Sentences with phrase «than the second film»

Fortunately the action is handled in a much more controlled way than the second film with the viewer actually being able to walk out of the cinema without a coma.

Some Herbie fans may like that the Beetle has a larger role than the second film and these folks probably won't be deterred from adding this to their collection at any rate.

Where it does succeed is in diverting from the usual path, helping to make it a better outing than the second film.

Not exact matches

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.

A second and third installment of Avatar are in the works, and at a recent comic convention Cameron said the films may be shot at a higher frame rate than the industry standard to make the film seem even more real.

«If it's nothing more than «The Magnificent Ambersons,» Orson Welles» second film that made no money, I'll be a very happy man,» Hopper said in the movie.

The Revenant was the second - highest grossing film in the group — with more than $ 400 million in global ticket sales — behind The Martian «s $ 624 million.

And a second study with 130 undergrad participants showed the same effect in comparison to a neutral film clip: Participants who watched a sad clip were less accurate in identifying colors on the blue - yellow spectrum than those who watched a neutral screensaver.

The modulators can refresh their patterns at 240 hertz, or 240 times a second, so even at six patterns per frame, the system could play video at a rate of 40 hertz, which, while below the refresh rate common in today's TVs, is still higher than the 24 frames per second standard in film.

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

It stands for High Frame Rate, and involves shooting the film with twice as many frames per second than we've become used to (48 fps vs the usual 24).

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.

For more than 80 years, film's standard has been 24 frames per second (fps).

It is a welcome surprise to see a lighthearted Western that places its importance more on the characters than on the famous real gunfight depicted - and the deep - focus shots are beautiful -, but still the film has trouble with maintaining the focus and pacing in the second act.

The second film's success was perhaps even more staggering than the first: The Godfather, Pt. 2 garnered six more Oscars, including a win for Coppola in the Best Director category; Robert DeNiro won his first Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor field; and the movie itself became the first and only sequel ever to win Best Picture honors.Next, Coppola began adapting the Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness, transferring its story to the heart of the Cambodian jungle at the height of the conflict in Vietnam.

For the second straight year, Disney released better films overall than any major studio — and this time, it wasn't even close.

However, the plot moves forward a bit quicker than it should and becomes more dramatised in it's second half and it is an undeniably predictable storyline but unlike his more recent films it's decently written, well intended and quite funny.

It's ultimately clear, however, that Fear and Desire simply isn't able to justify its feature - length running time (ie the whole thing feels padded - out even at 61 minutes), with the movie's less - than - consistent vibe paving the way for a second half that could hardly be less interesting or anti-climactic - which does, in the end, confirm the film's place as a fairly ineffective first effort that does, at least, highlight the eye - catching visual sensibilities of its preternaturally - talented director.

Despite releasing better films than any other major studio, Paramount languished in seventh place in global market share for the second consecutive year, trailing upstart Lionsgate.

When Frankenheimer got a second movie to direct - «The Young Savages» in 1961 - he had a far better time, and he made no fewer than three big films the following year, including «The Manchurian Candidate», an instant classic.

Instead, Mr. Carrey turns up in a sloppy second Ace Ventura film that's little more than an echo of the first.

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).

Elysium will mark the young directors second film and ever since its announcement not much has been said about the film other than it was going to be in the sci - fi genre with a lot of underlying sociopolitical messages.

The film went on to make more than $ 319 million worldwide and still remains the second highest grossing original horror movie of all time, second only to «The Exorcist.»

The politics that shape the film's second half remain more vague than they should be, although that helps this film be more of a human drama than an historical one.

The second factor of what made Ready Player One so great was the inspiring message the film told, which is likely truer now than ever.

There's more than enough «commentary» on the film from the second disc's trove of documentaries, featurettes, and interview segments.

The second place would be Woody Allen because it was so different than a lot of other films that he has ever done before.

For those who enjoyed the first film but were disappointed by the second, then rest assured that Dark of the Moon is much better than Revenge of the Fallen.

This second act is a bit prolonged, carrying the film to a 116 - minute runtime and detailing more than necessary the cunning vengeance plot.

