Sentences with phrase «opening narration»

Opening narration claims we must go back to the beginning to a time when enemies once were friends.

The city, which is credited in opening narration by the shop's proprietor (Cube) for giving us Michael Jordan's Bulls and Oprah Winfrey, is going through some troubles due to intense gang warfare.

Purchasers of the Milan edition have the added feature — again, whether it's a strength or a weakness is debatable — of hearing the classic opening narration by Mako.

The film's opening narration introduces us to Harold Crick, played by Will Ferrell in an economic performance where we can feel Ferrell's natural zaniness coursing underneath Crick's bland exterior, just begging to be let out.

After a bit of quasi-philosophical opening narration that recalls «Blood Simple,» Keating bounces between the mayhem out in the wilderness and flashbacks to what led the characters into Wyatt's trap.

It begins with a self - deprecating opening narration by Tom Stansfield (Ashton Kutcher) as we follow someone trying to catch the subway.

Treating us to an entertaining opening narration, Russell Crowe is Jackson Healy; an imposing, violent man desperately trying to live life by a code of professionalism and respect.

But right from that daft opening narration, Andrew Stanton's John Carter is properly charming stuff.

The movie's opening narration reminds us that it was not a pleasant time (1882) and place (Arizona), with disease, starvation, and violence claiming many victims.

A lot of these questioned are given half - hearted answers in a dullard opening narration by Jaden Smith, but unfortunately it plays like a bad Syfy movie rather than a major motion picture.

Then yet another moral dilemma emerges, and once again, it plays directly to the characters, juxtaposing Kenzie's opening narration with a choice that really does define him.

«People do not give it credence that a young girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood,» says the adult Mattie's voice in opening narration, «but it did happen.»

• ««Dude» — that's a name no one would self - apply where I come from»: opening narration by The Stranger (Sam Elliott), in The Big Lebowski...

Thus states the opening narration of Kubo and the Two Strings.

From David's (Alex Pettyfer) opening narration, detailing how long he's been in love with Jade (Gabriella Wilde) but never had the guts to tell her, it is immediately clear what Endless Love is and who its target demographic is.

The film started like an episode of The Twilight Zone, from the opening narration of some off - screen figure and faux film grain, and every time the story would run out of steam, a strange twist would invigorate everything.

After Earth squanders opportunities for drama and surprise through the tiresomely prosaic device of telling the backstory in the opening narration.

Alice is wishy - washy on everything, and it's not until the movie's finale that we even get a sense of what that opening narration promises.

In the Hong Kong - set Time and Tide's opening narration, Hark himself paraphrases the first few verses of the Old Testament.

It's not really a twist as the opening narration let's you know something's going to happen.

As Richard Roxburgh's dulcet tones confess in the opening narration of Stephan Elliott's raucous ode to that decade's suburban debauchery, such recollections are probably blown out of realistic proportion.

As Bobby explains in the opening narration, his dad lives all year for that trip each summer.

Jake's opening narration explains that he could get his spine fixed, «but not in this economy,» so he embraces Quaritch's promise of real legs for a job well done directly reporting valuable intelligence.

I know that the opening narration has been deleted, and I suspect that more footage of the «Strangers» has been added.

In an opening narration haplessly chasing after Tom Cruise's smooth opener from Jerry Maguire, Brian swiftly tells us of his military glory days, how a perilous injury altered his course, and how he now works as a bastion of the soulless military industrial complex.

John Larroquette provides the opening narration.

India Stoker's (Wasikowska) opening narration that «a flower can't change what colour it is», spoked over images of white flowers stained red, is about as subtle as a sledgehammer — but when Park finally reveals how the blood got there, the moment is haunting.

«Brothers Bloom» is, as the opening narration says, the story of two con men.

Meanwhile, back on Earth, Jack Harper (Tom Cruise), who offers that back story twice (once in an opening narration that unnecessarily hand - feeds information that reveals itself far more naturally in the first act and again to another character), and Victoria (Andrea Riseborough), Jack's live - in communications officer and significant other, are the only two humans left on the planet.

As the blood swirls in the backdrop like a nightmarish version of those cheesy silk sheet opening credit sequences of the days of old, an opening narration tells us, «Movies are full of shit.»

«I always thought that it's the things you don't choose that make you who you are,» says Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck), a private investigator who specializes in missing persons, in an opening narration.

As we hear in the opening narration, Joe Coughlin (Affleck) left Boston to become a soldier and came home an outlaw.

However, despite the major flaw of the opening narration there are still many surprises left in Dark City and the film quickly draws audiences into its story.

The opening narration was far more useful at updating me on Geralt of Rivia's history and where we would join him today.

The sex - crime plotting is explained in the opening narration, and the serialization is keyed to the show's two principals — Elliot Stabler (Chris Meloni) and Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay).

It creates a wide, high soundstage, and spatial placement is excellent; the opening narration from Mad Max Fury Road (Blu - ray), with its familiar «Where are you?»