Sentences with phrase «cardboard characters»

Cardboard characters, albeit FSC - certified cardboard.

It has characters with motivations and personalities instead of tropes or cardboard characters.

Mid-mission dialogue tries to imbue them with some personality and to a degree it succeeds with a couple of reasonably funny back and forths, but for the most part they're just cardboard characters whose differences boil down to a special skill each and the weapons they can equip.

As are long boring descriptions, a confusing opening, cardboard characters, lack of tension or intrigue, tedious repetitions, and switches in verb tense.

You end up with cardboard characters.

Damon and Moore are typically engrossing performers, but there is little redeeming about the cardboard characters they are saddled with.

All actors involved are great, but there is an overwhelming focus on James and Dave Franco, and subsequently, the crew he worked with in extreme circumstances are mere cardboard characters.

There are a lot of cardboard characters and lazy stereotypes.

With multiplexes full of flat cardboard characters who represent the black and white extremes of dramatic conflict, it's a refreshing change to see a cast of characters of varying shades of gray.

If anything, «Death Proof» unintentionally makes the case for exploitation flicks» niche appeal with its cardboard characters and lurid set pieces.

, to the cardboard characters and rotten dialogue.

Statham has carved a nice little niche for himself in the B - movie universe, and his appealing mixture of toughness and sympathy gives us a viable rooting interest amid all the cardboard characters.

Along with fairly cardboard characters and the aforementioned unevenness, it's the kind of movie that can only be truly enjoyed by ignoring the delivery in favor of the more compelling concepts.

In short, whether or not you have seen these cardboard characters in their original broadcast glory, you won't learn any more about them here.

The film is full of clunky dialogue with cardboard characters explaining stuff to each other about Palestine, the Holocaust and German guilt.

Nothing is more boring than cardboard characters that just serve as plot devices.

Here she goes a long way toward making the cardboard character real and her transformation appealingly acted.

However, the final act turns him into more of a cardboard character, while Hollyman gets more interesting stuff to work with.

While it offers a sympathetic portrayal of the Catholic priest, it depicts the Evangelical persecutor as a cardboard character with little regard for mercy.

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By contrast, he argued, Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster's characters «wandered like cardboard symbols through a world that was paper - thin.»

Its characters are cardboard, its pontification is a bore, and it contains far too many plots and sub-plots and sub-sub-plots.

I've made Patapon characters from hula hoops and black cloth and a Nayn Cat out of paint and cardboard, complete with an iPod speaker to play that annoying song as our son ran around.

Imagine a cardboard version of Pixar's Wall - e character, but with added über - cute human voice, and you've got a fair picture of Boxie, Alexander Reben's documentary - video - making robot.

Alice gets a little development — and we'll get her in another flick, so she'll be one of the clearest characters in the series — but the rest of the new folks could be replaced by cardboard.

Snow is a central character but he's presented as a cardboard cutout evil overlord.

True, the dialogue is out of a Cracker Jack box, and most of its characters have less dimension than cardboard cutouts.

The characters are cardboard and unbelievable, and the drama feels forced so much so that the actions and thought processes of the characters are simply ridiculous, unbelievable, and very difficult to watch.

Its characters and storytelling, all within a world quite unlike any other on the TV landscape, have gone far beyond the cardboard stage.

Many thrillers use their characters as nothing more than cardboard cutouts to be put through the motions of the plot, so much so that by the time the plot boils over we don't care, because we don't know who the characters are or why they're doing what they're doing.

All told, it's a reasonably effective movie, but it might have been a lot more effective had it the guts to portray a Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden - like character as its villain instead of this rather unbelievable, but more politically correct, gaggle of cardboard neo-Nazis.

While most everyone else in the film is a character type, either as an exhausted agent, a skeptical business suit, a cardboard Pakistani, or a trained soldier, Jason Clarke's «Dan» is especially interesting.

Brad's Status is an honest film that captures White's incisive deadpan humor and his ability to create characters who talk and act like real human beings, not cardboard caricatures.

In addition to directing, Boone co-wrote the script with Knate Gwaltney (Kidnap, Cardboard Boxer), while X-Men movie vet Simon Kinberg served as producer on the film based on characters created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Bob McLeod.

That is, a continuation of the first trilogy — a rocket - fueled roller - coaster ride, full of jaw - unraveling set - pieces, snappy dialogue and characters that feel real no matter that they are plainly hewn from figurative cardboard.

Not only are the characters flat, paper constructs, but the levels and buildings are largely made of cardboard (as is Mario's health bar), while environmental effects such as water and sand throw off small circles of construction paper when they splash against something.

Here, they mess with a trio of Mounties and other cardboard Canadian characters including Guy Le Franc, a cheesy border - town mayor and former hockey player played by Rob Lowe.

It helps the character transcend his cardboard nice - guy persona and become a figure we can actually care about.

Each environment looks as though it's been crafted out of cardboard and construction paper, and non-playable characters even crumple and crease when they collide with other objects to reinforce this theme.

Yeah sure the characters are all bland cardboard cutouts that you don't care about and are merely there to be killed off slasher flick style.

That said, the characters and background still look nice, with an evergreen cardboard cutout style.

In the film, they are but cardboard cut - outs, with character development nonexistent - resulting possibly from the brief 95 minute run - time.

It is topped by a cardboard slipcover, entirely redundant save for some character and title texture effects.

In this very respect he is a genuine character and not just a caricature or cardboard entity, as is the case more often than not in post 1960s films, for instance.

For the fans, that's more time with the characters they love, but for us less dedicated viewers, that's just more time with a bunch of cardboard cutouts.

If critics have a function anymore besides carving their own gravestones on the marble of modern cinema, it's to point a finger at films like Junebug, which sounds like a thousand other pictures but is actually something all its own: a Southern Gothic in the tradition of Flannery O'Connor that treats its characters as more than plot - movers or cardboard caricatures.

(There is a bully character, a cardboard cutout mean girl played by Debby Ryan, but outside of throwing a few shady looks Deanna's way, she never poses any real threat to her.)

The first «Purge» movie was an incredibly stupid horror - thriller dragged down by its comically far - fetched concept, cardboard villains and idiotic characters, but it also made a lot of money on a micro-sized budget, so it was hardly a surprise when Universal greenlit another installment.

Hendricks seems to be the only one trying and does give an admirable performance, but the writing placed on her and the rest of the characters make them feel like cardboard cut - outs of every other cliché horror teenager.

Cinematography will often cue scenes with an overtop city view that — itself — resembles «Life» playing board designs (plastic character figures and 3D cardboard houses).