Sentences with phrase «better farces»

It is tough to imagine anyone but old people seeing the humor in Gigolo, which Turturro imbues with neither the offbeat artistry of the Coens nor the broadly appealing playfulness of Sandler's better farces.

Had these two characters been in a more intricate and crafty plot, this could have been one of the better farces in recent years.

Theresa May has over the last 18 months demonstrated that she enjoys a good farce.

Almost all of the second act is on that level — where a good farce would have had these smart (except for Ryan) people make smart moves that somehow went wrong.

Not exact matches

Darcourt says at the end of the novel that while he considers the essentials of Christianity, when rightly understood, to form the best possible foundation for life, he holds that this orthodox basis is in genuine need of «farcing out.»

Imagine Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment rewritten as a farce or, even better, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent retold as a fairy tale.

Better to believe in nothing than dignify this farce of a world with its pretensions of order.

The one good thing about this farce is that it may head off at least some of the Doomsday cult hoaxes that are going to be triggered in 2012.

Otherwise they're just practicing a farce of cherry - picked, appropriate for the moment, feel - good, reinterpreted, smiley - face platitudes.

The sooner we realize that that religion is a farce, the better.

And yet in this exquisite farce, the response far exceeds that of modern, urban, evangelistic crusades among the well churched.

Piteous farce indeed, how better can one describe it?

Organized religion is such a farce and exists only to free people from thought and responsibility, instead of being a typical ignorant American, take a look at what Jesus really said and you might find that it was pretty good, respect your fellow man and such, that message seems lost on Christians these days (and all days).

But I guess thatâ $ ™ s better than being part of the farce.

Bless you Vicki, well done for writing this and being brutally honest about the complete and utter farce that Amazon has been with you FFFlour.

While we on the matter... what a total farce on contract renewal, even the spuds seem to have got that sorted out — renewing long before time, and not paying out hefty wages either — I believe Kane is their top earner on # 125k, and for someone with an economic degree, how does Wenger not understand that having someone with a long contract makes not only financial sense, but sense in terms of the teams stability as well?

call me a farce but surely monreal at rb with chambers in the centre is better than monreal at cb with chambers rb

The organisers made the decision after they realised the omission of the world's best player made it a farce.

As usual no clear strategy of buying and selling player's the whole thing is a complete farce, we can't attract player's because let's face it players talk to each other when they are about to move to another club and the vibes are not good for arsenal with wenger in charge of recruitment it seems to me they see arsenal as not being able to improve player's under arsene wenger sometimes it's not about the money

But it's a farce on a tour that's at such a high level, where spots in the fields are valuable and cherished, and it's supposed to be the best path to the bigs.

Arsenal might be winning games again but let's face it their performances have hardly been inspiring.Far and away their best performance so far was a defensive hard earned 0 - 0 away draw to Chelsea.Its a long long time since Arsenal.played a style of football which was fast moving, free - flowing and with consistently positive end result.The media still seam to tar them with that same brush but truth be known the likes of both Manchester clubs, Liverpool and Spurs are far more entertaining to watch these days than Arsenal's tippy - tappy sideways brand of play Hopefully they will be able to build momentum in the coming weeks and inspire confidence prior to the Citeh and Spuds games... otherwise this Season will unfortunately develop into even more farce than Wenger, Gazidas and Kronke managed to orchestrate last year and the Emirates will empty out even more noticeably!!

Well the situation is a farce already.

Well, from his place in stands, he made a sign with his hand and the team left the farce to the «Great footballing nations» which are not supposed to lose.

If we're going to avoid this becoming another Thiago / Fabregas farce, we need to stop messing about and match Juventus» asking price, as well as offering Vidal a contract that proves we know his worth.

While this use of farce works well, particularly the chaotic triple - phone - line dance in the office when appeasing MPs on «defection - watch», the characterisation is a little thin, which dampens the script's sharpness.

The farce of meeting in Strasbourg as well as Brussels adds extra reading time.

