Sentences with phrase «staged set pieces»

With rarely more than a quarter - hour between dynamically staged set pieces, there's little time to wonder whether Wick has anything more on his mind than elemental revenge.

The Darkest Hour's negligible 3D effects (typically squandered in the first 10 minutes) combine with a complete absence of tension or suspense, and indifferently staged set pieces, yielding a tedious, inconsequential snoozer.

It's an ingeniously staged set piece.

Villeneuve has an almost eerie ability to stage set pieces of prolonged, heart - stopping tension — as he does in a bullet - ridden showdown set at the U.S. / Mexico border — and his work here with Roger Deakins, who also gave «Prisoners» its dark, glistening patina, is some of the best work either has ever done.

Not exact matches

The two of them, sharing a debating stage, or glaring at one another across the aisle in the House of Commons, would be a perfect matched set — matter and anti-matter, ivory chess pieces vs. obsidian.

Thompson, Ruffalo and Hemsworth's banter is fast and delicious, with an off - the - cuff feel that makes it every bit as thrilling as any one of the action set pieces Waititi stages here.

Even with the logistics of a shared festival stage, each brought with them massive set pieces that include pyrotechnics, interactive landscapes and — with Metallica — an onstage choir of fans who sang background on every song.

I also tied up the pips and pith from the lemon I juiced into a piece of muslin and added it during the final stage to add some pectin and aid setting.

negatives -LRB--)-- terrible result — wengers team selection (arteta + ozil in particular)-- generally poor work - rate across the pitch and nothing like the backbone we showed against man city — handing dortmund initiative to top the group (we all know what finishing 2nd means)-- lack of hunger + desire — welbeck misses — still no joel campbell (who in my personal opinion is a big game / stage player)-- in all our «set - piece» training we totally forgot about the bread and butter of football which is making an impact in open play

Uruguay staged a late comeback two minutes into injury time, when Maxi Pereira scored a left footed curler from a set - piece play - in, to give his team a glimmer of hope.

United have looked vulnerable at the back all season long, but even more so since Vidic was ruled out for the rest of the season because of injury, and it could take something like an effort from a set - piece to liven up what could be a cagey affair in the opening stages.

If you really want to set the stage, our embroidery department will stitch his name or initials on each piece!

Made from all natural rubber (Hevea Brasillensis), RubbeeBlocks is a safe, early stage, building set that includes 8 thoughtfully designed pieces.

«In an attempt to take credit for the emerging recovery, Clegg has decided to stage what Cable and some on the left regard as an artificial showdown over economic policy during a set - piece two - hour debate and vote on Monday.

A zippy, very funny script is helped along with nicely understated choreography and deft, inventive staging, particularly one set - piece about the nuts and bolts of actually printing the paper.

Just hours after Letterman said farewell last night, Ed Sullivan Theater crews hauled off blocks of blue stage and hacked up pieces of the iconic New York City bridges that made up the set of the «Late Show.»

Yates stages some eye - catching set - pieces, enhanced by a wonderful production design (take a bow, Stuart Craig) mingling Mervyn Peake, Lewis Carroll and the spindly phantasmagoria of Ronald Searle.

Pollack takes full advantage of his unprecedented access to the General Assembly, staging showy set pieces involving security operations in and around the building.

The animated set pieces are technically flawless, with Yuh staging eye - busting battle scenes that employ rousing feats of flight and fist from the animal heroes, but also smuggles in plenty of physical comedy, again tracking Po as he bounces all over China, leaving a trail of destruction behind him.

Wiseman is still too flashy a director for this franchise, but his love for the character comes through, and some of the action set pieces — especially the tunnel sequence that ends with a vehicle basically being thrown at a helicopter — are phenomenally staged.

Bonus features include *: BLU - RAY & DIGITAL HD: Enchanted Table Read — Join the cast for the movie's elaborately staged table read, complete with singing and dancing to live music, set pieces and more.

Instead, The Return of Xander Cage is just an excuse to stage one stupid - yet - entertaining action set piece after another.

Gone are the ludicrous but gorgeously choreographed set pieces Fuqua is known for, replaced by generically brown villains, incompetently choreographed action, and jarringly stock footage stitched together with badly mismatched sound stage shots.

Our stage has been well and truly set for a film that can be seen almost as a companion piece to Roger Michell's Le Week - End and which explores ageing, regret and the rocky foundations on which even the most enduring marriages are set.

Films with such few set pieces don't usually do well in the technical categories... but perhaps the ability to design a Broadway stage is a creative opportunity I'm underestimating.

Daniel Mecca, The Film Stage Too often the filmmakers rely on lowest - common - denominator prison rape jokes and lazy plotting to allow for action - comedy set pieces, resulting in a poorly - constructed scene at a White Supremacist stronghold and a sloppy third act that feels like an afterthought.

