Sentences with phrase «better than the script»

The tone, despite the frequent bloodletting, is light, and the film works better than the script would indicate.

Not exact matches

This is one of the rare experiences that I've had where every iteration in the script was a better version than the last.

However, if your employees are unable to execute them in a natural and sincere manner, these scripts can do more harm than good.

Glubz also had an entry at the now - defunct skidpaste.org, a site which sought to document the known aliases, addresses and other contact information on young script kids (hence «skid») who fancy themselves much better hackers than they really are.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

To your last point, when I said choice is an illusion, I wasn't referring that it is impossible to make that choice, but rather that there is a «right» choice and a «wrong» choice, the «right» one being that you worship god, regardless of how weird some of the rituals might be, making you a little more than a robot, acting out a script your given, we're just slightly better because we can justify why we're acting out a command, but it takes years to understand that justification, in the beginning, you do these rituals because you're given a script and if you don't want to do it, tough.

It is not an encouraging scenario, and as a historian I know better than to insist that the script has to be followed.

Couldn't script it any better than this...

Well you couldn't script much of a better start than this for OSU.

TRANSLATION Sirs: Ganbare is a much more appropriate name for the underdog yacht that Douglas Peterson built on a shoestring and raced with success against far more expensive boats in the 1973 World One Ton Cup championship than your translation of the name — «good luck» — would imply (Sardinia Sea Script: Viva Cinderella!

And secondly no matter how you call the true Arsenal fans who have decided to be less sentimental and face our issues the way they really are, evil, or draft this kind of well scripted article to defend Wenger and his philosophy, it will not change the fact that we have not won the EPL in over a decade and Wenger's approach has not worked and there nothing more factual than that.

Sure, it's reality television, and reality can certainly be scripted, but there was nothing fake about Bryan's pain — no script was going to capture what he felt better than his actual feelings and his natural responses to his new lot in life.

... The first grants will support Computer Science for All and ScriptEd to expand access to computer science education in schools across the city, as well as remove barriers for women and minorities to join NYC's thriving tech sector (where less than 10 percent of professionals are currently minority women).»

Some of the actors come through well, which helps even out the less than stellar script.

A good dating coach will focus on the core specifics such as self confidence, physical image and other attractive qualities rather than using tricks, techniques or scripted pick up lines.

In featuring likable and intelligent characters as well as some interesting plot turns, the script more than adequately does its job as a support beam for the visuals.

Tarantino's brilliant script for «Django Unchained» is better than the fun, talky, well - made violent revenge western that he finally relinquished — weeks late — after a long battle in the editing room to get it down to 2 hours 45.

You sit there dreading the formula you know is coming, and feeling sorry for McCarthy, who co-wrote the script and is better than what this trite material calls for.

Kidman and Penn are good actors but the script is a bit limited, especially in terms of characterization, and it just leaves you thinking that this could've been so much better than what it was.

Burns» films are invariably better directed and scripted than they are performed, and Ash Wednesday is no exception.

Watts is a perfect choice as Diana, and if the film's script would have been better fleshed out, then maybe this would have been a much better film than what it turned out to be.

The script by Mark Perez knows better than to let the ruse go on for too long, instead packing the second half with a series of «gotcha» twists that keep the audience constantly on the edge of credulousness.

That's a good thing, because Dornan is much more eloquent when wrapping his tongue around nipples and ice cream than the hot garbage in the script.

Critic Consensus: Sanctum is beautifully photographed, and it makes better use of 3 - D technology than most, but that doesn't make up for its ham - handed script and lifeless cast.

Good cast, better than the melodramatic script deserves, all keep stiff upper lips through all kinds of goings on.

This movie is a mixed bag on one side is Kevin Hart mostly improvising which give most of, if not all of the film's funny dialogue, he also shares good chemistry with Ice Cube, on the other side the scripted jokes, are most of the time well lame, this fun to watch now than most of the movies are ****

The charisma of L'il Bow Wow's spirited screen presence turn a contemporary Cinderella gimmick and a by - the - numbers script into a better film than anyone would have expected.

The characters are one - dimensional and unappealing, the script is scatterbrained mush, the music is redundant and ineffectively used, and the message gets lost amid idiotic supporting characters with little better to do than mouth un-pithy lines for no apparent reason.

