Sentences with phrase «war movies where»

As well as being a child of the 1950s: newsreel after newsreel from the 1940s informed me; as well as war movies where the most awful things were evident to the viewer.

From a commercial standpoint Jarhead faced one huge obstacle: it's an action movie characterized by long periods of inaction and a war movie where the lead characters spend most of their time impatiently waiting to get their war on.

There's a line in the original Star Wars movie where Obi - Wan Kenobi tells a young Luke Skywalker, «You've taken your first step into a larger world.»

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For that to happen, Star Wars will have to break through in a usually crowded December period for movies, a month where no film has broken past $ 100 million in its opening weekend.

What is said there is out of the movie «Canadian Bacon» where Alan Alda plays the US president, up for an election and wants to be wa war time president, so whips up fury over the Canadians to rally support to him... Hilarious movie, including John Candy, Michael Moore, Rhea Perlman, Kevin Pollack, Rip Torn, Jim Belushi, Steven Wright, and many more...

«Cons» weren't widely trafficked family affairs at McCormick Place filled studded with current TV and blockbuster movie stars, they were modest gatherings in Rosemont hotels where outcasts traded VHS tapes of the fabled «Star Wars Holiday Special» and muttered about watching «C - beams glitter in the dark, near the Tannhäuser Gate.»

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.

In some ways, this movie is the antidote to the sort of «Star Wars» movie that viewers who despised the prankishly irreverent and oddly introspective «The Last Jedi» seem to have wanted: one where the payoffs to setups are italicized so that nobody can miss them, artistic license is subordinated to brand management, and every reference, no matter how small, that was so lovingly memorized by devotees of the franchise is placed under a spotlight for the audience's recognition and self - congratulation.

When thinking about the 50's you have to remember that the 50's (as any decade) varied depending on where you lived and how you were raised - and this movie comes pretty close to what real life was like for these people - they were literally trapped inside a nightmare which they (and their contemporaries) had created - it's no wonder that a few years later their children would be burning their bras and protesting wars.

Hudd devoted a great deal of effort to bringing theatrical entertainment to the factory workers and more remote villages of England during World War II, though he still managed to play roles in Major Barbara and I Know Where I'm Going, among a handful of major movies.

Such unforeseen twists reiterate the tangible tragedy of making a real - world war movie, as opposed to one where the casualties are scripted for poetic effect.

Thor: Ragnarok is important because it's your chance to meet Dr. Strange without watching that particular movie, but it also takes us up to the minute where Infinity War picks up.

There are even places where Infinity War improves on Marvel movies like making Doctor Strange a livelier hero with more interesting superpowers.

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See Also: It's such an outlier in Farrell's filmography that it's hard to know where you'd go after «Miss Julie,» especially since if you like Farrell in period duds, the further options are mostly things like the terrible «Winter's Tale» and the immensely disappointing Robert Towne movie «Ask the Dust,» along with WWII - era tales «Hart's War» and «The Way Back,» none of which we can wholeheartedly recommend.

And it will also go down as the year of «Avengers: Infinity War,» a movie with a cliffhanger, a body count and some pretty great one - liners where its Soul Stone should be.

The setting is 1940s London, where the Ministry of Information has assembled a team to make movies to help with the war effort.

After the brief narrative stop in L.A, the movie recalls the events of «Captain America: Civil War,» where Boseman first played the role of Wakandan prince T'Challa and watched his father, king T'Chaka, die in his arms.

And unless you're a huge fan of redundant dialogue that could be copied directly from any of the previous movies, that's where Underworld: Blood Wars really gets fun: in the mayhem department.

An adaptation of Thomas Cullinan's American Civil War novel, the movie is set at a girls» school in Virginia, where the young women have been sheltered from the outside world, a wounded Union soldier is taken in.

In the Smithsonian Magazine, Ted Turner is quoted as saying, 0x201CWe are making a war movie to try and get people not to like war.0 x201D At the same time an officially licensed PC game of Gods and Generals is being released where the player assumes the role of a company captain on the front lines as a first player shooter.

