Sentences with phrase «movie is a long shot»

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It's a long shot, but it explains the production involvement of Martin Scorsese in the movie.

««My Heart Aches for America,» was written 6 - 8 weeks ago — long before recent current events, such as the tragic shooting in an Aurora, Colo movie theater, or the ongoing Chik - fil - A controversy,» Ross said in an email to CNN.

The list of movies and TV shows that take shots at Christianity for the laughs is too long to try to list, which is what makes Black - ish so refreshing.

I am romantic, a guy who enjoys a long foreplay, walking while holding hands, kissing, loves playing chess and shooting pool, enjoys handling highly skilled home improvement tasks, watching movies and cable programs such as CNN, News, ID, Bio and NatGeo and listening to instrumental music.

I'm originally from Long Island, N.Y. I have 2 daughters I like to bowl, shoot pool, I like action movies some drama, and all kinds of music, especially reggae.

Beyond being one of our greatest filmmakers, he's also one of our most self - aware, and understands that he's crossing the streams a little: He shoots this political drama like a long - lost Indiana Jones movie.

So, I was okay with their doing it, as long as I could shoot the movie the way I wanted to, in anamorphic film, and then let them convert it.

At the Sunday panel, Hynes explained why Reverse Shot is such a special place for both writers and movie - lovers: «Writing for them I can go deep and long... while maintaining my voice.

At long last, Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard's horror movie starring Chris Hemsworth - who wasn't even Kirk's dad when the film was shot, let alone Thor - is getting a release date: April 13, 2012.

It was a mind bender that was filmed by cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki who made a bold choice to film the movie as if it's one long tracking shot that lasts for two hours.

Beautifully shot by cinematographer Benjamín Echazarreta, the movie slides into the surreal as Marina imagines herself in a dance club, a glittering version of the woman she longs to be.

The movie opens with a long, winding shot of a snake slinking in - between tall grass and tombstones and into a dark mansion to meet a shadowy figure assumed to be a still - weakened Voldemort.

This is an absolutely stunning movie to behold, particularly in the long shots.

While everyone was excited for video game heiress Lara Croft back when Angelina Jolie made a couple of Tomb Raider movies, there was a lot left to be desired, and even with the relative success of lady action stars finally getting their due, Alicia Vikander seemed like a long shot.

While this isn't a perfect movie by a long shot.

There are moments of real beauty in this movie — particular a bravura panning shot of every character in their own personalized train car, whether or not they're actually on the train — but the protagonists are the last people you'd ever want to be seated next to on a long trip, so watching them in a movie isn't much fun either.

The movie is also a marvel of economical editing; not a single shot is superfluous here, nor does any scene drag even a moment too long.

FYI Hollywood: Saying that your movie was «shot in 3D» is no longer a selling point.

So it was a long shoot and quite a big epic movie in one way, but very much a character drama, also some kind of reverse love story between my character and Tom's character: they've been married for eight years when the movie starts and it's like a cold war between them.

«There was one really long shot toward the end of the movie that's made up of three different shots.

It should not be confused wit that other long - awaited (and still untitled) Terrence Malick movie shot by Emmanuel Lubezki, which also stars Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, and Natalie Portman.

Smith had played Marjorie in Los Angeles and was in rehearsals for the stage version in New York as shooting began, juggling her schedule between the movie locations in Long Island and New York City.

Somewhere is a movie that requires patience to watch and surely required patience to make.The film opens with a two - minute - long static shot of a sportscar circling a dusty racetrack.

Mátyás Erdély Steven Soderbergh «s «Traffic» had defined the look of the Mexican cartel movie so strongly that last year's «Miss Bala» came as a real shock — long, graceful, precise Steadicam shots rather than sunwashed handheld.

Realy I am still mad at all critics with there intelligent educations to «teach «the dumbasses like me with filmhistory.Who cares if a movie is one long shot.

That's bad enough, but removed from all of that, the movie itself is a slog of repetitious melodrama, unconvincing performances (One suspects Allen went with the first take of each long shot), and over-the-top, neon - based mood lighting (provided by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro).

