Sentences with phrase «more than a remake»

As expected, this provided a richer experience than Carpenter's and quite a bit more than a remake - type prequel.

Of course, the original mainline entries have sold more than remakes or third versions, but that number is a great way to see how popular the series has been.

Age of Empires: Definitive Edition is easily the best way ever conceived to play this classic game, complete with revamped visuals and soundtrack, but the game still suffers from some limitations imposed by the fact it's little more than a remake of a twenty year old game.

Not exact matches

On the surface, it's a remake of the classic «Cinderella» fairy tale, but it's so much more than that.

And, according to IMDB, the 2017 cinematic remake of «It,» now in theaters, has grossed more than $ 189 million worldwide.

Research shows that happiness has positive effects on our brains, and it's certainly a pleasant turn of luck to be born with a sunny disposition, but according to science if you weren't so fortunate and naturally tend towards pessimism, trying to remake yourself into more of an optimist is probably doing more harm than good.

The constant threat of a US remake has so far proved no more than a rumour, but the show lives on through an enthusiastic fan community that continues to hold an annual convention called Tedfest, which is well worth a Google search.

«What greater expression of faith in the American experiment than this, what greater form of patriotism is there than the belief that America is not yet finished, that we are strong enough to be self - critical, that each successive generation can look upon our imperfections and decide that it is in our power to remake this nation to more closely align with our highest ideals?»

Many who seriously believe in a personal God and in his power and willingness to remake the individual who prays are stopped at the idea that anything more can come out of it than a quickening of the will to be of better direct service to others.

The remake is much more touching than the original because you see more of Piccolo's life while he's suffering from cancer.

Instead of trying to remake the working world to respect and support mother love, feminists have ducked the responsibility by denying that mother love is so very powerful, or by claiming that «real» feminists find career more compelling than being with their children.

Dr. Sears is noted by TIME as «The Man Who Remade Motherhood» and author of many parenting books, including The Baby Book: «First published in 1992, The Baby Bookis now in print in 18 languages, with more than 1.5 million copies sold.»

Miliband seems more concerned for the moment with remaking the Labour party than playing the part of HM loyal opposition.

«When we opened it up, we realized that it was more corroded than we thought,» she said, «We had to just completely take them out and have them remade from scratch.»

The Day the Earth Stood Still has stood the test of time and its remake is far more than that, and well worth seeing.

I have heard that the Wii remake addressed the problem with the controls by giving it motion controls that are, for the most part, better, but I would love to see a remake of this game with dual stick controls more than anything.

Director Fede Alvarez (who did the «Evil Dead» remake) masterfully sustains a little more than an hour of shocks.

While Madolyn's dissimilar relationships with each mark their differences, her part is more plot - pointy than convincing: her sympathies tend to stand in for yours, as the movie doesn't trust in the ethical and political ambiguities of the movie it remakes, Andrew Lau and Andy Mak's brilliant Infernal Affairs (2002).

Still, as Chelsom notes more than once in his commentary, the reason to remake is not to appropriate or even do better.

There's widescreen, a higher resolution and undoubtedly a better frame rate than the original titles - and that's the best you can expect without stretching to be more of a remake than a straight port.

In fact, the first half of «Mississippi Grind» almost plays out as an unofficial remake of the 1974 film, sharing more than a few character traits and story beats in common.

I'm not hating on Nintendo but they are known for remaking games I will agree that super smash bros for Wii u is a fun game but its definately a remake just like GTA 5 and Last of Us both GTA 5 and Last of Us are games that have an actual story and have open worlds and are not just straight up fighting games they have more going on with them than super smash bros and I don't see how super smash bros beat out dark souls 2 I'm sorry but dark souls should be higher due to the mechanics of the game and how well it is designed but I will agree that super smash bros for Wii u was one of the better games of the year but it is not in the top 3 or in metacritics opinion the best I would put it more of top 5 of top 6 game never the less super smash bros for Wii u is not a new game and is the 4th remake of the series

While I won't call Coco an overt copy of Book, it «remakes» the 2014 film a little more than I'd like.

