Sentences with phrase «turning point of the movie»

Good to see someone else caught it and laughed, because that was the turning point of the movie when I started to let down my guard and enjoy myself.

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Thus, «giant chunks of space debris clobbering the planet and wiping out life on Earth has undeniably broad appeal,» Meltzer says, whereas «no one in Hollywood makes movies» about more nuanced explanations, such as Clovis points disappearing because early Americans turned to other forms of stone tool technology as the large mammals they were hunting went extinct as a result of the changing climate or hunting pressure.

In what could be a turning point for both the porn industry as well as the adult dating sector, Kayden Kross, former adult movie star is now at the helms of Arrangement Finders, a sugar daddy dating site.

According to U-571, Americans captured the first German Engima machine in 1944 that brought about the turning point of the war; in reality, the Polish revolutionaries (why didn't Wajda get a chance to make this into a movie) stole it from the Germans in 1941 and gave it to the British who struggled to decipher its complicated encoding style.

As necessary as a history lesson we've forgotten and as timely as the day's latest Trump or sexual harassment (or both) scandal, «The Post» is a newspaper movie about a turning point in political history and the legacy of the news organization whose motto in these trying days is «Democracy Dies in Darkness.»

The movie turns us all into victims and Friedkin makes this point most demonstrably during a courtroom sequence in which he points out to the jurors that it took each of the victims three minutes to die.

It also casually demonizes the Koreans, though it has someone speaking Mandarin to them at some point, so... Lucy plays like the cinematic manifestation of two kids having a conversation about what they'd like to see in a movie starring Scarlett Johansson: «So she gets smarter and then she knows gun - fu and then she turns into an oil blob.»

Peter Berg's Patriots Day earned solid reviews when it hit theaters last year, but the way that movie invented a single character who appeared at all of the major turning points of the 2013 Boston bombing struck me as disingenuous.

(The ad campaign turned that into a selling point, with the tag line: «Can you believe they made a movie of Lolita?»)

First the dagger only turns back time for a few minutes so you really never get a sense of what the point is — until the big plot reveals itself in the last part of the movie.

The fucking story in the trailer is the same as in the movie, and what's the point of seeing the movie then, when we know how the movie will turn out to be storywise?

With two of the five Best Actress slots probably locked - up (if you give one to Huffman and another to Gwyneth Paltrow's non-descript turn in the Miramax dump Proof), the Weinsteins go for three with perennial nominee Dame Judi Dench as the titular theatre - owner in Stephen Frears's Mrs. Henderson Presents, one of those bland, inoffensive, boring British movies about the British theatre (like Topsy - Turvy, perhaps, or, more to the point, Shakespeare in Love).

Though it would take a purist pedant to legitimately lament the evolution of colour stock as a negative turning point in film history, there's no doubt something was lost in Technicolor's takeover as monochrome movies moved from mainstream to niche, and the basic joy of black and white became impossible to appreciate without express attention.

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These random acts of strangeness are literred throughout the extremely dark narrative which eventually takes a turn for the even darker plot - point 50 minutes in which steers the movie into a completely different direction, very much for the better.

Before going any further, before my bias toward the Kiwi's new movie renders me a totally unreliable resource, I should point out that this is the same director who made Vertical Limit, the face - palming result of woefully apparent and inadequate research that turned the rock climbing community into the laughingstock of audiences everywhere.

Erbland points out that the trailer doesn't deviate at all from any other Sparks movie trailer, and that's precisely why it works and why fans of «The Notebook» and other Sparks adaptations will turn up in droves.

Sure its beautifully polished from an aesthetics stand point, with rich and beautiful production design by Scott Chambliss, but little else to grab onto in terms of a script or just a normal comfort adventure movie, Bird's film turns out to be his most ambitious failure.

Thus, we view the movie not only from her point of view but also through the other characters — including the woman running an anger management group meeting who turns out to be a psychotic killer.

Gillan is particularly funny in how she turns the generically bad - ass video - game heroine on its head, providing the movie's most pointed criticism toward some of the medium's sexist trends within her performance.