Movies that it beat that you could also watch: This was the year where Best Picture included three World War II movies and two ElizabethanMovies that it beat that you could also watch: This was the year where Best Picture included three World War II movies and two Elizabethanmovies and two Elizabethan ones.

The title of Spike Lee's war drama, based on the novel by James McBride, suggests a war miracle movie where all are saved by kindness or luck or divine intervention, but there is no such otherworldly benevolence here, merely the sacrifice of four black servicemen — Buffalo Soldiers — to protect the folks of a small mountain village in Tuscany surrounded by the Germans.

And even though my brother's a producer on Infinity War, those movies aren't finished yet so until we kind of see where everything lands there that's going to have some bearing on what happens with the Guardians.

The Star Wars movies have mostly kept the lines between the heroes and villains very clear and distinct, so it's cool that they're venturing into territory where things aren't so cut and dried.

(Welcome to Road to Infinity War, a new series where we revisit the first 18 movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and ask «How did we get here?»

World War Z takes a calculable, routine zombie script (take your pick from any of the «Dead» movies) and molds it with a thriller where a protagonist has to laboriously unearth a fixture to a global catastrophe (think «Contagion») to create a must - see summer blockbuster.

This is the point where Saulnier proves himself to be a master of controlled chaos, knowing when to show restraint, when to drop in moments of humor (Darcy reminds the concert crowd that «the racial advocacy workshop is on Wednesday, unless you hear otherwise»), and when to cry havoc and let loose the dogs of war — literally, in the case of the movie's throat - chomping pit bulls.

Of course, there are movies where the antagonist is more memorable and charismatic than the protagonist — No Country for Old Men, The Dark Knight, even (arguably) Star Wars.

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.

Because Wednesday, Nov. 23, will be a day well spent at the cinema, where four potentially excellent movies will be released; the Robert Zemeckis World War II thriller «Allied,» Warren Beatty's romance - comedy «Rules Don't Apply,» Disney's animated «Moana,» and a profane nightcap of «Bad Santa 2.»

«Except for Star Wars, I can't think of another movie where the same actor is playing the same part 40 years later,» she added.

«Except for Star Wars, I can't think of another movie where the same actor is playing the same part 40 years later,» Curtis added.

Afterwards, they traveled to Los Angeles where Kojima paid a visit to some of his friends to inform them about his new studio Kojima Productions: JJ Abrams, the producer and director of the recent Star Wars movie and Kyle Cooper of Prologue, a famous title sequence designed who has worked on several Metal Gear games.

Several times Gustave comes to the aid of the lobby boy (newcomer Tony Revolori), especially when soldiers in the fictional European country where the movie is set, between the wars, close the borders and start asking for papers.

Where the post-credits scenes are all about establishing the connective tissues between the movies, Infinity War is already doing that by its existence.

A new promo for Ant - Man and the Wasp has the cast of Avengers: Infinity War asking where were the two tiny heroes in the Russo Brothers» movie?

Through 12 movies, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has meticulously and carefully put all the pieces together, to where millions will turn out this summer and understand nearly every second of «Captain America: Civil War».

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening January 2, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Defiance (R for violence and profanity) Oscar - winner Edward Zwick (for Shakespeare in Love) directs this harrowing tale of survival, set in occupied Poland during World War II, recounting the heroic efforts of three brothers (Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell) who escape into the forest where they join forces with Russian resistance fighters to save over 1,000 fellow Jews from the Nazis.

