Sentences with phrase «cracking wise»

During all the footage shown we get a classic Rare feel from our narrator cracking wise and making silly jokes.

(Bruce Campbell is cracking wise cracks in some kind of tutorial... so the Gaming Gods are pleased.)

Snagglepuss writer Mark Russell and Beasts of Burden artist Jill Thompson are offering up an extraordinarily timely short story in this week's Action Comics Special, which sees acclaimed reporters Lois Lane and Clark Kent cracking wise at the White House Correspondents» Dinner.

In the midst of all this, Reynolds never stops cracking wise on every comic book or pop cultural reference that can be squeezed into two hours.

His Brendan is tough and nonplussed in the suitably noir way of which Sam Spade would approve, cracking wise even as another thug cracks his nose, but with that one particle of vulnerability that fuels the overpowering anger driving him to solve the crime, no matter how many beatings he takes, or deaths he causes along the way.

The video, as revealed by Ryan Reynolds, is mostly just Deadpool dressed as gentile soul Bob Ross making a painting and cracking wise, but about two thirds of the way through we get a lot of flashes of footage from the film.

That's also about the only crass joke «Obvious Child» doesn't make, but it's also worth noting that despite its fearlessness and fake - tough bravado, the film never takes its circumstances or consequences lightly; Slate's Donna Stern is cracking wise because if she didn't, she'd probably just crack.

It's true that Silver Linings Playbook boasted Robert De Niro's best performance in years, giving the actor a tender comic role that required more than just cracking wise and mugging for the camera.

Well, that's not entirely true - his character here is a smart - ass, a guy who's constantly cracking wise, which he doesn't completely sell, but isn't too distracting.

If the plotline is perfunctory, but the pace is electric, and the action that includes explosions, deadly shipping crates, and Reynolds bare buttocks in a burning building, is as profane and yet insouciant as Deadpool himself, who engages in graceful acro - gymnastics amid the havoc he wreaks while cracking wise before, during, and after cracking heads.

After cracking wise a few times in a way that makes one wonder if Down Syndrome is ever late - occurring, Billy blows on the barrel of his gun in his best John Ireland - meets - Montgomery Clift and professional bad editor Ross Albert (the whiz kid behind Bushwhacked, The Beverly Hillbillies, and The Pest) cracks a little wise himself by cutting to a rack of hot dogs.

The liberal lion of the Supreme Court (and second woman ever to be confirmed to the position) is presented in Betsy West and Julie Cohen's film as equal parts civil - rights pioneer and pop culture icon, with loving scenes of her lifting weights, cracking wise, and being turned into a meme spliced alongside original interviews and archival footage.

And by this I mean Clark Gregg cracking wise.

This dude keeps cracking wise even when he's plotting vengeance against Ajax (Ed Skrein), the villain who made his face look like corn - beef hash.

Since Deadpool has more in common with Don Rickles than Superman, and is constantly cracking jokes and cracking wise (he does both, at the same time!)

Don't know, but this month features two meddlesome ladies cracking wise — Barbra Streisand, as an impossible momma in «My Mother's Curse,» and Bette Midler as a pushy grandma in «Parental Guidance.»

The recipient, Winfried Conradi (Peter Simonischek), a rumpled, teddy - bearish, snowy - haired music teacher, bewilders the courier at his doorstep by insisting the parcel is for «Toni»; he then disappears into the house for a few seconds, only to return as his joker alter ego, sporting ridiculous fake choppers and cracking wise about mail bombs.

Claiming innocence, he remains defiant and unwilling to stop cracking wise in the face of danger and almost certain death.

Yes, the man who regularly delights the Twitter world by dressing up or cracking wise will be tackling one of the toughest roles of his career for Green Room, a new indie movie from Blue Ruin writer / director Jeremy Saulnier.

The DVD commentary extends the put - on, with Nigel (Guest), Derek (Shearer) and David (McKean) cracking wise on the film as if it were a real rockumentary.

From there, the movie's rhythm takes shape: Thor takes his duty dead seriously, but he can't help cracking wise about it.

And all the while, he's speed - riffing and commenting on all the action, winking and cracking wise at every opportunity.

Director: Ridley Scott Running time: 142 minutes Rating: PG - 13 Matt Damon plays a can - do NASA astronaut who doesn't let being stranded on Mars get in way of cracking wise.

