Sentences with phrase «characters plucking»

«The root of men's problems,» Ouyang explains at the beginning of the film, sounding like a character plucked right out of 2046, «is memory.»

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl introduced us to a world of magic, intrigue and wonder with the silly antics of interesting characters plucked from an inspiring theme park ride.

Not exact matches

By plucking out delicate, live tissue during neurosurgery and then studying the resident cells, researchers have revealed a partial cast of neural characters that give rise to our thoughts, dreams and memories.

The central character, Ed Pekurny (Matthew McConaughey), is an amiably serene, aw - shucks rube who is plucked from obscurity by a fledgling cable channel called True TV and made the star of his own round - the - clock, this - is - my - private - reality show, a kind of marathon solo version of The Real World or An American Family.

Are the villains so one - dimensional and underwritten because they look like they've been plucked from the doodles in Miyazaki's wastebasket, or do they look like secondhand character designs because they're so one - dimensional and underwritten?

San Andreas is one of those movies that looks and sounds great, but the story and characters could have easily been plucked out of a SyFy Channel movie - of - the - week.

This zesty, defiantly awkward shambles of a film might be called a domestic drama, as it plucks its penniless main character from her beer - soaked California stage and sends her to the Midwest to deal with her wealthy ex-husband (Kevin Kline, playing off Streep as tenderly as in Sophie's Choice) and their suicidal adult daughter (Mamie Gummer, Streep's real - life progeny), a victim of Ricki's long - ago abandonment.

The only characters not plucked directly from Carver are jazz chanteuse Tess Trainer (Annie Ross) and her cellist daughter, Zoe (Lori Singer).

Halle Berry survives on pluck, though the script reserves some of the most embarrassing lines for her character, a mystery woman on the trail of a North Korean terrorist.

While Tarantino's debut sits at a cosy stall right at a crossroads in»90s film history, Bottle Rocket might actually be deemed the better film, a bungled crime caper revolving around a lead character whose pluck and moxie shroud serious psychological damage.

The further assortment of characters there includes gleefully effete Oswaldo Mowbry (Tim Roth), an Englishman delighted in Ruth's preference for collecting his bounty, Joe Gage, a journaling cowboy (Michael Madsen) on his way to visit his mother, and Senor Bob (Demian Bichir), a Mexican caretaker not at all pleased with being tasked to finish plucking a chicken.

Table 19 is the kind of mid-range, adult - oriented, not - quite - comedy, not - quite drama character ensemble movie that barely gets made any more, and it has a specific kind of losery charm and can - do pluck and I f*cking like it.

So I just put the novel on a cookbook holder, flipped it open, and basically started to just pluck out the dialogue, to go, «OK, this is the character's name, and this is what they say».

He plucked the comic's go - to character, the awkward man - child with anger issues, out of his rarefied Happy Madison atmosphere and plopped him down in the real world, where his social snafus and fits of rage caused everyone else to back away, slowly.

Fox marketers plucked the character of everyman Peter, a fan favorite from a later trailer, and gave him his own Twitter account.

It all recalls the Games themselves, as the group encounters subterranean entities, bombs, massive guns — you name it — all executed in a fashion that will have you fearing for the fate of well - loved characters in a series noted for unexpectedly plucking them off.

When I was a child, there was a program where one of the characters could «pluck his magic twanger» and make something magical happen.

Not unlike Final Fantasy: Dissidia which I have been playing recently, Castlevania: Judgment plucks various characters from the Castlevania series and pits them against each other for a -LSB-...]

Also, when creating the levels in this title, we asked designers to distribute new elements such as the dynamic 3D Camera movement, plucking and features with new partner characters» abilities equally over the entire game and also to apply new ideas to the main design of each level.

The Pixar characters look like they've been plucked from the movies and the settings are spot on, though the most impressive graphics can be found when the group go outside and fight amidst the swaying flowers and lush grass of the suburban neighborhood.

Pirate101 can be quite the charmer with its polished visuals, from the authentic pirate costumes to the kung - fu action sequences when a character hits a critical blow to the memorable quest NPCs that could have been plucked from the zany Pirates of the Caribbean movies.»

There are 25 characters to choose from and each one looks like they could've been plucked straight from the world of Pandora.

Fall in love with the charming characters, explore large dungeons and prepare to get your heart strings plucked.

Seemingly plucked from the Renaissance period, it comes as a surprise to see his imagined characters picking their noses, blowing bubblegum, sucking lollipops or donning a skull inspired tattoo.

From the haunting visual stories that lie behind her Do Not Disturb series, to the mysterious characters that grace crumbling buildings in Room Stories, Cristina's work is dramatic, deliberately posed and plucked from an imagination drenched in nostalgia.

His epic canvases, with their disjunct components, resemble collages as much as painting, populated with characters seemingly plucked from momentous historical occasions — protestors, eminent - looking statesmen, soldiers, workers — as well as ordinary people engaged in bizarre, enigmatic actions of no apparent political / historical consequence whatsoever.

BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS is presenting new paintings depicting characters he has encountered in his travels and others who, reflect the current political climate and culture plucked from the headlines.

Here's a roundup of noteworthy news and commentary plucked from my Twitter flow and expanded on slightly here beyond the telegraphy that comes with a limit of 140 characters:

It looks like something plucked straight from the pages of Country Living or BHG, but with even more charm and character.