[4 stars] Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (07.15 / 06.02 / 07.24) Thor: Ragnarok (10.24 / 11.03 / 10.24) The Greatest Showman (12.09 / 12.20 / 12.26) Wonderstruck (10.06 / 10.20 / TBA) I Am Not a Witch (10.03 / TBA / 10.20) Lady Bird (10.14 / 11.03 / 02.16.18) The Post (12.21 / 12.22 / 01.19.18) Coco (01.13.18 / 11.22 / 01.19.18) The Ritual (10.02 / direct to Netflix / 10.13) Icarus (02.27.17 / direct to Netflix / direct to Netflix) Bushwick (10.25 / 08.25 / 08.25) Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (10.11 / 12.29 / 11.17) Spider - Man: Homecoming (07.05 / 07.07 / 07.05) Another Mother's Son (02.21 / TBA / 03.24) Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts (89th Academy Awards)(02.20 / 02.08 / direct to VOD) Personal Shopper (10.09.16 / 03.10 / 03.17) The Survivalist (04.19.16 / 05.19 / 02.12.16) God Knows Where I Am (04.07 / 03.31 / 04.14) The Salesman (01.31 / 01.27 / 03.17) Raw (04.04 / 03.01 / 04.07) The Beguiled (06.20 / 06.23 / 07.14) The Party (10.09 / 02.16.18 / 10.13) Step (07.21 / 08.04 / 08.11) God's Own Country (08.07 / 10.27 / 09.01) Menashe (12.11 / 07.28 / 12.08) The Divine Order (10.14 / 10.27 / 03.08.17) Borg vs McEnroe (09.11 / 04.13.18 / 09.22) My Pure Land (09.12 / TBA / 09.15) The Unknown Girl (12.02.16 / 08.25 / 12.02.16) Pecking Order (08.24 / direct to VOD / 09.29) Jane (11.12 / 10.20 / 11.24) Good Time (10.05 / 08.11 / 11.17) The Commune (05.28 / 05.19 / 07.29.16) Lost in London (04.30 / TBA / 05.05) The Fencer (Miekkailija)(11.30 / 07.21 / 12.24.16) The Great Wall (02.16 / 02.17 / 02.16) The Chamber (01.18 / 02.23.18 / 03.10) Motherland (10.15 / 09.08 / TBA) The Light of the Moon (10.31 / 11.01 / TBA) Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (11.18 / 11.24 / 03.09) Victoria & Abdul (09.12 / 09.22 / 09.15) Wind River (07.20 / 08.04 / 09.08) Urban Hymn (08.01.16 / 05.12 / 09.30.16) The Women's Balcony (Ismach Hatani)(07.06 / 05.26 / TBA) Pilgrimage (07.28 / 08.11 / direct to VOD) Megan Leavey (aka Rex)(06.19 / 06.09 / direct to VOD) Final Portrait (08.18 / 03.23.18 / 08.18) Finding Kim (05.29 / 05.31 / TBA) Through the Wall (aka The Wedding Plan)(05.28 / 05.12 / 12.16.16) The Zookeeper's Wife (04.22 / 03.31 / 04.21) Dolores (09.09 / 09.01 / TBA) Queen of the Desert (04.03 / 04.07 / direct to VOD) Catfight (02.22 / 03.03 / 03.10) Viceroy's House (02.17 / 09.01 / 03.03) Birthright: A War Story (07.21 / 07.14 / direct to VOD)

Now here comes the movie, a fantasy epic set in the land of Azeroth, where an ages - old war between humans and orcs is about to spiral out of control.

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The movie, another based on another first book in yet another series of books aimed at a young audience, is very clear about its five - tier arrangement of a futuristic society where the only apparent survivors of a massive war reside in and just outside a Chicago that appears to have missed out on most of the conflict.

Where the movie succeeds, though, is presenting such turmoil from the perspective of this mess of a seasoned war photographer.

Given that it's the last movie before Avengers: Infinity War debuts in May, we theorized that Black Panther would be where we discover the last of the six Infinity Stones, the orange - colored Soul Stone, but that's not the case.

Guillermo del Toro's romantic fantasy about a mute young woman and the sea creature held in captivity at the Cold War laboratory where she works was a lovely and touching movie.

Since all that is known of the visit is that Elvis just showed up one day, this movie makes up a scenario where a somewhat unstable King shows up offering to help Nixon put an end to the drug war.

Comicbook.com recently spoke to Star Wars: The Last Jedi star Kelly Marie Tran at the AARP Movie Awards, where The Last Jedi won the Best Movie for Grownups Award.

At the film's press junket, James Corden, Rose Byrne, Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie and Elizabeth Debicki spoke at a conference about finding their character's voice, working opposite CGI characters that weren't really there, Flopsy's lisp, the similarities between General Hux (in the Star Wars films) and Mr. McGregor, the mystery of why these rabbits where jackets, and what they would like children to learn from seeing this movie.

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