I chuckled just twice, at random references to Harrison Ford and Orson Welles, which come in succession in one of
the only scenes of the movie that has a good energy.
Not exact matches
This bread was the
only thing that kept me from googling «what happens if I hit my head on the temple», because we all know Youtube would pop up and THAT
scene from Simon Burch would pop up, and then I would cry, and then I would call my husband and freak out, and then I would probably eat the whole loaf
of bread in the corner
of my closet watching the
movie... crying.
And make no mistake, Sunday's was the best Dinah Shore finish in memory, sort
of like the final
scene in one
of those old Hercules
movies in which everything comes crashing down around the hero and
only he is left standing.
He will spend
only two days on set, he doestnt care about the length
of the story line, he won't allow you to shoot his
scenes at night and he decides which actors and actresses you feature in the
movie.
It should come as no surprise that nanotech hits many
of the fear buttons in the psychometric paradigm: It is a man - made risk; much
of it is difficult to see or imagine; and the
only available images we can associate with it are frightening
movie scenes, such as a cloud
of robots eating the Eiffel Tower.
Tim Burton's direction is fantastic — the
only scenes he doesn't wow with are the ones both he and the viewer are bored with — Danny Elfman's score makes the
movie in a way no one's done since John Williams and the original Star Wars trilogy, Michael Keaton's mesmerizing and there's a whole lot
of good stuff.
No recent
movie about The Troubles gives the audience the emotions, the pure hatred between the two forces, with the impact
of «' 71,» the credit going not
only to Jack O'Connell, known to us mostly for his role as the rebellious prisoners in «Starred Up» (never mind that the dialogue was largely indecipherable), but also to director Yann Demanage for setting up realistic seeming fight
scenes, a series
of breathless chases, and a sense
of neighborhood that Demange found not in present day Belfast but in the English town
of Sheffield.
Note that most other awards organizations treated Damien Chazelle's Whiplash script as an original screenplay, but the Academy considered it to be an adapted screenplay for reasons known
only to the Academy (Chazelle has previously released a single Whiplash
scene as a short film to raise funds to complete the full
movie, which is apparently the source
of the problem).
The catalyst for the dancing ban — a tragic car accident that's
only hinted at in the original
movie — is heavily emphasized in the opening
scenes of the remake.
I have no desire to see a
movie of this type which includes male frontal nudity
only, an NC - 17 picture at the end credits, and a «fondling» the baby
scene.
If the guard is not precisely self - aware, he does make the act
of torture (and murder, which becomes a natural extension) into a
scene you might recognize, not
only from other
movies or stories about torturers, damaged souls in need
of punishing or saving.
They spice it up once in a while with green and orange, but it's all very simplistic and i feel that if they had made it to a bigger scale it would have felt more like the
movie, instead
of showing us all the big set pieces in cut
scenes only.
The old time dialogue
only brings out the confusion this
movie brings to the table, and between that and the nearly pitch black
scenes, many parts
of
Uprising is long, has yawn - inducing action
scenes, terrible dialogue, a contrived plot that makes ZERO sense, and commits that most hated crime
of horror
movie sequels - returning beloved characters from the original
only to kill them or turn them into forgettable villains.
In a handful
of scenes he gives the
movie the
only real edge it has.
Relegated to the thankless role
of Acerbic Sarcasm Machine, Zooey gets to play the best pal * to Sarah Jessica Parker and, with
only a few small
scenes, runs away with the entire tiresome
movie.
Those who criticized Portman in GARDEN STATE will likely have a field day with Hudson's similarly saintly character, although Hudson's able to give her a bit
of an edge, and has easily the
movie's best
scene where she comforts and confronts Patinkin's miserly dad, who earlier puts her down for
only being half - Jewish, and encouraging her husband's idiotic dreams.
But Last Days works
only when it deviates from this pattern, as it does in a hilarious
scene depicting the rock star's friendly yet indifferent agreement to buy space in the yellow pages from a clueless door - to - door salesman (Thadeus A. Thomas, the
movie's
only perfectly cast actor), or when it focuses on other members
of Blake's entourage, or when the camera retreats at a snail's pace from the mansion for what feels like eternity.
