Sentences with phrase «of in superhero movies»

And that's not something you see a lot of in superhero movies these days, either — a hero struggling to be heroic — which makes Homecoming even more unique.

They're strong, they're smart, they're powerful, they're beautiful — Danai Gurira has a beat that stands out as one of the best things I've ever heard of in a superhero movie.

Not exact matches

The LEGO Batman Movie wasn't all that innovative in terms of superhero cinema, but it was set in a digitally derived LEGO universe.

He's actually pretty terrible at being an efficient hero — crashing through and destroying property in people's backyards and splitting a ferry in half, but it's one of the most refreshing aspects of «Homecoming,» not just as a Spider - Man movie, but in the very crowded genre of superhero movies.

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.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

Fox's decision to finally move forward with the film followed a years - long process in which Reynolds, director Tim Miller, and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick had to fight through various obstacles (including the box office failure of another Reynolds superhero movie, 2011's Green Lantern) to get the movie made.

Black Panther is already the biggest movie of 2018, and now the latest superhero blockbuster from Marvel and Walt Disney is on the precipice of cracking $ 1 billion in worldwide box - office revenue.

The fact that both MacLaren and Jenkins off their respective projects is sure to raise the question of whether women filmmakers are welcome in the world of high - stakes, superhero movies.

Following Thor: Ragnarok in 2017, we'll get a slate of brand new heroes, including Black Panther (starring Get On Up «s Chadwick Boseman as Marvel's first black superhero), along with Captain Marvel (which will be Marvel's first female - starring film) and an Inhumans movie in 2018.

In Mystery Men, a movie from a few years back, William H. Macy, Ben Stiller and Hank Azaria starred as a trio of lesser superheroes with fairly unimpressive superpowers.

In 2018, dozens of superheroes from various movies over the last nine years will come together for Avengers: Infinity War, and supposedly connect the plots of all these movies together, making the MCU one of the most ambitious projects in film historIn 2018, dozens of superheroes from various movies over the last nine years will come together for Avengers: Infinity War, and supposedly connect the plots of all these movies together, making the MCU one of the most ambitious projects in film historin film history.

Imagination has deep value for humanity but tends to take a back seat in the minds of many even while the same people ritualistically follow sporting events or spend money to sit in the pews of the movie theatre and watch sermons delivered by fantasy (past) or superhero (present) or science fiction (future) movies.

All this needs is some sort of superhero and Middle Earth tie - in, and this could possibly be the biggest movie of all time.

Even if the movie hadn't explicitly promised one in its after - the - credits teaser, Ryan Reynolds» big, gooey spitball into the face of superhero movies made enough money in its first weekend to justify a whole franchise.

According to rumors in The Latino Review — a site that seems to have some inside knowledge when it comes to superhero movies — following the release of...

Chadwick Boseman is probably most famous for being the Black Panther (first in Captain America: Civil War, next in his own upcoming movie), but he's also a Harvard - educated guy and has clearly put a lot of thought into portraying the Marvel Cinematic Universe's first black superhero with their own movie.

Moviegoers are finally about to get a break from all of the big - budget summer blockbusters and superhero action movies, as studios move away from large - scale spectacles in favor of award - season prestige films.

Not a lot of romantic comedies and historical fiction in the DVR queue — of all the guy movies we watch, I like the superhero stuff best — that's why I'm pretty pumped to have just watched the 2005 version of «Fantastic Four» in preparations for the reboot coming to theaters.

And your dislike of Wilshere is proportional to you love for Ramsey, in a way that both of your feelings are on the level of superhero movies you obviously like.

Play silks have been one of the most open - ended play things in our home from superhero or king's capes to rivers and merman's tails, they make beautiful backdrops to puppet shows (and more currently stop motion lego movies), they're used as ambient window coverings and are often the main structure of creative forts.

And with the popularity of superhero movies, we expect Mera (MEE - ra)- a character in DC's Justice League, and wife to Aquaman - to rise in the charts.

Many names suddenly rise in popularity because of pop culture, and sci - fi, fantasy and girl - power superhero movies are hot right now.

Okorafor said she was buoyed by the global success of the summer box office hit «Wonder Woman» — the first superhero movie to star a woman since 2005 — with the character hailed as a new role model for girls and a break away from sexism in Hollywood.

The top ten men continue to out - earn their female counterparts by a huge margin — $ 488.5 million compared with just $ 172.5 million — a disparity Forbes attributed in part to the preponderance of superhero movies and action blockbusters that offer few starring roles for women.

