Sentences with phrase «out of an action scene»

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Behind the scenes, though, an explosive court case was brewing: a proposed $ 1.95 - billion class action lawsuit, alleging that the company's historic shift to frozen products had taken a significant bite out of store owners» cash registers.

The narrative mode inevitably imposed itself as the believers rehearsed the saving action, including particular scenes of it that played themselves out in the market - place or the Temple - court, at a dinner with guests or in a synagogue.

The court action grew out of a clash between sponsors of the nativity scenes and a group of atheist activists who competed with the churches for limited space in Santa Monica's biggest public park and managed to dominate last year's holiday displays with anti-religious messages.

Husband was kind of enough to humor me by taking some real life action shots of a very typical scene around our house - clingy, teething AJ channeling a koala cub and hanging out with mama while she does the dishes:

There's a struggle (with an observatory door), the element of surprise (an unexpected burst on a photographic plate), disbelief (by our protagonist and a collaborator), a scramble (to figure out how to report the discovery of the supernova), and an action scene that seems impossibly quaint: A driver races to the nearest town 100 kilometers away to send a telegram and alert the world that 166,000 light - years away, a star has exploded.

When its birth - star burst into a giant supernova, calcium fled the scene like an action hero diving out of an exploding car.

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The action scenes highlight Rodriguez's trademark ability to choreograph firefights and explosions, but they're doled out with uncharacteristic stinginess between long stretches of exposition that clear up much less than they should, as the film builds toward a climax featuring some strangely underpopulated riot action.

Made by some of the people responsible for «Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were - Rabbit,» this computer - animated film could use a strong dose of Ritalin — some of the action scenes are so frenetic that it's hard to figure out what's going on.

Like most of the more notable critics have pointed out; no personality is to be found among the Decepticons (the least they could've done is to synthesize StarScream's rasp to throw the fans a bone for God's sake), an overly active camera and «busy» robot models make some action scenes little more than a confusing blur, and goofy, unfunny dialogue permeates the story.

It's rare these days to walk out of a modern sci - fi blockbuster and think not of the visual effects or action scenes but the incredible screenplay.

For all of the gonzo flourishes, Waititi is a fairly conventional plotter and stager of action scenes, and so eventually we must move on to a denouement we don't quite care about, as well as a potentially weighty theme — Hela might represent the ugly origins that all prosperous societies bury — that stays too far out of focus.

The action sequences and fight scenes in the first two acts of the movie are equally impressive in their staging, taking visual cues from sources that include Coogler's own grounded boxing scenes in Creed, as well as many a James Bond film during a nightclub sequence right out of something like Skyfall.

Characters will jump and twirl and come out of nowhere in spaceships to save the day, and as you guide them through one over-the-top action scene after another, it's tough not to smile at the cartoonish demeanor and scale.

«Furious 7» (2015) Box Office Take: $ 1,154 billion * (and climbing, still on release) 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 6 (may go higher) Vin Diesel and Paul Walker driving that billionaire's Lykan out of one Abu Dhabi skyscraper, 100 floors up, and into another for the second time, might be the platonic ideal of the «Fast & Furious» action scene — it is ludicrous, it defies both probability and physics, it involves insanely expensive kit and it happens more than once.

And while some scenes do portray a gratuitous amount of almost Tarantino - level violence that comes out of nowhere, most of Gangster Squad's violence feels justified, and redemptive, echoing a theme of the film that makes it more fun than your average action fare: heroism.

There are scenes where Jolie and Pitt sizzle, and there are some moments of fantastic scripting, where the violence and gun battles become something more than just great action sequences... they become commentary on the process of working out one's differences with another.

But, so long as you can follow the story well enough, and don't mind the rather lengthy takes that Soderbergh enjoys during scenes of running or driving, Haywire is worth seeking out for a smart, stylish, and off - speed action film that blends traditional thrills with Soderbergh's independent experimentation with the process of genre filmmaking.

The film, based in name only on a series of South Korean graphic novels, has nice, washed - out desert exteriors and some cool jet - powered motorcycles, but there's nothing in the hackneyed story or the derivative action scenes to make you take notice.

Wahlberg does a good job taking the piss out of his action roles, as he spends all of his scenes shirtless, much to Carell's annoyance (culminating in the obligatory PG - 13, single use of the word «fuck»).

Blackhat tries to be the new Heat and some action scenes actually look like Micheal Mann copied them straight out of Heat and Collateral.

He brings the pacing of Creed's boxing matches to the longer action scenes, producing a fabulously entertaining sequence in which a shoot - out in a South Korean underground casino — presented in part as an uninterrupted long take — breaks out into a rollicking car chase through city streets.

To make matters worse, around about the same time we get an action scene that's... well... it's just ridiculous, and really took me out of the film.

A five - minute featurette called «Greetings From Bull Mountain» is the standard five - minute B - roll / soft - sell interview errata that features a few additional male buttock shots; «King of the Mountain» is a two - minute music video that splices action sequences from the film together with bloopers and sets it to music (something resurrected in feature - length form by this year's ESPN's X-movie); and nine chapter - encoded deleted scenes (blissfully sans commentary and running between fifteen seconds and a minute, each) are essentially long «comedy» shticks that prove for as bad as Out Cold was, it could have been even worse.

Skyfall doesn't reach the emotional depths of 2006's Casino Royale — Daniel Craig's first outing as MI6 secret agent James Bond — but it features jaw - dropping cinematography and set design, and some of the most exciting action scenes of the entire series.

There is a lot of flair and bravado to the action sequences here, whether it be in - car chases, boat chases, Nazi torture doctors, and powerful slaps that can knock a man out while keeping him standing still upright, but your left solely appreciating the idiosyncratic nature of it all alongside some admittedly wonderful cinematography that captures these scenes with, again, style.

