Sentences with phrase «than a superhero movie»

You could do worse than a superhero movie that's merely hilarious.

New Mutants is directed by Josh Boone and written by Boone and Knate Lee, and is positioned as more of a horror movie than a superhero movie, as evidenced by the film's initial trailer.

It probably would have been better as a Grindhouse movie than a superhero movie.

We're close to the action in this film, often shot from low to the ground, more like a «Bourne» film than a superhero movie, and the focus is more on fight choreography than editing.

In Hollywood, the only thing more ubiquitous than superhero movies are complaints about superhero movies: that they are interchangeable and far too numerous.

«By nature comedies offer something different than the superhero movies and blockbusters,» Rentrak senior analyst Paul Dergarabedian told TheWrap.

Sure it takes place in the X-Men universe but it looks more like a «trapped in a hellish insane asylum» movie than a superhero movie would success.

Because that's true, «Captain America: Civil War» appeals to me more strongly than any superhero movie of the last decade.

It's so different than the superhero movies to date, it departs so far from that,» says the actor.

Much more than superhero movies themselves, Reynolds, Leitch and the rest of the team are going after the business of superhero movies, the contractual stipulations that leave certain characters outside of certain movies despite what fans want to see.

Let's reiterate that Creed is a character study, much like the original Rocky (1976), rather than a superhero movie or a comic book movie like some of the middle Rocky sequels became.

Not exact matches

While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.

«Black Panther» is more than just a global blockbuster superhero movie — it has become a cultural force.

Last week, Ryan Reynolds» hard - edged superhero movie Deadpool had the biggest opening weekend for an R - Rated movie in American box office history, and brought in more than $ 260 million globally.

With muscle - bound superheroes and action movie stars seemingly everywhere we look these days, it's no wonder that the world appears to once again be muscle mad, with more and more people now lifting weights in an attempt bulk up and beef up than there have been in years.

What makes that other movie stronger is its firm commitment to being something more than just a safe pop satire about superheroes.

The rejection of the either / or divide extends to Killmonger, whose emotional, fraught back story gives the movie more heft and real - world friction than any of Marvel's other superhero blowouts.

The story itself is hard to recall, in large part because it was one of the least impressive aspects of a production that was more interested in offering a Mad Magazine - type superhero movie than meekly regurgitating the genre's tropes.

The film's chief villain, the angry and revenge - minded Killmonger, is a different sort of bad guy than what we're accustomed to getting in superhero movies.

We've had more than enough superhero movies set in New York or fictionalized versions of other American cities, more than enough action movies set in London or Los Angeles, more than enough fantasies that draw on European mythologies.

It becomes a much better movie than the original «Deadpool,» not an action bloodbath with laughs, but a knowing spoof of the superhero genre.

Many people like to think that blockbuster and / or superhero movies are little more than fluff, an excuse to tap into a ready - made fan base and have some cool action scenes and colourful costumes to grab a large demographic market.

As a rule, these movies basically work, most of them, even if they sometimes feel more like a product, launched, than a superhero world, imagined.

It's less tightly constructed than the film before, but it's still a superhero movie of rare craft and heft, rightly returning the focus to its hero after a Joker - centric installment and wrapping up his story in a definitive and satisfying manner.

Tom Holland's first solo outing as the web - slinger also has a higher domestic debut than fellow superhero movies Wonder Woman and Logan, beaten only by Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

Audiences looking for wham bang action may find Logan a little downbeat but there's more heart here than you'll find in almost any other superhero movie.»

Following a montage that features more sex than every other superhero movie to date combined, Wade proposes marriage.

There's no question that Jordan is in the right, but the superhero movies released to date prove a persuasive villain is easier said than done.

From the get go you know you're entering a world of absolute brand association, so if you're sick of superhero movies you'll want to like it a lot less than you do.

So in the comics, the Merc with a Mouth goes to see superhero movies in his spare time — and who better to bring along on a movie date than his friendly neighborhood Spider - Man?

Deep down, we all know that modern superhero movies are operating with even lower dramatic stakes than Star Wars or James Bond movies: beloved characters rarely stay dead after they've been killed, and no plot development, no matter how grave, is irreversible, so there's no possible way that what seems to be happening on the screen could really be happening.

What's missing is a sense of the sheer fun in movie - making that can energize a project like this, even one that might have more at stake than the usual superhero fare.

The movie itself, though, is a somewhat less - than - great send - off for the first superhero superstar.

Blade, to the fresh eye, free of the fandom surrounding the character, comes across as the kind of film that is probably closer to a B Movie in the action genre than a superhero flick, as it is branded to be.

And we're still more than a year from Captain Marvel, which will be Marvel's first female superhero - led movie in the more than 20 made over the last 10 years.

This is much more than just a superhero movie, it is a great character piece as well.

After a more than respectable five - week run as the No. 1 movie in America, this weekend the Marvel superhero adventure fell to No. 2, replaced by a different sort of nerd bait: The giant monsters vs. giant robots smash - «em - up...

Captain America: Winter Soldier artfully dodges nearly every typical superhero movie problem (as well as general sequel problems) with a stunning grasp of mood, total commitment to a «square» character, a smart choice of villain, and thrilling action scenes that feel authentically dangerous (a complete rarity in blockbusters) rather than like stop - and - gawk «setpieces» with no actual stakes.

The superhero sequel has already pre-sold more tickets than the last seven movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe combined.

It seems to be appealing to a younger audience than most superhero movies.

I love a good popcorn superhero movie as much as the next guy (maybe even more than most critics), but «Logan» shows how deep one can go in the genre if they just approach it in a different way.

Acclaimed filmmaker Steven Spielberg is all set to helm his first superhero movie and it is going to be none other than DC's cinematic adaptation of the comic - book character Blackhawk.

... There's less than two weeks to go until Thor: Ragnarok begins its international roll out, and if early tracking is to be believed, the God of Thunder's third solo outing is tracking a domestic opening weekend of between $ 100 and $ 110 million, which would put it comfortably ahead of the first two Thor movies, as well as putting it ahead of rival 2017 superhero movies Logan ($ 88.4 million) and Wonder Woman ($ 103.3 million).

It was, in fact, the most successful «serious» superhero movie since the Nolan days, though rather than take its cues from urban noir, it offered a postapocalyptic variation on a classic Western odyssey: The titular hero protects a young mutant girl on their journey to the Canadian border.

I suppose you can't make a superhero movie without a supervillian, but I'd like to see someone try (or at least make the supervillains more interesting, more damaged and human, rather than just mad for power).

That leads to a lot of ire over perceived bias against DC movies, but for most superhero movie fans, there's nothing we'd like to see more than both of them succeed.

Elwes told Deadline that «it's really difficult right now to get financing for anything other than superhero films» and that Movie Collective offers an alternative way to finance «quality films».

The film broke a ticket - presales record for superhero movies, and at press time it was tracking toward a $ 165 million opening — better than every Marvel nonsequel except The Avengers and possibly enough to crack the top 10 movie opening weekends of all time.

Like pretty much any superhero origin story, the setup was better than the payoff, which, like far too many movies about the origin of a superhero, pitted the newly formed hero against a generic villain with an even more generic plan, as if that's some kind of required challenge for these heroes to have to face each and every time — even if we're just getting to know them.

I enjoyed Tintin, Dragon Tattoo, and Captain America far more than I expected to — same with most of the other superhero movies I saw, frankly.