As he watches
the cheap melodrama unfold he scoffs at the quality of the storytelling, and one can't help wondering how this incarnation of Sherlock would react to Robert Downey Jr.'s action - packed escapades or Benedict Cumberbatch's near - robotic sleuthing — these two actors having redefined the iconic character for the 21st century.
«It's like
a cheap melodrama,» says Shun when he discovers he and Yumi may be more than classmates.
While it is essentially
a cheap melodrama it is one with a beautiful sense of composition and a gorgeous score from Satoski Takebe.
A full awareness that it's kind of
a cheap melodrama (one of the characters even says so) doesn't change the fact that it is but the young Miyazaki's visual palette is notably beautiful and the voice work is strong throughout.
Not exact matches
For some, it will be the mix of crime - show
melodrama,
cheap cynicism and soap - opera theatrics.
Introducing a fairy tale ending to a gritty, realistic story can regularly prove jarring, turning an earthly drama into a
cheap and frothy
melodrama.
Although Viola Davis offers a fantastic performance here, this disgusting
melodrama is much more concerned about making you cry than saying anything meaningful, while most of the characters are one - dimensional and several unnecessary details are constantly added to the story with the sole purpose of
cheap sentimentality.
For pioneering director Cecil B. DeMille, Carpenter played Spanish Ed in The Virginian (1914) and Jacques D'Arc in Joan the Woman (1916), both still extant, before striking out on his own, directing and acting in some of the
cheapest Westerns and action
melodramas ever produced.
Cool rationale over tired
melodrama and methodical storytelling as opposed to
cheap set pieces are the key factors in Steven Soderbergh's docudrama - thriller Contagion, a disturbingly realistic movie about a relentless viral outbreak that may do for sales of hand sanitizer and surgical masks what anthrax did for duct tape and plastic sheeting in the early... Continue reading →
The Notebook is so singularly focused on
cheap romantic
melodrama that the entirety of World War II is reduced a montage sequence in which, of course, Noah's best friend dies in his arms on the battlefield.
It's teen
melodrama all right, but hardly
cheap.
Using mockumentary to re-stage real life interviews with Tonya Harding, her ex-husband Jeff Gillooly and mother LaVona Golden, Gillespie unpacks layers of lies with
melodrama and
cheap laughs.
Their «complicated» issues aren't what's going to raise eyebrows come Oscar season, but it's how these issues are played out in the script in a style that (to some may be
cheap and a formulated method to give the film an edge) is refreshing and doesn't belittle their conditions to a sob - story
melodrama.