Sentences with phrase «violent movie about»

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The other is the concern people express about the morally damaging effect television, videos and movies are having on people, particularly those that are heavy in sexual or violent content.

People who watch lots of movies about murder and violence, often become more violent.

If they encounter a scary or violent scene from a movie or read about one in a book, it can stay on kids» minds for a very long time.

It was refreshing to see an AI movie that was not about violent robots and raised many interesting AI issues in the broader public sphere — such as scalability (dating at massive scale), the realistic and sad aspect of human loneliness being filled by machines (already happening in China via chatbots) and the issues that arise as AI surpasses human intelligence.

What's clear is that Gibson has made a film about family, faith, love and forgiveness all put to the test in an arena of violent conflict - a movie you don't want to miss.

(Think Emily Blunt and a cigarette lighter...) The movie also finds its emotional core in that dilapidated old farmhouse, and, rather gracefully for such a hard - charging, violent film, slowly becomes a story about the cyclical effects of neglect and regret.

In the most pivotal, unforgettable scene, Jen holes up in a cave to engage in a ritual you know from almost every movie ever made about violent heroism: She has to patch herself up.

May not be a complete success, but it is in some ways that rarest of commodities in American movies: It is a movie about sex and sexuality, in its many perversions and permutations, done without falling back on an exploitatively comic or violent scenario.

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.

This additional information about the movie's content is taken from the notes of various Canadian Film Classification boards: Violence: - Violent acts shown in with realistic detail, blood and tissue damage.

So says professional killer Jackie Cogan at one point in Killing Them Softly, the third film by New Zealander Andrew Dominik - and considering the filmmaker's efforts to establish a connection between the events in the movie and the economic crisis started in the late 2000s thanks to the greed and lack of scruples of Wall Street, it is easy to see Cogan as an ordinary employee of any company complaining about the lack of vision of his bosses and, on the other hand, the big bankers as Armani - dressing versions of the violent mobsters who inhabit the crime section of the newspapers.

And with Harvey Weinstein backing his every move (though he has suggested the opposite lately, at least in terms of violent movies), Tarantino can continue to write sprawling and unconventional genre movies and not worry about traditional concerns about length, pace, etc..

Inserting a smart - talking kid into a movie about two violent dorks is a rough job, but Black uses it well here.

While watching this boring movie, I did begin to wonder about the mask in this movie being taken over by real life internet hackers — whatever happened to the liberal idea of how movies DO N'T influence people, especially how violent movies don't influence people?

It feels odd to say this about a movie as violent and funny as Seven Psychopaths, but my favorite parts were when it almost made me cry.

For a thriller about cannibals, this Mexican film is more of an unsettlingly violent drama than an all - out horror movie.

WHY: There's something oddly appealing about a movie that encourages you to turn off your brain for 90 minutes while a gun - toting badass takes down a bunch of bad guys in extremely violent fashion.

Suzy, who alternates between immersion in young adult novels about magical orphans and violent outbursts against her parents and her schoolmates, carries the modern world (the movie is set in 1965) with her in the form of a portable record player and a single Françoise Hardy recording.

A + The Hunger Games Rated PG - 13 for intense violent thematic material and disturbing images — all involving teens Available on DVD and Blu - ray With the Hunger Games books being the supposed next best thing since the Twilight series, I was incredibly skeptical about how good the teen - crazed movie could be.

Even by Ben Wheatley's genre - busting standards, this film is a triumph, centring on comedy and romance in a road movie about two violent serial killers.

The more I try to make the character come to life in the movie and depict what he's really about deep inside, that's when the movie tends to become violent.

There's stuff about snuff videos, as well as a fairly violent shootout in a warehouse that puts an exclamation point on the movie's themes about sins of the fathers and legacies of violence.

No matter the quality of Gibson's performance therein, the film's dissection of a fractured soul can only reinforce audience reservations about a screen icon now better known for obscene and violent telephone calls than manic action movie roles and Oscar - winning epics.

Also written by Chandor, A Most Violent Year sounds like the most boring movie ever about the most dry industry ever.

However people may respond to Funny Games, it might have better served the goal of getting viewers to think about consuming screen violence if Haneke had stood mute, resisting interviews or explanatory publicity, and let the movie — a representation of the reality of violent movies — speak for itself.

It is just the most amazing thing to watch: «The World's End» becomes a totally different kind of movie about halfway through — intense, paranoid, violent — yet maintains the dry, rapid - fire wit that made its earlier scenes such a joy to watch.

They may be less enthralled by the strange cocktail offered up here by director David Leitch (the two John Wick movies), which plays at being be an ambitious espionage thriller — it's set in 1989 Berlin as the wall is about to fall — but is happy to drop everything to watch Theron indulge in the brutal black comedy of violent beat - downs.

Writer - director J.C. Chandor makes movies about people in danger of drowning — morally so in the Wall Street snake pit of «Margin Call,» literally so in the sea saga «All Is Lost,» and now financially in «A Most Violent Year.»

Unlike many other science fiction movies, the action scenes are never gratuitously violent (see: The Colony) or lapse into uninvolving videogame - style action (see that unnecessary 300 sequel and about 80 % of all Hollywood action movies made nowadays).

Casting Johnny Depp in any movie is always a little risky, particularly from a financial perspective, but with abusers and harassers in Hollywood currently facing a reckoning, it seems like a matter of time before people start talking about the rumors of Depp's physically violent behavior once again.

The fact A Most Violent Year can have those timely connections now is why saying less and showing more about «what your movie means» can be so valuable for a film of this kind.

Andrew takes a licking and keeps on ticking in one of the most emotionally violent movies ever made about the birthing of a musical artist.

They manage to be surprisingly procedural, unimaginative, and bland for trillion - dollar movies about violent deities who wear beautiful costumes.

Plus, the fact that this movie goes from a simple story about a bunch of psychopaths kidnapping dogs for extra cash into something as ridiculous as a deliriously violent showdown in the middle of the desert makes it that much more viciously entertaining and unpredictable.