Sentences with phrase «audience rooting for»

There are so many other baseball movies that pull at the heartstrings and get the audience rooting for our characters that this one falls flat in comparison.

Cage's character persuasively argues he is only resorting to crime in order to protect his family, leaving the audience rooting for the crooks and laughing at the police who lack the resources to catch Memphis in the act.

Find a way to get the audience rooting for you, even if they don't agree with your thoughts.

In those cases, the stories outshine the product pitch, making audiences root for the entrepreneurs to land a partnership.

Just when we were ready to give up mainstream movies as braindead, along comes the controversial and gleefully subversive V for Vendetta, a piece of corporate - sponsored art that will have audiences rooting for a bomb - throwing anarchist.

But unlike «Rocky,» director Gavin O'Connor has the difficult task of making the audience root for two different protagonists, only to then pit them against one another in the ring.

Rourke gives the character a human sensibility that makes the audience root for him, even though his acts of violence are beyond reproach.

She really lets the audience root for her but also realize her flaws as well.

But, some filmmakers aren't interested in having their audiences root for their characters, some simply want to carve out supreme assholes whose quirks and maladies are at the expense of everyone around them.

The audience roots for them and wants them to achieve happiness.

The security guard overlooks the scene helplessly, though he is initially blamed, and we in the audience root for nice guy Mike (John Gallagher Jr.) who conducts an office romance with Leandra (Adria Arjona).

Not exact matches

When the movie begins, it's easy to surmise the audience is expected to identify with, and root for, McDormand's grieving mother, who puts up the billboards demanding justice for her murdered daughter.

RTL has its roots in the TV world, where audiences have been verified and content has been brand safe for the last 50 years.

During this year's primaries, DeMoss found himself addressing audiences of evangelical leaders in which nearly everyone was rooting for another candidate: Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry — anybody but Romney.

Even if you're not one for network sitcoms, there's a reason to root for Roseanne to break beyond the typical audiences for laugh - track shows.

The filmmakers want the audience to root for a character who makes it to the top through her own bloody - minded determination.

NOW WE CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THE EXTENT OF DEMENTIA IN AMERICA Dale Benjamin Drakeford 8-31-12 When Clint Eastwood, a self - proclaimed «conservative» (who has lived more like a Joseph Smith liberal spurning nine children with four different women, sporting a clinch fisted personae in his private exenterates over public exhibitions) talks vulgar to an empty chair, Marco Rubio (a small government advocate who loss his roots somewhere between caffeine - free tea and a caffeine rich Cuban cigar) slips Freudian to advocate «large government» in a failed attempt to wax brilliant but came off bane (pun intended) to the capitalization of the nation, Paul Ryan can lie and demonize his role against the truth until his nose is a foot long and not one member of his audience will notice, and Mitt Romney can anecdote on his personal family, business and church goings on as oppose to his solutions for unemployment, banking corruption, housing displacement, militarism, planetary illness and international human rights unrest, we can clearly understand the extent of dementia in America.

We the audience are meant to connect with her and root for her (same with Guttenberg in time, we all know he always played a goodie) but its all so vomit inducing and infantile... these days anyway.

For much of its life AntiTrust relies on unhysterical thrills that are rooted in a highly credible set - up (a psychological cat - and - mouse game) and keep the audience guessing along with Milo.

The film manipulates the audience into actively rooting for Miranda's innocence, if only because Paulina is thoroughly unappealing.

The cast are all given room to inhabit their characters and so the audience is allowed to root for the near mindless violence ladled out before us.

It would seem absurd that anyone in the theater audience would root for the Nixon government, any more than we would root that Gary Cooper's Marshall Will Kane would lose his gun battle and die by Frank Miller's six - shooter.

For over a decade, sold out audiences have enjoyed Rocky Horror - like participation consisting of hilarious traditions such as screen - shouting, football playing, throwing spoons at the screen, rooting on the shockingly long establishing pans of San Francisco, and generally laughing hysterically at the film's clunky pseudo-Tennessee Williams dialogue, confused performances, and bizarre plot twists, like the mother - in - law character whose breast cancer ought to play like it matters a great deal, but really comes off as a non-sequitur.

