Not exact matches
Dinish is well at home
with the GOP crowd «For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an
open sepulchre» (ps.5: 9), but God is «not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness» (ps.5: 5) and so although Dinish and by extension the GOP don't care who they hurt
with their lies and behind the
scenes dirty tactics like that silly
film, they are cautioned not to include the name
of God in their wickedness.
During an early screening
of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster flick 2012, which
opens today, laughter erupted in the audience near the end
of the
film thanks to corny dialogue and maudlin
scenes (among the biggest guffaw getters: a father tries to reconnect
with his estranged son on the telephone, only to have the son's house destroyed just before he could say anything).
The
film opens,
with one
of its few color
scenes,
with a closeup
of a hand lighting votive candles
with a match in a pre-war Polish Jewish family's home on a Friday night Sabbath.
Haneke's methods are clear from the
opening: after a long, quiet stretch
of simple credits, followed by an extended black screen as silent as the grave, the
film smash - cuts into its first
scene with a terrifying jolt.
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.
From the
opening scenes,
with Marco's crew crouched around a poker game in the back
of a military vehicle,
with Wyclef Jean's «Fortunate Son» blaring from the sound system, it is clear that this
film has a political head on its shoulders.
The
film's
opening scenes establish that he's welshed on many debts and unlikely to hit a big payday
with any
of the third - rate tin cans he puts into the ring.
The
film opens with the meteorite crashing into an idyllic
scene — a lighthouse situated on the coast
of a swampy national park.
From an
opening scene in a prison fist fight to a staunchly bland climax finding him lost in an «unknown» realm when he's forced to shrink himself to fit between molecules (something resembling the resting place
of Big Hero 6 mixed
with the twilight hour
of James Wan's «further»), Scott Lang is never a fully fashioned personality, some accidental prototype linked
with schlocky zeal to the
film's other do - gooder via a conflicted father / daughter bond.
The
film opens with what I would consider to be one
of the best
scenes in all
of 2013.
They include an alternate
opening of Carol doing an voice exercise
with an annoyingly - voiced woman interviewing her in a bookstore, more
of and on Dani and Moe's rocky marriage, a
scene featuring an accomplished female voiceover artist (played by Melissa Disney), and a number
of additional clips from the convincing fake reality dating TV show woven throughout the
film,
«Deadpool 2»
opens with a bang, and director David Leitch talked to TheWrap about one specific fight
scene at the beginning
of the
film that took a lot
of time and effort.
From the very outset Resnais sets up the theatrical artifice
of the
film with opening scenes of repetition and staged production design.
From the
opening scene one can not possibly approach the rest
of the
film with a straight face.
The
film's
opening scene takes place approximately three months after these creatures have somehow made their presence known,
with the Abbott family — Lee (Krasinski) and his wife, Evelyn (Emily Blunt), along
with their three children — scrounging for supplies in an abandoned supermarket, padding around barefoot so as not to alert the monsters
of their presence.
However, in the
film's
opening scene we learn that someone, in fact, has made it out alive: Lena (Natalie Portman), a woman who appears battered and is being interviewed by a team
of researchers clad in hazmat suits led by Lomax (Benedict Wong), whose many questions are eerily answered
with «I don't know.»
Scott,
with his completed
film just weeks from
opening, made a tough decision: He would reconvene his cast and, in lightning - quick time, reshoot all
of Spacey's
scenes —
with Christopher Plummer in the role.
There's so much happening in a vacuum here
with deaths all over the place and a wealth
of exposition shoved at the moviegoer — brush up on your Horcrux knowledge and character lists, people, else you'll be lost — the
film doesn't sustain the real feeling it engenders brilliantly in the
opening scenes.
Features both the American and British versions
of the
film, commentary track by creator / actor Richard O'Brien and co-star Patricia Quinn, an audience participation picture - in - picture track
with a live version
of the show and a «callback» subtitle track that cues viewers to classic audience responses, featurettes, two deleted musical
scenes, outtakes, alternate
opening and ending, and other celebrations
of the culture
of «Rocky Horror.»
And despite one or two richly lit interior
scenes and one sequence inside the Basilica
of Santa Croce in Florence, the
film leaves the spectator
with an overwhelming impression
of being entirely suffused
with heart - lifting,
open - air sunlight — not unlike, in this respect, some
of the masterworks
of Renoir or Rohmer.
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.
The
film starts off
with some awkward, painfully lame flashback
scenes of Kyle's childhood and transitions into an
opening act that is loaded
with full - on patriotism that sees him go to war to get back at the people who brought suffering to our doorstep in the events
of 9/11 (he was already enlisted, but if we believe the
film that decision was also motivated by seeing news footage
of American lives being taken), but one
of the most interesting surprises is how balanced it eventually becomes and how we see the way that Kyle's actions negatively impact others and how even he begins to question his commitment to the cause, despite the fact that he would never vocalize it.
Bring Me the Head
of Alfredo Garcia (Twilight Time, Blu - Ray), Sam Peckinpah's personal favorite
of his
films,
opens on an idyllic river
scene with a pregnant girl soaking her feet in the lazy current
with a beatific smile on her face.
The
film's
opening scene sees a group
of four masked men robbing a bank at gunpoint,
with help from an accomplice on the outside.
Winging between deadly serious starts (this is a
film that
opens with an incinerated baby, for chrissakes), heartbreaking lost loves, kingdom - destroying action
scenes and Blunt and Theron yelling at each other to the point
of camp, the
film never even comes close to striking a balance.
The
film opens in bravura fashion
with a
scene that wouldn't seem out
of place in a Sergio Leone Western.
The
film starts
with one
of those rare
opening scenes that manages to grab you from the start.
