Sentences with phrase «origin story box»
Freed from the origin story box, this second installment of the Wade Wilson franchise has its cake and eats it took, taking any number of shots at the superhero sub-genre (and modern blockbuster filmmaking in general) while still crafting a story that makes sense on its own terms and works as a character piece.
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How clever of the creators of Kung Fu Panda 2 to wrap their inevitable sequel to the 2008 box office hit in an origin story.
It's another origin story we're familiar with in the world of comic book heroes, but given the emphasis on magic and alternate dimensions, there are many other toys in the toy box to play with to keep it all feeling like something new to the universe of big - screen superheroes.
But it isn't all good because Wonder Woman is also let down by the trappings of having to tell an origin story, and there are moments when the film feels like a box - ticking exercise in how to create a superhero origin, especially during the final act when — shock!
Despite two entries, one commercially successful, the other a box - office disappointment, and a fifteen - year fallow period, the rights owners behind the Tomb Raider series decided to bring it back, replacing one Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress, Angelina Jolie, with another, Alicia Vikander, giving Vikander's Lara Croft something Angelina Jolie's iteration never received, an origin story.
Cable is set to make an appearance in the 2016 box office smash but Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick have decided to cut his origin story because it is so complicated.
Pan «s failure at the box office is a reminder that the retelling of an origin story is often a tricky expedition.
This category rocks because it recognizes two excellent films that should've gotten much more love: Ex Machina, Alex Garland's sci - fi puzzle box starring Domhall Gleason, Oscar Isaac, and Alicia Vikander as an artificial - intelligence femme fatale; and Straight Outta Compton, the gangsta - rap origin story that had the power to pop a cap in the #OscarsSoWhite narrative, had the A.M.P.A.S. voting body only answered its pager call.
DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. newest super hero origin story, Wonder Woman, rocked the box office this weekend with an estimated $ 100.5 million domestic gross.