There are
a few lines in the film where crickets could have been heard in the advanced screening I was at.
Jason Alexander may be short and hefty, but is a far cry from Boris, while Rene Russo, although top billed, has very
few lines in the film... understandable since she is no Natasha.
Not exact matches
And despite less - than - enthused early reviews, Baz Luhrmann's
film adaptation of The Great Gatsby has garnered heightened anticipation and excitement over the past
few months of lavish themed parties, soundtrack leaks and previews and even special edition fashion
lines in the
film's honor.
I'm sure the coaches will address this
in film, but there were a
few times where our receivers still had the same pre-Willie mindset and were jogging back out to their positions instead of quickly running to get
lined up to begin the play.
You'd expect no less from director Ryan Coogler, who opens the
film in 1992
in Oakland, a
few stops down the BART
line from the site of the tragic climax of his debut feature, Fruitvale Station.
He is aided
in this effort by Gordon's former mistress Myrna Loy, who has all of the
film's best
lines (When her protecter Baxter falls asleep on a couch, Loy complains «A
few more nights like this and I'll be out of condition.»)
Jarecki uncomfortably straddles that
line between true crime story and total fictionalization, getting lost
in the gap
in between and jamming as many elements as possible into this
film causes very
few of them to register.
Russell pokes fun of his weight, makes ludicrous power plays to establish his dominance
in prison, and invites a number of deeply uncomfortable jokes about his inevitable sexual abuse
in prison — a
line of comedy that feels even more unwelcome given that the
film's cast includes an accused sexual assailant
in T.J. Miller, who needlessly returns as Deadpool's best friend, Weasel,
in a
few throwaway scenes.
One of the
few features
in which he had more than five
lines was RKO's 1945 mystery - comedy Having Wonderful Crime; perhaps significantly, his sister Blanche Ring topped the
film's supporting cast.
(
In one of the
film's
few laugh
lines, Louis tells Phil, who hasn't seen the ship, «I've got some good news... and some bad news.»)
Conversely, the seeds of Carangi's singular impact on an industry that had become a glorified assembly
line are sown
in haste: The
film puts forth a
few poignant images — Gia's colleagues mistaking her for a loiterer, Gia the only brunette
in a pool of blondes (a tableau that really shows the novelty of her ethnicity)-- but mostly treats Gia not as a model with a drug habit, but as a junkie who models, one of Paul Schrader's born addicts.
Pushing a message as frothy as this one with points scored along political
lines and with an almost complete lack of syrupy sentimentality to gum up the works, the
film's inevitable box - office victory (penguins are more of a sure thing nowadays than Harry Potter) is cause for celebration,
in no small part because Miller is one of the
few directors who deserves the freedom to do whatever the hell he wants.
The zombie tale, a hybrid of Scooby - Doo, Night Of The Living Dead, and an always intriguing youth - confronting - scary - monsters premise, seems
in line with people's interests and
in an animated setting, perhaps a zombie
film can survive the over-saturation of zombie - pop that has been prevalent these last
few years.
It is not a perfect
film: it is too on the nose; a
few lines in the ending are a bit too much; and Rafe Spall is terrible.
Hill's Academy Award nominee status makes for a
few great gags, Rogen's lack of variety
in film roles is a punch -
line and Robinson gets confused between «acting» tough and actually being strong.
In one of the
film's
few conversations, Scott Thomas's
lines and delivery sound computer - generated.
TIFF programmed a whopping 289
films in its
line - up, from Special Presentations and a
few Cannes holdovers, to many exciting premieres, including Cloud Atlas and PTA's The Master
in 70 mm.
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.
But thanks to a promising trailer, and appearances
in both the TIFF and Telluride
line - ups, the
film's certainly been the center of plenty of talk
in the last
few weeks.
Unlike the last
few years, there are now at least three
films that have a very good chance of winning the Best Picture trophy at the Oscar ceremony
in February, and it looks like we'll be witness to a pretty intense fight to the finish
line.
who becomes the victim of a female con - artist who lives
in Florida, «the worst place
in America» (one of the
film's
few and funny throwaway
lines).
Among the dead were several Avengers and most of the Guardians of the Galaxy, but given that quite a
few actors still have pictures on their Marvel Studios contracts, and sequels are
lined up for casualties like Black Panther and Spider - Man,
in true comic book fashion, fans have begun theorizing how these deaths will be undone come the next
film.
Check out a sneak preview of a
few really cool head knockers featuring Batman and Bane from the upcoming
film «The Dark Knight Rises» by director Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception, Memento) stars Christian Bale (Batman Begins, Terminator Salvation, The 13 Women of Nanjing), Anne Hathaway (The Devil Wears Prada, Get Smart, Alice
in Wonderland, The Silver
Linings Playbook), Tom Hardy (Inception, RocknRolla, Bronson), Joseph Gordon - Levitt (Elektra Luxx, 3rd Rock from the Sun), Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption, The Dark Knight, Se7en), Gary Oldman (The Professional, The Fifth Element) and Michael Caine (Cars 2, Gnomeo & Juliet, Inception, Harry Brown).
Saldana spends the
film's first section huffing over Spock's coldness, but once that conflict is resolved with a
few lines, her screen presence consists of holding her hand to her mouth
in shock.
