Overall, though, Gravity is awe - inspiring film - making with an originality and level of crasftmanship that leaves
most other blockbusters looking leaden.
Not exact matches
The Lib Dems used to be the
most relaxed - no Ben Gurion airport - style security, use your proper conference pass if you fancy, but the game would be to find how many
other passes you could wave in front of some elderly volunteer to gain admittance: your BBC pass, your
blockbuster video card - even your Caffé Nero loyalty card.
A junior - league rip - off of Rocky (and countless
other boxing films), the movie doesn't just borrow from Stallone's proto - Reaganite
blockbuster — it all but samples it, sprinkling in bits and pieces from
most of the
other go - for - it sagas (The Karate Kid, An Officer and a Gentleman) that Rocky made possible.
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.
However, what sets Dawn apart from
other blockbusters, is its rich and emotionally complex characters, well
most of them.
We love it for its globe - spanning cast of should - know - better Shakespearian talent; for its mixed bag of ideas (
most originating in Herbert's book,
others, like the gratuitous heart plugs, from Lynch's own warped mind); for its twisted wedding of ornate Euro - pudding epic, grotesque experimental horror flick and action
blockbuster; for the stunning cinematography, immersive sets and beautiful costumes — and yes, even Sting's black nappy.
Jason Clarke, sporting his native Aussie accent (not seen
other Hollywood
Blockbusters such as Zero Dark Thirty or Dawn of Planet of the Apes) accompanies a great cast, including Jake Gyllenhaal, John Hawkes, Michael Kelley, Josh Brolin and Sam Worthington up the side of the worlds tallest peak, while their wives,
most prominently Keira Knightley (also, possibly Emily Watson and Robin Wright who are also in the cast) hold their breath and cry on the
other end of a telephone.
Under the competent hands of America's
most consistently mediocre director (Ron Howard, subbing in for the LEGO guys), Solo is a perfectly fine bit of
blockbuster action filmmaking, with a capable cast and some neat special effects upholding a wholly conventional screenplay with nary a hint of the idiosyncrasy that has marked every
other Star Wars film, for good or for ill.
Due to
most - favored - nation royalty provisions that would require the publisher to increase royalties to dozens of
other authors if they paid a higher royalty percentage to a
blockbuster author, publishers increase the effective royalty to the
blockbuster author by paying an advance that will never be earned out.
Most Wii games just are not able to stand up to the caliber of high profile, big budget
blockbuster games that you see on
other consoles.
The industry of Video Games is one of the
most successful industries in the recent decades, and this is due to the huge
blockbuster titles pumped out one after the
other from different publishers and...
God of War finally joins
other blockbuster PS4 titles in having its own photo mode with which to capture the game's
most visually stunning moments.
Opening during Frieze week this October, this ambitious exhibition — featuring a range of historical and recent works by Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg, Ryan Gander, Rodney Graham, Susan Hiller, Shirazeh Houshiary, Richard Long and Stanley Whitney (among
others to be announced) in a variety of media, as well as many commissioned works on a large scale — will be staged at London's
most dynamic new space, The Store Studios, 180 The Strand, host of last year's
blockbuster exhibition jointly staged by the Hayward Gallery and The Vinyl Factory, «The Infinite Mix: Contemporary Sound and Image.»