Sentences with phrase «seen in movies about»

I just mean this: Black people have had to try to see themselves in movies about white people since forever, if they wanted to take any entertainment from most movies, that is.

Not exact matches

Of course, complaints about the proliferation of sequels tend to be much louder in the wake of a high - profile flop than they are after the release of financially and critically successful follow - ups (see: Disney's Marvel and Star Wars franchises, or the Despicable Me and Hunger Games movies, to name a few — though, some movies still make a ton of money despite toxic reviews).

Apparently, audiences were not interested in seeing a nearly three - hour - long movie about a robotic alien truck eluding the clutches of an intergalactic bounty hunter by joining forces with prehistoric robot dinosaurs — that would be Transformers: Age of Extinction — or that one where Tom Cruise is repeatedly killed while fending off an alien invasion... or something.

All along, Liongate's model was about cheap, low - risk investments, often in edgy material the major studios avoided, such as the Saw slasher movies.

The column was prompted by an ad for Coca Cola (see below), about a puppy love story of two teenagers brought together by Coke, that aired in Canadian movie theatres this summer.

In October 2010, Zuckerberg took a bunch of Facebook staffers to a public theater to see «The Social Network,» the movie about the founding of Facebook.

The movie served to give me a different platform to discuss faith from, not to argue that my belief system is right and someone else's is wrong, but instead to point out that the world is hungry for questions about the soul and what we don't see right in front of us.

in 2008: «There is nothing in the game you would not see in a TV show or movie a hundred times over, so I don't understand what the conversation is about.

How many people in this country think about Aurora when they go to see a movie now?

i remember now seeing this one movie with mid-east people drama in it — don't remember to much about the movie except this one scene of men in mid-east dress advancing in protest in mass upon these soldier guards over something these people in mass thought was rightfully theirs (a freedom from violence was one of these things they thought was rightfully theirs).

Although I was raised in West Virginia, I first learned about these events as a nearly grown man when I saw the movie...

If any of you have ever seen the movie, «The Mist» think about the religious lady in the movie.

I don't know if you saw the movie: «Jesus Camp» but if you haven't it's worth watching to see how our «Christians» start indoctrinating our «very» young children about Satan, hell, sinners, the evils of anyone who doesn't believe in Jesus, etc...

Although I was raised in West Virginia, I first learned about these events as a nearly grown man when I saw the movie Matewan, John Sayles's cinematic vision of the seminal events of the mine wars.

I just saw an Indian movie last night and wrote about the principle of Hero Worship in that post.

Many in Hollywood say they see the spiritual - memoir - turned - movie as the next hot genre, suggesting there are ongoing talks about turning Lauren Winner's «Girl Meets God» into a romantic comedy, Ian Cron's «Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me» into an action flick, Anne Lamott's «Traveling Mercies» into an indie road trip film, Kathleen Norris» «The Cloister Walk» into something really creepy involving monks.»

It can happen in lots of ways ~ something I read about in a book, see in a movie, or hear someone talking about it.

I recall having seen something with a nice pink color in the movie and wonder about using sliced beets to add a bit of color.

What I love about Valentine's Day is that it's a fun, special occasion to celebrate my love for my guy, for us to get a little fancy and do something we both genuinely love, like going to see a movie or to a cool vegan restaurant if we can hunt one down in our area.

«You see,» Arthur told them, «I would say that virtually anyone in America 20 years old or older has formed most of his impressions about Africa from the movies.»

«I expect they'll use me in the movie to the point where I'll actually be killed,» he has said gloomily, adding that he sees this coming about as a result of «a ton of people falling on top of me.»

You have a point about rock but hes far too busy and has too much money to trot out on tv every cple weeks for next to no money (compared to his movies) the ronda thing has been all over sports sites and entertainment sites im not really a ronda fan but i cant deny she has mainstream appeal (not nearly as much as before but still has it) lets put it this way whens the last time we saw something like «sasha banks (insert every wwe star) wrestles tonight» featured in major media publications online.

