Sentences with phrase «easy on any of its characters»

The film isn't easy on any of its characters - it refuses to sanctify the terror victim or the «supporting girlfriend» at its heart at every turn.

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«I was just lying on the bed thinking and came up with all this bizarre imagery... I think also the idea that because I was in a foreign city by myself and I felt very dissociated from humanity in general, it was very easy to project myself into these two characters from the future who were out of sync, out of time, out of place.»

It's a classic moment in Lost history because it perfectly encapsulates John and Jack's characters, and because it points to a predicament to which we can all relate: Some of us really struggle to accept things on faith, while others seem to find it easy.

When people generalize from their own partial experience and vision of the world, they run the risk of falsely characterizing the whole - an easy pitfall when reflecting on the religious and moral character of business.

A: It's easy to tell on the first page if a film is taking its characters seriously, rather than as punchlines in and of themselves.

A new generation of laser coders has been developed by Markem - Imaje that can deliver up to 50 % increases in output rates on beverage production lines and as much as a 300 % increase in character printing capacity, improving traceability and making it easier to add promotional codes for instance.

As Banrock Station's Chief Winemaker for more than 10 years, Paul has harnessed the knowledge and skills he developed during stints in California and Tuscany to establish our unique signature style of easy drinking wines that retain true fruit character on the palate.

Predicting EVs line ups is no easy feat In truth players need to rest, it is said that» no man can climb out beyond the limitation of his own character» it seems that ev Is obsessed with safety, sometimes I wonder how would develop say Alena Alena:» boss in this sequence, I can make three passes, one would surely find messi but he needs to dribble two or three players or I can pass to busquets and watch him build an attack, finally I can pass to Suarez, if it reaches him he would be one on one with the keeper.

You can help make the transition a bit easier by providing a blanket out of one of the many adorable, character prints on fleece fabric.

With an easy - to - squeeze shape for little hands, each of the four friendly characters floats on its own life preserver.

This Grobag design features animal characters playing on swings and roundabouts and will send your baby to a wonderful dreamland.The Walk in the Park 1.0 tog Grobag baby sleeping bag has a clever two way zip travel opening making them easy to use with a 5 point harness in a pushchair or car seat, so you can take all the features of the original Grobag.

On the other side of the corrupt, dishonest, dishonorable, disloyal, dysfunctional, derelict and depraved spectrum is Joseph Addabbo, Jr., who is utterly incapable of telling the truth and acting with any measure of character, integrity and principle, because like Ulrich, he too lies, cheats and steals easier than he breathes.

I enjoyed the change to take on the bad witch character in contrast to the sweetness of my other earlier costume ideas of Snow White and Dorothy from Oz, and that is something else I feel recommends the witchiness; in addition to being easy and cheap (how dare you!)

The game can be way too easy that it holds your hand on easy and while difficult on hard, the difficulty spikes out of no where which can be frustating at times, Overall this game is great where it counts the gameplay and characters and music but the difficulty and unsteady framerate brings down the experience.

There's more than enough additional content packed in, refined visuals and a remastered soundtrack that alone would be worth it, but put on top of it a few of the better Final Fantasy journeys and memorable characters, as well as mechanics and it's an easy recommendation.

Part of what makes Ms. McAdams and Ms. Weisz such appealing performers is how persuasively they convey the inner lives of the characters they play, which makes it easy to put yourself on their side.

Yes, the characters are types (the Brooklyn wiseguy, the tough Jewish kid, the Southern sniper), but as such, we can identify and engage with them quickly — and, a dozen years on, it's actually easier to follow the characters now that the men who play them have all met with some degree of success.

Of course, that's easier said than done, as Petit is such a bombastic character that Zemeckis is forced to lean on him more than he probably intended.

With its bijou period trappings and Enya - lite score, it's easy to dismiss the film as another pat, issue - ducking weepie, but on closer inspection it offers interesting and cohesive musings on the illogical nature of the human character, and how that fits with the responsibilities of scientific discovery.

What makes it easier to swallow is that the Jerry Maguire character is just asking to be a little better than the rotten character he realizes he has become and that he does not turn completely pious and unbelievable on us as he continues in the same line of work with just a little more care for others.

It would be easy for a computer animated film to rely on purely impossible feats of kung fu wizardry, but the animation strives to give these characters the same grace of a real martial artist.

That one went easy on the melodrama and sent Stallone's beloved franchise character into the sunset with a semblance of class, albeit an excess of jet - black hair dye.

The film also goes a bit easy on its characters considering the time period (apart from Carol's custody battle, they don't experience any persecution), and while it looks gorgeous — like an oil painting of soft pastels — you don't feel the romance as much as you should; it's sensual, but emotionally distant.

The game has 4 difficulty settings — the easiest of which is called «Izzy,» based on one of the characters in the podcast.

Sure, they're both easy on the eyes, but they both demonstrate the not - so - easy talent of delivering funny lines straight - faced and without letting the characters realize they are really funny.

