Sentences with phrase «attempts at drama»

The attempts at drama do add some weight, all right — as in weighing down and slowing the proceedings, not adding psychological or emotional heft.

Actually, the light tone of the first half undercuts the subsequent attempts at drama.

The series roots been torn up and burnt so messily that any new attempts at drama feel like worthless padding.

The romance between Hewitt and Lee seems rushed and therefore a little unbelievable, and the couple of attempts at drama land well wide of the mark.

This attempt at a drama is pretty routine, but it demonstrates why some clichés became clichés: because they work.

I derive far too much enjoyment from its misguided attempt at drama to judge it so harshly.

There's no attempt at drama here, just good, old - fashioned screwball comedy abounding with double - entendres and sight gags and anchored by two charmingly presentational and presentationally charming lead performances.

Not exact matches

In a London derby that always throws up plenty of drama, Pedro Obiang's long - range thunderbolt looked to have been the latest twist in our storied rivalry with the Hammers - a strike all the more noteworthy as it represented their first attempt at goal, despite coming as late as the 70th minute.

The only drama with this is attempting to eat it in the car which I have done way too many times now, having to scoff a couple of spoonfuls at each red light.

Good performances and cinematography can't save this tone - deaf attempt at a psychological drama.

But instead of being sloppily miscalculated (the «Franco touch»), this attempt at a Depression - era labor drama in the vein of John Sayles just bores its way through almost two hours of screen time, never rising above anonymity.

Knaggs» career reached a peak in the mid -»40s, when he worked in supporting roles in ambitious major studio films such as None but the Lonely Heart (a fascinating but failed attempt at a serious drama by Cary Grant) and unusual independently made features like Douglas Sirk's early Hollywood effort Thieves» Holiday, while also making the rounds of such popular medium - budget Universal Pictures productions as House of Dracula, The Invisible Man's Revenge, and Terror By Night.

Unfortunately The Sleepwalker is nothing more than a tone - deaf attempt at the kind of psychological drama its predecessors did so well.

There's also an odd episode or two that is more documentary than drama, which is an odd mix since the film makes no attempt at realism.

For Mana, showing up for practice and competing in the meet are acts of open defiance, and Ariki isn't the kind of character you want to make angry, which pulls the openly conflicted Gen into the center of a potentially violent situation — one that feels like something out of a Paul Schrader movie (say, Travis Bickle's foolhardy attempt to liberate Iris at the end of «Taxi Driver») rather than the sort of climax audiences might anticipate from this otherwise Disney - appropriate inspirational drama.

Attempts at comedy, be it Hook and Smee banter or the Lost Boys» childish antics, are just as feeble as Jane's coming - of - age drama.

While not a home run, this comedy / drama might still be worth a look for fans of any of its charismatic stars (especially Slate and Kazan) and for those looking for a comedy that at least attempts to infuse darker elements in with its awkward laughs.

Suggesting a period piece version of a film noir saga as envisioned by Stanley Kubrick, this twisted feminist drama is rooted in contentious racial - and gender - warfare issues, employing a meticulous formalism to recount its cutthroat story about Katherine's at - any - cost attempts to attain liberation.

In this fact - based drama, a surfer named Bethany Hamilton relies on her faith and the support of her parents as she attempts a comeback at championship surfing after losing an arm in a shark attack.

Still, the drama focuses on the seemingly endless torture inflicted upon Jesus by Roman soldiers at the urging of the Jewish crowd that considers him a blasphemer, despite the attempts of a sympathetic Pontius Pilate (Hristo Naumov Shopov) to spare him from death.

From Angelo Badalamenti's lush (and ironic) score to Dean Jones» showstopping (mimicked) performance of Roy Orbison's «In Dreams» to Rossellini's game attempts at «Blue Velvet,» the lossless audio heightens the drama all around.

With Whiplash being a serious drama and La La Land being a contemporary musical, First Man seems to be the first real attempt at biopic slash non-fiction film he's done.

Any hope Ferguson might produce some consolatory warmth or heat with her co-star gets extinguished early on, and while it's almost a relief when the film abandons its limp attempts to make Katrine interesting and instead generates another damsel - in - distress, it's also an admission of defeat, marking the point at which Alfredson abandons any pretension to serious drama.

