Sentences with phrase «talking points of a movie»

Perhaps it seems like over-thinking to quibble with the ideological talking points of a movie that mostly dawdles from one skit or cameo to another, interspersed with the occasional song - and - dance number, and which contains one of the best comic set pieces of the Coens» career: a director and his recently re-cast lead trying to work through a single awful line of dialogue («Would that it were so simple») while filming a turgid melodrama.

Not exact matches

According to a Pentagon inspector general's report: «Leon Panetta was fully cooperating with the movie project and that several CIA staff used White House - approved talking points to talk to Mr. Boal [the producer of Zero Dark Thirty] about the intelligence that led to UBL's [Usama bin Laden's] location.»

He does have a point, but then, what are movies, TV, pro sports, best selling books, etc, etc, but a support and applauding of some of the worst vices talked about in Scripture?

But all movies, no matter which genre we are talking about, accurately make the point or tell the story that the director intended, within the limited confines of the TV screen and movie length.

In this wide - ranging, humorous talk, Seth Shostak takes a look at Star Wars and other science fiction films from the point of view of a skeptical scientist, tells stories about the movies he has been asked to advise, and muses about aliens from space and how we might make contact with them.

But at least it provided a talking point, and I think if you book up early for the Summer Screens evenings you can benefit from over 2 weeks» worth of film choices as they play a different movie every night.

Hard working, caring, affectionate, out going, I like all kinds of music, horror movies, the outdoors, traveling when I can.I'm looking to talk, meet, get to know, hopefully fall in love and at some point get married.

As you point out, there are not many grounds for giving the talking heads at the start of the movie much credibility.

In this case, director Clare Peploe who wrote «Zabriskie Point» in 1970 and «Besieged» in 1998 and husband - producer Bernardo Bertolluci came up with a movie version of an 18th century comedy by Pierre Marivaux (talk about public domain).

Too many critics talk about the cinematography of the film, who cares about the skylines, odd view points, etc let us just focus on the story and the message of the movie.

What's sad to me, to go back to an earlier point we were discussing, is that people are missing that when they're discussing the meaning of the movie when they talk about it as sexploitation.

Final Verdict: Calvary has some great themes and gets the ball rolling with a lot of interesting talking points, but these bigger meanings get in the way of the actual movie.

With plenty of dumb puns, the straight - line story barely ever hits a plot point in a movie that coasts on its primary conceit of watching dogs talk and interact as if they had a frontal lobe.

Vince Vaughn, he talks fast, almost to the point of his words becoming gibberish, and he does this in every movie.

«And in a thriller, one of the things I wanted to do was, knowing we'd be sending the adrenalin off the charts at various points in the movie because of the story, we'd happily enjoy the number of points in the movie where people are just in rooms talking and that in itself could be exciting or dangerous.»

Cyborg still doesn't mean much, just like Flash doesn't mean much and Aquaman doesn't mean anything (apparently talking to fish gags are still the best we can do with that character in 2017), which points to how utterly backwards it was for Warner Bros. and DC to do the team - up movie before establishing half of the team at all in any way.

One of those falls, in particular, near the end of the movie is responsible for one of the most breathtakingly gorgeous scenes of violence I've ever witnessed and is sure to be a talking point for everyone who sees the film.

The package gets bonus points not only for including a chapter insert, but making it part of a worthwhile 4 - page booklet that talks at length about the movie's production, reception, makers, and cast connections.

At the film's recent press day in Los Angeles, Waugh and stunt coordinator Lance Gilbert talked about their longtime friendship and professional relationship, what it was like growing up together on the sets of «Smokey and the Bandit,» «Vanishing Point,» «The Blues Brothers» and «Bullitt,» why Waugh considers Gilbert one of the best stunt coordinators in the world, the challenges they faced pulling off practical stunts and capturing amazing action sequences realistically in - camera without CGI enhancement, and the entertaining Easter eggs they included as a homage to the classic car - culture movies of another era.

Registering as a toilet - training session in hilarity for third graders, yet demonstrating a subversive streak of satirical overtones for the mature masses Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie will be sure to plant a permanent smirk on the faces of countless viewers that may get an infectious kick out of celebrating live - action sock puppets and other random potty humor talking points.

Todd: I would suggest this movie struck a chord because fashion is less the point (though I think looking at the film through the lens of food and fashion yields plenty of rewards) than it is the vehicle to talk about something Hollywood loves: the difficulty of being in a relationship with a demanding person.

I usually type out a short summary or try to set - up the plot at some point early on in my reviews, but I feel like it's a moot talking point because if you've kept up with the Marvel movies or have a good idea of what's going on in them, you don't need me to paint a picture about the Infinity Stones, the Infinity Gauntlet or the fight to save the universe.

Without talking plot points, as much as the first half of the movie is heavily influenced by Mike Leigh and Ken Loach, the second half is equally influenced by David Lynch and Robin Hardy.

My high school offered an elective class that featured one of the English teachers showing great movies and talking about them from an academic point - of - view.

As Susan Sarandon has pointed out (love this woman, and love how much she talks about this movie), Thelma & Louise basically is an outlaw buddy movie in the vein of Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid.

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.