Capcom has taken an extra step in ensuring that this is more than a quick remake with flashier graphics.

This year's Inside remake swaps Bustillo and Maury's brutalization levels for beyond - generic thrills that are more frustrating than fierce - whatever that's worth.

More times than not, a remake can not come close to hanging with the original.

There is a sequence involving low lighting, sinister mutteringsand disturbing wallpaper that is more terrifying than the combined FX of the remake.

It also probably gets a little more attention than it deserves, but until Hollywood shapes up and delivers more quality adaptations, the film is sure to receive credit as the one exception to the case against producing remakes.

It's a remake of the Murnau classic, and it takes even more liberties with the original source material than Murnau did, but this is nevertheless a wonderful vampire movie.

As a movie, Cry Freedom is little more than an uninspired remake of Attenborough's earlier success.

American master Brian De Palma's latest creation, Passion (a remake of Alain Corneau's 2010 erotic thriller Love Crime), has welcomed a significantly more positive response than that of both his last two films, Redacted (2007)...

Remade from the ground up by lead developer Toys for Bob, the Spyro Reignited Trilogy features the fun and nostalgic gameplay that fans remember with more than 100 levels, enhanced reward sequences, Spyro's gang of zany dragons and other goofballs (including Sparx the Dragonfly, Hunter, Sheila, Agent 9 and Sgt. Byrd) and more.

2007: More than 20 years later, director Oliver Hirschbiegel takes a stab at a remake with «The Invasion,» in which psychiatrist Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman) races to protect her son (Jackson Bond).

An American remake of a Japanese film that I actually enjoyed more than the original!

Not sure what to make of the fact that this poster for the Poltergeist remake is more unsettling than almost everything in the trailer.

As an owner of a PS3 I'm more than familiour with HD remakes and this game seems to be a decent effort.

Even just touching it up would take more than you've estimated, plus they can't just drop the old script files into the remade version.

About Last Night opens cold to the funky sound of James Brown's «Sex Machine,» which is good because a) that song is awesome and b) it lets you know this remake has more «movin», doin» it, you know» on the brain than the 1986 original.

Race to Witch Mountain proves that some remakes can be just as entertaining if not more so, than the original,

With a fistful of Oscars (including Best Picture and Best Actor), a couple of sequels and a twenty - years - later remake and spin - off TV series, this adaptation of John Ball's lean thriller obviously qualifies as more than just another small town murder mystery.

Race to Witch Mountain proves that some remakes can be just as entertaining if not more so, than the original, but it helps to have one of the rising stars in Hollywood as your leading man too.

Kubrick and Nabokov (who adapted is own novel) raised the age of the grade school «temptress» and left most of the seduction to suggestion, and still made a more provocative and sensitive film than the 1997 remake.

The second remake, produced by D. D. Laurentiss in 1984 and starring Anthony Hopkins as Captain Bligh and Mel Gibson as Christian Fletcher, is reportedly more accurate to the source material than its two predecessors, but lacks epic scale or excitement.

Based on the 1968 comedy of the same name (which itself was based on an autobiographical book by Helen Beardsley), this remake is about nothing more than 2 middle - aged newlyweds, their ten kids, and a whole lot of chaos.

The tolerable new remake of that American standard (which itself was a remake of Akira Kurosawa's superior 1954 classic «The Seven Samurai») stresses multiculturalism more than machismo.

It was based off of the superior Dreamcast version (or more accurately, the high resolution XBLA remake) rather than the arcade version, and came equipped with just about everything that made it a classic back then, barring a couple of significant things...

Horror seems so much more prone to remakes than other types of movies.

While Nintendo's latest revisiting to Samus» story, Metroid: Samus Returns, has been touted as a fun remake of 1991's Metroid II: Return of Samus, in actuality its much more than a simple redo for the Nintendo 3DS.

This same premise holds for the remake, and it seems more pandering (and dated) than ever.

With a complete lack of self - awareness, this po - faced remake looks more like a trash - TV series (a la Spartacus or Camelot) than a proper movie.