Sentences with phrase «superhero origin story»

But a certain superhero origin story, based on books that grade school kids have cherished for two decades, now assumes that title.

And it's all a modern - day superhero origin story.

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.»

Flashbacks in superhero origin stories hold less impact now than they did in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins or Sam Raimi's Spider - Man.

So it's kind of an Enter the Dragon-esque, kung fu superhero origin story with an inner city setting.

An exact application of the Marvel Superhero Origin Story Template.

If you like superhero origin stories, you just hit the jackpot.

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

In a loving spoof of classic superhero origin stories, Hank is exposed to toxic radiation, visits a mystic, and is bitten by an animal used for science experiments before simply working hard at becoming a good fighter.

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women: Based on the bold and illuminating true superhero origin story depicting the creation of the beloved comic book character Wonder Woman in 1941 by Dr. William Moulton Marston.

Based on the bold and illuminating true superhero origin story depicting the creation of the beloved comic book character Wonder Woman in 1941 by Dr. William Moulton Marston (Evans), the Harvard psychologist who helped invent the modern lie detector test.

The experienced cast, funny dialogue and subversion of the typical superhero origin story is making Deadpool one of the most anticipated films of 2016.

If Marvel had any guts, they would've called this movie Thanos and made it like a straightforward superhero origin story in the mold of Iron Man or Thor or Ant - Man or any of the others.

Doctor Strange is a kaleidoscopic adventure that aims to present the standard superhero origin story in new light, or at least different colors.

Most superhero origin stories take their sweet time getting their hero into the costume, and this Marvel film also had to build up to that third - act heist.

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017) is not your usual comic superhero origin story.

There is no other correct answer for who should be getting the most votes, because what Harper has done over the past month or so is more superhero origin story than it is baseball.

A lousy script, unfocused direction, incoherent editing, shockingly terrible special effects — and, probably, panicked studio executives — have left its four talented stars muddling through a dull superhero origin story with zero payoff.

Wonder Woman could have been a gauzy superhero origin story, but instead, it's steeped in war and loss, and the impact of Steve Trevor's death at the end is both well - earned and heartbreaking.

Last year's brilliant superhero origin story is unorthodox, rude, crude and works from start to finish.

In their watershed sci - fi epic The Matrix, Lana Wachowski and Andy Wachowski blended their innovative techniques and meticulous, fussy visuals with a singular, unsettling superhero origin story.

Though plagued with yet another weak love interest and ineffectual villain (despite great actors like Mads Mikkelsen doing great work), Doctor Strange upends the traditional superhero origin story format with inventive and outlandish visual trickery.

Superman is the most influential, if not definitive comic book superhero origin story we'll ever see.

«It's more relevant now than ever,» said director Mimi Leder, who described the film as «a real life superhero origin story.»

We are now about waist deep in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and we've sat through at least five stand - alone (cough cough, male) superhero origin stories already.

What we got in «Ghost Rider» was an unoriginal superhero origin story made worse because of its miscast star, having a whiny brat for the villain and wasting the idea of having Sam Elliott as a second Ghost Rider.

Her name is Michelle Robinson; the mixed - race gentleman who's trying to woo her goes by the handle Barack Hussein Obama, and what you're essentially watching is a dual superhero origin story.

Presented almost as a sombre superhero origin story, Darkest Hour then details how Churchill won round his enemies — and there were quite a few — by standing up to Adolf Hitler and refusing to appease him with the various emasculating peace deals that his rivals had been touting.

On opening night May 4th, star Gugu Mbatha - Raw (Concussion) and producer Jordan Horowitz (La La Land) will be in attendance for their film Fast Color, a rub on a grounded superhero origin story of sorts.

The result is an uneven mishmash that, nevertheless, confidently set the template for solo superhero origin stories.

Starring Adam Sandler, Dustin Hoffman and a magical sewing machine, the queasily racist, body - switching superhero origin story with overtones of rape and incest is a movie so wildly, bafflingly wrong - headed that when I describe it to people they think I'm high.

In his review for the Los Angeles Times, Justin Chang wrote, «Director Patty Jenkins and her collaborators have taken the well - worn superhero origin story and invested it with a rich, sometimes revelatory depth of feeling.»

Despite a messy third act that stumbles slightly, Wonder Woman is a stirring, hope - filled superhero origin story with great performances within that, hopefully, course - corrects the DCEU and paves the way for more female - directed, female - led tentpoles across the industry.

Just when you've gotten comfortable with the satisfying superhero origin story at work, director / co-writer Coogler, co-star Jordan and the stellar ensemble start thinking much bigger.

This kind of unconventional superhero origin story has been done by everyone from Will Smith to M. Night Shyamalan at the movies, and on TV with stuff like Heroes.

If that's the case, you've either groaned at the thought of yet another found footage movie or winced at the idea of yet another gritty superhero origins story.

Sean Gilman: What have come out are an endless supply of the same blockbuster product Hollywood's been taunting us with for almost a decade now: bloated superhero origin stories, dark reboots of Valuable Intellectual Properties and the lazily half - written, half movies that pass for comedies, exploiting the likability of SNL alums and Anna Kendrick and making even the weirdest vulgarities seem utterly banal.

Here we go yet again with another Marvel superhero origin story.

If you're paying attention, you'll notice that, beyond the fourth wall breaking awareness that this is a movie he's inhabiting, Deadpool's story is basically the same as every other superhero origin story that's been seen in this sixteen year superhero renaissance.

Director and co-writer Ryan Coogler («Fruitvale Station,» «Creed») adheres to the basic framework of the classic superhero origins story, from the flashback prelude all the way to the CGI - charged climactic battle sequences, but so much of the journey is a unique and smart and beautifully rendered adventure.

Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick's screenplay nails the dark, twisted and juvenile tone of the wisecracking antihero, and the decision to dole out his backstory in bits and pieces via flashback is a clever way of getting around the tediousness of the typical superhero origin story.

The first trailer for Power Rangers looked pretty cool — as a straightforward superhero origin story — but it did lack humor.

Deadpool took on the comics tropes of the standard superhero origin story and superhero soap opera romance — and convincingly kicked the crap out of them while remaining absolutely faithful to them.

In an event ripped from a superhero origin story but that, in real life, is actually sort of scary and definitely an environmental headache, the bridge upon which a train...

Costume designer Lindy Hemming discusses dressing badass superstar Gal Gadot in the superhero origin story.

Every superhero origin story.

Also, to the movie's benefit, it introduces us to the titular character without feeling bogged down in the trappings of a superhero origin story.