Sentences with phrase «of disaster movies into»

What do you do when you put Titanic, Gladiator, all sort of disaster movies into a blender... Well, you'll get Pompeii, a film that is so utterly derivative of all films that have gone before it, but somehow made with such enthusiasm by Paul

What do you do when you put Titanic, Gladiator, all sort of disaster movies into a blender... Well, you'll get Pompeii, a film that is so utterly derivative of all films that have gone before it, but somehow made with such enthusiasm by Paul W.S. Anderson, the king of «schlock» cinema that you'll find it somewhat enjoyable.

Not exact matches

Fortunately for most audiences — although perhaps unfortunately for midnight - movie sadomasochists — The Disaster Artist leans heavily toward the latter, its sublime storytelling and central performances courtesy of Franco (as Wiseau) and his brother, Dave (as Sestero), twisting and then elevating The Room's ultimate legacy into something approaching high art.

Director Ang Lee creates a groundbreaking movie event about a young man who survives a disaster at sea and is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery.

This environmental disaster movie documents the tragedy when the Exxon Valdez dumped 11 million gallons of oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound.

Into this season of the Serious Movie, when every other film seems to speak to the troubled times in which we actually live, the fact - based, yet farcical «The Disaster Artist» blows like a fresh breeze, throwing open a window through which we may escape, briefly, from ugly reality.

One of our favourite movies of the latter part of this year in the upcoming The Disaster Artist, James Franco's feature that looks into...

One of our favourite movies of the latter part of this year in the upcoming The Disaster Artist, James Franco's feature that looks into the making of the cult film The Room, one that is heralded as being the Citizen Kane of bad movies.

The film sets up some of the main characters early on pretty much in the same way we've seen in countless disaster movies, but it takes a real turn after the bombing and chronicles the incredibly complex and far - reaching operation that immediately went into effect.

And speaking of getting your money's worth, San Andreas is also a very greedy disaster movie, combining many real and make believe world disasters into one.

James Franco's new movie The Disaster Artist is a unique look into the life of an aspiring actor turned filmmaker Tommy Wiseau.

Having now seen the entire mammalian disaster, I can honestly report that there is so, so much more going on in this movie than just a bunch of cavys rappelling into danger.

With a solid R rating in a decade of safer disaster movies, there's still plenty of good reasons to go back into the lake.

San Andreas doesn't follow the playbook used by the likes of Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure (or more recently, Into The Storm), the cast - attrition disaster movies where a group of survivors is whittled away one by one, often via heroic sacrifice or cowardly mistakes.

Emmerich's attention to the ear - shattering gunfire of the CG crowds spilling over into her courtyard suggests he's already moved on to his next disaster movie, as bored with this uninvolving political intrigue as are Jacobi's captives.

Take every awful indie coming - of - age movie cliché, cram it into one film, fill it with terrible dialogue and bored - looking actors and you are starting to approach the disaster that is Gavin Wisen's Homework.

The movie is based on the 1996 Mount Everest disaster as outlined in Jon Krakauer's best - selling book «Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disasterdisaster as outlined in Jon Krakauer's best - selling book «Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest DisasterDisaster.»

The company was turned off of the idea of adapting their video games into movies after the disaster that was Super Mario Bros. back in 1993, but over 20 years later, Nintendo's creative mastermind Shigeru Miyamoto said:

Yes, all the stock characters and storylines are there (Helen Hunt's character becomes a storm chaser because of the trauma suffered when her father got sucked into a tornado), but tornado season in Oklahoma is a lot like a real - life disaster movie.

Jordan Peele's haunting first horror movie taps into the bleak fear of seeing a disaster coming from a mile away, and still being unable to escape

It's easy to forget that the baseline attractiveness of Hollywood is so ridiculously high when you spend all day watching TV shows and movies, but The Disaster Artist throws this into sharp relief: if you don't look just right in real life, you'll look totally wrong on the big screen.

Neither does «Pompeii,» an epic without stars that staggers along as a bad version of «Spartacus» (the cable show, not even the movie) before turning into a videogame version of a disaster movie, all tiny running figures and big fiery projectiles.

As the mother of all popcorn movie genres sinks into the sunset, Bullz - Eye takes a tearful look back at our favorite disaster movies, from birds and viruse, to aliens and tornadoes.

Based on the best - selling tell - all book about the making of the cult - classic disasterpiece The Room, «The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made», by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, and written for the screen by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist tells the hilarious true story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau — an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds.

«Because this book, The Disaster Artist, is about a bad movie, and because Tommy Wiseau could be so easily mocked, one can see how such a book could turn into a thin recounting of all the crazy things that happened, simply to make fun of them,» Franco said.

Natalie Portman stars as a biologist who leads a quintet of women — including Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, and Tuva Novotny — into «the Shimmer,» a nebulous disaster area that seems like «the Zone» in Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker reimagined as a Predator movie.

Edwards has fashioned something resembling a Seventies - style disaster movie here, in which a handful of prestigious familiar faces are tossed into the action to convince us that we're watching a drama on something like a human level.

Independence Day director Roland Emmerich appears to have stumbled into an entirely different sort of disaster movie as LGBT organizations are calling for a boycott of his new film, Stonewall.

Things improve a bit when the school slides into the storm - tossed ocean, and director Shaw is able to tack his quips and gags on to the frame of a disaster movie.

As if there weren't enough doomsday - themed films released last year, 2013 will see no less than five different movies on the topic — that is, if you include «World War Z.» But before audiences flock to theaters to watch stars like Brad Pitt and James Franco try to survive the end of days, writer / director Todd Berger's «It's a Disaster» offers a darkly comic tale about a group of friends (and one stranger) who are forced into an impromptu therapy session following a biological attack on the city.

A former student of James Franco is suing the director over The Disaster Artist, claiming that he was duped into selling his screenplay for the movie for just $ 5,500.

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It sounds like a disaster movie, and well, it is: In 2004's «The Day After Tomorrow,» the collapse of an ocean current in the North Atlantic sends the world into a whirlwind climate doomsday.