Sentences with phrase «potboiler plot»

In applying the aesthetics of the New Hollywood to his potboiler plot, Spielberg made a classic out of genre material.

7 Women is, in actuality, a great film whose potboiler plot masks an incisive inquiry into the battle of the sexes.

Not exact matches

Before «99 Homes,» Bahrani made a more conventionally plotted family - farm potboiler, «At Any Price,» with Dennis Quaid and Zac Efron.

There's a reason potboiler paperbacks don't make good movies — there's too much outlandish plot, even for Hollywood.

Many of the plot points echo those that might have anchored a forgotten black - and - white potboiler.

Whereas Grisham's southern potboilers are driven by plot, suspense, and applications of the law, The Judge, an original screenplay attributed to director David Dobkin, Gran Torino's Nick Schenk, and newcomer Bill Dubuque, substitutes small - town sentimentality for those elements.

Doc would be correct, of course, and as the plot of Thomas Pynchon's potboiler pastiche Inherent Vice grinds into high gear, he'll run afoul of several alive - folks - thought - dead, mysterious cults, more mysterious cartels, crazy drugs, loaded guns, subversives, countersubversives, obscure nautical laws, a band of dentists gone bad, and, worst of all, he will witness firsthand the slow strangulation of a certain dream of free living at the hands of nefarious historical forces.