Sentences with phrase «of violent movie»

Police had been scouring Lanza's home since the shootings, and on his computer hard drive they found information on weapons magazine capacities, images of Columbine killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, copies of the violent movies Bloody Wednesday and Rampage, and a list of ingredients for TNT.

And with Harvey Weinstein backing his every move (though he has suggested the opposite lately, at least in terms of violent movies), Tarantino can continue to write sprawling and unconventional genre movies and not worry about traditional concerns about length, pace, etc..

«Me, personally, I'm not a big fan of violent movies, it's not something I like to watch.

However people may respond to Funny Games, it might have better served the goal of getting viewers to think about consuming screen violence if Haneke had stood mute, resisting interviews or explanatory publicity, and let the movie — a representation of the reality of violent movies — speak for itself.

Not exact matches

The murder of 28 people in the 2012 shooting at a Newton, Conn. elementary school also prompted multiple movie studios to cancel premiere screenings of violent action films.

It is the sort of thing we teach our children (or at least the sort of thing we used to be able to teach our children before this age of incivility corrupted our youth with its rock music / hippies / video games / rap music / violent movies / Internet / baggy pants).

Now, Dionne says she feels betrayed by the California filmmaker who turned the low budget - movie with a threadbare plot into an anti-Islam film that provoked outrage - with sometimes violent results - in parts of the Muslim world.

Most moviegoers will never see a more violent movie than this one (that it is rated «R» and not «NC - 17» is indefensible), with its sadistic soldiers and pools of blood.

Incidents of violence should not be included in commercial announcements, such as trailers that advertise violent movies.

Now, Dionne says she feels betrayed by the California filmmaker who turned the low budget - movie with a threadbare plot into an anti-Islam film that provoked outrage — with sometimes violent results — in parts of the Muslim world.

People who watch lots of movies about murder and violence, often become more violent.

Christians flock to see a hyper violent movie like The Passion of Christ and champion warmongeing college dropouts like Glen Beck.

Whereas for many years, people who wished to see violent movies had to pay an entrance fee and enter a theatre, television sets now were making such material easily accessible in the home to children below the age of discretion.

The amount of violent images in movies is staggering.

You can not blame others when it comes to your child seeing a violent movie or playing violent video games because you are supposed to be making sure that they stay away from that kind of stuff.

If that's not enough, perhaps Chuck Norris can convince you — not only has he endorsed Mike Huckabee, but the karate expert / movie hero / star of the single most violent show on television is also raising money for the Republican candidate via email.

Trump met with various state and local officials to discuss school safety in the wake of the Parkland, Fla., shooting last week, and blamed violent video games and movies for aggression among American youth.

In a survey released by Rasmussen Reports last week, over 50 percent of adults blamed violent video games and movies...

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a prominent figure in the #MeToo movement who has taken on disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein, abruptly resigned Monday night, three hours after The New Yorker published the accusations of women who said he was violent toward them.

An unbalanced adolescent often embellishes his daydreams with details of the venue and manner of the imagined massacre — in some cases, amassing ideas from violent or violence - promoting movies, games and Web sites.

Over that same period, movies with an R rating declined from 40 percent to 23 percent among the top 30, «paralleling a gradual shift of violent content in top - grossing movies from the R to PG - 13 category,» the researchers said.

It was refreshing to see an AI movie that was not about violent robots and raised many interesting AI issues in the broader public sphere — such as scalability (dating at massive scale), the realistic and sad aspect of human loneliness being filled by machines (already happening in China via chatbots) and the issues that arise as AI surpasses human intelligence.

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What's clear is that Gibson has made a film about family, faith, love and forgiveness all put to the test in an arena of violent conflict - a movie you don't want to miss.

Most of the men in this movie are either yelling, violent or deformed and the women are all like angels.

Unlike some of his other violent but intelligent sci - fi efforts though, this one starts off strong then devolves into a typical slasher movie.

The Departed marked director Martin Scorsese's return to modern - day gangster movies after an eleven year break, and while it possesses the brutality and violent tension of earlier classics such as GoodFellas (1990) and Casino (1995), it also differed from his previous explorations of the gangster life by following a more linear narrative and eschewing a spoken narration.

(Think Emily Blunt and a cigarette lighter...) The movie also finds its emotional core in that dilapidated old farmhouse, and, rather gracefully for such a hard - charging, violent film, slowly becomes a story about the cyclical effects of neglect and regret.

