It's
a surprise fall film for me.
Not exact matches
The portion of the
film after DiCaprio exits the movie is very disappointing, and also
surprising because conflict in most Westerns is resolved in a gun fight between the primary hero and bad guy (Earp vs. Clanton, Munny vs. Little Bill, etc.), not in the
falling action manner of this
film.
Perhaps expectations might have played a role as to why
surprise like Cherish has become a minor favorite of mine and an expected success like The Darwin Awards is a disappointment, In this outing, Taylor seems like he's trying too hard to be clever, and though his imagination is admirable, as a comedy, his
film falls short regardless of whatever direction he manages to take it, primarily because it goes everywhere and nowhere at once.
Directors Butler and
Fell managed the production expertly, but by allowing the scenes to take on lives of their own, the
film promises unpredictability and lots of
surprises.
It's a
film that stars David Bowie, so it should come as no
surprise that Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who
Fell to Earth is as richly layered sonically as it is visually.
Most
films based on video games suck, so it should come as no
surprise that Max Payne
falls short in the quality department, even given the presence of Wahlberg (The Happening, We Own the Night) and a robust supporting cast.
So it's a
surprise — and a shame — to report that his new
film «Crimson Peak», while often entertaining, feels like a mish - mash of overfamiliar elements,
falling way short in the wild, weird, what - the - fuck - was - that department.
The
surprise isn't that, of the three, the
film falls somewhere between good and bad; it's that Chase has made a
film that is so loudly and clearly screaming to be a television series rather than a feature
film.
But Colleen C.'s dad, played to great comic effect by Tony Hale, enlists them to work on a Friday night when his girlfriend (Natasha Lyonne) whisks him away to Niagra
Falls for a
surprise weekend getaway (one small upside to the
film is the unadulterated joy Hale exhibits for Niagra
Falls, which is particularly amusing).
If you've spotted cars
falling out of buildings — as one Twitterer did, to their understandable
surprise — chances are you'll know that Fast & Furious 8 has begun
filming.
Best - case scenario: Hiddleston is an excellent actor, and his
surprise performance last
fall at the Wheatland Music Festival showed he can carry Williams» music, which he'll be singing for real in the
film.
«Olympus Has
Fallen» was a pretty blatant rip - off of John McTiernan's «Die Hard,» so it should come as no
surprise that «London Has
Fallen» — which is more of a spiritual successor than a literal sequel to the 2013
film — takes a page from another installment in the John McClane series, «Die Hard with a Vengeance,» by staging it as a buddy movie between Gerard Butler «s gruff, no - nonsense Secret Service agent and Aaron Eckhart «s hostage - prone president.
Paul Andrew Williams) Cast: Terrence Stamp, Vanessa Redgrave, Gemma Arteton Though The Weinstein Company picked up the Brit
film last
fall and it has all the trappings of serious Oscar bait (grumpy old man becomes involved with his wife's choir after she gets stricken with cancer) we'd be
surprised if they rolled it out this early.
The
film is still shooting, so we're looking at a
fall festival bow at the earliest but we won't be
surprised if we don't see any sign of the picture until next year.
We're still bitter about Danny DeVito not voicing Pikachu, but the
film certainly has potential to be entertaining with the director of the
surprise hit Goosebumps, co-writer of Guardians of the Galaxy, and creator of Gravity
Falls working behind the scenes.