Sentences with phrase «zeitgeist movie»

Too multiloquent for 140 - character limits, McDonough doesn't use Twitter, and yet he's delivered a darkly satirical zeitgeist movie that demonstrates how short, impulsive messages blasted out into the world can have real consequences.

With four SAG nominations (and even a Woody Harrelson nomination), Three Billboards might be that zeitgeist movie everyone has been waiting for and it could just start winning at the PGA and not stop.

That this artful mayhem looks both chillingly relevant and borderline cathartic has everything to do with Green Room's scary timeliness — its emergence, in our new age of politically emboldened hatemongers, as an accidental zeitgeist movie.

The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, That's Incredible, The Sixth Sense, Poltergeist, Loose Change, Zeitgeist the Movie.

In the zeitgeist movie they claim the difference between communism is that they don't believe in unlimited resources, though I don't recall communism or any economic theory claiming there's unlimited resources.

Note: After doing a lot of reading, research, and thinking on the topics in this post, I wrote a follow - up post about the pagan roots of Christianity here and some of my concluding thoughts about Zeitgeist the movie.

However, that was all just part of the introduction to Zeitgeist the movie.

So watch Zeitgeist the movie at your own risk.

As part of the introduction to Zeitgeist the movie, there was a quote which reveals the way a lot of people view Christianity.

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As far as the movie Zeitgeist does, it is 95 % disinformation and misinformation.

Too close to the zeitgeist, the movie could well look a lot different to the culture years from now.

The movie's most sublime sequence has Deadpool putting together a superhero team of his own, a quick - cut job - interview montage that allows Zazie Beetz's Domino, Terry Crews» Bedlam, Bill Skarsgård's Zeitgeist, and Lewis Tan's Shatterstar to cycle through in short order, along with Rob Delaney's Peter — a nonsuperpowered fellow who just liked the sound of the want ad — and the Vanisher, whose invisibility powers prevent him from needing to be played by anyone at all.

The movie misfires: It's numbingly cold and soulless, and the zeitgeist stays far beyond its reach.

Stereo and Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound audio tracks handle the title's straightforward aural demands, and a solid clutch of deleted scenes — around 20 minutes worth — stands alongside the movie's theatrical trailer and previews for other Zeitgeist titles.

As movies, The Hunger Games series intensifies but also streamlines the sociological aspect of the books» zeitgeist zinging properties.

And it kind of feels they're the usage of the primary movie's reputation to head all out on its sequel — directed by means of David Leitch and in keeping with a script from Reese, Wernick, and Ryan Reynolds — which now not simplest introduces Cable (Josh Brolin) but in addition the X-Force: Domino (Zazie Beetz), Bedlam (Terry Crews), Shatterstar (Lewis Tan), Zeitgeist (Bill Skarsgård), and extra.

«I don't know if it's something in the zeitgeist that's manifesting itself in these powerful portrayals of female characters in these really big hit movies as well as smaller indie movies.

His slangy eloquence, his brilliance at scene making, and his nose for the zeitgeist fostered a slew of smash movie classics, including the seminal silent gangster film Underworld (1927), which won the first Oscar for best original screen story, and its sound - film successor, Scarface (1932); the screwball satire Nothing Sacred (1937); and the seductive romantic thriller, Notorious (1946).

Rarely, however, do those movies weave themselves into the zeitgeist, affixing themselves into the general discourse that surrounds culture and horror.

The Sixth Sense was a sucker punch of a movie; I didn't see the quality or the cultural zeitgeist coming.

The timing was certainly right, coming out a few short weeks after IT brought King back into the zeitgeist by virtue of bringing in more box office money than any horror movie in history.

Disaster movies, which pre-date the zeitgeist's fascination with a world falling apart around us, are always great measures of the state of the Hollywood art of special effects.

Few actors get to star in a monster commercial smash that is also a zeitgeist hit, but that was Joshua Leonard's experience with The Blair Witch Project, which turned a meager $ 60,000 production budget into almost $ 250 million in worldwide theatrical receipts, and owned the summer of 1999 (and beyond, in the form of countless spoofs, homages and far less inspired rip - offs) like no other indie movie of its time.

iscuss This: Comments Off Add to del.icio.us Digg it «Gattaca» director Andrew Niccol's sense of the zeitgeist is as on the money as ever with «In Time,» a sci - fi parable that plays like «Occupy Wall Street: The Movie.»

The latest «effort» from Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the guys responsible for Date Movie, Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans, is yet another bottom - feeding cash - grab that exploits current events, ridicules pop culture icons and compromises the integrity of the zeitgeist itself in order to create, oh, one - quarter to one - half of a funny joke within the shortest possible time frame that qualifies as a theatrical release.

Meyers is in her element when the movie plays like classic narrative cinema, unafraid to go for the corny sentiment that she does with more conviction than the attempts at zeitgeist comedy.

After the success of the made - for - British - TV movie The Naked Civil Servant, which was based on his memoir, Crisp is commissioned by a small theater in Manhattan's Bowery to perform a one - man show; word - of - mouth spreads about his unfiltered wit and shrewd observations about the gay community and cultural zeitgeist at large, which lands him gigs on late - night TV chat shows via his newly acquired agent (Swoosie Kurtz).

But once in a blue moon, there comes along a movie poster that feels instantly iconic, capturing the zeitgeist of an era in one 27» by 40» image that will adorn the walls of dorms and first apartments for at least two generations to come.

And it got me thinking about how the best horror movies and thrillers tend to tap in to the national zeitgeist.

«We have a movie that has clearly captured the zeitgeist,» IMAX Entertainment CEO Greg Foster told Variety.

Bad movies, on the other hand, are very much artifacts of the moment — the things that make bad movies bad are specific to the zeitgeist in which they are produced... or maybe it only seems that way.

You may be sick of superhero movies this summer, but don't worry, the zeitgeist is already shifting.

And it's also still up against Wonder Woman, which was not only one of the top movies of 2017, but also captured the zeitgeist in a much timelier way — though that film's Allan Heinberg - penned script did not get a WGA citation either.

The zeitgeist - y social thriller earned six MTV Movie and TV Awards nominations on Thursday, in such categories as movie of the year, best actor for lead Daniel Kaluuya, and best fight against the system (or «the artist formerly known as best fight&raqMovie and TV Awards nominations on Thursday, in such categories as movie of the year, best actor for lead Daniel Kaluuya, and best fight against the system (or «the artist formerly known as best fight&raqmovie of the year, best actor for lead Daniel Kaluuya, and best fight against the system (or «the artist formerly known as best fight»).

Of course, an R rated movie about a polyamorous relationship between a married couple and their student is not exactly the most direct way to capitalize on Wonder Woman's domination of the zeitgeist, but this film isn't about Wonder Woman.

Since the superheroes he gathers have silly names (like Shatterstar and Zeitgeist) and even sillier superpowers (spewing acidic vomit and having good luck) the tryouts are more like an absurd SNL casting - call sketch than a gathering of badasses, but the team is mobilized and, in the movie's most subversive and riotously funny scene, they parachute into the city to save the captive Firefist.

«We have a movie that has clearly captured the zeitgeist,» Foster said.

The end of 2012, that is — and the retrospectives are plentiful, from Google's tear - inducing annual Zeitgeist video to lists upon lists of the best books, movies, and music.

The crux of my argument against Won't Back Down specifically is this: we should recognize that this movie will have a similar effect to what Waiting for Superman had on the general zeitgeist.

These films range from experimental essays to experimental features, and are distributed by Zeitgeist Films, Waterbearer Films, Women Make Movies, and Video Data Bank.