Sentences with phrase «character in the worst movie»

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High - profile, successful, and gold - agnostic investment - world luminaries assess the macroeconomic risks of radical monetary policies and reach a similar conclusion: This will end badly: — Seth Klarman: «All the Trumans (reference: a 1998 movie [The Truman Show] in which the main character's entire life takes place on a TV set which he perceives as reality)-- the economists, fund managers, traders, market pundits — know at some level that the environment in which they operate is not what it seems on the surface....

Stories like these helped me recognize the «good» within people; not the 2 - dementional stereotypical characters that we tend to see in moviesand associate as «bad guys» (dark eyes and a goatee); that is just movie makeup that plays on the social consciences of that era.

Worst of all is Sandler's and director Dennis Dugan's conviction that endlessly referring to its title character's «package» is in and of itself a laff riot: the character Biggus Diccus in Monty Python's Life of Brian notwithstanding, the only time a huge penis in the movies is funny is in certain triple - X rated movies from the days of yore when John Holmes used to almost trip over his own.

It felt kind of slow though and despite the fact that some of the characters do go through hard times, the DeNiros performance and the movie in general was so light hearted it was hard to really believe anything was at stake or anything bad would happen.

But this also means that when major, life - changing events happen in the world of the Marvel movies — like the ending of Infinity War, in which half of all sentient beings in the universe are erased from existence — they're rarely given the weight they should have, beyond some of the characters expressing, «I am feeling bad about this.»

Shaun could be the most clever character in the whole movie, but when the bad guys keep leaving doors open, she doesn't really need to be clever, does she?

The acting was okay for the most part (Marsden and Perabo were pretty good but Glenn and Thornton gave two of the most wooden performances I've seen recently), the attacks by the bear were not that well made but it could've been worse but, ultimately, the movie is entertaining and in the end you really care for the 3 main characters (Perabo, Marsden, Jane).

In Salt and Fire, a bad movie but an intriguing vacation slideshow, Michael Shannon and Veronica Ferres play «characters» (unconvincing, undimensional) and speak «dialogue» (expository, flat).

I can't see any good reason to remake a bad movie changing the nature of the depraved villains but keeping all of those lame faults found in the original movie - especially characters who are irritatingly stupid and the only smart one being the dog.

In a true - life sports tale like the recent «Invincible,» you buy into all the inspirational clichés because the characters have inner lives and the movie is about something bigger; here, you keep hoping for something bad to happen to somebody just for the sake of balance.

That said, it's not a bad movie, everything else is relatively well done, but the fact that I didn't believe for one second in Travolta's character is what brought it down to «not so great» territory for me.

Regardless of all the times I've desired more fresh ideas in a movie, The Big Bad Swim reminded me that sometimes characters don't require novelty as long as they feel genuine.

Good points, it also irked me that the girls and boys split up in the Wakanda fight — it happens a lot in action movies (good girl fights bad girl sidekick while male character fights head villain), hopefully Danvers will be an equal opportunity ass kicker.

I really really dislike the main character like he's actually in real life gonna get the girl of his dream, are you serious??? He has a crooked smile, wears pajamas all day outside of his house and talk's like a gay poet, I just think he sucks as an actor, uggh I don't know why I dislike him so much after this movie.On the other hand Rachel Bilson is very cute and not as bad of an actor This movie solely focuses on telling the story and making us like the characters for themselves.

shrieks Paul Giamatti's squirrelly record executive, sounding very much like a character in a movie insisting on the historical importance of its subjects, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

And while you can admire, in theory, a movie about that kind of stasis — about a real - life situation in which things are bad and can only, maybe, get ever - so - slightly better — in actual practice, this is a film as depressed as its characters.

But the most puzzling divergence is that after Wade became Deadpool in «X-Men Origins,» his mouth was sewn shut, and the character became mute — yes, the antihero who became a cult - favorite as the Merc with a Mouth literally had no mouth, a first - ballot candidate for the Hall of Fame of Bad Comic Book Movie Decisions.

The movie goes everywhere but up, failing to generate interest in the longevity of two annoying characters who insist on making a bad situation worse for themselves, with the production insisting it's creating something of a romance when it's actually inspiring a headache with this achingly insipid effort.

I like to enjoy the characters in a comedy but in this movie the two parents are just always fighting, the two kids are just wretched little creatures, and all the people around them just always give bad advice and make their lives even more difficult.

One of the biggest comedy stars of the past 30 years is back after a long hiatus — in one of the worst movies of the year, on talk shows, and, as always, hiding behind his menagerie of characters.

Not bad at all.this film keeps you guessing in ways you never do a lot in horror films.Rob Zombie directs theses actors like I've never seen a horror director do before.this movie is truly amazing, people are calling it «terrible» I call it «good» it's the kind of horror film that actually deals with characters and not just pointless blood and guts.I felt like all these characters really did go through something, and this movie is truly just about them overcoming it.I don't consider this a horror film, I consider this a drama / horror film, cause that is what it is, and I love it.this mvie isn't just about a killer killing people, it actually deals with the people he's after anf even deals with himself at times, which I truly loved.Rob Zombie has proved to me again that he could direct.perfect seq...

All of this being said, Labor Day is certainly not the type of film to shy away from using one of the worst problems in movies — that of conveniently timed news reports when specific characters are watching TV.

