Sentences with phrase «other film elements»

The return of «Riddick» is a strange convoluted mess that mixes various other film elements and completely loses what the franchise was originally.

Not exact matches

We experience Jesus» message through TV, film, music, dance, various forms of art and so many other elements of culture, so why not food?

If you actually want to learn how to wrap your child to keep him or her safe from the elements and other hazards, you need to watch these films involving practical and pragmatic demonstrations.

The situation can be compared to that in astronomy, in which the telescope mirrors, despite their increasing size, have not changed for a long time, but the readout elements, starting from simply looking through the telescope, via print film to highly sensitive charge - coupled devices and other sensors, have improved the instrument dramatically.

Nicolas Barry at the University of Warwick, UK, and his colleagues fired a beam of electrons at a thin film of molecules containing the metal osmium, carbon and other elements.

«What we've done shows that huge modulations and enhancements can be made by adding other elements and performing other chemistries within the polymer film prior to exposure to the laser,» he said.

The Rice lab of chemist James Tour discovered last year that firing a laser at an inexpensive polymer burned off other elements and left a film of porous graphene, the much - studied atom - thick lattice of carbon.

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It was a major plot element in films such as One, Two, Three, The Coca - Cola Kid, and The Gods Must Be Crazy, among many others.

Rather than take on the entire movie — which includes an inexplicable ending, piss - poor greenscreen, and at least a dozen other noxious elements — let's look at the two most infamous moments, which represent everything wrong about this film.

The film does use elements from other horror films, and director George Bowers steadily builds up the tension to a surprise final.

In any other fictional film if you have bad characters, underdeveloped elements, and sloppy narrative you simply get a bad piece of fiction.

The female roles are (unfortunately) secondary to all other plot elements, but the film still warrants a viewing if but for the political uproar it brought about after exposing the chain gang system.

Garland, whose only other directorial feature is Ex Machina, a film I thought was the best movie of its entire year, tries his hand at adapting this phenomenal book into a screenplay and then into a film, but he couldn't do it without falling back on a ton of typical elements, and that's a real shame.

I have to agree with the other reviewers and critics that the plot and script are still strange and arguably bad, particularly with the steampunk elements, but I still found myself entertained by the film.

The film's single downside is a certain nagging sense of deja vu: the fact that so many of the elements of the story — the dark force, the all - empowering object, etc. — have been usurped over the years (by «Star Wars» and others) that you feel as if you've been down this road many, many times before.

Also, there's a definite mean - spiritedness and a slight element of danger to «Me, Myself & Irene» that the other films, especially «Mary,» wisely avoided.

It adds a slightly extended version of the film but doesn't provide any other compelling new elements.

Worse, these (and other) elements are often crammed uncomfortably into the same scene, leading the viewer to wonder whether he is meant to be laughing at or with the film — or, for that matter, whether he is supposed to be laughing at all.

As David, the son of Korean immigrants, navigates his nascent desire, the film rests not on eroticism per se, but on the connective tissue it weaves among sexual and other identities: Spa Night recombines elements of the emigrant saga and the coming - of - age story into a searching, fresh - faced portrait, highlighting in the process the genres» keen correspondences.

Like many films by Besson — «The Professional,» «The Fifth Element,» «The Messenger» and other high - octane shoot -»em - ups — «Lucy» starts out riveting but becomes less engaging as it goes along.

But like many other films («Star Wars») the limitations of the time proved to be the films winning key, this element like other modern films has been lost completely here.

As a screenwriter first and foremost (and a director with little to no innate visual sense), I tend to prize narrative and story over most other elements in film.

The film strains credulity even for a vid - game fantasy by letting the leading lady recover awfully quickly from bad injuries, but other than that Vikander commands attention and is the element here that makes Tomb Raider sort of watchable.»

The other elements of the film come together splendidly as well, from the loving - but - not - trite shots of Manhattan, courtesy of cinematographer Ben Kutchins (the «Veronica Mars» movie), to a first - rate comic ensemble that also includes Jason Mantzoukas, Andrea Savage, Natasha Lyonne, Amanda Peet, and Marc Blucas (plus brief but memorable appearances by Adam Brody, Anna Margaret Hollyman, Billy Eichner and Michael Cyril Creighton).

That's not the only film that Disturbia lifts ideas from; it also borrows from other movies that have taken Rear Window's core element of mystery and murder in the house of the neighbor next door, most notably in The «burbs and Body Double, with its emphasis on sexiness and some darkly disturbing subject matter that keeps the sights titillating and the atmosphere creepy.

