Sentences with phrase «preachy movie»

Is this movie an amazing tale of inspiration or is it just a preachy movie about Jesus and football?

At times, the new film plays like a Wayans brothers parody of a late Malick picture: Sleepy Movie, Floaty Movie, Preachy Movie.

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This environmental theme reaches a «preachy» level that secularists would mock if applied to some evangelical doctrine in any other movie.

A movie that teaches kids about emotions could have been dry and preachy.

My children fell asleep in this overly long, overly preachy, confusing mess of a movie.

As with «American History X,» Kaye's stance is obvious and moment to moment scenes are a bit preachy, but none of this detracts from the established tone and eventual takeaway of this socially conscience, effortlessly powerful movie.

Now don't get me wrong, the movie isn't all about some preachy PC message (not all of it anyway), there is some fun to be had.

Preachy, sketchy, disjunctive, and with a blistery, solarized sheen that makes it look microwaved rather than photographed, «Fair Game» is a movie that for the most part trades on the Wilsons» notoriety instead of delving into the heart of it.

Oliver Stone's Wall Street sequel was too preachy, and half of the movie was an infomercial promoting some form of clean energy.

It's a genre piece, and it's uneven (for once the juvenile actors in a movie aren't as good as the grownups) but it's not didactic or overly preachy and it makes some trenchant points about despair.

An engaging film, sometimes preachy, somewhat special effects poor, but surely a rarity among movies with the spirit of individualism and creativity lauded.

Though, if you are looking for a movie about the Spanish Civil War save yourself the preachy efforts of this film and check out Guillermo del Toro's «Pan's Labyrinth».

My only hope is that it isnt too preachy, but is rather a good movie that «happens» to be about black pilots who did nt get a fair shake VS being force - fed the fact that they're black pilots, so for PC's sake we must think its a good movie... < — As a minority, I cant STAND that.

Hoot isn't really trying to recapture a sense of nostalgia for these sorts of vacuous, sometimes - preachy little films, but it does appear to be made by people that haven't really matured past that era in terms of what they think of when they conceive of movies aimed at young adults.

The complications are riveting, but Shelton renders them with such tenderness and delicacy that the film never slips into preachy «social problem» movie territory.

While trying to do the former, it becomes too preachy — especially during its last act — , and while doing the latter, it feels more like a cheesy made - for - TV movie than a theatrical release.

Yet while the movie is sure to leave most viewers in despair, the filmmakers are smart enough to use their big cast to include gray areas in - between the two factions, making it less preachy and more messily human.

...» Yet the movie never feels pat or condescending or preachy.

Interpreted variously as a preachy liberal fable, an allegory of the McCarthy era and as a commentary on U.S. involvement in both Korea and WWII, it stands first and foremost as a fine, classic western movie.

Much of the movie is focused on Sutter's drinking and a related accident, though, like Smashed, this is not a preachy, disease - of - the - week movie.

She is silly, blunt, filthy, immature, and imminently likeable in a movie that delivers the goods without being preachy.

The aesthetic and originality of his films are felt and seen, but many complaints for his movies are that they became too preachy in nature while recycling the same ideas from previous works.

The last time I saw a movie where so many whites were massacred by blacks was 1993's Sankofa, which was a little bit too preachy to be an enjoyable film experience.

The movie gets preachy and moralistic, when at the end, Mrs. Dorrance encourages Vic to use his talents and skills for «something clean and honest.»

The puns of the character names get old quickly, and I felt the movie had a preachy, smarmy tone that made it less compelling.

Everyone is here to have fun, and honestly, by largely ignoring heading down the preachy route the movie ends up speaking for itself on how working together against common enemies and in tandem for the same goals is the right way.

Follow up each scene with contrivance after contrivance to further give voice to the movie's underlying preachy nature, and if you're going to preach, you might as well go the distance and wrap John and his family up as God - fearing folk who go to church every Sunday and take time out to pray for a miracle in every scene.

There is much to like about this movie, starting with its attitudes — which are refreshingly progressive without feeling forced or preachy.