«Black Panther» gave audiences so much to root for and talk about.

Table 19 seems standard enough to introduce us to a group of people who could keep us entertained over 90 minutes, but instead we get a grab - bag group of people who don't really develop any real interest for the audience to want to root for.

Adding the humor, and interspersing some softer colors, engages the audience with warmth, and makes you like and root for the characters.

While there are several mile - wide plot holes and one key under - developed main character, the film emerges as a tight, intriguing old - fashioned drama that gives audiences a hero worth rooting for.

Miles Teller is a tour de force in Whiplash and he is someone that we as audience members are rooting for right from the get go.

If audiences find it hard to root for Steve as he is ruthlessly scripted by Sorkin, they will definitely side with Joanna who only wants Steve to be a better person.

But by Act Two, the audience shifts from intensely disliking Samuel and his antics to rooting for him - a testament to the carefully contrived script.

«I don't get trapped in that... my only mission is to have you guys, the audience, whoever is receiving our story, to really root for them both,» Farmiga says.

But while Caesar may be the «hero» of the piece, it doesn't make it any less confusing as to who the audience is supposed to be rooting for, since both camps are mostly comprised of good people with a few bad apples that ruin it for everyone else.

Fortunately for Loach, his non-professional cast have such a natural flair for comedy that the audience simply doesn't care, as we end up rooting for this rag - tag bunch to succeed in their audaciously daft mission.

The real surprise is not only how well that storyline works but that there is actually a genuine backstory that will surprise audiences and keep them rooting for Nancy for entire 87 minute runtime.

In order to root for the loser, the audience must see evidence to the contrary, and Ross doesn't deliver.

As «Little Charles,» he definitely has the narrative's most sympathetic story but more importantly, in a film that is full of despicable people, he manages to pull the audience in to root for him, even when you know he's doing something terribly wrong.

It's a shame there's no way to hide the fact that Foxx isn't actually a corrupt cop so that the audience might be conflicted about rooting for him as the protagonist until it's revealed in the trailer that he's actually one of the good guys.

Director Taika Waititi (What We Do in the Shadows, The Hunt for Wilderpeople) does his best to control the tonal shift although the multiplex audience couldn't care less for Asgard and only root for more smashes and blasts in Sakaar.

With that said, the movie does make a recovery towards the end with a surprising emotional arc handled delicately, that will make audiences both sympathize and root for Judy.

This meticulously stylized view of sex and violence becomes deeply unsettling, particularly in the way it convinces the audience to root for the gruesome slaughter of the men who wronged her.

There isn't much of a character there to work with, but Woodley does give her much - needed nuance for audiences to be able to root for her to succeed, which is perhaps the only element that actually keeps the film somewhat afloat to the very end.

Either blame the direction or writing, because the audience is just rooting for them to fail from the start.

But at the heart of the film, and overarching everything, is a creepy assumption, all the more creepy in that it might be true: Audiences will root for the most repellent of characters, so long as that character is identified as the protagonist.

But it's rough - going getting to a point where Hope is a character an audience would even want to watch, much less root for.

One of Heineman's best tricks here is stripping the audience of a cipher, making it difficult to figure out who to root for.

Sleep Tight also challenges the audience with a moral dilemma as we essentially root for a pervert to not get his comeuppance.

Chadwick Boseman said that Black Panther breaks the superhero film convention in that it's easily possible for the audience to also root for the film's villain, Erik Killmonger (played by Michael B. Jordan).

Audiences may find themselves gasping and cheering in the same scene and some may even end up rooting for Harding in the end.

As a result, while the portrayal is campy and, at times, melodramatic, most audience members will likely be rooting for Poe as the film stumbles into the closing act.

Just as misogyny - branded slasher films usually end with Final Girls, 300 II works like it does because the people its predominantly - male audience end up rooting for are its wronged women.