Sentences with phrase «movie about an alien»

The promotional materials for Thor: Ragnarok continue to give us pretty much everything we could want from a superhero movie about alien space - Norse gods duking it out: Jeff Goldblum being hammy, Hulk punching giant wolves and fire giants, and Chris Hemsworth affably goofing his way through another turn as the...

All I can say is «Of course, Spielberg would have an Executive Producer credit on a movie about aliens.

A fear of the unknown comes with movies about aliens, but «Annihilation» is bad at developing tension because it forces its characters to have the minds of teenagers at Camp Crystal Lake.

This backdrop of inequities and economic hardship is a vivid backdrop to what might otherwise be a simple B - movie about an alien invasion hiding in plain sight, indistinguishable from the humans beside them but for one thing: they are the 1 %.

Not exact matches

Apparently, audiences were not interested in seeing a nearly three - hour - long movie about a robotic alien truck eluding the clutches of an intergalactic bounty hunter by joining forces with prehistoric robot dinosaurs — that would be Transformers: Age of Extinction — or that one where Tom Cruise is repeatedly killed while fending off an alien invasion... or something.

In this wide - ranging, humorous talk, Seth Shostak takes a look at Star Wars and other science fiction films from the point of view of a skeptical scientist, tells stories about the movies he has been asked to advise, and muses about aliens from space and how we might make contact with them.

The early part of the movie, when Wikus gets exposed to the fluid, you'd think that the MNU or gov» t officials would have some kind of quarantine system in place, in case alien bio-matter intermingles with human... and indeed later on you hear about there being other cases of mutation — possibly induced by the illegal experiments — so they knew this kind of thing could happen... it seemed to me very reckless to have Wikus stumble about, puking his guts, bleeding from his nose, and not have his co-workers immediately call the medvac people in.

Collateral Beauty is one of those cloying movies about learning to take the good with the bad that feels like it was made by aliens with little grasp of human life.

District 9 is partly presented as a faux documentary (rather than a mockumentary, which is what Roger Ebert wrongly labels the film... there is nothing funny about this movie), detailing how 20 years earlier, a huge alien spaceship (think Independence Day) parked itself over Johannesburg and... sat there.

While the title may suggest this movie is about «Transformers», those robot aliens play second fiddle to the humans in this flick.

Excellent movie about a boy who finds an alien and tries to help him get home.

Adam Sandler does it again: this movie about an invasion by aliens disguised as 1980s video game characters is complete rubbish

Gerald's Game, a Stephen King adaptation for Netflix starring Carla Gugino, is good Coming Soon Daniel Dae Kim's stunt training for the Hellboy reboot / Film Hocus Pocus moves forward as a TV movie remake - none of the original actors or filmmaking team are involved David Poland on Blade Runner 2049 with no spoilers «It is Aliens to Alien»... whoa, that's high praise Billboard composer Danny Elfman interviewed about Superman's iconic theme (redeployed for Justice League) and his long collaboration with Gus Van Sant Playbill Judy Garland's final concert, restored / remastered from 1969 will be released for the first time i09 on why you should be watching the Exorcist TV series, back for Season 2 / Film Amazon still has a lot of work to do to catch up with Netflix and Hulu but they're diving into the sci - fi genre big time

Meanwhile, if you think a movie about an ugly blue alien can't have a romantic subplot then you're wrong!

On the flip side the Aliens are reduced to cheap slasher thrills, just tacky monsters that kill faceless people that no one cares about, real «Friday the 13th» «Critters» B - movie type schlock.

«Where I developed the idea of them and what I wanted them to look like was most alien movies are about takeovers, agendas, they're a thinking alien creature, and for me this idea of a predator, this idea of a parasite, this idea of something that is introduced into an ecosystem [was interesting].»

The internet calmly took this news in by immediately casting about for wild rumors regarding what this might mean for the second film — specifically, the idea that once it was made clear the Captain Marvel movie (coming out in between the two Avengers films) would feature the Skrulls (a race of green - skinned shape changers, for all you non-comic nerds), the fourth Avengers movie would turn its attention to a «secret invasion» storyline, starring said aliens.

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Bummed about the decline of the Alien movies?

Mix that in with a film that includes aliens, a god and an android (among other oddities) and it is difficult to believe that such a movie could be called the «most human» film in a massive franchise, but that's exactly how Anthony Mackie, who portrays the hero Falcon (aka Sam Wilson) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, feels about Avengers: Infinity War.

As the official synopsis puts it: «Part road movie, part science - fiction, part real, it's a film about seeing our world through alien eyes.»