There is a lot wrong with this
movie; the stunningly overt product placement, the diabetes causing levels
of saccharin, the kid (Dakota Goyo) is so annoying that you start wishing one
of the robots to accidentally collapse on him... But then theres the fantastically realised robot fight
scenes, the walking charisma machine that is Hugh Jackman, the stunningly beautiful Evangeline Lilly as his
only friend, and a final fight that will have you cheering louder than the end
of Warrior.
With the news a couple
of weeks ago that the main X-men franchise would be bringing back the main First Class team (Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult) plus some
of the younger mutants introduced in Apocalypse, for X-Men: Dark Phoenix, there's now word that another mutant, one
only hinted at in a deleted
scene from the latter
movie, will debut.
In the film's best
scene, M & M make love inside a car during a sandstorm: It's like Lawrence
of Arabia as a date
movie, or maybe The English Patient,
only vehicular instead
of aerial.
Like Carell, she is convincing in the tennis
scenes — augmented by special effects, both actors create the illusion
of playing at a high level — but, more importantly, she captures the fighting spirit
of King, who, as the
movie opens, is beginning to realize that she can be true to herself
only if she does two things.
I bet the
only scenes that made the actual cut
of this
movie was the ones the main actors manage to stay in character.
Last night, my wife, daughter and I took in Black Narcissus at the AFI Silver and enjoyed it as much as we always have (
only more so because it was in the gorgeous main theater projected on a huge screen) and afterwards I started thinking about
movies with very famous
scenes, so famous that most casual film goers might know it (or have a vague sense
of familiarity with it) even if they don't know the
movie.
In an early
scene, after Nick has saved the life
of a yakuza in prison and has been rewarded with his freedom, he encounters a corrupt and loudly racist American bureaucrat (Rory Cochrane) still in Japan after the War (have I mentioned that we're supposed to be
only a handful
of years post-Hiroshima in this
movie, even though the aesthetics all scream contemporary?).
And Alan Rickman, back as Professor Severus Snape in
only a handful
of scenes, manages to steal great portions
of the
movie with his carefully metered, acid line readings, like a cloaked version
of Meryl Streep's Miranda Priestly.
Not
only do they talk about the filming
of the
movie, but Knightley really gets into the story
of the film and she cheers for the characters as the
scenes unfold.
The latter
only has two real
scenes in the
movie, but Toah (who likely wrote most
of his own dialogue) is simply hilarious.
And the script relies way too heavily on rude, tasteless humor (especially in the final half hour) and over-the-top /» shock - value»
scenes, which come - off as desperate and absolutely ridiculous — including an insane brawl in the middle
of a street between rival scout troops (that you'd
ONLY see in the
movies) and an awful climax involving a rival business mogul (Peter Dinklage).
However, I haven't seen the
movie yet and as uninterested as I am and sure I am that it is a horrible
movie I do think that the
only thing I expect to be okay is Doris Roberts and the
scene where they play a match
of Street Fighter with two characters in the
movie.
Lee Valmassy has a lot
of fun letting loose as the gleefully farcical villain (a mohawked, golden - grilled gangster who
only wears jumpsuits), and Art Hsu turns in a
scene - stealing performance as the hero's duck - loving sidekick, but while fans
of bad
movies might appreciate what «The FP» has to offer, it's not exactly the ready - made cult classic that it's so desperately trying to be.
I laughed at the wordplay in the film but wasn't expecting the widespread tautological eruptions that followed the film's premiere as everyone bent themselves into self - affirming pretzels to debate its portrayal
of torture in the film's opening
scenes as if there were
only one way to look at the damn
movie... as if torture were the
only thing worth discussing about the film!
