Sentences with phrase «war movies without»

Visually poetic, darkly humorous, uncompromisingly brutal, and subversive in every way, Full Metal Jacket is easily one of the best war movies without being remotely similar to your standard issue war flick.

Unlike Gladiator or Kingdom Of Heaven or GI Jane, it's a war movie without any pretension of any kind of larger meaning.

Is a Star Wars movie really a Star Wars movie without Warwick Davis?

Not exact matches

If we want to liken what Jesus did to a movie, it is not a «Good Cop, Bad Cop» scene we should imagine, but Chuck Norris breaking Prisoners of War out of a military prison camp — except without all the shooting and killing.

It doesn't matter whether a movie explores the atrocities of war, glorifies war, or even pokes fun at war — I just can't sit through ninety minutes of human beings blowing each other to pieces without facing the temptation to give up on the goodness of God altogether.

Most characters without lines in Star Wars movies are either bounty hunters or bureaucrats.

Seeing the movie Concussion is like seeing the new Star Wars movie, Omalu: The Force Awakens without watching the six previous films.

His little particles coalesce into swirling, malevolent clouds, but their intelligence maxes out at roughly the IQ of a Nazi without a speaking part in a war movie, just another evil presence for his heroes to outrun and outfox.

All those movies I just mentioned are quite likely at least a little bit better than this one, but «World War Z» is without question the biggest thing ever done in this genre.

I was unnerved by the hurtling strangeness of the Philadelphia scenes, and I say this as someone who has sat through such war - of - the - worlds extravaganzas as «The Avengers» and the new Superman movie, «Man of Steel,» without feeling so much as a tingle.

It takes ba ** s to come right after Avengers: Infinity War, one of the biggest superhero movies of all time and sh ** on its star power by presenting a film that's more entertaining, engaging, relatable and immersive (without relying on 3D).

Paul Bettany's crime boss Dryden Vos might be the first major player in a «Star Wars» movie to make no impression at all, but the actor was probably doing the best he could under the circumstances; he replaced Michael Kenneth Williams, who was not available for reshoots and was originally cast as a CGI character, so he was probably playing somebody who had to be rewritten on the fly without damaging the surrounding narrative architecture.

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.

A brash, effects - laden tribute to all those alien invasion movies of the 1950s (just try watching the original «War of the Worlds» without spotting the countless similarities), Roland Emmerich's ultimate mindless actioner is arguably as close you'll get to a perfect textbook merging of old fashioned sci - fi with modern day big - budget fanfaring.

Gary Oldman has reportedly pulled out of the next Star Wars movie because it is being made without agreement from members of the powerful Hollywood thespian union, the Screen Actors Guild.

Want to talk about Infinity War without spoiling the Avengers movie for others?

The movie's old school conception of heroism and values wouldn't work without some nifty writing — Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely's script makes it clear Steve wants to go to war not to kill the enemy but to keep some other poor soul being killed — and a great central performance by Chris Evans's, who sublimates all the cockiness he displayed in Fantastic Four (and then expertly lampooned in Scott Pilgrim).

Finally to once more capitalize on Infinity War hype without actually using anything from the movie, a standalone comics version of Thanos is also on the way, complete with both an alternate, Infinity Gauntlet - clad hand, and a smiling face for good measure.

Having emerged from the award season with little more than nominations and from the holiday movie season without having delighted the world, War Horse seems pretty likely to be forgotten pretty quickly, even as Spielberg returns to the prestige historical drama well with this coming Christmas» Lincoln.

Next weekend, «Infinity War» will likely pass the $ 1.5 billion made by the first «Avengers» to become one of the top five highest grossing movies of all - time without inflation adjustment.

The movie follows three Southern women — two sisters and one African American slave — who, left without men in the dying days of the Civil War, are forced to defend their home from the onslaught of a band of soldiers who have broken off from the fast approaching Union Army.

As a series of complications takes the trio from New York to Saint Louis to Salt Lake City to Las Vegas, the trauma of war is never far from the surface, but the movie has a healthy sense of humor that lets Burger examine their emotional isolation without sinking into a bog of despair.

Perhaps unsurprisingly considering Harlin's filmography, 5 Days of War squeezes every tired, well - worn war movie trope of bravery, courage and stirring speeches for everything that they're worth, on top of adopting action movie clichés such as self - sacrifice and trite «Go without me» exchangWar squeezes every tired, well - worn war movie trope of bravery, courage and stirring speeches for everything that they're worth, on top of adopting action movie clichés such as self - sacrifice and trite «Go without me» exchangwar movie trope of bravery, courage and stirring speeches for everything that they're worth, on top of adopting action movie clichés such as self - sacrifice and trite «Go without me» exchanges.

If you've seen the movie and want to discuss details about the film without worrying about spoiling it for those who haven't seen it, please head over to our Civil War Spoilers Discussion - or check out our breakdown of Captain America: Civil War's Biggest Spoilers & Reveals.

So that means you can peruse this story and Star Wars toy aisles to your heart's content, and you won't ruin the mysteries of Star Wars: The Last Jedi unless you're trying to go into the movie without knowing anything at all.

Captain America: Civil War is, without question, the best movie to come out of Marvel Studios in the past eight years, and it's hard to see how they'll top it going forward.

It's hard to talk about just how fantastic the fight scenes in Civil War are (compared to some of the bigger parts of the Avengers movies) without giving too much away, so I'll try to remain as vague as possible for those who don't want to know too much about it.

I understand that a Cold War set flick should be bleak, but this is a movie without any joy and it affects the audience watching it.

For a movie without a single superhero or Star War, Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice is a surprisingly big deal.

At once hugely influential — there is no Paul Greengrass without Clarke — and still relatively obscure, Clarke is singular among the British social realists, owing to his adaptability to a variety of sub-genres (within this sampling you will find women's pictures, war movies, prison dramas, documentaries, and even an hour - long about a dystopian roller rink) and a blazing empathy for the downtrodden that seem to go hand - on - hand.

«George and [Kathleen Kennedy] had decided that, as the company went on without George, and Kathy would run it, that part of what they were going to do was continue the Star Wars movies, and they had an idea for a bunch of»em,» Kasdan said.

Although Hollywood has produced plenty of movies about real - life war heroes, Doss is a fairly unique case: a U.S. Army medic and devout Seventh - day Adventist who single - handedly saved 75 men during the Battle of Okinawa without ever firing a shot.

Let's be honest, what kind of a definitive movie list would this be without a nod to Star Wars?

Conflating personal and national identity in the aftermath of the war, this classically efficient psychodrama nods to movie history without slavishly imitating it.

It is seldom that a «pure» science fiction movie gets made without all kinds of genres transposed unto it - take Star Wars for example, which is a pastiche of every movie genre known to mankind.

The movie's view of the war is without any opinion, save for the fact that it's hell (Before the unit ships out, Tom Felton plays a Marine who briefs them on the reality of the situation in Iraq, in a scene that serves as both as foreshadowing and an early sign of the movie's stance of being disinterested in politics).

The Stars Wars: The Force Awakens trailers are a perfect example of how it should be done, giving us quick views at the movie which build up excitement without actually giving away too many plot details.

EA has availed the standard edition of the game (without any add - ons) to subscribers in what seems to be a build up to the upcoming Star Wars: Rogue One movie.