Sentences with phrase «of a popcorn flick»

Given a chance to fulfill such promise, Grindhouse is a mixed - bag of a popcorn flick where more proves to be less.

Bloody, violent, and wickedly funny, this is the type of popcorn flick meant to entertain.

Not exact matches

Compared to the utter failure of the last Snow White film «Mirror, Mirror», this should be a visual treat and an awesome popcorn flick.

Contracted, Housebound, 13 Sins, Kill List, The Pact — curl up with a bowl of popcorn and any of these flicks and have yourself a scary good time.

If the argument here is what kind of manager rather that what manager I would need to see a manager with guts with anger with emotion with firing tactics not some one watching a girly flick with popcorn MR wenger is too gentleman like and very cool I like MR wenger I like what he has done to the club Arsenal is a top club at the top four all seasons for the past 20 years Is there a fiery manager out there that can win us the league year in year out for the next 20 years?????

Putting on a quick flick, grabbing a bowl of popcorn, eating some candy, and slurping on a soda, sounds like an awesome way to spend an evening doesn't it?

Grab out all those chick flicks and a huge bowl of popcorn and prepare yourself for an entire day of couch camping with each other!

You can plan a one - night adventure, an entire weekend getaway, a comedy show in the middle of the afternoon, a girls night over popcorn and 90s flicks, or a totally sober event.

Infinity War isn't a life - altering experience that changes the language of film, but it is an ass - kicking popcorn superhero flick that delivers the spectacle fans have waited years for.

We take his side because he's on the side of doing what's right, not knowing who to trust in this paranoid edge - of - your - seater that delivers enough action, intrigue, thrills, and even a flirtation with romance that should please the spy flick lovers and the popcorn movie junkies in equal measure.

Its essentially a popcorn flick so trying to get something serious out of it is pointless (its wrestling after all).

There are tons of better movies out there than the Transformers series and this summer alone has proved that you can have a solid summer popcorn flick with a good story and some great visuals, but Bay chooses to just stick with the basics and I don't really mind that.

This is a good popcorn flick with some pretty spine tingling imagery, but at the end of the day what are you left with?

Let me start off my review with saying that I have come to view the Transformers films as nothing more than mindless entertainment, popcorn flicks of the summer to pass the time.

Although Battleship isn't the most original film around, it's an entertaining couple of hours — a popcorn flick that doesn't pretend to be anything else.

It works as a first - rate piece of filmmaking that elevates the popcorn flick into something that works on an emotional level as well.

If it had relied less on special effects and more on actual stunt driving (Tarantino did it a hell of a lot better in Death Proof), then it may have been a great popcorn flick.

But if you're looking for some white knuckle, high - octane, Hollywood popcorn fun, and a satisfyingly pissed off Sean Connery to boot, then welcome to Brian De Palma and David Mamet's «The Untouchables,» one of cinema's premier gangster flicks, and deservedly so.

Final Thoughts: For viewers that own one of the many prior releases of Gladiator on DVD and feel the desire to re-watch this popcorn flick from time to time, this release is enough of an improvement to warrant the upgrade.

But just like the summer popcorn flicks we rush out to see every year, J - Stars Victory VS + a whole lot of dumb fun.

Looking at 2011 before it started, nobody would have predicted that the freshest, most fun popcorn flick of the summer would be a reboot of a series that died an embarrassing death 11 years ago.

It's worth noting, however, that the movie is initially quite watchable even during its overtly baffling stretches, with Shyamalan's expectedly skillful visuals and the almost uniformly strong performances - Ringer's astoundingly awful turn is a notable exception - proving effective at sustaining the viewer's interest (albeit on the level of a summer - popcorn - flick extravaganza).

This being the age of the Hollywood reboot, summer's kickoff popcorn flick is «Baywatch,» hitting theaters May 25 and starring Dwayne Johnson, Priyanka Chopra, Zac Efron, Alexandra Daddario and Kelly Rohrbach (along with cameos from Anderson and The Hoff).