He can't lead his way out of a brown paper bag — The Dems better act fast and remove this farce from position!!

This one - sidedness is evident in this Biafra 2, which may well turn out a big farce.

If this bill is passed into law, good governance, the rule of law and respect for human rights of Nigerians would become a farce in the country.By gagging civil society from criticising the National Assembly and the government, the bill will undercut the rule of law, shrink civic space, and expose vulnerable Nigerians to greater level of injustice and repression.»

And Mrs May, from one grammar school girl to another, stop the faff, stop the fudge and the farce — get on with it, invoke Article 50 and give Ukip the best Christmas they could ever have.

Shame he missed Tony awards by 24 hours, would have been shoe - in for Best Actor in a comedy or farce

The video is a farce as well, especially the end.

The best gag is the bachelor party, which is pure farce.

Mr. Arteta — who collaborated with Mr. White on «Chuck and Buck» (2000) and «The Good Girl» (2002), and whose other films include «Youth in Revolt» and «Cedar Rapids» — doesn't push the evening toward melodrama or farce.

Season 2 was more subtle and was a good examination of conflict tearing people apart, the characters were developing and were interesting, they have now turned into soundbite gimps, the creators have severely erred in trying to reconcile a fictional conflicts of a biker gang with a real world conflict of the IRA without any attempt to create even an iota a sense of realism or use skillful tact, (its difficult to see how a biker gang could make such in roads to the IRA when whole arms of government have tried and failed) The outcome of which is to turn a decent and interesting show into farce.

A pretty uneven film, lurching from comedy to violence to sentiment, but it's best when it sticks in the realm of flat - out farce.

The stage is set for a good, nasty, slam - bang farce, and «Gringo» makes it about two - thirds of the way there.

This period had its high points — such as the well - regarded big - screen TV spin - off Porridge (1979), starring Ronnie Barker as a prison inmate — and its lows, such as the abysmal 1985 farce Water, a pay - television staple during the late -»80s starring Michael Caine and Valerie Perrine that satirizes Britain's invasions of Grenada and the Falklands.

Farce is a genre best served with building momentum and crack timing.

Delta Farce DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Unfunny Mistaken Identity Comedy Makes Its way to DVD Larry (Larry the Cable Guy), Everett (DJ Qualls) and Bill (Bill Engvall) are best friends who ordinarily welcome the periodic male - bonding opportunity afforded them by their service as National Guard reserves on the base where they're stationed in Chattahoochee, Georgia.

With «The Kids Are All Right,» Lisa Cholodenko interestingly courted mainstream audiences, playing gender roulette with classic rom and bedroom - farce formats; the result was arguably her most well - rounded film, but still not as sensual or electric a study of lesbianism as her 1998 breakthrough «High Art.»

The reason Date Night isn't very good is because Klausner doesn't know what kind of story he's telling: is it a farce?

TCM Select Pick of the Week: Some Like it Hot (1959), Billy Wilder's best loved film and the AFI's number one pick for best American comedy of all time, plays the St. Valentine's Day Massacre for farce when the two musicians (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) who witness the brutal gangland slaying elude mobsters by hiding out in an all - girl band.

Falcone keeps things in focus and McCarthy flops around, and while the picture is an improvement, it's still not a refined farce that delivers the best of what McCarthy's got.

With such a farfetched plot already in place, this is the sort of film that could have easily degenerated into a muddled farce with a one - note stand - up comic as the lead, but with a good comedic and dramatic actor like Kline at the forefront, he is able to keep the tone of the comedy and drama appropriate to each scene.

Would have cut down on the screwball farce by ten minutes or so but otherwise a really good film

When it comes to farce, nobody does it better than the French.

As it is, «Chalet Girl» works well as the sort of throwaway, mainstream British farce rarely seen on our screens.

And the movie isn't much better than such low bar - setting farces.

If Carry On ever decided to remake the Pink Panther series as a social - realist drama this well could be the end product, a warped farce of a farce that doesn't quite know what it is.