Well, Lenny's wife Roxanne (Salma Hayek), who even Lenny admits in the movie's single and genuinely clever joke is too beautiful for him, is over-emotional (the movie's opinion of her) because she wants to have another kid, so it does aim one sexist stereotype at one of its few major female characters (Speaking of sexism, can we talk about the MPAA ratings board's glaring double standard in pointing out that a movie's nudity is of the «male rear» variety, directly implying that there's something different — worse, more offensive — about the same of the female kind?).

The failure of big budget movies like Baywatch was one of the summer's big talking points last year, but it seemed as if Johnson was refusing to acknowledge that his movie simply wasn't very good.

But one of the weirdest has become a hot talking point after the release of the movie, despite a relatively brief appearance — and actually getting that appearance filmed seems like it was...

The movie doesn't have anything to say about that part of the story, except to have a talking head on the news flat - out say it so that we get the point.

And here's where Boyhood becomes a special case: More than almost any movie I can think of, the emotional and fascinating story of how it was made is practically part of its plot; it doesn't need to be sold as a campaign talking point because it's manifest in every frame.

I was hoping he would do better than just repeat the Gates - funded PR campaign talking points on the movie, since he had cut right to the bone in his review of «The Providence Effect» the previous year.

Rather than talk about the root causes or psychological aspects of these events, Grossman instead took the opportunity to point blame at «the sick movies and sick TV shows and especially sick video games around the planet that are creating sick, sick kids.»

Unless I'm missing the point of what they're actually talking about... although I don't recall any movie studios making a statement like «We're making new movies for people who don't like movies.»

Talking Points — What we've been playing — Dissection of the Nintendo Switch live stream — What we're excited about for the year ahead — Microsoft kills Scalebound, Sony kills Guerrilla Games Cambridge Studio — TV and movie recommendations: Lemony Snickets Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix), Voltron Season 2 (Netflix), Rogue One, Travelers — Shout outs for our Facebook page, Twitter account, Simon's Twitter account and Ben's Twitter Account.

Talking Points — What we're playing — Warcraft movie review: sheep, scenery and (no) sex — Overwatch Gets new hero in next big patch (Ana, Healing Sniper)-- NES Mini Version with 30 games installed — Pokemon Go raises Nintendo Stock 20 points ($ 9 Billion)-- Red Dead 3 may be announced at GamesCon, RDR currently backwards compatible on Xbone — Witcher 3 GOTY editions to be released — Gamestop lists Rise of the Tomb Raider coming to PS4 OPoints — What we're playing — Warcraft movie review: sheep, scenery and (no) sex — Overwatch Gets new hero in next big patch (Ana, Healing Sniper)-- NES Mini Version with 30 games installed — Pokemon Go raises Nintendo Stock 20 points ($ 9 Billion)-- Red Dead 3 may be announced at GamesCon, RDR currently backwards compatible on Xbone — Witcher 3 GOTY editions to be released — Gamestop lists Rise of the Tomb Raider coming to PS4 Opoints ($ 9 Billion)-- Red Dead 3 may be announced at GamesCon, RDR currently backwards compatible on Xbone — Witcher 3 GOTY editions to be released — Gamestop lists Rise of the Tomb Raider coming to PS4 Oct 11.

Talking Points — What we've been playing — Reviewing the year that was — each of us pick a game of the year — The Game Awards — Full Throttle Remastered announced — Mass Effect Gameplay looks Amazing (link)-- Sea Of Theives Techinical Alpha signup (link)-- Ghost Recon Wildlands Beta signup (link)-- Predictions for 2017 — Movie and TV talk — Shout outs for our Facebook page, Twitter account, Simon's Twitter account and Ben's Twitter Accounof us pick a game of the year — The Game Awards — Full Throttle Remastered announced — Mass Effect Gameplay looks Amazing (link)-- Sea Of Theives Techinical Alpha signup (link)-- Ghost Recon Wildlands Beta signup (link)-- Predictions for 2017 — Movie and TV talk — Shout outs for our Facebook page, Twitter account, Simon's Twitter account and Ben's Twitter Accounof the year — The Game Awards — Full Throttle Remastered announced — Mass Effect Gameplay looks Amazing (link)-- Sea Of Theives Techinical Alpha signup (link)-- Ghost Recon Wildlands Beta signup (link)-- Predictions for 2017 — Movie and TV talk — Shout outs for our Facebook page, Twitter account, Simon's Twitter account and Ben's Twitter AccounOf Theives Techinical Alpha signup (link)-- Ghost Recon Wildlands Beta signup (link)-- Predictions for 2017 — Movie and TV talk — Shout outs for our Facebook page, Twitter account, Simon's Twitter account and Ben's Twitter Account.

Wordy as the letter is, it could be boiled down much like Al Gore's 2006 movie or the collective lot of the entire catastrophic man - caused global warming into a 3 - part talking point: «the science is settled» / skeptics are industry - funded & orchestrated liars» / «reporters may ignore skeptics because of the prior two reasons.»

«That was the point that I was making - that Mr Abbott wants to just keep talking about horror movies, that they'll be wiped off the face of the earth.

I thought the talk of abrupt climate change and tipping points ended shortly after the release of the horrible movie «The Day After Tomorrow», where the temperatures seemed to plummet to several hundred degrees below absolute zero.