The story of Riggan Thomson's (Michael Keaton) effort to be taken seriously as an actor / director / playwright after having starred in three superhero movies twenty years ago — Birdman is directed as a continuous shot (which is difficult because the film takes place over a considerably longer period that its two - hour running time).

«Jurassic Park III» is certainly a long shot from the unforgettable 1993 blockbuster, but it isn't without appeal to generic monster movie lovers.

The loss in cinematic power is more evident in the types of visuals (split - screen shots that allowed focus choices now merely seem gimmicky) and in the runtime, where the movie is shy of even just an hour - long commercial television program and lacks the sensory overload to explain it.

«THE SIEGE» is a long - winded thriller that, like so many Hollywood movies now, boils down to the «money shot,» the gut - grabber that's played big in the ads and coming attractions.

The movie is described as a passion project for McCarten, and Wright could be a great fit to direct, especially given his phenomenal eye for things like Atonement «s amazingly long tracking shot of the evacuation at Dunkirk.

Another four will be in the thick of what should be an unusually brutal race for Best Animated Feature: Disney's «Zootopia» and Pixar's «Finding Dory» for sure, and potentially DreamWorks Animation / Fox's well - received «Kung Fu Panda 3» and Sony's «The Angry Birds Movie,» though that one is more of a long shot.

Given how long it typically takes to shoot a Bond movie (there are always multiple locations involving intricate stunts) they probably want to get started sooner rather than later so as to avoid the tight production turnaround that they worked with on Spectre.

The»90s - styled video is shot around Chicago; parts from the movie are projected onto the long - since demolished Chicago Stadium.

Blu - ray Highlight: The 30 - minute documentary «Between Good and Evil» is an excellent retrospective on making the movie, featuring interviews with various cast and crew, as well as a few Kubrick experts, about everything from the casting process, to filming in East London, to the director's notoriously long shooting schedules and much more.

It's not a silent movie by a long shot, but it does borrow a lot of silent cinema's language to guide viewers through a series of set pieces designed to jump - scare the fecal matter out of you.

Paranoid Park is certainly the filmmaker's most inaccessible effort to date, as the movie - which is chock full of all his expected stylistic quirks, including long tracking shots of people walking - ultimately feels as though it's about 20 minutes worth off story stretched out to fill a 90 minute running time.

True, Emma Watson just admitted to a secret crush, when she was 11, on the unobtainable 13 - year - old Felton («It's just testament to how long we've been bloody shooting these movies!»

Shot over the course of 18 days at the Savernam Estate's cavernous Tottenhouse House in the English countryside — a location that effectively doubles as an extra character in the otherwise spare, intimate psychological drama — the movie unfolds in mostly long - take wide shots, though Rumley also isn't afraid to stage a canted angle for art's sake.

Too many songs are shot in long, single - shot close - ups of the actor singing; the intent may have been to further showcase the performance (and to keep the actors from running out of breath — witness Redmayne's dodgy vocal performance while forced to walk and sing during «In My Life»), but in practice it makes the movie visually static when everything about it is constantly moving.

As impressive as this single shot is, the movie doesn't hold it long enough for us to fully appreciate it.

The Five - Year Engagement, which runs longer than two hours and invites all kinds of bitter jokes about the title, is another collaboration between writer / director Nicholas Stoller and writer / star Jason Segel in which they seem to have written and shot a movie that is four hours long, then awkwardly stuffed it into a still - overlong two - hour frame

Up until that point, women shooting hoops on the big screen was unheard of (it's been equally unexplored ever since) and it remains refreshing to see a sports movie playing out from a woman's point of view and especially one that refuses to indulge our more traditionalist view of the genre, focusing on the long game rather than the easy win.

What makes Muhammad Ali: The Long - Lost Movie so fascinating is the fact that it was shot in 1973 and 1974 when he was close to completing his amazing comeback to champ against what were considered the longest of odds.

It has come, it's here and we will now see the results of that over the upcoming years, because that's how long it takes to write, fund and shoot movies, so hopefully this is the beginning,» Natalie added.