But with these two
movies — one set against the backdrop
of the
movie biz, the other in the music
scene — shooting last year back - to - back, we can
only imagine the unbelievable stack
of footage Malick's teams
of editors are sorting through, as they cut half the cast out and help him find the
movie and tone he wants.
The
only other
scene worth the film it's printed on is Colin Farrell at the supermarket, accosting the pharmacist (a snippet
of which you can see in the closing credits
of the
movie).
The mother and the 7 homeschooled children, 6 boys and 1 girl, are essential prisoners in their own home, where the boys»
only relief and
only window to an outside world lies in the access they are granted to recorded
movies, which they constantly watch and then elaborately reconstruct, acting out
scenes from the likes
of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Goodfellas.
He also said «There are
only a couple
of scenes on Earth in this
movie; 80 to 90 percent takes place in the cosmos,» which is a reasonable explanation for why she doesn't fit in the story.
Crystal's one -
scene cameo as a fairy inventor provides the film's
only remotely amusing moments, and merely exists to highlight how fucking awful the rest
of the
movie is.
EXTRAS: The Blu - ray release includes both versions
of the film (the 1986 theatrical cut and the 1991 special edition), as well as an audio commentary by director James Cameron and various cast and crew, the making -
of documentary «Superior Firepower,» deleted
scenes, pre-production galleries and an all - new featurette (
only available online) about the
movie's origins.
This is
only because a good majority
of the film is spent going back and forth between the situation facing Marty, Billy and Hans involving the ruthless Charlie who's after his dog, and the
scenes Marty is setting up for his
movie.
It could be argued,
of course, that any
movie that exposes in its first two
scenes its abject dependency on another
movie released
only nine months earlier has to be in some kind
of trouble, but
only if freshness rather than box - office success is the issue.
In fact, the
only real story in story mode is in the prerendered
movies between chapters, and while they're bordering on well made (the modeling and art style are high quality, but apparently the motion - capture budget was used
only for the game itself, as the animation is done by hand and sometimes isn't that good), they are mostly just a series
of scenes that show the next boss character preparing to try to destroy the heroes.
Playing the younger version
of Michael B. Jordan's nuanced villain for
only a few minutes, the young lad was
only on screen briefly at the start
of the
movie, in a flashback
scene and for a longer - speaking part in a poignant dialogue in the ancestral plain (trust us, it makes sense in the
movie).
The race
scenes, parked at the beginning and the end
of the
movie, exhibit an unprecedented level
of textural detail (at times,
only the giant windshield peepers and lolling hood tongues remind that you're not watching real NASCAR footage), while the animators capture the soft dusk glow
of the rural heartland so invitingly that Cars 3 may inspire even more road trips than Toys «R» Us shopping sprees.
Only Michael Mann could make a damn good
movie with the hacking
of bit and bytes as some
of the more intense and interestingly filmed
scenes.
No trailers for this or anything else are found on a scored, static menu reproducing the Sunshiney cover art with
only Play
Movie, Subtitles, and
Scene Selections in the way
of options.
While it's a clever
scene and does evoke laughs, it's the wrong kind
of movie for it to have been introduced, and
only serves to make things seem ridiculous as a result.
I still have at this point
only heard bits
of the real Wiseau speaking, and that's during the end credits
of the
movie, when they show the side - by - side
scenes of the original film and The Disaster Artist's version.
Asquith's feature debut not
only announced the arrival
of a significant new director, it is an exuberant, joyful pastiche
of the
movie industry and is a fascinating behind - the -
scenes glimpse and searing comment on the shallowness
of the star system.
It's the kind
of movie that can
only be admired for its showmanship and presentation, rather than on its believability, and along these lines, Leterrier keeps the hi - tech eye - candy light and mirror displays dazzling, the sweeps and swoops
of the camera simpatico with the mesmerizing music, and the action from
scene to
scene moving almost brisk enough to avoid enraging us from its perpetually smug attitude toward its audience.
It's a
scene that evokes Hitchcock,
only the Master usually presented it at the end
of a good
movie, and one in which we had an interest in by the time the climax occurred.