Sentences with phrase «as dull a movie»

This film was as dull a movie as I've seen in recent years, with such a failure to engage my interest, I might as well have been meditating for the duration.

Not exact matches

Real work has extended periods of inactivity or dull grunt work, as opposed to the exciting, feverish pace of a computer programmer in a movie (I'm looking at you, «The Social Network» - programming should not look that cool).

It's only as the film inevitably segues into its mystery - oriented midsection that it slowly - but - surely becomes a seriously dull piece of work, as there's simply nothing interesting or intriguing about the gang's ongoing investigation into what happened - with the tediousness of this stretch exacerbated by the unpleasant and downright seedy nature of the movie's locale.

Hanks» solid yet stiff performance is, in the end, emblematic of everything that's wrong with Inferno, as the film's overly serious feel is completely at odds with the fun, fast - paced tone of Brown's page - turner - with, especially, the dull third act ensuring that the movie ends on as anti-climactic a note as one could envision.

It's all nevertheless quite pleasant and never dull, certainly, with the movie's mild success cemented by an effective (and somewhat affecting) closing stretch - which ensures that Peter Rabbit ultimately comes off as an amiable (if rather forgettable) bit of family - friendly entertainment.

Unfortunately, the movie (like most drug people I've known through the years) gets dull as hell once it sobers up.

Davis and Modine are almost transcendentally unappealing, as they weather dull sword fights, ship - to - ship exchanges (with treasure - seeking rival Frank Langella) and other action - movie banalities.

Evidently this is a Christian movie as there were interminable quotations from the Old Testament throughout, but Christianity can be fun, not dull like this awful film.

For a movie heralded as the cutting edge of visual innovation, Waking Life is disappointingly dull in every other respect.

The animation was suberb as in any of Kon's movies, but the story and the characters are kind of dull after all.

It seems unlikely there has ever been a more dull leading man in so many disappointing movies as in the case of Hayden Christensen — Lucas et al have a lot to answer for in foisting him upon the world in their dreadful Star Wars: Episodes II & III.

Mainly, the movie unfolds as one big, long, and very dull chase, with the beautiful princess on the run from stepmom's minions, aided and abetted by the titular Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth of Thor fame), a not - too - bright bounty hunter who becomes a chain - mail Clyde to her enchanted Bonnie.

The 1080p 2.35 X 1 digital High Definition image transfer is not only dull as noted, the editing is lame and the all - HD shoot tries to use the scope frame to be big or go big, but this has all the excitement and intrigue of a bad TV movie visually and there are episodes of Columbo and McCloud that look like they were shot in IMAX as compared to what we get here.

By offering the first act of the concluding tale as a stand - alone film, Lionsgate and company have made us wait a year for a plodding, dull, and thinly plotted movie that does little to move things forward.

Try as Hooper might to make the movie his own, the only real changes he has been allowed are cosmetic and stylistic, and even smeared in shit, Boublil and Schönberg's gleaming icons can not be dulled.

Even the action of the movie is as dull as the forced and unromantic chemistry between Hemsworth and Stewart.

Instead, the movie is surprisingly slow, talky and dull and its stake don't feel as urgent as expected.

After that, he remade the Coen Brothers» Blood Simple as A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop, a bold attempt that fell short, and made the historical war movie The Flowers of War starring Christian Bale, a rather dull and plodding affair.

Forbidden Planet is one of the few «historically important» movies which are not deathly dull for modern audiences today and rather enjoyable on its own terms and not as a film school lecture.

That's where Frank the Bastard finds itself, since despite having a mysterious title and a mysterious premise (a young woman confronts her past when she returns to the creepy commune she grew up in), the movie just spins its wheels as it looks for the dullest way to finally admit the pitiful details of its mystery plot.

While the movie is about a fairly important event in modern medicine — the discovery and recognition of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) as a very real problem within the sport of football — it's told in such a dull, straightforward manner that its message doesn't resonate.

And as a result, the movie almost feels dull.

The movie opens with a snatch of the old Specials hit «Ghost Town,» and the title sequence that follows shortly thereafter shows Londoners sleepwalking through their dull, repetitive lives — waiting for buses, moving through checkout lines — as if they'd already been infected.

It's just a damn shame that the movie itself is as dull as any major biopic we've seen — and we've seen a lot.

Instead, it seems content to follow the same generic formula of every other gangster drama, and as a result, the movie comes off dull and predictable.

After a surprisingly entertaining intro film and an awful sequel (directed by Jack Sholder — with Wishmaster 2 and A Nightmare on Elm Street 2, he did his best to fatally harpoon two budding franchises), Wishmaster 3 staggers onto the direct - to - video market with an astonishingly dull start that establishes Diana as a typically wounded horror movie scream queen and the film itself as just another dead - teenager flick.