The jury decision, he revealed, came only after some old - fashioned horse - trading: Bille August's «Pelle the Conqueror» won over Chris Menges» «A World Apart» in a 6 - 4 vote, but jury president Ettore Scola only got the «World Apart» supporters to stop arguing when he offered to not only give that film the Grand Jury Prize (second prize), but also let its lead actresses share the best - actress award, making it the only film to win more than one prize.

(1) The Intouchables, an $ 11.5 million dramedy, based on a true story, that was co-written and co-directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano and has become the second highest - grossing French film of all - time in France and grossed more than $ 355 million internationally (more than any other French film and, for that matter, any non-English-language film, save for The Passion of the Christ); and (2) Rust and Bone, a fictional drama that was co-written and directed by Jacques Audiard, a best foreign language film Oscar nominee three years ago for France's Un Prophet, and features tour - de-force performances from Marion Cotillard, the best actress Oscar winner five years ago, and Matthias Schonaerts, the star of last year's Belgian nominee Bullhead.

Still, MURDER does suffer from a slower second act than it should, suddenly pulling out yet another suspect who's been hidden since the first 15 minutes of the film.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

At this point, the film requires a second viewing, one that you should be more than willing to take despite a 2 hour 15 minute runtime.

My second attempt to get into the work of perhaps the greatest of all American directors, John Ford, has proved infinitely more rewarding than the naïve, unprincipled viewings I gave to some of his films as an impatient late - teen.

Beyoncé Knowles shows off more ability both as an actress and a singer in this film than anyone could have known she possessed, making her a strong second lead.

Anderson released a prologue to Darjeeling online and the film annoyingly starts with a reminder to go and watch it, then the film proceeds to directly reference it... which is more annoying than Murray's dumb cameo and the second cameo (though this one turns out all right) combined.

A pessimist would say there's no prooof that their second film, the comic book adaptation Priest, would be any better than Legion, and a realist would, of course, decide to simply judge each flick on its own merits.

Her attempts to get back inside run the gamut from the wild (something about fireworks) to the simple (just finding an open door), but Union relishes each one, and there's nothing more entertaining in the film than watching her face move from bafflement to anger in a split second.

The start of Peter Jackson's second Tolkien universe trilogy seemed to elicit more shrugs than awe, which was odd because the movie stands on par with his monumental The Lord of the Rings films.

Thus you get stuff like the Wreckers, who even the other characters in the film describe as «assholes» who get more screen time than most of the other Autobots in the film despite not appearing until well into the second half.

But although the film earned better than decent reviews, he returned to his home country for what is meant to be the second film of a «crime trilogy» set in Belgium.

As such, like another second - tier Marvel title before it, Guardians of the Galaxy, that allows for some deviation from the core Avengers films in terms of how things will look and sound, giving us a movie that feels organically different in visual design than most we've seen before, even if it still retains the same formula structure of the rest of the MCU features.

If you chose to watch this new film knowing nothing about it, and were asked to guess its country of origin, it would take the unlearned among us no more than 30 seconds to guess correctly.

3: «Get Out» or Luca Guadagnino's achingly tender «Call Me by Your Name» will emerge as a popular first choice among Oscar voters, and a film that was made for considerably less than $ 10 million will win Best Picture for the second year in a row, confirming that «Moonlight» changed the game in more ways than one and forever altered our idea of what constitutes an «Oscar Movie.»

The film's aggro 5.1 soundmix is offered in a choice of DTS and Dolby Digital; bass is tighter and effects less localized with the former, and for some reason the second half of Behind Enemy Lines packs a stronger LFE wallop than the first in Dolby Digital.

by Walter Chaw The only genre that boasts more direct - to - video fare than horror is porn, and since we haven't quite reached the point of quiet desperation needed to begin reviewing porn, find here a smelted cheddar of four dtv horror features (actually, The Boogeyman got a theatrical release in 1980, though I can't understand why): the eighth film in Clive Barker's venerable horror octology, Hellraiser: Hellworld; The Boogeyman and its second sequel, the legitimately straight - to - video Return of the Boogeyman; and Kevin VanHook's The Fallen Ones.

Inventive and bold but never jarring, every second of film offers something more than just story to chew on.

In addition to the success of the original film, looming over the Merc with a Mouth's second big screen adventure was Marvel Studios» Avengers: Infinity War, which has dominated the box office since its late April, having grossed just more than $ 1.8 billion in global ticket sales to date.