Sentences with phrase «better in a few scenes»

This film is brilliant, but could have been picked up a bit better in a few scenes!

My only quibble is that the dialogue could have been better in a few scenes.

Sarah Paulson is quite good in her few scenes as the wife of Epps, aware of his weaknesses and increasingly scornful.

Not exact matches

scene in A Few Good Men.)

«There are quite a few trends that are going to change the way we eat in 2017 - for the better - from the farm, to behind the scenes in restaurant kitchens, to the dining table itself.

What a strange pulsation there is to human life: as night comes on, active scenes are in a few hours deserted; not a soul is in sight except the occasional watchman or late reveller, and whole cities lie silent — cities of the dead, it might well seem, except that with the turn of the earth and the dawn of new day they revive to another brief and hectic activity.

Nicky Butt could be the best thing that's ever happened to United's academy, but based on the club's track record of the last few years — as well as the context of the lack of structure and thoughts into how things are currently set - up behind the scenes at Old Trafford — his appointment looks like another symptom of a distorted value system more concerned with what looks right in a cosmetic sense rather than what needs to be done.

It is well worth reading if one likes gossip, bitching and behind the scenes insights into a diverse group of highly ambitious individuals, all inevitably bound to fail in realising their ultimate ambition because they were unfortunate enough to seek to achieve it in a year when the press had turned one of them, with few achievements to his name, into a saint who could do nothing wrong.

The muted sunset palette (with a few pops of bolder color for some vibrancy) fits in perfectly, while textural elements set a gorgeous scene that fits in so well with the desert scape: rough linen napkins, wood chairs sourced from the venue, and a standout lace dress.

I'm sadly not really emo anymore, but I still appreciate the lifestyle and the people in it, and I was thinking of maybe making a few friends and hooking up here, maybe try and get back into the scene as well.

Whether you've been around the block a few times or are starting fresh after a long time out of the dating scene, it's a great idea to come up with your Must Haves and Can't Stands — two Top 10 lists of carefully chosen preferences that indicate which important qualities in a partner that you must have, as well as which qualities on which you'd prefer not to compromise.

When it comes to local legends in Bolton, there are few better than Fred Dibnah, and a trip to his heritage centre may not seem like the most conventional of venues for the Bolton dating scene, but it provides a fantastic way to get in touch with the history of your local community.

But with fewer than two single men for every three single women in the over 50 age group, as well as an ageless difficulty in finding the right match, mature women on the dating scene are having a tough time.

Despite being shot at 24 frames per second and showing «1080p» on the back cover, these Blu - Ray discs are encoded at 1080i at 30 (or 29.97 if you want to get technical) fps - while most of it still looks good (without any noticeable banding or compression artifacts) there are a few de-interlacing artifacts present in some scenes as well as aliasing.

The interacting with Killmonger and the secondary character and the final few scenes that he and T'Challa get to spend together are honestly some of the best moments from any of these films in a very long time.

Russell pokes fun of his weight, makes ludicrous power plays to establish his dominance in prison, and invites a number of deeply uncomfortable jokes about his inevitable sexual abuse in prison — a line of comedy that feels even more unwelcome given that the film's cast includes an accused sexual assailant in T.J. Miller, who needlessly returns as Deadpool's best friend, Weasel, in a few throwaway scenes.

That scene - as well as a few others - belongs in different movie.

Recruited by an old chum (Peter Boyle) to help find an exotic prostitute missing in Chinatown, Hammett enlists his implausibly gorgeous neighbor (Marilu Henner) to play Girl Friday as he matches wits with colorful actors including Jack Nance («Eraserhead» and other David Lynch works), David Patrick Kelly (whose strangled voice is an interesting counterpart to his iconic «Come out to play - yi - yay» taunt from «The Warriors»), Roy Kinnear and a few old - timers from film noir's heyday (the scene with Sylvia Sidney is especially good).

