Sentences with phrase «of war films»

And the scene that immediately follows is not even remotely funny — it's straight out of a war film.

It also has some of the best sniper action of any war films in a while (since there really aren't many films with sniper action really,

It also has some of the best sniper action of any war films in a while (since there really aren't many films with sniper action really, but it is decently done.)

Linklater creates his own type of war film, done in the mannerisms and dialogue we've come to expect from the iconic filmmaker.

Rod confirmed that they wanted to produce the best Gears of War film as possible even if that means straying away from being 100 percent faithful to the video game series.

In a recent column for The New York Times, Dave Kehr wrote about a new DVD set of war films starring Errol Flynn, four of them directed by Raoul Walsh,...

Producer Wyck Godfrey says the Gears of War film will follow the events of Emergence Day and the ensuing 48 hours, and that «it's more like Cloverfield or something like that» instead of «people just in battle», focusing on the survival aspect of E-Day.

A WWII combat veteran, Fuller was the master of a certain kind of war film, exemplified by his 1951 Korean War titles The Steel Helmet and Fixed Bayonets and his memoir - like The Big Red One (80).

What could have been a re-tread of every war film you've ever seen became an achingly tense drama of survival and failure, with some of the best cinematography of the year.

In keeping with the familiar irony of war films, it isn't five minutes before the artillery crunch of enemy mortars begins to shake the chandeliers.

Moment of defiance follows moment of torture follows moment of defiance in an endless series of familiar causes and known effects traveled variously by every prisoner of war film from Bridge on the River Kwai to The Great Escape and on and on.

With the on - slaught of war this film appears to be Wes Anderson's most serious, but it's perfectly masked by its abundence of humor - filled moments.

There are also those who classify Anthony Minghella «s «Cold Mountain» as a western, in which case it could qualify, but it feels more of a war film / epic journey / love story to us.

Like a lot of war films, «The Water Diviner» is about how people and countries heal from the deep wounds caused by combat.

The wistful naturalism of the performance makes the melodrama easier to swallow, but the film as a whole comes across as a parody of those war films where you hear a wide - eyed private proclaim how much he's looking forward to seeing his wife and unborn child before embarking on a mission code - named «Total Annihilation».

Redacted Redacted and the history of war films, other wars, and other antiwar statements.

Yet the film isn't needlessly morose, it's penetrating and powerful, shining a very bright light at the complexity of the situation involving the cartels and America's addictions, twisting the very notion of a war film as elegantly as masterpieces like Apocalypse Now have done in the past.

Will Mackenzie be able to match the epic nature demanded of a war film of this nature and will Chris Pine be up for the accent?

The end of the decade saw a series of war films, and some notably The Camp on Blood Island received considerable critical acclaim.

The trailer, as it is, feels like any number of war films and Nolan definitely seems to be striving for the legitimacy of the Academy Awards that Steven Spielberg hunted for before coming out...

Perhaps this is simply the result of war films that have captured the bloody mess that is war, but these scenes look and feel like hollow, if not technically proficient, action sequences.

Using the devices of the war film genre, Tony Conrad cast his film with friends and colleagues, such as Mike Kelley, David Antin, Sheldon Nodelman, and Tony Oursler.

And unlike a movie like We Were Soldiers - which never became anything more than an old - school, John Wayne-esque «let's rally around our troops» type of war film - Harrison's Flowers feels brutally realistic.

This institution is based on the fierce Battle of Arnhem in WWII, the setting of the war film «A Bridge too Far».

In 1946, deep in the «Patriotic Era» of war films, immediately after the second World War had concluded, while most war movies were playing up the heroic exploits of the war, this film was the first ever to focus on the damage done to veterans.