Sentences with phrase «bum note»

There are indeed a few bum notes here and there and that goes for the entire cast.

The game does hit a couple of bum notes though, many of which can probably be attributed to the game being made by a small, indie team.

In fact, it's so terrifically nuanced that there's not one bum note in the excellent ensemble cast (which also features Marie - Josee Croze, David Wilmot, Pat Shortt, Killian Scott, and Owen Sharpe).

As the video went live on her YouTube channel today, there was an initial bum note as it was blocked on copyright grounds.

The biggest problem with a movie this long and uninvolving is you have nothing to do but grimace at one bum note after another and wonder if the Russians could have devised a better plot.

Only Kim has a secret tool in her box: she used to be a skateboarding champion until her mum's death — cueing the film's biggest bum note — threw her life off balance.

The critic's knee - jerk reaction to pan McDonagh's sophomore effort as self - indulgent is ultimately stifled by the sense that a few bum notes do little to impact the overall piece, and that this notion of throwing the baby out with the bathwater is exactly the type of reductive cynicism that Calvary rails against.

The leaves on the line stopping Josephine Pryde's choo - choo are not the only bum note among Tate Britain's contenders

On a slightly bum note, as you read this my plumber will be assessing whether the vanity I bought will actually work or not.

Our review calls it «bloodier, funnier, and even more meta than its predecessor» and while there are equally positive reviews out in the wild, there's a few bum notes to contend with too.

He said the whole thing can be compared to a musician in an orchestra striking a bum note.

Prime Minister's Questions ended on a bum note today as David Cameron suggested that he wanted to see Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker turning up for work in his underpants.

Prime Minister's Questions ended on a bum note today as David Cameron suggested that he wanted to...

There's not a bum note on the gritty 17 songs that follow.

That bum note leaves a sour taste in the mouth, the opposite of Kick - Ass» deliriously uplifting ending.

A Hollywood special - effects extravaganza on a thoroughly pre-modern theme is bound to hit some bum notes, and at least one part of 47 Ronin — a romance between Kai and his lord's daughter (Kô Shibasaki)-- never gels with the rest of the narrative.

For a while, it didn't even matter who helmed the company's flicks, because they'd never struck a bum note, but after «Cars,» it might help matters to discover that Brad Bird, writer / director of «The Incredibles,» has returned to the Pixar stable for «Ratatouille,» and, yep, he's written and directed this one as well.

The list of indelible ensemble players could go on; suffice to say that only Juston Street, as hotheaded Jay, strikes a bum note in a role that bears too close a cosmetic resemblance to both Napoleon Dynamite's Uncle Rico and Dodgeball's White Goodman.

Exceptional, as always, with his actors, McCarthy has made a true ensemble drama, with nary a bum note in the sprawling cast.

With such an accomplished cast, it would be difficult to go wrong, and, performance-wise, this enjoyable film never strikes a bum note.

If there's a bum note here, it's the introduction of Rose: it's certainly praiseworthy for the Skywalker saga to include such a prominent Asian character — particularly since Kurosawa's «The Hidden Fortress» was such a key influence — but she's shamelessly a fan avatar.

I did like one bit of B - roll where Ethan (who does most of the talking in the Brothers» interview segments) asks Tommy Lee Jones to drop «the» from a line of dialogue — it's not fussy micromanaging but rather losing a bum note, and Jones really takes to the suggestion.

Even the smaller roles, from Joe's childhood friend B (with whom she forms a club whose mantra is, hilariously, «Mea Vulva, Mea Maxima Vulva») played by Sophie Kennedy Clark, to the physically chilly presence of Connie Nielsen as Joe's mother, are perfectly cast too, notes in von Trier's layered compositon that he plays on us like a violin, or perhaps a church organ, with scarcely a bum note hit.

They start with an unnecessary amendment and a bum note: whereas Ponicsan revisited his original characters, here we have a different trio, not sailors but marines.

Again, it must be noted that all performances were shot live and on set mostly in one unflinching unedited take and apart from a few bum notes the film is all the better for it.

The company's 2013 performance definitely struck a bum note vs. the high growth / high margin story shareholders bought into so enthusiastically.

Despite curator Helen Molesworth's instrumental involvement in the triumphal Kerry James Marshall show that opened at MOCA last week and other recent shows by Kahlil Joseph, Mickalene Thomas and Noah Davis» Underground Museum, MOCA's recent announcement that this year's annual gala will celebrate Jeff Koons (a museum benefactor) strikes a bum note.

Damien Hirst's 1993 cabinet We've Got Style (The Vessel Collection — Blue / Green), with an asking price of $ 800,000, struck a bum note however, failing to sell.