Sentences with phrase «than a superhero world»

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.

Not exact matches

When didacticism is added, children may find the values associated with the superheroes to be no more credible than the powers, particularly when the values urged on children are only given lip service in the real adult world.

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.

If you think, like I do, that the world needs more female superheroes than you will love Play Belly Dancer Dress Up online on.

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.

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.

Rather than, say, trying to stop a malevolent super-elf destroying the nine realms of Asgard, these superheroes are suddenly grappling with real - world issues such as national security, civil liberty, and intelligence gathering.

The story is set in a world filled with superheroes who have become celebrities, whose egotistical behavior oftentimes ends up doing more harm than good.

Highly entertaining and responsible for giving Ryan Reynolds his true star making moment we've all been waiting for, Deadpool is a quick - fire burst of fresh air in a world of kid friendly superhero films that upon closer inspection isn't much more than a fun time out at the movies.

Ryan Coogler's highly anticipated superhero movie is even better and richer than could have been imagined, thanks to a fantastical world that evokes real questions about history

The $ 502 million domestic Beauty grossed was more than all but seven movies: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, James Cameron's record - setters Avatar and Titanic, Jurassic World, landmark superhero movies The Avengers and The Dark Knight, and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (which kind of feels like the outlier here).

Nowhere has this been more visible than in the world of superheroes.

Where Doctor Strange falls short is in the recently troublesome superhero «big bad» and despite the presence of esteemed actor Mads Mikkelsen (who sadly has become a bit of a villain typecast in recent years), the purple eyed Kaecilius, who wants nothing more than to meet a world destroying entity is anything but the adversary the unique Stephen Strange deserved, while the previously mentioned nature of this following the playbook origin story isn't breaking much ground in the way it tells the story of a man at his lowest finally realising his true potential.

While the world debates how to sanction the god that can turn their cities to rubble, in the kind of senate hearings that superhero movies now use to situate their scenarios in «reality,» an angrier - than - usual Batman stews about his alien rival's dangerous power.

Suicide Squad's director David Ayer drops a few f - bombs in explaining why his film's different than other superhero fare: «all these movies are about defeating the evil alien robot from f*cking Planet X, before it destroys the world with its ticking clock.

This time Traveller's Tales ridiculously productive team of developers are taking on dinosaurs, rather than superheroes or goblins, with Lego: Jurassic World.

A celebration of the indie world's best also meant, of course, more than a few jabs towards the big studios and their conveyor belt of superhero films.

Three new wide releases also dropped, and despite all three of this weekend's new wide releases receiving rave reviews from opening day audiences, Marvel's newest superhero more than doubled the earnings of DreamWorks Animation's Trolls and Lionsgate's World War II drama Hacksaw Ridge.

Meanwhile, the DECU is still establishing itself, but many would agree that the franchise has attempted something different than Marvel - a more real - world and gritty take on its superheroes, which has been divisive among viewers.

Here is a movie that exists in the world of superheroes but focuses on its characters and its story rather than special effects and loud action scenes.

In all superhero movies, the stakes must be higher than the sky — the fate of the world, control of the most powerful MacGuffin, the future of a way of life.

«Ultraman is Japan's quintessential sci - fi superhero and has enjoyed massive popularity around the world for more than 40 years, and we are extremely proud to add the new manga series to the VIZ Media manga catalog,» says Mike Montesa, Editor.

«In a world with games and movies that feature superheroes and powerful characters that face extinction - level threats all the time, it's always interesting to play as characters like Delsin (Infamous: Second Son), Nathan Drake (Uncharted) or Aloy — characters that have to discover what it is they're good at, improvise when thrust into dangerous situations, and handle threats that exist more on a personal level than a global one.

A Daredevil game would give the high flying feel of a superhero game while at the same time being intensely grounded into a much darker and gritty world than Spider - Man is likely to get into.