The Natalie Portman - starring western Jane Got a Gun (a by - now infamously troubled production), finally set to premier at the end of January, features Portman as one of two or three women in the entire film; contrast that with indie drama About Ray and the hotly contested remake of the Ivan Reitman classic Ghost Busters, a production attempting to further distinguish itself by pushing the words together to form Ghostbusters — how crafty.

I do wonder if the main problem of Albert Hobbs is that for all the attempts at carving out a drama of dehumanization from this mess, Close and her collaborators forgot to first humanize their victims / players.

There a ton of cameos that are amusing, particularly Judd Apatow in one of the movie's more successful attempts at balancing comedy and drama.

While there are plenty of attempts at ordinary dialogue - based and over-the-top physical humor, it's the moments of pure elegance and drama that, accompanied by a soothingly effective score, make this film memorable.

The movie is nothing more than a pandering and forgettable feelgood flick, and the few attempts at real drama (including the «shocking» flashbacks to Mickey's childhood) are far and outside, never coming anywhere near home plate.

This raw psychological drama about an engineer unable to adjust to the world around him following his suicide attempt is at heart a scathing portrait of social alienation and moral compromise.

The Exorcist - Lite with a Hebrew twist, The Possession is an earnest attempt at a family drama masquerading as a horror movie, one that is ultimately rendered toothless by overly familiar tropes and a emasculating PG - 13 rating.

Monahan's script adapts the story of James Toback, whose actual gambling exploits first inspired the 1974 film; only in this 2014 version, the character drama is saddled with an attempt at greater depth, with Monahan relying on lengthy explanations and pontifications where the original film preferred action and implication to convey its deeper themes and ideas.

Lady Bird's escape from home is at school, where she hangs out with her best friend Julie (the absolutely fantastic Beanie Feldstein) and joins the drama club in an attempt to pad out her college applications.

As a comedy, it's often entertaining, and as a drama, it's often engrossing, but as an attempt at both, it can be considerably uneven.

So, to have absolutely zero attempts at generating drama during the career mode is upsetting.

Cribbing more from the cringey French dramas of Catherine Breillat (think: a less perverse Fat Girl) than the warm and fuzzy «80s staples of John Hughes, Eighth Grade is the painfully real attempt at comprehending what it means to grow up in a generation overwhelmed with information, which in turn transforms nearly everything about the process into a competition (even more so than it organically is).

The airplane crash drama is incidental: this is a movie about self - destructive behavior, failed attempts at recovery, and eventual redemption.

There were a couple of attempts at more serious drama that didn't really go over so well.

Fans of Fire Emblem will recognize this nod to Fates» heavy focus on epic family drama, which could mean Warriors was attempting to poke fun at the series» heavy - handed stories, but there's not enough humor to justify it as fact.

The first half of 2016 brought high stakes and high drama to Los Angeles» education scene, from dire budget predictions to heated charter debates to attempts at overhauling teacher tenure laws.

His first attempt at a novel, titled «The Lure,» was a crime drama centered on the modern - day surfacing of a 110 - carat yellow diamond lost during the French Revolution.

Final Fantasy VII burst onto the PS1 with graphics that amazed and a story that overwhelmed gamers everywhere, but in its earnest attempt at creating a connection to the player, something happened that allowed the genre to slowly spiral out of control into a never - ending battle against goofy dialogue, uncanny graphics, and an over-abundance of drama played up for the sake of drama.

Fans of Fire Emblem will recognize this nod to Fates» heavy focus on epic family drama, which could mean Warriors was attempting to poke fun at the series» heavy - handed stories, but there's not enough humor to justify it as fact.

In addition to appearing in movies and television dramas, she is currently also promoting her recent attempt at being a recording artist, with her first album, CIRCUS, releasing November 23rd.

Lightning retains her stoic demeanor, and this starts to detract from the experience during the few attempts at breaking up the drama with humor.

The situation isn't as ridiculous as CNET's frankly embarrassing attempt at creating drama out of nothing, but it's enough to make me question the airplane scenario if mild turbulence kicks in.

«These are real people getting real divorces — or at least attempting to get real divorces — and it has all of the human drama of this significant process all condensed down into a very short period of time,» said Mickey Stern, co-chief executive of Base Productions.