Sentences with phrase «times movie audiences»

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There's no question that Star Wars is a huge hit with movie - going audiences, and experts say it is likely to continue to rack up sales records for some time to come.

Adding Time Warner's immense and valuable library of movies, TV and live programming would expand AT&T's ability to offer new streaming video services to the growing mobile and non-traditional video audiences.

There is consolation in the fact that the Times is bought by less than one out of twenty people in the New York area, and the audience for television networks and movies has been declining for years.

The result — a tale of a young teenage boy who believes his epic sci - fi novel has been stolen for use by one of his writer heroes, and the battle that ensues between them — is a movie that this time might be too strange for a mainstream audience, but based on the Hesses» track record, could very well gain a cult following for years.

Instead of advancing storytelling toward greater self - awareness (and self - examination), a 3 - D spectacular like Avatar relies on the same naivete of once neo-genre movies like The Time Machine, Dances with Wolves, FernGully: The Last Rainforest, and Rapa Nui, which took a nostalgic, unsophisticated view of industry and colonial expansion; this time Cameron pretends to introduce modernity and globalization to his naive audieTime Machine, Dances with Wolves, FernGully: The Last Rainforest, and Rapa Nui, which took a nostalgic, unsophisticated view of industry and colonial expansion; this time Cameron pretends to introduce modernity and globalization to his naive audietime Cameron pretends to introduce modernity and globalization to his naive audience.

Since audience choices will probably be different each time the movie is shown, so will the exact plot.

This movie's been a big hit across the ocean, possibly because British audiences needed to be reassured that their nation, too, could produce semi-lovable, profoundly misguided misfits who've spent too much time reading «Catcher in the Rye.»

Despite such patience that is required from the audience during this time, once the «movie» returns, it is nearly infalliable.

The kiddie audience will laugh a few times, but it would take an electron microscope to find an original idea or joke in this entire cartoonish movie.

By the time Spader showed up with wild facial hair (which the movie is full of) and a swaggering paunch, the audience I was in was laughing with every new arrival.

At worst, it's a movie that bides its audience's time on the way to certain death.

And here, as in last year's I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Sandler interestingly attempts to blend genuine social commentary with copious gross - out humor in much the same way that Mel Brooks did in Blazing Saddles (a movie that, beyond the beans - around - the - campfire gags, wore its heart so firmly on its sleeve in favor of racial brotherhood that it stopped just short of singing «Kumbaya» to its audience); Sandler, who's admirably never been shy about proudly proclaiming his Jewishness, takes on xenophobia, suggests that Israelis and Palestinians CAN get along and — most controversially of all, perhaps — makes a case that disco music CAN be enjoyable in the right time and place.

Since talking heads are arguably the chief reason that documentaries are generally shunned by movie audiences, less time could have been spent listening to the array of interviews, and more celluloid on the damage done in Oklahoma City.

(preferably no audience) Save yourself from the mistake I made by seeing this movie and don't waste time or money on this worthless piece of junk.

This movie spends so much time trying to be «meta» and clever that it completely forgets it's supposed to entertain its audience.

It's rare that a studio movie dares to engage with an audience in such a somber and probing and insistent way, affording us so little time to breathe or destress or clear our heads.

The tension between Brady's old life and his new one guides the whole movie; there's understandable anxiety anytime he's near a horse, even though the audience knows it's the only time he's happy.

It rubs the metaphor of coins and coin collecting so deeply into the audience face you're sure to have a welt by the time the movie's over.

It should have been binned the second the (literal) smoke cleared, and while it's been clear for some time that Smith is either incapable of making a good movie or simply doesn't care to, Yoga Hosers may very well be the film that finally convinces audiences the emperor has no hockey jersey.

And much like last year's «Wreck - It Ralph» (or the more tonally similar «Adventure Time»), «The Lego Movie» anticipates a certain attention - deficit quality in its audience, constantly plunging the action into new and different realms, while poking fun at the various characters and customs that make each sort of silly along the way.

No surprise, perhaps, as Denis's film is the sort of thing usually discussed as a «minor,» the appellation usually applied to movies about love and intimacy, topics of almost universal relevance, as opposed to «major» works that indulge in the overblown oversimplification of barely understood historical periods, interminable «sculpting with time,» or the espousal of revolutionary creeds to well - heeled film festival audiences who know in their secret hearts that they will never in their lives participate in a violent uprising of any kind.

TV movies like Katherine (1975) and Scott Joplin (1976) are prismatic, Citizen Kane - like efforts constructed in non-linear fashion, but Kagan's sense of discipline enables the audience to, at all times, keep track of what's happening and when.

Two storylines make Red Doors an enjoyable film but there are so many things holding it back (the mother / wife's story is given no real time to connect with the audience) that stop it from being a respectable movie.

After watching it, I really think that this one will divide the audience and any time could go both ways - some would love figuring it out what the writer and director wanted to say while others could simply walk away, deciding that their life is too precious to be wasted on such movies.

