Sentences with phrase «than the movie set»

Walking in history at Boone Hall Plantation you'll discover that it offer so much more than a movie set for The Notebook.

And façades they remain: one look behind these looming, almost lifesize structures reveals that they are false fronts no more functional than any movie set.

Not exact matches

Prince William and his brother Harry did more than just play with lightsabers when they dropped by the set of the next «Star Wars» movie in April 2016.

Doug Renfro, president of Renfro Foods in Fort Worth, has his public relations firm send about 200 cases a year of his salsas and dips out to movie sets in the hopes they'll do more than be scarfed down by the cast and crew.

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.

Or when you lower their crib mattress to the recommended setting, but still catch your kid on the video monitor carrying out an escape plan more detailed than in the movies.

The movie adaptation, however, Americanises the original concept in a much larger way than by simply moving the setting from London to Washington, D.C.

A voice - operated computer assistant is set to be used in space for the first time on Monday — its operators hope it proves more reliable than «HAL», the treacherous speaking computer in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.

To me, doing two or three days on a movie with a cool director is more important than spending my life on a set.

Based on our city's census data, our high number of Starbucks coffee shops, and the fact that there seems to be a lot of cheesy romcom movies and TV shows set here set in our city than any other place on Earth, huge publications like Forbes magazine and Marie Claire have been frequently ranking the Seattle adult dating scene as the center of the singles universe..

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Imagine «Beyond the Black Rainbow» set against the pallid backdrop of «Mad Max: Fury Road» and you'll start to understand how this queasy little movie manages to keep us engaged for so much longer than it should.

It may not be your conventional Valentine's Day date movie, but it looks set to give audiences more pleasure than pain.

Although the problems appear to have had an impact on the final product, especially in the uneven tone of the comparatively smaller - scale finale and the unsatisfying epilogue, it's a bit of a pleasant surprise that the movie manages to hold together even through some turbulent patches to be worthwhile viewing for anyone not expecting much more than a grandiose, set - piece dominated horror - thriller.

The steady cavalcade of cameo appearances, coupled with the inclusion of a few genuinely funny comedic set - pieces, prevents the movie from becoming an all - out bore, admittedly, yet it's worth noting that both Carell and Fey's small - screen work is, by and large, far more entertaining than anything within Date Night's appreciatively short running time.

It takes way longer than was necessary to finally pick up its feet and get going but once it does the last couple of hours zips along fine, with the last two thirds of the movie basically being made up of a sequence of big set - pieces which vary in effectiveness, some relying too much on CGI or being repetitive while others are unique and eye - catching in their own right.

More than anything else, though, Stoller and Segel appear so dead set on including every single one of their ideas that it drains the movie of some of its charm.

What then to expect of Shrek the Third, a movie perhaps even more transparently than most made primarily to sustain and bolster a lucrative tent - pole merchandising franchise — already set to continue at the end of this year with an ABC TV Christmas special, Shrek the Halls, and a fourth suggested movie sequel in the early planning stages?

«You and me, people like us... even the worst day on a movie set is better than the best day anywhere else.»

Se7en is exciting, efficient and far more intelligent than most movies of this kind, so potential viewers should set aside my personal opinion as to its merit.

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.

When Tommy's cast and crew finally get a break for lunch and ask each other what movie they signed up for, actress Carolyn (Jacki Weaver) earnestly answers, «Even the worst day on a movie set is better than the best day anywhere else.»

With grace, wit and unforced wisdom, Yonebayashi's movie sweeps you up and then gently sets you down, back into a world that seems more capable of magic than it did before.

Mr. Russell's wonderfully mad odyssey of a movie, in which a man sets out to find his biological parents and winds up meeting more weirdos than Alice found down the rabbit hole.

«True North» trilogy of movies set in Canada for no apparent reason other than that he appears to find the accents hilarious.

Branagh is more preoccupied with the challenges of keeping a movie set in a series of steel tubes visually interesting than he is in engaging its story.

Debut writer - director Chris Kelly, a writer on «SNL,» digs in rather than relying on contrived, movie - ready set pieces (as in the similar «The Hollars»), making this gay «Garden State» rich with naturalistic comedy as well as beautifully touching moments.

