Sentences with phrase «same old films»

Not that a more lively performance could have saved this film, but it's interesting to see that actors can be just as bored making the same old films again and again as we are in watching them.

Not exact matches

At the same time Ofoto and Shutterfly are reaching out to picture takers of all stripes by offering steep discounts on old - fashioned film processing (returning prints by snail mail), as well as digitizing the images for online viewing and distribution.

Based on the best - selling book of the same name, the film tells the real - life story of Colton Burpo, a 4 - year - old boy who awakens from surgery with eye - popping tales of the great beyond.

For those old enough to remember Errol Flynn, he was an film star who could not play football and a pretty poor actor, much in the same mould as his «lookalike «Giroud.

Arif Hasan has written that Billy Price and Isiah Wynn would both fit the Vikings» current blocking scheme perfectly, and the film I saw of Wynn told me the same thing, while Will Hernandez's film indicated to me, at least, that he would be more at home in the old, power - blocking system we ran with Adrian Peterson.

Like all football songs old and new they are ripped off from a popular song and «she wore a yellow ribbon» comes from a 1949 John Wayne's film of the same name.

Second - run theaters are another great option for cash - strapped parents; they offer the same advantages as matinees, although they might have an older selection of films.

The cameras in mobile phones or tablets are not the same as DSLRs or even the old film cameras.

Much like for Chips himself, the film shows years as they begin to fly by in a blur, as new boys replace old boys, and new faces look the same as their fathers and grandfathers before them, in particular, little Colley, as played by Terry Kilburn (John Colley, Peter Colley, Peter Colley II, Peter Colley III).

That said, you get the feeling that this film might catch on in the same way that the similarly outrageous hits «The Wedding Crashers» and «The 40 - Year - Old Virgin» did four years ago.

That same kind of raw energy can also be felt in the film's visual look, as cinematographer Salvatore Totino brings an uneasy quality to the wide open spaces of the old west.

The scheme lands the boys unwittingly in a series of misadventures that lead them to their old pal Teddy (Heyborne) and Moe's almost adopted father Harter (Collins) The film is broken up into pieces to mimic the «short» format of the original show, but they are really all acts in the same story.

The newer bond films, with Daniel Craig, are good movies, but they are not the same as the older Bond movies, the older movies center more on action and comedy while the ones with Craig focus on Action.

The four screenwriters (including the film's director, Chris Miller) can't seem to create much excitement in the warmed - over plot, instead relying on the same old shtick.

The film contains the same tacked - on humor, lame CGI that looks like it was from a 20 year old Pixar film, and characters that could not be more one - dimensional if the screenwriters tried.

The film contains the same tacked - on humor, lame CGI that looks like it was from a 20 year old Pixar film, and characters that could not be more one - dimensional if the

All of this predictability and retreading of the same old formula just makes for one long, stretched - out film that leaves the audience waiting for the inevitable to happen.

Her newly appointed henchman Skurge (Karl Urban) is equally flat, while the flaming MacGuffin we meet at the start of the film is just same - old CGI nonsense.

Despite the film's impressively epic look and an interesting cast of young and old actors, it ringingly sounds the same dour note over and over again.

A lot of attention has gone into the film's video games, computer imagery and costumes, to the point where simply watching these artifacts is half the fun... But eventually Hackers turns tedious, perhaps not realizing that an audience can get tired of the same old equations floating in cyberspace.

The film directed by J.A. Bayona (who will direct Jurassic World 2 next) is based on the book of the same name by Patrick Ness and follows a 12 - year - old boy (Lewis MacDougall) who in dealing with his mother's (Felicity Jones) terminal illness, his less - than sympathetic grandmother (Sigourney Weaver), and bullying classmates, finds a friend in a nocturnal monster (voiced by Liam Neeson).

In the latest film, the restless twentysomethings who met in 1995 and reconnected in 2004 are in their 40s and married with kids but are still having the same old arguments about personal values and whether it's possible to retain individual will in the context of a long - term romantic relationship.

Though the film follows a pretty standard cops - and - robbers formula, it does so with such razor - sharp proficiency and well - drawn characters that it succeeds not just as a terrific genre film but a modern American classic in the same vein as «No Country for Old Men.»

In the same period, only twice has the NBR winner gone on to win Best Picture: No Country for Old Men and Slumdog Millionaire — both films ended up sweeping nearly everything.

At the same time, his daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz), a minor who just turned 17, is starting an affair with a sixty - something film director (John Malkovich) who is legendary for his skill and productivity but also notorious for making films about older men having affairs with much younger women and doing the same thing in real life.

There is less detail and clarity than many Blu - rays offer, but it's important to remember that the film is 25 years old and had a production budget of just $ 6 million (to put the latter number into context, fellow 1986 Charlie Sheen movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off cost the same amount).

