Sentence examples for movie terms from inspiring English sources

In movie terms, it's a scene so romantic and winsome you barely flinch.

But it may be that, in movie terms, Mr. Childers's story is too true to be good.

He delivered a script of about 130 pages – in movie terms, a film of about two-and-a-half hours.

"In movie terms, 'La Bohème' meets 'Tootsie.' But even at first reading I thought it really does need help.

Hardly anything happens here in conventional movie terms, though there's plenty of decorative pulp — drug dealers, drug abusers, pole dancers, love-hotel clients — none of it gripping.

The script does wring some laughs from the playing out of teenage anxieties in horror movie terms, the strategy pioneered by Joss Whedon and Ms. Gellar in "Buffy".

But it's clear that we didn't open, to use a movie term.

Three years ago, I started writing a screenplay about the assassination of Robert Kennedy, caught up in a strange tale of second guns and "Manchurian candidates" (as the movie termed brainwashed assassins).

For such a low-stakes (in action-movie terms, at least) endeavor, it's extremely riveting.

(At two different points in the show, she chastises her lovers for having never heard of the hardly obscure movies "Terms of Endearment" and "Dirty Pretty Things").

There were a lot of things that I appreciated about the show after the movie, in terms of having this long-term relationship with my actors, and feeling I don't have to earn a level of respect with them.