Sentences with phrase «matinee serial»

Just as another of this summer's superhero movies, X-Men: First Class, established its own identity by sporting 1960s fashions, Captain America: The First Avenger (it's firsty work, coming up with superhero subtitles) is set during the Second World War, and it's true to the two - fisted, square - jawed spirit of a 1940s Saturday matinee serial.

But Jones represents an archetype that stretches back much further, of course; his true inspiration can be traced beyond the 1950s movie matinee serials and pulp comics that inspired George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, and toward the great colonial fantasies of King Solomon's Mines, The Lost World and the Boy's Own magazines.

Suppose Ming the Merciless on Mars (a character from 1930's Buck Rogers comics and matinee serials) decides to cook Earth's humans by adding greenhouse gases to Earths» atmosphere.

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The sermon's narrative runs continuously like the old serial matinees at the movies, but the preacher experiences the sermon as an artistic and religious endeavor that must be repeated every week.

After a poignant parting from home and Hippolyta (Connie Nielsen), the ensuing conflicts with spies, wartime officials and leering villains echo rich, rollicking matinee - serial pleasures.