In an essay this might be enjoyed
as dry humour.
In the film, Prof. Hawking's struggle with his disability was chronicled, as well
as his dry humour and staunch attitude not to let the disease prevent him from working.
Not exact matches
Yet anyone whose last will and testament demanded the establishment of a Nick Cave Memorial Museum clearly has a sharp sense of
humour, and Forsyth and Pollard (who have worked with Cave before on projects such
as short film series Do You Love Me Like I Love You) are
as wry,
dry and entertaining
as their subject.
Vassilis Nemeas) shares the same
dry, philosophical
humour as Plato's Academy, but is ultimately a conventional concoction; I Diathiki tou Ierea Ioanni Melie (The Will of Father Jean Meslier, dir.
What started off
as an edgy slice of
humour to Marvel's stories (the
dry wit of Tony Stark, the faux set pieces of Ant - Man), is beginning to come a frustrating norm.
If director Paul Andrew Williams tries too hard to apply a familiar sense of
dry humour to the proceedings (landing closer to last year's eye - roller Severance than to anything Edgar Wright has ever done), he finds his calling in the fine art of overcompensation: throw enough severed body parts around and scream «fucking cunt» to the rafters
as many times
as possible and perhaps everyone will forget that you don't have much to say at all.
McDormand is a force of nature
as the grieving mom whose anger exhibits itself with devastating results — and often, outrageously
dry, foul - mouthed
humour.
Evans, so stiff
as Captain America, gets to exercise a very
dry sense of
humour (and since he's probably under Marvel contract not to lose his muscles, looks good enough to be described by one of the teachers
as «the quiet, damaged, hot guy»).
Her section of the film is closely aligned with DA Pennebaker's 1967 documentary Don't Look Back,
as Jude teases the British press (personified by BBC reporter Bruce Greenwood) with a series of non-sequiturs and riddles; and Blanchett comes closer than anyone to really capturing the spirit of the man, with the
dry humour and cocksure swagger of her performance being brilliantly observed.
Despite the fact Andersson uses mostly unknown actors, they do a good job of underacting, which successfully combines with the
dry humour to make quite a funny film, even if
as a story it makes no sense.
Yet, with his typical
dry sense of
humour, he also thanked those who had not describing them
as «boneheads, Philistines and skinflints», who could all «rot in hell».
Disappointingly, Yorgos Lanthimos» latest isn't nearly
as densely packed with ideas
as The Lobster or Dogtooth were — but the bone
dry humour of the film comes close to making up for that.
I will admit though; the the
humour in Screamride is a little
dry and repetitive — and the robotic commentator does seem
as though she is trying to outwit GLaDOS from Portal.