Amenábar's sweeping directorial choices are consistently undermined by the pervasively artificial atmosphere, as the movie primarily transpires on expensive sets that look like expensive sets - with the less - than - authentic vibe ultimately exacerbated by the screenplay's relentlessly overwrought nature (ie the interplay between certain characters smacks of high melodrama).

We've already presented our list of big studio movies we're excited about for fall and winter of 2015, but there's a lot more than that set of 30 movies coming to theaters.

Rather than possessing a clear beginning, middle and end, this movie starts off with a short introduction and a set piece at Gringotts Bank (where a Horcrux is hidden).

The sequel, scripted by Michael Green and the original movie's co-writer Hampton Fancher, is set decades after the original, at a time when Earth's environment is in an even worse condition than it was.

Surprisingly gory in a horror - movie fashion and chock - a-block with more grotesques than a Southern Gothic, Hot Fuzz takes its time getting to where it's going — it's a carefully - written, meticulously - planned piece that ties up all of its set - ups with clever knots, saving the majority of its action for the last half of its full two hours.

It's a b - movie genre excursion made by people who know and love these kinds of movies, and if you're of this set, it's more treat than trick.

The shots, I'm sure you can see, are more elaborate and set - up than in my previous movies.

However considering the incredible cast, sets and editing in this movie, Lee Daniels» The Butler should elicit more emotion than it does.

«Deadpool the character is so eclectic in terms of his references and his taste — and so what better way to set the tone of a movie than with Juice Newton?

«We spent more time shooting the movie rather than setting up to shoot the movie,» he added.

The Coens, masters of the picaresque, have a tendency to wax episodic — spending too much time on individual set pieces rather than a cohesive whole — and while this movie is far more tightly structured than The Big Lebowski, it does not quite reach the brilliantly plotted heights of either Barton Fink or Fargo.

This is indeed a Coens movie, merely one set in a cheerier key than any of its predecessors.

That is, how this movie about an oil rig, is better in such a multitude of ways, in telling a story about recent events, than is a movie like «Money Monster», which set out to achieve that, and really didn't.

We always knew that it was going to be more than one movie — we knew that from the start — so we set a trilogy as a sort of placeholder, because we knew there would be more than one movie.

I'm so glad my first experience with this film was in Telluride; at an elevation of 8,750 ft, we're more than a mile closer to the stars, a mile closer to the exact setting the movie took place.

It's also stupid that the DVD in this set is the movie's first and worst release on that format; is that supposed to make the Blu - ray seem like more of an improvement than it is?

What doesn't disappoint is the natural comic chemistry of its leads as well as the movie's ability to surprise, zigging rather than zagging, and finding small jokes just as satisfying as larger set pieces.

The dingy police headquarters of the first film — that sometimes felt like it might be more appropriate for a movie like Cobra than something set in 2019 — have been replaced with something more sterile.

The movie is far, far better than the trailer which was blatantly offensive and made The Help seem like it would be nothing more than a chick flick set in the early 1960s.

While its fun to see the universe come to life, and the special effects are gorgeous, especially on a large 4K set, the movie still fails to deliver anything other than a brawny, brainless melee.

This Davy Crockett: Two Movie Set will appeal to three groups: A) Davy Crockett fans who are more familiar with or bigger fans of the feature film edits than the TV episodes, B) those who missed out on the Walt Disney Treasures «Davy Crockett» set released in 2001, and C) Davy Crockett fans who embrace all things related to Disney's adventures on the Tennessee woodsmSet will appeal to three groups: A) Davy Crockett fans who are more familiar with or bigger fans of the feature film edits than the TV episodes, B) those who missed out on the Walt Disney Treasures «Davy Crockett» set released in 2001, and C) Davy Crockett fans who embrace all things related to Disney's adventures on the Tennessee woodsmset released in 2001, and C) Davy Crockett fans who embrace all things related to Disney's adventures on the Tennessee woodsman.

Less a fully realised thriller than a series of rampaging set pieces, this rollicking movie at least provides some goofy good fun for audiences, plus one terrific performance.

That's not to say that it's on par with movies of that era, but it certainly feels like Neeson and Collet - Serra set out to make something more serious and less absurd than their previous work, and the effort mostly pays off.