Sentences with phrase «much in comic book films»

Given the events that unfold in Avengers: Infinity War and Deadpool 2, it appears death might not mean much in comic book films.

Not exact matches

In the case of Pacific Rim, apparently not much as director Guillermo del Toro seems determined to make sure the film does not to come across seriously, which is disappointing considering del Toro's background making both dark fantasy films with political allegories and creative comic book adaptations.

Once in a while, you'll see story sequences that I can imagine would be much more entertaining if they had voices or cool effects but instead they play like short silent films as if you're reading a comic book with no text.

Whether this reveal was avoided because his connection to Mordo - who is ostensibly Strange's ally in the film, despite being his comic book enemy - might give away too much about Mordo's role in the story is unknown.

The film is set during the Seventies in Savannah, Georgia, where a quartet of young teen Catholic school boys spend much of their idle time pulling pranks and dreaming up comic book characters they'd like to draw.

Paul Gitter, the senior VP of licensing for Marvel at Disney Consumer Products, explains that much of the upcoming marketing push will focus on that: «With a new comic book and his first appearance in a Marvel film both occurring during his 50th anniversary year, excitement is already underway for Black Panther product.

The camera revels so much in their various musical, cinematic and comic - book loves that it's easy to think the films celebrate a total immersion into pop culture.

Outside of Superman Lives, Cage hasn't had much luck with comic book films in general.

This film is basically Whedon's attempt to top himself as no movie series, much less a series in the comic - book genre, ever aims to do less action or fewer amazing set pieces.

After the first film did so much to twist and bypass the now - established formula of the comic - book hero origin story, the new team of screenwriters (Christopher L. Yost, Christopher Markus, and Stephen McFeely) has returned the Asgardian warrior, who is not technically a god but has been mistaken for one in the past, to his home, where he's back to being a fighter for the good of the trillions of sentient beings across the universe.

Genre - juggler Ang Lee was a curious director to take on such a project, and while he played around with the effects as much he could, he was far more interested in the underlying psychology of Bruce Banner's rage and the formal constructs of a film literally based on a comic book movie, with editing flowing between on - screen panels — everything short of speech bubbles.

But the Isabel Vendle character is sourced in Dickens» Mrs. Havisham, and in characters from Orson Welles film of Booth Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons, and in characters from Paula Fox's novels, and in the character Agatha Harkness from Marvel's Fantastic Four comic book — as much, or more, than she is a portrait of Helen Buckler.

(There is so much of value in comics, films and games but it is not what book publishers do.)