Sentences with phrase «of lesser movies»

Johnson has been a lot of lesser movies, but he has never been the problem with them, in fact, often coming across as the one reason to stick around.

Not exact matches

«They found socially relevant former athletes and movie stars — people that were able to masculinize a beer brand that it was a low - calorie beer that had «great taste, less filling,»» said Don Faust Jr., chairman and CEO of beer distributing company Faust Distributing.

In recent years, the statuette has gone home with lesser - seen movies, often from off the mainstream radar — offbeat or «prestige» titles that captured the imagination of Academy voters if not the American public — to the near - total exclusion of big budget Hollywood blockbusters.

In perhaps the most notorious example of Oscar's underdog favoritism, in 2010, The Hurt Locker — released on just 535 screens and tallying less than $ 19 million at the box office — beat Avatar which had grossed $ 760 million and was well on its way to becoming the most successful movie ever made.

Just like we're about to learn what happens when you price low - end Linux computers at less than a movie ticket, and what happens when you give millions of developers access to a few terabytes of memory.

If you still can't lose the bad taste of the sequel, check out the original, in which the jokes feel less stale and Will Ferrell is still the best part of the movie.

While the 1987 movie — and the forthcoming remake — paints a dystopian picture of policing the future, today's robot makers are producing a range of less threatening creations.

Universal had heard all the stories of Hopper's erratic behavior over the years, first as an up - and - coming actor who had small parts in the James Dean movies «Rebel Without a Cause» and «Giant» (he admired Dean immensely), then as a bit player on a slew of TV shows, where he got little respect and gave even less back.

Now that the idea of receiving goods via drone has settled into our collective consciousness, it's starting to seem far less like a science fiction movie.

Netflix has also been trying to rely less and less on the cheap back - catalogue content from TV networks and movie studios, and more on its own in - house content, including TV shows like House of Cards and Orange Is The New Black.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this year's top - grossing film so far, came out in early - April and the scattering of big movies around the calendar is one reason why all 2014 films have only grossed about 5.4 % less than all films had last year at this point.

Case in point: a family that used to spend hundreds per month going out to the movies can now binge - watch all four seasons of House of Cards on Netflix in 30 days for less than the cost of a large popcorn.

It's true, people spend more time indoors, they tend to know their neighbors less, some of those traditional activities have been supplanted by talking to people on Facebook or email, playing video games and watching movies on our big screen TVs.

Compare these 10x returns with a mainstream movie like The Dark Knight, which made less than six times its budget of $ 185 million — and that's among the more successful hits.

But she also has a lesser - known connection with the House of Mouse: she starred in a Disney Channel movie called «Genius.»

At the time, Smith was only addressing the underrepresentation of women, who comprised less than a third of all speaking characters in the 100 top - grossing movies in the previous year.

Even after I came out as a teenager, it felt like I had to seek out portrayals of gay men by searching the internet or looking into more independently made, less accessible shows and movies.

But the movie doesn't shy away from portraying Mr. Buffett, now 86, as something of a remarkable human computer, gifted with numbers and less so with interpersonal relationships.

«If Time Warner doesn't have the distribution might behind it that AT&T offers,» Downes said,» (the studio will) be able to do less original programming, fewer deals with the sports leagues, and the movie studio, which is already under tremendous pressure, is going to be more conservative» in terms of doing deals.

McDormand, Rockwell, and Woody Harrelson are so good in Three Billboards that I think a lot of voters have totally forgotten the less successful aspects of the movie: How every white character is immensely colorful but every black one is a cipher, that whole thing about Woody Harrelson's big dick (stop!

That's according to Streep (and more or less backed up by history), who aired some of this laundry while presenting an award to Emma Thompson, who just starred in Saving Mr. Banks, a movie about Disney himself.

There is consolation in the fact that the Times is bought by less than one out of twenty people in the New York area, and the audience for television networks and movies has been declining for years.

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.

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

It seems that, after three Transformers movies, director Michael Bay is being told that the fourth one will have to be made on the very tight budget of $ 30 million less than the last one.

I love watching animated movies in theaters full of children where I feel less insecure about laughing super-loud and gasping at scary scenes.

A lesser movie would make Laura a mere antagonist, a reprobate who won't leave behind her sinful bigotry and embrace the good news of gay rights.

