying experience in its place, emerging with a fresh franchise for others to build upon.

And if they had, how could a big budget modern blockbuster make such a premise the least bit cinematic?

Alien: Covenant echoes Jurassic Park, The Evil Dead, and a movie Scott didn't make, James Cameron's Aliens, but the science fiction fueling its engines, and the science fate that steers the ending, amounts to a sadistic «fuck you» to humanity that's basically unheard of in modern blockbusters.

• Most scenes in modern blockbusters — superhero movies, comic book stories, FX - driven tentpoles, etc. — feel both perfunctory and dead on arrival.

Topics will range from thematic undercurrents and visual styles (I hope to show how the films develop a serious, even challenging visual language that both reflects and informs current traits of the modern blockbuster) and will also touch on more subtle or obscure details that deserve heightened focus.

The passage of time has made the film feel like an avant garde work that almost acts as a commentary on the modern blockbuster.

Only Frozen's success stands out more in that class among modern blockbusters.

There's a single moment in Jaws that reveals why the film remains so much more memorable than most modern blockbusters.

The later sequences are shot with wider - screen lenses, looking more like a modern blockbuster with every jump forward in time even as Shen's life begins to feel more limited and frustrating.

It's Ground Zero for the modern blockbuster, logo and all.

«Everything about Mad Max: Fury Road comes across as the antithesis to the modern blockbuster.

As is becoming increasingly common in our modern blockbuster era, superhero comedy Deadpool 2 got sent back for reshoots earlier this year.

In comparison with your average modern blockbuster, in which the story grinds to a halt every 15 minutes to make room for another eye - scorching set piece, there's very little action in the first Star Wars movie: an extended chase through the Death Star corridors, a perfunctory sword fight between two knightly codgers and a pair of space dogfights, and that's pretty much it.

A masterclass is executing a great sequel in the realm of the modern blockbuster.

But it isn't exactly fair to blame to the excesses of today's modern blockbuster (Chronicles of Riddick or Van Helsing anyone?)

The era of the modern blockbuster didn't arrive with Star Wars in the summer of 1977, but actually a few years earlier with this Steven Spielberg - directed movie about a giant shark terrorizing a small coastal community (as if you needed to be told that).

The rest of us were happy to enjoy both as two sides of the super-powered coin, and as two quite different examples of a high - watermark in modern blockbuster filmmaking.

Lee helps keep things off - kilter all the way through, too, even though he's not trying to constantly jangle the audience's nerves in the tiresome way of the modern blockbuster, with gun - in - face showdowns and pounding music.

Blame Marvel and its distributor, Disney, the kings of modern blockbuster moviemaking.

Darkman may be rough around the edges, but it won my heart in 1990 and only seems more welcome today with its homemade charm that completely escapes modern blockbuster cinema.

The movie is so far removed from what we would now demand from a modern blockbuster.

THE SHARK IS NOT WORKING by Richard Cordiner A look behind the scenes at the making of one of the most troubled film shoots that would go on to become the first modern blockbuster — «Jaws.»

Lord and Miller manage to entertain every possible audience here, poking fun at modern blockbusters and reveling in youthful creativity.

When Purcell is thrown back into the games to finally win his freedom, a sequence of frenetic CTV footage condenses the final exhausting half of a modern blockbuster into just a few minutes of purely visual propulsion.

Scott also noted the most troubling factor of Avengers, and indeed, the whole modern blockbuster genre: The sense that Avengers is not so much a movie as it is an annual product launch for a major corporation, featuring characters that are all «dutiful corporate citizens, serving a conveniently vague set of principles.»

Like most modern blockbusters, Age of Ultron runs a little long, but fortunately there's not too much padding and its new characters grab shares of screen time in direct proportion to how entertaining they are.

As far as modern blockbusters go, and as Marvel films are concerned, Black Panther is an enjoyable ride.

«It feels like a video game» has been a long - held, and often justified, complaint about the era of the modern blockbuster, too often crammed with weightless CGI imagery with little relation to live - action.

Freed from the origin story box, this second installment of the Wade Wilson franchise has its cake and eats it took, taking any number of shots at the superhero sub-genre (and modern blockbuster filmmaking in general) while still crafting a story that makes sense on its own terms and works as a character piece.

Makin» wookiee In comparison with your average modern blockbuster, in which the story grinds to a halt every 15 minutes to make room for another eye - scorching set piece, there's very little action in the first Star Wars movie: an extended chase through the Death Star corridors, a perfunctory sword fight between two knightly codgers and a pair of space dogfights, and that's pretty much it.

Released to rival Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog, the game was met with critical acclaim and has been credited with laying the foundations for some of the modern blockbusters out today.

Shenmue III has been well - funded by fans, but perhaps not to the level of modern blockbusters and so, like The Last Guardian, it may not be looking to compete at that level.

Sculpture and Shadow @ Gagosian, King's Cross A complement to the Tate Modern blockbuster is a selection of Giacometti's spindly sculptures, plus photographs of these works by Peter Lindbergh.

Not exact matches

The underwater realm struggles to get a foothold in the glitz, glamour and special effects of the modern Hollywood blockbuster.

In retrospect, it's clear Lord of the Rings played a big part in paving the way for modern, serial blockbuster movies.

If the bible was written during modern times it would have been labeled as fiction and made into a blockbuster movie staring Tom Cruse as zombie Jesus.

The modern noir — about the search for a missing child — shows that Ben Affleck isn't just a blockbuster movie star; he's also one of his generation's most notable filmmakers.

In a nod to flying creatures of our modern age, the new species has been dubbed Ikrandraco avatar — draco is Latin for «dragon,» and Ikran are the pterosaurlike flying beasts depicted in the 2009 blockbuster Avatar.

Even with the enormous success of Christopher Nolan's Gotham trilogy, the modern approach to the comic book blockbuster is for each film to form a mere link in a seemingly infinite chain.

It's rare these days to walk out of a modern sci - fi blockbuster and think not of the visual effects or action scenes but the incredible screenplay.

Agora proves that it is entire possible to have an old - school blockbuster (and I am talking Cecil B. DeMille and Alan Mann spectacle films with casts of thousands wearing togas and swords) coupled with science, mathematics and commentary on modern times nudge shoulders with romance, upheaval and politics of antiquity.

We could equally have included such transformative modern figures as Joss Whedon, Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg (who made the jump to blockbusters by inventing them).

It makes for populist dystopian SF fare, and serves well as a provocative modern - day blockbuster film on reality TV shows that reflects in a mild subtle way on these diabolical hard times and how gross the public's entertainment tastes have become.

A blockbuster with heart, a horror movie with bite, a child's - eye view of poverty and a romance for modern times are among the year's best movies.