With his horrendous turns in The Replacements and The Watcher also up for grabs, I can only say that these anti-Oscars would be more clever and thought - provoking if they quit aiming their guns at sitting hams (witness George C. Scott's Raspberry for his outstanding work in The Exorcist III); they long ago became the spoof - awards equivalent of a male comedian cracking wise about his mother - in - law.

But the gang proves better at cracking wise than at cracking safes.

Of all the things to pin the decline of professional film criticism as a career choice on, from changing audience - tastes to the globalization of the theatrical marketplace to the collapse of traditional media outlets overall, the Great Threat is actually... a college - age kid in a funny hat cracking wise (in between actual critical insights, mind you) about Antonioni?

To out - Piven Piven himself is a rare feat on its own, but Bateman — sprawled on his cot reading The Koran for Dummies, backing up Team Fleury by cracking wise and searching the internet, and running perpetually afoul of guards and terrorists alike — is the model of a modern major U.S. foreign relations specialist.

One moment it's tragic, the next, it's cracking wise.

Seven Psychopaths is one of those comedies where a bunch of low - life criminals go around cracking wise and shooting people.

February 14, 2013 • Chris Klimek exhaustively catalogs John McClane's adventures saving his wife, chasing terrorists, shooting things, getting dirty, taking a beating, cracking wise, and lots more.

As the film opens we find Thor trapped in a cage, separated from his trusted hammer Mjolnir and cracking wise with vague references to what he's been up to since we last saw him in Avengers: Age of Ultron.

How do you review a film with a lead character so self - aware he's capable of reading said review, then cracking wise about it with numerous inventively offensive putdowns?

It's a long movie and when its star isn't on screen and cracking wise, the boundary - pushing shocks and endless self - references wear thin.

Fond memories of Stanley denying the oncoming and devastating Hurricane years back and cracking wise at the Shandaken parade the day before making funof those who were afradi and going home to hunker down... Good ole boys club.

He spent three minutes cracking wise and offering one - liners before he articulated, in about 20 seconds, the thoughts he will bring to the summit.

Before long, though, he would be off the wagon and in a bar cracking wise among some teammates, drinking without pause from dusk till dawn.

Ford eases into his old role like he never stopped, cracking wise, talking his way out of trouble and shooting first.

So if you find the prospect of cracking wise on Twitter intimidating, you might want to stop reading now.

He stood up to greedy bankers, chastised corporations for sitting on piles of cash rather than investing, cracked wise with the media, and even managed to name - drop Down With Webster, a Canadian rap - rock group of questionable talent, without damaging his cred.

Seth was the quiet kid of the bunch, piping up most often to crack wise before shying away around those he didn't know.

Brendan Bohannan cracks wise.

Frankel fans will laugh out loud when in the middle of doing the challenging workout herself, she cracks wise like she does on her reality TV shows.

Mostly, though, we watch as the heroes crack wise, explain what they're going to do or currently doing, and fight an assortment of alien foes on spaceships, through city streets, and on the African plains.

Newton, one of the stars of «Westworld,» doesn't get much screen time, and Harrelson, one of those incorrigible kleptomaniac scene stealers, doesn't give us anything that we couldn't have gotten from any other fiftysomething character actor who can twirl a gun, crack wise, and smirk.

During the commentary's first segment, Waititi does little more than crack wise - and without much impact, as his remarks don't seem all that funny.

Rhames cracks wise with Cruise and he gets a few moments to shine, but for the most part the movie ignores the team aspect that makes a Mission: Impossible movie a Mission: Impossible movie and instead focuses on turning Hunt into the romantic lone hero who needs to protect / save Nyah from danger.

The movie is beset by the very uniformity that defines the genre, a problem that presents itself when its clutch of wisecracking egoists are assembled to butt swollen heads and crack wise over one another.

Above all, McClane must be allowed to crack wise, especially at the bad guy, and most especially over phones, walkie - talkies, and — in 2007 — webcams.

• The missus (Meryl Streep) cracks wise in Fantastic Mr. Fox: «Excuse me, am I being flirted with by a psychotic rat?»

Today, a Claudius would remain poker - faced at Hamlet's presentation, and / or maybe crack wise about it.