Sentences with phrase «of movies like alien»

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You remind me of the Thermians, the alien race in the movie Galaxy Quest - they received broadcasts way out in space of episodes of a Star Trek - like TV series and thought they were real.

Perhaps Ridley Scott is making a point that movies like Lawrence of Arabia teach human excellence in its complexity better than his own movies do — even a classic like Alien.

I loved the part in the movie «Galaxy Quest» where the far - away space aliens received the transmissions of a Star Trek - like TV show... thought it was real and that the characters were gods who could save them from anything.

(Kind of like that Alien movie with Mel Gibson...) While the other baby fends for her self in the pantry, opening a bag of dried beans and an almost empty bag of tortilla chip crumbs.

We have all heard of the concept used in horror films of aliens invading our bodies and minds, such as in movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Shannon notes that most of the inspiration for the appearance of aliens in Hollywood science fiction movies comes from places like deep sea vents, which are home to everything from giant bone - eating worms to «rainbow glitter» jellyfish.

Collateral Beauty is one of those cloying movies about learning to take the good with the bad that feels like it was made by aliens with little grasp of human life.

I quite liked the ending, faithful to Wells» book as it is (never mind the question of why the aliens didn't take the Earth's microorganisms into account, given their superior intellect); a more standard Hollywood ending would have ruined much of this movie.

Two years after 2001 came out, the year 1970 ushered in that decade's I - Like - Ike nostalgia fad with the U.S. release of Godzilla vs. Monster Zero, a monster - cum - alien saucer movie featuring a buzz - cut American who saves the world.

In Turner Classic Movies: Must - See Sci - Fi, fifty unforgettable films are profiled, including beloved favorites like The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) and Fantastic Voyage (1966), groundbreaking shockers like Planet of the Apes (1968) and Alien (1979), and lesser - known landmarks like Things to Come (1936) and Solaris (1972).

October seems like the better month for a horror / sci - fi movie to come out and puting Alien: Covenent in the summer could add competition and take away the best month for any form of scary movie.

The movie features the leader of a fictional African country who has enough wealth to make Warren Buffet feel like a financial piker and enough technological capacity to rival advanced alien races.

It may take place in the suburbs, but with a genre like horror and a title like Dark Skies, it's a safe bet that the aliens of Stewart's movie aren't exactly E.T.'s buddies.

«Where I developed the idea of them and what I wanted them to look like was most alien movies are about takeovers, agendas, they're a thinking alien creature, and for me this idea of a predator, this idea of a parasite, this idea of something that is introduced into an ecosystem [was interesting].»

Director Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil, Alien Vs. Predator, and a lot of films like those two) shoots for the sensory overload of a Michael Bay movie and falls short.

Like the 1951 film of the same name, this movie tells the story of an alien's visit to Earth to inform the planet's inhabitants that they must change.

Things look like they're setting up for an epic opening battle, the kind we've seen in most of the MCU movies, but right as the tension rises and their behemoth alien opposition arrives to the party, the focus instead narrows in on little Baby Groot, who kicks on the tunes and starts grooving.

I wanted to like Prometheus but I just can't... It relies too much on the «This is a cool movie because of Aliens!»

But nevertheless, this movie is so wonderfully archaic and reminiscent of 1950s alien invasion stories that one can not help but like it - despite rather lackluster directing.

We here at The A.V. Club dimly remember the source material, a craptastic 1997 paperback that read like a middle - schooler's impression of Michael Crichton and basically only existed to be sold to a Hollywood studio and made into a movie — a sort of Cowboys & Aliens avant la lettre.

Viewed all together, in the movie's central set - piece, they offer perhaps the most diverse collection of bizarre body shapes and alien - like protuberances since your last visit to the Mos Eisley Cantina, though not necessarily the most diverting.

If you want some hands - off entertainment in your life, you can pick up Blu - rays like the spooky - doll movie Annabelle: Creation for $ 12, The Mummy for $ 9, The Fate of the Furious for $ 7, and Alien: Covenant for $ 5.

It felt like the entire point of every previous Marvel movie was to build to the deeply satisfying Avengers sequence where the Hulk swats swarms of aliens and pummels the duplicitous deity Loki, in scenes that were the closest onscreen equivalent to the kinetic, physics - defying visual poetry of late Hulk co-creator Jack Kirby.

The movie plays like a dream, at times verging upon a nightmare as layers of the unknown peel back to reveal something both completely alien and horrifyingly familiar underneath.

GQ — Every once in the rarest while, a young actor shows up in a movie like an alien — anonymous and yet in possession of such preternatural talent that audiences start thinking about the actor's future not in years but in decades.

In places, it's a traditional intrepid - team - fights - beasties movie with echoes of films like Alien.

