Sentences with phrase «more superhero story»

Well, hot on the heels of Chiwetel Ejiofor being sought after for a role in Doctor Strange, and the official addition of Tye Sheridan, Sophie Turner and Alexandra Shipp in X-Men: Apocalypse, we've got one more superhero story, but this one is a little less solid.

Not exact matches

Orson Scott Card — famous for his Ender's Game series and, more recently, several successful runs on superhero comic series — has had his work removed from a compendium of Superman stories for his support of traditional marriage.

There is no other correct answer for who should be getting the most votes, because what Harper has done over the past month or so is more superhero origin story than it is baseball.

The rejection of the either / or divide extends to Killmonger, whose emotional, fraught back story gives the movie more heft and real - world friction than any of Marvel's other superhero blowouts.

The story itself is hard to recall, in large part because it was one of the least impressive aspects of a production that was more interested in offering a Mad Magazine - type superhero movie than meekly regurgitating the genre's tropes.

That in itself is refreshing for a superhero movie, but even more important is that the story is vital, relevant, and layered.

Such bits do more to dismantle the clichés and contrivances of superhero stories than any of Deadpool's one - liners and fourth - wall - breaking comments.

But Lee's real genius is taking what everyone expected to be one more summer superhero action film and turning it into the summer's best love story, the romance of Eric Bana, who plays Banner, and Betty Ross, portrayed by Oscar - winner Jennifer Connelly.

Braff's voiceover narration tells a story (one we will hear twice more over the course of the film, as if repetition can substitute for actual connection) about Aidan and his brother pretending to be superheroes as children, and realizing that maybe they weren't heroes: maybe they were just regular guys.

We have seen and heard countless stories and opinion pieces (and there are many more coming) about the significance of a black superhero leading a franchise, and the fact there's a primarily African - American cast.

Even «Iron Man» (which stuck Robert Downey, Jr. in a cave for 45 minutes) was a superhero origin story with WAY more action.

The book is obviously more detailed because it can be, and I did find this format does a better job of explaining how Dr Manhattan (the only «superhero» in this story to have powers), views time and space.

With so much on the line - and a full decade of movies leading up to its story - Avengers: Infinity War is undoubtedly one of the most anticipated superhero movies of all time (though we're anticipating one other 2018 film even more).

Part horror, part love story, part morality tale, Age Of Ultron is a smart superhero smackdown that raises the bar once more — this time it's personal, political and petrifying.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe was once accused of dishing up the same rinse - and - repeat origin story over and over again — and while Feige will protest (and has) that each Marvel movie has had its own individual flavor (Thor was a stab at Shakespeare; The Winter Soldier riffs on 70s paranoia thrillers), the franchise has been finding more solid footing in its endeavor to remix all of popular film history through the lens of superheroes.

Like pretty much any superhero origin story, the setup was better than the payoff, which, like far too many movies about the origin of a superhero, pitted the newly formed hero against a generic villain with an even more generic plan, as if that's some kind of required challenge for these heroes to have to face each and every time — even if we're just getting to know them.

The story is set in a world filled with superheroes who have become celebrities, whose egotistical behavior oftentimes ends up doing more harm than good.

I can't see how anyone could be dissatisfied with this movie I preferred it to the other two as I think it captured batman perfectly bane was perfect how anyone can disagree after batman and robin is beyond me??? Cat women was perfect there was no poor casting IMO character development was fine story was fine and beautifully shot soundtrack stunning all involved made an absolute masterpiece even tho I guessed most plotpoints in advance they still felt like a surprise to me I don't see the point in any other superhero franchise making any more movies as bb tdk and tdkr will never be surpassed

Seems like there is more to Prowse's story that the movie should have gone into; other highlights include his stories of working with Stanley Kubrick on A Clockwork Orange and portraying street safety superhero Green Cross Man.

With Wonder Woman back in the cultural zeitgeist (if the most famous female superhero ever really left it), writer / director Angela Robinson's film serves as a superhero origin story in a more literal and more literary - criticism meaning of the phrase.

