Sentences with phrase «at crass»

It would have been easy to poke fun at the crass kitsch of the Bollywood hit parade that opens the film, but James Ivory's socio - artistic commentary (narrated by director Anthony Korner) sets a detached, almost disinterested tone, lending the documentary a gloss of seriousness.

Until we stop laughing collectively and out loud at crass fag jokes, films like The Hangover will be made again and again.

Sure, having bottles of Armadale vodka crammed into every other shot could be read as a pointed swipe at crass endorsements of luxury liquors.

At the crassest level, the level the theological expert at the next table should understand, belief in heaven makes saints as well as suicide bombers.

Not exact matches

The grandson of the media mogul Larry Tisch, he is one of those New York types who can be both crass and charming at the same time.

You know it was exactly what he's like today except at that time he was much more fun and much more genial in a way, and he was just this funny, coarse, crass guy but he had a personality.

Carrasquillo later apologized, characterizing the comments as a «crass and sexist attempt at a joke.»

And at the risk of sounding crass, why make it so complicated?

Only at the end of the movie do you realize there were no sex jokes, no romps through strip clubs, and no crass profanity - bread and butter for success comedies in the last decade.

Such writing (typical enough), as I wrote at the time, is so crass, and at so many levels, that it is difficult to know where to begin.

I don't mean to be crass (but I also don't mind it) but can we just look at how MASSIVE this ring is?

It may have happened a few years ago but it was an open and shut case of, at the very best, crass naivety.

As well as the rather crass attention - seeking, I was mocking the attempt to provide an «evidence base» with «at least one» anecdote from a country which everybody knows has liberal gun laws and a much higher murder rate.

While it might be crass, (and reduce all us voters to mindless drones incapable of formulating an opinion based on issues) if we look at this race through the assumption that people tend to vote along ethnic lines, then the largest voting bloc in Queens i.e.the Rockaways and Jamaica will vote for City Councilman Leroy Comrie.

The statement said, «We want to inform Nigerians that this is an opportunity for those who are suffering and undergoing the suffocating hardship, poverty, hunger, comatose economy, insecurity, crass ineptitude, gagging of the press and opposition leaders and members, and more atrocities; to get registered in order to vote out this none performing APC - led Administration at all levels.

The NDC minority in Parliament is disgusted and feels a sense of revulsion at the perpetration of this act of crass lawlessness on the person and office of the Deputy Commissioner of the E.C.

«It turns out that the state Legislature does not have any kind of monopoly on crass corruption in New York,» said Bharara, whose office won convictions of former top lawmakers Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos last year, at a noontime press conference.»

He would show up at locations outside the district and piggyback off any events where he saw the chance to steal the limelight and catch a headline in his signature crass manner.

«I think they're both very effective at what they do, but she's more class and he's more crass,» said Mr. Weprin, who served alongside Ms. Barron in the Assembly, Mr. Barron in the Council and now works with Ms. Barron again in the Council.

He added: «People's anger - and my party's anger - at me will never ever match my anger with myself or my remorse at such a crass mistake.

If I have any criticism of Atkins at all it's that the good doctor thought people had to eat lots of fiber to stay regular, but if you eat enough fat, that works too, not to be too crass about it.

Rachel Crass doesn't agree, at least not about the part that includes Olympic weightlifting.

More accurately, I F * # & ing love it, but let's pretend for this post at least that I am as ladylike as this dress suggests and that my fervent passion for splendid clothing would never move me to such crass heights.

(I don't mean to be crass, it's just that one woman I know whose wig is amazing was given the recommendation of her wig store by a nurse at her hospital.

I think the trick is to like everyone at first sight and only dislike them if they behave or do something that is crass or not particularly likable.

I also work in a very male dominated industry, so my humor can be a little crass at times.

At the risk of being called an anti-Semite, I would like to propose a moratorium on Holocaust movies — While it would be crass to discount the importance of the subject, at the same time one has to admit there is some degree of excess going on herAt the risk of being called an anti-Semite, I would like to propose a moratorium on Holocaust movies — While it would be crass to discount the importance of the subject, at the same time one has to admit there is some degree of excess going on herat the same time one has to admit there is some degree of excess going on here.

Of course, competition is slim and little comes from Pixar's summer release, Cars 3, which was crass commercialism at its worst.