Though he doesn't appear in near enough of the film, the few Doctor Dee scenes are among the best.

The Aviator is a well made film, and one of the year's best, with enough great moments to make the three hours not seem so long, although some trimming down of certain characters and scenes could still be done (Jude Law's cameo as Errol Flynn seems to be just an excuse to get him in the movie for a few minutes).

There are a few well placed action scenes, but nothing like what we got in the last instalment.

Not a problem in of itself (and, in fact, many filmmakers would do well to follow his lead, as few commentaries hold any kind of interest aside from the stray tidbit now and again), when the commentary track is enabled through remote or Special Features menu, as the film plays on into un-commented scenes the regular soundtrack doesn't return.

«Life of the Party» is another classic case of a comedy that puts its best stuff in the promos, while the actual film provides very few funny or memorable scenes.

A blooper reel is also more or less a hoot, a few deleted scenes are pretty much indistinguishable from the bloopers (with more Carson Daly — never a good thing), and a series of Muppet bios are borderline clever in a sort of excruciating way («Favorite Song: Rainbow Connection»).

But the story is so simple that it's almost unnecessarily long just for the sake of feeling epic, and it's tonally uneven as well, due in part to a few scenes that stray close to parody and some cameos (from Franco Nero, Jonah Hill and Tarantino himself) that are too cheeky for their own good.

Dominic Cooper (Tamara Drewe) makes good use of his few scenes as Howard Stark, and Gossip Girl twat Sebastian Stan took a step in an un-twatty direction as Steve's best friend, Bucky.

There are a few creepy moments in this trailer, but the best scenes are being kept for the full movie.

In a sense, it would seem like having all of these egos is a small - time film might work against the production, but by all appearances, everyone put in their best effort in making this film work, with what must have been a sparse crew and few takes allowed for every scenIn a sense, it would seem like having all of these egos is a small - time film might work against the production, but by all appearances, everyone put in their best effort in making this film work, with what must have been a sparse crew and few takes allowed for every scenin their best effort in making this film work, with what must have been a sparse crew and few takes allowed for every scenin making this film work, with what must have been a sparse crew and few takes allowed for every scene.

As we watch young African - American characters — and a few young white women, too — mistreated and / or killed in scenes that go on and on and on, it's hard not to wonder whether Bigelow (and the material) would have been better served by not teaming up with her usual (white) screenwriter, Mark Boal (who also wrote The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty), just to bring in the perspective of actual people of color, rather than that of white liberal guilt.

Best of all is a scene in which Jack shows Wells a few moments of violent American television, which causes Wells to get angry and snap back at him.

He's seeking a commission for an exhibition of paintings that comparatively few will see, that in any case will be hard - pressed to summon the galvanizing power of a well - made film (or song, as we see in one lovely scene), which Mrs. Cole's slop is turning out to be.

The film does have a few shining beacons bobbing along in its sea of bewilderment; Alden Ehrenreich is absolutely fantastic & incredibly watchable as perennial sharp shootin» cowboy & all round good guy Hobie Doyle and his scene with making - it - look - easy Ralph Fiennes is genuinely crying - with - laughter hilarious.

In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, some of the best action scenes — the rescue in the mental hospital, the truck - bike chase scene — were smaller affairs with fewer characters at risk but they were packed with suspensIn Terminator 2: Judgment Day, some of the best action scenes — the rescue in the mental hospital, the truck - bike chase scene — were smaller affairs with fewer characters at risk but they were packed with suspensin the mental hospital, the truck - bike chase scene — were smaller affairs with fewer characters at risk but they were packed with suspense.

It's a dark echo in there, side - by - side with Jimmy's grim dedication to buying up lakefront property and turning this prelapsarian wonderland into an exclusive, members - only club, but the film explores neither beyond their mention and contents itself to wrap up with a few scenes of mayhem, three insipid montages set to horrible music, and the same finale involving the birth of a child it seems like Martin has done now in a good half of his films.

