Sentences with phrase «than war movie»

Nolan's camera pushes the edges of the screen as far as it can — you must see this movie in IMAX and on film, rather than digital, if at all possible — as Dunkirk engulfs the audience in something that feels like a lot more than a war movie.

A dog who will grab your heart and moments of intense emotion make this much more than another war movie although there are some tough battle scenes.

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Of course, complaints about the proliferation of sequels tend to be much louder in the wake of a high - profile flop than they are after the release of financially and critically successful follow - ups (see: Disney's Marvel and Star Wars franchises, or the Despicable Me and Hunger Games movies, to name a few — though, some movies still make a ton of money despite toxic reviews).

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.

There was no better way to release the upcoming Star Wars movie than in a 360 VR fly - through experience.

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.

That's more than 2016's Captain America: Civil War ($ 25 million in its Thursday opening) and behind 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron ($ 27.6 M), giving Black Panther the second - biggest Thursday debut of any Disney - Marvel movie ever.

Hopefully more than watching the Civil War movie Glory on BBC twice, such as I did tonight while cleaning.

Rather than being an anti-Christian movie, War is a story that reflects your own views back to you, faith - based or otherwise.

The boys watched some Star Wars movie this past week with Danny, and since then, a quote from the flick has come up more than once, as he reminded them about homework, chores and general productivity:

Yes and this Arsenal movie has more trilogies than Rocky, Star wars, Star Trek, Superman and Spiderman put together!?

The bad guys would wear black, and their motives wouldn't be any more complicated than «I'm a dick,» just like in every Star Wars movie.

With a little more than four months remaining until Star Wars Episode VIII hits theaters, there are three offshore sportsbooks currently offering prop bets on the movie.

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.

I have a memory of a war movie in which a woman is giving birth in a tank or a submarine (for whatever reason) and even in THAT situation, the men know better than she does how to labor — she's forced to lie down and put her feet up in two bandoliers suspended from the ceiling as stirrups.

For example, there is more than you could ever want to know about the machine that inspired the game - theorising computer in the cult teen movie War Games.

There are few times more appropriate to get fun and maybe a little bit weird with your style than when you're starring in a movie like «Star Wars.»

This movie, in my opinion, does a better job marketing Star Wars than being «it».

Seuss was quite unhappy when the anti-abortion movement latched onto the book's line of «a person's a person, no matter how small,» but this movie has touches of politics all over it that weren't in the book, including a town council more concerned with PR than safety and the injection of conservative culture - war rhetoric into the book's sour kangaroo (who now «pouch - schools» her joey.)

«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.

All those movies I just mentioned are quite likely at least a little bit better than this one, but «World War Z» is without question the biggest thing ever done in this genre.

Based loosely on the book by Max Brooks, «World War Z» is in some ways less a zombie movie than the story of a global pandemic and the heroic individual (guess who) trying to stop it.

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.

The works of Max Brooks, who wrote 2003's satirical and subversively political, «The Zombie Survival Guide», and 2006's, «World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War», provided the kernels of inspiration for this mega-budgeted horror - action - thriller that mostly makes up its own narrative, independent of much of the book content (jettisoning the first - person account style and most of the events), to make it fit more with the ranks of current, eye - candy loaded popcorn movies than a thoughtful adaptation of the best - seller.

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.

It was a year we all wanted to be entertained than have to face the dreariness of our normal lives, what with the wars and the economy tanking, The Hangover, for better or worse, was the movie we went to when we needed a laugh.

With a pulse - pounding score by Alan Silvestri, beautiful cinematography from Trent Opaloch, impressive special effects, and an incredible cast, Avengers: Infinity War is more than a great movie, it's an honest - to - god achievement in blockbuster filmmaking.

Beyond its best little moments, the movie is addressing a serious issue, and it feels awfully churlish to complain that its earnest depictions of soldiers in psychological pain isn't novel enough, or that Koale's performance is a little shakier than Teller's, or that the movie doesn't have much to say about the Iraq War in particular, or that it eventually tries to pass off a lack of resolution as an abbreviated happy ending.

The movie ride delivered by Solo: A Star Wars Story is more mild than wild, a pleasant way to pass the time instead of a game - changer.

Laura is more a symbol of the collateral damage of Mexico's billion - dollar drug war than a character, and she kind of becomes a numb zombie by the movie's latter half, perhaps accepting her doomed fate.

Despite its gruesome scenes of hundreds of Chinese prisoners of war being lined up and executed and its ostentatious shots of severed heads, the movie is less than indelible.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi may not be perfect, but the need to accept imperfection and keep going becomes one of the movie's themes... It's about mentorship that's invigorating rather than smothering.

When i first watched this movie it made be an even bigger star wars fan than i am now.

This movie really depicts the utter senselessness of war — how lost soldiers will take up with enemy women for succor and warmth and vice versa and how the officers (the aristocrats of the day, the 1 %) inhabit a much different world than the hoi polloi.

Of the movie references, no genre is more popular than the gangster movie (the most popular non-gangster movie references are probably The Matrix, Star Wars and, thanks mainly to the Wu - Tang Clan, various kung fu movies).

«Far above the success of blockbuster movies like «Star Wars» or «Gone With The Wind,» which both collected more than $ 3 billion, adjusted for inflation», website MarketWatch writes.

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).

For reference, movie hits such as Star Wars and Gone in the Wind harvested in more than 3 billion USD.

There were six other MCU movies released between «Ultron» and «Black Panther,» including «Civil War» — so it's more than possible some fans might be a little hazy on the details.

Aiming to cruise past all of that, the featurette begins with an assertion by Howard that «the Star Wars universe that we see in Solo is different than anything else we've seen in any of the previous Star Wars movies.»

In the end I don't exactly have any huge complaints with «War Horse» other than the nagging feeling that a better movie could have been made.

The movie focuses on Churchill's efforts to win a nation over and show the people that he's more than capable to win a war.

• «Their Finest,» Lone Scherfig's World War II romance, about a woman (Gemma Arterton) hired to write uplifting movies for the British government, turns out to be a more compelling look at the retreat at Dunkirk than either «Dunkirk» or «Darkest Hour.»

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Deep down, we all know that modern superhero movies are operating with even lower dramatic stakes than Star Wars or James Bond movies: beloved characters rarely stay dead after they've been killed, and no plot development, no matter how grave, is irreversible, so there's no possible way that what seems to be happening on the screen could really be happening.

His scenes make Infinity War an uncompromising sci - fi epic that has more in common with Empire Strikes Back and Conan the Barbarian than Joss Whedon's Avengers movies.

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.

Admittedly, the «Back to the Future» and «Forrest Gump» director's most recent films have been more distancing than enthralling, but his latest, the World War II romance «Allied,» is one of his more human and tangible movies yet.

In light of all this, it's inevitable (and in no way a spoiler to reveal here) that not every character makes it out alive, and that if you come away from the movie feeling bummed out and anxious rather than elated, that means «Infinity War» has done its job, just as «The Empire Strikes Back» and «Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One» did their jobs.

Approached more like a war film than a historical drama, Bigelow's latest movie is harrowing, upsetting, and demands to be seen.