Sentences with phrase «much as movies»

I believe that 13 Ghosts could have been made forty - some years ago by Roger Corman, with a hell of a cheaper budget, Vincent Price in the role of the power - hungry uncle, and ended up having a certain cult / camp value (much as all movies like that do).

Her big - screen appearances as Lara Croft (in 2001 and 2003) weren't much as movies go — I'd actually forgotten there was a sequel — but Jolie's defiant air of confidence took care of business.

Most startups, as much as the movies would have you believe, don't run like clockwork.

It shows that he can be a strong character actor as much as a movie star.

That is to be expected with 8 short films in one package, but I don't think, at the very least, that I've ever seen one miss the mark so much as this movie has.

«Jerry Maguire» (1996) Cruise may have given better acting performances, but he's never shone as much as a movie star as he did in his first collaboration with Cameron Crowe, «Jerry Maguire.»

Must have forgotten her, much as the movie does for large swaths of time.)

I think some people went over board on the praise in review, but not as much as this movie does on gratuitous violence and gore.

It would have been nice if the movie explored the logical inconsistency of essentially forcing a man into servitude in the name of freedom, but as much as the movie tries, there simply aren't any decent ideas here.

That is why Hollywood stars are worth the salaries they are getting, and why some stars now make as much as a movie used to cost.

After a while, it becomes repetitive, because, as much as the movie tries to illuminate the inner workings of this character, the flashbacks and hallucinations feel like hollow explanations.

You realize you have not been watching a movie about parenthood as much as a movie about the relationship we have with a different moment in our life.

The script, which while akin to his masterpiece, Pan's Labyrinth fails to engage or entertain us anywhere near as much as that movie did, and the dialogue, particularly some of Hiddleston's lines, are very clichéd and corny, and you can also almost guess where proceedings are going to lead to next.

Gather in the soaring social room, much as movie stars and other guests did decades ago for cocktails and conversation, then look up at walnut paneling and 16th century tapestries.

On the one hand it's a thematically interesting choice, because really it's not exactly the best movie that wins so much as the movie that was most historically accurate, but on the other hand this method encourages players to more carefully choose their scripts and characters, especially since you get bonus Victory Points for every matching character, points that are doubled if the produced movie is a Kollosal.

Sure, Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist is a well - made, serious take on a small part of Street Fighter's lore, but it's almost too serious (as much as a movie featuring a guy wearing a Ken wig and a bright red gi can be considered serious).

Large in concept and scale, each painting offers lavish twists and turns of narrative that draw us into the visual space of the painting, much as a movie pulls us into the imagined world of the filmmaker.

Not exact matches

The Journal report said that Comcast could pay as much as $ 3 billion for DreamWorks, and would combine that business with its existing Universal movie and TV unit as a way of taking on Disney in the animation market.

MoviePass, a subscription service that allows users to go see one movie a day in theaters, made waves in August when it dropped its price from as much as $ 50 per month to only $ 10.

2016 was an especially monster year for Disney at the box office distinguishing it from much of Hollywood as the movie studio continues to close ranks around its core franchises, such as Pixar and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Everyone talked about how Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence weren't paid as much as their male co-stars [in the movie American Hustle] and also how Angelina Jolie was called a «minimally talented spoiled brat» by producer Scott Rudin.

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.

Cloud gaming: Services such as Onlive, which stream video games over an Internet connection in much the same way that Netflix does with movies, are already here, but they probably won't be fully viable until the majority of homes have ultra-fast connections.

If he can convince American voters that what they're beholding has as much to do with the egos of the actors as with the egregiousness of his acts, he has inoculated himself against Robert Mueller, and he shapes the movie that's made of this.

It was fun to see a modern - day interpretation of a silent film, but it didn't bring much more to the table than that gimmick, and it doesn't hold a special place as a memorable and impactful movie the way its fellow nominees «The Tree of Life,» «Midnight in Paris,» and «Moneyball» do.

But to us, it's a medium that has always been part of our lives, so video games are as much «kids stuff» as television, movies or books.

The movie, which focuses on the titular superhero who is king of the fictional African country of Wakanda, is forecasted to pull in as much as $ 165 million in domestic box - office gross for its debut over the four - day President's Day holiday weekend.

To achieve what essentially will be a new and dynamic art medium, Electronic Arts acts as a kind of production company with teams of draftspeople, writers, and musicians, who are signed up in much the same way as a record or movie company signs up talent.

As for the movie, Burry didn't want to say much before the release.