Cheaper by the Dozen adheres religiously to formula, showcasing the children either as adoringly cute or rude brats to elicit audience reaction, while keeping the peppy pop tunes cranking to simulate a good time at the movies.

by Walter Chaw The more cynical among us would note that the title might also refer to the time that movies exactly like Taking Lives have stolen from hapless audiences, but the fact of it is that if not for our mortal curiosity, we might have missed genuinely good mad - dog killer flicks like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Manhunter, The Untold Story, and Se7en.

The cyberhacking of Sony Pictures, the release of reams of private information, the terrorist threats against theaters, the back - and - forth on whether to show the movie to audiences at all — what a waste of time and energy.

Okay, perhaps we're being a bit unfair — Warcraft definitely had its moments, even if it was kind of a mess overall, and The Angry Birds Movie was a bonafide box office hit — but the fact remains that on the whole, audiences have had very good reason to be skeptical about video game movies for a very long time.

I know when a crowd is into a movie and the audience I saw it with was big time into it.

Now, the movie isn't perfect, and at times Vaughn's teenage sensibilities do show, but he usually pulls back before alienating the audience.

And even if Cuaron had wanted to, Columbus had installed himself as a producer on «Azkaban» with a particular goal in mind: «I wanted to make sure that the film didn't stray too far from the world the audience and the fans have sort of fallen in love with over the course of the first two movies,» he told The Times» John Horn last year.

Regardless of his screen time, Gunter is just one example of the movie excelling at presenting likeable, compelling characters that audiences want to see succeed.

«Lazer Team,» which is an original film that created by Rooster Teeth, marks the first time a movie created by online stars has garnered this much success theatrically among today's young audience.

At a time when audiences were still recuperating from the day - glo assault of Joel Schumacher's moronic Batman and Robin, X-Men offered reassurance that you didn't have to be on Ritalin to enjoy a comic - book movie.

Paramount Pictures Chairman & CEO Brad Grey had a lot to grin about, as he summed up his studio's success most eloquently in a press release from Paramount: «We produce pictures that aspire to entertain audiences around the world, while at the same time we have sought to find innovative ways to reach movie - goers in this changing entertainment environment,» he stated.

The movie has great time era sets pieces as the film takes the audience from a dystopian future to a realistic version of 1973 that includes wardrobe, hairstyles, and music.

Cruise has had a hard time getting audiences to flock to his movies.

Not much as changed with the idea that video game to film adaptations are never a good idea, «Silent Hill: Revelation 3D» ensures that trend, and while it's dazzling at times, it will leave an audience hungry for a better movie and experience.

By the time the movie finally arrived for its single Cannes press screening — in the Salle Bazin, one of the festival's smaller theaters — some of us in the audience found ourselves torn between tempered excitement and mounting dread.

Claimed to be «one of the scariest movies of all time», the film captivates audiences through its style of «found footage», on a camera the couple sets up by their bed to determine what is haunting them.

Time and the second week of the «Infinity War» box office reports will tell whether the cliffhanger is profitably controversial, or simply a thing designed to frustrate audiences into easing their frustration a year from now, by seeing the next «Avengers» movie.

When a franchise descends to having its own characters wink at the audience with jokes about how it's run out of ideas, and resorts to just (literally) setting things on fire, not once but twice in it's 90ish minute runtime, it's one movie past time to stop.

This movie gave a voice to an underserved audience at a time when their existence was continually devalued by people in power, and the rich metaphors of this film provide multiple layers to dig into beyond its surface appeal.

From the time vaudeville star Mae Murray arrived in Hollywood in 1916, Leonard gradually became her principal director, he abandoned his own career as a movie actor by 1918, but did make unbilled cameo appearances in later films.Murray's headstrong behavior and open contempt of the studio bosses at Famous Players - Lasky (i.e., Paramount) kept both of them on a slippery slope in this period, but her great popularity with audiences likewise kept the Murray / Leonard team employed.

Along with the trade show floor that featured the latest technological advances, concession goodies, comfort seating and more to enhance the theater audience movie going experience, each of the movie studios presented a sneak peak of their upcoming films slated for release in 2012 and beyond, many which were being seen for the very first time.

There's more going on in Bert Williams» 1965 film than audiences at the time had any right to expect from a cheap exploitation movie.

The early 1970s to the late 1980s was a unique moment in Australian cinema history; a time when censorship was reigned in and home - grown production flourished, resulting in a flurry of exploitation films — sex comedies, horror movies and action thrillers — that pushed buttons and boundaries, trampled over taste and decency, but also offered artistry within their escapism, giving audiences sights and sounds unlike anything they had seen in Australia before.

Maybe this will work, but at the same time, the movie could try and give Courtney an equal amount of the fighting, when the audiences just want to see Bruce Willis as the legendary John McClane.

If you can be in a movie where it gets the audience laughing, crying and at times, jumping out of their seats and yelling, well, that's as good as it gets.

Although Dillon was already an established star by the time he made this film, having also appeared in such movies as «Over the Edge,» «My Bodyguard» and the S.E. Hinton adaptation «Tex,» «Rumble Fish» was perhaps the first that really showed off his considerable strengths as an actor in the way that he captures all the furtive, headlong energy and emotional turmoil of Rusty as he struggles to find his place in the world without simply giving audiences the James Dean impression that others might have supplied.