A
few lines and speckles now and again do little to distract from the essential beauty of the landscapes that are,
in a very real way, the stars of the
film.
what a pun - certainly good enough to use
in the first
line) at seeing that Thomas Newman is scoring an animated family movie - there are
few film composers who would seem less likely
in the role.
The
film, with backlit shots of pilgrims strolling across twilit hillsides exhibiting amazing detail, has never looked brighter, so the
few instances that the dragon is inserted into the frame betray the sort of sharp
lines that James Cameron would finally address
in Terminator 2 with his own animation blurring techniques, replicating the imperfections of the human eye at a distance and while observing motion.
Acker follows suit a
few scenes later, with
fewer pratfalls, but Denisof is engaged
in a
film - long campaign to earn laughs via tweaked
line readings and vain poses.
But, of course, this is all just a flimsy foundation upon which director / co-writer Rick Friedberg and fellow scripters Dick Chudnow, Jason Friedberg, and Aaron Seltzer hang set pieces parodying specific
films such as Pulp Fiction, True Lies, Speed, and
In the
Line of Fire, to name a
few.
And there's already a
few films that they'll be focusing on for the 2012/2013 season — Quentin Tarantino «s «Django Unchained» and Paul Thomas Anderson «s «The Master» will obviously both be priorities, while David O Russell «s «The Silver
Linings Playbook» and Andrew Dominik «s «Cogan's Trade» are also
in the mix.
In a droll exchange with his former bandmate Ivan Schrank, played by Rhys Ifans, Schrank recalls the old adage «Youth is wasted on the young», to which Greenberg replies, «I'd go further, I'd go life is wasted on... people» — one of the few really funny lines in the film, basically summing up the message of the movi
In a droll exchange with his former bandmate Ivan Schrank, played by Rhys Ifans, Schrank recalls the old adage «Youth is wasted on the young», to which Greenberg replies, «I'd go further, I'd go life is wasted on... people» — one of the
few really funny
lines in the film, basically summing up the message of the movi
in the
film, basically summing up the message of the movie.
Wisely, Donoghue and Abrahamson also strip most of Jack's narration from the
film (a
few too - cute
lines remain, mostly acting as guides to narrative time - jumps), allowing the central relationship to rest on Joy and Jack's dialogue, which is rich
in its simplicity.
Melfi sprinkles a
few other memorable
lines in St. Vincent's opening half, but as a mid-plot twist turns the
film irrevocably toward the saccharine, the script's unpolished aspects become visible: the way that the bookie (Terrence Howard) to whom Vincent owes money all but disappears halfway through; the manner
in which Vincent's pregnant Russian prostitute girlfriend (Naomi Watts) exists largely to allow for stereotypical jokes founded on her accent and coarse language.
Widely praised for its depictions of race - relations
in the U.S., the feature has now found itself at the mercy of an «honest trailer,» dissecting a
few of the
film's plot
lines.
«I like
films where the entire movie is set up
in the first
few lines.»
There are also a
few new extras as well, like the «Worthy Adversaries» trivia game, where you complete
lines from the movie while it's playing; a picture -
in - picture video commentary with cast and crew interviews and behind - the - scenes footage; and a feature called «Mark It, Dude» that tracks all the profanities and Dude - isms that appear throughout the
film.
Only a select
few categories
in film lined up with the predictions of professional analysts, while all of television was completely out of left field.
For as many jokes as there are here, it's impressive how patient screenwriters Paul King (who also directed — returning from the first
film) and Simon Farnaby are
in allowing a
few of the punch
lines.
Hayden Christensen as Anakin almost had a cameo
in The Force Awakens, and YouTuber Mike Zeroh has claimed to hear from an inside source that Christensen has recorded a
few lines from the
film, but if he cameos it'll likely be limited and voice - only.
The
film also contains powerful testimonies from survivor Sudhesh Dahad, who was
in the same Piccadilly
Line carriage as one of the bombers, and Imam Qari Muhammad Asim who helped his community
in Leeds recover after discovering that one of perpetrators lived only a
few streets away from his mosque.
The news that the clerical visitor was to give a Saturday - night talk was received with some resignation by the boys, but the archdeacon, whose diocese spread from the tree
line right away up to the last
few humps of ice at the North Pole, had brought reels of
film with him and caught our interest and attention immediately when his operator put the first one
in backwards.
Willem de Kooning, whose whiplash
lines and sweeping gestures defined «action painting»
in the popular imagination nearly as much as Jackson Pollock's drips, is said to have painted
in a frenzy for a rolling camera, only to scrape it all out when the
filming stopped because the reality of how he worked — painting a stroke, then staring at it for a
few hours — seemed too dull to
film.
Artists create unique cultural hybrids that include graffiti murals with Haida figures, sculptures carved out of skateboard decks, abstract paintings with form -
line design, live video remixes with Hollywood
films, and hip hop performances
in Aboriginal languages, to name a
few.
A
few years ago a
film aired on network TV
in the UK something along the
lines of «The Great Global Warming Swindler» — or something similar.
Many thin
film and a
few crystalline silicon solar start - ups are building pilot
lines or production capacity
in the United States.
There are new thin -
film batteries that will be coming on
line in the next
few years, along with all sorts of other possilibities like the use of pressure - based deepwater storage.