Sentences with phrase «creaky moments»

Gladiator has its creaky moments, but it delivers a particular kind of visceral historical spectacle that movie audiences haven't seen in decades.

Not exact matches

I look forward all day to this moment, the moment when she begins to settle and we find our way to the creaky old rocking chair in the corner of the room to page through these old favourites one last time.

A stream of bellylaughs is lost here, with «Kung Fu Panda 2» a little creaky in the comedy department, save for one hysterical moment where Po threatens Shen from afar, a place of high ground where nobody can actually hear him.

In the movie's opening moments, we get to watch him on his radio show, delivering creaky wordplay and outdated banter, before watching him, more tellingly, driving in his car, singing along to Roachford's «80s hit «Cuddly Toy.»

The film's tiresome tale of two brothers whose criminal past is resurrected not through societal determinations outside their control, but the creaky machinations of a screenplay that insists bad turn to worse as a fundamental law, predictably lurches toward acts of extreme violence with little interest other than the instant titillation such moments afford.

Not without its faults and moments of creaky pretension, Blue Valentine manages at the end to provoke a real, resonant response to what it means to lose love to the ugly realities of living.