The early and middle stages are superbly handled: tense, atmospheric, exciting, punctuated with rousingly effective set - pieces and leavened with dry humor.

He manages to get his own sensibility into the tale of black ops mercenaries in a culture of betrayal and retribution, with James Caan as the contract killer who returns from a crippling injury by sheer force of will and the desire for vengeance, and he stage some terrific set pieces to go with Caan's brutal odyssey.

Executive produced by Katheryn Bigelow, Cartel Land could have easily been one of her own muscularly staged semi-fictional spectacles, full of tense set pieces and hierarchical backstabbing.

So it's déjà vu, as Byer's team track Cross and the doctor to the Philippines — the exotic location for a string of competently staged action set - pieces.

Two «Visual Effects Scene Deconstructions» allow you to see short effects - heavy set pieces (tunnel scene and the Edgar climax) in various stages of completion: storyboards, bluescreen shoot, bluescreen composite, lighting & animation, and the final cut.

With set piece battles no longer being confined to a single stage, there's a cast of secondary heroes that could easily fall by the wayside depending on how the open world structure factors into things.

A judge and a priest walk onto a film stage — under normal circumstances this set - up might sound like the beginning of a joke but, this time, it's just the next piece of The Dark Knight Rises «seemingly perpetual casting process.

Although this isn't a serious film, it bounces off serious coming - of - age issues (like losing your virginity, the perfect analog to the vampire mythos) in ways that make sense and add to the gathering doom that ties all the tautly - paced, beautifully - staged set - pieces together.

Due to the robots» main weakness, the action starts to get a bit monotonous, and there's one particular set piece that, despite being really well staged, is ruined by a bizarre, sped - up quality (think «Benny Hill») that doesn't give you the chance to fully appreciate the intricacy of the choreography.

Cohen stages the entire affair with slick style and urgency, particularly in the spectacular set pieces, which include a showstopping avalanche / snowboarding sequence that easily ranks among the most awesome cinematic sights of the year.

The stages themselves are incredibly memorable with plenty of unique themes, puzzles, interactive set - pieces, enemies, hidden gems (literally and figuratively), and power - ups.

Set sail through the 3D drawn One Piece world with Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Nami and other nakama, and run through famous stages such as Baratie, Arlong Park and more.

James Gandolfini and Joel Edgerton are a couple of late inclusions and it's only in the last half hour that Bigelow shows her abilities in staging the action set - pieces.

And so the derivative worries begin, which are not helped by the very first plot contrivance, when our hero, Eric (the aforementioned Guy Pearce, fierce and tough) has his car stolen from a roadside bar (a set piece that is nevertheless masterfully staged), setting in motion the long chase that will drive the story.

Not only does the action pick up, with some decent set pieces staged by Huen, but the requisite sentimental turn works to the proven strengths of Advani, who made a name for himself on more earnestly emotional pieces; however strained it may be on script, Advani and the likable work of Kumar, Yuan, and Padukone lend a certain convincing humanity to what initially come off as two - dimensional cartoons, and on the whole the sillier and straight - faced elements blend to a smoother consistency.

Director Lexi Alexander is a stuntwoman turned director, so she understands how to stage action set pieces of both the fistic and bullets & booms varieties.

Dir Dario Argento (Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci) Its violent set - pieces staged with baroque extremity and heightened further by Goblin's clamorous prog rock score, Suspiria influenced directors from John Carpenter through to Darren Aronofsky, whose Black Swan explicitly references Argento's first fully fledged horror film.

But honestly it's just an excuse to stage one lethal, sexual set piece after another, entangling texture and color with Clint Mansell's insinuating score.

Once it takes off, Miller's punk fever - dream keeps its gnarled fingers on the skull - enshrined throttle, staging elegant set - pieces that put the incoherent action sequences from blockbusters like Jurassic World, The Avengers, and Furious 7 to shame.

He sets the stage for Mayhem by showing us how the oppressive world of big business runs, piece by piece, and sets about dismantling it using tropes from scary movies, video games, kung fu films and workplace sitcoms.

Haneke employs long takes for maximal dramatic consequence, not unlike action filmmakers use elaborate set pieces to stage impressive visual effects.

Both the Blu - ray and DVD include «Staging the Action: The Firefights» (5:44), which dissects the film's set pieces with looks at pre-visualization videos and storyboards, as well as reflections from the cast and stunt choreographers.

The killer uses a variety of tools — hammer, nail gun, drill — to dispatch his victims in a series of nicely staged (and grisly) set pieces.

Though director Antoine Fuqua brings a Jerry Bruckheimer kind of sensibility to the proceedings — stylized visuals, lots of cuts, a tinge of humor, and a cast of men's men — he proves as competent as his King Arthur producer in staging this film and its set pieces.