Lawrence, who bagged an Oscar nomination for best actress on Thursday, also took home the best actress in an action movie for The Hunger Games, based on the bestselling book.

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It's almost a meditation on the Batman phenomenon, and, by extension, on the ritualized institution of the summer action movie.

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The one Tweeting on his tablet about the new 3D action movie he just saw?

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Although Gunkanjima is clearly visible in the movie, the action scenes on the island were actually shot in a studio.

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On this new live-action movie, I did the same thing for many of the more complicated sequences.

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But Tomb Raider is not the action movie Uncharted was, nor is it a borderline goofy meta-commentary on itself like what we saw with Far Cry.

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He's made intense dramas he developed and executive-produced the television series "Friday Night Lights, " based on the movie, which he directed as well as dark comedies, thrillers and action movies ("Very Bad Things, " "The Rundown, " "The Kingdom").

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