Sentences with phrase «blandest characters in»

Frances Dee and Jean Parker acquit themselves well as Meg and Beth respectively but those two sisters, even with Beth's tragedy, are the two blandest characters in the book.

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If your preference is single - player or co-op, Dog Days» lack of personality (both in the characters and on the battlefield) results in one of the blandest shooters out there.

... flat characters, flat animation, a bland rock soundtrack... Titan A.E. might as well be Titanic A.E. (as in, the ship that sunk, not the movie that scored.)

But The Intervention feels bland and without consequence, as it's not possible to invest in characters about whom we're offered so little.

Kirkland's worldly wise persona is a lot more interesting than the character that is handed to Daniels, which is bland in spite of her go - rounds with Scott.

In the Resistance series the story and the characters are a nice addition to what would normally be a good shooter but in this game there is no real story and the characters are bland and just plain awfuIn the Resistance series the story and the characters are a nice addition to what would normally be a good shooter but in this game there is no real story and the characters are bland and just plain awfuin this game there is no real story and the characters are bland and just plain awful.

The supporting characters, from Paul's brother Frank (Vincent D'Onofrio, «The Magnificent Seven») to the selection of bland bad guys in the streets — played by Jack Kesy («Baywatch»), Ian Matthews («The Captive»), Beau Knapp («Run All Night»), among others — are unmemorable as a whole.

Lets not beat around the bush anymore though, the plot is weak and in all honesty most of the characters are pretty bland and unexciting.

All the fun worlds are now gone and replaced with a world map, endless backtracking, bland and one - dimensional characters (basically all Toads), pointless combat (uses up stickers and gives nothing in return), no humorous characters, and not much of a story.

It takes a full three episodes (the full extent of what Netflix gave critics to watch in advance) for characters to develop more than a single bland personality trait each.

But the characters in Song One are stubbornly bland, despite their quirks.

The movie's atmosphere of head - scratching complexity is exacerbated by LaBeouf's rather bland turn as Moore, with the one - dimensional nature of the character preventing the viewer from becoming wholeheartedly wrapped up in his ongoing efforts and exploits.

Yes, do note that I said that the underdevelopment makes it «hard [u] er [/ u]» to get invested in the characters, because as if it's not bad enough that the characters are so undercooked and, well, kind of bland, they're unlikable, or at least the lead is, for although Sam Eidman's portrayal of the Scott Weidemeyer character is engaging convincing, the character himself is just too much of a manchild - concerned with the superficial and his own self - esteem over the concerns of others and growing up - for you to feel for him all that much.

Characters must have personalities, interesting dilemmas and / or conflicts that captivate, yet this film rapidly introduces viewers to a multitude of characters in such blanCharacters must have personalities, interesting dilemmas and / or conflicts that captivate, yet this film rapidly introduces viewers to a multitude of characters in such blancharacters in such bland fashion.

The lead performances are okay — Jones has a quietly expressive face, and Treadaway a handsomeness that shades and elevates the motivations of an otherwise hopelessly mopey character — but the movie's entire backdrop, in both its setting and supporting cast of characters, is fruitlessly bland.

My criteria for a good film are: 1) Interesting, layered characters (these characters were bland), 2) a well - written and creative script (this script was AWFUL), and 3) a thought - provoking story (bland, generic story in Gravity).

And while there's a nicely tentative quality to the scenes between Bob and Erik (whose wounded ambition is perfect for the handsomely bland Hartnett), the movie hits another level when it's behind the closed boardrooms of editors and publishers, and where characters like Alan Alda's managing editor can be observed manipulating people like a man calmly poking snakes in a box.

Bland in the first installment, James adds a bit of welcome color to his portrayal, but the characters in Insurgent hardly qualify as memorable.

This results in a battle system that looks pretty bland and can be quite frustrating as ghosts sometimes like to move to the one space your characters couldn't manage to cover.

The character feels bland next to the other Marvel superheroes brought to the screen in recent years, including Evans» own Johnny «Human Torch» Storm in the lighter, underrated Fantastic Four movies.

With an irreverent wit, a group of anti-hero characters who hated everyone as much as they loved themselves banding together to save the galaxy, and a bright, extravagant visual palette that popped in a way that directly opposed the bland, grey tones of the rest of the MCU, the first Guardians was lightning in a bottle that would be impossible to capture twice.

His role here alternates between bland and strange, and we never really see him as a real character — he's always Robin Williams in a preacher's collar, except not that funny.

Williams is excellent in this scene, just as Affleck's bland behavior is true to his character.

Everest works enough primarily because though the characters might be bland and tough to connect with, their harrowing situation isn't, all the more realized in 3D.

The lead in Roland Emmerich disaster pic «The Day After Tomorrow» gave him an early taste of bland, big - budget (smash hit) spectacle, though he also auditioned to play the title character in «Batman Begins,» and was briefly lined up to take over the role of Peter Parker in «Spider - Man 2» when health issues / contract negotiations looked to rule out Tobey Maguire — now there's an interesting what - if scenario.

His character comes to fruition in the second act and apart from being present during pivotal battle scenes, his character is not given enough time to establish, and so comes off rather bland and underwhelming.

