Sentences with phrase «than a war film»

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To put the importance of the overseas box office into perspective, all of the 10 highest - grossing films of 2016 made more money overseas than domestically (the top film, Disney's Captain America: Civil War, made almost 65 % of its $ 1.15 billion total through international release).

2 is impressive having earned more than all the other films combined,» said Paul Degarabedian, senior media analyst at ComScore, who noted that Captain America: Civil War accounted for more than half of the summer take at this point last year.

This is more than the Cold War's simple fixation on Russian villains, however, with StudioCanal producing, for example, «The Tracking of a Russian Spy,» which sees Logan Lerman play a journalist who travels to Russia and becomes a tool of the Kremlin, in a film which sets out to tackle ideas of fake news and disinformation campaigns.

According to Headlines & Global News, the film industry ended the year with more than $ 11 billion in domestic box office sales, buoyed by heavy hitters like Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Deadpool and Zootopia.

Before creating the first Stars Wars movie in the 1970's, George Lucas planned for at least six films and started at episode four, rather than episode one.

Characters in zombie films are willing to do terrible things to each other because of the fear of zombies and the urge for self preservation, while, in the real world, things like the use of torture (or «advanced interrogation»), preemptive war and drone strikes were being debated as options to fight a threat even scarier than zombies: terrorism.

That's Star Wars, not Trek... Ashamed I am of this you see.Anyway, wasn't John Huston the Voice in more than one old film about biblical events?

Rogue One is a much different film and worth seeing clean, it is as many have described a war movie set in the Star Wars universe, and I enjoyed it more than Force Awakens.

These parents decided to film one of the conversations their daughter had about Star Wars Episode IV, giving her interpretation of the entire film, which is definitely more entertaining than the official summary of the film.

The game takes place during a struggle between Republic and Sith more than 3,500 years before the events in the Star Wars films.

Though this version is set 25 years later than the original film, the changes are mostly cosmetic: the visual style is hand - held and more frantic, and the script replaces numerous references to the Cold War with a few glancing nods to present - day politics.

«World War Z» isn't your typical zombie movie, but rather a globe - trotting socio - political thriller that treats the zombies more like a viral disease than something out of a horror film.

More interesting than the actual film is the timing of the film just before the start of the Second World War.

Maybe that's what it takes for a female director to find success making a war film: relying on more common denominators rather than personal touches.

While it suffers from the obviously propagandist nature of World War 2 films, it's better than most when it comes to the human non-political nature of this kind of warfare.

An intelligent and scary horror film that makes a more than welcome commentary on the horrors of war and gender oppression in Iran, using a lot of symbolism and keeping us in an increasing state of anxiety as it moves in a deliberate, slow - burning pace towards a terrifying climax.

Her latest Polish film, the tough, unsentimental In Darkness, brings together themes from two of the most highly regarded movies about the second world war, Wajda's Kanal, about Nazi troops pursuing resistance workers through the Warsaw sewers in 1944, and Schindler's List, Spielberg's true story of the quixotic German industrialist who saved the lives of more than 1,000 Jewish workers in wartime Poland.

You can't really make this 2D arcade classic much better than it already is, and it is a great title, but it shows it's age, and the fact that it is re-released more than any Star Wars film doesn't help.

In tackling Louie's story (which sees him transition from Olympian to soldier to castaway to POW to war hero), she takes on a production of monumental scale, filmed in multiple countries and in vast expanses of the open, pitiless Pacific, but her willingness to go big is less impressive than her unwillingness to go gentle.

More often than not, when a film that is a wartime drama gets released, it usually focuses on the battlefield, and the horrors of war.

The Great Dictator began filming in September 1939, the same month that Britain declared war on Hitler's Nazi Germany, and more than two years before the United States became involved.

The metaphor for terrorist attack is so front and center it hardly bears mentioning; War of the Worlds is pure popcorn escapism of the highest order if you want it to be, or more, but it's never less than thrilling, thanks in enormous part to the film's magnificent, sternum - rattling sound design, surely another of the film's Oscar - calibrated achievements.

You can admire a movie like Steven Soderbergh's «Contagion» (2011), a realistic rendering of civil breakdown caused by a spreading pathogen, but the horror - film version of disaster in «World War Z» stretches the senses to take in more than you may expect.

as a kid i grew up with transformers for toys, but didn't watch the actual show (aside from beast wars) until last year, so i wouldn't consider myself a fan boy, but when a tv show based around toys from the 80's has better dialog, humor, character development, and plot than a high budget Hollywood film, you know something is wrong with the film industry.

There is more than a passing resemblance to the film White Mischief which dealt with corruption of the British in Africa during World War II which also is recommended.

