Sentences with phrase «than any other film of»

Although it is a short 85 minutes, it is padded much more than other films of its ilk, with scenes that are either needless or carry on way too long.

Die Hard 2 is essentially little more than a repeat of the formula of the first film, but it is much better than other films of its era that tried to do the same.

But its story is less offensively ingratiating than other films of this sort (which may often be restricted to cable TV budgets and talent).

Not exact matches

Almost three decades after launching the company as an indie film production house with little more than $ 300 and a lot of youthful enthusiasm, he and co-founder Seaton McLean and a few other early shareholders had all become rich beyond imagining on the strength of a handful of lucrative properties, including HGTV, the Food Network and the spectacularly successful CSI franchise.

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.

In addition, as Spielberg's shop moves more into the family space, it could run up against part of the deal that forbids DreamWorks from making animated films for any company other than DWA.

He became a second fiddle to the film's other villain, Sandman, who proved to be more menacing than one of Spidey's most beloved adversaries, a crime that Spider - Man fans simply couldn't forgive.

As the Sony hack continues to prove, with cyber crime, more than money is at stake — besides the PR catastrophe, the threat to some jobs and leaks of unreleased films and other IP, employees and their families have had their medical data exposed and are receiving personal threats.

The «Maz» that Hamill references is none other than Maz Kanata, the wise alien Han Solo, Rey, and Finn visit in the film who is in possession of Luke's lightsaber.

Contrast the alleged actions of this alleged Coptic Christian with that of Muslims killing and maiming Coptic Christians and blowing up their places of worship... INSULTING Coptic Christians in far worse ways (literally «insulting» them TO DEATH) than is done (or ever could be) in this or any other film.

The earlier film adaptations didn't get Lewis right either — some were worse than others — Prince Caspian worst of all.

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.

Yet we get no farther than that committee of forty - three did with their New York World's Fair film if we insist that our Gospel is the Gospel, that the meaning which the Gospel has for me is somehow the Truth (with a capital T), while for all others its meaning is only partial Truth or, in some cases, actual Falsehood (with a capital F.)

The only thing I can hope for is that Perez will be our main striker this season just so I don't have to deal with an other season of Giroud and on his youtube highlight films he looks a much better finisher than Giroud.

If Ross occasionally plays loose with the facts, he remains true to the core of the story, and many of the racetrack scenes evoke more sharply than ever before on film a sense of the surpassing grace and power of the running horse, the sound of rolling thunder of the hooves and a sense of the precarious, perilous nature of the jockeys» existence as they bound along hell - fired at 40 miles an hour, monkeys on a stick, wind - sheared and often screaming at each other in the din.

The film itself is a bit scattered — in trying to cover so much ground, it sometimes feels as though the story itself is all over the place, and some of the points it makes (like the societal pressure on men to eat meat as a reflection of their manhood) are much stronger than others.

There are a lot of animated movies out there that try to incorporate adult humor into a child's film and, while others may come close, no one does it better than Pixar.

But after several showings of «The Milky Way» film, Chantal and Jennifer received a letter that was different than other notes of support.

Paladino campaign spokesman Michael Caputo confirmed the filming will be taking place, but would not reveal much more in the way of details, other than to say that the spot won't be going up this week.

In March 2009, while Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Miliband attended the UK premiere of climate change film The Age of Stupid, where he was ambushed by actor Pete Postlethwaite, who threatened to return his OBE and vote for any party other than Labour if the Kingsnorth coal - fired power station were to be given the go - ahead by the government.

I can't even begin to describe the guest list — other than the head of any arts, music, film etc organisation you can think ofwas there — from Sir John Tusa, Alan Yentob and Sir David Putnam to Michael Wolff, Sir Christopher Grayling and Mark Thompson (and loads more).

New York offers more tax breaks than any other state and is home to 21 percent of film production, after California's 52 percent.

DeFrancisco pointed out that New York is giving away many hundreds of millions of dollars more to film companies than to all other industries combined across the state.

Speaking with reporters in a gaggle outside of his office, Skelos compared the tax break which covers «every description of watercraft other than a seaplane used or capable to being used as a means of transportation on water» to the film - tax credit, which has expanded in recent years.

Through these experiments, Ruike identified three main parameters that give kirigami films their adhesive properties: shear - lag, in which shear deformation of film can reduce the strain on other parts of the film; partial debonding, in which the film segments around an open slit maintain a partial bond to the underlying surface; and inhomogenous deformation, in which a film can maintain its overall adhesion, even as parts of its underlying surface may bend and stretch more than others.

«And ultimately we want to look at ways of controlling the placement of particles on the photosensitive film in patterns other than uniform arrays.»