I approached this movie with great reluctance upon first hearing about it: «An alien wanders through the streets of Glasgow in a van, hoping to lure unsuspecting men, so that she can farm their bodies in some kind of deep dark void, hidden within an old abandoned house.»

Sci - Fi Movie Page Pick: Based on the classic Robert Heinlein story about alien invaders taking over humans (which served as inspiration later on for the famous 1940s Invasion of the Body Snatchers novel by Jack Finney, which has been filmed three times!).

As you likely know from the trailers, the scifi movie Edge of Tomorrow is about Tom Cruise reliving a single day until he can somehow change the course of a battle against alien invaders.

Little is known about how Captain Marvel will adapt this storyline, outside of the fact that it takes place in the 90s, but it's interesting that the movie will draw more attention to two alien races that are vitally important to Annihilation.

The latest trailer for the latest movie about giant fighting robots will have you fired up for an alien invasion

Alien is revered as one of the greatest horror films of all time, as well as one of the greatest films set in space, so what happens when the director of the film that originated the franchise returns to it to provide us back - story about one of the biggest monster movie icons more than three decades after the fact?

But what if we are talking about a great horror movie with befanged aliens?

The movie is really about the human interaction with the backdrop of an alien invasion, and that element is developed surprisingly well.

GQ — Every once in the rarest while, a young actor shows up in a movie like an alien — anonymous and yet in possession of such preternatural talent that audiences start thinking about the actor's future not in years but in decades.

«Prometheus» was set in the late 21st Century and about 30 years before the events in Scott's 1979 movie «Alien.»

It's the first time the pair worked together since 1982, when she penned a certain little movie about a stranded alien.

Filmmaker behind the new Marvel blockbuster talks about designing the movie's outrageous look, playing a rock alien and Cate Blanchett acting silly

It started as a game that charmed us by its B movie qualities and have exploded into a fully fledge franchise about killing aliens (bugs and robots) bigger than buildings.

Todd McCarthy at The Hollywood Reporter says it's the best entry in the franchise since Aliens and again talks about the balance between two sides of the movie:

At its most fundamental level, «Alien» is a movie about things that can jump out of the dark and kill you.

We recently had a chance to sit down and speak with Dianna Agron about her new film, her character, and how this movie will be different than other aliens films.

So when you buy a ticket for a movie about a square, suburban neighborhood - watch team defending their small town from aliens, you know what you're getting from a glance at the poster: Stiller will be in furrowed - brow funnyman mode; Vince Vaughn is on board to provide warp - speed patter and full - frontal dudity; and Jonah Hill will do some variation of his peeved, passive - aggressive nerd thing.

That means we're getting James Franco and Danny McBride in an Alien movie, and that's just weird to think about.

During the show, he talks to his nine - year - old son Nicholas about one of the movies (not the Alien one) and also interviews Jerusalem Press Club's Uri Dromi about another film in the line - up (the Norman one).

Despite whispers of a sequel ever since the release of the first movie, it's taken twenty years for the follow - up to the blockbuster alien invasion flick Independence Day to become a reality, and during an anniversary screening of the film, director Roland Emmerich has been talking to Entertainment Weekly about why we've waited so long -LSB-...]

But this is not a movie about people or even about aliens (we only get fleeting glimpses of the enemy).

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During Flickering Myth's chat with DeObia Oparei about Independence Day: Resurgence, the actor's onscreen debut came up: another science fiction movie, Alien 3.

After the screening, however, that man accosted me for spoiling the movie and said I was wrong about an alien.

The story has been praised for being original, but it's simply Alien Nation combined with any movie about Apartheid.

Like characters in one of those zombie movies where no one says «zombie,» the crew of the Cloverfield space station — a big metal psilocybin mushroom orbiting near - future Earth — doesn't know what it's in for, having left our planet without ever having seen a single sci - fi horror movie: not Alien, not Event Horizon, and definitely nothing about science gone wrong.

What does it say that most movies about making contact with an alien species inevitably devolve into a bloodbath?

The movie would be about a family holed up at their farm while a group of aliens (referred to as «ETs» in the script) laid siege using their powers, which included limited telepathy and telekinesis and, of course, powerful glowing fingers (which one alien used to blow up cattle).

Not so much a sequel as another stultifying character drama set in a world overrun by aliens, this 10 - years - later spinoff switches directors and genres, as first - timer Tom Green (building on experience from British TV's «Misfits» and «Blackout») helms a taxingly over-earnest war movie set in an unspecified Middle Eastern country, where American soldiers deal with insurgents while the menacing MTRs (as they're now called) lumber about in the background.