The $ 502 million domestic Beauty grossed was more than all but seven movies: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, James Cameron's record - setters Avatar and Titanic, Jurassic World, landmark superhero movies The Avengers and The Dark Knight, and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (which kind of feels like the outlier here).

Shyamalan's best film, both cleverer and less twist - dependent than «The Sixth Sense», if there were any justice more people would make effects - free superhero stories like this one, and then even snooty critics could admit to liking them.

Brad Bird could have told a straight superhero story, but there is such an exceptional amount of depth in the screenplay that it's pretty clear he wanted to do more.

While this is yet another superhero origin story, Wonder Woman's conviction keeps its more common beats alive.

The second - best Spidey flick (behind Spider - Man 2, natch), Spider - Man: Homecoming manages to do what Ant - Man did as a superhero flick, only better: tell more personal story on a smaller - scale with a focus on fun and depth.

Where Doctor Strange falls short is in the recently troublesome superhero «big bad» and despite the presence of esteemed actor Mads Mikkelsen (who sadly has become a bit of a villain typecast in recent years), the purple eyed Kaecilius, who wants nothing more than to meet a world destroying entity is anything but the adversary the unique Stephen Strange deserved, while the previously mentioned nature of this following the playbook origin story isn't breaking much ground in the way it tells the story of a man at his lowest finally realising his true potential.

It not only signaled that stories can be better and more meaningful for women, but a return to strong superhero stories too.

The first Deadpool was mostly very good, but veered perhaps a bit too close to the superhero conventions it was parodying by boiling the plot down to an archetypical hero origin story, except with more dick jokes.

The film rights for that property were sold back in the early 2000s, but it's looking more and more unlikely that its odd blend of superhero story and political drama will ever make it to the silver screen.

Should it be a campy, funny comedy full of tongue in cheek self - references to the absurdity of comic book superheroes, or should it be a more serious story of the reckless young man turned hero.

«More than most superhero flicks, Black Panther feels like an ensemble piece — as if any character in this story might be the lead of their own, if only the film would shift its perspective a bit.

For most superhero movies, the love story is usually nothing more than a subplot or something to add emotional stakes, but in Wonder Woman, it's key to the growth of both characters.

WHY: Though it seemed unlikely that Universal would even greenlight a sequel to Matthew Vaughn's punk - rock satire of the superhero genre due to the more sadistic nature of the story, director Jeff Wadlow has done an admirable job adapting it for the big screen.

Smartly structured to sell the same old superhero story in a fresh way, Kick - Ass (2010) is more your Unbreakable or Watchmen style comic book adaptation as opposed to Spiderman or even Chris Nolan's Batman.

Scorsese previously directed a 1982 film titled The King of Comedy, starring Robert De Niro as a deluded comedian who couldn't catch a break, so the new Joker film's Scorsese connection makes far more sense with that in mind, despite the director's aversion to superhero stories.

This film is a superhero origin story and even though there is potential with these characters and this world to do many more stories, they really wanted to put everything into this movie without thinking about possible future films.

2, Spider - Man: Homecoming and Thor: Ragnarok; we had not one but two massive DCEU movies in Wonder Woman and Justice League; we saw the final heartbreaking Wolverine story in Logan; and we had more superheroes on the small screen than ever.

Additionally, the idea to tell the superhero origin story from the villain's point of view is pretty ingenious, particularly because his fall from grace is a lot more complex than the typical hero's tale.

More of a «coming of age» story than a superhero origin story per se, Black Panther is the most freestanding Marvel film since Iron Man.

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The story's themes of fascism, alien prejudice, misplaced deification, and terrorism give it a depth that makes Godfall much more than a simple superhero story.

More recently fairytale retellings and superhero stories seem to be all the rage.

The fundamental dynamic of the superhero story has historically been more appealing to boys than to girls.»

Which is good for me as a reader, because I get access to a lot more stories that would * never * have been published (the dizzying rise of the superhero novel is a case in point, though I haven't dipped my ladle in that pot of soup just yet).

As much as I like a good superhero story, I have a strong affinity for the more «high concept» stuff.

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