People usually bemoan the lack of a strong human element in big blockbusters like this, but while «Godzilla» aims to remedy that by placing the focus more on them than the giant monsters doing battle, the characters are so bland and thinly written (with the exception of Bryan Cranston's scientist, who has a smaller role than is hinted at in the trailers) that it only makes things worse.

The character models are as bland as they come in this game, giving very little detail, and very little variation between characters as well.

Much like in the source material, our main character is mostly a bland doofus in over his head who steals too much screentime from Hit - Girl (who is too busy with high school politics to do much ass kicking this time around).

While I still hate the look of the battle system and I hate that Toads are the only friendly characters, the locations of the game look very unique for a Mario game, and the Hammer meter (They confirmed battles actually have a purpose, as they eventually upgrade your Paint Hammer's capacity, and painting cards while watching your paint reserves does bring more strategy then spamming your most powerful attacks in the Mario & Luigi games and older Paper Mario games) brings some diversity to the bland battle system.

I understand the limitations of the ropey CGI, but the character is frustratingly bland, dumped with a painful Russian accent and dialogue written by someone trapped in an 80s kids movie.

The new elements in an otherwise familiar battles are co-stars Jessica Biel and Ryan Reynolds, whose own characters are respectively bland, and amazingly unfunny.

Second, Pym is an emotionally disturbed person in the comics, and one of the most interesting characters, while Lang is very bland, and although he has lost a lot, he is anything but disturbed.

In an apparent effort to make the character broadly relatable, Red Dead Redemption «s John Marston came out kind of bland, similar to Grand Theft Auto IV «s Niko Bellic before him.

Zoe Saldana's character in particular is a little bland at times and although she represents the straight - man in the ensemble, it does at times feel like her character sleep walks through most scenes.

Sometimes when I go to the movies and you see characters on the screen that have these amazing, incredibly unrealistic lives, I can't help but wonder wouldn't it be great to see a Romantic Comedy or Drama where everyone lead boring, bland lives like we do in the real world?

Not containing the wit to be smart, thrilling sci - fi nor the chutzpah to embrace a fun, B - movie shlock vibe, it unfortunately feels like an uninspired TV pilot that any other network would've permanently locked in a vault... At first, it has the feeling of being dropped into a season finale with characters we should know more about, then after the bland exposition, muddled motivations, and nonsensical developments, one realizes they'd never want to watch what came before anyways.

Having escaped the maze in «The Maze Runner,» now Thomas (O'Brien), Teresa (Kaya Scodelario, still bland despite having few lines for such a major character) and a bunch of forgettable dudes are housed in a place where the older people in charge (the leader is played by the 67th person you call after Gary Oldman says he's not available) say they're safe and constantly call them «you kids.»

The characters are laughable, whilst the beginning and end have taste, the in - between is completely bland and the only time I had a very positive reaction is whenever the gorilla George made rude gestures (a giant monkey flipping Dwayne Johnson off is going to put a smile on anyone's face).

Though it boasts a strong performance from the always reliable Tom Hanks and good supporting turns by Alexander Black and Sarita Choudhury, the movie is a somewhat bland and uneven character study about a middle - aged white guy getting his groove back in the Middle East.

Cregger's bland yet personable turn as the central character is certainly in sharp contrast to Moore's aggressively zany performance, with the actor's incessantly over-the-top work hitting the viewer like nails on a chalkboard and ensuring that the film becomes more and more of a chore to sit through as it progresses.

THE BOY NEXT DOOR Jennifer Lopez's return to cinema also marked her return to 10 Worst territory, as she headlined this dopey thriller in which her dunderheaded character cavorts with a hunky psycho (Ryan Guzman, as bland here as in Jem and the Holograms).

It's ultimately clear that Blumhouse's Truth or Dare doesn't possess enough material to wholeheartedly justify a feature - length running time, and there's little doubt, too, that the film fares especially poorly in its aggressively bland and uninvolving opening stretch - with the less - than - captivating vibe compounded by an almost astonishing assortment of one - dimensional, interchangeable characters.

Meyer and his character are both bland and forgettable, and Scott plays the same horny teenager he did in American Pie.

David, too, turns out to be a bland character who speaks softly as the leader of the Bureau of Genetic Welfare, a high - tech outpost in an arid and toxic region outside of the Chicago wall, a landscape known as the Fringe.

The way he so effortlessly constructs an imaginary world of quirky characters, and a visual experience so resplendent and idiosyncratic that I wonder how he can even function in this bland, banal world that the rest of us inhabit.

The end result is a rather bland and non-sensical run - of - the - mill cyborg story, with what may be the worst realized villain character I've seen in ages.

Turner, on the other hand, may have been stuck in a movie with a confusing plot, bland villain and too many characters, but she felt like Jean Grey.

Finally, ScreenDaily's Tim Grierson was much less positive, claiming that it feels like «a soulless, mechanical exercise in pure kinetic showmanship» and that Berg «too easily undercuts the human element of his story,» preferring to render most of the characters in the film «ciphers representing bland notions of good or evil.»

PLEASANTVILLE Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon star as late -»90s teenagers who get sucked into their TV and find themselves characters in a bland, «Leave It to Beaver» - like sitcom.