Sentences with phrase «film acts like»

It doesn't help that no one in the film acts like a real person would in his / her situation, setting up another mind f*ck thriller that will probably make you angry at the unconvincing explanations.

Almost no one in the entire film acts like a real person might in that situation, and if this is because they are a bunch of scientists of self - serving opportunists, then it's even worse.

Not exact matches

Markle is best known for her role in the legal drama «Suits,» but she has also acted in a long list of shows like «CSI: NY» and «Castle,» as well as films including «Get Him To The Greek.»

The sites, which often act as launching pads for smear campaigns against entertainment properties that users don't like for one reason or another, are being credited for sinking films before they even see the light of day.

Trump told the crowd that, as a holder of a permit to carry a handgun in New York, an attacker would be «shocked» if he encountered him, and that he would act like Charles Bronson in the 1970s action film Death Wish.

But Tahir built up his chops by acting in plays while waiting for film and television roles to trickle in, and turning down parts when they felt too much like typecasting.

Martin Scorsese's recent film Silence, like the historical novel by Shūsaku Endō on which it is based, turns on an act of emotional blackmail.

Don't you see how they act when a stupid SNL - like film is made about them?..

Greta Gerwig has had a very successful acting career in independent films, several you haven't seen and one you may even like, Damsels in Distress.

But it also sounds like it might have been filmed before the improvements of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act were implemented?

They created what amounts to a metal film that acts like a tape.

Here, the fingerprint material acts like a mask or stencil, blocking an electric current that is used to deposit a coloured electro - active film.

In their work with films of DXPs and other organics, researchers found that two problems prevented the films from acting like good MR materials.

When researchers asked women to watch either an erotic film, a sports video, or a «neutral» video of a train, and then perform a series of unpleasant acts (like drinking out of a cup with a bug in it), they found that those who'd watched the sexual acts rated the tasks as less disgusting — and were also able to complete more of them.

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I like to film movies, sing, act, write, play guitar, and watch movies.

It's like reading a book and visualising what the individual character would look and act like, and having that illusion shattered when you see the the film adaption where the actor is not what you visualised... for example Christian Grey

Northam, too, is due some attention for the work: it is further proof of his acting abilities, which have been seen in great use on films like An Ideal Husband, The Winslow Boy, and Gosford Park.

A definitely disjointed film, it coasts on the competent performances of co-stars Mendelsohn and Reynolds to keep viewers invested in a controversial third act that feels like a betrayal of the genre.

I think I'm looking forward to more films like this, but I would prefer better acting and story.

It's monotonous and lacking the exciting moments of the book and film, but you do get to play as Harry and act like a wizard in Hogwarts.

Still, the film never quite nails down an overall tone, building to two powerful scenes closing out the second act and warming up the third: one between Gerry and his ex-wife (Robin Weigert, looking nothing like «Deadwood's» Calamity Jane) heartbreaking and tense, the other at a sparsely attended horse track with Gerry and Curtis seemingly all but solidifying their own sad fates.

With incredible acting, dark but nessacary action and incredible emotional impacts, what is there not to like about this film?

Although it could use tighter editing — like most everything in this regrettably paced film — the third act reappearance of Gollum is terrific, and amplified by a go - for - broke motion - capture performance by Andy Serkis.

«World War Z» plays a bit like a series of separate films and the juncture where the new final act was grafted onto the proceedings is unmistakable, but unless you knew about the film's troubled past, you'd never guess it existed.

Think like a man too is a bad movie.But it also ruin think like a man.This is a sequel to think like a man and the sequel was so bad.Predictable, Bad acting, stupid scenes and boring.The 2 good things about this film is kevin hart and some

The film like I've said does nothing new and the dialogue and acting leaves a lot to be desired.

Yes, she's talented, but it's hard to root for a woman that acts like this, especially when the entire film revolves around her.

And I wouldn't mind that concept, if the film at least had a story to go along with it, instead of segments (or skits) of humans acting like selfish, reactionary assholes.