Prometheus is a movie that forces you to be intellectually invested, but not to the point of exhaustion and, in turn, delivers a remarkably enthralling experience.

Breathless is such a monument of a movie, such a turning point in film history, that it's easy to forget just how much fun it is.

But «Frances Ha» turned out to be yet another turning point for Baumbach: a warm, fizzy confection of a movie that could almost be called musical in its rhythms.

I watched the movie in the company of a friend who worked on it, and at one point I turned to him and whispered, «How did you make six more hours of this?»

Its cultural impact can not be denied — years from now, a generation of black men and women will point to it as (hopefully) a turning point, a moment when Hollywood and comic book movies made something that was truly for them, for the first time (no disrespect, Blade).

I pointed out yesterday that Fox Searchlight is operating on a different plane when it comes to turning out the vote for its movies, and alongside the aforementioned surprise little hit of the final quarter of 2007 ($ 85 million and counting), further evidence arrives in the form of Tamara Jenkins» The Savages, which, despite not (yet) having connected at the box office (it's made only $ 3.6 million in a month and a half of release), garnered an expected Best Original Screenplay nomination, but also a Best Actress nod for Laura Linney, probably coming at the expense of Angelina Jolie and A Mighty Heart.

The movie plays a little ret - conning by changing their conversation from a cool endnote on Supremacy into the turning point at the end of Ultimatum «s second act.

That notion is a key to understanding the oddness of the movie's final turn, when, all of a sudden, it becomes an outright fantasy seen, of course, from Moonnee's point of view.

This could be the beginning of something massive, and like Assassin's Creed, could be a turning point for the video game movie genre.

«When the Coens cast me in their movie, my life took a huge turn because all I had really done was theater up to that point,» Stuhlbarg, 49, says of his experience on A Serious Man, the cosmically dark masterpiece in which the actor, playing the besieged Minnesota patriarch Larry Gopnik, shrank under a storm of professional and personal ruin.

I haven't seen its predecessor, Escanaba in da Moonlight (2001)-- based on Daniels's play, which he produced at his own 160 - seat theater in Chelsea, Michigan, the Purple Rose (named after the Woody Allen movie The Purple Rose of Cairo, which Daniels has cited as a turning point in his career).

Good Kill is a unique war movie that looks at today's drone warfare from the point of view of Tom Egan, a former combat pilot turned drone pilot, and asks just what does today's warfare mean?

The Dark Tower is full of weird, complicated twists and turns, plus a couple of important plot points that simply aren't movie - friendly.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is one such movie that, given the beneficial hindsight of 20 or 30 years, will be seen as a turning point for a generation.

They add even more to Samara's back story, the movie at one point turning into a subpar melding of Rosemary's Baby, Room and 10 Cloverfield Lane, its supposed surprises so obvious they might as well be accompanied by giant blinking neon lights.

To say that this is not a movie to everyone's tastes is to understate the point; Swiss Army Man leans into its vulgar absurdity at every turn, beginning with a triumphant opening scene of Dano riding Radcliffe's corpse across the water like a speedboat — powered, of course, by his ass wind — and only getting more gonzo from there.

Preaching is part of the movie, and that is handled well, as are the turning points in Nat's life.

It certainly was not, but it was a fantastic movie that will mark a turning point in how future Star Wars movies will be shaped — which will, in its way, shape the future of sci - si film in general.

Noting the dearth of black superheroes, both in comic books and the art world, Bradford points to the success of movies like «Wonder Woman» and «Black Panther» as a cultural turning point.

Before Comer took the podium, art historian Gloria Sutton spoke at length about Stan VanDerBeek, a graduate of 1950s Black Mountain College who built the infamous Movie - Drome, a grain silo turned multimedia screening room, in his Stony Point, NY, backyard.

As it turns out, the plot point of an endless number of horror movies and one notable TV show is true: Death can have a big impact on a property's value.

«The Sony attack, I believe, in many ways was a turning point... to attack a private company for engaging in freedom of expression around not a terribly popular movie.»