Sentences with phrase «many lesser films»

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A lesser film would have opened by loading her with backstory about her royal heritage, her home planet and her ties to the Rebel Alliance (in fact, the lesser prequels committed just such errors with their own characters.)

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There's a little less film on Jackson than most of his peers at the top of the class, but his play in 2017 was so good that there shouldn't be many questions about him.

This narcissistic mockumentary is less a film than a full - length promotional video for Roc - a-Fella Records mogul / director Damon Dash.

In truth, Justice is less a film and more an extended piece of propaganda.

A lesser film would have underscored it with a shock chord, punctuated it with a sudden zoom, or cut to a shocked close up.

It does come down to the script, which is so flawed, and fitting for a lesser film, one that isn't rewarding inspired in most every other department, including the musical one.

But Annihilation really hits its stride at the point where lesser films jump the shark.

Killmonger is the kind of character who, in a lesser film, would have been an easy, rote villain.

Succeeds where so few Hollywood movies even venture - it builds a believable life, adds just enough nervous laughter to relieve the realistic tension, and constantly escapes the dumbed - down expectations beaten into us by lesser films.

Criticisms like this all point to an underlying question: would it have been better to just give us The Hobbit, on its own with none of the appendices, and let it be a lesser film?

It's the combination of character development, action and pure emotion that drives the film, where even secondary characters have motivations; a wonderful moment a lesser film would have cut for time finds the shapeshifting Mystique (Rebecca Romijn) propositioning Wolverine, at first disguising herself as Wolvie's crush, Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), then purring, «No one has left scars like you.»

It is much less a film about fashion than a film about an artist with a Roderick Usher - like sensitivity.

A lesser film would make the mother - who - lost - a-child protagonist into a victim who's constantly crying or a saint who bravely keeps her head up in spite of it all, but here, Becca is just pissed off.

Sadly, The Humbling (from the novel by Philip Roth, scripted by Buck Henry and directed by Barry Levinson) went to video on demand, while Manglehorn (directed by David Gordon Green) is still trying to drum up attention at lesser film festivals.

Long dismissed as a lesser film farce, Christmas in Connecticut has its own irresistible charm, and has in recent years become a perennial Christmas TV attraction.

Watching this play out, you can see where a lesser film would have stopped the action: after Steve agrees to sleep next to Diana, after his flirting falters, after a generic statement about how long it'll take them to reach land.

A lesser film might have relegated her to a single dose bit player, but here she's allowed not only to shine, but to locate the humanity in her exceptionally (almost psychotically) deranged character.

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The way Day - Lewis» eyes and voice fume and burn a hole through Shaw keeps the scene away from the simplistic, condescending pity a lesser film might attempt; by allowing that Christy could be both understandably lovelorn and petty at the same time, he shows him as someone who wishes to be seen as someone with a unique voice, one that needn't always be pleasant.

It's as manipulative as it is dishonest, but unlike many other far lesser films worthy of the same description, all this flick's shamelessness is on purpose.

In a lesser film, there would be no room for such supporting player kinship — but Nebraska fills in the margins of this family and it makes all the difference.

Bosworth's star vehicle Stone Cold is less a film than a construct in which veteran screenwriter Walter Doniger, in his seventies the year it was released, puts audience - tested Lethal Weapon concepts through a blender.

There's really no right in considering this a lesser film from Lynch and It's repeated viewings that prove that.

So much more than the protective momma bear that you often see in this kind of film, Davis makes» Amelia's struggle to connect with a child that she loves but may not like very much a palpable thing, while also showing the basic human needs — sexuality, some fucking sleep — that lesser films brush over.

Meanwhile, a very different British talent, in a far lesser film, merits discussion in the Best Supporting Actor category.

The child actors are terrific little Duracell batteries of rambunctious energy, and as the trio cuts an unsupervised path of mischief across the property — spitting on cars, roughhousing in abandoned buildings, chattering nonstop — The Florida Project conjures a sense of carefree everyday adventure that lesser films about childhood only wish they could summon.

Expect a lot of Oscar - minded self - importance in the film, but also thoughtful entertainment, which Wright has provided in even his lesser films.

Veteran actors often settle for lesser films in their older age, like De Niro, Walken and Michael Caine, yet Stamp is the kind of actor, who only takes a role he truly believes in.

While The Last Stand is perceived as a lesser film, it still has the biggest balls of any comic book adaptation to date, killing so many lead characters in one movie.

When the beautiful she - devil leans down for a kiss, lesser films would resort to jump cuts or gore, yet the scene's simplicity makes plain Caleb's complex feelings: A kiss is what the poor horny kid most desires and fears — with good reason.

In a lesser film, that would be that: The directors would expect us to laugh at his misfortune, and the plot would roll on.

The only common ingredient in these three lesser films is the presence of other writers or producers.

The lesser film adaptation betrays this wonderment and horror in its added visual dimension, shooting for the most in grayscale.

Without Thomas Newman's score, «Side Effects» would be a lesser film, even another film.

And for every Superbad, there are four or five lesser films like Project X. And sure, occasionally you'll get a high school movie that actually has something to say about the academic and societal pressures of being a student (Justin Lin's Better Luck Tomorrow is a great example), but even that focused primarily on male characters.

L'Inhumaine (1924) is less a film than a portable exhibition, a collection of formal innovations across several artistic disciplines bound by a plot developed just enough to support the weight of its technique.

But it's not simply bleak, it does chart an incredible, if incremental change in its lead character that a lesser film would paint in simpler, brighter colors to end on a note of hope.

A lesser film might have put all the focus on the fish man: his origins, his abilities, how he'll be used by the military and so on.

Boyle thrills his audiences with visual flourishes that make even his lesser films (that DiCaprio flick, for example) highly entertaining.

In a lesser film, this bizarre love triangle might stumble out of the gate, but the actors and screenwriters (Shane Salerno, Don Winslow, and Stone) totally commit to it.

Though it's a lesser film than those better known ones they previously made — it nevertheless follows the same trajectory and offers a few good stirring moments before it stumbles into an uninteresting cautious morality tale.

A lesser film would have presented the opponent as a conniving, contemptible stereotype and The Promotion would have been all - the - poorer for it.

Anderson's films have long had an off - kilter balance between arcs and individual moments, and this movie is largely tilted towards the latter: to name just one of the most piercing examples, the first flashback (of many), which shows Spots and Atari's first meeting, has enough emotional heft to sustain a full half of a lesser film.

For «The Weather Man» succeeds where so few Hollywood movies even venture — it builds a believable life, adds just enough nervous laughter to relieve the realistic tension, and constantly escapes the dumbed - down expectations beaten into us by lesser films.

If you miss your seat on the hype train early on, for whatever reason, and to even perhaps a far lesser film, you're pretty much out of luck.