Sentences with phrase «on films like saving»

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Half the pleasure of giant - monster movies is allowing our suspension of disbelief to buckle like a bridge in Godzilla's path, and true to form, the film saves a few gonzo twists (including one especially outlandish bonus mutation) for the grand finale — an extended set - piece in which the three creatures converge on Chicago, which has typically gotten off easy where natural disasters are concerned.

With a barbarous stun gun demonstration, a stolen police car, a misplaced tiger, an unclaimed baby, Asian mobsters, «Rain Man» - gambling, and an unplanned marriage, the film is like Harold and Kumar on ecstasy and «Saving Private Ryan» in Vegas.

When films like «4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days» and «Persepolis» were unceremoniously nixed from the field a few years ago, a special new «executive committee» was established to have final say on the fallen, hopefully saving the committee -LSB-...]

It feels like production has gone on as long as World War II itself for The Monuments Men, George Clooney's film about a platoon of soldiers comprised of art historians and experts tasked with the job of saving irreplaceable and priceless artwork from getting destroyed by the Nazis.

Orser is the sort of actor who has operated on the fringes of pop culture for twenty years, with notable bit roles in films like Seven and Saving Private Ryan and the Taken films, as well as quite a bit of television work, but Faults is a rare case of a director putting him in the driver's seat, and he proves himself equal to the task.

San Andreas actually apes The Day After Tomorrow so closely that at times, it feels like Cuse just took the latter film's script, cut - and - replaced all instances of «storm» with «earthquake» and «runs from cold» with «runs from opening fissures,» and called it a day — like Tomorrow, the film centers on a father's unlikely determination to cross a disaster zone to save an adult child, with only a minimal idea of where his kid might be in a city approaching a population of 1 million.

To save money, the show's final season was filmed in England on the cheap, and while that gave the show access to actors like Daniel Craig, Ewan McGregor, Steve Coogan, Imelda Staunton and Eddie Izzard, the change was unmistakably an act of desperation from a pop culture institution on its last legs.

Much of his output since the turn of the millennium has been disappointing, save perhaps a few films like Big Fish and (to some extent) his adaptation of Sweeney Todd, heavily relying on frequent collaborator Johnny Depp and (now former, so it seems) wife Helena Bonham Carter and generally losing the depth that made his early output so intriguing, leaving nothing but what could best be described as quirky kitsch.

The layered «Godzilla» film thus focuses on the military's plan to save mankind, the scientist's order - of - nature theories that understand the creature's behavior, and Ford's journey home to his family amidst a harrowing level of 9 / 11 - like destruction.

The story follows a ragtag tribe of cavemen who must defeat an invading force of Bronze Agers in a game of soccer to save their home, and if that sounds suspiciously like the underdog sports movie, «The Longest Yard» (which already received the soccer treatment in 2001's «Mean Machine»), that's because it's basically a riff on that film, except with cavemen as the prisoners and foreign invaders as the prison guards.

Yeah, because this looks exactly like Munich, which was exactly like Jurassic Park, which was exactly like Indiana Jones which was almost a copy of Schindler's List which was the blueprint for Jaws and that film directly influenced Catch Me if you Can which led him to make Minority Report which seemed to be another telling of Saving Private Ryan which was loosely based on the character from The Terminal who was in some way based on Djimon Honsou's character in Amistad who was on a boat, just like the captain in Hook which had a black person in it like The Color Purple which is a film about aliens or E.T.s (Extra Terrestrials) who started a War of the Worlds after many Close Encounters in 1941 with the Empire of the Sun...

The original MCA LP was a re-recording of select cues (typical for the band, much like Firestarter or Flashpoint), and Varese Sarabande reissued the album on CD a few years later, but TD's original score recording's never appeared anywhere save on fan edit and bootleg albums (mostly as a pastiche of unreleased cues among other film & non-film bits & pieces).

Filmed live, Mr. Peepers feels like a vaudeville comedy routine, with Peepers going on dull «adventures» (his words) such as a surprise birthday party put on by his girlfriend Nancy, the school nurse, and a comic save - the - day sewing job on a costume for the school play.

Fireflies ring the loading screen bonfire twice as fast as their lethargic counterparts in Dark Souls; the saving flame at the top of the screen flickers like it's on undercranked film.

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