However, the original Japanese version of the movie doesn't have a central character of any sort to anchor the story; even Godzilla himself seems to be a bit actor in his own movie, walking in and out of scenes almost randomly.
But rather than an awakening to some creative idea or passionate project, it feels like investor's alarm clocks woke them to the huge popularity of The Force Awakens and attempted to shoot out
a version of the movie done in Lego six months after the film released.
Not exact matches
Analysts knew the film
version of the book would
do well, but they didn't quite expect this: The Hunger Games raked in US$ 152.5 million on its opening weekend, the third - best for any
movie, ever.
That sentiment is expressed in the top rated comment on IGN's
version of this story: «It is in fact the smartest thing EVER
done for a video game
movie,» writes KDonivan.
Ms. Streisand will be
doing it in a
movie version of Larry Kramer's play The Normal Heart.
Shalit tells us that in 1994 she rushed off to see the new
movie version of Little Women, only to discover that our hidden cultural censors, fearful
of anything that
does not cohere with prevailing orthodoxy, had expunged one
of «the best lines» in the story, when Marmee says: «To be loved by a good man is the best and sweetest thing which can happen to a woman; and I sincerely hope my girls may know this beautiful experience.»
I don't care if they decided to show what seems to be a slightly different and extended
version of that in theaters, and call it a
movie, but I can still and I
do respect Conor tremendously, as a person and fighter.
No matter how it got
done, I for one am glad it
did, and I can't wait to see how the extended
version of James Harrison's
movie ends in the postseason.
First
of all, we recently
did a
version of this when I was out
of town for work - it was the perfect time for me to enjoy a
movie in the theater, and since our son was staying at his grandparents» for part
of the time I was gone, my lonesome husband also went to see the same
movie back home, then we had a nice phone discussion
of it!
Faith comes at quite a steep price in both the 1966 and 1988
versions of the
movie — Bratton doesn't tell Esquire which he prefers.
My Bride
of Frankenstein Halloween makeup tutorial wasn't inspired by that
movie, from 1910 but rather by the same
movie that had a remade in 1931, don't confuse the 1931
version with the later
version from 1935.
Maybe that's why the
movie swept the Golden Globes and is sure to
do the same at the Oscars — not because it's revolutionary, but because Hollywood is infatuated with the rose - tinted
version of itself Chazelle provides.
As a bonus, Porter's «From This Moment On,» not written for the 1948 theatrical
version of + Kiss Me, Kate, but performed in the 1954
movie version, is herein revived to give poor old Harrison Howell something to
do besides get laughs.
That
done, his team have quite literally reworked the entire
movie - reframing some shots, recolouring most
of them, and generally spending an enormous amount
of time making sure that this is the definitive
version of the film for home video, both on DVD and on future higher - definition formats.
It's only a matter
of time before hollywood
does a big budget, computerized - effects
version of this
movie starring Shia LeBouf or Zach Effron as Abu.
What they meant was that Polly
did not resemble the 1960 Hayley Mills
movie version of Pollyanna, which itself played fast and loose with the source material.
Sad to say, the rumored intensity
of the play» «night Mother» is not on display in this filmed
version that
does not translate particularly well to the screen as it feels like just another made for television
movie of the period.
This
movie accurately portrays all
of the emotions
of the musical; although, regrettably, it only hints at the concept
of a dirty, gritty New York without fully embracing it, as the stage
version did.
The whole affair feels like the second
movie in a trilogy because it
does the whole «hero fights an evil
version of themselves» storyline, which doesn't work when we don't really know our hero.
As a revenge thriller, the
movie is serviceable, but it doesn't really deliver the delicious guilty pleasure
of the better film
versions.
If anyone else were
doing this, you'd hear about it and say, «A
movie version of «The Polar Express»?
Indeed, it is a uniquely dreamlike, lushly romantic, highly erotic and prototypically Coppolaesque
version of the story - a
movie that
does for the vampire genre what «The Godfather»
did for the gangster saga, and what «Apocalypse Now»
did for the war
movie: raises it to the level
of grand opera.
It's intimate, as an autobiography ought to be, but co-directors Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud also manage to give it a panoramic scale: While the
movie doesn't attempt to be an Iranian history lesson, it
does capture the way people's lives can be both drastically changed and yet, in some ways, remain defiantly unchanged when their government subverts everything they believe in, using God — or some
version of God — as its chief weapon.
The
movie isn't a groundbreaker — it's a British
version of what John Hughes was
doing in the»80s.
Spielberg was first attached to this project in 2014, when he was close to directing a
movie version, but Amblin has expanded it to a TV miniseries «so it can
do justice to the scope
of the epic story.»
I don't usually
do horror
movies, but I've been really excited about this
version of the iconic Stephen King novel.
Thunderbirds owes more to films like Spy Kids and the
movie version of Lost in Space than it
does to the original television series, so if you like slickly - made family sci - fi schlock targeted at the youngest
of the audience members, you may not mind this mostly inferior knock - off.
They'll be showing six different Ghibli
movies (the best
of the best) in total, in both subtitled and dubbed
versions, on screens all across the country (so you don't have to drive 6 hours away just to see them - or maybe you will anyway).
