Sentences with phrase «movie than a collection»

«Less of a movie than a collection of sketches organized around a character, slapped together with little regard for structure or continuity» — Norm Wilner, NOW Magazine

Not exact matches

Plus there's no story at all to the game itself — it's just a random collection of unrelated puzzles, which is still more than can be said for the movie itself.

But The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is ultimately far too long and ungainly for its own good, more a collection of jammed - up scenes and ideas than anything you could call a movie.

Growing up in New York, Peele would spend his nights obsessively poring over the films of Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick and David Cronenberg, favoring horror titles among his collection of more than 300 VHS movies.

But it's much better that I watch a collection in a movie than clutter my house with more stuff, so Nintendo Quest is the perfect movie for me.

In truth, it's a lot easier not to mind a modest collection of extras today than it was 10 - 12 years ago when the previous movies first came to DVD in loaded 2 - disc sets.

Today brings yet another eclectic collection of movie posters, which feature masked murderers, religious vampire hunters, monster - patrolling detectives, rocking easter bunnies and a more - than - half - naked man tattooed with a variety of brand names.

Lastly, Leonard Maltin introduces a collection of shorts in the «Warner Night at the Movies» section, that recreate the kind of pre-television programming that audiences enjoyed for less than 25 cents in cinemas.

For their patience, Disney is basically asking them to either go without this movie in their DVD collections, pay more than the should for this lackluster presentation, or go region - free and import the long - available widescreen disc from overseas.

Days of Being Wild and Chungking Express are both episodic — closer to story collections than to novels — and even this movie, which unlike these two doesn't derive from material originated by Wong, breaks up much of the story into discrete segments.

Anything more than 95 minutes is asking for quite a bit, and given that the movie only begrudgingly has a plot at all, what we have is a collection of skit - like scenes of two characters doing idiotic things, which does tend to grow tedious after a bit since every joke has the same punch line — these guys are unfathomably dumb.

The performance feels like more of a departure than it really is because Sandler often positions himself as an outsider in his movies (especially the early ones)-- and offscreen, too, when he avoids sit - down interviews, makes low - key jabs at mean critics, and surrounds himself with his ever - growing collection of backslapping buddies.

Get On Up is a case of a worthy subject, a mostly spot - on lead performance, and plenty of fantastic music, and yet, when it's all said and done, it's not much more than a collection of interesting moments that don't add up to a particularly inspirational movie.

Johnston's old - fashioned modus operandi proves effective at carrying the proceedings through its few underwhelming stretches, and it's finally clear that Captain America: The First Avenger remains a cut above its lackluster Marvel brethren for most of its running time (if only because it primarily resembles an actual movie more than it does a collection of special effects sequences).

The claim of underwhelming sales seems supported by this fall's DVD slate, in which Disney is repackaging the newly - discontinued Vault Disney DVDs of The Parent Trap and Old Yeller with their respective sequels as «2 - Movie Collections» that have already enjoyed heavier promotion than their first DVD incarnations ever did.

And while The Fighting Temptations isn't quite as bad as Snow Dogs, Boat Trip, or Men of Honor, it's somehow less of a movie than either — a collection of flimsy narrative excuses for musical numbers that manages to suggest that poor southern African - Americans are slavishly devoted to the word of New York advertising executives while confirming that there are some characters so revolting as to indeed be above redemption.

It's useless to get mad at this movie, which is nothing more than a collection of jokes about bodily functions that occasionally laughs at people injuring themselves in order to take a break from gags about urine, vomit, soft - serve chocolate ice cream that looks like it's coming out of a man's rear end, a showroom - floor toilet that a different man sleepily decides to use to deposit what the ice cream is representing, another guy showing off his ability to «burp - sneeze - fart,» and more.

For fans of the trading card collections worth of superheroes on display, this is an event movie in the mold of the The Phantom Menace opening night, and for them it's a triumphant juggling act full of more spine - tingling Spidey - sense moments than even Peter Parker could handle.

Not only does the movie look better than I've ever seen it before, but the amount and quality of the special features make this a great addition to any Blu - ray collection.

I'm sorry FG, but tilting the thumbnails on a list by 5 degrees or so as I scroll doesn't not make my movie collection look any better than if it just scrolled with no tilting.

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Marvel's collections add to hoopla's catalog of more than 600,000 movies, TV shows, music albums, eBooks, audiobooks and comics.

A DVD library houses a collection of more than 200 movies for use with in - room DVD players.

But searching through the voluminous collection of private artwork — Burton has kept nearly everything he's produced, even from his earliest youth — Magliozzi was reminded more of newspaper comics, sci - fi movies, and bubble - gum cards than of Otto Dix or Hans Bellmer.

The Wayland Rudd Collection exhibition examines representations of Africans in Soviet culture during this time, taking as its departure point more than 200 images including paintings, movie stills, posters and graphics from the collection of New York - based, Moscow - born artist Yevgeniy Fiks.

Just opened is Mummy: Secrets of the Tomb, a U.S. exclusive from the world - renowned British Museum collection, featuring a 3D movie and more than 100 artifacts, including human and animal mummies.

Released Sept. 18, «Separate Cinema: The First 100 Years of Black Poster Art» offers a visual documentation of Black film history via graphic advertisements drawn from The Separate Cinema Archive, a private collection of Black film memorabilia described as containing more than 35,000 movie posters, lobby cards and photographs.

For example, you can have the most expensive coin collection in your apartment that is worth more than the jewelry a movie star keeps in their rented beach house that is the equivalent of a beachfront mansion.

The collection is a lot more substantive than your usual VR film tie - in, but with a few exceptions, the designers apparently didn't get the rights to all the movie and game franchises Spielberg did.

Or maybe you have less - than - mainstream taste in movies, and the metadata scraping fails more often than not — tweaking a few artwork entries manually in Plex is easy enough, but doing your whole collection that way would get old fast, and doing the whole library yourself is usually a better bet.

But if you have a movie collection burned to a PC in your home, Plex can do a lot more for you than an average OTA DVR.

Kaleidescape systems make managing and exploring movie collections easier and better than ever, with totally unique features like instant access to iconic scenes and an industry - first Blu - ray quality download store.

Our movie collection is quite a bit larger than shown, the rest of them are in our family room downstairs.