Sentences with phrase «failing as a comedy»

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You should probably just give up this moronic attention starved wannabe comedy troll routine as it has failed you, and go get a job at Penn State.

Unfortunately, the satirical comedy Dick (1999)(which Fleming also co-scripted) arguably demonstrated the director's most intuitive and mature filmmaking skills and drew critical raves as one of the sleepers of the year, but failed to connect with a sizeable audience; it told a droll revisionist version of the Watergate events by reimagining the «Deep Throat» news source as two spunky teenage girls (Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams).

Feast, a movie from 2006, comes to mind as a horror comedy that identified the cliches in the genre, but succeeded where Cabin in the Woods failed in being funny and qualifying as extreme horror.

This could have been a great comedy, but it fails, and as far as family films are concerned, there are much better films out there to enjoy than this.

Following a substantial role in the independent romantic comedy Better Than Chocolate (1999), Crewson seemed to be on the verge of adding another hit to her resumé as one of Robin Williams» original owners in the fantasy Bicentennial Man (1999), but the film failed to live up to box - office expectations.

The film has a clever premise that probably would have worked as a half - hour TV episode but fails to sustain a feature - length comedy.

As their failed attempts to fix the problem increase, so does the body count in this outrageous comedy of errors.

As a black comedy, it fails.

From Robert Altman's The Company to Paul Haggis» In The Valley Of Elah, re-uniting with Apatow for a brief cameo in Knocked Up to earning a Golden Globe nomination for best actor in a musical or comedy in Pineapple Express, lampooning his image to hilarious effect in TV's 30 Rock to re-teaming with Tina Fey as the highlight of Date Night, and perfecting the portrayal of Allen Ginsberg in Howl to never failing to surprise with his next project, Franco's resume boasts a wealth of gold from his fourteen years in the public eye.

Think of the unwed mother who falls in love with her gay best friend in The Object of My Affection; the broke, still - single stoner and odd - man - out in Friends With Money; the adult who tries and fails at cohabitation with a man - child in The Break - Up, a raw relationship drama dressed up as a romantic comedy; or the professional woman, angsting for a baby, who opts for artificial insemination in The Switch.

It also provides a revisionist take on «The Room's» own transformation from failed Tennessee Williams knockoff to inadvertent comedy, recasting the film's long - delayed premiere as the moment the switch happened.

Where the film fails is on the script level, which settles for contrived comedy, a no - surprise storyline, and jokes about vapid New York socialites that are as tired as the sexual innuendo that permeates the bulk of the humor.

The film that follows is one of the stranger viewing experiences of Fantasia 2016, as director Craig Anderson, jumping into feature filmmaking from a career of Australian TV comedy, delivers on the insane promise of his story solely by dint of failing to deliver a coherent movie.

Universal had some less exciting news from one of its new arrivals, as raunchy comedy Ted 2 failed to deliver on what was anticipated as a $ 50 million plus opening, struggling into third with $ 33 million.

He's a comedy machine — cast him as the failing boss.

Weaver's presence (which, as everyone knows, has resulted in plans to make a new Alien film with Blomkamp at the helm) also calls to mind the failed 1983 arms dealer comedy from William Friedkin, Deal of the Century.

Sundance London: Wiener - Dog review: Todd Solondz delivers a film in same vein as most of his back - catalogue - a comedy that fails to raise...

As it stands, the movie is neither good nor bad, but rather a perfectly mediocre comedy with enough laughs to remind audiences what they loved about the original while failing to justify the need for a sequel.

Its most complex emotional transactions are staged in extended, meticulously choreographed crane shots evoking Max Ophuls (La Ronde, Lola Montes), yet most American reviewers, if they bothered to write about it at all, dismissed it as a failed Kutcher sex comedy.

(An aside: I have no idea why, but drug - induced date rape appears to have been in the air as a plotline in 1984 Hong Kong, you can find it as well in Patrick Tam's bizarre romantic comedy Cherie, where Chor Yuen keeps trying and failing to drug Cherie Chung).

Were we to consider framing it as an isolated genre, with its own formal and narrative characteristics, we would also largely fail — Queer Cinema spans melodrama, comedy, neo-noir, and even westerns.

This light mother / daughter action comedy, arriving just in time to miss Mother's Day, is rendered palatable by the charm of its two leads, but fails to justify itself as anything beyond a generic platform for their talents....

So many sports comedies have failed where the previous Goon succeeded and this one does as well to an extent.

Despite some spirited scene - stealing by Ron Perlman as an irascible sheriff, and some picturesque mountain scenery, this contemporary Western hybrid of broad buddy comedy and wrongful - imprisonment drama fails to produce enough laughs or sympathy.

But, as evidenced in Scream 3, Kruger isn't much of a comedy writer, and the failed attempts at humor end up taking viewers out of the increasingly complicated story rather than making it more enjoyable.

And «Brooklyn Nine - Nine,» which won the Golden Globes award earlier for best comedy as well as lead actor in a comedy for Andy Samberg, failed to get Emmy nominations in either category.

This wouldn't really matter of course if the movie still functioned properly regardless of what genre it was operating under, but let's just say there's a reason Whiskey Tango Foxtrot was marketed as a comedy; it unfortunately fails at everything else.

The main difference between the two and the reason I will cease to compare them very soon is that My Big Fat Greek Wedding treated its characters as stereotypes and failed to succeed in comedy and sentiment; Bend It Like Beckham treats its characters as people and allows us become involved in their dreams, defeats, and difficulties.

After two years in the Air Force, then selling appliances and failing as a musician, he stumbled upon comedy.