Sentences with phrase «banal dialogue»

Great actors can take seemingly banal dialogue and imbue it with meaning, delivering it in unexpected but entirely authentic ways.

With arguably the most banal dialogue this side of a Nicholas Sparks movie, If I Stay wastes the considerable talents of Moretz in a calculated tear - jerker aimed squarely at young teenage girls, who definitely deserve better than a movie which makes The Lovely Bones look like a neo-realist classic.

This material seems ripe for an expository montage, but it becomes an extended setpiece, lasting nearly 30 minutes and offering little more than sketchy CGI and banal dialogue.

The banal dialogue was risible (a prime example has the humanist heroine played by Emily Watson in all seriousness state: «Without love, breath is just a clock ticking»), the main action hero, Christian Bale, was miscast.

Hamstrung by bad plotting and banal dialogue, not to mention the fact that basically anyone who we think is dead can be resurrected at will, it's nearly impossible to care.

Even the most banal dialogue is designed to be read as deadpan.

Watching «The Room» on your own, and struggling through the banal dialogue and non sequiturs, the dreary sets, the elevator Muzak score, and the long, cringe - inducing sex scenes in which Wiseau bares his all for our appreciation isn't funny but sad.

Not exact matches

It must be admitted, however, that the dialogue is often banal and something of a bore.

I have often said that the Christian's vocation in the world, and especially in politics, is that of dialogue, not merely the dialogue of Christian and unbeliever, which is banal, but the dialogue of enemies and of those who do not understand one another, in which the Christian can play the role of bridge or interpreter, helping them to understand one another.

Brooks builds eight neat instrumentals from gradually layer guitar, playing in a closed circle with himself, a dialogue that is sometimes affecting but more often banal.

Simon Kinberg's script is awash in banal, expository dialogue — the characters having to keep explaining the plot to each other — but people don't go to X-Men movies for naturalistic exchanges: a few pithy one - liners will suffice, and Jackman puts the ones he does get across with the gruff brio of an old pro.

A movie so silly and banal that it may take us a bit longer than usual to realize how actually stupid, implausible and empty it is once it is over, with an awful amount of expository dialogue, poorly - developed characters and a non-linear structure adopted for no purpose at all.

Not only is «Violent & Daisy,» a mostly three - person chamber piece, suited more for the stage, but the dialogue between Violent and Daisy and between the two girls and a depressed man dying from pancreatic cancer is banal.

The pace plods with uninteresting sidebars and the banal scenes of dialogue and storytelling outnumber the fascinating or interesting ones that could have offered a richer and more absorbing look into the man's method or the historical art period itself.

Any reviewer would be justified in calling Ha Jin's latest 672 page novel plodding, the prose laborious, the observations and reflections banal, the dialogue awkward and wooden.

e) I tried to write dialogues as girls / women speak in Lima, it was stamped as «banal» and too many dialogues -LRB-?)

Kitsch, tacky or banal graphics and images are wryly incorporated into a dialogue that incorporates art history, literature and music.

His works elicit a blankness of southern Californian suburbs, of patios and bungalows, architecture of the oblique, paired with deadpan dialogues, which reveal the absurdity of the banal.

Something Happened (2007) exemplifies the touchstones of the video aesthetic of Berlin - based artist Keren Cytter (a solo exhibition opens at Oakville Galleries April 14): domestic interiors, amateur actors recognizably «acting,» elaborately scripted dialogue, signifiers of banal rituals coupled with those of Hollywood melodrama.