Time was when virtually all disaster movies were essentially character studies, and examined (with varying degrees of success) how extreme circumstances bring out the best and the worst in human beings.

As this hilarious teaser for the teaser trailer points out, the people behind Reynolds» previous onscreen incarnations in X-Men Origins: Wolverine effectively ruined him by taking away the character's defining potty mouth (not to mention the whole thing being one of the worst superhero movies ever made).

It's the worst opening for a movie featuring Marvel Comics» characters since «Ghost Rider: The Spirit of Vengeance» debuted to $ 22.1 million in 2012.

It is wonderful to see this type of character in a family movie, rather than the usual «black and white» good and bad people.

Of course, though, Deadpool was SO bad in the first movie that the plans to spin off the character back in 2010 fell by the wayside.

That's why Ryan Reynolds took the role, even knowing how bad the character was, as that was considered, at the time, the only way that he would be able to play the character in the follow - up movie.

She's not so unusual: Amy Schumer's character in her feature debut is her own worst enemy, but can the same be said of the movie?

Worse, though, are the growingly ludicrous actions and inactions of almost every character in the movie.

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As far as supporting characters in the rom - com, movies have done a lot worse, but there's not a whole lot to these characters except a couple of solid one - liners.

Why it was bad: It took a great two first movies, not to mention an entire franchise, and killed off nearly every character in useless ways.

Gerard Kennedy Best: «Iron Man» Worst: «21» Comments: While I don't buy the «best superhero movie ever» hyperbole some people are putting on «Iron Man,» Jon Favreau's take on the Marvel character was smart, involving, filled with great effects and a performance from Robert Downey Jr. that at least puts forth the best superhero protagonist in a long time.

The whole movie is like that, telling you what to think and painting characters in broad strokes, good or bad (numbering most everyone we're seeing among the decent folks).

A skateboarding road - trip flick that will bore real skateboarders silly (and I should know — I've been one since the late»70s), it includes barely 10 minutes of badly - edited actual boarding, less than half of which features the main characters (no - name actors using obvious stunt doubles), who in the course of the movie perform only one trick (at the very end) that's beyond the abilities of any dedicated junior high school punk with a modicum of talent.

«No, my character is actually not a bad guy, and then I can not say more... I can say that the movie will be filmed in Iceland and England.

The bad news is that Cameron Crowe, in an attempt to duplicate the magic of Garden State, has fashioned a movie filled with so much unnecessary whimsy and so little character development, that it implodes into a mess of celluloid.

Besides it would be criminal if one of Hollywood's finest bad guy actors was given half a character in a Marvel movie.

As the only bad egg in a movie full of likeable and more importantly, believable characters, Brid Brennan is superb as Mrs Kelly, the local battleaxe of a shopkeeper who has earned herself the nickname «nettles» Kelly and who observes a nauseating pecking order when it comes to counter service in her shop.

As for everyone else, Anthony Mackie is the movie's best actor in which he plays a character who you don't know whether or not he's a bad guy.

The process of making a relatable comedy while simultaneously engaging in another Bad - off puts some strain on writer - directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore (who are also beneficiaries of the unfortunate fact that even if a movie has half a dozen major female characters outnumbering the men, it'll probably still be dudes running things behind the camera).

by Walter Chaw John Dahl's latest foray into knock - off B - movie territory is Joy Ride, a film that indulges an awkward dedication to hiding the face of its villain (which results in the biggest cheat of the film at its conclusion), presents predictably misogynistic victimizations for both of its female characters (followed by weak - wristed salvations), and demands an ironclad suspension of disbelief that the bad guy is omniscient, omnipresent, and only ruthless when there isn't a long speech to be made.

Jones notes that the three to four hours it takes to be transformed into the character each day actually isn't so bad — relatively speaking — as he rattles off how much longer it took to embody creatures in other collaborations with Del Toro, including «Pan's Labyrinth,» the «Hellboy» movies and «Crimson Peak.»

Worst - case scenario: That affection and respect spills over to the people behind the camera, and the movie traffics in the same toxic self - regard as other Meyers movies (including at least one scene where characters compliment each other on the witty lines provided for them by the filmmaker).

These absences of characters aren't necessarily a bad thing, but I think it's a good idea to go in, expecting Gwyneth Paltrow to take a back seat for most of the movie (she makes up for it, when she is on the screen, however).

Nominees for Outstanding Animated Character in a Live - Action Movie include Rachael, Kong, Bad Ape, and Caesar.

It's always a bad move in a screwball comedy to take your own characters and plot too seriously, and for long stretches, director Mel Smith (Bean, The Tall Guy) fancies Blackball as a movie worth taking seriously.

The revelation follows the de rigueur notion that all YA - inspired movie adaptations must come in threes and the belief that pop culture fans can't get enough of producers milking these make - believe worlds — whether it's the planned spinoff stories set in a galaxy far, far away, the everyday heroes of TV's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. or the darkly comedic prequel series to focus on Breaking Bad character Saul.

When I watched this movie, I was blown away by so many characters: Okoye's raw power as a fighter, M'Baku's bad boy charm with a secret heart of gold, Shuri's one - liners left me in stitches, and of course the warmth of the Black Panther himself, T'Challa.