Sentences with phrase «basic ridiculousness»

It's a credit to the film's sober, down - to - earth tone that Lars And The Real Girl isn't as insufferably precious as it sounds; everyone onscreen cares enough about Gosling's plight to keep the story's basic ridiculousness from seeming too cartoonish.

Not exact matches

This is no Basic Instinct or Single White Female or The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, but if you get a kick out of something like the Beyoncé versus Ali Larter film Obsessed or the J.Lo - starring Boy Next Door, then Unforgettable, helmed by first time feature director Denise Di Novi, provides a similar brand of campy ridiculousness.

Tom Yulsman at the University of Colorado makes this point bitingly at CEJournal, noting the ridiculousness of rehashing basic climate science in the face of clear evidence that the lack of a forward - looking American energy policy --- particularly one aimed at weaning the country from at least the liquid fossil fuel — is a real - time crisis.