Now I like the first Hoodwinked movie very much, and for a low budget CG film its very funny and keeps you entertained, so when I heard they were going to make a bigger budgeted 3 - D sequel I was interested, but the better CG doesn't add to how poorly this film was made, the CG may be better, but the lip synching is terrible and the voice acting isn't that good.

The performers don't seem like they're acting at all, which contributes to the film's unsettling power.

The series opened her up to a wider audience, and de Rossi would continue to act in films like The Invisibles and Cursed.After the 2002 demise of Ally McBeal, de Rossi wasted little time in attaching herself to another edgy and successful project.

Franco, who, like Wiseau, also acts as director here, has crafted a loving tribute to the film, its fans and also film - making in general.

Too much effort went towards giving Chucky life in this film, while other things like the writing, acting, and direction were left for dead.

Yet all of Marvel's phase three films and their tentative questioning of the underlying political ethos of the franchise feel like buildup for Black Panther, which in its second act comes very close to completely tearing down the Marvel Cinematic Universe en totale — and making viewers long for such a thing to happen.

Only some of these digressions are funny (like the way Laura Branigan's «Gloria» becomes Stant's personal soundtrack), but Gillespie mostly lands the film's tricky tonal balancing act, hitting nostalgic pleasure points throughout even when he's underlining or undermining the cruelty of Harding's victimization.

A well acted, and executed film with an interesting concept, Fallen delivers, and with a cast like this, it's also a must see.

Having never read the book I'm rating it as just a film and it's really a film that starts well then gets predictable then got silly and confusing, The story was not new but it had a different take on it, It wasn't acted very well but it had some good intense scenes that were done well, With a good cast the story should of been told more deeper and we never really know how it all started which was quite annoying, I did like the ending but the scenes before that completely ruined the film as they didn't make sense or were done that well, It's not a bad film it's just poor for what was on offer.

And, aside from a conclusion I won't spoil except to say that it plays exactly like the meta - film twist at the end of Altman's THE PLAYER, Spielberg can't resist to inject a Gumpian «brush with history» as then Assistant Attorney General Rehnquist, a future Justice of the Supreme Court, calls to advise Bradlee the publication of the papers is prohibited by the Espionage Act of 1917 — just a beat too late to stop the story going to print.

The story wasn't all that strong, but the acting was, and what I really liked about this film is how it came at a common story in an unconventional way.

The Kite Runner is one of the best books I've ever read, but the film version, while very faithful, acts like a Coles Notes for those with really short attention spans, or a «Disneyfication» of the source material.

The smooth jazz score which punctuates the film gives certain sections the feeling of a silent movie, while the long awkward silences in the second act are like a lighter, less absurdist variant on the work of Samuel Beckett or Harold Pinter.

But with the brilliant acting by James Cagney and the fast - paced and hard - edged direction of William Keighley, the film clatters past like an express train.

Povinelli sometimes performed stunts, in films like Van Helsing and Employee of the Month, but largely stuck to acting, earning particular attention for the role of Walter in the 2011 period drama Water for Elephants.

Most of this expository stuff, however, serves as a weak excuse for the film's performers to have some fun acting like idiots, and there's no doubt that Old School has its fair share of inspired gags, most of them revolving around former SNL standout Ferrell.

Unlike the vast majority of his contemporaries, however, he could truly act as well as make music, delivering superb, natural performances in films for directors like Martin Scorsese, Sam Peckinpah, and John Sayles.

The well - acted and researched historical film feels like a detective thriller.

The film left me with a tantalizingly unanswered question: If Petit could only achieve bliss through acts of almost unimaginable daring, what must life be like for him now?

The second act of the film finds Petit and his allies casing the twin towers, making sure that they know everything about the tower that's still under construction — the workers» schedules, which areas give access to staircases, which elevators are best to use... Essentially, The Walk becomes a heist flick in the middle — and like all good heist flicks, everything goes like clockwork until it doesn't.