Sentences with phrase «most modern blockbusters»

Like most modern blockbusters, Age of Ultron runs a little long, but fortunately there's not too much padding and its new characters grab shares of screen time in direct proportion to how entertaining they are.

There's a single moment in Jaws that reveals why the film remains so much more memorable than most modern blockbusters.

Not exact matches

The modern noir — about the search for a missing child — shows that Ben Affleck isn't just a blockbuster movie star; he's also one of his generation's most notable filmmakers.

With only two or so hours of story time, the movies have been forced to sacrifice swaths of her material, and while the scripts have been largely models of adaptation — most, this one included, are by Steve Kloves — the emphasis on action (and interminable games of quidditch) was also a concession to the action - imperative of the modern blockbuster.

Just as they did with «21 Jump Street» and «Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs» before this most ambitious undertaking, co-helmers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller irreverently deconstruct the state of the modern blockbuster and deliver a smarter, more satisfying experience in its place, emerging with a fresh franchise for others to build upon.

• Most scenes in modern blockbusters — superhero movies, comic book stories, FX - driven tentpoles, etc. — feel both perfunctory and dead on arrival.

THE SHARK IS NOT WORKING by Richard Cordiner A look behind the scenes at the making of one of the most troubled film shoots that would go on to become the first modern blockbuster — «Jaws.»

Scott also noted the most troubling factor of Avengers, and indeed, the whole modern blockbuster genre: The sense that Avengers is not so much a movie as it is an annual product launch for a major corporation, featuring characters that are all «dutiful corporate citizens, serving a conveniently vague set of principles.»

As someone who always enjoyed the overly dramatic popcorn summer blockbuster stories of the Modern Combat campaigns, this is a bummer, but I also can't blame Gameloft as the online multiplayer is always the thing that brings players coming back for years in most first - person shooters anyway.

WHY: Most directors would take a much deserved vacation after wrapping on a movie as massive as «The Avengers,» but not Joss Whedon, who used his short break between filming and post-production on the Marvel blockbuster to shoot this modern day version of «Much Ado About Nothing» with some friends at his house.

Besides, most audiences weaned on the modern production values found in special effects blockbusters such as, er, Star Wars will probably find the original 1951 Black & White Day the Earth Stood Still to be pretty staid and inaccessible.

When: June 7th Why: Most directors would take a much deserved vacation after wrapping on a movie as massive as «The Avengers,» but not Joss Whedon, who used his short break between filming and post-production on the Marvel blockbuster to shoot a modern day version of «Much Ado About Nothing» with some friends at his house.

(Yes, I know... but the modern «blockbuster novel» that supports most of traditional publishing didn't really come around until the late 1960s and early 1970s and didn't become part of the traditional publishing business plan until the 1980s.)

At most blockbusters, museums do not allow photography, but the Museum of Modern Art was inviting a fresh look at its permanent collection.