Sentences with phrase «modern action films»

The two most screechingly annoying camera techniques used in modern action films are the following: (1) the blurred motion shot, and (2) the shaky - cam in - your - face battle shot.

In most modern action films, such as the Mission Impossible or The Expendables series the heroes shrug off the gunshots, punches, and knife wounds.

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.

Such sequences have become the keystone of modern action films, a set - piece as familiar as the three - act structure.

Modern action films have often been the means of testing out a surround sound system, and Sherlock Holmes does not disappoint in that regard.

It would be easy to judge «Terminator Genisys» against most modern action films and say, «Fine, it's good enough.»

Would that more modern action films did the same.

Listen to a snippet here and here, and tell me that you don't hear the driving bass lines of most modern action film music.

by Walter Chaw Arriving right smack dab in the latter half of a decade in American cinema that saw digital «reality» supplant filmic «reality» (and appearing the same year as James Cameron's Forrest Gump: Titanic), Hong Kong legend John Woo's high - camp Face / Off directly (and presciently) addresses issues of identity theft, terrorism, and the digital corruption of reality and indirectly addresses Woo's émigré influence on the modern action film.

Not exact matches

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.

For such an action - packed modern film, it's surprising how little blood figures into this combat epic.

It is hard sometimes to shake the feeling that this live - action Disney adaptation is relying too much on the 1991 animation, to the point that it almost feels like an extended version of that film; but even so, it offers a fresh and modern look at the classic story that makes it worth it.

A remake of the 1974 film of the same name, Death Wish pairs aging action icon Bruce Willis with director Eli Roth (Hostel, The Green Inferno) to bring the classic tale of vigilante justice to modern audiences.

His final film for Shaw, Come Drink With Me (66) revolutionized the industry, and gave Hong Kong not only one of its first period swordplay films shot in a new, modern style (inspired by Japanese swordplay films of the time), but also its first female action lead.

But in this case it's because the «nautical action adventure» film The Modern Ocean, requires a larger budget, and the WME deal will help it roll in.

Even with long scenes of action utilizing modern effects, the approach doesn't seem gratuitous, which is an impressive accomplishment after having seen so many action films already this year.

But the 1973 British classic has become the latest film set to undergo a Hollywood remake with the production company behind Liam Neeson action thriller Non-Stop poised for a modern take on it.

They're also the kinds of places that Kormákur's camera loves, as embracing as he is of the modern - day action - film aesthetic of deliberate imperfection.

Modern adventure films, some of which have been successful blockbusters, have crossed over and added resourceful action heroes (and oftentimes heroines).

Michael Bay is a guy who makes big and dumb action movies, and a lot of superhero films are big and dumb action movies, but he still hasn't taken the plunge and embraced modern Hollywood's love for men wearing capes.

Those films not only gave us great action and original, relatable protagonists, they did so while maintaining an invigorating anarchic streak that allowed them to affectionately mock the homogenised, mythology - obsessed modern superhero genre without completely compromising their broader commercial prospects.

The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the period kung fu and wuxia film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything before it.

Director Tsui Hark and fight director Sammo Hung provide some great wire - fu action sequences among the convoluted plot that is typical of these kinds of Chinese epic modern films.

Dobkin, who directed Wedding Crashers and The Change - Up, will direct the film that is an action - oriented take on the classic Arthurian story, with a modern feel.

Yuen has made entertaining films without good scripts, and considering Besson has written such modern classics in the action genre as La Femme Nikita, Leon (The Professional), and The Fifth Element one would have thought this film couldn't miss.

The setup is over quicker than you can say «I know kung fu,» and from there on you it's on par with the first «Raid» film: non-stop, brutal and flat - out cool action, shot more like golden era John McTiernan than modern day slice - and - dicers like Michael Bay or Paul Greengrass.

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.

Felt like it was a good balance between being a modern action packed film with a fair bit of violence - poking fun at old (incredibly cheesy) spy films but in a way of paying homage to them rather than disrespecting the genre!