But it also has a degree of grace and imaginative elegance — which is why it feels less like an alien - visitation genre movie than a chin - stroking art film in VFX disguise.

Considering the types of opponents Iron Man has come up against in previous movies Iron Man 1, Iron Man 2 and Avengers Assembled includes Aliens and of course a 50» 000 degree lightning bolt from Thor's hammer, yet the villains here that is clearly stated reach temperatures of 3000 degrees yet seem to cut through Stark's suit like butter.

But the whole «everything's like this, except when it isn't» thing is an excellent characterization of the general awfulness of the entire movie: the aliens, walking around in their Eddie Murphy robot spaceship body, either understand humans and Earth culture, or they don't, depending on which would be «funniest» (none of it is actually funny, natch).

Certainly, the script for Meatballs 2 by first - timer Bruce Singer (The Killing Time, Splash Too) does take things into different directions, but those directions look like they are crammed in from wildly different movies, if not galaxies if you look at the inclusion of an alien who pretends to be one of the young campers.

The opening scene, in which all the mecha - aliens transform back and forth between giant robots and various makes of automobiles and heavy trucks, becomes so abstract it looks like a Jackson Pollock canvas in motion screeching through the middle of a Hollywood action movie.

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Having already discussed the making of «Paul» in detail during our first interview, we turned our attention to other topics, including the current string of alien movies hitting theaters and what it's like working with your best friend.

The scenes also give the movie more of a feel like the original; the cuts make it look like a inferior version of» Aliens»...

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.

Speaking on the success of the first movie, Emmerich added that: «I think it's the first movie where you saw aliens come in a total overwhelming way, and I think after that no one could do it because everyone said, «That's like Independence Day.»

Her damsel - in - distress channels echoes of strong female leads like Sigourney Weaver's Ripley from the Alien movie, though not in the obvious way.

That there is a shot of the actor Tom Hardy on the set of Venom, the forthcoming Spider - man spin - off starring him as Eddie Brock, the dude who gets taken over by a gooey tar - like alien symbiote (we already saw this happen to Topher Grace in the third Sam Raimi movie) and proceeds to go a lil» wacky.

And even self - identifying fans may be dispirited by the degree to which the movie plays like a retread of innumerable other science - fiction thrillers, including the «Alien» movies, «Event Horizon,» «Sunshine,» «Europa Report» and last year's underappreciated «Life,» which died a premature death in theaters.

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Actor Bill Paxton is known for a wide variety of great performances in movies like Near Dark, True Lies, and Aliens.

LMD: Regarding Julie as Hammer Girl, I think she's going straight into the pantheon of excellent female action movie icons like Sigourney Weaver in Aliens or the Kill Bill ladies.

Like characters in one of those zombie movies where no one says «zombie,» the crew of the Cloverfield space station — a big metal psilocybin mushroom orbiting near - future Earth — doesn't know what it's in for, having left our planet without ever having seen a single sci - fi horror movie: not Alien, not Event Horizon, and...

Both open with abortive space - docking action set - pieces, both involve brief explorative sections aboard the alien Derelict cruiser, and both tread the same hallowed ground of their source films with reverence that is sometimes so close to the films that it can be like playing someone's fan - fiction, in which they insert themselves into the story of the game as a way to replay the movie with themselves in the lead.

Like characters in one of those zombie movies where no one says «zombie,» the crew of the Cloverfield space station — a big metal psilocybin mushroom orbiting near - future Earth — doesn't know what it's in for, having left our planet without ever having seen a single sci - fi horror movie: not Alien, not Event Horizon, and definitely nothing about science gone wrong.

These aliens are more like the invaders in Heinlein's The Puppet Masters (made into a movie in 1994) and Invaders from Mars (1958, and remade in 1986 by Tobe Hooper) than they are like the ones in the various Invasion of the Body Snatchers movies.

These insurgents find the American presence as unwelcome as the alien one, setting IEDs and taking captives in a way that recalls contempo war movies (like «Lone Survivor»), whose style has clearly inspired the pic's gritty, oversaturated aesthetic and deafening rock score (this on top of its already overkill Dolby Atmos sound design).

While it certainly borrows from the likes of Alien and 2001: A Space Odyssey, Annihilation is a very different kind of movie.

Pixels Rated PG - 13 for some language and suggestive comments Available on DVD, Blu - ray and Blu - ray 3D Adam Sandler is back at his dumb - movie best as a former child video game champion who must save the planet when aliens attack the Earth in the form of 80's video games like Galaga, Centipede and Pac - Man.

From the first, it seems, Eva's son had a malevolent, alien quality — and the movie gradually attains something of the overt, if realist cuckoo - in - the - nest scariness of the likes of Rosemary's Baby, The Village of the Damned or even The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.