Sentences with phrase «of superhero origin story»

In the guise of a superhero origin story, it tells a smart, inventive tale about young science geeks who grapple with issues around the responsible use of technology.

offers the usual beats of a superhero origin story, but at least it's trying to give those beats a different tune under which to drum.

Ant - Man offers the usual beats of a superhero origin story, but at least it's trying to give those beats a different tune under which to drum.

Angela Robinson's fascinating and surprisingly sweet - natured film is a different sort of superhero origin story, and an appropriate bookend to this summer's «Wonder Woman.»

By the end of this superhero origin story, Deadpool doesn't evolve as a character nor does he have to.

Also, to the movie's benefit, it introduces us to the titular character without feeling bogged down in the trappings of a superhero origin story.

Not exact matches

He crafted a superhero story that goes through the standard motions of an origin story while also managing to be a fun heist movie with great performances by Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas.

Nate Silver has the origin story of a nerd superhero.

In an event ripped from a superhero origin story but that, in real life, is actually sort of scary and definitely an environmental headache, the bridge upon which a train...

With an origin story borrowed from Superman, an elaborate lair borrowed from Batman, and a skin complexion borrowed from a robin's egg, Megamind - the title character of DreamWorks Animation's smart, snappy superhero send - up - is a villain to love.

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.

With his origin story out of the way, Deadpool and his alter ego Wade Wilson, played again by Ryan Reynolds, are trying to figure out what they want from this superhero - normal guy dynamic.

iInstead of a buoyant, imaginative superhero movie on the order of Sam Raimi's «Spider - Man» films or Bryan Singer's «Superman Returns,» we get a lumbering, paint - by - numbers origin story.

An exact application of the Marvel Superhero Origin Story Template.

Without the burden of an origin story and all the resulting narrative hurdles to jump, Iron Man 2 is free to solidify the concept of its hero and find what sets him apart from the rest of the world of superheroes.

Given the origin stories of most of these characters — rooted as they are in the deaths of loved ones, often through the heroes» inaction, real or imagined, it's not a far reach to say that superhero comics are trapped in a process of repetition automatism (or «repetition compulsion»).

Wonder Woman could have been a gauzy superhero origin story, but instead, it's steeped in war and loss, and the impact of Steve Trevor's death at the end is both well - earned and heartbreaking.

IndieWire's David Ehrlich gave the film a D +, writing in his review, «By turning Tarzan into just another superhero, David Yates» blockbuster origin story wastes one of literature's great wild men.»

Set in deep space, and in half a dozen lands (New York, Wakanda, Titan, Knowhere), the film presents a galactic battle for the fate of the universe that throws together the six original Avengers; the follow - up wave of Marvel superheroes who've only recently been given their own origin stories (Black Panther, Dr. Strange, the rebooted Spider - Man); the Guardians of the Galaxy; and a sprinkling of other figures who've been there on the fringes.

But the excitement has also been fueled by the origin story of the African superhero.

The movie touches on the main superhero - movie beats that we expect: the origin story, the demonstration of powers, the final battle with the equally...

It's another origin story we're familiar with in the world of comic book heroes, but given the emphasis on magic and alternate dimensions, there are many other toys in the toy box to play with to keep it all feeling like something new to the universe of big - screen superheroes.

But it isn't all good because Wonder Woman is also let down by the trappings of having to tell an origin story, and there are moments when the film feels like a box - ticking exercise in how to create a superhero origin, especially during the final act when — shock!

After the record - breaking success of this summer's DCEU film adaption of «Wonder Woman,» which explores the origins story of the title character, the creation of the superhero is now being explored in the new biopic, «Professor Marston and the Wonder Women.»

We're basically watching Paul Rudd play Paul Rudd, and while you could do a lot worse when it comes to a lead character, it doesn't leave much of an impression when it comes to a superhero origin story.

So it's kind of an Enter the Dragon-esque, kung fu superhero origin story with an inner city setting.

But later this month the superheroes will likely lose some of their money to a certain scoundrel's origin story.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe was once accused of dishing up the same rinse - and - repeat origin story over and over again — and while Feige will protest (and has) that each Marvel movie has had its own individual flavor (Thor was a stab at Shakespeare; The Winter Soldier riffs on 70s paranoia thrillers), the franchise has been finding more solid footing in its endeavor to remix all of popular film history through the lens of superheroes.

