popcorn film
popcorn movie , also: popcorn flick

Who wants to struggle to keep up with a popcorn movie?

Popcorn movies aren't his style, but he can do them quite well.

Basically what it is it's a popcorn movie designed to have a lot of fun.

Fans have been waiting for a good, old-fashioned popcorn movie.

But when it comes to the big popcorn movies, highly paid actors are few and far between.

George of the Jungle, from every estimation, is a popcorn movie.

Virtually every studio has a summer popcorn movie and a fall prestige film.

Even popcorn movies can strive for new levels of accomplishment.

Ignore your calendar, this movie's arrival means summer popcorn movie season is here.

It's getting people to understand that I know how to make a personal movie even if it does look like a big popcorn movie.

They saw a way to reach both an art house audience and a popcorn movie audience.

Lord knows, I love popcorn movies as much as the next guy.

"It is the very definition of the summer popcorn movie," Dergarabedian said.

"It's a popcorn movie that's actually a little subversive," he said.

He has a democratic sensibility that includes a love of opera and popcorn movies.

"It's not necessarily true that theme park rides turn into great popcorn movies."

With any luck, the strategy results in popcorn movies that are also creatively interesting.

Yet "Braveheart" still works as a big, enormously satisfying popcorn movie.

Like a summer popcorn movie, big, impressive things are happening in front of you constantly, but you feel nothing.

It outshone most summer popcorn movies in terms of characterisation too.

How does working on this sort of big-budget popcorn movie compare to your usual fare?

Worthington has described it as a "fun, boisterous popcorn movie".

And then there's that loss-of-memory device so beloved of old popcorn movies.

Yet no one dismisses film and novels in general just because popcorn movies or beach books outweigh true art.

Not exactly a happy popcorn flick for date night.

Trying to cram everything within a 40 minute window just does not make for good cinema, popcorn flick or otherwise.

It is, after all, basically a popcorn flick.

Yet even popcorn flicks can have serious undertones.

Would you direct a massive, big-budget, 3D, effects-laden summer popcorn flick?

This looks like a proper popcorn flick.

But, for a summer popcorn flick, PoP did alright.

Catch the latest popcorn flick, obscure retrospective or independent picture with every serious cinema buff in town.

Critic Frank Rich of Time magazine thought the movie was an appropriate summer "popcorn flick".

An early version of the script from "Knocked Up" read more like Cassavetes than a popcorn flick.

Besides, trailers can deceive, bad buzz has preceded good films, and this is a friggin' summer popcorn flick.

A thrilling summer popcorn flick"."

Why would Mr. Cusack, known for his roles in small, quirky films, decide to do a popcorn flick?

Rachit Gupta from Filmfare gave it 4/5 stars and added, "Dilwale is the quintessential popcorn flick."

About the film itself, she stated: "For its flaws, Blood Diamond is a gem, if only for being an unusually smart, engaged popcorn flick."

The site's general consensus states that it was "A ludicrous popcorn flick filled with clunky dialogues, but spectacular visuals save it from being a total disaster."

On the whole, the movie could be an ideal popcorn flick targeted to strike a chord with the youth and those who relish candy floss and madcap entertainers.

In both date and DNA, "The Debt" seems to fall somewhere between the popcorn flicks of summer and the highbrow fare of the impending awards season.

Honestly, the more I think about it the more I am convinced that Portman is the only element that elevates the film above that of a routine popcorn flick.

Trying to lure the self-hypnotized gamer nation out into the world to see a dystopian popcorn flick that paints Sims-style living as the end of civilization might seem like a fool's errand.

Giving the film 5 out of 5 stars, Joe Neumaier of Daily News labelled Rise of the Planet of the Apes as the summer's best popcorn flick.

Syfy thriller "Bigfoot" promises a "big and nasty, teeth and claws" star nestled in a kitschy popcorn flick, according to Thomas Vitale, the network's executive vice president of programming.

"Source Code" is an altogether richer and more accessible experience -- the existential popcorn flick that Gyllenhaal's "Donnie Darko" director Richard Kelly hasn't quite been able to pull off.

The site's critical consensus reads, "Live Free or Die Hard may be preposterous, but it's an efficient, action-packed summer popcorn flick with thrilling stunts and a commanding performance by Bruce Willis."

Besides adjusting for inflation, Scott says that he did everything he could to elevate the film from being just another summer popcorn flick (about which the man behind "Top Gun" and "Crimson Tide" knows plenty).