Sentences with phrase «movies about fighting»

I agree, both great movies about fighting corruption.

There are moments in Real Steel where I forgot I'd already seen enough movies about fighting robots, forgot I was too old to be the target audience, forgot that I think Hugh Jackman is turning smarmier with every passing film, forgot that overly expressive child actors set my teeth on edge, forgot to think about all the other underdog / boxing / father - son movies this one is ripping off.

Putting the right film making team together to build an anti-conformist movie about fighting for creative freedom.

Hong Kong action stalwart Tsui Hark updates a popular Chinese opera into a half - square / half - bizarre historical war movie about the fight between the People's Liberation Army and a thousand - strong horde of bandits.

«Pride» overstuffs itself with too many characters and too many subplots, but the impact of these musical moments, along with a stellar ensemble of actors, make this an effective feel - good movie about fighting the power.

The narrative — if you can call it that — sees the eponymous pink - haired Neptune and her friends making a movie about fighting zombies... and yeah, that's about it.

Not exact matches

What's not too like about him starring in a movie with giant animals fighting and destroying a city, right?

The movie was hot and people were talking about it, but he also thought he could do something much better given his background, so he created some stop - motion videos, such as an animated fight between Optimus Prime and Bumblebee.

I have yet to come up with a solution for the inevitable fight about what movie to watch next.

This time, Wix.com launched its Super Bowl marketing campaign on Facebook Live, debuting a video featuring action movie stars Jason Statham and Gal Gadot fighting in (and destroying) a restaurant while a distracted chef in the kitchen reads about a new Wix contest offering users a chance to win up to $ 50,000.

My biggest concern about the movie is that, while its female characters are strong and complex, the men are largely portrayed as helpless oafs, breaking out into silly fights at every opportunity and generally complicating matters with their stupidity.

The first is the Gibson we love — fighting for Scottish freedom, winning Oscars, crafting a powerful movie about the crucifixion.

Blame it on the kids screaming about which movie they want to watch, so I had to turn around and break up the fight.

A made - for - television movie about Mr. Dees aired on NBC; «Line of Fire» describes his successful fight against the Ku Klux Klan.

Many BabyCenter en Español moms and dads found names in telenovelas, TV shows, or movies about organized crime or horror — although they tended to choose the names of celebrities who battled the villains in these stories or fought for a more just world.

What I love most about them is that they have a share port, so multiple kids can tune into the in - flight movie without fighting.

Reality shows and movies about mixed martial artists may make it seem like fighting is an easy way to become rich.

In other words, if fighting superbugs is like a horror movie, the approach can tell if the call is coming from inside the house, or if the killer is lurking outside and about to barge through the door.

But if you're looking for clarity or anything beyond robot fights or people yelling at each other about robot fights, then you bought a ticket to the wrong movie.

No recent movie about The Troubles gives the audience the emotions, the pure hatred between the two forces, with the impact of «' 71,» the credit going not only to Jack O'Connell, known to us mostly for his role as the rebellious prisoners in «Starred Up» (never mind that the dialogue was largely indecipherable), but also to director Yann Demanage for setting up realistic seeming fight scenes, a series of breathless chases, and a sense of neighborhood that Demange found not in present day Belfast but in the English town of Sheffield.

From tornadoes and tsunamis to asteroids and volcanoes, there is no shortage of movies about humans fighting Mother Nature to survive.

The movie stop - starts between fight - chase sequences played out against pop tunes from Quill's beloved mix - tape; there's something a little alienating about the repeated use of dissonance between the cheery songs («Come a Little Bit Closer» by Jay & The Americans) and the slomo violence meted out by the Guardians.

Chadwick Boseman spoke about the movie during a set visit as part of the promotion for the movie and was asked why Earth's mightiest heroes and, some of their companions from space, wind up fighting in Wakanda.

But The Gifted supplies some additional reasons anyway, with customary vagueness about how it fits into a greater continuity: The X-Men as the public knows them have «disappeared,» and it's (intentionally) difficult to tell whether this is an early step in the process that leads to the mutant - light world of Logan, the mutant - annihilating alternate timeline of Days Of Future Past, or just a contemporary version of the periodic X-Men recessions that seem to plague the earlier incarnations of the team (Days Of Future Past and Apocalypse have both Xavier's school and his injustice - fighting squadron expanding and receding as needed — part of that infinite - origins deal the X-Men movies traffic in).

