Sentences with phrase «farce which»

Get Carter's makers swapped Newcastle for Malta, and a sunny, absurdist farce which is among British cinema's unclassifiable one - offs.

The comic talents of Ferrell and Poehler are wasted in this frat farce which, despite a promising premise, soon resembles reheated Hangover leftovers

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The bad news is that human society is a never - ending comedy of errors in which our hopes and dreams play out as farce.

That is ALL religions do... judge you on 1) if you are religious and 2) which religion you are... religion is a man - made farce to keep people like you donating 10 % so they can sit on gold thrones... idolize much?

Calvinism is a nihilistic belief system which turns reality into the farce of a cruel Puppet Master.

Last night Wenger, being genetically unable to EVER admit his many mistakes, of which this 12 years farce has been a stonker, had to TRY justifying this 12 year sentence we fans have suffered, by making this «man» (anatomically and he has the beard to prove it) who has been the single most preposterous choice as a captain in FOOTBALL history.

Instead, we got a farce that saw the Friars» «Rainbow Coalition» backcourt brick on 24 of 33 shots, and Orange hero Coleman flail a roundhouse rabbit punch at an opponent which — like the teams» combined.403 shooting — missed everything.

Made me feel smart watching it because I understood what they were talking about the whole time which I havent felt since Delta Farce.

The animal kingdom, which appears to be reasserting its sovereignty over the Waterville turf, is making an ordinary, pleasant round of golf the subject of farce, a public humiliation along the lines of a Disney cartoon.

Hence I view the debate of why player is world class and which one is not as just a farce because there will never be consensus on it.

Arsene Wenger irritably shielded his judgement to start David Ospina over Petr Cech in Arsenal's «shock» defeat at home to Olympiakos, which has risked their hopes of qualification to the last 16, stating it would be a «farce» to blame the culpable Columbian.

We all know that UEFA are a farce and this has been proved once again with the news that Arsenal are to be charged because Galatasary fans smuggled in numerous flares which they threw onto the pitch during the game.

Arsenal might be winning games again but let's face it their performances have hardly been inspiring.Far and away their best performance so far was a defensive hard earned 0 - 0 away draw to Chelsea.Its a long long time since Arsenal.played a style of football which was fast moving, free - flowing and with consistently positive end result.The media still seam to tar them with that same brush but truth be known the likes of both Manchester clubs, Liverpool and Spurs are far more entertaining to watch these days than Arsenal's tippy - tappy sideways brand of play Hopefully they will be able to build momentum in the coming weeks and inspire confidence prior to the Citeh and Spuds games... otherwise this Season will unfortunately develop into even more farce than Wenger, Gazidas and Kronke managed to orchestrate last year and the Emirates will empty out even more noticeably!!

Well, from his place in stands, he made a sign with his hand and the team left the farce to the «Great footballing nations» which are not supposed to lose.

While this use of farce works well, particularly the chaotic triple - phone - line dance in the office when appeasing MPs on «defection - watch», the characterisation is a little thin, which dampens the script's sharpness.

This one - sidedness is evident in this Biafra 2, which may well turn out a big farce.

Tech can also backfire, of course, as Cochran's team found out today, when Twitter - organized McDaniel supporters basically took over one of his conference calls (via PoliticalWire, which descended fast into chaos and farce («wildly entertaining but wholly unprofessional» is not how you want your press conference call to be described, I'm guessing).

Gone are the days of reviewing the stage performances of a play which is not only still being written right in front of you, you sometimes can't tell whether it's a drama, a farce or a comedy.

So why may I ask do they seek donors for a campaign for re-election which is a farce every 2 years?

The committee almost descended to farce when Buckles was reminded of an interview this weekend in which he appeared unsure of whether security staff needed to be able to speak fluent English for work at the Games.

The Government's decision to delay the implementation date of the Home Information Pack (HIP) by two months, so that it should apply initially to four bedroom properties and above, is destroying credibility in the HIP which is close to becoming a farce.

Avella has no shot against Thompson, which made this debate something of a farce.

Eight or nine figure fortunes have been made from the sales of a single product, which was later proven to be a total farce.

They have given themselves the «number one mobile dating site award» which is a farce.

The best gag is the bachelor party, which is pure farce.

Given that the title character is a Mexican immigrant and that the guest of honor at the small soiree to which she's become a last - minute addition is Doug Strutt (John Lithgow), a billionaire real - estate and resort mogul with Trump - ian characteristics, one might think that this has all the makings of the kind of broad, pained farce where every character is a mouthpiece for over-determined conflicts of sociopolitical opinion.

Season 2 was more subtle and was a good examination of conflict tearing people apart, the characters were developing and were interesting, they have now turned into soundbite gimps, the creators have severely erred in trying to reconcile a fictional conflicts of a biker gang with a real world conflict of the IRA without any attempt to create even an iota a sense of realism or use skillful tact, (its difficult to see how a biker gang could make such in roads to the IRA when whole arms of government have tried and failed) The outcome of which is to turn a decent and interesting show into farce.