The project follows the same story as the 1996 film starring Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, and Goldie Hawn, which followed three former friends who reunite at an old classmate's funeral; there, they commiserate about their new status as divorcées and hatch the ultimate revenge plots against their exes.

The performances were all very good, especially that of Gordon - Levitt, and if what you need is a film that keeps you guessing rather than spoonfeeding you the same old stuff, this might fit the bill.

Directed by This Is Love and A Bigger Splash's Luca Guadagnino, the film follows Elio — played by 21 - year - old American actor of the moment and Dazed 100 entrant Timothee Chalamet — as he struggles to navigate first - time feelings of lust, longing and same - sex desire brought on by the arrival of his father's new research assistant, Oliver.

The movie is the directing debut of Leigh Whannell, who wrote the previous two «Insidious» films (as well as «Saw»), so he knows how to deliver shocks - even if most of them are the same old «jump scares» of just having something suddenly appear in the frame.

Give an Oscar to every old - guard critic who was able to successfully pretend that they'd EVER looked at Entertainment Weekly outside of a dentist's office in the last decade); but I'm really perplexed to see the first one to really take off come from Movie Mezzanine — which I'm a fan of for much the same reason I became a fan of much of the TGWTG crew (and their other affiliates): fresh voices in film criticism coming in from outside the old guard print - media stronghold.

The 30 - year - old actor is set to helm the forthcoming film, based on the David Barclay Moore novel of the same name, after Endeavor Content acquired the big screen rights to the project - and he can't wait to get started behind the camera.

Understanding the jaw - dropping effort that went into this movie, it's tempting to wish that Kobiela, Welchman, and their army of animators had come to the same conclusion that old Albinus reached before he scrapped the whole idea: A film made in this way, he reckoned, «would bore most people to death and be a general disappointment.»

Rather than an evolution, this film feels like a case of same old, same old — just yet another movie about repressed mutants.

Clocking in at a brisk one hour, the film tells the story of identical 11 - year - old Cuban triplets Angel, Cesar and Marcos, who are passionate about becoming ballet dancers and all want the same thing — to be picked for a role in an important production in Havana.

The movie also feels like a throwback to old Hollywood in the same vein as 2012's Best Picture winner, The Artist, and nobody loves a film about showbiz more than showbiz people.

Darkest Hour is a film of flummoxed old white men hollering at each other, a perfect foil to (and double - bill alongside) Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, both because the two take place at about the same time during the early years of World War II — as Hitler's world domination began to take shape and an invasion of the UK imminent — and because they are entirely different experiences: Dunkirk is all action, while Joe Wright's film is all words.

«It's the same exact debate,» Schamus said, buttressing his point that everything old is new again when it comes to business trends in film.

I'm going to guess that if you liked the first Sandlot film, you're probably going to be disappointed with Sandlot 2, not only because it is almost the exact same thing, but because you're also an older viewer watching something meant almost strictly for kids.

It got me thinking, how many films this old get board games, have theatrical screenings, and get new HD restorations at the same time.

Zoolander and the gang have mostly ossified into pullstring See»n Says, though to encore the greatest hits of a fifteen - year - old movie whose footprint on popular culture has long since dissipated is to masturbate, really, and the celebrity cameos — about the same number as the previous film's, but much more elaborately integrated this time around — feel no less onanistic.

THE DVD Same old song as Fox provides a DVD - R for our approval; needless to say, I can't tell how the film's supposed to look in its retail incarnation, though I'm giving this transfer the benefit of the doubt in elevating the platter to must - own status.

In his first English language film, the 40 - year - old surprisingly molds Jackie in the same structure of fellow Chilean director Alejandro Amenábar's The Others (2001).

It's not for nothing that the film signs off with the Four Tops» «It's the Same Old Song (but With a Different Beat),» a perfect summary of what the brothers Coen have attempted and accomplished.

Like Michael Apted in his 7 - Up docs, Depardon keeps returning to the same people, using his films as a record of their weathering skin, the passing of the years and the out - with - the - old decline of small - farm agriculture.

But on that same note, since Animated films can't get WGA nominations, I think «The Hangover» could get its spot THERE, just like «The 40 - Year - Old Virgin» and «Knocked Up» did before it.

His skills with getting children to appear natural is charmingly in evidence in Beyond The Clouds: the only parts of the film which feel fresh have these child actors flitting about; the rest is dispiritingly same - old.

The 43 - year - old filmmaker's debut indie feature film Brick was released in 2005, the same year the last of the George Lucas - helmed Star Wars prequels — Revenge of the Sith — was still in theaters.

The pilot, based on David Michôd's 2010 Australian film of the same name starring Guy Pearce, Jacki Weaver and Joel Edgerton, follows the 17 - year - old Joshua «J» Cody, who moves in with his California relatives and discovers that they're funded by criminal activities.

Sure there are moments when each special effect becomes apparent, but for the most part this has the same charm that an older film's «inadequacies» would have.