As much as we want to believe the films will only be about Thanos and the Infinity Gauntlet, they're going to need other elements to make the films a bit more grander than other installments, with or without Spider - Man.

Other Kurosawa films with strong noir elements, both playing in the Mifune series, are the multiple - viewpoint period murder mystery masterpiece «Rashomon» (1950) and his great dark samurai classic «Yojimbo» (1961).

Most of these elements involve other aspects of film production, but it all starts with the script.

These misses narratively combined with other elements of Deadpool 2 make it feel like a backwards step or at the very least of a stalling of the series from the first, there's a sense here that everything's a little auto - pilot, the action too taking a backwards step from the imaginative sequences of the first film and while perfectly entertaining, this is an experience filled with nothing that would suggest Deadpool 2 is going to be a film you'll be going back to anytime soon.

Generally the film's other elements - dialogue, street noises, pop music soundtrack - are equally well handled in terms of dynamicism and balance.

Admittedly the backgrounds of the four major fantasy sequences that anchor the film look impressive for a couple of seconds but like every other element in this film, the art direction is so conceptually underdeveloped it fails to sustain interest.

One is left to assume that, like other visual elements of the film, these shots were either staged or lifted from the public domain.

But as with several other plum films of this year's Oscar season — Gravity, Captain Phillips — the elements will bite harder.

The arrival of what appears to be the most purely non-fiction element in the film works to bind together what has been gleaned from the other sections, shot in Argentina, Mozambique and the Philippines: the meandering lives of contemporary youth in far - flung corners of the globe are increasingly connected through the medium of technology.

Besides these three elements, Devil in a Blue Dress proves derivative of other, more original films.

In an era where so many films are merely stealing elements from each other, The Mack emerges as one of the most unique, and even if it lacks the focus and jointed structure to call it a great film for mainstream viewers, it is well worth seeking out for fans of not only Blaxploitation films, but gritty crime dramas in general.

It's a shame, though, that the other elements of the film are not covered in more detail than Neil's own accounts: Navarrete's music and Sean Bobbitt's cinematography are so stunning that behind - the - scenes chats with them would be very illuminating.

In fact, it so desperately wants to capture that beatnik - y place and tone where crime films and swinging London met that it just seems to try too hard, slathering the movie with music, trippy visuals and other elements that just can't make up for the deficit of a weak and blandly told story about a ex-con (Colin Farrell) hired to look after a reclusive young actress (Keira Knightley) who finds himself falling in love, which of course puts himself in direct confrontation with one of London's most vicious gangsters.

In terms of the expressive elements he employs, Leigh treats the abortion scenes just as he treats every other scene in the film, in part because Vera doesn't view what she does as in any way out of the ordinary.

As long as you know that you're going to see plot elements, story backgrounds, and characters similar to other, better films, you will be in the right frame of mind to enjoy Doom strictly as b - movie entertainment and nothing more.

Beta House, as a standalone film, isn't much more than a completely raunchy regurgitation of story elements found in other frat comedies, such as Animal House and Revenge of the Nerds.

Synopsis: The film is set in a fantasy world where the four elements of earth, air, water, and fire can be controlled through martial arts called bending, and the ruthless flame - manipulating Fire Nation is waging war to control the other nations of the world.

It's a conversation that works really well but one wishes that the film's other elements would've worked as well as its subject matter.

If only the other elements of the film fit together so neatly.

While based on true events, 5 Days of War contains blatant fictional elements which stick out like a sore thumb, including Hollywood - style split - second timing and other contrived scenarios that damage the film's integrity.

While one can not fail to be largely impressed by the scale and execution of Chadha's film, it's difficult to over-look other less breath - taking elements along the way.

Aside from the alternate version, here we have a running commentary track with Peter Bogdanovich (who contributes most of the insightful - if - already - well - acknowledged elements of the film and its place in the Hitchcock legacy), Joseph Stefano, and about two dozen other people.

The print media, Life magazine, the New York Times and others, hound Zapruder for use of the disturbing images he captured, and he struggles with his responsibility for such powerful pictures.The Kennedy assassination was a major media event, and Walter Cronkite's and other broadcasters» recurrent commentary, along with TV news footage, play a prominent role in the film, tying the various elements together.

It feels a bit familiar, combining elements from several other films — particularly Crimes and Misdemeanors — but it's also incredibly assured and one of the most exquisitely shot entries in his oeuvre.