At home, you're less likely to cozy up with the Book of Daniel than a Daniel Day - Lewis movie.

But when the movie credits roll, we will either find ourselves in bed alone or with our less - than - perfect spouse sans the advantages of professional lighting, flattering camera angles or an original star - studded soundtrack playing in the background.

The artwork is vivid and the animation nothing less than spectacular (the parting of the Red Sea alone is worth the price of seeing the movie, and seeing it again).

I see the movie as more of a product inspired by the book and less of a forced visual replication.

Secondly, you infuse your movie with a healthy dose of John Hughes, making it less about Spider - Man, a guy who also happens to be a high schooler; and more about Peter Parker, a high schooler who happens to have super powers.

In truth, there are times when the film feels less like an addition to the franchise than it does a remake of the original movie.

But this is a movie that is far less than the sum of its parts.

And if my experience resembles a less - agonizing version of the experience of Bill Murray's Phil Connors character in Groundhog Day, that may be fitting inasmuch as the two movies invite comparison as different treatments of a common theme.

Mead offers a less compassionate portrayal of a freelance, multifaith minister who offers brides and grooms a smorgasbord of options for ceremonies, including the fabled «Apache Indian Prayer» («Now you will feel no rain / For each of you will be shelter to the other»)-- which originates not from Apache tradition but from a movie starring Jimmy Stewart — and a ceremony she concocted in which the bride and groom dab honey on each other's tongues.

I know these days can be hard for so many of us — you may be tired, heartbroken, estranged from loved ones, yearning for more, settling for less, broke, afraid, betrayed, rejected, struggling, addicted, disillusioned, lonely, isolated, thwarted, doubting, numb, any or all sorts of things that aren't showing up on the easily resolved Hallmark Christmas movies or the shiny - happy - Jesus - people.

Even people with less than a high school education today recognize the priority of the brain over the blood, so much so in fact, that in the movie, Hannibal (about a cannibalistic serial killer), the thought of slicing out tiny parts of a person's brain, cooking them in a pan, and serving the pieces to that person to eat has become in the public's mind a more disturbing image than, say, serving a person a glass of their own blood to drink, which appears relatively tame in comparison.

That gets the point across in 59 seconds less than the one - minute movie «Welcome To The Neighborhood» (You can grab it from the Downloads page of my site.)

Less incredible, and perhaps only to be expected, is the news that Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, the dynamic duo who brought The Lord of the Rings to the silver screen, have donated $ 310,000 from the movie's profits to fund human embryonic stem - cell research.

In the movie Children of a Lesser God there is a stormy love affair between Sarah, deaf and mute, and James, a teacher at a school for the deaf.

The International Boxing Club, pursuing at last a policy of enlightened self - interest, has opened two small clubs in Chicago, where for 99 cents, less than the price of a movie, the fans have been seeing some live, well - matched action and taking their wives and girl friends to ringside.

I'm firmly ensconced in the middle class and will pay less for a good round of golf than I will to take my family to a football game, and about the same as to take them to a movie anymore.

This is good news for supporters of the movie as the film drew just $ 3.5 million less than «Despicable Me 2» which is a sequel to the widely popular original released in 2010.

The movie had been played countless times already... For a player like ox to turn down 180k which he knows he doesn't deserve but rather head to chelshit where he will be paid less and played less tells the story of where wenger has brought our beloved club too.

There have only been two weeks of NFL action and we have already seen more surprises than a David Lynch movie, only with less haunting music and more commercials for Draft Kings and Fan Duel.

After listening to the first couple of episodes of their podcast, I wanted to chat to JK & Charlie about how they think their relationship has changed since they became parents (spoiler alert: they get less sleep, watch more Pixar movies and go on «date nights» rather than just go out).

Many zoos offer daily specials and money - saving admission packages during the summer season, giving you an opportunity to enjoy a day out for less than the cost of a movie.

We intentionally gave less gifts as previous years, but the kids seemed to still accumulate large piles of more toys, movies, books, games, and crafts.

SPOILER ALERT: Not to confuse this with the irritating disclosure of the end of an anticipated movie, We do need to consider a split vote creating a less than actual majority candidate to be selected.