About five minutes after entering the Perron residence it's clear he has no idea what he's signed on for and his reaction shots and penchant for doing the «acting stupid in a horror movie» go a long way to bringing needed moments of humor to the film.

Starting things off, there's an audio commentary from director Mark Hartley, joined by «Ozploitation Auteurs» Brian Trenchard - Smith, Antony I. Ginnane, John D. Lamond, David Hannay, Richard Brennan, Alan Finney, Vincent Monton, Grant Page, and Roger Ward; a set of 26 deleted and extended scenes, now with optional audio commentary from Hartley and editors Sara Edwards and Jamie Blanks; The Lost NQH Interview: Chris Lofven, the director of the film Oz; A Word with Bob Ellis (which was formerly an Easter Egg on DVD); a Quentin Tarantino and Brian Trenchard - Smith interview outtake; a Melbourne International Film Festival Ozploitation Panel discussion; Melbourne International Film Festival Red Carpet footage; 34 minutes of low tech behind the scenes moments which were shot mostly by Hartley; a UK interview with Hartley; The Bazura Project interview with Hartley; The Monthly Conversation interview with Hartley; The Business audio interview with Hartley; an extended Ozploitation trailer reel (3 hours worth), with an opening title card telling us that Brian Trenchard - Smith cut together most of the trailers (Outback, Walkabout, The Naked Bunyip, Stork, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, three for Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, Libido, Alvin Purple, Alvin Rides Again, Petersen, The Box, The True Story of Eskimo Nell, Plugg, The Love Epidemic, The Great MacArthy, Don's Party, Oz, Eliza Fraser, Fantasm, Fantasm Comes Again, The FJ Holden, High Rolling, The ABC of Love and Sex: Australia Style, Felicity, Dimboola, The Last of the Knucklemen, Pacific Banana, Centrespread, Breakfast in Paris, Melvin, Son of Alvin, Night of Fear, The Cars That Ate Paris, Inn of the Damned, End Play, The Last Wave, Summerfield, Long Weekend, Patrick, The Night, The Prowler, Snapshot, Thirst, Harlequin, Nightmares (aka Stage Fright), The Survivor, Road Games, Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior), Strange Behavior, A Dangerous Summer, Next of Kin, Heatwave, Razorback, Frog Dreaming, Dark Age, Howling III: The Marsupials, Bloodmoon, Stone, The Man from Hong Kong, Mad Dog Morgan, Raw Deal, Journey Among Women, Money Movers, Stunt Rock, Mad Max, The Chain Reaction, Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Attack Force Z, Freedom, Turkey Shoot, Midnite Spares, The Return of Captain Invincible, Fair Game, Sky Pirates, Dead End Drive - In, The Time Guardian, Danger Freaks); Confession of an R - Rated Movie Maker, an interview with director John D. Lamond; an interview with director Richard Franklin on the set of Patrick; Terry Bourke's Noon Sunday Reel; the Barry McKenzie: Ogre or Ocker vintage documentary; the Inside Alvin Purple vintage documentary; the To Shoot a Mad Dog vintage documentary; an Ozploitation stills and poster gallery; a production gallery; funding pitches; and the documentary's original theatrical trailer.

Critics praised the film's commitment to humor, and the chemistry of its stars, with USAToday's Brian Truitt saying «Even tonal issues can't upend the magic this movie taps into putting Thor and Hulk together as new best buddies, whether they're throwing down in an arena or having a bromantic heart - to - heart,» while the AP's Lindsey Bahr said «Thor: Ragnarok is the most fun of the Thor movies by a long shot, but it is still very much a Thor movie for better or worse.»

The central gimmick is daring and thrilling, of course: the sensation that director Alejandro G. Inarritu shot this movie in one long, single take, through narrow corridors and up and down stairways and onto the streets and rooftops of Times Square.

The Filipino writer - director Lav Diaz is the definition of a «not for every taste» filmmaker: His movies are stark, long (like, four - plus hours long), and patience - testing, filmed mostly on black - and - white digital video in static master shots.