Best dance sequences and best sound design and best use of Nas.
Not exact matches
With the contest deadline just three weeks away, Metz worked busily to choreograph the
dance, film the scenes, and select the
best sequences.
There is the aforementioned «angry
dancing»
sequence, and while they do a
better job of setting up that scene as
well, it's still silly.
Three
dance sequences exist in a vacuum (testing the sequel maxim that if one of something works in the first, three of that same something must work
better in the second), Barrymore proves that she can't act in not one but three languages, and Jaclyn Smith turns in what may be the most bizarre self - referential cameo in recent history.
Just as the song and
dance sequences appealed to those living in India who could not speak Hindi, the same principle provides an insight as to why Bollywood is, and will continue to be, so
well received internationally.
The
dance sequences are extremely
well shot and edited.
Sure, the ballet at the barn - raising is arguably the greatest group
dance in Hollywood history (the only other real contenders are probably from West Side Story), building a traditional minuet ever faster into a gymnastic competition, but it's immediately followed by a very
well - choreographed (for Hollywood at the time) fight
sequence.
It resembles Jurassic Park III in its general disdain for its audience and fatigue with its own shake - and - bake premise, but it does have a couple of laughs — the
best bits involving a surreal
dance - off and a ridiculously convoluted
sequence with a pair of role - playing strippers.
Filled with such brilliant reinventions as a
sequence that disinters Ub Iwerks's The Skeleton
Dance and gives it a bright new anxiety, the picture is primed for what looks to be a fall season
good enough to balance the nondescript pudding of the rest.
There's a lengthy
sequence in a private club where Mike used to
dance, as the guy's try to get alternate transportation and convince Rome (Jada Pinkett Smith) to take over as the group's emcee, that goes on
well past its usefulness.
And the less said about Resurrection, with Busta Rhymes kung fu and Tyra Banks
dance sequences, the
better.
It isn't as consistently enjoyable as their
best, Top hat and Swing Time, but does contain what may be their
best single
dance sequence.
A scene at a
dance where Yelchin appears in an orange knit hoochie suit (that he bought from the joke store) captures some of the awkwardness of
dances for a 13 - year - old, though I suspect the
sequence only seems
good in comparison to the rest of the film.
Perhaps Jon M. Chu (Justin Biever: Never Say Never, Step Up 3D), who is used to directing
well - choreographed
sequences in his previous
dance films, feels more comfortable in the quick - cut style involved.
Jones makes us believe his creature could exist (despite what looks like a confining costume) and partners her so
well in a
dance sequence you'll wonder how he was able to pull everything off.
She must have confused him with someone else, for the final extra pretty
well sums up the worth of the female roles in this film: «Action Overload,» which edits together all the bartenders»
dance sequences — «the hottest moments from the movie,» according to the disc box — into one MTV - ready reel.
EXTRAS: There's a pair of featurettes on the film's choreography and location shooting in Georgia, as
well as an extended version of Stephen Boss»
dance sequence.
There are some
good sequences, such as the infiltration of the Ministry using Polyjuice Potion (very reminiscent of when they broke into Slytherin Common Room back in book 2) and an unexpected
dance.
In their private kingdom, the kids
dance to Suzy's Françoise Hardy records in a sun - kissed
sequence that DP Robert Yeoman, delivering his
best in grainy Super16, shoots like woozy outtakes from Pierrot le fou.
Fortunately, this movie gets bonus points for lush and rich scenery of the city of Barcelona (which suffer slightly from the DVD's fullscreen presentation) and the
dance sequences choreographed by High School Musical's Kenny Ortega (who directed this entire film as
well).
Stone and Gosling fare
better in the Gene Kelly - inspired
dance sequences than any of the songs (save for «Audition,» which will likely net Stone an Oscar nomination on its strength alone), although that hardly matters, because the movie glides by on their irresistible charm and chemistry.
Despite being comprised of reproductions, the work feels completely in line with Cunningham's Events, which he described as being «comprised of
dances from the repertory, or parts of them, as
well as movement
sequences made particularly for them, are mostly given in non-proscenium spaces.»