Sentences with phrase «character is meant»

Newcomer Joe Alwyn is incredibly flat as the titular hero (though his character is meant to be somewhat detached from reality, he has zero charisma), while Garrett Hedlund, Kristin Stewart and Vin Diesel can only do so much with the material they're given.

The film, like «Fink,» is a sort of portrait of the artists as young men, and anyone who has, or had, creative ambitions will identify with Davis, who is talented enough to acquit himself (Isaac's performances are excellent: he's arguably better than the character is meant to be), but probably not enough to move up to the next level (like Garrett Hedlund, now that we think about it...).

Just because I didn't relate to the love - hate bond the main character is meant to have with him, doesn't mean I can not appreciate him as a simple action movie baddie.

Radha Mitchell takes the role of the girl we relate to, as the main character is meant to be impossible to relate to.

The character is meant to feel out of place as the Jewish lawyer with no experience hoping to defend an African American man.

And while the character is meant to be dimwitted, and frequently is, Kline's natural intelligence bleeds through in ways that somehow enhance rather than spoil the joke.

Crowe's character is meant to be charming, but his goofy demeanor is never actually funny; to the point where a random «Benny Hill» gag is employed to almost no laughter.

On this level, their religious vocations functioned as O'Connor's characters are meant to.

We don't get that agonising sensation as in Out of Africa, where we know the characters are meant to kiss and are begging them to get on with it.

It's partly intentional, as the two white, privileged characters are meant to be shocked to discover bad things can happen to them, too, and thus to be out of place in the «foreign» world.

The character we're meant to care about, Strange's ex-girlfriend Christine (Rachel McAdams), is just a blank.

These charmless characters are meant to learn that spending time with each other isn't so bad, yet surviving 100 minutes with them is one of the great cinematic endurance tests of our time.

Once you understand the premise fully and the characters you are meant to be rooting for, there is something appealing about spending some time exploring this movie world.

Their parts were reportedly written for other actors (Eli Wallach had been meant to reprise his classic turn as the Mexican bandit), but once you settle in to their personas, you forget they're acting and can accept the two well - known stars as the characters they are meant to be.

None of the characters are meant to speak for a specific demographic of the world, and more importantly, both Judy and Nick have their own triumphs of moral success and missteps along the way.

Along with Whitaker's Guerara, a militant who has alienated Rebel peers and possible Rebel sympathizers, these characters are meant to carry the weight of the story's moral complexity.

This sharply written show is regularly offensive, but in a surprisingly smart way; the characters are mean, but the show rarely is (notice I said «rarely»).

Skin tones do suffer, but that's the point here; our characters are meant to be terribly flawed, and Stacey executes the look so very well.

The characters are meant to be weird and unusual, just like the artists work!

Miyamoto comments about how «Mario and Luigi should be played by twins because the original characters were meant as such.

Nintendo's spelling of «Wii» with two lower - case «i» characters is meant to resemble two people standing side by side, representing players gathering together, as well as to represent the Wii Remote and Nunchuk.

And unlike a lot of NES games, the sprites actually look like the characters they're meant to portray.

Not exact matches

You're limited to 160 characters in your text messages, and that doesn't even mean that you need to use all of them.

Unlike most shows, «True Detective» is an anthology series, meaning that each season will contain a completely different setting and cast of characters.

Character means staying true to yourself and your values, even when you're faced with serious consequences for the right choices that you're making — like, perhaps, losing a job.

It's important to recognize that this «capture» ability means you can play as literally dozens of unique characters, each with unique abilities.

This means someone with the right experience and character traits to solve the real problems you're struggling with at that moment.

While we'll admit the Hoff is a spot on look - alike for the original Nick Fury, that doesn't mean the then 46 year old actor should've been playing the Marvel character in a TV action movie.

As the actor who redefined what it means to be The Man in Hollywood with films like «Pulp Fiction,» he simply put too much into the role, making the Octopus one of his least memorable characters to date.

If you're a fan of the «head slap» made famous by NCIS character Leroy Jethro Gibbs, you know that this non-injurious action is usually meant as a reminder when a team member is in violation of one of the Gibbs rules.

In the credit card world, tokenization means taking credit card account numbers out of merchants» hands, replacing them with strings of characters — essentially, digital tokens — that would, theoretically, be useless if stolen by criminals.

If you can tweet today in 280 characters, maybe it will be much longer in a few months or by 2019, which means Twitter is really just another blogging platform.

Lighting to white characters means that black ones are shadowed.

In commentary, Whedon says the scene was meant to show that the two are good - natured and to establish their characters.

Tsarnaev's defense team is expected to lay out a «Svengali» defense for their client, a strategy named after a character in a 19th century novel and meaning, in a legal context, the defense of a criminal who was «a pawn of a more influential mastermind.»

So maybe Ford took some chances, creating spots in which McConaughey just kind of meanderingly freestyles his way through various quasi-philosophical musings about Lincoln and the meaning of life (it's all been compared to his «True Detective» character).

That means a great deal of turnover among the cast of characters inhabiting the great estates that frame this history, but their pathologies and indulgences have so much in common, they may as well be related.

In reading firsthand accounts of the Waco siege, meant as research for a character in a completely different story they were writing, the Dowdles realized this was the show they should write.

This means if anyone intercepts the message — a hacker for example — it's mostly just jumbled characters and symbols.

The character means we'll most likely be seeing Pesci and De Niro in scenes opposite one another.

I have replayed United CEO Oscar Munoz's tin - eared and breathtakingly inadequate (initial) apology many times in my head — searching for a hidden sign of meaning as though I were that fill - in - the - blank Tom Hanks character in that fill - in - the - blank Dan Brown book - turned - movie.

Just because they circulate 140 - character Tweets or send Snapchats does not mean that they are not interested in deeper, more substantive ideas.

This also means resisting the urge to complain (or brag) about how slammed you are, no matter if it's over Bloody Marys at brunch or in 140 characters on Twitter.

There are plenty of stories that highlight just how mean - spirited Helmsley was towards her employees, and her cruelty and disdain towards the people below her — who she once described as «the little people» — was so ingrained in her character it earned her the nickname the «Queen of Mean».

That means they must be relatively simple and stable in character» Warren Buffett

This change could mean even more engaging content on Twitter, without the stress of being confined to 92 characters.

Marijuana Penny Stock Scams With the proliferation of legal marijuana companies and the massive growth we've seen in the industry, it's no surprise that less - than - savory characters have tried to make a dollar off the boom through, shall we say, less honest means.

That means they must be relatively simple and stable in character.

If Jesus existed (and that is not a given since his name means «salvation,» he's probably an allegorical character), and if the stories about his visit to Jerusalem early in the reign of Pontius Pilate are true, he died because he was an anti-Roman insurgent, probably involved in a Zealot uprising over the use of the Temple treasury to finance the construction of an aqueduct.

These films celebrate the human spirit and explore themes like God's character amidst the holiday season, what it means to be human or how it feels to fall in love.