Sentences with phrase «cliche romantic»

The lack of a compelling plot or characters keeps this film from reaching its true potential and instead makes it a cliche romantic adventure.

Well - directed comedy - drama that starts of as a fascinating peek into the complications of love for a world celebrity, and although the second half isn't quite as well - done as the first due to cliche romantic comedy shenanigans.

He forms a cliche romantic relationship with a chemistry teacher named Carla Purty.

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Think of it in terms of the cliche about romantic breakups: It's not you, it's me.

The film has many cliche's and is as predictable as the next romantic comedy film.

Without adopting the romantic and moralistic cliches that have crippled many other films about addiction, Gus Van Sant directs Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, James Le Gros and Heather Graham in one of the most influential films of the late 1980s.

Depressing, cliche, and quite unwatchable at times, Dear John really doesn't have an interesting story to tell, and despite it being in the romantic genre, the film makes the viewer feel nothing more than annoyance.

An other thing that was awesome in» Friends with Benefits» is the situations (when there talking, etc) between Dylan and Jamie, which I found less cliche than most of romantic comedies.

Coming from an adult child of divorce, there's heart here, and Zicherman and Karlin also make sure to avoid romantic comedy cliches.

The concept for this young adult romantic drama is fairly novel, though its treatment — despite its setting on not one but two planets — tends to fall back on teen romance cliches.

Young Adult (2011)- Strongly gives the impression that writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman intended to take the cliches of romantic comedy and apply them to real life: What kind of person would do such things, and how would she be received?

# 3: Save the Date - With a realism that hits close to home, and a complete lack of cliches that usually populate romantic comedies, Save the Date stands out as a real genuine story about different stages of love and relationships.

I don't consciously think about cliches but I do think I like to subvert them, particularly with romantic tropes.

Though it's hard to deny the effectiveness of Anna Faris» energetically go - for - broke performance, The House Bunny's reliance on some of the most eye - rollingly hoary cliches within the romantic - comedy genre proves instrumental in cementing its ultimate downfall.

They pass inevitable cliches along the way, from Richie (Joe Manganiello) wondering whether he's still got it and Matt Bomer's failed actor, Ken, embracing a rare chance to sing to a new romantic interest for Mike, in the form of Amber Heard's photogrpher, Zoe.

«What If» misuses only one romantic comedy cliche, the most pernicious of all: It tries to pump up the tension by inserting a completely meaningless and unbelievable argument.

Sherrie and Drew's central plot merges romantic - comedy cliches with every hackneyed star - wannabe movie ever made.

DeWitt, though, is the best of the three, turning her vegan lesbian into more than what could have been a gaggle of tropes and cliches, making it clear that her sisterly relationship is just as important as any romantic entanglement.

At the very least, it doesn't seem to have dawned on anybody to advance past the acceptable romantic comedy cliches of bumbling, sexually inept husbands and long - suffering, levelheaded wives.

What's worse, the plotting of the film and the way it spins out of this fateful performance is just as fake, managing to lift every single romantic comedy cliche right out of Screenwriting 101 on the way to its supposedly grand climax.

Jodorowsky speaks in large sweeping romantic cliches and metaphors while Spalding Gray narrates personal anecdotes that are awkwardly vulnerable and intimate