We've all seen it in the movies: Bring it On, 10 Things I Hate About You, heck even High School Musical had cheerleading in it!

I've seen this movie far too many times to believe it's all about the money, especially when we have 135 million in the bank.

-- This film looks very different than the birth movies I've seen / heard about in the past, but seems very interesting as well.

But that doesn't mean that what we see on television or read in a (non-birth-related) book or watch in a movie has no effect at all on our thoughts about pregnancy and childbirth.

I recently saw the movie «Her,» and while it isn't the best movie I've ever seen, it is pretty much at the top when it comes to raising fascinating questions: what it means to be human, what we mean when we talk about love and intimacy, what sex is, and yes, how we can be so connected to and dependent on technology — especially technology that responds in loving ways and gives us exactly what we want — that we actually can have a romantic relationship with it.

Now that we have baby number 2 we reminisce about the days when we only had one and could pop her in the car and go see a movie — not so easy to do with an almost 5 year old;)

Talk to your teen about how real life dates don't mimic what might be seen in the movies.

If you see a character in a movie or on TV with a cigarette, talk about smoking, nicotine addiction, and what smoking does to a person's body.

Girls often compare their friendships to what they read about in books, see in the movies or watch on television.

This week's Friday Charades includes more about our Houston trip last weekend, one of the best movies I've seen in a long time, and more!

Teens and young adults often think it's «cool» to use marijuana because they hear songs about it, and see people using it on television or in movies.

Though you've probably heard of autism, and you may have even seen a portrayal of autism in the movies or on TV, you probably don't have extensive knowledge about autism or Asperger Syndrome unless you have personal experience with the conditions.

See, Ricki Lake made a movie about her choice, and the ACOG and AMA aren't too happy about it: ACOG released a statement, which was in turn supported in a resolution Tuesday by the American Medical Association, which said «There has been much attention in the media by celebrities having home deliveries» and which singles out Ricki Lake's film «The Business of Being Born» as part of the problem.

As a kid, one of the first times I actually remember hearing or seeing anything about breastfeeding was in one of my favorite movies, Look Who's Talking.

In thinking about all the upset caused by this week's blizzard that wasn't, especially all the outrage directed at the weathermen for making everybody freak out about «historic» snow totals that got dumped on New England instead of us, I was reminded of the best movie I saw last year: «Nightcrawler.»

When Peter Delfyett (pictured left) was in the first grade, his father took him to see the science fiction movie Journey to the Beginning of Time, a story about four boys who traveled back to the age of dinosaurs.

I mean, it's too bad about the crew member, but it is rare indeed for a movie to show silence in space (see the entry for Star Wars — though television's Firefly gets it right).

Having only seen the movie pitches in written form, they found the narcissists» ideas to be about as creative as proposals from non-narcissists.

«We knew if you could speed the information up successfully, it would give rise to all kinds of causality problems, as you see in science fiction movies about people traveling back in time.

It was refreshing to see an AI movie that was not about violent robots and raised many interesting AI issues in the broader public sphere — such as scalability (dating at massive scale), the realistic and sad aspect of human loneliness being filled by machines (already happening in China via chatbots) and the issues that arise as AI surpasses human intelligence.

He had been amazed by a fossil he had seen in a museum and, being an incurable model builder, had talked the producers of a movie being made about natural and artificial flight into funding his robotic pterodactyl.

I read about this in magazines, saw it in movies, and, to make matters worse, my mother had always hammered the idea into my head.

For me, the shift in my way of thinking about food began after I saw the movie Food, Inc..

Forget what you've seen in the stage shows or the Hollywood movies and think about it this way: Hypnosis is simply meditation with a goal.

That «new mother glow» that you've heard about from family and friends and that you've seen in movies and magazines is nowhere to be found.

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You may see it in a movie or hear a story about.

In fact, I was just talking to my husband about it because you make me want to go see that new movie out (my sick brain can not think of the title right now) with the kids soon.