Although Demi Moore does better work here than in her usual mode of trying to be a star, a one - note terrorized mom, who is denied any logical actions by the script, is not compelling.

With only three of its seven scripted series premiering before midseason (not a bad strategy in that promotion can be split and reality series, if they're any good, are likely to do better against baseball than something more involved), Fox is hoping to have a more successful first half of the season, then launch the other shows in the second half where it's traditionally stronger.

If they were to put a sheet of paper on a baby instead of a diaper, they wouldn't have to wait long before that baby «wrote» a better script than the one used here.

The script, by Robert D. Siegel (The Wrestler) and Hancock, was in pretty high demand as it made the rounds through Hollywood, but it's hard to imagine an actor better suited for this particular role than Keaton, who's going through a delightful resurgence of late between Birdman, Spotlight, and and now possibly Spider - Man: Homecoming.

As the somewhat clueless father, Chandler is very good but the script lets him down on more than one occasion.

Unfortunately this script feels like nothing more than a vehicle for Black who cavorts, chatters and cracks jokes through the biggest chunk of this film — as well as exposing some of his posterior.

One major problem is a ridiculously unconvincing villain: The script attempts to shoehorn in a bit of Skyfall - style backstory between Bond and his enemy, which sadly leaves the character looking more laughable than terrifying, despite Waltz's best efforts.

Rumored to be more commercial than «Elephant,» the drama that won Van Sant the Palme d'Or and Best Director award at Cannes in 2003, «The Sea of Trees» — which boasts a Black List script by «Buried» scribe Chris Sparling — centers on a suicidal American (McConaughey), who travels to the «suicide forest» at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan with the intention to kill himself.

Ben Palmer's Man Up's Lake Bell and Simon Pegg are charming and well matched as a couple who fall in love over the course of an action - packed day, but a corny, heavy - handed script makes it much harder than it ought to be to care whether they wind up together.

Finally its a far better directed acted scripted film than the overhyped tosh that Avatar is.

But WB obviously believes this project has life without Darcy - Smith as well, since he's considerably farther down the totem than Peters, who brought the script to the studio's attention.

To be sure, this is a better crop than usual, with the magical 3D of Life of Pi and Tony Kushner's script for Lincoln standing out, but for me it wasn't a good year at all, especially because of the virtual disappearance of «film» projection in Montreal.

So the script's a little laboured, but for shere exuberance and adrenaline pumping you don't get better than this unless you're at a rave.

These are possible signs that director Alex Kurtzman is better at producing («Alias,» «Fringe,» the CBS «Hawaii 5 - 0» reboot) than helming a film, but it really feels like script by committee; we need these things to happen... just fit them in somewhere.

You obviously have nobody saying any words Roger Friedman, because Drake's Fortune has a better script and story than most movies these days.

I think she probably is a far better actress than the script allowed her to be.

What may happen is that the panic productions turn out to be better than they might have been, because six layers of producers didn't get a chance to second - guess the original scripts.

The Artist wins three Golden Globes: actor, score and best motion picture musical or comedy and countless more Oscars, but the absence of a script that does more than sketch faintly Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly's 1952 Singin» in the Rain pushes Jean Dujardin's performance as George Valentin to centre stage to fill the void.

Pellington directed from a script by Stuart Ross Fink, and his previous work includes more music videos than I can list, the feature films ARLINGTON ROAD and HENRY POOLE IS HERE, as well as bringing both UNITED STATES OF POETRY and BLINDSPOT to television.

One major problem is a ridiculously unconvincing villain: the script attempts to shoehorn a spot of «Skyfall» - style backstory between Bond and his enemy, which sadly leaves the character looking more laughable than terrifying, despite Waltz's best efforts.

But scribes Andrew Knight (who mostly works in television but also scripted Russell Crowe's directorial effort The Water Diviner in 2014) and Robert Schenkkan (who has also worked as a television writer since adapting Graham Greene's The Quiet American for Phillip Noyce) give leverage to Doss» interactions with his combative superiors (a rather kitschy but likeable Vince Vaughn fares better than a somnolent Sam Worthington), underlining his developmental difficulties with authority figures thanks to his alcoholic dad.

Something better than another damn quote: The line - up scene was scripted as a serious scene, but after a full day of filming takes where the actors couldn't keep a straight face, Singer decided to use the funniest takes.