Sentences with phrase «of alien invasion films»

The World's End is a hilarious send - up of alien invasion films.

Battle: Los Angeles, while more grounded in modern reality than Sucker Punch, is a sci - fi actioner and another installment into the recently busy genre of alien invasion films.

Another installment to the recent onslaught of alien invasion films, Battle: Los Angeles is based on famous historical UFO sightings and events such as the 1942 LA incident where an unidentified aircraft entered military airspace and was subject to artillery fire.

It is a fascinating contrast to the politics of alien invasion films such as Independence Day and War of the Worlds (original and remake).

Not exact matches

She was the object of Adam Sandler's misguided affection in the comedy Just Go With It and she's currently filming What to Expect When You're Expecting alongside heavy - hitters like Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Lopez, while her action / alien invasion flick Battleship is set to hit theaters next year.

In fact, the only real science fiction in the film is used to keep the characters locked in an apartment from fear of alien invasion.

In these films, the world has usually turned against humanity in some way — a zombie apocalypse, an alien invasion, or simply the indomitability of nature itself — and the relative resourcefulness of characters who were previously reliant on now - absent tools or technologies provide the major dramatic beats as outside forces close in, driving these characters into action.

Critics Consensus: Repo Man is many things: an alien - invasion film, a punk - rock musical, a send - up of consumerism.

Critic Consensus: Repo Man is many things: an alien - invasion film, a punk - rock musical, a send - up of consumerism.

The internet calmly took this news in by immediately casting about for wild rumors regarding what this might mean for the second film — specifically, the idea that once it was made clear the Captain Marvel movie (coming out in between the two Avengers films) would feature the Skrulls (a race of green - skinned shape changers, for all you non-comic nerds), the fourth Avengers movie would turn its attention to a «secret invasion» storyline, starring said aliens.

Battle: Los Angeles» early 2011 release date positions it before competing alien invasion films such as the comedy Paul (if that even counts), Jon Favreau's Cowboys & Aliens, Michael Bay's Transformers 3 and the August release of The Darkest Hour.

Strange Invaders (Twilight Time, Blu - ray)-- Part offbeat horror film, part UFO conspiracy, and part tribute to 1950s alien invasion pictures, this good - natured comic sci - fi film stars Paul Le Mat as a college professor who goes in search of his ex-wife and finds a time - warped town that shouldn't exist populated by bug - eyed monsters that shoot lasers.

Maybe that's why the film only pulled in $ 65 million here and over $ 300 million worldwide: making fun of American policy, even in regards to an imaginary alien invasion, is an entertaining spectator sport.

The Darkest Hour cribs its dopey premise, concerning invading alien balls of light with the nasty habit of reducing humans to ash heaps and bent, naturally enough, on world domination, from other, better alien - invasion films (read: any version of War of the Worlds).

The film's simple plot of these four individuals bonding over this new Neighbourhood Watch team mixed in with an alien invasion keeps things low - key enough that the intensely amazing aforementioned riffing nature work so well.

These films often feature Hollywood's hottest actors saving the day in any number of ways, whether it's the magical mayhem of the Harry Potter films or The Avengers assembling to ward off an alien invasion.

But while the title and film's opening setup may lead you to believe you're going down the road of typical alien - invasion sci - fi, the romantic comedy journey that the film takes instead makes for a very enjoyable alternate route.

The belated sequel to director Roland Emmerich «s 1996 alien invasion film was opening in theaters showcasing all of the telltale signs of stinker.

The Sony Pictures film has a script from Oren Uziel which follows a group of teens who form an unlikely alliance with vampires and zombies when an alien invasion threatens our planet.

Featuring stills from Ender's Game, the much - anticipated film directed and written by Gavin Hood, this official 16 - month calendar follows the story of Andrew «Ender» Wiggin, an unusually gifted child who is sent — 70 years after a horrific alien war — to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future invasion.

Whether he's showing us an alien invasion in «Independence Day» or the destruction of the world in «The Day After Tomorrow» or «2012,» I really dig his films.

The consensus has been overwhelming positive in regards to Jonathan Liebesman «s upcoming alien invasion movie Battle: Los Angeles and that's not going to change after fans get a glimpse of a new viral website for the film which provides all kinds of details on the aliens.

Battle: Los Angeles, the alien invasion action flick that is about to begin shooting in Louisiana (not quite Los Angeles...) has added quite a few cast members, and on the eve of the shoot star Aaron Eckhart makes some promises about what sort of film we're likely to see when it's all said and done.

by Bill Chambers The partnership of Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin yielded a giant box office hit last time out with their alien invasion picture Independence Day, a film critically dissed in large part because it was populated with stereotypes: we knew who the smart guy was because he wore glasses and a pocket - protector; who the gay guy was because Harvey Fierstein's dialogue was set to flaming; who the hero was because he promised to «whoop E.T.'s ass.»