It's not just kind
of latex and a costume; it would be a motion - capture performance
of the monster — I can give away maybe not too much by saying there's more than one in our
version — and then I would go to Europe, shoot the
movie,
do scenes with the real actors and I would be able to see the motion - captured monster in real time due to SimulCam, so yes that is our technological VFX paradigm for Frankenstein.»
It ends with a title card that states «A Paul Schrader Film,» but it is such in name only — a
version of the
movie that neither Schrader nor Refn (who retains an executive producer credit) nor Cage endorse or have
done anything to promote, assembled by a team
of producers without the input
of Schrader or the film's credited editor, Tim Silano.
She is this
movie's
version of James Bond's Q, except that she
does not just provide the cool gadgets; she invents them.
If you're a stickler for the most up - to - date stuff, you might want to hold off, or
of course go with the Blu - ray
version, if you don't already have that; if you're a less discerning fan who just wants a copy
of the (new) biggest
movie of all - time to revisit at your leisure, well, this release works fine.
Although coined by many as the female
version of The Hangover, and there are certainly similarities, this
does the
movie a certain injustice.
Just sticking to relatively recent television (as opposed to something like the
movie version of From Hell), The Alienist arrives after The Knick and Boardwalk Empire featured a New York only slightly further in the future, Peaky Blinders and Penny Dreadful have
done the same across the pond (the latter featuring an alienist character
of its own), and Netflix's Mindhunter tackled the»70s codification
of the kinds
of criminal profiling that Kreizler fumbles about with here.
While the base
version of Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 already features a playable side - story from the «future» arc, Road to Boruto will expand on the lore
of new series similar to how the Boruto
movie and manga series
does currently.
Also new on DVD: M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender (Paramount), an adaptation
of the animated TV series and one
of the most critically reviled films
of the year, the feature film
version of Beverly Cleary's Ramona And Beezus (Fox), Cats & Dogs: The Revenge
of Kitty Galore (Warner), Marina de Van's Don't Look Back (IFC) with Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci, The Lightkeepers (Image) with Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner, Lau Kar - Leung's classic martial arts
movie Shaolin Mantis (Vivendi) and the newly remastered The Endless Summer: Director's Special Edition (Monterey).
To compare a
movie to another isn't the best thing to
do, but when director Joseph Kahn states his intentions
of making a «piss - take»
version of F&F, it is impossible not to.
Waititi doesn't seem to give a damn about answering questions from previous
movies or setting up the next big thing — Avengers: Infinity War (May) will follow Black Panther (February)-- and that's the beginning
of the end for this
version of the MCU.
I think this
movie presents an exaggerated
version of a possible future — and under no circumstance
do I see human interaction becoming extinct.
The musical parts
of the
movie are the best part, the soundtracks mostly made up
of Dylan covers from around the world, though he gets the band together to
do a few numbers himself, including a great
version of Dixie.
Well, maybe, but only if we accept the sanitized
version of the decade that gave us rock and roll and the beats — the declawed, gutless, and thoroughly superficial take passed down by Happy Days and the
movie that inspired it, American Graffiti, which was exactly the sort
of film that Linklater said he didn't want to make when he set out to write and direct Dazed and Confused.
There are a few deleted scenes that didn't make it into the final
version of the
movie.
I'm sure that the excursion - to - a-Coney-Island-day-at-the-beach scenes in the 1941 comedy «The Devil And Miss Jones» or the 1959 «Imitation
of Life,» as Hollywoodized as they were, presented more realistic
versions of such excursions than this
movie does — I mean, Coney Island is / was a lot
of things, but lyrical is not one
of them.
Though the film's basis as a big - screen
version of Peter M. Lenkov's 2001 comic
of the same name doesn't disprove its borrowings from either source
of similar material, such associations might actually work in the feature's favour; indeed, the resemblance to both ranks among the
movie's few highlights.
The fleet - footed
movie version of Catching Fire, directed by Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend), captures the spirit
of its book even better than the last film
did.
Since both films well pre-date the preservationist era
of film - as - art - and - heritage — Greed was released in 1925, The Magnificent Ambersons in 1942 — they have suffered the further indignity
of being unreconstructible; studios back in those days didn't hang on to excised footage for the sake
of future director's cuts on DVD, so the reels upon reels
of nitrate film trimmed from the original
versions were — depending on which
movie you're talking about and which story you believe — burned, thrown in the garbage, dumped into the Pacific, or simply left to decompose in the vaults.»
When I started the
movie, Al and Chris told me that they had
done a reading a few years earlier
of a different
version of the script.
If you look at «The Hand That Rocks The Cradle» and «Fatal Attraction» and all
of those genre
movies, what I wanted to
do was a contemporary
version of those
movies, where you really understand all the characters, and steep it in plausibility.
There's another
version of the
movie where everyone is more anonymous, but I didn't think it served the story any better.
It doesn't help that the ordinarily great Mann is an unconvincing leading lady here, perhaps realizing she already made a better
version of this
movie called Funny People.