Sentences with phrase «popcorn film like»

I believe no popcorn film like «Attack The Block» should be this well made or well - written, but surprisingly it was.

Not exact matches

Movie night in our house always means popcorn, candy, and a special drink (my girls like to drink something that goes along with the film we're watching).

Family Movie Night was pretty much exactly what it sounds like: we each took turns picking a film, and then the four of us hunkered down with pizza and popcorn in the basement and watched it together.

Some popcorn and a little soda, with a film that makes us laugh sounds like a great time.

For all the value of his three most recent period pictures, they feel less vital as direct responses to the world around us than as filmed civics lessons, like popcorn Rossellini in his historical films era.

I came into the film with a certain «checklist» of things that I expected from a popcorn blockbuster like Transformers... explosions, great set - pieces, great battle sequences, amazing cgi and 3D, and of course beautiful women, and was hugely satisfied with the film.

That isn't to say that the racially - charged, multi-perspective narrative was bad, it just felt more like a popcorn thriller than a film worthy of the year's top honor.

The first film felt like a dumb popcorn - flick handled by a master.

Even with all the popcorn in a film like «Ready Player One,» it does still have social meaning.»

This trailer definitely has a grindhouse vibe with the saturated look, and seems like a great film to see at midnight in some old junky theater with a big bag of popcorn.

Not recommended for the sensitive sort of folks who feel they can better relate to art films and dramas, but if you're into popcorn actioners, this is not a bad way to spend an evening with some like - minded people.

The»90s were the heyday for John Grisham, Jack Ryan, and films like The Fugitive, well - made populist popcorn entertainment that was succeeded by the sleeker, hollow, more frantic and sometimes Hong Kong - inspired thrills of Jerry Bruckheimer productions helmed by the likes of Michael Bay and Tony Scott.

Overall, Ant - Man was a bit more choppy than I would have liked and seemed to suffer from re-write issues here and there but is truly an enormously fun, popcorn ride of a film.

Still, even in my own friendly circle of film critics, I have a bit of a reputation for liking the popcorn movies and turning a cold shoulder to the so - called artsy films.

And overall I thought the film, especially the characters and story, lacked direction, like it was just Affleck trying to show off his home town of Boston while telling a fun popcorn movie story set around it.

If that sounds like a typical dual - threat formula popcorn and prestige for Smith, its nothing compared to the films adherence to awards - bait bromides.

If only Mendes had allowed «Road to Perdition» to be more like the «popcorn movie» he said he didn't want to make, Tom Hanks great performance might have been in an equally great film.

«Twister» is a THX - plus - FX popcorn movie of the highest caliber, but one that falls into the «Chinese meal» theory of moviegoing, i.e. an hour after you've left the theater talking about how awesome the film was, you realize, «Wait a minute, that movie was dumb as hell,» but, ha - ha, too late, you already liked it.

Kaufman could have stopped there and delivered a fairly entertaining film that, like a cup of popcorn, would have satisfied and immediately disappeared.