Sentences with phrase «feel gratuitous»

Unlike other movies in similar genres, the war scenes never feel gratuitous or extravagant for the sake of showing off.

These moments feel gratuitous and doesn't work as well as they should; I'd have preferred the film to wrap up earlier and not show us what we know will happen anyway.

The film plays like a revenge fantasy, but it is really clever and never feels gratuitous.

It's got plenty of profanity and sex, plus a bit of brutality, much of it feeling gratuitous.

The action and violence can be heavy duty without ever feeling gratuitous or relying on excessive gore or torture.

At two hours and 40 minutes, the film sags and bags unnecessarily, especially when it tacks on an epilogue that feels gratuitous and too obvious.

That scene is nothing compared to some of the other violence on display (think «Saving Private Ryan»), but it's worth noting that it never feels gratuitous.

Serving up a cultural feast, Slumdog Millionaire captivates its audience with dramatic performances and humor, along with a grittiness that never feels gratuitous or obsessive.

The decorations, including some framed vinyl, as well as other art spaced throughout the room, gave a genuine sense of LA to the room, rather than feeling gratuitous.

In this game, it all just feels gratuitous.

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I do feel that it becomes possible to see the presence of the world and its orderliness in a new way when you believe it to be a gift — literally gratuitous — and a gift from a Giver.

The punishment he takes is gratuitous, and I can't help the feeling that in the near future, we'll be seeing him slurring words and acting abnormally.

The rest of Pac - man Party feels uninspired and gratuitous.

They present no actual violence, yet still feel lamely gratuitous.

Running a mere 80 minutes and somehow still feeling heavily padded, this Cops spoof yields a few amusing (if widely spaced) moments but otherwise simply revels in the gratuitous nudity, language and below - the - belt gags that an «R» rating provides.

But ultimately, these shocking and violent sequences become repetitive and gratuitous, making «Red Sparrow» feel more like a cheap exercise in exploitation than a visceral tale of survival.

The show has some unorthodox elements, but feels fairly cliched in most of its beats, largely serving as an excuse for bouts of grisly violence and gratuitous sex.

The Proposition simply doesn't have that sense of weight which makes a good western into a great one, and that makes the violence in the last twenty minutes feel all the more gratuitous.

Neither a formalist nor an ideologue, he has a particular feeling for film style that in 1958 led him to compare the gratuitous camera movements in Douglas Sirk's The Tarnished Angels to the run - on sentences in its source novel, William Faulkner's Pylon.

And while some scenes do portray a gratuitous amount of almost Tarantino - level violence that comes out of nowhere, most of Gangster Squad's violence feels justified, and redemptive, echoing a theme of the film that makes it more fun than your average action fare: heroism.

The Ring Two is never scary, never even moderately tense, and its jump scares are so carefully telegraphed that it feels as though Nakata's embarrassed to resort to gratuitous startles.

That's interesting, I suppose, but the murder subplot never doesn't feel like a gratuitous «hook» in a show blessed with such a unique and potent milieu, and it paves the way for more gangster shit from a former writer of «The Sopranos» (Winter) who apparently can't leave that series behind.2

The inevitable violence in the film is teased and built up to a fever pitch so that when it boils over it feels earned and not gratuitous.

The titular battle royale feels entirely contrived, and ultimately amounts to limit more than gratuitous superhero - on - superhero violence with a foregone conclusion: that Batman and Superman will make nice and join forces to fight a greater evil, yadda yadda yadda.

Ted is hobbled by a labored third act and a subplot involving a demented loner played by Giovanni Ribisi that is so ragingly gratuitous, it almost feels like an homage to the famously unnecessary diamond - smuggling subplots of the»80s, but Ted is so consistently, even explosively funny and oddly good - natured throughout that it really doesn't need a plot at all, let alone an even - less - welcome chase scene.

Because of Depp's detached performance and a rushed third act that seems cruelly indifferent to the horror of the murders, the gruesome ending does not feel like the shocking reveal the film was building up to, but rather like a gratuitous and unpleasant fuck you.

Hotline Miami juxtaposes vibrance with violence, coming at players with blinding colors, gratuitous gore and an electronic soundtrack with low - end you can feel in your chest.

