Sentences with phrase «time the film seems»

In fact, the only time the film seems to work is when it stops trying to be funny, which happens increasingly as the film nears the end.

At times these films seem «art-less» but in fact they often addressed, and sometimes satirized, art history or the film industry as a whole.

Not exact matches

Witnesses of the Florida crash have reported the Tesla driver who died was watching a film from the Harry Potter series at the time of the accident, a detail that would seem to further bolster perceptions that drivers are placing excessive trust in an untested feature.

It seems that every time Marvel (owned by Disney) comes out with a new Avengers movie (released two weeks ago), or Fantastic Four (later 2015 release), or X-Men (2016 release), or Captain America (2016), film, we hear all about how it's breaking some box office record.

Although at times Scenes seems to be administering the physic of the consciousness movement in rather heavy doses, the film is too complex to be dismissed as a celebration of «How to Save Your Own Life» in the mode of Erica Jong, Jerry Rubin or Gail Sheehy.

The only ability to challenge an MPAA age rating is afforded to a film's producer — and they seem able to negotiate a lower age rating almost 100 percent of the time.»

Whatever one's personal feelings about the film, it seems clear that Mel Gibson was trying to deliver a cardiac shock to the imagination, Christian and non-Christian, of our times; saying in effect, «Look in graphic detail at what God's Son did for you.

He seems to be groping toward a way of seeing, abstracting, transferring to film for others to perceive, the absolutely elemental forces — wind, sun, frost, even time.

The timing of the film seemed to be very ideal, a lot of synchronous events have happened with press and opportunities.

Making an audience laugh in the aisles while smuggling in deep political points is not as easy as it seems, and In The Loop's outrage at the events which led to the Iraq war shine through every minute of the film's running time.

A glut of alien sci - fi films comes at a time when scientific discoveries are making the existence of life beyond Earth seem more and more plausible

Racial conflicts among the film's living characters end up costing them valuable time and resources; against the backdrop of attacking zombies, the racial tension of the late 1960s seems positively ludicrous.

«s run time - which I thought was two hours, but it really seemed to be like four - seems devoted to a tertiary subplot in the art house Coherence, a film that lacks traditional narrative structure and drips with the ideas mother!

There seems to be two camps in the Christian world: those who support faith - based films at any cost and those who avoid From «A Wrinkle in Time» to «Harry Potter», these are the best movies based on beloved children's books!

Time travel has always been a thing of science fiction but the rules for time travel in this film, as well as from the book, seem very reasonable and the whole idea of killing something off that shouldn't be, will kill everythTime travel has always been a thing of science fiction but the rules for time travel in this film, as well as from the book, seem very reasonable and the whole idea of killing something off that shouldn't be, will kill everythtime travel in this film, as well as from the book, seem very reasonable and the whole idea of killing something off that shouldn't be, will kill everything.

This is by far the most compelling aspect of the film; it's the only time we get something from Rebel in the Rye that doesn't seem extracted from a Cliff Notes biography.

It's his toothy grin and duplicitous insults that make this film into a very lewd comedy, though he does spar with Bejo a number of times, and seems reverent of his co-stars with maturity and childlike wonder.

A lot funnier than you remember it, Carol Reed's immortal 1949 film noir seems to exist in the space between two worlds: an earlier time when thrillers were mostly serious affairs, and a future one, when such supremely witty entertainments felt passé.

(Among the film's principals Wolverine alone suffers the torment of having his consciousness exist in two time frames at once, but the actor seems to be having fun).

To me, it all seemed that the filmmakers didn't care about the end result of the film, and this is a film that is not worth your time, and should be avoided if you're looking for something funny.

There are times when the film seems to be too freighted with meaning, as if inviting scholars to write thesis papers analyzing its masculine and feminine symbols.

Trainwreck - bad movie enthusiasts will be disappointed to find a film largely defined by its lack of energy, in which every scene seems to be stalling for time.

It seems all of these people gave their time to this film because they understand what it is, and appreciate The Room's cult status.

The first time they share the screen in The Post (and, surprisingly, in any film to date it seems) is a breakfast meeting early in the film, which Spielberg wisely frames largely in a lingering two shot.