Drive
opens up
with a brilliantly choreographed getaway — nothing else in the
film quite matches the greatness
of this
scene.
The
film opens with a
scene in which Machete (Danny Trejo) and his partner, Sartana (Jessica Alba) are fighting off some baddies and seem to have been successful, when suddenly a masked man appears around the side
of a vehicle and guns down Sartana, and then bails, leaving Machete alone and now even more morbid - looking than he previously had been.
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.
In the
opening scene of the
film, first - time director Grandage depicts this quite literally,
with a bustling Manhattan in black and white — until Wolfe appears.
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.
The
film opens with a gruesome
scene with genre veterans Sid Haig and David Arquette getting a whole lot
of blood on their hands.
Bring Me the Head
of Alfredo Garcia (Twilight Time, Blu - Ray), one
of Sam Peckinpah's personal favorites
of his
films (and the rare Peckinpah
film not to get reworked by the studio),
opens on an idyllic river
scene with a pregnant girl soaking her feet in the lazy current
with a beatific smile on her face.
Nolan and cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema («Interstellar») shot the
film using 65 mm and IMAX cameras, and while the big
scenes of spectacle are unquestionably sweeping and impressive, it's the smaller moments that stayed
with me more, whether it's those cascading leaflets in the
opening scene, the terrifying majesty
of a fighter plane gliding
with its engines off, or a harrowing sequence involving a downed plane that will doubtless be used by English teachers to illustrate what poet Stevie Smith meant when she wrote «Not Waving but Drowning.»
The
film opens with a montage
of shocking
scenes that catapults you right into the tone and feel
of the
film.
The abrupt party
scene is quickly interrupted by a cataclysmic rain
of fire, culminating
with a giant hellmouth
opening up in front
of Franco's house, swallowing most
of the revelers inside and drastically slowing the
film's pace.
Extras: New audio commentary featuring jazz and
film critic Gary Giddins, music and cultural critic Gene Seymour, and musician and bandleader Vince Giordano; new introduction by Giddins; new interview
with musician and pianist Michael Feinstein; four new video essays by authors and archivists James Layton and David Pierce on the development and making
of «King
of Jazz»; deleted
scenes and alternate
opening - title sequence; «All Americans,» a 1929 short
film featuring a version
of the «Melting Pot» number that was restaged for the finale
of «King
of Jazz»; «I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket,» a 1933 short
film featuring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra; two Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons from 1930, featuring music and animation from «King
of Jazz.»
The movie
opens not
with a
scene from the book or a beauty shot
of Hogwarts but
with a moment
of the
film's own invention: Harry hidden under his covers at the Dursleys» house, practicing lumos maximus, his glowing wand illuminating the room.
The
film opens with a black - and - white, La Dolce Vita-esque
scene of Rome as Paul is walking down the street at night and suddenly abducted by what turns out to be a splinter group
of extremists from the Italian Red Brigade, which regularly kidnaps high - profile targets.
0:00 — «Street Fighter II
Opening Theme» by Alph Lyra 0:25 — Intro, Non Street Fighter segment (Dishonored, The Last Story, PlayStation All - Stars Battle Royale) 15:17 — Intermission - «Theme
of Ryu» by Alph Lyra 16:13 — Street Fighter, Street Fighter II and its many editions, the live - action
films 30:50 — Intermission - «Theme
of M.Bison» by Alph Lyra 31:50 — Street Fighter III, Street Fighter IV and the competitive
scene 42:13 — Intermission - «Theme
of Cammy» by Alph Lyra 43:13 — Interview
with Cross Counter Asia video producer / Tough Cookie owner / prominent Singapore FGC contributor Yongde 1:24:42 — Intermission — «Theme
of Guile» by Alph Lyra (which goes
with everything) 1:25:50 — Miscellaneous Street Fighter stuff, Hong Kong SF comics 1:33:44 — Outro — «True Ending Theme» by Alph Lyra
In case you didn't see the middle
film, «The Desolation
of Smaug,» the final
film opens with the same
scenes that closed part two.
Director / Screenwriter (and part - time comic book writer) Joss Whedon's love for comics is apparent right from the start
with an
opening act that would be the climax in many action
films and carries through to one
of the more spectacular final battle
scenes you're likely to see for years to come.
From the
opening scene,
with the black «A model» careering across the dusty landscape, cars dominate the iconography
of Ray's
film.
It
opens with Michael Fassbender and Penelope Cruz in bed together after what is supposed to be a marathon lovemaking session, but director Ridley Scott
films the first part
of this
scene so that they are totally covered by white sheets, as if they were mummies.
It prepares the audience for the fact that the director has no limit
with this
film which
opens up a dizzying array
of possibilities for how this
scene is going to play out.
In the
film's
opening scenes, Jack makes an audacious escape from the clutches
of King George before smacking blades
with the imposter in a tightly choreographed
scene reminiscent
of the swordplay between Jack and Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) in the original Pirates» movie.
In many ways, they transcended the possibilities laid out for them
with the follow - up, from the
opening frames
of the
film to second
scene in the end credits — which some are calling the best post-credits
scene ever.
When the
film opens, for the first half an hour we're given some
of the most visual stimulating
scenes as we're not bogged down
with exposition as much as we're allowed to feast on the actions, clearly shown by our director.
During the wide - ranging conversation they looked back at Deadpool's
opening weekend and discussed the
film's unexpected place in the awards race, where they're at in the pre-production process on Deadpool 2, how the hiring
of David Leitch to direct the sequel has impacted the
film, the action
scenes, collaborating
with Ryan Reynolds, how Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead will return in the sequel, the challenge
of writing Cable, laying the foundation for an X-Force movie, the budget, and more.