Sentences with phrase «war fantasy film»
Director Guillermo del Toro «s (Pan's Labyrinth) cold war fantasy film, The Shape of Water.
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I felt Pan's Labyrinth did the same, albeit on a higher level: I went to excited to see a film which combined mythology with the Spanish Civil War, but while the mythical creatures were fantastic, the historical portrait was cartoonish and hence the tension between «reality» and fantasy was slack.
MovieMan, In Pan's Labyrinth it didn't bother me, because the Spanish Civil War was approached more like an atypical backdrop for a fantasy movie, unlike in District 9, where the film purports itself to be an allegory by having Johannesburg as the setting.
A violent fantasy set during the Spanish Civil War, this magical film from Guillermo del Toro manages that intellectual high - mindedness, even as it resonates on a primal, mythic level.
and was introduced to a broad American audience in Quentin Tarantino's World War II fantasy «Inglourious Basterds,» playing the scene - stealing role of a Nazi sniper turned propaganda film star.
It's uncertain if the film even has a firm opinion of our sitting president, for with Sawyer's reductive preachings about a stereotypical black upbringing, and actions to end a «limitless war on terror» that plainly contradict current events, the movie is both a simplistic Obama insult and an aspirational Obama fantasy (and if you don't think it's channeling our real - life president, look no further than the Easter egg of Nicorette gum, which Sawyer keeps in his own nightstand).
Ignoring the absurd idea that somehow the Korean resistance to the Japanese was a key to the winning of the war (which the film explicitly states at one point), the creation of noble resistance heroes (even when sometimes compromised) versus the evil Japanese villain is pure escapist nonsense that passes itself off as realism instead of the Tarantino-esque fantasy it actually is.
Brilliantly blending fantasy with the harsh reality of post-Civil War Spain, del Toro has created a multi-layered film that's rich in detail and emotion.
There was a time a decade or so ago when Spielberg, in his fantasy films, shucked his transcendent Pollyannaism and concocted scabrous, scary dystopias like «War of the Worlds» and «Minority Report.»
Following up his performance in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, in which he played Koba, Kebbell stars in director Duncan Jones «fantasy film as Durotan, a noble orc more interested in peace than war.
As writer and director, Lucas unabashedly uses «Star Wars» to pay tribute to all the grand adventure films ever made, be they westerns, swashbucklers, fantasies or space operas.
In other words, Boll's latest evokes the form but not the content of such film series as Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean and Star Wars, which means that few if any fantasy fans will be deceived into believing that Dungeon Siege is a legitimate endeavor rather than the same everything - must - go yard sale of clichés and familiar formulas the director mined for his previous work.
Not only are «Get Out,» «The Shape of Water» and «Blade Runner 2049» some of the very best films of 2017, but from the no - budget indie realm («Prevenge,» «A Ghost Story,» «Transfiguration,» «Raw») to expensive studio epic scale («War for the Planet of the Apes,» «Kong: Skull Island») and newly blazed ground out of the predominantly formulaic superhero («Logan,» «Wonder Woman,» «LEGO Batman») and Star Wars («The Last Jedi») factory farms, fantasy filmmakers tried their hardest to be smart, visually adroit, sometimes startlingly innovative and — strangest of all for this escapist format — humanely, emotionally credible.
The film opens on the island of Themyscira, a paradise island created by the god Zeus and hidden from the real world by a protective shield, and the film stays there for a while as we follow Diana from curious little girl to fully trained warrior princess but once Steve Trevor's fighter plane crashes there and Diana realises there is a war being fought in world she does not know of that is not too far away then we swiftly get brought into London in 1918 and this shift from fantasy into a «real world» scenario gives the film a greater sense of depth, and when combined with characters that you actually care about then Wonder Woman is head and shoulders above all of the other DCEU movies on the strength of that alone.
The new Netflix film has been touted as a gritty urban fantasy, where humans and orcs are entangled in a bitter species war on the streets of Los Angeles.
