Sentences with phrase «as less a movie»

We may be in the minority on this, considering the warm reception that has greeted the film at festival screenings, but The Disaster Artist struck us as less a movie than an over-extended Funny Or Die skit packed with celebrity cameos — which is to say, it makes little sense if you haven't already seen The Room.

Not exact matches

This is the perfect horror movie for the Academy, as it is one that relies less on gore (though it is there) and more so on mounting dread.

Universal had heard all the stories of Hopper's erratic behavior over the years, first as an up - and - coming actor who had small parts in the James Dean movies «Rebel Without a Cause» and «Giant» (he admired Dean immensely), then as a bit player on a slew of TV shows, where he got little respect and gave even less back.

Even after I came out as a teenager, it felt like I had to seek out portrayals of gay men by searching the internet or looking into more independently made, less accessible shows and movies.

But the movie doesn't shy away from portraying Mr. Buffett, now 86, as something of a remarkable human computer, gifted with numbers and less so with interpersonal relationships.

That could be all - important for consumers, because without the deal, AT&T and Time Warner separately could be left weaker, compared to competitors such as Comcast and Disney, and less willing to deploy new services or green - light new movies and TV series — an argument made by the companies and analysts covering the sector.

We could cut a few things — our bi-weekly date night (a movie, or a dinner, never both), eating less meat (though that doesn't appeal to me, as -LSB-...]

In Mystery Men, a movie from a few years back, William H. Macy, Ben Stiller and Hank Azaria starred as a trio of lesser superheroes with fairly unimpressive superpowers.

I see the movie as more of a product inspired by the book and less of a forced visual replication.

And if my experience resembles a less - agonizing version of the experience of Bill Murray's Phil Connors character in Groundhog Day, that may be fitting inasmuch as the two movies invite comparison as different treatments of a common theme.

I'm firmly ensconced in the middle class and will pay less for a good round of golf than I will to take my family to a football game, and about the same as to take them to a movie anymore.

This is good news for supporters of the movie as the film drew just $ 3.5 million less than «Despicable Me 2» which is a sequel to the widely popular original released in 2010.

We intentionally gave less gifts as previous years, but the kids seemed to still accumulate large piles of more toys, movies, books, games, and crafts.

As Harris freely admits, their intimate time is more about cuddling, watching movies and playing games than sex but their marriage is no less a real marriage than anyone else's.

One of Paul's favorite books is the classic The Cosmic Connection by Carl Sagan, and while less cerebral but just as inspirational, my favorite movie ever is Alien.

So the next time a friend raves about the movie he chose and is less enthusiastic about the just - as - good one that you chose, you might be able to chalk it up to his basic learning circuitry and a genetic difference that affects it.

You'll feel better if you spend time engaging in less frightening or anxiety - producing activities, situations, movies, or games, and more time doing relaxing things, such as gentle walks, watching sunsets, and listening to calming music.

In mentally inactive sitting, individuals may be engaging in less demanding, passive tasks such as watching television or movies.»

Movie - theater popcorn drenched in butter is the opposite of a health food, she says, and some microwave and pre-popped varieties contain artificial or less - than - healthy ingredients — such as partially hydrogenated oils — that shoppers should be mindful of.

This way, there was less pressure because it wasn't a full date, such as dinner and a movie or whatever.

One Ethiopian writer described a couple, when dating, as happy, at parties and movies and recreation centers and swimming pools, while they appeared to dating a divorced mother less so after being married; still the writer thought marriage was the lesser of two evils when compared with the single life.

For most of his action - movie career, he has come across as a less romantically nimble, less self - amused version of Douglas Fairbanks, the swashbuckler who leaped through the silent era.

What did impress me about Who Framed Roger Rabbit even at a young age was the converging of cartoon stars from Disney, Warner Brothers, and elsewhere, all in one movie, animated more or less as they looked in the late»40s.

The promising atmosphere is perpetuated by an engrossing early sequence in which the central foursome debate the fates of three seemingly innocent bystanders, and yet it's equally clear that the movie begins to peter out almost immediately following that electrifying interlude - as writer / director Berg's less - than - cinematic visual choices result in a lack of thrills that grows more and more problematic as time progresses.

That reliance is less engaging in the movie's interpersonal relationships, which, despite charming performances from Jackman (who manages to overcome his character's numerous flaws) and Goyo (who avoids the trap of becoming a grating «precocious kid»), are as rote as their development is inevitable.

What's more, the choice to largely wipe from existence characters who are more or less vital to the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a going concern (especially Star - Lord, Spider - Man, and freakin» Black Panther) so dramatically inflates the stakes that it becomes all but certain the next movie will reverse most of these deaths.

The producers have located the two actors in the British Isles who haven't been in one of these things yet: Ciarán Hinds as Dumbledore's brother and Kelly Macdonald as the ghostly Helena Ravenclaw, her angry sorrow on loan from a smaller, less forgiving movie.

