Sentences with phrase «of summer popcorn flicks»

If there's an identity crisis on the part of summer popcorn flicks, it's in how seriously they decide to take themselves.

Never pedantic, but always on message, it's the best sort of summer popcorn flick.

Not exact matches

There are tons of better movies out there than the Transformers series and this summer alone has proved that you can have a solid summer popcorn flick with a good story and some great visuals, but Bay chooses to just stick with the basics and I don't really mind that.

Let me start off my review with saying that I have come to view the Transformers films as nothing more than mindless entertainment, popcorn flicks of the summer to pass the time.

But just like the summer popcorn flicks we rush out to see every year, J - Stars Victory VS + a whole lot of dumb fun.

Looking at 2011 before it started, nobody would have predicted that the freshest, most fun popcorn flick of the summer would be a reboot of a series that died an embarrassing death 11 years ago.

It's worth noting, however, that the movie is initially quite watchable even during its overtly baffling stretches, with Shyamalan's expectedly skillful visuals and the almost uniformly strong performances - Ringer's astoundingly awful turn is a notable exception - proving effective at sustaining the viewer's interest (albeit on the level of a summer - popcorn - flick extravaganza).

This being the age of the Hollywood reboot, summer's kickoff popcorn flick is «Baywatch,» hitting theaters May 25 and starring Dwayne Johnson, Priyanka Chopra, Zac Efron, Alexandra Daddario and Kelly Rohrbach (along with cameos from Anderson and The Hoff).

It just seemed like a good popcorn flick to kick of the summer 2012 season with my wife, and so it was — and much, much more.

I kept wondering why the Mad Max film were showing up on everyones Best Films of 2015, I saw it as just another summer popcorn flick.

«Fast paced and full of witty banter, fights, and lots of sci - fi technology — jet packs and the aforementioned robot spiders, for example — this is a terrifically fun screenplay that is easy to envision as a big, successful summer popcorn flick,» Hughes says.

The Mummy Returns isn't so much an homage to the classic horror flicks of the 1930s so much as an attempt to play oneupsman to all of the summer blockbusters to have been released in the interim years after 1998, and in so doing, it exists only as mindless fodder for strict popcorn movie fanatics.

Though World War Z isn't your typical summer popcorn flick, it played the role of one quite successfully this summer, becoming Pitt's first movie to cross the $ 200 million mark domestically and gross a half - billion worldwide.

Having a plot of man versus alien and ushering in tons of action, enticed moviegoers to catch the popcorn flick typically released during the summer season.

What hits me most is that this summer blockbuster isn't just a hack job of pulp fiction, but a lovingly crafted popcorn flick by Mr. Spielberg.