Sentences with phrase «mindless summer»

At times «Godzilla» feels like a cut above most mindless summer fare; it has great intentions, admirable ambition and most fan service moments are mostly kept at bay (until they're not).

«Pacific Rim» is the quintessential mindless summer sci - fi action film and while it's successful in that respect, it's also disappointing because it could have been so much more.

I wanted to read this book before the movie debuted, thinking it would be fun mindless summer thriller.

to be yet another annoying, soulless / mindless summer thrill ride.

As with Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth, Del Toro takes all the inhabitants of his universes seriously, and the backstory of Rinko Kikuchi, and her relationships with Elba and hotshot pilot Charlie Hunnam, provide a strong character element that's normally missing from mindless summer action blockbusters.

Not exact matches

I won't talk this morning about the 13 lives that were lost, or the more than 100 who were injured, when a 22 - year - old terrorist rammed his van into a crowd of pedestrians strolling along Las Ramblas in Barcelona this summer — nor will I mention the 86 people who were killed in Nice on the evening of Bastille Day in 2016, when a mindless thug drove his cargo truck into a mass of celebrants who had gathered to watch fireworks on the Promenade des Anglais.

Overalls are easy and mindless, and crops are the quintessential staples for summer.

Still, it was a very effective movie, and was successful at making me think, so I still would give it a «thumbs up», though I think the critics are wetting themselves over it mainly because it's «allegorical» (which is probably a pleasant change from all the mindless explosions we've had to deal with this summer) but I don't really like allegory.

Quality jokes are hard to put together; even harder to follow through with and harder still to get the butts in the seats during the summer with the onslaught of «mindless» cinema being released.

Let me start off my review with saying that I have come to view the Transformers films as nothing more than mindless entertainment, popcorn flicks of the summer to pass the time.

And it's a welcome opportunity to think and feel deeply as we're about to entire the summer season of mindless schlock.

This is even more proof (Edge of Tomorrow) that big summer films don't have to be mindless drivel (Michael Bay, I'm talking to you!).

All are worth checking out as counter-programming to many mindless and mind - numbing summer releases.

August has been a particularly rich month for movies that fall between the mindless, overblown summer superhero blockbusters and the polished prestige of the super-serious Oscar brigade to come.

The Mummy Returns isn't so much an homage to the classic horror flicks of the 1930s so much as an attempt to play oneupsman to all of the summer blockbusters to have been released in the interim years after 1998, and in so doing, it exists only as mindless fodder for strict popcorn movie fanatics.

For a Hollywood summer blockbuster, M; I 3 actually manages to be something more than just mindless thrills, chills and explosions.

This movie is ridden with plot holes, it has an unacceptable amount of logic issues, Mystique's costume is distractingly fake and silly looking, Anna Paquin gets a title card yet is in five seconds of the movie, multiple story beats are repeated and the narrative puts into question everything that's happened in previous «X-Men» films, but, if you can get past the fact that the «Days of Future Past» narrative is downright ridiculous, you can still enjoy some of the mindless, summer fun — and Quicksilver's sequences, because that's high quality cinema right there.

The summer period of mindless blockbusters is over, now it's time for the real stories to come forward.

He was forced to forgo teaching in summer school (and the income associated with it) and take a bevy of mindless courses to get his credential.

That high moment on that summer night made me realize that games are more than just something to distract me, more than mindless entertainment or violence simulators.