Following a brief
opening scene set in an under siege South Korea, you are recruited into Atlas by Irons himself, and your eyes are suddenly opened to the phenomenal advancements in battleground technology that would easily turn a war one way or the other.
Creed is a far more conventional film than Fruitvale, and outside of an arresting
opening scene set in an L.A. juvenile detention center it's certainly less politically charged.
The movie hits the ground running with a super-effective and memorable
opening scene set to the tune of Flanagan & Allen's «Run Rabbit Run.»
The opening scene sets an unexpected comic tone.
We are pulled in by the sexual escapades of our leads, as
opening scenes set the tone with nude sunbathing, and silent pool - side orgasms.
The opening scene sets up the film as something akin to an Asian Gosford Park or Downton Abbey.
The best
opening scenes set the table for what is to come, and few have managed the feat as deftly as David Robert Mitchell has here.
The opening scene sets up the tale.
Not exact matches
PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (AP)-- While authorities investigate what
set off a deadly shooting at an electronic music festival event, residents said it came amid a growing and increasingly
open drug
scene in this resort town that has long been spared the violence of Mexico's cartel wars.
On the left, the custom U-shaped bar provides a casual yet social
setting while a partially -
open kitchen on the right gives a behind - the -
scenes glimpse into Chef Giuliano's domain.
In the basement of the Eugene O'Neill theater, between
scene and costume changes, members of the cast and crew gathered around a TV
set to watch the Australian
Open final.
The 6,000 - word piece, by Chris Smith,
opens with a
scene set at an early March meeting where the governor apparently wowed a crowd of «left - leaning lunchers» with tales of his «New Democratic brand» and his on - time budgets, something Mr. Smith described as «a vivid illustration of the genius and expediency of the Andrew Cuomo method.»
Dietl was
set to play the mayor of New York City in a movie
scene being filmed Saturday afternoon, shortly after his appearance at Council Member Eric Ulrich's Howard Beach campaign office
opening.
The
scene was
set for Wednesday morning's dramatic recanvassing and
opening of absentee ballots by too - close - to - call unofficial results in last Tuesday's primaries.
After the
opening scene -
setting chapters, the reader is well rewarded with many nuggets: the story of his tramps around France mapping its geology; his fortitude in redistil - ling pure water for 101 days to prove that it would not turn into «earth» (he later proved that it consisted of hydrogen and oxygen); his marriage; his tests for tobacco adulteration; his brush with death at the gunpowder factory; his examination of mesmerism; his tragic final years; and, of course, his main discoveries and contributions, including his exchanges with the English scientist Joseph Priestley.
Musser: So, I bring up those other examples as it is just historical, like
scene setting to this, but string theory has similar consequences in terms of bringing things together and then
opening our eyes to new things.
The show
opens with this striking
scene in which the large tree housing the Siegmund's sword dominates an otherwise domestic
set.
The game
opens with a narrated sequence
setting the
scene of the player character, Peter York,
«The Meet Group To Ring The Nasdaq Stock Market
Opening Bell Main Lunch Actually Group Acquires Setipe, Indonesia's Biggest Online Dating Service;
Sets To Dominate Indonesia's Dating
Scene For Serious Singles»
The main advantage of St. Louis is an absolutely unique park system which consists of more than 100 parks which include different outdoor sport clubs,
open music
scenes, playgrounds and other entertainment spots which perfectly do for
setting up new acquaintances.
Open racial dating is something that needs to be supported in current times of global unrest as combining traditions
sets the
scene to better understand divided races.
Set in depression era Mississippi, the
opening scenes share more of a kinship with the Three Stooges than the Greek epic.
After a lyrical introduction that layers wistfully reflective voiceover over a spun - sugar cloudscape, the film's
opening stages are less concerned with
setting a
scene than they are with establishing a vivid and unshakable sense of trauma — zeroing in on isolated images of slaughter, human and otherwise, in disorienting darkness.
This «notorious Jezebel» arrives on the Amalfi coast of Italy trolling for fresh meat (we've seen her chased out of New York City in the
opening scenes), and
sets her sights on Robert Windermere (Mark Umbers), a young, upright American businessman newly married to his adoring wife Meg (Scarlett Johansson).
The movie's
opening scene, which is also the best action
set piece in this Brad Peyton - directed picture, depicts the lone survivor of a space station catastrophe trying to return to Earth with her scientific samples intact.
From the
opening scene Southside With You
sets the tone of a late summer day on the streets of Chicago at the tail end of that decade we've all suddenly become enamored with nostalgia for.
