Sentences with phrase «superhero origin films»

Even with the sheer number of superhero origin films over the last couple of decades, it's rare and refreshing to see so much detail given to who these characters are as people, until you realise that you're quickly running out of movie.

Last year, with sales of $ 821 million, Wonder Woman became the highest grossing superhero origin film of all time.

Last year, worldwide sales of Wonder Woman topped $ 821 million, making it the highest - grossing superhero origin film of all time.

Based on the iconic DC Comic book, Wonder Woman has earned more than $ 410 million in the U.S. and over $ 820 million worldwide, set numerous box office records, including becoming the highest - grossing film directed by a woman, the highest - grossing superhero origin film domestically, and the largest opening for a female - led comic - based film.

Man of Steel is an unconventional superhero origins films as the focus is not on the discovery and mastery of super-powers, although those scenes are included, but the focus instead is on the character's psychological development.

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Not exact matches

It's an action - adventure origin myth which plays less like a conventional superhero film and more like a radical Brigadoon or a delirious adventure by Jules Verne or Edgar Rice Burroughs.

iInstead of a buoyant, imaginative superhero movie on the order of Sam Raimi's «Spider - Man» films or Bryan Singer's «Superman Returns,» we get a lumbering, paint - by - numbers origin story.

Black Panther proves how representation can rejuvenate even the oldest superhero origin arcs, allowing Marvel a victory that still feels every bit a Ryan Coogler film.

Hudlin and his filmmaking team are giving viewers a superhero origin story which is a truly interesting concept and worth applauding, but the film falters its own potential by not being the best story it could be.

It's really just like any other superhero origin story film we've seen, man or woman.

This looks to be a thrilling origin story and will undoubtedly be the biggest superhero film ever to feature a female lead.

IndieWire's David Ehrlich gave the film a D +, writing in his review, «By turning Tarzan into just another superhero, David Yates» blockbuster origin story wastes one of literature's great wild men.»

Set in deep space, and in half a dozen lands (New York, Wakanda, Titan, Knowhere), the film presents a galactic battle for the fate of the universe that throws together the six original Avengers; the follow - up wave of Marvel superheroes who've only recently been given their own origin stories (Black Panther, Dr. Strange, the rebooted Spider - Man); the Guardians of the Galaxy; and a sprinkling of other figures who've been there on the fringes.

Angela Robinson's fascinating and surprisingly sweet - natured film is a different sort of superhero origin story, and an appropriate bookend to this summer's «Wonder Woman.»

But it isn't all good because Wonder Woman is also let down by the trappings of having to tell an origin story, and there are moments when the film feels like a box - ticking exercise in how to create a superhero origin, especially during the final act when — shock!

The film became the top - grossing superhero origin movie of all time, along with the most profitable superhero movie to be helmed by a female director.

After the record - breaking success of this summer's DCEU film adaption of «Wonder Woman,» which explores the origins story of the title character, the creation of the superhero is now being explored in the new biopic, «Professor Marston and the Wonder Women.»

The Marvel Cinematic Universe was once accused of dishing up the same rinse - and - repeat origin story over and over again — and while Feige will protest (and has) that each Marvel movie has had its own individual flavor (Thor was a stab at Shakespeare; The Winter Soldier riffs on 70s paranoia thrillers), the franchise has been finding more solid footing in its endeavor to remix all of popular film history through the lens of superheroes.

The film is something of an origins story for one of the most famous female superheroes.

Brian Truitt of USA Today: «Director Ryan Coogler's spectacular new film (★ ★ ★ ★ out of four; rated PG - 13) features the most high - profile black movie superhero yet, and also happens to be the best origin vehicle for the mighty Marvel brand since «Guardians of the Galaxy.»

«A tightwire - act of a film that's ostensibly a superhero origin story while also feeling like it's about us mere mortals at the same time.»

With Wonder Woman back in the cultural zeitgeist (if the most famous female superhero ever really left it), writer / director Angela Robinson's film serves as a superhero origin story in a more literal and more literary - criticism meaning of the phrase.

Eighteen films into Marvel's blockbuster franchise they're long overdue, arriving in a «Black Panther» origin tale that also breaks ground as the first standalone film of the modern Marvel era to be led by a black superhero.

Because origin stories aren't just for superheroes, J.D. Salinger is set to receive his own film detailing his life prior to becoming the guy who wrote Catcher In The Rye and fucking hated having his picture taken.

It's essentially a superhero origin story opening the same weekend as another (Dr. Strange)-- both films dealing with faith and the consequences of betraying said faith.

It isn't an unknown fact how the studio had planned its 10 - year calendar ending on Avengers: Infinity War, even before kicking off its films, and how it began working backwards introducing us to its various superheroes, having them assemble and even presenting standalone films to trace the origin of their stories.

Despite some minor alterations to his origin and the emphasis on a love story — a surprisingly touching one, Deadpool stuck the superhero landing as one of the most accurate portrayals of a comic book character in film.

But this is, of course, deep down, a superhero origin, and the very funny final line of the film leaves no doubt that there will be a sequel.

Doctor Strange's first cinematic debut, however, gives viewers a quickly paced origin story that feels as familiar as most contemporary superhero stories, where the viewer tags along to see how a man adapts to become something extraordinary, but in every other aspect the film provides relentless spectacle and levity.

From Ant - Man to Shazam, we've uncovered the origin stories and starting points for the characters featured in eight upcoming superhero films.

Even as yet another superhero origin story, there are some truly next - level visual effects and action sequences in director Scott Derrickson's film, and opening the Marvel cinematic universe up to all the possibilities that come from the realms of the mystical is an exciting prospect.

At this point, it's just talks of ideas and plans for what Tatum wants to be a solo origin film for the character - one he describes as different from most superhero movies we see.

This film is a superhero origin story and even though there is potential with these characters and this world to do many more stories, they really wanted to put everything into this movie without thinking about possible future films.

More of a «coming of age» story than a superhero origin story per se, Black Panther is the most freestanding Marvel film since Iron Man.

The film is about the origin of the DC superhero Wonder Woman, and the man and two women behind the character.

Ultimately the film provides an opportunity to teach or remind students that origin stories from places «far, far away» are to be celebrated, multiculturalism and multilingualism are to be celebrated, and superheroes — and communities — don't need to look alike in order to get along.