**** Zachary F November 29, 2012 this movie is sooo funny Jon C November 29, 2012 a fun, crude, and hilarious comedy two girl roomates formulate a plan to make their own sex hotline in order to make ends meet hijinks and raw laughs ensue between two very different people who embrace their sexuality via telephone the performances from both Graynor and Miller are pretty damn fun to watch the dialogue is insanely funny and gratuitous there's a very strange cameo in here too by Nia Vardalos Justin Long adds a nice touch being the supporting gay best friend mentoring these two girls it's just very awkwardly humorous listening to these people talk in this kind of film, there's interestingly no actual sex happening on screen, no boobs, no ass, no exposed body parts the plot mainly focuses on the bonding relationship bewteen the two leads which is a good break from the usual norm we're used to I can't help but feel though that the filmmakers didn't have anything left at the end, some of it felt unfinished and unresolved for all those problems, «For A Good Time, Call..»

Erskin's style of direction is to cram as many feel - good R&B songs and gratuitous leg shots of Williams and Knowles (Beyonce's sis), while Cedric and Bow Wow mug for laughs that rarely come.

In some cases, it feels as if the depictions of exploitation are exploitative and gratuitous in and of themselves.

The insertion of Short Round feels somewhat gratuitous and doesn't serve much purpose.

It all feels thought through, natural, and not unnecessarily showy — just as the action in the film, and the many climactic lightsaber duels, feels motivated by the characters» passions and their commitment to their ideals, rather than like gratuitous excuses to show action.

Whilst that I can acknowledge that it did take the film in a slightly different direction, and tried to do something a little different than the original (for example letting Murphy retain his memory whereas in the original Murphy was wiped or delving more into the family life of Murphy both as a human and as RoboCop), but for me it missed out on having the main villain, it cashed in on using the original them tune (which to be honest I did kinda like), the shoe - horning in of some of the original one liners that really felt out of place, there was tonnes of CGI which unfortunately is to be expected these days and I felt it was considerably toned down to appeal more to the younger audience, losing the over gratuitous violence and blood that the original had which in my opinion gave it some of the charm that it still has today.

It's also quite graphically violent, purposefully gratuitous in many ways, although so absurd that you actually are able to distance yourself from the horrors of the sadism to actually find it amusing without feeling like a sick bastard.

She tries an experiment, having sex with two well - endowed African men, but this comes to nothing (and frankly, the scene feels rather gratuitous).

The stunning, cinematic style feels like an homage to sci - fi films past, but within the four walls of the laboratory or Elisa's apartment above a movie theater is a mismatched story with gratuitous nudity and gruesome visuals.

Rather than gratuitous, it felt justified, and far from glorification.

It felt like a crossbreed between a Guy Ritchie mystery and a Quentin Tarantino crime flick, just without the gratuitous violence.

You do get the feeling that the F - Pace could use quite a bit more power, though — 380 hp feels just about right here, and the gratuitous noise and power we love from the F - Type are somewhat missing in car that Jaguar claims is «the practical sports car.»

The story never feels forced, however, nor the issues gratuitous.

But consider how much effort you put into making each of your sentences feel right and look right, informational and tonally true, not choking on gratuitous adverbs or clunky prepositions.

And that's almost exactly what it feels like — a faster, flashier Devil May Cry with gratuitous God of War influences.

God of War's mayhem doesn't feel as gratuitous as past games in the series, but there's still some extremely brutal stuff.

These had started to grow tiresome by 2010, and their constant appearance in boss fights and standard enemy encounters feels downright gratuitous five years later.

From the perfect gratuitous explosion in Just Cause, to an unbroken streak of combos in Devil May Cry, there are just some things that give us that giddy feeling inside and allow us to experience a real sense of being a badass.

Gratuitous use of slo - mo and fast zooms enhance the feel of effortless badassery we've come to associate with Tom Clancy protagonists, and give us a glimpse at the kind of toys we'll have at our disposal when it comes time to step into the shoes of the Ghosts.

While the game does inherently feel like Doom, with the gratuitous amounts of violence and the fast paced game play, there is something more in the underlying feeling to the game.

It all reeks of gratuitous elitism and feels tastelessly incestuous.

In fact, it's an identical feeling — gratuitous bravura technique, no content; painting about nothing; academicism disguised by flash surface.