Sentences with phrase «clumsy scenes»

It's an affecting notion that, ironically, loses its power during the rare, clumsy scenes of actual dialogue.

The director with the help of co-writer Boris Frumin adds a clumsy scene in a car where John and Setsumo act like two spontaneous teens, and the film concludes on a sad note showing the difficulty of romance across the Pacific when the couple know little of each other's native language.

Abbott reminds me a bit of the spy novelist Alan Furst in that, like Furst, she has so absorbed a particular historical period and a particular genre, that you are thrown off a bit when you do notice anything amiss, such as a clinker line or a clumsy scene.

Not exact matches

Some of the writing is clumsy and ponderous: «Gloria explained that I was witnessing a typical Bavarian scene and pointed out an interesting fact...» Some is just a bit too pious.

In place of a clumsy exposition scene, Updike's narrator has Rabbit recall, at surprisingly appropriate times, the myriad events, people and places that shaped his life.

Dion's character is written in such a clumsy and obvious way that Sturgess's only option is to drench a lot of acting sauce on his scenes and then proceed to chew»em all up.

Selick proves a clumsy director of live - action scenes and never overcomes the muddled, half - baked script or the scatological gags.

And most the of early scenes involving Cooper, McAdams and Stone are clumsy and unconvincing.

A heap of bad history, the movie rewrites the one - sided feud between the early electric power moguls Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) into a clumsy public - domain mockbuster of The Prestige; you can almost hear director Alfonso Gomez - Rejon (Me And Earl And The Dying Girl) trying to slap himself awake as he inserts overhead shots, canted angles, zooms, and wide - angle Tom Hooper - isms into every scene.

Eric Bana makes a satisfactory comic villain, there is a rolling - around - on - the - lawn fight scene that's convincingly clumsy, and Mann mocks him with a spot - on Aussie accent (not the standard pleasant one, more of a bray).

By contrast, everyone else's first scenes feel clumsy and forgettable, which is too bad considering the impressive multiethnic range of co-stars — from Chinese agent Chen Dawai (Chinese music star Wang Leehom) to FBI hard - ass Carol Barrett (Viola Davis)-- cast in these supporting parts.

Scenes of inebriation, illegal drug use and a clumsy fight between a drunk and a drug addict are also depicted in the movie.

Technically, there are a few slight glitches: Scenes on the steamship crossing the Atlantic and of the NY skyline feature clumsy use of green screen.

Schaffner came from TV, and while he has few of the obnoxious visual affectations of the TV - trained director, he tends to restrict the most significant actions and relationships in his films to spatial arenas that could be served very adequately by the tube rather than the Panavision screen: the real convention hustle in The Best Man takes place in hotel rooms, hallways, and basements; the tensest moments in his strange and (to me) very sympathetic medieval mini-epic The War Lord are confined to a small soundstage clearing or that besieged tower; the battle scenes in Patton are hardly clumsy, but the real show is George C. Scott; and Nicholas and Alexandra comes alive only after the royal family has been penned up under the watchful eyes of Ian Holm and then Alan Webb, far from the splendor of St. Petersburg or the shambles of the Great War.

Yet it's not hard to see his point in the movie's blowout party scene, where he's forced to contend with a whole battery of stars behaving badly, from an unconvincingly sleazy Michael Cera to a dangerously clumsy Paul Rudd.

Scenes involving Johnson and his Zoo assistants are corny, and interactions with the gorilla are technically clumsy.

Perhaps there were things going on behind the scenes that contributed to the film's rather hushed promotion and subsequent release, and which may explain possible on - set awkwardness that allowed the film to come out as clumsy as it has.

A scene in which Milo's vaguely hilarious food allergy comes into play is curiously never resolved, two of Milo's hacker pals from the old days are so similar in appearance and voice to one another that I was abstractedly surprised to see them on the screen together at the end of the film, the reveal of a secret molestation is abused in an insulting and clumsy way, and a stock blue - collar cop character is introduced as the worst kind of deus ex machina: the late - in - the - game triumph of a heretofore marginalized comic foil (see: Barnard Hughes in The Lost Boys).

Bridget Jones Diary (2001) Bridget Jones Diary has a memorable meet cute scene between its clumsy heroine Bridget (Renee Zellweger) and Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) at a Christmas party wearing ugly Christmas sweaters.

Evans handles the dramatic scenes as well as he does the action later on, but ultimately this is a story nobody asked to be told, as proved by an intriguing albeit clumsy hint at a sequel that's more enticing than the entire film that preceded it.

There are a surprising number of cut scenes for a hidden object puzzle adventure, all enriching the tale with their clumsy but charming flair.

The gruesome and the goofy mix it up in scene after scene, but Lester's grand plan of using farce for political commentary is sabotaged by his uncharacteristically clumsy handling of it all.

The denouement is especially clumsy and unconvincing, but Judy is in peak form throughout, unleashing raw emotions in the dramatic scenes and exuberantly belting out a handful of songs when performing on stage.

The unwarranted romantic subplot and the cross-cutting of the dance sequence during the adrenalin raising scenes add to the breaking of the momentum of the scenes, making the entire screenplay a clumsy and lethargic display.

It doesn't help that some of the clumsiest camerawork takes place right at the start, in which a conversation between Alexandra and her best friend and colleague, Sin - Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez), is chopped into an awkward, shot - reverse - shot sequence (the widescreen lens isn't helpful in the interior scenes).

My first thought about Kaitlin Olson is always that incredible scene from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia where she dances along with the inflatable tube man, so a clumsy swimmer seems to suit her perfectly.

Instead of repeating Suicide Squad's clumsy yet fun opening of introducing characters at length, Justice League realizes you probably know these heroes already, even the ones teased in shameless cross-promotional scenes of Batman v Superman.

Truth be told the quality of both the writing and main narrative thread is all over the place, bouncing madly from genuinely beautifully written moments with emotional impact and outstanding twists sure to leave you with your jaw on the floor to scenes with clumsy dialogue and ideas that just didn't work out as well as I would have liked, though exactly how much of this inconsistency can be put down to translation issues is hard to judge.

Cut - scenes and progression milestones for the leader interrupt the flow of everyone else's game in a clumsy way, and the matchmaking and networking seem finicky; in my experience, it's much quicker to find competitive than co-op games, and they're much more reliable.

The story that unfolds as the two boys together endure one mishap after another is surprisingly satisfying, which only serves to make the clumsy opening scene stand out even more.

In a scene that mirrors the way videogame players often gleefully discover ways they're able to bend and break a game's coding, a particularly high - stakes, emotive moment is cut short by a player's clumsy interruption as he cackles away to his gawking wife.

They must be blinded by theory and art magazine sophistry to mistake this clumsy mise en scene for major art.