Buoyed by an additional $ 25 million production tax credit and peak TV, there's been an explosion of movies and shows filming in New York — from superhero dramas to sitcoms.

When given a choice, 3 - to 6 - year - olds growing up in the United States — one of many countries saturated with superhero movies, video games and otherworldly action figures — preferred performing real activities over pretending to do them, Lillard and colleagues reported online June 20 in Developmental Science.

That's an entirely new way of capturing prey, the scientists report this month in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. And perhaps fodder for an upcoming superhero movie.

Instead, think of bodybuilders, fitness models, celebrities getting in shape for a movie role, and most likely, you (the dude who wants a Hollywood Superhero physique).

Zach Snyder is famous for many of the superhero body transformations seen in movies.

In conclusion this book is equal parts superhero movie; cutting - edge satire on the price of Internet fame; biting commentary on fanboy culture; and slapstick comedy this is easily David Wong's finest effort.

After all at the end of the day, isn't a superhero movie supposed to be about men and women in tights having fun, saving the world kicking a whole lot of ass doing so?

Because at this point in the game I'm very angry with Warner Brothers for not being able to get one goddamned superhero movie right since the heady days of Christopher Nolan's Batman franchise.

This movie, without giving any spoilers away, is exactly what we need in the superhero realm of genre flicks.

On its surface, the story being told in The Lego Movie is an unassumingly delightful little cross-genre tale that entertains the kiddos with an oddly diverse blend of Transformers action, superhero characters, and Pixar visuals.

The DreamWorks Animation movie hopes to have the «Largest Gathering of Superheroes» ever assembled in one place on October 2.

Michael Jackson's «Bad,» blasted near the end of «Megamind,» the witty 3 - D animated deconstruction of superhero movies from DreamWorks Animation, encapsulates the paradoxes of a story in which evil morphs into good and vice versa.

Director Ryan Coogler and co-screenwriter Joe Robert Cole tackle the superheroes of colour question with this surreal and uproarious movie version of Marvel's Black Panther legend, in which the sheer enjoyment of everyone involved pumps the movie with fun.

Without fail, the dullest installment in any superhero movie franchise is the origin story, during which audiences anxiously awaiting The Big Bad Guy have to suffer through, yaaaawn, scenes of childhood trauma, romantic tragedy, and other expository effluvia, by which point the closing credits are fast approaching.

Just like Clint Eastwood did to westerns, Logan changes the aspect and reality of the superhero genre to make a movie that could exist in our own timeline in today's world.

In a world full of recyclable superheroes and mindless «empowerment» comedies, we're finally getting a movie about reality.

While it's not a perfect film by any means — a lack of catchy musical numbers and a questionable shift of focus in the film's latter half knock Megamind down a few pegs — the lively cast and interesting flip on the superhero concept make it a fun time at the movies for viewers of all ages.

While DreamWorks» latest, Megamind, claims to redefine the superhero movie, in reality it's the Zune of motion pictures: a spiffy, well - designed product that's also unmistakably an off - brand imitation.

The story itself is hard to recall, in large part because it was one of the least impressive aspects of a production that was more interested in offering a Mad Magazine - type superhero movie than meekly regurgitating the genre's tropes.

t's inspiring and historic for a superhero movie to be comprised of an all - black cast (or, at least, in all of its leading roles).

The film's chief villain, the angry and revenge - minded Killmonger, is a different sort of bad guy than what we're accustomed to getting in superhero movies.

The endlessly yammering superhero Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) stages for himself a similar suicide in the opening moments of the second movie to bear his name.

Where most superhero movies have gone family and broad, Deadpool went adult and rude, and revelled in the possibilities a UK 15 or US R rating opened up in terms of «strong bloody violence», «strong language» and «crude depictions of sexual acts», to quote the British Board of Film Classification.

The movie's most sublime sequence has Deadpool putting together a superhero team of his own, a quick - cut job - interview montage that allows Zazie Beetz's Domino, Terry Crews» Bedlam, Bill Skarsgård's Zeitgeist, and Lewis Tan's Shatterstar to cycle through in short order, along with Rob Delaney's Peter — a nonsuperpowered fellow who just liked the sound of the want ad — and the Vanisher, whose invisibility powers prevent him from needing to be played by anyone at all.

As the superhero movie world shudders in the immediate wake of Avengers: Infinity War (a film I was pretty bored by), this week on store shelves lands Ryan Coogler's (Creed) Black Panther, one of the most successful films of the decade and a surprise hit across the globe.