Sentences with phrase «sequences in comic book movies»

There's a new trend emerging in studio comedies where humorous set pieces are treated almost like action sequences in comic book movies — they come early and often and there's never much time to let the characters breath and develop in between the wild hijinks that blow up the big screen.

Not exact matches

That, at least, seems like a reasonable conclusion to draw from The Dark Knight, an explosively provocative Batman installment in which exhilaratingly straightforward action sequences are matched by moral complexity of a sort not usually associated with comic - book movie franchises.

As our super-antihero opines in an opening sequence, with all these R - rated comic book movies on his tail, he's got to up the ante.

Beginning almost literally with an Easter egg shout - out only hardcore comic book fans will get at the start of a winning «I wish I'd thought of that» opening credit sequence that will be the envy of Hollywood comedy writers and producers, 20th Century Fox's Deadpool makes quick work of announcing it's a different kind of superhero movie... in a good way.

The comic book movie, in theaters now, even directly references the writer - director's famed ditch - day comedy «Ferris Bueller's Day Off» in one sequence.