Sentences with phrase «characters in this film hardly»

But if the film is trying to say humans are worth saving, the main characters in this film hardly model the kind of behavior that speaks well of our race.

Not exact matches

In his desire to make a universally well - received film, Walt Disney decided to play safe with this light - hearted and hugely entertaining delight that would hardly not please everyone, with an expressive animation, great catchy songs and many adorable characters.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

There's hardly a single wasted frame in this tightly - paced siege film, turning the screw on its characters (and the audience itself) with some nail - biting tension that doesn't let up.

It's the only time the film stops in tracks to provide a showcase for the ability of one of its characters, but the sequence is so cleverly choreographed by director Bryan Singer (who returns to the franchise after directing its first two installments) that we hardly notice.

Whilst the character of the submissive ingénue is hardly unfamiliar in literature or contemporary cinema (Steven Shainberg's 2002 film Secretary based on Mary Gaitskill's novel Bad Behaviour, springs to mind) the success of James» novels has piqued such intense global interest in the film that its cultural significance can not be underestimated.

Where the film loses most of its charm is in its unrelatable characters, who all exhibit behavior that hardly rings true in the real world.

There's hardly a role in the film not filled by a veteran character actor or future star like Louie Anderson, John Witherspoon, and Billie Bird.

The most egregious loss has to be his expressionistic character study Taxi Driver being pipped at the post by Rocky: not a terrible film by any means, but hardly in the same class.

The unfortunate trade - off is that the logistics of Ragnarok's script dictate that with Blanchett and Hopkins on Asgard, Hemsworth (and lots of the film's most entertaining side characters) on Sakaar, and Hiddleston on Sakaar but in a different setting, the film's best players hardly get to play off each other.

The Surfer was hardly the only character currently absent from the MCU that was rumored to appear in the film, though.

Though the actor is terribly miscast in the role, he's hardly to blame for some of the script's more perplexing decisions — like having his character narrate the story as if he's a detective in a film noir, or the fact that he barely speaks a lick of Japanese despite being the military's expert on the local culture.

(Considering what a hot star Hilary Duff is, she plays less than a one - note character and is hardly in the film.)