In a superhero origin tale unlike any other, this is the true story of 1940s Harvard psychologist Dr. William Moulton Marston, the inventor of the lie detector and creator of the iconic Wonder Woman, who defends his feminist superhero against charges of «sexual perversity» while at the same time maintaining a secret that could have destroyed him.

Like pretty much any superhero origin story, the setup was better than the payoff, which, like far too many movies about the origin of a superhero, pitted the newly formed hero against a generic villain with an even more generic plan, as if that's some kind of required challenge for these heroes to have to face each and every time — even if we're just getting to know them.

The film is something of an origins story for one of the most famous female superheroes.

Like I said before, I stopped watching because I was expecting to see something familiar or superhero origin stories; however there's no appearances of any of your favorite Marvel superheroes.

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women: Based on the bold and illuminating true superhero origin story depicting the creation of the beloved comic book character Wonder Woman in 1941 by Dr. William Moulton Marston.

Dracula Untold temporarily flirts with the child - like glee you find in all superhero origin stories when the protagonist first discovers their powers, but the novelty of developing sharply heightened senses and the ability to miraculously heal has long worn off.

This movie also did a better job than most of telling a superhero story that focused on origins but was still compelling.

Solo is a superhero origin story, as such its ceiling is somewhat limited: it's designed around the pleasure of recognition, rather than discovery, the solving of mysteries which didn't need to be solved rather than exploration of a wider universe.

«A tightwire - act of a film that's ostensibly a superhero origin story while also feeling like it's about us mere mortals at the same time.»

Arguably one of the weirder properties under the Marvel banner, «Doctor Strange» marries its inventive visuals — from the colorful, kaleidoscopic imagery to the physics - bending action sequences — with the usual superhero story beats to deliver the best solo origin movie since «Iron Man.»

With Wonder Woman back in the cultural zeitgeist (if the most famous female superhero ever really left it), writer / director Angela Robinson's film serves as a superhero origin story in a more literal and more literary - criticism meaning of the phrase.

Joining the ranks of other B - list characters like Ant - Man and the Guardians of the Galaxy, «Doctor Strange» marries its inventive visuals with the usual superhero story beats to deliver the best solo origin movie since director Jon Favreau kicked off the MCU with «Iron Man.»

Where other superhero movies pore over their characters» origin stories, in Suicide Squad only Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn — who gets all of the best lines — and Will Smith's Deadshot, an assassin with heart — are fleshed out in 3D.

Just shy of 10 years since Jon Favreau reinvented the superhero genre with Iron Man, Ryan Coogler has done it again with an origin story of his own.

It's essentially a superhero origin story opening the same weekend as another (Dr. Strange)-- both films dealing with faith and the consequences of betraying said faith.

It isn't an unknown fact how the studio had planned its 10 - year calendar ending on Avengers: Infinity War, even before kicking off its films, and how it began working backwards introducing us to its various superheroes, having them assemble and even presenting standalone films to trace the origin of their stories.

Director Joe Wright (Atonement) turns what could be a dry history lesson and a peek into the inner workings of the British government into an origin story for a historical figure who, in the minds of many, might as well be a superhero.

Despite some minor alterations to his origin and the emphasis on a love story — a surprisingly touching one, Deadpool stuck the superhero landing as one of the most accurate portrayals of a comic book character in film.

At one point he introduces a small bit of dialogue about Superman, and parallels can be drawn between «Midnight Special» and a superhero origin story, if superhero origin stories didn't follow such clear - cut paths.

If Marvel had any guts, they would've called this movie Thanos and made it like a straightforward superhero origin story in the mold of Iron Man or Thor or Ant - Man or any of the others.

Where Doctor Strange falls short is in the recently troublesome superhero «big bad» and despite the presence of esteemed actor Mads Mikkelsen (who sadly has become a bit of a villain typecast in recent years), the purple eyed Kaecilius, who wants nothing more than to meet a world destroying entity is anything but the adversary the unique Stephen Strange deserved, while the previously mentioned nature of this following the playbook origin story isn't breaking much ground in the way it tells the story of a man at his lowest finally realising his true potential.

By turning Tarzan into just another superhero, David Yates» blockbuster origin story wastes one of literature's great wild men.