Writer / director Gary Burns offers a suffocating experience which is too boring to be accepted as a satire, too lame to be accepted as a farce, and too infantile to be accepted as a drama.

A cartoonist who's an overprotective dad rents an apartment to his two daughters in this popular farce, which ran on ABC until 1983, and then in first - run syndication until star Ted Knight's death in 1986.

Fantasy, yes, but hardly escapist in the astonishing pertinence with which it reduces the hawkish military and political ambitions of the day to derisory farce while demonstrating the infallibility with which love goes on making the world go round.

It's impossible to suspend your disbelief to the level required by this crude and tasteless farce, which strains to be hip yet has an equally contemptuous view of both its characters and its audience.

From the very first shot of a sour - pussed, bedraggled Midler getting into the vehicle in which she'll meet her maker, Nick Gomez sets the tone for his intensely mean - spirited but undeniably fun farce.

While she still found herself in the comedic realm, Aniston began to take on slightly more daring projects like the black - humored Horrible Bosses, which allowed her to go against - type as a sex - crazed dentist, and Wanderlust, a bizarre bit of highly - exaggerated farce from the mind of David Wain.

The choreographed movement approaches farce at times which is most unexpected considering the main themes of Anna Karenina are adultery, hypocrisy, lust, and love.

2 Days in New York is Julie Delpy's second foray into French family farce, tinged with absurdity, but grounded in the real comedy at which she's so adept.

Curmudgeonly and vicious, it's a lighter - than - air farce with a black heart that feels suspiciously like the mad rantings of an old soldier describing his vision of a bucolic Valhalla to which he one day hopes to return.

Fujimoto's shadowy visual sensibility was a unifying factor, and without it, «Ricki And The Flash» — which was shot by Declan Quinn, Demme's go - to cinematographer in recent years — swings wildly between different conventional camera styles, turning into a small - club concert doc for The Flash's regular gigs at The Salt Well or into stagey, locked - down farce during the restaurant scene that introduces Ricki and Pete's sons, Joshua (Sebastian Stan) and Adam (Nick Westrate).

Compared with the gloomy ruminations on ageing and aspiration that characterised the well - received Blue Jasmine, which won Cate Blanchett an Oscar, this is Allen going back to the knockabout farce and blithe May - December couplings that populate his lighter films.

Surging was Adam McKay's finance farce «The Big Short,» which earned four nominations, including best picture, comedy.

Strange, but had this played as a drama instead, perhaps there would have been more laughs due to a subtler approach, but the makers of the movie intend to deliver a broad, hilarious farce, the stuff of which screenwriter Hugh Wilson seems incapable of delivering.

And then there's this week, in which the national openings consist of the Rob Zombie Halloween remake (which didn't screen for critics), the vigilante flick Death Sentence (which screened only for selected critics), and the ping - pong farce Balls of Fury.

In place of the tightly - wound farce of Four Weddings and a Funeral, which came with Wet Wet Wet on the soundtrack, we get some Nick - Hornby - inflected alt - rock tracks featuring tremulous males singing over wistfully out - of - tune pianos.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Coen Brothers Screwball Comedy Comes to DVD Here, the Coen Brothers serve up a screwball comedy which might best be described as a combination sex farce and political potboiler.

Perhaps not (and let's face it, even the most dedicated Bugs fans will have disagreements on this score) but they are all landmarks in their own way and the selection includes my picks for greatest of all Bugs Bunny cartoons: the hilarious highbrow farce «The Rabbit of Seville» (1950), «Rabbit Fire» (1951), which features the greatest verbal sparring (as well as the most insanely surreal identity swaps) of any Bugs cartoon, and the brilliant Wagner parody «What's Opera, Doc?»

native Steve Carell's new movie with Paul Rudd due out this summer — a remake of a dark French farce called LE DINER DE CONS (THE DINNER GAME) which I loved.

Screen farce, like screen pornography, may involve culturally embarrassing examinations of audience metabolism and endurance, examinations which may explain why modern audiences are seldom moved as emotionally as they think guiltily they ought to be by the five - act tragedies of Shakespeare.

If Just Go With It's storyline sounds vaguely familiar, that's because the script is a mirthless overhaul of Cactus Flower, the hilarious farce for which Goldie Hawn won her only Oscar back in 1970.

The story, which is rooted in farce and seems to be written by a man as crazy as Falk's character Vince Ricardo (that name!)

Domhnall (31), who is currently starring in The Walworth Farce with his dad Brendan and his brother Brian, admits the script attracted him to the movie, which was written and directed by Alex Garland.

Credit goes to co writer / director Walt Becker for giving the film the right look and energy for which to build a farce upon, and even if we've seen this story in various forms before, the hip music and cast chemistry give the film a feeling of freshness that is crucial.