The plot of Battle Los Angeles is only
a few dialogue scenes removed from the objective - based narratives of countless video games concerning warfare in modern times.
Not exact matches
Jeremy Renner has quite a
few extended
dialogue scenes in Wind River.
There's a naked, drunken stumble through woods and Violet suffers a
few painful slapstick moments, but there are also long
scenes of
dialogue while the couple gently argues in bed, moments of domesticity that feel quite real despite the glossy romcom surroundings.
there were a
few moments where just a little more
dialogue would have improved certain
scenes and the film was not without a
few of the cliches of this genre, but overall it stands as a personal favorite of mine.
My only quibble is that the
dialogue could have been better in a
few scenes.
That's doubly troubling because there are a
few scenes of foreign
dialogue that clearly should be translated.
If there is a disconcerting aspect for some audiences, it's in Condon's decision to include a
few scenes where the
dialogue is sung instead of spoken.
The movie's utter watchability despite its linearity — and its subjects»
dialogue being so inscrutable to Yankee ears — attests to Nolan's ability to make his audience elicit the same extreme emotional reactions to, say, a
scene of a
few hundred anonymous soldiers slowly responding to the impending barrage of German bombers as they did to Astronaut McConaughey outliving his family on Earth.
Levels sound good for the most part, but there are a
few scenes that are a bit hard to hear the
dialogue due to the surrounds.
Most of the
dialogue and effects are placed dead centre, although a
few scenes have effects clearly panned to the left and right.
Playing the younger version of Michael B. Jordan's nuanced villain for only a
few minutes, the young lad was only on screen briefly at the start of the movie, in a flashback
scene and for a longer - speaking part in a poignant
dialogue in the ancestral plain (trust us, it makes sense in the movie).
It is one of the
few scenes with
dialogue.
We see Tommy go through endless re-takes involving only a
few lines of
dialogue, an awkwardly staged sex
scene, a
scene that has no significance to the rest of the film, and a suicide in which the actor writhes on the floor in pain after shooting himself in the head.
With the possible exception of Murray, whose
dialogue exchanges come off as a bit flat in a
few scenes, every actor seems to have wrapped their arms around their role in a jealous expression of loving affection for that part.
The Dolby 2.0 stereo track lacks much punch in the directional department with some very minor atmospheric noise during its first rally
scene and a
few moments in its second half;
dialogue is well modulated in the centre channel.
There are a couple pivotal moments that get actual cut -
scene,
dialogue, and objective treatments ala the best bits of Saints Row IV, but they're
few and far between.
Like Smokey and the Bandit, The Concrete Cowboys works when it does because of the down home country
dialogue and spirit, with Selleck and Reed riffing off each other energetically for a
few yuks, while the country music
scene plays prominently into the entertainment.
He does have a
few good
scenes in «The Gambler», but an unfocused script that relies way too much on
dialogue results in «The Gambler» being one of the holiday season's weakest releases.
In fact, discounting a
few painfully awkward
dialogue scenes, The Neon Demon's first half makes the film seem like Refn's most surface - level - satisfying work since Drive.
Restoring a
few of these cut -
scenes would put much - needed flesh back on this skeletal film, though it's worth noting that many of them still suffer from Haythe's insecure shoehorning of subtext into the
dialogue, as in a moment where Frank tells a story to guests Shep and Millie they've obviously heard before, only to have April come right out and confirm it.
None of the three have a natural screen presence and struggle awkwardly with first - time scriptwriter Dorothy Blyskal's clunky
dialogue; one senses a
few scenes were improvised, which means a lots of «Dude, this is awesome!»
The
few quiet,
dialogue - driven
scenes are far outweighed by the more elaborate set pieces, though speech never needs to fight to be heard.
The cast work well together and there are quite a
few scenes without any
dialogue.
The best parts: Billy Bob Thornton's (Primary Colors, Princess Mononoke) performance, the outstanding special effects, the occasionally funny
dialogue, Michael Bay's nice touches in a
few scenes, and a well - done beginning and end.
There are occasional technical glitches (sporadically duff edit points, awkward framing in a
few of the key
dialogue scenes) but you get the impression that Favreau doesn't care about proficiency as much as he does vibrancy.
A spiraling volley of
dialogue gradually whips up as all of the characters (plus a
few random outliers) engage in a dizzying
scene that sees all of the story's dramatic threads escalate at once, in one room.
Also on Side A of this two - sided disc are sixteen deleted / extended
scenes, which range from a
few full
scenes not included in the final cut to a host of expanded
scenes featuring extra lines of
dialogue.
Doc appears in just a couple of
scenes with only a
few lines of
dialogue, while Bozo and Toni get a bit more time but still far less than you would expect.
Every
scene plays out largely the same: somebody appears, often purely because of plot convenience, there's a
few lines of
dialogue and then WHAM!
Somewhere you can hang out between missions, chill with your various NPCs and support characters, play minigames, maybe witness a
few optional
scenes or unlock some hidden
dialogue, etc..
A
few character names are referenced, and a
few lines of
dialogue are referenced but the vast majority (99.9 %) is original lyrics describing similar
scenes and characters.