Looking to the other work done at and to support the Green Bank Observatory, the accomplishments of the past year include: hosting more than 2,000 visitors to view the solar eclipse, painting 84,000 square feet of the GBT, hosting 900 visitors at our annual open house (and launching 150 rockets in two hours that same day), releasing our new visitor reservations system, and hosting more than 30 film and news organizations.

Some of the research covered in the documentary includes scientists who are identifying and characterizing planets orbiting other stars (the other planets in our solar system would likely be more trouble than they're worth to make comfortable, the film argues); an engineer building a rocket fueled by plasma, the same charged particles found in our sun; and a team building a fleet of robots that could construct habitats before humans even arrive at their destination.

Straight from Julian Fellowes, the creator of Downton Abbey, Gosford Park is a 2001 British murder mystery film starring none other than Violet Crawley (the amazingly talented Maggie Smith).

`'» Realizing that, outside of Freddy Krueger, they are the most popular and they haven't been featured in any sort of battle together, other than a few small fan films, so I thought, let's do it.

There are fewer questions than some other sites, though you can also add a facebook - style list of favourite books, music, films, etc, which would take an extra 15 minutes.

Black Panther's fight scenes are better than in other Marvel films, but they're still a disappointment from the maker of Creed.

On the other hand, I really enjoyed seeing the odd, feral - looking beauty Mireille Enos (of TV's «The Killing») as Pitt's on - screen wife; I wish she had more to do in the film than hunker onboard an aircraft carrier with their kids, hoping the zombies won't learn how to swim.

Other than the look of the film, almost everything else works here.

But more than any other film — with the possible exception of The Last Temptation of Christ and that example doesn't count because it's a far more precise moment — the last five or ten minutes of Batman make the movie.

Hopper's choice to have the actors singing during filming, rather than lip - synching to a pre-recorded soundtrack, gives such impact to the performances — even with his overuse of certain other filming choices — creates such a complete world that even with its flaws, Les Miz had me in the palm of its metaphoric hand throughout.

The «Batman» television show (1966 - 1968) cast a long, pop art - infused, camp shadow over the property and, after the big budget failures of a series of superhero films in the 1980s (some more campy than others) such as Howard the Duck (1986), WB apparently had cold feet.

The killer has no motivations for his actions other than the cliched «He's just crazy,» and the establishment's actions, personified by the mayor and police chief's conservative dealings with the killer, wreak of a contrived set - up to make Harry appear «heroic» - what the film considers «heroic» - by contrast.

Too much of the film is told via Glatze's voiceover rather than shown through interactions with other characters.

Which is to say that the film's interpretation of apartheid may reflect most poorly on the film not because it's wrong but because it's intellectually lazy and, here's the real kicker, LESS INTERESTING than it would have been to show the aliens as not yet another oppressed minority (which has been done to death) but a mass suppressed by an elite group, made to feel like an «other» when, in fact, it's imprisoned in its own homeland.

It's a very moving indie drama that, as the directorial debut of screenwriter Oren Moverman, could be the start of a very great career for him as something other than a writer.You should definitely give this film a watch.

Other than Graham, who doesn't really have much to do here, there's a surprising lack of women in the movie, which might make this as much of a guys» film as «Old School.»

Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days by Big Star Games is a third - person top - down shooter with few connections to Quentin Tarantino's film other than it being about gangsters with color - coded names; and yet Bloody Days partially succeeds in its aspiration to revive a classic for crime and gangster films, while offering a time - rewind mechanics that helps the game distinct itself from the pool of titles in the top - down shooter category.

Once there was a film historian who opined that Wallace Ford was in more movies than any other character actor of his prominence.

Though not the definitive Holocaust film, yet it's a better look at the Holocaust than most other films and is certainly one of Spielberg's more serious and better films.

Turtorro can not save this film, but so help him, he tries, and he goes further than anyone or anything in bringing life to this bore, which still has enough other strengths at its back to be brought to the border of true decency.

It's built from stock, salvaged from bits of countless other films, but rather than disguise that fact, Corbijn incorporates the rust of those worn - out parts into his design.

As for the other arguments, I am just as capable of having fun as the next viewer - and I seek out fun in films more often than you might presume.

This wry, wonderfully detailed film catches the enormous imbalance of a morose teen with no life experience other than the thousands of fictional and pop - culture references that fill his head and his room: A sketch of Woody Allen's head hangs over Oliver's bed.

The best scene revolves around a conflict with a kinetic structure on an office desk which, like the film, is a lot of seemingly random motion with no apparent purpose other than distraction.