Sentences with phrase «second act scene»

Not exact matches

He agreed to put in the baffling «Thor Cave» scene (which makes no more sense now than it did then) and they let him have an extended second act with the Avengers hanging out on Hawkeye's farm.

The actress was spotted in New York City filming scenes for the film Second Act with a long bob that hits just below her shoulders and has clean, blunt ends.

One moment will have smart phone animations barraging the screen, the next scene will have some random act of bullying, and then the movie remembers it's supposed to be a horror film and for two seconds, you see the girls being filmed by someone.

Still, the film never quite nails down an overall tone, building to two powerful scenes closing out the second act and warming up the third: one between Gerry and his ex-wife (Robin Weigert, looking nothing like «Deadwood's» Calamity Jane) heartbreaking and tense, the other at a sparsely attended horse track with Gerry and Curtis seemingly all but solidifying their own sad fates.

And then there's Fishburne, who wanders into the film deep in its second act, and absolutely owns a whispery - crazy scene in which he imparts some of the wisdom he's gleaned from 10 «seasons» of hunting and being hunted.

Sofia Coppola's exquisite second feature is filled with these kinds of small, beautifully acted scenes that, when taken together, paint a rich portrait of two like - minded souls who take solace in each other when the rest of their lives seem to be spinning out of control.

There are a few cool action beats, and one particularly amazing death scene, but at times, it doesn't even feel like a Riddick movie, with the title character gone missing for most of the second act.

But by the major action scene during the second act they cut back, providing the characters more space.

This is especially true of the first and second acts of the film, as Bird continually presents suspenseful scenes that are full of flair and energy.

(meaning, light eddie murphy's head for the cocaine overdose scene at the end of the second act)

Previously out of of print, «The Decline of Western Civilization» documents Los Angeles punk culture over two decades with the first film highlighting acts like Black Flag and the Germs, while the second film showcases metal acts like London and Odin, and the last film focuses the latter - day L.A. punk scene.

It makes sense in hindsight that the chase would be a third act, (because the house fire was the second), but such a scene has the anticipating adrenaline of a second act, not to mention the randomness of a «final battle.»

It is scenes like these that give The Tale of the Princess Kaguya its everflowing momentum, even as it flirts with a bout of disinterest in its elongated second act.

She took time from filming the second season to talk about her current acting crush, surprises on set, and re-creating scenes at home.

Calling this sequence one scene is a bit of a misnomer, as it unfurls over much of the film's transition from its second act to its third, but there's no way to pare down the joy of everything that happens here to into one moment.

His character comes to fruition in the second act and apart from being present during pivotal battle scenes, his character is not given enough time to establish, and so comes off rather bland and underwhelming.

While punchy and full of giddy flourishes of dialogue, as ever with McDonagh it paints itself into a corner in the closing scenes where a convenient entrance stage - right in the second act is exploited.

Again, Craig's Bond might've set the standard here in Casino Royale — the parkour scene in the first act of the movie is breathtaking stuff on the second, third, fourth, fifth, and 20th viewing.

The Cloverfield Paradox is an unholy mess... The characters here never feel like they could exist in a world outside of this space station, all of them barking in tech - speak at each other, rarely acting in what could be classified as recognizably human behavior... As the film bumbles from one confusingly mounted scene to the next, disappointment turns to boredom... The Cloverfield franchise is rumored to grow even more later this year with a second world war - set thriller potentially unspooling in October.

In one scene, deep in the overstuffed second act of F. Gary Gray's ambitious N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton, Ice Cube (played by O'Shea Jackson Jr., the real - life fruit of Mr. Cube's loins) goes to settle a dispute with his manager.

The film plays it coy with the details, until the various pieces of its puzzle come together in the third act, as the brothers to explore even stranger things — a dead body and its living counterpart existing side by side, a grisly scene in a tent that repeats itself every few seconds, even more visual hints left by an entity that seems to see everything.

An awkward dinner scene between the latter two stands as the only bad scene in the film, grinding the second act to a temporary halt.

Consequently, Snow Flower doesn't hit its stride until the second act and many scenes appear directed more toward western audiences needing education in Chinese history and customs.

He has literally two proper scenes; the first is to justify demoting Cruise's character and sending him into battle in order to cover his own ass (somehow) and thus set the story in motion, and the second is to give Blunt and Cruise the MacGuffin when they finally decide that they've been faffing about for long enough and should probably get act three started.

There is an over-reliance on jump scares but director André Øvredal keeps the tension going throughout (barring one major misstep in a scene that bridges the second and third acts... you'll know it when you see it).

A second - act twist that contrives to bring him into contact with Albert in order to flesh out both of their characters unfortunately feels wildly inorganic and borrowed from the thriller genre, though Patric recovers in some late scenes, as he becomes an increasingly anxious sidekick to a determined - for - death Nancy; watch as he joins her in contemplating belly - up fish in a pet store aquarium, or looks on as she, grinning, runs her fingers over sharp garden tools, or helps her select a dress in which to die.

So even the first film's structure is replicated, beat - for - beat: at the end of 21's second act, the pair's partnership flailed after a chase scene caused Schmidt to miss a school play; the end of 22's second act sees the same occur, only this time, it's because a chase scene causes Jenko to miss a football game.

Following one of the most intense and painful - to - watch torture scenes I have ever encountered, the third act takes even more of a gamble than the poker - heavy second act — the pacing slows even more.

The key to a great cover is NOT through creating a key scene from the book, but through evoking an emotion or telling a story in the simplest way possible, so the reader can see it, understand it and act on it in those crucial two seconds.

During this period I served as the second in command of this Crime Scene Unit and in the absence of the Unit Commander I became the acting commander.