Sentences with phrase «further than the script»

Also Read: James Franco's «King Cobra» Director on Explicit Gay Sex Scenes: «Actors Took Things Further Than the Script»

Not exact matches

While the second quarter will almost certainly be stronger than the first and the economy should pick up by year's end, so far the consumer isn't playing to script.

TRANSLATION Sirs: Ganbare is a much more appropriate name for the underdog yacht that Douglas Peterson built on a shoestring and raced with success against far more expensive boats in the 1973 World One Ton Cup championship than your translation of the name — «good luck» — would imply (Sardinia Sea Script: Viva Cinderella!

Gove relied on his script far less when he finally got on to his own specialist subject, the Department for Education, providing far more valuable input than what almost felt like a Commons speech up to that point, trotting out stock lines to attacks that were on this occasion invisible.

Far from Heaven is indeed a great movie because it has such high aspirations - a movie from 2002 that dares to style itself after a 50's drama and to do so via (gasp) a subtle script rather than relying on special effects and things blowing up etc..

Portraying standard heroines in such films as Edison the Man (1940) and My Friend Flicka (1943), Johnson brought far more warmth and humanity to the parts than the scripts provided.

You know one of the biggest problems with horror movies is nowadays, and perhaps this has even gone farther than, say, the last 5 years, and that is the fact that some of these movies do not have enough interesting material in the script to fill out one hour of screen time, much less 90 minutes of it.

The split screen has a downside: It punctuates the lopsidedness of the script by Anneke Campbell and Will Lamborn, Miguel's story being far less convincingly written than Mark's.

Hopefully the script by «Fringe» writer J.H. Wyman has more to it than has been suggested so far, but if not, there's an eclectic cast, with Rapace joined by Colin Farrell, Dominic Cooper, Terrence Howard and, of all people, Isabelle Huppert, in her first English - language role since «I Heart Huckabees.»

Finally its a far better directed acted scripted film than the overhyped tosh that Avatar is.

But WB obviously believes this project has life without Darcy - Smith as well, since he's considerably farther down the totem than Peters, who brought the script to the studio's attention.

But when least expected, love — and fate — stumbles in... There's such rough beauty to the film, such tenderness, all expressed far more richly through images (top work from cinematographer Joshua James Richards) than in its very spare script.

The directors, Anthony and Joe Russo, working from a script by the crack team of Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (who wrote their two «Captain America» sequels), are far more stylish and exacting filmmakers than Joss Whedon, director of the first two «Avengers» films.

I think she probably is a far better actress than the script allowed her to be.

Yet the film's insistent indictment of Duncan and Simmons, and its qualified accusation of Roberts, lack all conviction, despite the explicitness with which it spells out their personal responsibility for the disaster, because the fire itself is so far more convincing and menacing a villain than the script's paper - doll miscreants and good / bad guys.

Ultimately, The Nice Guys gets by on the strength of the two leads and a handful of laugh - out - loud moments that are unfortunately few and far between, although a little bit of editing and re-working of the script could have made all the difference, making it tighter where it gets a bit flabby and keeping the momentum going because, unlike Lethal Weapon, there is the sense that Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling have had to work a little bit harder than Mel Gibson and Danny Glover to get that spark going between them.

Paul Thomas Anderson for teaching me that it's ALL about the script and if you have the right actors directors don't have to do anything on set but be a fan, Lumet for his films and his book, a young directors» must read, Coppola for his courage in filmmaking, Steven Soderberg for refusing to ever be put in a box and pushing the form as far as he can, Kathryn Bigelow for giving masterclasses in action, James Cameron for Terminator 2 and prove big budget cinema can still be perfect cinema, Sean Penn for bringing his acting chops to directing, David Mamet for his scripts and his dialogue, Nolan for having more heart than most people seem to give him credit for (Memento, Rises, Inception and Interstellar all made me cry.)

These questions, and many more, bring the script of Episode III into the light of reality far more than any of the five other films.

Ken Nolan's script, based on an article in GQ, focuses far more on the people involved than the circumstance of their job.

It's much too formulaic for the former, and the presence of the four actors gives a script far more weight than what Helms, Cooper, Galifianakis and Bartha could ever bring to their own, insane lines.

Olivia Munn is better than usual, but not as great as she is on HBO's «The Newsroom,» while the rest of the cast fails to do much with a script that goes for the easy joke far too often.

THR further claims that the script for the standalone Van Helsing film is still being polished, with more time being spent to tighten up it, along with the scripts for the Dark Universe movies in the wake of The Mummy's critical failure and less - than - anticipated box office.

The strong supporting cast also tries, but even the great John Carradine (easily the best thing about the film) and Anthony Quinn (who seriously out - swaggers Power here) can't change the fact that the bloated script slows the scenes to a trot, and Mamoulian appears far more interested in directing the light of shadow across the faces of his actors than in the actual actors.

The Blue Tooth Virgin, the movie, is ostensibly far more delightful than the fictional script penned by Sam and denounced by David as a horrible nightmare.

But what CHRISTINE does far better than «the other Christine Chubbuck film» is that it humanizes an elusive figure thanks in part to Craig Shilowich's script and Rebecca Hall's fully - realized, powerful performance.

