Sentences with phrase «worse than films»

Unless those films are also about men they will get ignored here even worse than films directed by men about women.
It doesn't get much worse than films like this.
What's worse than a film directed by Joel Schumacher?
Essentially a female spin on Deliverance, you definitely could do worse than this film, but I can't lie... in just about any other week you can do better too.
Then there is a sneak peak of «Divergent», which looks even worse than this film if that is possible.

Not exact matches

However, DC's trio of bad movies made more domestically than the films» production budgets.
Saudi Arabia publicly screened its first movie in more than 30 years over the weekend, but moviegoers were subjected to one of 2017's worst films.
DB will have wasted more than a year engaged with a surreal investor who has disappeared into the mist like a character in a bad Chinese martial arts film.
Contrast the alleged actions of this alleged Coptic Christian with that of Muslims killing and maiming Coptic Christians and blowing up their places of worship... INSULTING Coptic Christians in far worse ways (literally «insulting» them TO DEATH) than is done (or ever could be) in this or any other film.
The earlier film adaptations didn't get Lewis right either — some were worse than others — Prince Caspian worst of all.
This is my favorite quote of the chapter... maybe even the whole book: «If we're more opposed, for instance, to what we take to be «bad language» and nude scenes and films about gay people than we are to people being blown up, starved to death, deprived of life - saving medicine, or tortured, our offendedness is out of whack.»
The only thing worse than having to wear a bag on your genitals while filming a sex scene is, I imagine, wearing a bag that once held SOMEONE ELSE»S GENITALS in it.
The sanitizer smells bad, and leaves a film on my hands that feels worse than the idea of not washing at all.
Scientists Bad: A survey of more than 1,000 horror films shown in Britain between 1931 and 1984 found that scientists or their creations were the villains in 41 percent of the films and that scientific or psychiatric research had produced 39 percent of the threats.
Though it hardly seems possible, The Hangover: Part II actually fares worse than its consistently underwhelming predecessor - as the film, for the most part, comes off as a blatant retread that brings virtually nothing new to the table.
What the film is saying about goodness (or ugliness or badness) is unclear as the «good» is just as bad as the «ugly,» but I can imagine that it's attempting to show that morality is more contextual than absolute, creating, as it does, an environment in which everybody is immoral even the Union and Confederate troops, who seem to be passing through this film on their way to another.
Phoenix, who nevertheless provides the film's most memorable performance, could have done so much more with just a little more to work with, but instead of coming across as an incipient loon, Commodus seems like nothing more than a bad boy who goes too far when peeved.
What's the Deal: More character study than action movie, this adaptation of Martin Booth's 1990 novel «A Very Private Gentleman» is instead concerned with the inner workings of its amoral antihero, whom we witness do very bad things at film's start that haunt him until the very end.
No, he's not a great thespian — and given the stellar nature of the film's supporting cast, he threatens to look worse by comparison — but I think Affleck plays Mendez in a more than competent manner.
Poetic Justice is like that - so much worse than it should have been, and yet, for brief shining moments, so much better than any other 2 - star film in sight.
The wrestler is the most overrated film of the year.I think the film is bored and I don't like the Rourke's performance.I think Rouke's performance in The Wrestler is worst than Eastwood's performace in Gran torino, Josh Brolin's performance in Milk, Frank
In the meantime, a deliciously nasty bad guy, a white South African gangster and arms dealer named Klaue (Andy Serkis, in a role he introduced three years ago in Avengers: Age of Ultron), is keen to get his hands on some vibranium himself, which involves an unexpected side trip to Busan, South Korea, for a prolonged sequence heavy on chases and tough - guy action but rather more conventional than the rest of the film.
Overall the film is disappointing rather than bad, but does afford some pleasures for anyone seeking out fairly light and undemanding entertainment.
Little more than boring extended battle scenes between the two, framed by the killing of teenagers who usually deserve their demises, Freddy vs. Jason is one of the year's worst films.
Very Bad Things features a pretty terrific cast; while it features no real «big time» stars other than Cameron Diaz - who only achieved that status upon the release of Mary, which happened after this film was already done - it offers a very solid list of quality actors.
