Sentences with phrase «superhero film credits»
It's interesting that Marvel seems to be eyeing so many people without hefty superhero film credits already under their belts.
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Buoyed by an additional $ 25 million production tax credit and peak TV, there's been an explosion of movies and shows filming in New York — from superhero dramas to sitcoms.
That doesn't mean the movie escapes the intersectional nature of this universe of movies: There's a cameo from one superhero (kind of a favor, since Thor appeared after the end credits of that hero's solo film), and the Hulk, as well as his scientist counterpart Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), has a supporting role.
The current cycle of comic - book - superhero films could be credited to, or blamed on, the success of Bryan Singer's X-Men in 2000, which removed some of the taint and anxiety surrounding the idea of translating the cheesiness of comic - book storytelling for a cinema audience.
This sequel is more religious thriller than superhero film, though the directing duo of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (whose other credits include Gamer and the maligned Jonah Hex screenplay) make it look like a car commercial, with their jerky handheld digital video, odd angles, and hollow showiness.
After Memento and its follow - up, Insomnia (the only one of his films on which he does not have a screenplay credit), he changed the way many people thought about superhero films with his Dark Knight trilogy (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises), punctuated by a few mind - bending films with original screenplays (The Prestige and Inception).
But even if the screenplay — credited to Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill and Jon Spaihts — is just a touch too familiar, it seems hardly fair to penalize a film so visually inventive, witty and filled with magnificent spectacle, just because it has come around at a saturation point in the superhero cinema industry.
From its opening credits («Produced by Asshats... Directed by an Overpaid Tool») to its motormouthed antihero and gleeful ultraviolence, the film was received as Marvel's grungy outlier, the one that broke all the rules, the superhero for grown - ups.
Shot on a modest (for a superhero movie anyway) budget by first - time director Miller (whose most well - known work prior to this film is likely the opening credit sequence of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Deadpool certainly isn't the flashiest film, but it does its best to look like it cost more than it did.
Shot on a modest (for a superhero movie anyway) budget by first - time director Miller (whose most well - known work prior to this film is likely the opening credit sequence of
Sam Raimi is the one to credit with finally delivering a live - action Spider - Man worth watching, and with making superhero films for all ages that are not at the same time infantile.