As grownups those two remain as besotted with the military — or at least, the military of their war - film fantasies — as they were when they battled with toy guns.
Synopsis: The film is set in a fantasy world where the four elements of earth, air, water, and fire can be controlled through martial arts called bending, and the ruthless flame - manipulating Fire Nation is waging war to control the other nations of the world.
From his attention - grabbing debut with «Reservoir Dogs» (1992), a deviously clever heist film where the heist is never seen and the drama is all in the conversation and the ingenious structure, to his acclaimed «Inglourious Basterds» (2009), his thrilling rewrite of World War II history as a magnificent movie fantasy, Tarantino has gone his own way, snatching up ideas strewn through decades of film history and hundreds of genre movies like a magpie, rethinking them completely, and weaving them into entirely new stories that unfold at a leisurely pace so he can enjoy every word and gesture along the journey.
Next is «The Wind Rises,» Miyazaki's latest tale which takes a slight diversion from his more whimsical fantasy films to tell the real - life story Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed the Zero fighter plane that was used during World War II, and infamously during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
«Sylvie et le fantôme» (1946): With this film, conceived during the occupation and released after the war, Claude Autant - Lara entered the realm of pure fantasy, marrying a playful script, artful special effects, and wistful performances.
When Marvel is willing to really embrace genre — for example, when Thor felt like an»80s fantasy, or Captain America felt like a 70s political thriller (or 40s war film)-- I think they are at their best.
The grand old man of Japanese animation has retired and this film, not a fantasy or mythical adventure but a delicate biographical drama about an idealistic engineer devoted to making «beautiful airplanes» for a country he knows will use them as instruments of war, is his final feature.
Adapted by writer - director Miyazaki from the children's book by British fantasy author Diana Wynne Jones, the film is a richly layered reflection on unreasoning patriotism, fealty to the state, war for war's sake and technology versus mysticism and nature.
by Walter Chaw For me, the James Bond films are the literalization of a very particular Conservative fantasy in which a suave, quippy, emotionally - arrested sociopath battles Cold War foes, beds beautiful women without consequence, always has the latest technology, and engages in the endless murder of foreigners.
In 2018, Disney has a number of films up for release, which includes MCU, Star Wars» Han Solo spinoff film, and a few fantasy and animated films for which Disney is really famous for.
It would be more correctly categorized in the war fantasy genre shared by films such as Jack Starrett's «The Losers» (1970) or Quentin Tarantino's «Inglorious Basterds.»
In this time of dark fantasy films («Snow White and the Huntsman,» «Prometheus «-RRB-, violent war dramas («For Greater Glory «-RRB- and bland adult comedies («What to Expect When You're Expecting,» «Lola Versus «-RRB-, it's refreshing to see a fun, colorful movie the whole family can enjoy together.
10:00 pm — IFC — Pan's Labyrinth One of my absolute favorite films of the past decade (or ever, really), an absolutely beautiful and terrifying fantasy that juxtaposes the gruesome horrors of the Spanish Civil War with an equally horrifying fantasy world that provides, if not escape, at least some measure of importance and control to the film's young heroine.
HOLLYWOOD — «The Shape of Water,» a Cold War fantasy about a mute woman who falls in love with a humanoid sea creature, won the Oscar for best picture Sunday at the 90th Academy Awards, a ceremony laced with social and political statements, particularly on the issues of diverse representation and sexual assault in the film industry.
12:00 M — Sundance — Pan's Labyrinth One of my absolute favorite films of the past decade (or ever, really), an absolutely beautiful and terrifying fantasy that juxtaposes the gruesome horrors of the Spanish Civil War with an equally horrifying fantasy world that provides, if not escape, at least some measure of importance and control to the film's young heroine.
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On the silicone sheets were compositions of SFX transfer scars used in the making of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014), the sequel to the fantasy war film 300 (2007).