Anyway, this time in the continuing adventures of Nancy Macbook and Spanky the Damaged Billionaire: following the stalker mystery and helicopter crash of Fifty Shades Darker, the film rejoins our drama - prone couple on the morning of their wedding, when things seem to have calmed down somewhat, at least for a bit.

This is one of those rare films that is different every time you view it, and just when you seem to make sense of it all, its true meaning is eternally elusive.

It's an animated film, created by an Irish animation studio (Cartoon Saloon) and based on a novel by a Canadian author (Deborah Ellis), but despite these seeming obstacles to authenticity, this is a deeply felt and unsparingly realistic depiction of Afghanistan at a time of tyrannical rule by religious fundamentalists.

As much as the film, at times, attempted to try and put the issues into simple terms, however, it still seemed confusing at times and unless you have

As much as the film, at times, attempted to try and put the issues into simple terms, however, it still seemed confusing at times and unless you have some knowledge of the field, you'll be left sitting there confused.

Into this season of the Serious Movie, when every other film seems to speak to the troubled times in which we actually live, the fact - based, yet farcical «The Disaster Artist» blows like a fresh breeze, throwing open a window through which we may escape, briefly, from ugly reality.

Interestingly, I picked up on the obvious influence of 2001 on that film much more fully this time; in many ways, ST: TMP seems to be a virtual sequel to Kubrick's flick.

Interestingly, I picked up on the obvious influence of 2001 on that film much more fully this time; in many ways, ST: TMP seems to be a virtual sequel to it.

Truth or Dare is the kind of film that must have seemed like a good idea at the time, but its initially appealing premise — what if a demon possessed a drinking game?

The film has a potent sense of time and place but it does seem a bit too nostalgiac towards segregation - era America.

The cast is made up of an actual family, including his father Tim Jandreau and his sister Lilly Jandreau, which is perhaps why their performances feel so authentic and why this film seems like an intimate, verité - style documentary at times.

At times in the beginning, the films seemed shot - for - shot duplicates.

Brief flashes of insecurity would add a lot to the character of Morgan, but only when added at just the right time; as is, there are moments when the façade seems to falter with the entire crew present and you have to wonder how some more ambitious pirate didn't dethrone her long before the film had ended.

The other major flaw is that so much time was spent in this movie on it's stylistic looks which as i said earlier were flawless but so much time and effort was spent on these that it seems to have taken away from the character development side of the film.

It's a long movie for its genre, but don't think for a second that it's going to drag; there's story and detail stuffed in every frame of this film, and it seems to run for half the time it actually does.

One group are general aspects of the film which haven't dated well or which seem questionable even for the time.

Unfortunately, a series of such mediocre films as Johnny Dangerously (1984) and Gung Ho (1985) followed, and by the time Tim Burton cast him as the titular Beetlejuice in 1988, Keaton's career seemed to have betrayed its early promise.

The film is essentially a primitive rah - rah story about an underdog's triumph over a bully, and in the times that Americans are living through now the things in it that are merely simple seem simplified to the point of odiousness... In the Heat of the Night seems to be made up of a great deal of attitudinizing and very little instinct.

The film seems a little disjointed at times like it wanted to travel in to many different paths.

The film itself seems reluctant to tie itself off, giving us one of the great end - credits - as - scene sequences of the last year (Call Me by Your Name and Good Time being other memorable examples).

I seem to remember reading him say that The Shining is his all time fave horror film and he wanted to recreate thge feeling of it.

It certainly seems harsh it hasn't been considered amongst Hitchcock's greatest films, as it's certainly stood the test of time better than the likes of «The Birds».

The plot really takes a while to pick up with very little in the way of dialogue; by the time the lead characters reveal a portion of themselves, it is already deep into the film and it seems late, granted the run time is just under 90 minutes.

In my review of the first film, I argued that Woodley seemed out - of - sorts in an action - adventure film, but a year and a different haircut really made a world of difference this time, with Woodley coming into her own here.

The scene effectively conveys the king - of - the - world high of a solid drug rush, and the film has just enough of an edge that I winced each time they hit the glass, convinced that one of them would take that big fall into the canyons of L.A. Elizabeth Hurley, meanwhile, is very pretty and sports a lovely English accent but seems to have been airlifted in from an entirely different movie.

The story seems fairly basic, but I'm interested in learning more, mostly due to the time period and the setting of the film.