He's a large and purply ruthless brute that originally appears to be just another impact-less Marvel villain hellbent on destroying Earth, but what Infinity War does differently than any other Marvel film is that it allows us to sympathize with him and see his emotional flaws and vulnerabilities.

Nowhere has that been more powerfully true than in the 18 hours of his stunningly realized, intricately detailed 10 - part film, The Vietnam War.

THR's David Rooney believes Whitney is a «haunting, richly contextualized documentary portrait,» and Owen Gleiberman of Variety writes, «The film captures the quality that made Whitney Houston magical, but more than that it puts together the warring sides of her soul.»

But more often than not, the studio's films are primarily concerned with keeping all the narrative plates spinning on the long march toward the Thanos showdown that will finally start in Avengers: Infinity War.

The real beating heart of the film is its collection of wild war tales told by the company's former employees, who regarded Tower as more than just a paycheck gig or a commercial proposition.

The unseen events bookending Easy Rawlins» (Denzel Washington) transition from disaffected war veteran to private investigator - namely his former criminal escapades with a trigger - happy associate in Texas (Don Cheadle) versus his further adventures as a fully - fledged gumshoe - unfortunately sound a lot more interesting than the story we are being told, making this feel like a sequel to, or a two - hour trailer for, an even better film.

In fact, Spielberg's depiction of the wartime life of Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), a German entrepreneur who opened factories to help the Nazi war effort in Poland, only to staff them with Jewish workers, remains Spielberg's most personal film, but for different reasons than ancestry.

Luckily, Holland's film focusses on a rather unusual true story from Poland during the atrocities of the Second World War rather than the well - told tales of the concentration camps (as obviously important and powerful as they are).

In this and his other war - related films Pride of the Marines (1945) and Task Force (1949), writer / director Daves emphasized the anxieties and tribulations of the individual soldier, rather than resorting to gaudy Hollywood heroics.

It's tough to see how the film is any better suited to the crowded and competitive holiday moviegoing season, given just one week's head start on the new Star Wars, than it was to spring.

The youngsters» tug - o - war courtship is the film's everything — without it, the Byzantium would amount to nothing more than a good looking plot machine.

It's funny, but it's also Phillips» most dramatic and political film, owing to the fact that it takes place during the Iraq War and tells the insane true story of a pair of cocky, Scarface - aspiring gun runners (played by Jonah Hill and Miles Teller) who bite off more than they can chew.

As a result, the film focuses more on this mediation than the war itself.

If the recent crop of low - budget, intimate war films featuring a handful of actors in limited locations tells us anything, it's that studios are desperate to ensure that they get a better return on investment than a full - blown, star - studded action spectacle.

Providing more tug - of - war moments than you might expect, the film champions doing what is best for the child — but shows some of the challenges involved in determining exactly what that course of action maybe.

Steven Spielberg's film is less a war epic than a love story between a boy and his horse, a throwback to the sort of film Hollywood does make anymore, but that Spielberg has mounted with stunning beauty.

It's uncertain if the film even has a firm opinion of our sitting president, for with Sawyer's reductive preachings about a stereotypical black upbringing, and actions to end a «limitless war on terror» that plainly contradict current events, the movie is both a simplistic Obama insult and an aspirational Obama fantasy (and if you don't think it's channeling our real - life president, look no further than the Easter egg of Nicorette gum, which Sawyer keeps in his own nightstand).

I wrote at the time that his music for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes — while a very fine film score — wasn't one of his most engaging albums, with its dark tone and great length; and while he uses that score as a springboard (and reprises some of its material), Giacchino takes War off in different directions and in doing so solves the problems that led to its predecessor being better within the film than without it.

After a little more than half a month of its release, Disney and Marvel's epic superhero film Avengers: Infinity War has become the fifth highest worldwide earner in the history of cinema.

The greatest film about the First World War is unquestionably Lawrence of Arabia (1962) though that film is more of a biographical study of a troubled warrior than a study of that wWar is unquestionably Lawrence of Arabia (1962) though that film is more of a biographical study of a troubled warrior than a study of that warwar.

Carol Reed's brilliant document of an unsure, injured country healing from the wounds of World War II is well - known for being Roman Polanski's favorite film, a piece that he holds in higher esteem than «The Third Man».

Following up his performance in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, in which he played Koba, Kebbell stars in director Duncan Jones «fantasy film as Durotan, a noble orc more interested in peace than war.

Heineman admits he's no traditional war reporter, yet Cartel Land is unmistakable boots - on - the - ground film journalism, made at evident risk of his life — with no less than three running machine gun battles — to capture moments of brutality and lost morals.

However, it would be far better for parents to show their teens the original Star Wars film series rather than paying the extra money to go to the theater to see this movie.

The year's best megaplex blockbuster — a more powerful film for some of us than «Dunkirk» or «Star Wars: The Last Jedi.»