Knight's story is the star and it's one that draws characteristically good performances from Pitt, Cotillard, and the peripheral support, from third - billed Jared Harris in a few good scenes to Simon McBurney and Matthew Goode, who each impress in single scenes.

Marginalized in the initial sequences was Reeves, the lone actor well - known in the U.S. Universal opted to reshoot a major fight scene near the end of the film, as well as a few other scenes to sharpen the focus on Reeves» character Kai.

Most of his scenes are with Lady Meryl and he holds his own and betters her in more than a few instances.

Schaffner came from TV, and while he has few of the obnoxious visual affectations of the TV - trained director, he tends to restrict the most significant actions and relationships in his films to spatial arenas that could be served very adequately by the tube rather than the Panavision screen: the real convention hustle in The Best Man takes place in hotel rooms, hallways, and basements; the tensest moments in his strange and (to me) very sympathetic medieval mini-epic The War Lord are confined to a small soundstage clearing or that besieged tower; the battle scenes in Patton are hardly clumsy, but the real show is George C. Scott; and Nicholas and Alexandra comes alive only after the royal family has been penned up under the watchful eyes of Ian Holm and then Alan Webb, far from the splendor of St. Petersburg or the shambles of the Great War.

Haley does abandon the tone of the movie a bit too often in these scenes, flirting a little too close to melodrama in a few instances, but in general the Stockholm Syndrome-esque relationship is utilized well.

Maguire is an actor whose best roles have alternated between mild - mannered creepiness («Wonder Boys») and fits of rage («Brothers»), and in this film he gets to play both, and shifts between the two effortlessly — exploding during a few key scenes but quickly putting himself back together.

and the car crash scene with Richard Jenkins character was one of the best shot scenes I've seen in awhile, sort of reminds me of that fabolous scene from Children of Men a few years ago.

A few extras are fairly disposable, including the star's severely disappointing commentary, but the worthwhile deleted scenes, trailer, and two good featurettes add value, as do a few minor touches in design and packaging.

The Dolby 2.0 stereo track lacks much punch in the directional department with some very minor atmospheric noise during its first rally scene and a few moments in its second half; dialogue is well modulated in the centre channel.

Incidents that take up one sequence are left to dangle, unresolved; people abruptly arrive and leave, like Moonee's friend Dicky (Aiden Malik), who is only in a few early scenes before he and his father have to leave, their car too stuffed to keep Dicky's toys, the children all dry - eyed as Dickey's father promises helplessly to buy him even better new toys.

Grindhouse — Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's double feature ode to the crappy genre films of the 70s was one of my most enjoyable film experiences of the last few years, but I think the films work best in that format, back to back with fake trailers and missing scenes.

The film rates this high for me not just because of its technical skill (the ensemble acting is terrific, with Kelly Macdonald in particular doing great work in just a few scenes, and Roger Deakins's cinematography is as good as anything he's done with the Coens, and that's saying a lot) but because of its ambiguity: because the questions it raises about narrative and about society are as interesting as those raised by any other film (but one) of 2007.

The plot forced Burgundy away from the news desk, and he is separated from his crew for quite a long time (much longer than the similar move in Anchorman, which amounted to only a few scenes), and Ferrell by himself without Paul Rudd, David Koechner, and Steve Carell to play off doesn't work nearly as well as the ensemble moments.

He does have a few good scenes in «The Gambler», but an unfocused script that relies way too much on dialogue results in «The Gambler» being one of the holiday season's weakest releases.

The scene when Oscar meets and glues together China Girl's broken legs (a reference to his inability to heal a wheelchair - bound girl at one of his shows, played by the actress who voices this animated counterpart) is one of the best in the film, precisely because it is one of few where Raimi takes his time to let a scene unfold naturally, rather than try to outdo what came before both visually and energetically.

Only Fanning (and Common in a few scenes) seem well - cast and engaged by the script.