Sentences with phrase «done potboiler»

My second dispatch from Park City muses on the medium - rare pleasures of a well - done potboiler and when bad movies happen to good intentions.

Not exact matches

There's a reason potboiler paperbacks don't make good movies — there's too much outlandish plot, even for Hollywood.

While he does capture the essence of those films in his rhythms, the script feels much more like the potboiler John Grisham films prevalent in the 1990s.

Doug Liman (Swingers, Go) keeps the film reserved most of the way, although an exciting car chase and shootout at the end does fuel the action up a notch above most espionage potboilers.

Starting in 1992, when Hanson made a breakthrough of sorts with the kind of trashy potboiler that doesn't usually portend future Oscar success:

There's the urban handwringer, the northern version of the post-Katrina New Orleans potboiler, bubbling with barely concealed schadenfreude: Aren't you glad you don't live here?

Still, that book had done so little justice to the characters I had loved — or held in extreme dislike (Ashley Wilkes is second only to the Reverend Dimmesdale on my wimpy literary men hate list)-- on the screen that I never did pick up Gone With the Wind, thinking it would prove another turgid potboiler.