Penny Dreadful isn't easy on its characters and their desire for the riches of Earth, no matter the cost.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

In April, Bravo will debut the series premiere of «Southern Charm New Orleans,» a reality TV show that follows the lives of six Crescent City residents who are «well - to - do, easy on the eyes, and most of all, well - connected,» as one character descr...

I have fond memories of the 1942 Warner Bros. version — very much a product of its time, complete with Horton butchering «The Hut - Sut Song,» a WWII hit that had lyrics notoriously easy to mis - hear, and Lazy Bird Maisie's vocal inflections based on character actress Joan Blondell, who played a character named Maisie in a series of low - budget quickies (I believe she was also the voice of the Car in «My Mother, the Car,» but I wouldn't swear to it.)

It's easier on the script since characters don't spent a lot of time having to deal with their grief.

Still though, it can all be intuited with a little bit of experimentation, and once you've done that it's easy to fall into a comfortable routine of returning home, upgrading your character, running maintenance on your defenses, and collecting produce.

Medium jumps are never an easy thing to do, whether it's today's commonplace practice of remaking an old television series as a film residing between homage and parody, or as in the case of The Muppet Movie, simply bringing characters who found popularity on TV to a cinema audience.

Paul Rudd is already on board as Scott Lang and Michael Douglas is locked for Hank Pym, so it's easy to assume that Ant - Man is not an option for Wilson, but with Douglas only portraying Hank Pym in modern times, there is the possibility that Wilson could step in as a younger version of the character.

Each of these sounds like an easy excuse to get the characters trapped on the top floor.

On a presentation this polished, it's all too easy to forget just how much effort goes into making all of these miniature characters and settings come to life fluidly and naturally.

It's easy to guess why Burton decided to collaborate with Green again for his film take on Riggs» novel (a literary work inspired by vintage photos of strange people and places that the author had collected), seeing as the Penny Dreadful star reads as a perfect fit for a character whom Burton describes as being a Mary Poppins - like magical caretaker... a stranger Mary Poppins, that is.

But the easy - to - pigeonhole supporting characters (the conniving mayor; the corrupt businessman) primarily serve as reference points for the two leading men to define themselves; the focus of the film remains on them.

Not only will a promoted character boast better states, but they'll also be able to learn more skills, have more crests and even get a new costume, which is usually a more elegant version of what they're wearing already, or what they were wearing, but now with a lot more armour, but getting the Master Seals will not be easy as some can only be achieved by getting S Rank on certain levels in History Mode and meeting certain requirements like opening specific treasure chests with a key that you can only get by saving a certain NPC as part of a Sub Mission, or killing a character who happens to be carrying one, like a Thief.

This is exactly what Abrams did with Star Trek Into Darkness, which was clearly the lesser of his two trips on the Enterprise, and while he isn't using new actors in the same roles as was the case there, it is easy, and arguably encouraged, to draw a direct line from nearly every character in The Force Awakens to a counterpart in A New Hope.

The whole thing got us thinking about beautiful creatures of movies past — characters not quite human, but quite easy on the eyes.

Though it would have been all too easy to produce the kind of heavy - handed Oscar bait that you normally see with these types of inspirational stories, Lewin never martyrizes his main character, instead relying on O'Brien's charming personality and self - deprecating wit to lighten the mood.

, which was clearly the lesser of his two trips on the Enterprise, and while he isn't using new actors in the same roles as was the case there, it is easy, and arguably encouraged, to draw a direct line from nearly every character in

Built around the notion that anything outrageous is funny, the makers of «American Wedding» bank on the idea that easy teen - and college - age audiences won't care about tediously underwritten characters, a general lameness of humor and flaccid attempts at emotional investment (Jim takes Michelle on a romantic walk on the beach) as long as those audiences leave the theater with one or two over-the-top howlers to talk about.

Her blankness as a character made it all the easier to insert yourself in her place as a reader, but when you're charged with bringing her to life on screen, that vagueness of personality is a huge, maybe insurmountable challenge.

Playing Erik was no easy ride for the Fruitvale Station star, because on top of the physical preparation he had to tap into the «pain» his character feels.

Once you get past the fact that it isn't a biopic about its writer Jon Ronson's time playing keyboards for the late musician and comedian Frank Sidebottom (an easy mistake to make, given Gleeson's character is called Jon and plays keyboards in a band fronted by a man called Frank, played by Michael Fassbender from beneath a papier - mache head almost identical to that sported by Sidebottom), Frank turns out to be a funny and moving meditation on mental illness and the corrupting power of fame, even of the minor variety.

One of the things that San Andreas benefits from is that it only focuses on a few different characters instead of the usually large amount that populate these disaster films; spending more time with them makes it easier to root for the likable ones.

It's easy to imagine Clooney playing Bingham as one of the slick, charismatic heels the actor generally reserves for his romantic comedy work, but the character isn't as affectless as he appears on the surface.

Movies like Nebraska, About Schmidt, and Sideways are not always easy on their characters, but they sometimes crackle with lightning bolts of insight.

While commercial enough to go the distance, Rauch's caustic character sketch feels similarly over-stretched, landing easy laughs over and over with the same joke: a twisted take on the sort of America's sweetheart even Tonya Harding couldn't tarnish.