Sentences with phrase «bulk of the film»

Now I am not sure why the writers / director told a story that really didn't have much of a resolution when I think the entire bulk of the film was exposing the problem of this relationship between the husband and the wife.
Sleight is a strong feature debut for Dillard with great moments that tend to pick up the more humdrum bulk of the film.
The routine bulk of the film can be mildly scary, though Gillespie completely squanders a good setup with one of the characters locked in the back of a squad car as the killer approaches.
It occasionally explodes into extreme violence — and in this case I don't use the word extreme lightly — but there's an unusual and skillful balance between those moments and the tense and quiet bulk of the film.
The bulk of the film is given over to Murphy's conspicuous acts of combat bravery, and his killing of 240 enemy soldiers.
What follows is a standard cat - and - mouse game between Shaun and the thieves» leader, Eddie (Billy Burke), that makes decent enough use of its domestic interior / exterior dynamic; the trash talk between the two underscores most of this, with Burke's character making do with corny, one - off lines like, «Moms don't run, not when their babies are trapped inside the nest,» providing the bulk of the film's punch.
In the long flashbacks that form the bulk of the film, Jerry's only real sign of dysfunction is his indifference to Elizabeth Hurley's character, an ambitious Englishwoman named Sandra who has her own high - powered television career.
These films tend to be long and boring, but this latest installment beefs up the action and takes up the bulk of the film with it, which is great when your characters are trying to be funny but coming off as idiots that you'd rather watch burn to death via the Decepticons.
There is almost no sense of the world in which this struggle occurs; the bulk of the film takes place in cabins or during walks through the wilderness.
The bulk of the film tends to be rich people complaining over spilled milk, while at the same time, they are so self - absorbed that they do not care about anyone else's well - being.
There, he met the aging owner, Mr. Mustapha (F. Murray Abraham, who will take over narration duty for the bulk of the film), who described to him the hotel's shimmering heyday in the 1930s.
This mistreatment comprises the bulk of the film.
The narrative framework for the story is clunkily handled, giving the audience a barrage of exposition, and the switches between the courtroom scenes and the flashbacks that make up the bulk of the film are also slightly heavy - handed.
Certain Women takes several short stories by Maile Meloy and uses them to create three only very loosely connected narratives, which are presented one by one through the bulk of the film, before revisiting them all briefly in the finale.
Burns devotes the bulk of the film to Warhol's»60s work, giving serious attention to the radical, often underacknowledged silent films he shot with the participation of the drag queens, speed freaks and high - society types who populated the Factory.
The bulk of the film, then, is left to focus on Victoria and Albert's largely long - distance, but otherwise obstacle - free courtship, portrayed in the film's middle section in stultifying epistolary terms --- at one point, I counted three letters read back - to - back in voice over, over inert, honey - toned montages of rolling green plains and meringue - like skirts swishing down vast hallways.
The bulk of the film takes place in the gully where Ralston (James Franco) tries to free himself after a nasty fall.
Stone, Sadler and Skarlatos are not naturally gifted performers; the bulk of the film saddles them with a dreadfully dull coming - of - age story that the three admirable figures are frankly unable to pull off in any genuinely interesting way.
He does push the boundaries of good taste in a way that another raunch - o-rama comedic force, Judd Apatow, does so well, mixing an underlying sweetness underneath the gender, race and culture politics that comprise the bulk of the film's sense of humor.
(Doesn't the gauze over Laura's eyes for the bulk of the film signify her blindness to his nature?)
But the bulk of the film is about how she asserted her rights as a widow to make sure that her husband was properly honored, at a time when the entire country was on edge.
Ostensibly the story of five sisters who kill themselves, and even more, of the boys who try to befriend the girls and are mystified by their act for the rest of their lives, the film instead chooses to focus on just one of the girls (played by Kirsten Dunst) and the bulk of the film's middle is taken up with the story of her romance with heartthrob Josh Hartnett.
Although the overarching plot involves the conquest of Thor's native Asgard by Hela, the goddess of death, Thor actually spends the bulk of the film in a comic subplot involving a gladiator planet ruled by an alien overlord played by Jeff Goldblum at his Goldblummiest: equal parts twitchy, smug, and louche.
The bulk of the film is their conversation.
(The bulk of the film takes place while the group is on a promotional tour and appearing in a Thanksgiving Day football halftime show with Destiny's Child.)
As fun as Travolta is, the bulk of the film hinges on the four principle actors and the bond — or lack thereof — that they share.
His childhood work as a newsboy and subsequent career as a crime writer are dealt with fairly briskly but the bulk of the film, and the best material, deals with his time in the Second World War.
Said large family gathering is the site of the bulk of the film.
The bulk of the film goes back and forth between the attempts to bring him back, and the kidnappers and their captive — including a botched escape attempt as well as the infamous and rather graphic depiction of Paul's ear being cut off.
When he hears that his girl is marrying another, he decides to commit suicide and spends the bulk of the film in thrilling, failed attempts.
Just as the detective's narcotics - blurred mind mostly seems to be elsewhere, however, so the case recedes into the background for the bulk of the film, as his crazed antics bleed into a host of interconnected subplots.
The bulk of the film has to do with a magic wand the partners stumble across, right as they've become the targets of multiple assassination plots — from within the department and without.
So it's hard to get invested in the planning of the heist — which takes up the bulk of the film — when you don't really care if these guys succeed or not.
This is the bulk of the film.
Though not completely engaging, the young cast do a decent job bookending the story, while the adult cast play their «avatars» for the bulk of the film.
Detailing nearly four decades of the poet's life, «A Quiet Passion» follows Dickinson (played in younger years by Emma Bell and for the bulk of the film by a remarkable Cynthia Nixon) as she struggles with religious, proper society, artistic recognition and encroaching death.
That said, these elements are given some attention for the first 20 minutes or so, which sets up the basic historical context for the infamous 1993 battle in Mogadishu, Somalia that makes the bulk of the film.
He finds sanctuary behind a crumbling wall and this is where the bulk of the film takes place.
Will I did feel the last act was a bit rushed and out of place by the time the credits role, that can't take away from the joy ride I was on throughout the bulk of this film.
Craftily written by Peter Morgan (who also wrote the current The Last King of Scotland), the bulk of the film consists of careful tête - à - têtes between Blair and his Queen; he becomes ever more enthralled with her, while she discovers a chink in her armor.
The bulk of the film takes place in a snowy concentration camp for apes, overseen by a Kurtz - like madman known as The Colonel (Woody Harrelson).
The bulk of the film cuts between the two men's stories, as Tutu maneuvers the difficult politics of the TRC's mission and, in prison, the criminal faces his past, as well as the often violent politics of the incarcerated.
The bulk of the film concerns his first case, very roughly based on fact, defending a couple of farmers accused of manslaughter.
Yet the bulk of her films (and this is not solely her fault) have been fairly narrow, self - involved works.
In the 1955 version, the robbery is quick and straightforward and the bulk of the film is concerned with the criminals» comically inept efforts to kill an old lady.
This role shows that she can carry the bulk of a film while still letting her co-star get top billing.
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