The wrestler is the most overrated film of the year.I think the film is bored and I don't like the Rourke's performance.I think Rouke's performance in The Wrestler is worst than Eastwood's performace in Gran torino, Josh Brolin's performance in Milk, Frank Langella's performance in Frost / Nixon, Richard Jenkins» performance in the visitor or Benicio del Toro's performance in Che.
Even in Refn's and Hubert Selby Jr.'s script, this film is just so blasted limp, and from a directorial stance, Refn makes pacing problems all the worse with a meditative atmosphere which is rarely effective, primarily carrying dead air which is inspired by a quiet sobriety that distances and bores more than anything.
Note that if a critic ranks more than the standard 10 films, we will not include films ranked 11th or worse.
The film's chief villain, the angry and revenge - minded Killmonger, is a different sort of bad guy than what we're accustomed to getting in superhero movies.
Unlike most Marvel villains, who have little nuance as far as their evil intentions, Killmonger has a rationale for his malevolent acts, and a certain sympathy beyond this, that makes the film more a struggle for political ideas than it is just a black - and - white fight between good guys and bad guys.
Eye of the Dolphin is much better than most films of this sort, and if it helps a generation of young girls want to grow up to swim with live dolphins rather than groom My Little Ponys, that's certainly not a bad thing at all.
Has shown its true colors as less a serious religious - themed film than a moth - eaten tapestry of foreign intrigue and badly miscast international stars.
There's no looming apocalypse or badder - than - bad supervillain that often make these films so unctuously serious (which also render them faintly ridiculous).
As always, the quality of those films varied widely, taking in films that were among the year's best (including drama 45 Years, 2015's # 2 overall film) and among the year's worst The Human Centipede III, which scored lower than all but one film last year).
An imaginatively constructed soap - opera with a high - powered cast, this film follows several narrative threads, all involving unfulfilled Los Angeles women who find inner peace after learning there are worse things than loneliness.
For better and for worse, this feels less like a feature film than a stretched - out Daily Show segment.
What makes «Very Bad Things» a more rewarding experience than other films in its genre is that writer - director Peter Berg seems to be onto the fact that he's making a piece of shock schlock and not a sociological pronouncement.
Very Bad Things likely read better as a screenplay than it plays on film because the idea of what's going on is funnier than the actual execution.
The only reason this film gets one star, I had it at a 1.5 prior to writing out this review, this is worse than I had originally thought, and that is that the film has some really cool atmospheric moments that, you would hope, would lead to something truly chilling and unnerving.
Well, couldnt Crowe have created story with charm, rather than create this boring, unmindful and badly made film.
It's not going to change the world or inspire great thought, but there are worse ways to spend an hour and a half than watching these up and coming new stars in a perfectly agreeable film.
For me this was easily the weakest Trek film so far, even worse than «Star Trek V».
By focusing more on the characters, both good and bad, than on the explosion itself, the film is able to avoid becoming another disaster movie.
To be honest I don't think Under The Skin is much better or worse than any of those other films, despite moments of psychedelic excitement that made me hopeful director Jonathan Glazer would do something visionary with this film.
Scott Tobias gives the film the same «B +» grade as his colleague, but acknowledges that he thinks it's Malick's worst film, even though he found it affecting in its attempt to «give expression to the ineffable and show us something beautiful, reminding us that we live in a world that's larger than ourselves and crafted by that invisible hand.»
Bay is at his best, paradoxically, when he's at his worst, if for no other reason than the fact that the most enjoyable and the most offensive parts of his films (which are often the same scenes and sequences) extend from the mind of a man with a very particular visual sense.
The bad news: The film, which is more than two hours, is as lousy as the trailer made it look.
A Bad Moms Christmas, shooting one day shorter than Bad Moms» 35 days and taking advantage of Atlanta, GA film tax credits, only cost a net $ 8M more than Bad Moms.
There's nonetheless something unconvincing to this Allen agnostic's ears about insistent claims that his worst films amplify one other rather than provide diminishing returns, an argument more often blankly proffered rather than convincingly argued for in detail.
I can't say if this is better or worse than Van Helsing, cos thankfully I've wiped that cinematic road kill from my memory, but it's certainly not a good film.
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