Moving away from the horror elements of The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day is an all - out war of car chases, fight scenes, shoot outs, nuclear explosions and a phenomenal, if gratuitous set piece where the Terminator blows up numerous police cars with a machine gun for no other reason than the script required an action beat.

As expected from a Ridley Scott - directed sword / sandals epic based on the story of Moses leading 600,000 slaves out of Egypt, the trailer and footage teased killer action sequences and battle scenes, a cast of thousands which includes Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingley, Joel Edgerton, Aaron Paul, John Turturro and some of history's earliest family drama between Moses and Rhamses (Edgerton).

Long recognized as one of George Lucas» primary inspiration for Star Wars (among other things, the bickering peasants who wander into the odyssey inspired R2D2 and C - 3PO), it's Kurosawa's his first go at the widescreen format and he proves to be a master at it, dynamically spreading his compositions out to an epic scope and boldly setting his cascade of sharp action scenes against a magnificent landscape.

In scenes interwoven into adrenalized action scenes involving Marsh's firefighting crew in action, Marsh and his wife spar, reconcile, and spar again over the dangers of his firefighting life, the days, weeks, and months Marsh spends away from home fighting fires in their native Arizona and elsewhere (crews travel out of state as needed), and Amanda's desire to start a family before the biological clock runs out on them both.

Check out the new behind - the - scenes video from the production of Lucasfilm's epic action film «Red Tails» below.

Much of the story is somber, and indeed a melancholy mood clouds the action, though there is a single, laugh - out - loud hilarious scene when the three recall Vietnamese bordellos surround the American base, and penis jokes abound, particularly about Sal's phallus that was so rock hard in the whorehouse that he could scarcely move the rest of his body.

But mostly the film is about big, loud and increasingly incomprehensible action scenes of massive mechanical creations pummeling the living grit out of one another and destroying the ancient ruins of Egypt while in the grip of an ancient blood feud (or would that be a transmission fluid and engine grease feud?).

Rossi wrote a script exploring the most gruesome depths of repressed grief, Morano certainly pulled it out of the actors and added further intensity with her blurry focus and pore - revealing intimacy in almost every scene, throw in the ear - assault and too - serious actions of the characters and it stops being insightful and starts being a bit scary.

The rest of the bonus material is focused on the behind - the - scenes experience, with «The Making of Incredible» taking a broader approach to the production of the movie, and «Anatomy of a Hulk - Out» offering a more detailed look at the filming of the three Hulk - driven action sequences.

There are tough - talking cops, concerned relatives, a TV news crew on the outside; surprisingly little of interest goes on at the scene of the action, where Jimmy tries to sort out his thoughts without ever posing a genuine threat.

But director John Landis drifts through the proceedings at the pace of an injured sloth, rendering bad action scenes even worse and all but wiping out any chance of a snappy comedy to rival Martin Brest's original.

Tucker gets plenty of screen - time and moments of irreverent hamming, while Chan dishes out some high - flying action during the fight scenes, even if they are far from his best.

However, the character portrayals are well fleshed out and the action scenes are some of the best directed yet in an entry.

Gangster Squad (2013)-- «Max Kennard» RP: You probably already know this, but because of the idiot in Colorado who went into the theater and killed those poor people... We had a trailer for the film that had a scene that took place in Grauman's Chinese Theater, which was a big action sequence in our movie, and we had to scrap the trailer, they had to reposition the movie and put it out later.

But, of course, Wright stands out most of all for his extended action scenes.

Check out the latest action - packed behind the scenes videos from the set of the upcoming film «The Avengers» by director Joss Whedon (The Cabin in the Woods, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and starring Chris Evans (Captain America: The First Avenger), Chris Hemsworth (Thor, Red Dawn), Mark Ruffalo (Date Night, Shutter Island), Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man 3), Scarlett Johansson (Nick Fury), Jeremy Renner (The Raven, The Hurt Locker) and Samuel L. Jackson (The Killing Game, Iron Man).

The best setpiece in «Winter Soldier,» Cap taking out a bunch of would - be assassins in an elevator, had a frenzied smallness that was much more exciting than watching helicarriers crash and monuments crumble; it seems to have inspired the better action scenes here — not just a stairwell punch-fest that finds Bucky swinging from a torn - up stretch of railing like Tarzan on a vine, but in a bigger, louder, wilder clash between Avengers (including emergency ringers Spider - Man, Ant - Man and Black Panther) on an airport runway.

Stepping into the role of the pursued Aaron Cross is Jeremy Renner, who'll be everywhere next summer, though this is the role meant to make him a household name; presumably he won't be sitting out the action scenes as he did in «Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol ``... Gilroy's a director with chops, and this franchise has thus far remained visceral and exciting, so count this as one of our most anticipated blockbusters.

We do meet a group of mutants in the film, but with the exception of the pivotal role of Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), the rest of the mutants (good and bad) are mostly just there to fill out the action scenes — or in the case of Emma Frost (January Jones), fill out some ridiculous outfits (which the film does manage to justify... sort of).

And then I wanted to do an action scene of Elton John kicking the living daylights out of people.»

Captain Phillips is a rollicking thrill ride, masterfully played out by action tension specialist Paul Greengrass and elevates itself with Tom Hanks» chilling and remarkable performance of its final scene.

Last month it was revealed that Megalyn Echikunwoke is set to bring Mari McCabe from animation to live - action with a guest - starring role as Vixen in the fourth season of Arrow, and now we have out first official look at the actress in character... The official image comes after Stephen Amell posted a behind - the - scenes shot from production -LSB-...]

Not only does it test the limits of his quirky charms and comedic chops, but also the guy gets to play out action scenes like musical numbers and nails the physicality with ease.