Director / star Jiang Wen has crafted a modern take on the wild Hong Kong action films of the eighties heyday, with all the energy, dotty humor, broad performances, and mad plot twists, and drops himself in the center as the eye of calm at the center of the chaos.

The film currently is rated at 98 % by critics on Rotten Tomatoes, and The film is a modern action drama set in...

Unlike the self - obsessed young adults of his modern films, the Count and the Marquise act out of moral duty and social responsibility, and their actions reverberate through family and community.

The movie doesn't do anything wrong per se, merely suffers the same problems all action movies created in the early 2000s have, especially when compared to the sleek cinematography of the modern Bond films and the Raid.

Just as other films of its ilk (The Phantom, The Shadow), the updating of the material involves keeping the core of what makes the Green Hornet the Green Hornet, while stuffing it into a modern - day action and comedy style.

Alfred Hitchcock's intense chase film is the beginning of the modern action movie, a precursor to the James Bond series and a high - point of Hollywood craft.

Though it is a thriller at heart, and does have a high - speed driving subtext, the film feels more like a throwback to the music video stylized, R - rated crime dramas of the 1980s than the new Fast & the Furious over-the-top, CGI - infused modern action - thrillers.

Australian director Patrick Hughes is a man who is already well - known to action fans because of his first two films, the modern day Australian Western «Red Hill» and the sequel «The Expendables 3.»

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).

But more importantly, that sequel to the Rosetta stone of the modern sci - fi / horror / action film (combining not one, not two, but three maligned genres) also earned Sigourney Weaver an Oscar nomination for Best Actress — a confirmation that the Academy could look past a long - held horror bias to celebrate superb genre performances.

There are so many directors who could take this film and make a goofy, guilty pleasure, but Miller displays impeccable control of all facets to create a modern day pure action masterpiece.

SOUNDS: Placing Gangster Squad in a contemporary mindset, the score of the film is run - of - the - mill typical action accompaniment seen in any modern day movie.

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.

A film comedy directed with the grace of a ballet, the painstaking detail of an action painting and the affection of a love song, Playtime is one of the most sublime celebrations of individualism in the alienated landscape of modern urban life and consumer culture.

Paco Cabezas» Mr. Right is a solid rom - com action film whose post-modernist elements constantly cut into the film's goofy charm, a film which is conflicted with its own identity, flipping between a Tarantino-esque dissection of the hitman film genre and a modern Facebook era rom - com filled with enough quirks and snappy dialogue to keep you entertained.

However, at the end of the day this is a movie about huge robots punching monsters and the film wastes no time in throwing us into the kind of spectacular action you'd hope from a modern day blockbuster with that premise.

LMD: You have been a part of every important era in modern Hong Kong action cinema since the 1960's, very notably in the 1970's, in your own starring films throughout the 1980's, and recently in movies like SHA PO LANG, IP MAN and THREE KINGDOMS, you're seeing another new age in martial arts filmmaking.

This live - action spin on the classic Disney animation, starring Emma Watson, is lively and modern — but also honours the love for the original film

While I like the campy Roger Moore films and the more modern action - packed films, nothing beats From Russia With Love.

Summit Entertainment has released another poster for the upcoming supernatural action film The Last Witch Hunter, featuring Vin Diesel (Fast & Furious 7)... SEE ALSO: New trailer and character posters for The Last Witch Hunter The modern world holds many secrets, but the most astounding secret of all is that witches still live amongst us; -LSB-...]

It's a remake of a minor classic 1972 film of the same name, starring Charles Bronson and Jan - Michael Vincent, and while this is a glossy, modern - day take, it's for the interesting character touches that The Mechanic doesn't become too «mechanical» to disappear into the action movie abyss many other Statham starring vehicles fall into.

Never for a moment did we feel confused or lost amongst all the action, a rare treat in modern genre films.