In the years after the popcorn flick «Space Cowboys,» a hugely enjoyable film, Eastwood seems capable of no wrong, with «Mystic River» earning him his second Oscar nomination and winning awards for Sean Penn and Tim Robbins.

Like all the best horror, it plays on primal fears as well as primal needs, starting with the fear of the dark, and working up to metaphysical longings for immortality, while never violating its essential popcorn - flick essence.

When it arrived on multiplex screens last year, Matthis van Heijningen Jr.'s remake of The Thing proved a modest, mostly middling, popcorn flick.

If anything, I think we're going to end up with a glossy remake of a great sci - fi classic that is good as a popcorn flick once and never again.

It is an enjoyable «popcorn flick», but given there have been so many better films in recent times to fill this market (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl being the best example), Van Helsing is rightly going to struggle to compete.

I would expect Arrival to be part of the awards season banter due to the complex nature given to this story, as it is so much more than a simple sci - fi popcorn flick about aliens crashing down to earth.

Melissa Leo («The Fighter») and Rick Yune («Die Another Day») are the two latest two SAG - card carrying thesps to join the cast of the very unthespy popcorn flick «Olympus Has Fallen», reports The Hollywood Reporter.

Trying to lure the self - hypnotized gamer nation out into the world to see a dystopian popcorn flick that paints Sims - style living as the end of civilization might seem like a fool's errand.

It just seemed like a good popcorn flick to kick of the summer 2012 season with my wife, and so it was — and much, much more.

And yet, for a mega-budget popcorn flick about a bunch of astronauts tasked with landing on a giant rock hurtling toward the planet?

Never pedantic, but always on message, it's the best sort of summer popcorn flick.

I realize this is a popcorn flick but still, a little bit of reality can go a long way.

I love a popcorn flick as much as the next guy, but any discerning film fan knows that there's a whole wide world of film out there and even North America still has a few unsung directors who work outside and inside the system producing great, interesting fare.

I kept wondering why the Mad Max film were showing up on everyones Best Films of 2015, I saw it as just another summer popcorn flick.

Another iteration of the popular character that originated from radio serials in the 1930s, star and co-scripter Seth Rogen (Observe and Report, Zack and Miri) ups the comedy quotient to deliver a wildly uneven popcorn flick that doesn't know when to be funny enough, while delivering action that goes far above and beyond what's called for.

-LSB-...] I liked a lot, and not just because it is a sequel to a sequel that is as good as the original, and LAZER TEAM, a cheerfully cheesy send - up of 80s Sci - Fi flicks that is a perfect popcorn flick after a hard -LSB-...]

It feels like more budget has gone into this movie and while that does remove some of the grittiness from the proceedings, this is a fantastic popcorn flick.

It may not scale the heights of Love Actually or Breakfast at Tiffany's, but it is an enjoyable popcorn flick nonetheless.

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Man on a Ledge is one of those check your brain at the door, popcorn chewing flicks that are just fun to watch.

«Fast paced and full of witty banter, fights, and lots of sci - fi technology — jet packs and the aforementioned robot spiders, for example — this is a terrifically fun screenplay that is easy to envision as a big, successful summer popcorn flick,» Hughes says.

If there's an identity crisis on the part of summer popcorn flicks, it's in how seriously they decide to take themselves.

That's a shame since this was one of those old - fashioned action flicks that is all about the popcorn.

It is not a readily accessible popcorn flick, in spite of appearances.

Christopher Nolan has a knack of making films that are extremely enjoyable in a popcorn - flick kind of way, and yet are also intelligent and worthy of deeper consideration.

The Mummy Returns isn't so much an homage to the classic horror flicks of the 1930s so much as an attempt to play oneupsman to all of the summer blockbusters to have been released in the interim years after 1998, and in so doing, it exists only as mindless fodder for strict popcorn movie fanatics.

«A fun popcorn flick and a great free - for - all of pop culture that only someone with Steven Spielberg's muscle could pull together.»