Men of Honor
opens with a
scene that
sets up many of its themes and interests, not the least of which is the introduction of Billy Sunday (Robert De Niro) with his face beaten to a bruised and lumpy pulp.
That said, it delivered a few dynamic
scenes — like an
opening war sequence — and gave us a good feel for the different
settings.
Regrettably, the film's place -
setting opening lays the
scene for a different, more exciting film that never really unfolds.
«The Interpreter»
opens with a desolate
scene that
sets the tone for the brutality suffered by the impoverished citizens of Matobo where a disused soccer stadium serves as a hiding place for corpses.
It feels as if there are at least a couple of
scenes missing, including some big
set pieces that might have
opened up the film's world beyond Planet Zero, the Fantastic Four, their dad (or at least Johnny and Sue's dad) and Doom.
Walking into the night club triggered a cut
scene that introduced me two twin sisters, their
opening monologue hinting at some sort of mysterious greater power and the fact that Greene has been
set - up to be the cause of the zombie outbreak... again.
Even more eye
opening is that many of these disturbing
scenes could be
set in present day America.
The humour is forced, the
settings are amateur (painted barrage balloons in the London sky in the
opening scenes).
From the very outset Resnais
sets up the theatrical artifice of the film with
opening scenes of repetition and staged production design.
Instead, Dredd is a small - scale introductory escapade — outside of an
opening chase
scene and the sequences
set within the Grand Hall of Justice, the film confines itself within the concrete interiors of Peach Trees.
Each
set - piece falls utterly flat, starting with the movie's
opening scene in which the gang is chased around afield by a supposedly angry bull.
A wry
opening, with protagonist John Marston seated between fellow passengers of a very different social class,
sets the
scene nicely, with just a passing glimpse at what lies ahead as the train ride reaches its natural conclusion.
The
opening sequence has an impossibly large spacecraft, though not doing the exact same thing that the Millennium Falcon did in its first screen appearance, a
scene in a cantina where many strata of society and species meet while music fills the air, and a sun (only one) that
sets with the same desolate glow on a desert planet that we first saw on Tatooine when Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) lived there.
Extras include a six - minute behind - the -
scenes featurette whose highlight is star Wilson suiting up for a pre-production supersonic flight; seven deleted or extended
scenes — among them odd alternate
opening and closing title sequences — with optional commentary from director Moore and editor Paul Martin Smith — these trims carry a viewer discretion warning, for they would've threatened the film's PG - 13 rating; a fantastic, largely CGI pre-visualization (with, again, optional Moore / Smith commentary) of the virtuoso ejection
set piece that at times gives Final Fantasy a run for its money; the teaser trailer for Spielberg's upcoming Minority Report; and two engrossing full - length commentaries, one by Moore and Smith, the other producer John Davis and executive producer Wyck Godfrey.
Focused only slightly differently is «San Andreas: The Real Fault Line» (6 mins., HD), which spends its
opening moments very superficially discussing the real threat of earthquakes in California before delving into the production tricks behind the film's earth - shaking
scenes, like a restaurant
set designed so that everything visible in the frame is shaking except the floor itself, since it was being prowled by a Steadicam operator.
The lesson from these
opening scenes is to never get used to Shutter Island as a locale, because each new
setting within it seems as foreign as the one that proceeds it.
However, plenty of
scenes still mark Age of Ultron out as one of Marvel's superior efforts, including a kinetic chase sequence
set in South Korea and the electrifying
opening scene which reminds audiences exactly why we love seeing all of our favorite Marvel heroes fight together in one place.
We are dropped into the heart of the action and visual splendour that one expects in the film from the very
opening scene,
set in (an unbelievably pristine) Ancient Egypt.
Adapted from the novel by Chris Fuhrman, there's some funny dialogue and interesting insights delivered during the course of the film, and had the tone stayed within the bounds
set during the
opening scenes, this would have been an enjoyable slice of life film with humor and heart.
The Death Spa archives were
opened up for this feature, including pages from an original James Bartruff screenplay that got a complete rewrite by Paradise, behind - the -
scenes photography, and video footage from the
set.
Despite an over-long,
scene -
setting opening and serious,
set - piece conclusion, the film revels in the characters» enjoyable experimentation with their powers, with a sense of fun immediately apparent.
We first get an impression of the kind of theatrical, charismatic performer Vinny was in his prime in the
opening scene,
set in Caesar's Palace in Vegas.
Set in California one year before the
opening scene of «The Conjuring,» Mia (Annabelle Wallis.
The static main menus
set the
opening titles» score to a brief synopsis of that disc's installment, which is also given a simple
scene selection menu.