Sentences with phrase «what war movies»

Making the audience uncomfortable is what war movies are supposed to do.

A survival epic that redraws the lines of what a war movie ought to be, Dunkirk foregoes the blood and viscus of Hacksaw Ridge or the deeply sketched characters of Saving Private Ryan to hone in on the raw emotion of soldiers in terror, scrambling to survive against a faceless mass closing in from all sides.

Not exact matches

All this before Disney releases what is likely to be the biggest movie of the year in «Star Wars: The Force Awakens.»

What critics said: «In a summer movie landscape with Spider - Man, a simian army waging further battle for the planet and Charlize Theron as a sexy Cold War - era superspy, it says something that one of the most compelling characters is Al Gore.»

EASTWOOD: Or war movies and what have you because conflict is sort of the basis of drama.

What it's about: «Sargeant York» may have been about World War I — a sharpshooter becomes an unexpected hero after attacking and capturing a German position using the same strategy as turkey hunting — but the American - proud movie became a point of major discussion in the United States over the merits of entering World War II.

What it's about: «Empire» surpassed even the first «Star Wars» movie in fame, with its unforgettable twist at the end and meditative scenes of Luke training with Yoda.

I think few of us will ever be directly involved with a marketing blitz as big as releasing a Star Wars movie and its related merchandise, but we can watch what the professionals in charge of those events do, and learn some valuable lessons.

Further, echoing what they do with the Star Wars movie openings themselves, buyers could get into stores at 12:01 a.m. on that magical Friday.

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...

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.

Filmmaking skill and solid actors can make these movies fun, but the truth and virtues buried in them is what makes these movies important — much like the original Star Wars movies were for the previous generation.

As the war progresses, Mr. Brown's attitudes toward the Germans and the Japanese take on the color of what he hears over the radio and sees in the newspaper and the occasional movie he finds time to attend.

What about last year when many invested in overpriced cinema tickets and online movie subscriptions to watch Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

As a matter of fact, what he looks like is the kid in the war movie who thinks maybe he will be shaving soon, though everybody else knows he will get killed in the next - to - last reel.

They were downstairs watching new Star Wars movie and didn't have a clue what was going on probably.

It's the holidays, and you know what that means: Hallmark movie marathons, mistletoe, and War and Peace - length letters to Santa.

Just in time for the release of the movie «Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens,» NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed what looks like a cosmic, double - bladed lightsaber.

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26 years old, 6» 2 star wars nerd, 420 friendly, I love to make others laugh, Movie buff, avid gamer, here to meet new people and see what life has in store and hopefully meet my player 2, Not here for hook ups.

This is a quite marvelous movie that will just raise your hype for «Infinity War» and what's about to come.

War of the Worlds is a dark, intense, and emotional movie that delivers what it should.

It was a year we all wanted to be entertained than have to face the dreariness of our normal lives, what with the wars and the economy tanking, The Hangover, for better or worse, was the movie we went to when we needed a laugh.

Whether you consider that a bonus or plus will depend on what you want from a «Star Wars» movie.

Infinity War is to the decade of MCU storytelling what huge - ass battle finales are to the modern comic - book movie.

With stunning performances from its cast, the film occur during the First World War, and it shows us the chaos, and considering the fact that this was made in 1930, it's an impressive feat in filmmaking, as what we have here is a picture that captures the fear and agony of combat, and it's a well made movie for its time, and it still looks great after all these years.

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.

Not only is this my favorite Star Wars movie but it is also what I consider to be the best sci - fi movie of all time.

Obviously we can't fit all of Iran's political problems of the last 30 years into a 2 hour movie, but I did feel that the movie was trying to give us a message on what we should think or feel based on a two sentence explanation of a decade long war.

I don't know what director Angelina Jolie thinks her movie Unbroken is, but the last thing it seems to be is the story of Louis Zamperini, the Olympian and war hero whose life story was told in Laura Hillenbrand's New York Times - bestselling book «Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption war hero whose life story was told in Laura Hillenbrand's New York Times - bestselling book «Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption ``.

Truly I love War movies and they are my favorite genre but what a bore this was.

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.

After you get a successful movie like «Star Wars», what else is there to do?

At first, the movie (written by Liz Hannah and «Spotlight» scribe Josh Singer) appears to have put the camera in the wrong place, given that it was the New York Times that first broke the leak of classified documents in 1971 that outlined the prosecution of the Vietnam War — and what the government really knew about it — across multiple administrations.

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Except the movie seems like a poor pre-World War I story by Dan Stevens» old drama teacher who he had taken pity on — which is exactly what it is.

While we're no stranger to the idea of shock deaths in movies and TV series — our favorite characters being killed off gives fans something to talk about — the sheer scale of what happens at the end of Infinity War, and the Russo brothers decision to leave the ball in Thanos» court, is unprecedented when it comes to a film franchise of this scale.

And his digital resurrection barely scratches the surface of what the movie offers hardcore Star War - riors, since there are callback cameos abound.

What starts as a seemingly normal black - and - white war movie becomes a tense hellscape only Kubrick could conceive of.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller have dropped out of the Han Solo movie, delivering what seems like it could be a huge blow to the Star Wars spinoff.

In the wider scheme of things, «Tigerland» is not a great movie, but it is solid and unusually heartfelt for Schumacher, and what it lacks in nuance (the director has never knowingly turned in a subtle film), it makes up for in a simplistic but emotive understanding of the mechanics of masculine friendship and rivalry in the shadow of a nationally emasculating war.

«Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Movies We Can See - Books Main Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)»

Now that Avengers: Infinity War is out in the wild and earning obscene amounts of money, the Russos are starting to turn their attention to Avengers 4 and have told ComicBook.com that the movie begins what they describe as the next MCU book:

Still, eight months out, we're beginning to get a sense of the sort of Star Wars movie JJ Abrams has made — and it looks like he's let his inner fanboy off the leash and is going to give all us other fan - people exactly what we've craved all these decades (we have, of course, obliterated all memory of P ***** m Menace and George Lucas» other clunking prequels).

Having shared a photo of Chewbacca a couple of days ago, Ron Howard has now taken to social media to give us what appears to be our first look at Donald Glover's Lando Calrissian from the young Han Solo Star Wars Anthology movie; check it out here... SEE ALSO: Leaked Han Solo set photos feature -LSB-...]

We're about to find out what the Suicide Squad story will end up being as that movie enters its second week, but eyes are already turning to the next potential savior of the year in blockbusters: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story — HATE that subtitle, by the way.

OUR TAKE: This movie was enough to push America to the brink of war with North Korea; we GOT TA see what all the fuss was about.

At this distance, the «Star Wars» project is harder to judge, particularly in the blizzard of confusing rumors about which movie is what — see the Gareth Edwards bit of this list for more of that — but as we noted when he was announced, his super-short «Stabbing at Leia «s» shows he loves the source material.

Jonathan Rosenbaum's Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Conspire to Limit What Films We Can See is all over the place, scattering its ripostes hither and yon over the idea that modern popular criticism is a bankrupt profession in bed with the interests of a few very powerful movie distributors (Miramax's Weinstein brothers in particular) that have become our guardians of «independent» tMovie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Conspire to Limit What Films We Can See is all over the place, scattering its ripostes hither and yon over the idea that modern popular criticism is a bankrupt profession in bed with the interests of a few very powerful movie distributors (Miramax's Weinstein brothers in particular) that have become our guardians of «independent» tmovie distributors (Miramax's Weinstein brothers in particular) that have become our guardians of «independent» taste.

What were movies like before George Lucas» «Star Wars» opened forty years ago on May 25th, 1977?