Sentences with phrase «stock characters»

Sure, great actors can play stock characters in practically every movie they appear in.

It becomes quite predictable with stock characters and bad dialogue all leading up to its feel good ending.

He knows how to give life to vain characters, putting flesh and bone on stock characters.

The clumsy stock characters immediately give up most of their claim to representing real people.

This is the kind of film that has a somewhat weak story, forced stock characters, and a lot of cheesy dialogue and actions.

Her interest in narratives, memories, and stock characters grew out of her own past.

The wandering millennial emerges as a kind of stock character in movies like Garden State and Lost in Translation, and then in the work of Noah Baumbach and Lena Dunham (and a host of indie copycats).

Timely and environmentally apt, the rich creativity that is evident in the imagining of Pandora, the planet that is Earth's last, best hope for survival, is juxtaposed with stock characters from Cameron's playbook, including the... Read More»

The group consists of stock character types — jock, virgin, stoner, brains, and floozy (almost «Scooby - Doo» - ish)-- who expectedly think that nothing will go wrong.

Both dark and hysterical, the «show» features new characters; a singer in a wheelchair, a snake handler, a wizard, and a dragon puppet with whom Bag converses, as well as stock characters from previous works including conspiracy theorists, witches, neurochemists, corporate raiders, and suburban housewives.

The scientists speak like stock characters in a bad sitcom.

Titled «To Wit,» the show dispenses aphorisms along with the usual athletes, comic - strip figures, talking phalluses and other stock characters from the Pettibon universe.

Epps, who has been on a good streak since his role on ER takes a low - grade stock character such as Quincy and makes him into someone we can stand to watch for two hours.

These became cliches when used as a lazy shorthand for stock characters or situations, with no thought put in them beyond that.

Groups of young friends who go to see some of the more death - focused horror films in vogue of late will routinely take bets on which stock character will face a grisly end soonest, as when viewing the Final Destination series» a film series that is, essentially, the apex of the set - piece disaster horror movie as orchestrated by MacGyver.

The book dips into the heads of its female protagonists — Iris, Esme, and Esme's sister Kitty — but all three remain stock characters without true interiority.

What most consistently keeps our attention, though, is Rodriguez» cast of colorful stock characters, which runs the gamut from the vengeful mariachi to the CIA agent playing every side to the career rat of a presidential assistant to the retired G - man looking to settle an old score to Mickey Rourke.

Arriaga could take a hint from Michael Arndt, whose stock characters in Little Miss Sunshine belong to each other about as much as a horny Japanese schoolgirl belongs with a Moroccan arms dealer.

More emphasis on the nature of memories and how they relate to happiness, and less stock characters who are «funny» because they're making references to the same shows and movies I have seen.

The movie, which runs a measly 82 minutes and seems to go on much longer, is basically a rehash of the simplest synopsis of the concept of the series with new stock characters thrown in and excessive deaths that seem familiar.

I really enjoy the World Tour mode, where you use the old PES stock characters like Castolo and

The scenes where McAdams and Tatum are struggling together vaguely works (Tatum is surprisingly touching here), but the moment McAdams family is drawn into the matter, the rom - com stock characters come pouring out of the woodwork.

A lot in the way of characterization and development gets sacrificed to make Anderson's style work; his movies tend to be about stock characters talking in clichés in familiar situations — and, unlike the work of a Pop / camp fetishist like Roland Emmerich, it's all done with a completely straight face.

Like Santa Claus, Zwarte Piet is a hybrid stock character of pagan origin.

There are good movies about the transformative power of dance, but all this one does is parade stock characters around the screen, hint at tiny changes they've made in their lives, and then parade them around some more.

In the meantime, the usual stock characters show up — the gambling casino madam (who has set her romantic sights on the Sheriff), and his self - effacing sidekick both have their moments.

This hardiness is cemented by the central performances, which take the various stock characters and adapt them to their new surroundings to create a number of memorable turns.

Despite its pretenses, the film fails to break the mold, presenting stock characters in predictable situations without a gimmick to separate it from the pack.

While Stake Land II is clearly working on a small budget, the filmmakers do all they can to deliver a fast - moving post-apocalyptic «quest» movie full of gory vampire attacks, colorful stock character archetypes, and a slyly surly attitude.

It's a subtle, deliciously nuanced performance of a someone that could have easily have come off as a boring stock character.

A series of set - ups without punchlines that compensate for the deficiency by featuring a truly impressive number of random de-pantsings, people caught in unlikely tableaux that are inevitably mistaken for some sort of sexual deviancy, and a stable of stock characters so locked into their exploitative roles that existential questions of predestination and choice tickle at making the picture interesting.

Stock characters abound: a predictably bitchy Hollywood producer, a prima donna host, a lovestruck straight out of film school camera boy, and uptight religious parents.

Time is not lost with this set - up, offering some smaller action moments and somewhat stock character development.

This time, precocious youths and ill - conceived stock characters say everything that can be said and more.

A few stock characters, including a park superintendent, are predictably over-the-top, but there are corny and even laugh - out - loud clever car and plane - name references, as well as a few inside jokes and good one - liners.

And the film introduces Smith stock characters Jay and Silent Bob, so there's that.

While younger viewers will undoubtedly eat up Reynolds» antics with a spoon, the stale, predictable storyline - coupled with uniformly stock characters and an emphasis on lame comedy bits - ensures that everyone else will be bored to tears.

The cast give impressive weight to what are effectively stock characters, something that O'Connor is a dab hand at.

Otherwise, this merits a purchase only for completists and those who are devoted fans of this film or the many celebrity stock characters who appear in it.

So basic, instantly recognizable and well - worn is the trail being blazed here before us that the film features, amongst other overdone stock characters as a doting mother, a keenly aware and far too observant pre-teen little girl, and not one, but two Manic Pixie Dream Girls (MPDG).

More importantly, Williams takes his mousy but threatening - when - cornered stock character to its fully realized conclusion, bettering his work in films like Dead Again and Insomnia.

That sounds like a mess of platitudes, and it is, but as I mentioned this is a very straightforward story with pretty stock characters that are brought to life by the actors chosen to embody them.

Neeson does his thing as the tough - as - nails hitman, bringing gravitas to an otherwise stock character, while Kinnaman delivers some of his best work to date as the angry son who wants nothing to do with the family business.

Rapper T.I., Scott McNairy, Dermot Mulroney, and David Harbour all encompass stock characters seen in many crime films, leaning towards caricature.

Garrett Hedlund and Jonathan Banks give rather stock characters dignity but it's Jason Mitchell, an actor I find exciting in every film I've seen him in, who steals the whole show, breaking and healing our hearts.

The characters are not only fairly bland, but they're also pretty much the exact stock characters lampooned by 2012's The Cabin in the Woods.

The boxers are stereotypical stock characters.

The rest of the characters are essentially stock characters, though in many cases well - played by established actors.

A cast of stereotyped stock characters is introduced and made to say lines like, «I don't understand — how could something so big just disappear?»