Back in 2002, in anticipation of his next great film, Signs (an unconventionally family - intimate alien invasion yarn starring Mel Gibson), he...

The film follows a group of friends who discover an alien invasion during a pub crawl, though the genre aspects of the movie, as in the earlier films, function as a framework to explore deeper topics like nostalgia, addiction and male friendship.

Mystifying, until you realize that the alien invasion of the film is also borrowing heavily from the looks of War of the Worlds.

Despite whispers of a sequel ever since the release of the first movie, it's taken twenty years for the follow - up to the blockbuster alien invasion flick Independence Day to become a reality, and during an anniversary screening of the film, director Roland Emmerich has been talking to Entertainment Weekly about why we've waited so long -LSB-...]

Director Alex Garland, whose first film was the impressive science - fiction drama «Ex Machina,» returns with a more elaborate and expensive tale of alien invasion starring Natalie Portman and

The Oscar - hopeful film will compete directly against the likes of the latest alien invasion thriller, The Darkest Hour - as well as director Stephen Daldry's inspirational melodrama, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - for the attention of holiday season moviegoers.

And, from the big end of town, there are also new sneak peeks of Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, with Rami Maleck stepping into the music icon's shoes in an uncanny fashion; The Predator, the latest take on the alien killers directed by The Nice Guys» Shane Black, who actually featured on - screen in the original film; and Shock and Awe, a new Woody Harrelson and Tommy Lee Jones - starring newspaper flick about the US invasion of Iraq.

It's hard to know where to start or how to even describe Annihilation — part alien invasion film, part surreal mind - bender, part heartfelt melodrama... I was on the set a little over a year ago, spoke with the producers, director, production & art designers, saw the mood boards tracking the story of the film, and watched a particularly tense sequence filmed — and yet even after all of that, I'm still not sure what to expect.

It's hard to say exactly how we would all react to a low - scale alien invasion, but I think the film has it pretty right as all of characters authentically act and speak like urban teenagers and their arcs realistically waver between humor and fear.

And here's a trailer for a fresh new take on the found - footage genre — a man accidentally films an alien invasion of Pumpkinhead - like monsters with a camera installed in his prosthetic eye.

While there have been some great films of the alien invasion genre, many of the biggest have been the most lackluster — from the mediocre Independence Day to the horrid Battle: Los Angeles.

Best described as «Red Dawn» meets «Independence Day» and featuring a cast of young up - and - comers, what makes the film so unique from every other alien invasion movie are the aggressors themselves: seemingly invisible entities powered by electricity that can incinerate anything with a single touch.

The film is just as much about the ownership of women's bodies as it is about an alien invasion — ScarJo's blank face and slight, twitchy physicality are incredible to watch, as the men she encounters (many of them non-actors who were captured with hidden cameras) leer at her, make conversation, and eventually get sprung by the same trap they clearly wish to set for Scarlett.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening July 29, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS Attack the Block (R for violence, drug use and pervasive profanity) Horror comedy chronicling the valiant effort of a gang of teenagers from South London to defend their «hood during an alien invasion.

The film covers how the alien invasion affects a wide array of people from all walks of life in several locations, including Washington DC, Las Vegas and the Midwest.

It's not the beautifully stylized, visually witty animation — though I saw the film in 3D IMAX, and it is gorgeous — or the brilliant idea to cast Stephen Colbert (Strangers with Candy) as the President of the United States who's wildly unable to cope with an alien invasion.

Thinking back on the first film, we likely don't remember its plot, which was a relatively simple affair about a group of superheroes preparing for and fighting against an alien invasion.

I'm a big fan of Nacho Vigalondo's time travel film Timecrimes, so when I saw his new alien invasion film was coming to AFI Fest, it was an immediate must on my schedule.

The film begins with a deliberately organic version of an alien invasion, with flowers, spores and pods making their way silently, unnoticed, to earth.

I'm not as big on alien invasion films as I am on time travel films, but that's okay, because this is far from your typical alien invasion film, focusing on a quartet of characters left behind the evacuation when an alien ship appears.

Its DNA is familiar, to some extent, taking the conceit of «Groundhog Day» and layering it on to a sci - fi war picture, with a overwhelming hint of World War II (the film centers around a D - Day style invasion of alien - occupied Europe from the U.K.).

Those speeches, combined with all of the other combat movie cliches found in Battle: Los Angeles, reveal the film to be little more than a traditional war film disguised as an alien invasion flick, tailor - made for a generation of kids raised on first - person shooters and jitter - inducing energy drinks.

Even the reasoning behind the whole alien invasion seems pretty plausible, and though the film doesn't have time to get caught up in a lot exposition, the little bit there is never stalls the rapid pace of the story.

There have been hundreds of films, TV series» and games about alien invasions.

The impetus for this film is Orson Welles» fictional account of an alien invasion in The War of the Worlds which was mistaken for a real news item.