Sentences with phrase «dull movies like»

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If you like the movie you'll totally love the special features, but let's just clear out the dull bits first.

At times I felt like I was watching Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which may well be the dullest movie of all time.

It's galling for a movie that costs so much and takes up so much cultural space to try to do so little, but it's a familiar disappointment, like the dull ache of a tooth that only bothers you when you bite down on it wrong.

I kinda felt like it was a dull movie in some parts.

Simultaneously preposterous and dull, Dear Dictator is the kind of movie where music and wardrobe choices — like the mean girls» stridently visible underwear — substitute for character.

Whenever a fresh or familiar face pops into view — like Christian's sweet, vivacious sister, Mia (pop singer Rita Ora), or their wise, imperious mother (Marcia Gay Harden)-- you long for the movie to follow that person somewhere, to grant us a change of scenery that doesn't involve Christian and Anastasia's stunning new dream house, or a conversation that doesn't devolve into deathly dull innuendo.

Unfortunately, the movie (like most drug people I've known through the years) gets dull as hell once it sobers up.

The more quiet, «character» scenes are dull and boring and make you feel like the movie was made for people battling insomnia.

Evidently this is a Christian movie as there were interminable quotations from the Old Testament throughout, but Christianity can be fun, not dull like this awful film.

If Sammy's Adventures seems like a rather dull unimpressive movie, then it is probably due to the fact that director Ben Stassen got too carried away with the message behind this movie that he forgot the importance of entertaining the audience.

The 1080p 2.35 X 1 digital High Definition image transfer is not only dull as noted, the editing is lame and the all - HD shoot tries to use the scope frame to be big or go big, but this has all the excitement and intrigue of a bad TV movie visually and there are episodes of Columbo and McCloud that look like they were shot in IMAX as compared to what we get here.

If your movie diet consists exclusively of worthy but dull pics like Chocolat and The Shipping News, then stay clear.

The trailers have certainly played up the violence, and the movie moved from a rather dull October spot to a highly touted Thanksgiving weekend position; an odd move considering families probably won't want to celebrate the holiday with a violent film like this, but enhances the possibility that Lee has something unique to offer.

Though the movie starts out more like a Jason Bourne adventure with Banner constantly on the run (there's even a rooftop chase similar to the one in «The Bourne Ultimatum»), the film is rarely dull.

Miller was attempting to make a neo-noir style movie with Gabriel Macht as the titular Spirit who narrates to himself about his love for the city and his need to protect, which gave us plenty of «Sin City» like imaginary.Its visuals notwithstanding, «The Spirit» was bogged down with a dull lead, some misjudged attempts at comedy and an uncontrolled Samuel L. Jackson being allowed to ham it up with no boundaries.

It almost feels like a TV programme: on the small screen, the slow - burning plot and exposition would have been comfortable, but for a movie, it is painfully dull.

The 3D of my screening and many other exhibitions dulls the vivid colors, but does convey the depth of Rachel McAdams» cheek mole like none of her past movies has.

Critics like Edelstein argued that the movies didn't show enough violence or the terror of the Games, which ended up dulling Collins's points.

Like Dead Man's Chest, the movie picks up the slack a bit near the end, but this time it's not enough to overlook the dull, deliberately confusing happenings before.

Compared to Cranston, he is wooden, dull, and uncommanding, and the movie begins to deaden with his lead weight (the emotional and dramatic transference the movie tries to give Taylor - Johnson simply doesn't resonate like Cranston's lead).

But unless you like long montages of mouse clicks set to inspiring music, that unbelievable story, stretched over a two - hour run time, has made for a pretty dull movie.

As a first timer let loose upon a much - storied franchise which has as many myths around it as there are fans, you can either be all reverential and referential and deadly dull (just like those terrible movies from 2002 to 2008).

Read the last part of that sentence back and let me know whether that sounds at all like Chariots of Fire or Driving Miss Daisy or Dances With Wolves or A Beautiful Mind or any of the staid, dull, forgettable movies that have reeled in Best Picture in the past four decades.

The only thing worse than a dull movie is one that tries to disguise it with razzle - dazzle, and director Baz Luhrman's kitschy vision of the Roaring 20s is so oversaturated in style and off - the - wall choices (like the use of a contemporary, mostly hip - hop soundtrack) that he completely ignores the many nuances of Fitzgerald's novel.

So I'll still go with that ending: I like the bookends of Chris surviving an encounter with the cops thanks to weird third - party intervention at the movie's beginning and finale, and I don't think Peele's sociological acuteness is dulled by his declining to end on a note of futility.

Along with some fairly dull commentary tracks (the first by director Oliver Stone, in which he so graciously delivers morsels of wisdom like «This is Will Jimeno driving to work,» and a second by the real - life Jimeno and some of his rescuers), the two - disc effort also includes nine delete / extended scenes because, well, the movie was already too long, and a three - part making - of documentary running nearly an hour long.

WHY: Drake Doremus» latest film is yet another dull and mostly uneventful romantic drama that plays like it was made by someone who's watched a lot of Andrew Niccol movies.

Building to crescendos, then dropping back to dull hums, the movie limps from interaction to interaction, occasionally offering that sweet and innocent beauty that actors like Hoffman and Ryan can deliver so perfectly.

The prospect of putting together a cast and crew and shooting a movie is incredibly exciting, especially to people like myself who love films, but the process in this game takes a complex idea and boils it down to a pretty dull set of mechanics that feel thematically weak.

The amazingly eclectic mixture of movies on the UK Video Store has been updated again, with such joys as Fred Claus, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and incredibly dull Hallmark Channel fodder like The Fugitive and Analyse This also appearing for download.

It may seem like a bonus but it's a failing movie with a dull tale, minor interesting points and has slow movie pacing.

The movie scenes, characters and battle system of xenosaga three are a lot more realistic than those of episode one and two.Even though this game does not support surround sound like xenosaga epsode two the audio department of this game is still great, sometimes stereo is better because audio that is recorded in surround sound can sound really artificial ayway.Anyone who knows xenosaa can tell that the audio has changed because voices of the characters sounds live and raw, wich is very good for a change anyway.The graphics of the game are dull and there are a lot of people that despise dull graphics but I think that dull graphics are great because they often create a nice realistic atmosphere that makes a game feel like it's taking place in the very present or the past also I really like to see the way the speed of the camera and the motion of the characters slowain parts of a movie sequence because I think it adds tension and drama.Three other excellent games that Ireco that have great dull graphics are Chaos Legion and KillZone and Resident Evil 4.

The only things unlocked upon completion of the game are equally boring color variants for Ryu's suit instead of cool costumes, a filter that makes the game look like a silent movie (which isn't quite as boring, but using it over a long time does get dull, eventually), and a new game plus save for the current difficulty level.