In other words, it delivers exactly what a movie about Nazi zombies fighting Russian zombies in some Stalingrad - redux zombie showdown promises to deliver.

It's difficult to imagine that even an ideal audience — i.e., people who harbor fantasies of being best friends with a president who's willing to kick some ass, and also believe that today's action movies don't feature enough knife fighting — would find much to get excited about in London Has Fallen.

There is nothing inappropriate, but a film about fighting might not be every parent's idea of a family movie.

I'm not sure how the fact that this is a sci - fi movie about robots fighting monsters excuses lazy writing and poor characterisation.

The film opens on the island of Themyscira, a paradise island created by the god Zeus and hidden from the real world by a protective shield, and the film stays there for a while as we follow Diana from curious little girl to fully trained warrior princess but once Steve Trevor's fighter plane crashes there and Diana realises there is a war being fought in world she does not know of that is not too far away then we swiftly get brought into London in 1918 and this shift from fantasy into a «real world» scenario gives the film a greater sense of depth, and when combined with characters that you actually care about then Wonder Woman is head and shoulders above all of the other DCEU movies on the strength of that alone.

So perhaps now we know what causes Kong and Godzilla to fight in some future movie: it's just a beef about their relative storylines.

The worse thing that could have happened is that we got another Godzilla, another movie about monsters fighting each other, but trying to make it an OSCAR - worthy drama.

John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the team behind the recent Ed Helms - led Vacation movie — or the guys who wrote The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, if you're feeling mean — have sold a new series about sad adults fighting a teenage street gang to Fox.

Arrow films has two new Blu - rays this week: John Milius» «Dillinger,» about the true - life story of the titular gangster played by Warren Oates, and the Nico Mastorakis» B - movie «The Zero Boys» about a paintball team that discovers a massacre in the mountains and must fight the enemy with real weapons.

At its core it's a movie about two detectives solving a case and fighting crime.

Contrast that with the much - larger budget Pixels, a movie about Adam Sandler and Kevin James fighting arcade game characters in New York City.

when i first heard about robot fighting movie with Hugh Jackman I thought it was gonna be like the robot wars on discovery channel 6 - 7 years ago, but a bit more modern, with Jackman mentoring his kid to building a prize bot.

Albeit, like Memento and Fight Club, a trick movie that reflects the post-modern equivalence of simulation and reality that Chuck Klosterman, apparently ripping off one of my college Film Theory papers writes about in Sex, Drugs and Cocoa - Puffs.

Hunting Bourne are a group of CIA spooks who travel and fight Bourne alone, which is about as smart as a group of enemies taking turns to fight the hero in a martial arts movie.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 23, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Hunger Games (PG - 13 for intense violence and disturbing images) Screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins» futuristic sci - fi novel about a 16 year - old girl (Jennifer Lawrence) who volunteers to take her unlucky younger sister's (Willow Shields) place in a nationally - televised fight to the death featuring 24 participants picked by a government lottery.

Movies about gritty men with gritty jobs only get made when something terrible happens (see also: Lone Survivor, Deepwater Horizon), so you know going in that Only The Brave, a film about a group of wildfire - fighting «hotshots», is going to have something terrible in it.

As enjoyable as the bulk of Mini-Me's antics are, his knock - down, drag - out fight with Austin is a less effective retread of the MTV Movie Award - winning Ben Stiller - Puffy the Dog confrontation in There's Something About Mary.

If you've ever seen his movies, check out undisputed 3 or Blood and Bone also, he's got the fighting prowess and he's about the right age and could pass for younger...

It's not an easy weatherscape to work in, but this movie is about embracing so we didn't fight it, we worked with it and what it was offering us.

It's hard enough to sit through a 30 second cartoon Mucinex commercial about fighting off a virus, let alone a feature length movie.

It's a movie about battles worth fighting.

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

And so the movie has a lot of dingy, grungy battle sequences, with modern - day martial arts fighting techniques, featuring enemy warriors we don't know and care little about.

Fortunately, like any good action movie, Captain America: Civil War is about more than just fighting.

The list of war movies is endless, but not so films about what happens when those men come back from the fight.

The movie is actually about two very different groups, on opposite sides of the Mexican - American border, who are fighting the cartels, and Heineman cuts back and forth between them in a way that creates an entirely false equivalence.