It's a movie about boardrooms and decision - making far more than investigation, and the script's structure and Spielberg's direction reflect that.

Far more than in their scripts for «Legally Blonde» and «10 Things That I Hate About You,» screenwriters Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith reveal a precise ear for dialogue that turns words back on themselves, and especially the sort of talk that young women say to one another in private: In perfect Shelley - talk, she exclaims, «My heart is pounding like a nail!»

But it's far from just empty spectacle either; the director, and his script (by David Magee) engages intelligently and wholeheartedly with the novel's themes of religion, fate and storytelling, without becoming overbearing or tiresome — in fact, it's arguably more successful than the novel in that respect.

While his previous efforts behind the camera - Harsh Times, Street Kings, End of Watch, Sabotage - have carried more flaws than his hard - boiled scripts (Training Day, S.W.A.T.), it's clear in Fury that both passion and experience have culminated in his best work yet - by far.

Turns out being a good director with a good script is far better than whether or not Butt Plug Man has the right dildo attached to his forehead, or if they used the same origin story for Captain Fuck - all as they did in issue # 12 of the Dan * makes a fart noise * comic run.

Inventive visuals and a seriously deranged script make this animated adventure far more enjoyable than...

It's clear, then, that the script's sitcom - level approach to the subject matter fares much better than one might've anticipated, although there's no denying that, at a ludicrously overlong running time of 110 minutes, How to Be Single does peter out to an increasingly palpable degree as it progresses - with, especially, the movie's final third relying far too heavily on hackneyed sequences that are either egregiously padded - out or completely needless (eg a character frantically races to the hospital).

Bantering, arguing or just glaring at each other, they make «The Nice Guys» far more entertaining than it deserves to be; let's hope that, for the inevitable «Nice Guys 2,» somebody gives them the script they deserve.

With a witty, child - friendly script by comedy guru Nicholas Stoller (Get Him to the Greek, The Muppets) and confidently self - assured direction courtesy of DreamWorks veteran David Soren (Turbo), the movie is far more engaging than it potentially has any right to be, and as implausibly ridiculous as it all is, save a few minor hiccups this ends up being a delightful summer surprise I can't say I saw coming.

Apparently she and her co-star improvise a lot of their banter — just think how far they'd go if they had a script they could work with rather than against.

Given that Mark Boal's current script is far more ambitious than his previous one, and Quentin Tarantino's is far less ambitious, this seems a dubious critical appraisal.

The script was only sparsely peppered with jokes, and it's far more concerned with the story than landing a punchline every 30 seconds.

It drags a bit in the middle, and there's about five percent of the script that never recovered from the script doctoring scars inflicted in the past five years of rewrites, but for the most part, «Tower Heist» is a perfectly enjoyable film... far more enjoyable than it has any business being.

And with a script that's otherwise uneven and a little empty, these moments detract from the overall feel of the film far more than they did in Rise.

McCarthy has a far wider acting range than Rodney Dangerfield in Back to School, yet eventually Life of the Party falls victim to script and tonal issues, leaving too many conflicts to be resolved in too short a period of time, which then prompts the tone to lurch unsteadily from comedy to drama.

Each of these Aventador LP720 - 4 will receive a beautiful Forged Composite ® badge showing the stylish» 50» script... and a serial number that further emphasizes the fact this is a new milestone in the production of the Aventador, a carbon fiber monocoque model with a powerful V12 engine... which in case of this LP720 - 4 has been uprated a little to deliver 720hp (20 more than the standard Aventador LP700 - 4) driving all four wheels (hence the -4 denomination)... this power increase has been achieved by using a new engine calibration.

A visit to traditional villages puts you beyond the realm of mainstream tourism and into adventures that are safe but far less scripted than a theme park.

He makes scripts far better than their textual roots would seem to indicate, and I would gladly work with him in the future.»

These scripted moments make enemy generation far more refreshing than having enemies strolling in from off - screen.

It's a far cry from the heavily refined (yet ultimately tiresome) combat systems found in the Batman Arkham and Assassin's Creed games, far more fluid and intuitive than the heavily scripted systems of The Witcher and Dragon Age, precise in a way that Skyrim could only dream of.

The mission doesn't seem all that exciting, and it seems like a basic drive - to - X-location-and-kill-things mission, which is kind of a typical and rather mundane mission script for GTA Online, far less interesting than some of the heists or other missions available in Rockstar's online open - world game, such as the actual Gunrunning missions.

After all, PokeSirena also reported that the Chinese localization team has already finished translating the script, which would imply the game is farther along in development than we anticipated.

More than addressing the technology we need to address these latter points, and thus far the script for that is still sitting on the table.

So hacking back against «script kiddies «will produce less risk of litigation than of further attacks, possibly from the original attacker's informal allies.

Bitcoin's «virtual machine» — the piece of the protocol responsible for executing Bitcoin Script programs — is far more limited than the virtual machines used in other smart contract platforms, such as Ethereum or the Chain Protocol, and its instruction set is not even Turing - complete.