While the movie includes narration (by Charles Osgood) drawn from the book, it also allows the stars opportunity for topical pop - cultural references as well as narrative detours, as when the mayor goes in for a Who - Root Canal «Sticking» «Who» in front of everything,» he gripes, «doesn't make it hurt less») or Horton's clover lands in a field of clovers, whereupon he sets out to locate his speck - adorned lower out of the thousands stretching before him.

In a far less villainous vein, Charles Middleton was cast as Tom Lincoln, father of the 16th president, in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940); he also portrayed the Great Emancipator himself on several occasions — while in 1937's Stand - In, Middleton was hilariously cast as an unsuccessful actor who dresses like Lincoln in hopes of landing a movie role.

I've never been a fan, as a rule of horror movies, however, the trailer drew me to this one and i'm glad it did, the awful acting we usually get in horror movies wasn't there this time round, in fact, the whole cast were excellent, the special effects were really very good and the humorous, intelligent dialogue (another thing you don't usually get in horrors) was brilliant, loved the film, Chris Hemsworth, although with less to do in this than he does in Thor, was great in it too.

The eye - rolling predictability of Nancy Sackett's screenplay exacerbates the movie's less - than - watchable atmosphere, as there's virtually nothing that occurs within Ron Howard's Skyward that one doesn't see coming from miles away (eg Julie's parents forbid her from flying, Julie fights with Scott, etc, etc)- which ultimately prevents the finale from packing the uplifting, emotional punch that Howard is obviously striving for.

«Tummy Trouble», «Rollercoaster Rabbit», and «Trail Mix - Up» are all included here, but while the opening of Who Framed Roger Rabbit functions as both wild cartoon slapstick and hyperbolic parody of same (as well as something of a precursor to the even more satiric Itchy and Scratchy of The Simpsons), the subsequent shorts, beyond lacking the deft, fluid touch of the movie's animation director Richard Williams, are less clever: orchestrations of mayhem that occasionally pause to wink at themselves.

Unfortunately, the movie gets less funny as more subplots are piled upon the trio, especially when the angry Mr. Chow blackmails them, taking the story into darker territory.

Less interesting as a boxing movie and more so as a dysfunctional family drama.

As it happens, a less boring movie would be hard to imagine.

Had he had a slightly less obvious, more subtle, and smarter script to work with; who knows what we'd be saying about Hopkins as it pertains to this movie.

Such a vulnerable movie that if it were a little less sappy, one might feel compelled to protect it, as if it were someone under 7 or over 65 — that portion of the public for which it is intended.

A dweeby and unenchanting concoction as romantic comedies go, Mark Decena's debut feature also juggles enough storylines to fill five or six movies in barely 80 minutes of screen time, ending up with a whole distinctly less than the sum of its parts.

(Right then and there, Annihilation announces itself as less of an explosion movie and more of an unexplainably unsettling oily aura movie.)

Die - hard fans will be thrilled with the extensive interviews and concert footage; as a more casual fan, after an hour I had learned almost everything I ever wanted to know about the man and was ready for the filmmakers to wrap it up — I was shocked to realize I was less than halfway through the movie.

Increasingly, it becomes less and less likely to buy any of the movie as reality.

Director Stanley Kubrick, working from a script cowritten with Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson, kicks Paths of Glory off with an admittedly less - than - engrossing stretch, as the movie boasts (or suffers from) a somewhat talky first act that doesn't contain much in the way of compelling elements - although, by that same token, it's clear that the film benefits substantially from Kubrick's stellar directorial choices and a host of above - average performances.

Fuglsig's feature debut is ultimately less an action movie and more a procedural, one in which incremental gains and minimal casualties are as much as can be hoped for.

As the story builds, these characters become richer and more complicated — and the stakes become more deadly — resulting in a movie with a delayed but no less potent dramatic punch.

Driftwood is presented and promoted as a horror movie with psychological elements, and while this is true, it undersells what is an effective psycho thriller, less about gore and horror, more about story and character.

It's ultimately clear, however, that Fear and Desire simply isn't able to justify its feature - length running time (ie the whole thing feels padded - out even at 61 minutes), with the movie's less - than - consistent vibe paving the way for a second half that could hardly be less interesting or anti-climactic - which does, in the end, confirm the film's place as a fairly ineffective first effort that does, at least, highlight the eye - catching visual sensibilities of its preternaturally - talented director.

If the movie is finally something of a failure as a romance, it's rarely less than a triumph of soulful imagination.

And if, in the hands of a lesser filmmaker, such a decision might foster a mood of lurid home - movie voyeurism, both Ceylans are such commanding and subtly expressive performers that any charges of nepotism here are as erroneous as in the storied collaborations of John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands.

While it's always going to be less frustrating when characters in horror movies behave like intelligent, attack mode - ready superhumans and can turn the tables on their terrorizers, Kinsey and her family all react as realistically as one would and with believable fallibility when thrown into a horrific situation they weren't ready for, and it's worthy of applause when some of them find it in themselves to fight back.

The movie is not terrifying but blandly edifying; its scares, foreshadowed as if by telegram, are delivered less effectively than its life lessons.