Miller was attempting to make a neo-noir style movie with Gabriel Macht as the titular Spirit who narrates to himself about his love for the city and his need to protect, which gave us plenty of «Sin City» like imaginary.Its visuals notwithstanding, «The Spirit» was bogged down with a dull lead, some misjudged attempts at comedy and an uncontrolled Samuel L. Jackson being allowed to ham it up with no boundaries.

The camera leaps into the perspective of Danny, weaned on action movies, but it also depicts the dull reality of police work, revving up into a hyper - cut frenzy for barely two seconds before cooling back down as the «perp» instantly complies.

Well intentioned yet pervasively dull, The Stone Boy follows farmers Joe (Robert Duvall) and Ruth Hillerman (Glenn Close) as they attempt to cope with the accidental death of their teenage son (Dean Cain's Eugene) at the hands of 12 - year - old Arnold (Jason Presson)- with the movie also emphasizing the impact that the tragedy has on several periphery family members (including Frederic Forrest's sleazy Uncle Andy and Wilford Brimley's kind - hearted Grandpa George).

Instead of the movie's creative team owning their desire for a white actress to headline a Japanese property, they got cute — or convinced themselves that they were being cute — expecting moviegoers to swallow their race - based twist as a clever bit of subverted expectations; to use their public relations nightmare to prop up a resolutely dull screenplay.

And while the love / hate relationship between Midler and Alvarado's respective characters feels authentic, Stella is, in the end, foiled by a host of negative attributes that conspire to cement the movie's place as a seriously dull little drama.

There's little doubt, however, that such issues pale in comparison to unconscionable deliberateness with which the narrative unfolds, as the egregiously slow pace heightens the movie's myriad of problems and ensures that the midsection, which primarily revolves around Katniss» solo attempts at surviving, is nothing short of disastrous (ie it's just dull, mostly).

The movie's one obvious quality — the mansion where the story is set — should be the star here, but it becomes as unexceptional and dull as the rest of the movie.

that grows patiently more intense as the movie unfurls, the movie never feels dull, however.

It's clear immediately that something's gone seriously awry in terms of Misconduct's production and execution, as the movie, directed by Shintaro Shimosawa, comes off as a dull, terminally flat exercise in pointless virtually from beginning to end - with the far - from - engrossing vibe perpetuated by a whole host of half - baked and underwhelming attributes (including a series of lazy, phoned - in performances from an unusually talented cast).

It may be the best movie it could be, as Stuart suggests, but that doesn't mean it isn't also overblown and frequently dull, with a clumsy script and inaccessible characters.

As a first timer let loose upon a much - storied franchise which has as many myths around it as there are fans, you can either be all reverential and referential and deadly dull (just like those terrible movies from 2002 to 2008As a first timer let loose upon a much - storied franchise which has as many myths around it as there are fans, you can either be all reverential and referential and deadly dull (just like those terrible movies from 2002 to 2008as many myths around it as there are fans, you can either be all reverential and referential and deadly dull (just like those terrible movies from 2002 to 2008as there are fans, you can either be all reverential and referential and deadly dull (just like those terrible movies from 2002 to 2008).

Since its story was already related during a dull dumping of back story in the 2014 movie, Ouija: Origin of Evil may be relatively pointless, but co - writer / director Mike Flanagan's creepily effective film has at least one thing going for it in that regard: The first movie was so repetitive and forgettable that it's unlikely anyone really cares about or even remembers the story as it was told in the original.

The best of the bunch, however, is a short featurette on the construction of the infamous stunt turkey, but don't expect to find anything worth laughing at here — the extras are just as dull as the movie itself.

Featuring a familiar subject and an iconic actor is not enough for a movie to come to life, and The Family is ultimately as lifeless and dull as any number of the characters whacked during its bloated running time.

These little side jokes, as well as behaviors and relationships, are often funnier and more interesting than the main plot twists — as well as the «mockumentary» stuff — but there are enough of them in the movie's loose structure that it never gets dull.

The amazingly eclectic mixture of movies on the UK Video Store has been updated again, with such joys as Fred Claus, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and incredibly dull Hallmark Channel fodder like The Fugitive and Analyse This also appearing for download.

The only things unlocked upon completion of the game are equally boring color variants for Ryu's suit instead of cool costumes, a filter that makes the game look like a silent movie (which isn't quite as boring, but using it over a long time does get dull, eventually), and a new game plus save for the current difficulty level.