Of course, Mirage culminates with a violent showdown - by which point the movie has lived up to its place as a creative, inventive genre exercise.

In all fairness, the movies are, and probably always will be, dogged by the fact that they are based on dark, violent subject matter sanitized for the protection of a target audience of adolescents.

The way a movie like this often goes is that the audience is invited to revel in the spectacle of sexual violence and also in the violent punishment that follows.

Constantly funny, startlingly violent, and oddly heartfelt, The Nice Guys is a grown - up delight, a perfect antidote to the nonstop barrage of effects spectacle that normally marks the summer movie season.

May not be a complete success, but it is in some ways that rarest of commodities in American movies: It is a movie about sex and sexuality, in its many perversions and permutations, done without falling back on an exploitatively comic or violent scenario.

Average and a pretty harmless movie for kids, in spite of some «violent» moments.

While the first hour or so is a true slog, the back half of the movie picks up the pace to deliver an entertaining, gruesome, and violent peek into the underbelly of Cell Block 99.

I can't say that the most ardent fans of Lifetime movies will even enjoy this film; they may find it too violent.

No surprise, perhaps, as Denis's film is the sort of thing usually discussed as a «minor,» the appellation usually applied to movies about love and intimacy, topics of almost universal relevance, as opposed to «major» works that indulge in the overblown oversimplification of barely understood historical periods, interminable «sculpting with time,» or the espousal of revolutionary creeds to well - heeled film festival audiences who know in their secret hearts that they will never in their lives participate in a violent uprising of any kind.

Toy Soldiers is a movie that appeals at once to adolescent self - pity and adolescent anger - a film that takes feelings of rejection and inadequacy and transforms them into a violent revenge fantasy, directed against all those distant daddies.

Are violent portrayals in movies, television programs and video games similar public displays of bloodshed?

Such concerns become moot once the picture passes a certain point, however, as Death Wish transforms into just the sort of unapologetically ruthless and violent thriller that rarely gets made nowadays (ie its very existence is a delightful novelty)- with the movie's second half boasting a series of gleefully over-the-top instances of R - rated mayhem (including an awesomely cringeworthy torture sequence involving a scalpel and battery acid).

As the movie begins, a wave of violent prawn unrest — not unlike the one that rocked South Africa's real townships only last month — has prompted the good people of Jo» burg to crave even greater distance from their sub-human neighbors, and a forced relocation of all alien residents to a Guantánamo - style tent city known as District 10 has become law.

But there's none of that winking, self - effacing verbiage that keeps the movie moving from one violent twist to the other.

For Mana, showing up for practice and competing in the meet are acts of open defiance, and Ariki isn't the kind of character you want to make angry, which pulls the openly conflicted Gen into the center of a potentially violent situation — one that feels like something out of a Paul Schrader movie (say, Travis Bickle's foolhardy attempt to liberate Iris at the end of «Taxi Driver») rather than the sort of climax audiences might anticipate from this otherwise Disney - appropriate inspirational drama.

The revenge plot of that 1995 movie was not so coincidentally triggered by the violent death of a young girl (in a drunk - driving accident.)

The movie also dramatizes the siblings» shared trauma in flashbacks — the anxiety of affluence, an unhappy and sometimes violent marriage, the discovery of their father's previous marriage and children.

This additional information about the movie's content is taken from the notes of various Canadian Film Classification boards: Violence: - Violent acts shown in with realistic detail, blood and tissue damage.

It also could be classified as a zombie movie of sorts, but of course, it's not the undead kind, it's the violent infection kind, a la 28 Days Later or The Signal.

Also worth noting: this movie, which features the violent murder of a 4 - year - old and a romance between a pre-teen Natalie Portman and a borderline retarded Italian hit man 34 years her senior (Jean Reno), could NEVER get made today.

A relentless onslaught of violent action, this movie is notable mainly because there's a woman at the centre of it, which means that it's entertaining even if it's rather pointless.

So says professional killer Jackie Cogan at one point in Killing Them Softly, the third film by New Zealander Andrew Dominik - and considering the filmmaker's efforts to establish a connection between the events in the movie and the economic crisis started in the late 2000s thanks to the greed and lack of scruples of Wall Street, it is easy to see Cogan as an ordinary employee of any company complaining about the lack of vision of his bosses and, on the other hand, the big bankers as Armani - dressing versions of the violent mobsters who inhabit the crime section of the newspapers.