It is gleefully crass, and even irrelevantly so: One of the funniest moments is a profanity - laden version of «Total Eclipse of the Heart,» sung at a wedding reception as a throw - away joke.

You can make a movie that's both sweet and crass; just look at Judd Apatow's comedies.

Despite the usual strained stabs at topical social significance, Frakes maintains a brisk pace, staging the battle scenes with panache and undercutting the absurd techno gibberish with crass but leavening humour.

In fact, most of the time you will end up wincing at some of the gags, many of them as crass and nasty as can be.

But I digress, the problem this film has, outside of some very ugly, vile, crass attempts at humor, is the fact that it just isn't funny enough to be considered a comedy.

Easily the most emotionally impactful film at TIFF, thanks to Gyllenhaal's best performance to date, which is supported by Maslany and Miranda Richardson in the surprising role as his crass mom.

But while The Emperor's New Groove gave us a passable farce where we could have had a genuine epic, this film gives us an interesting if flawed look at another culture where we could have had another rote, crass princess story.

Stone Age Smackdown does more to benefit WWE than the Flintstones, but at least it resurrects the 55 - year - old Hanna - Barbera franchise without feeling like crass sacrilege.

Coming at things quite differently from those other two titles, The Bronze isn't an inspiring true story of tenacity and courage, but rather a repugnant crass comedy masquerading as the kind of bold and daring indie character story that Sundance eats up every year.

With a resume that big, it's tough to say how accurate the number is, but if you thought this might be the one with which Corman would break from the cheap, crass playbook he's relied on for over fifty years, then take another look at the cover art above and notice that the film is called Camel Spiders.

In the crass sporting satire, The Bronze, the audience is supposed to unleash their wicked funny bones at the door for a former foul - mouthed Olympic blonde - haired...

Carelessly crass, and yet enthusiastically performed, the film does at least offer the curious spectacle of witnessing strings of jokes energetically thud in a movie that's not worth the commute to your nearest multiplex.

Although profane and violent as well as crass and ridiculous at times, the film is also eccentric and dynamic, with humanity and heart shining through the cynical quips.

For instance, a sexual relationship between Diana and Big Chuck (a bearded Eric Stonestreet) simply settles for a crass attempt at humor as Chuck spends much of his time stripping for Sandy after Diana convinces him that Sandy likes to watch.

They're crass at times, but ultimately, they seem to know Adam better than he knows himself.

At times the filmmakers seem to be taking potshots at Philomena for her placidity; other times Martin is made to seem crass and unfeeling — insufficiently spirituaAt times the filmmakers seem to be taking potshots at Philomena for her placidity; other times Martin is made to seem crass and unfeeling — insufficiently spirituaat Philomena for her placidity; other times Martin is made to seem crass and unfeeling — insufficiently spiritual.

It's also hard to really root for any of the three, despite the best efforts of the young cast — particularly Teller, as Daniel, having wonderfully naturalistic delivery at times — with Jason a selfish ladies» man, Mikey a workaholic pushover, and Daniel a crass, tactless adolescent.

It's around this point that Elvis vehicles started to develop a sociopathic streak; Viva Las Vegas's crass reduction of anyone Elvis doesn't need to literal cannon fodder is perhaps in the embryonic stage in these opening moments of It Happened at the World's Fair, or when Mike ducks out on his quasi-daughter and his best friend without saying goodbye, effectively cutting them from the show - stopping, Music Man - ish final number.

To say this film is crass, lewd, and downright nasty at times is an understatement.

An antidote to the market - driven Smurfs, Cars, and Despicable Me sequels and the presumably crass, blatant hack - work of (brace yourself) The Emoji Movie, due in August, Your Name hits the U.S. in various cities on April 7 after a brief Oscar - qualifying run at the end of last year.

Such is the tension of In Bruges, which tries way too hard to be hip and hilarious (Juno - syndrome again); so much time is spent polishing the picture's veneer to a blinding shine that when it turns itself inside - out to show how far its crass hero has come at the end, it feels patently forced.

Though at times he's been presented as little more than a attention deficient 12 - year - old boy in an adult murderer's body, there have been cases where the character has been presented as a bit more than a simple collection of crass one - liners and hit - or - miss slapstick gags.