Sentences with phrase «awful film»

This was a truly awful film, what a waste of nearly 2 hours.

It was a pretty awful film but moderately successful so got a sequel which was slightly less awful but also slightly less successful.

Even they look embarrassed about it all, but like good actors, they each pony up a great performance in a desperately awful film.

Sure, there are some outright awful films like Elektra, Hulk and X-Men: The Last Stand, but Fantastic Four is a trying experience because it's halfway to being a stellar entry in the Marvel movie catalog.

Unless Marvel somehow manage to create truly awful films for each of their franchises in turn then their cinematic universe is essentially bullet - proof for the forseeable future.

(Grade: C)-- David Gordon Green's return to independent cinema, after a string of achingly awful films (Pineapple Express, Your Highness, and The Sitter), may very well be the definition of mediocrity.

This isn't to say that it's the best comedy of the year because it's not but it's not one of the downright awful films that came in the form of studio comedies this year.

See, even I was surprised by the strong reaction I had to this dull, but not entirely awful film about a ballerina who is forced to become a Russian spy.

About the only good moment in this perfectly awful film occurs when director George Roy Hill screens some clips from his celebrated movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

One of the overriding questions one has while enduring a particularly awful film is, with all of the talented out - of - work film - makers in Hollywood, just how on earth did this get made?

Tommy Wiseau was a bizarre man of indeterminate age and background who became a cult figure in Los Angeles in 2003 for The Room — a toe - curlingly awful film he financed, directed, wrote and starred in.

Great films need champions, like those little hole - in - the - wall restaurants you take your friends to, whereas awful films with broad impact (like Guy Fieri's Times Square Frankenstein) need excoriation.

So what, exactly, was the Spanish maestro of the human comedy thinking when he made this terrifically awful film?

Mindadze's awful film follows a series of characters so completely and utterly stupid that I wanted to yell at the screen like a horror movie.

Sweeney Todd was a god awful film for probably the worst musical I've ever heard.

Anne Hathaway in «Rachel Getting Married» — A wonderful performance by Anne Hathaway, who is showing a lot of promise as of late in an otherwise awful film.

Lovers of kitschy cult films celebrate Ed Wood as one of the most awful film makers in our history.

A dismaying chunk of my summer was filled by the mostly awful films that Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton made together just before and after Nichols» Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

James Franco directs this giddy tribute to eccentric filmmaker Tommy Wiseau and his best friend, actor Greg Sestero, whose notoriously awful film The Room has become one of the most beloved cult classics of all time.

We've seen far too many video game franchises get awful film adaptations (Max Payne, Doom) which tarnish the brand.

The adoration I have for early Burton is balanced by the hatred I have for hollow, awful films like «Charlie and the Chocolate Factory» and «Alice in Wonderland.»

Prince Avalanche (C)-- «David Gordon Green's return to independent cinema, after a string of achingly awful films (Pineapple Express, Your Highness, and The Sitter), may very well be the definition of mediocrity.»

In Funny People, Sandler plays seasoned comedian George Simmons, a funny man with a back catalogue of awful films (why revert from type?)

As for Travers, January's downright awful films have left him loony, and he's desperate for something watchable.

How on earth Humphries managed to convince such an impressive cast to take part in his truly awful film should go down as one of the biggest mysteries in Brit flick history.

The acting, plot and directing combine to create an awful film that really isn't worth your time.

Insurrection isn't an awful film, but it's a disappointing affair, especially after the superb First Contact.

Director Kapur — who can be quite fascinating in person — provides a dull commentary track, not helped by the fact that he's trying to talk seriously about such an awful film.

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.

Click isn't an awful film, but it feels too much like two separate tales rather than a single cohesive story to succeed.

The Pacifier isn't just an awful film, as there seems to be a plethora of stinkers filling up theaters this year — it's also downright embarrassing.

Now this isn't an awful film, but it could have been improved upon.

After two awful films (Morning Glory and Hyde Park on the Hudson), Roger Michell returns to form (and to screenwriter / playwright Hanif Kureishi) with this bitter little pill, Le Week - End, whose title, read the way I think it was intended to be read, just drips with acerbic disdain.

The final straw to break this god - awful film's back comes in the form of some nausea - inducing serious romantic developments late in the movie (does every loser have a hot babe girlfriend?)

Harrison Ford in «Regarding Henry» — Not a awful film, just not a good one either.

If someone surgically removed all the charm from «Three O'Clock High» and replaced it with swearing and awful characters, you'd have something similar to Richie Keen's awful film.

Now while I am a huge fan of his early comedies like Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore, I can admit that movies like Jack & Jill and Blended were god - awful films that basically allowed Sandler to keep his friends employed, make money on blatant product placements, and take his family on a vacation.

There is a consolation prize for sitting through this awful film though: Rachel McAdams and Olga Kurylenko get naked.

While its not an awful film, its definitely not one that will win the majority of its viewers over throughout its bloated 2 hour and 15 minute run time.

This premiered at Sundance and played at Berlinale, but unfortunately it's an awful film, not only forgettable but the kind of film you want to scrub from your memory as soon as it's over.

I'm just being realistic here, folks, because seeing a film just because an actress is scantily clad in a PG - 13 kind of way is only feeding the frenzy of these awful films.

John Carter is not, as some would have it, an out - and - out awful film.

Director Robert Iscove is a long - time director and choregrapher, whose dance number in She's All That is the only good moment in that awful film.

It's not an awful film — it's just far from good.

Little Nicky is an awful film that's full of crude, unfunny jokes, over-the-top sight gags, and horrible performances from a pretty good cast.

John Wayne's The Green Berets is an awful film.

Kubrick should not have come out of his 12 - year hiatus for that awful film.

But it is an awful film in its own right.