As with all Kickstarter campaigns, the Mars movie gives supporters a certain selection of goodies depending on how much money they pledge.

Mahaney pointed to the commercial success of Netflix's critically panned, Will Smith - led original movie «Bright» as an example of how critical reception may not mean too much to Netflix.

No matter how much Netflix spent to buy, say, a movie about a road trip to pick up a lounge chair (yeah, we didn't see The Puffy Chair either), others could turn around and distribute it just as easily.

Indeed, it seems he doesn't care about acting so much as he cares about being an actor in TV shows and movies.

As someone who watches every teaser, trailer, and clip released for these sorts of movies (for work), the fact that the Hulk wasn't in much of «Infinity War» was a pleasant surprise for me.

Much like trolls» attempts to affect Black Panther «s status as a critical darling, the Twitter posts describing fake attacks at movie screenings also seemed to be part of a racist campaign meant to scare people away from theaters in order to hurt the film's overall box - office gross (again, a major fail).

The important numbers are these: Disney gets almost 45 % of its operating profit from its cable division, far more than it gets from its movies — which are great for PR, but don't do as much for the bottom line.

«Much like the final films in series like «The Dark Knight,» «Star Wars» and «Harry Potter,» this is billed as the payoff movie that fans have been waiting for,» he added.

Tull is also a proud investor in Oculus and believes that the impact of virtual reality, no matter who wins, will be much more significant than past breakthroughs such as HDTV and 3 - D movies.

But if you personally use the Internet for watching movies or other activities, you must calculate how much of those costs are related to the business and how much are personal, as you can not deduct personal expenses as business ones.

We have all heard someone say «I remember when a new car cost...» Inflation is the reason why it cost $ 5 to see a movie when you were 18, but now it costs $ 12; or why $ 100 just doesn't seem to buy as much as it did 10 years ago.

For investors and corporate leaders in an ever - increasing number of industries, Amazon.com resembles nothing so much as The Blob — the alien antihero in the classic 1958 movie with the tagline «It eats you alive!»

The truth is, the players behind this book and this movie just love all this stuff too much to use it as a weapon.

I pretty much had to be dragged to a movie advertised as about the making of Mary Poppins — a film I was never young enough to enjoy.

The same picture was in art books in our school library as were many other artworks of nudes but I was written up for giving a child «porn»!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At the same time in our culture, in movies, on TV and internet, these kids could see much more graphic stuff.

As far as examples of strong women in media, I can only cite the ones that I've appreciated — Buffy and Willow from Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Zoe, Inara, and Kaylee from Firefly, and Joan and Peggy from Mad Men (I love Peggy so much), Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games (the books, as I haven't seen the movieAs far as examples of strong women in media, I can only cite the ones that I've appreciated — Buffy and Willow from Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Zoe, Inara, and Kaylee from Firefly, and Joan and Peggy from Mad Men (I love Peggy so much), Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games (the books, as I haven't seen the movieas examples of strong women in media, I can only cite the ones that I've appreciated — Buffy and Willow from Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Zoe, Inara, and Kaylee from Firefly, and Joan and Peggy from Mad Men (I love Peggy so much), Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games (the books, as I haven't seen the movieas I haven't seen the movie).

The franchise has managed to do one thing better than almost any other animated movie: Weave in laughs written for adults with just as much frequency as the stuff meant for kids.

One thing I noticed as Dan and I talked about the movie afterward was how much our personal backgrounds affected how we saw the characters.

Watch the movie, «Idiocracy» sometime (the intelligent people decide to quit reproducing as much and guess who survives?)

As a meditation on human origins as somehow alien, Prometheus most closely compares to Brian De Palma's much maligned Mission to Mars, but in comparison to that movie the «engineers» in Prometheus have no care for mere human life or for life on the planet earth as a wholAs a meditation on human origins as somehow alien, Prometheus most closely compares to Brian De Palma's much maligned Mission to Mars, but in comparison to that movie the «engineers» in Prometheus have no care for mere human life or for life on the planet earth as a wholas somehow alien, Prometheus most closely compares to Brian De Palma's much maligned Mission to Mars, but in comparison to that movie the «engineers» in Prometheus have no care for mere human life or for life on the planet earth as a wholas a whole.

In a glowing review of a movie called A Perfect Family, Rex Reed writes that the main character Eileen is «a devout, self - obsessed Catholic so enslaved by dogma and ritual that she crosses herself and gives thanks to God before she so much as eats a vegetarian tamale.»