Sentences with phrase «modern action filmmakers»
After kicking all my teeth out at the 2012 TIFF with The Raid, director Gareth Evans returned to Indonesia for the hotly anticipated The Raid 2, which features a 100 + day shoot that allegedly embarrasses stomps on the faces of modern action filmmakers.
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The filmmakers have repurposed the action from the seedy streets of 1980 New York to modern day Los Angeles and have bathed the film in dreamy, high - resolution digital photography that is all wrong.
From Kim Ji - woon making a fun throwback to 80's action with The Last Stand, to long time cinephile favorite Park chan - Wook making the best film of the year (so far) with Stoker, modern American filmmakers could learn a thing or two from their foreign colleagues.
What's more, it's refreshing to hear the young filmmaker talk honestly and passionately about such a traditionally maligned industry, while also finding a moment to namedrop Downey's Putney Swope and ruminate on the state of modern action films.
As for the CGI animals, Peyton gives them plenty of opportunities to wreak havoc, although at least one or two of those sequences feels better in conception than execution: though the large - scale destruction is all masterfully rendered — and it must be noted, brutally violent for a PG - 13 movie — he like many other modern filmmakers gets too close to the action, mistaking incomprehensibility for claustrophobia, and seems either unaware of or uninterested in even the basic physics of gravity, falling objects, and so on.
Not uncommonly for a modern filmmaker, he has less of an aptitude for emotional gradation and development than for rough and ready, lunging portraits of emotion - as - action.