Sentences with phrase «film feel forced»

Unfortunately, the story lacks a strong script and has very basic graphics, which make the film feel forced sometimes.

The dramatic elements toward the backend of the film feel forced and unnatural.

Much of the rest of the film feels forced — from the preachy animated prologue, to obvious, basic themes about racial division, tension and hatred.

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Despite liking Farley this film does feel very forced with very little to show.

The first two films are a tough act to follow, and here, the laughs are spread out too far, the story feels forced upon its characters, and the whole gimmick of twisting the conventions of fairy tales is starting to show a lack of new, worthwhile ideas.

Only when the film takes its most radical third - act jolts in tone does it feel forced, contrived.

Also, the way in which the film goes from serious tones to tongue in cheek moments is not really handled well either — from the knife wielding belly dancer to one of Samuel L. Jackson's trademark monologue, it feels rather forced at times.

Maybe that's just my fandom of Tadanobu Asano, who is very good here, but I'm sincere in feeling that his character is the driving force of the film and his *** SPOILERS *** death leaves a huge whole.

For the most part Shrek The Third lacks the heart of the two previous films and often feels forced and insincere.

Sure, they have to force their AMD Opteron processors to conjure up all that flashy «ooh» and «aah» stuff, like, say swishy - whizzy magic - spell effects, or the impressive orange glow of dragonflame, but if you can't make the texture of Fiona's shimmery dress capture the light properly, if the audience don't truly feel they can reach out and caress that silky fabric, then the animators might as well all shut down their DL145 ProLiant servers, pack up their HP nx6125 notebooks («based,» it says in the film's fascinating production notes, «on AMD Turion 64x dual - core mobile technology to streamline a variety of production activities») and go home.

The film's underdeveloped characters and thin — though busy — story are forced into the foreground, and its 88 - minute running time feels far longer.

Unfortunately, Hiller doesn't command the intensity of feeling that might have made it emotionally valid, and he doesn't have the awareness of the cultural forces at work in his film that might have made it intellectually respectable.

There are a few overt references to more modern sounding ethical opinions on the treatment of the «natives» sprinkled throughout the film, but to be honest, they kind of feel forced, even if they may have been period accurate.

When Leonardo finally becomes the working, cooking family man Kate needs, it's where the film gets a little bit sweet, but as the premise must sluggishly go through the motions without actually earning the outcome, it all just feels forced, plainly predictable and prefabricated.

The film's single downside is a certain nagging sense of deja vu: the fact that so many of the elements of the story — the dark force, the all - empowering object, etc. — have been usurped over the years (by «Star Wars» and others) that you feel as if you've been down this road many, many times before.

By the time Louis winds up at a forced labor camp, also run by The Bird, the film feels like it's just spinning its wheels and upping the ante of his mental and physical suffering until the eventual Allied victory.

Wintry symbolism has never felt so forced — and in a film that ought to have been played as a romantic comedy, it's never been more out of place, either.

That being said this film doesn't feel too elongated or forced, its not dull and its not daft either, but I don't feel entirely comfortable with the newly created bits.

However, I feel that I must point out to those who did not enjoy the movie, that this was not «Mormon» propaganda, as no one forced you to watch this, and that the film was intended, not limited to, but for Mormons.

Yes, he constructs various shots as paintings in a frame, but he does so with such a stylish, subtle touch the device never feels forced, and works on an almost subliminal level to enhance the richness of the film's scope.

First, it isn't a particularly funny film, and the romance feels forced to the point where the couple seems comprised two unstable people.

However, I felt in this film we really got an honest emotional look into the child that it seems is forced into this life of darkness.

The film will also entertain fans who have never seen the original films because the jokes and story completely stand on their own merits, and the nods to the old film do not feel forced or distract from the narrative.

Josh is, of course, very like Woody Allen's Cliff Stern, the documentary film - maker in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) who, at the nadir of professional failure, is forced to film a tribute to his hated brother - in - law, a highly successful man at home in the same world of tuxedo dinners and speeches from which Ben Stiller's Josh feels excluded.

The music throughout the film has the air of a classic noir film, which is one of the elements that works to subtly bring the two genres together without feeling forced.

Fans who felt that The Force Awakens played it safe or skewed too close to the original Star Wars films will find much to like about The Last Jedi — if they go into it with an open mind and willingness to step into uncharted terrain.

Everything else, including a big brunt of the scenes that were meant to give the film emotional gravitas, feel trite and sometimes forced.

The release, early last month, came at a time where the film and television industries had been taken by storm with people opening up on being sexually assaulted or harassed after years of feeling forced into silence.

It's not that Léa Seydoux does a bad job — rather that her character feels forced, almost like the writers included her because they felt they had to (much like that last minute comedy pass that was done on the Skyfall script, which is blessedly missing from this film.)

This is definitely an amusing film but it never feels the need to force its comedy onto you; it's a thoroughly relaxed affair.

I'm doing this partly because I feel that writing about directors can still be a real animating force in film study, as it was for me when I started.

On film, it feels stale, forced and claustrophobic: Who wants to watch a bunch of people yell in a room for two hours?

Some of my colleagues said it felt a little too forced and sentimental to them, comparing it to recent films like War Horse (2011) and The Butler (2013).

I also felt that the musical score was somewhat forced for the purpose of provoking on the emotional level and was only there to make up for the lack of it in the film, it did seem quite unnecessary in parts where I thought silence could have worked better, but thats not to say of course that it was brilliant to listen too, and the changes were spot on to suit the changes determined in the film but for a simplistic kind of story it seemed excessive.

He coaxes tremendous lightning - in - a-bottle performances out of the children in the film that are always affecting and never feel forced.

Walt Disney Pictures feel very confident on the film itself, and are going to be a force once again during the season.

And as she slowly wins his heart and salves his soul, it's hard not to be reminded of how this dynamic played out in better Crowe films like Jerry Maguire and even Elizabethtown, which, for all its flaws, never felt half as forced.

Fans who felt that «Star Wars: The Force Awakens» played it safe or skewed too close to the original Star Wars films will find much to like about «Star Wars: The Last Jedi» - if they go into it...

Supporting players get a brief time to shine, but sadly Shirley Henderson «s role as Gail is largely redundant, and Kelly MacDonald, who pops up as Diane in a very fleeting, extended cameo, are the only parts of the film which feel forced and unnecessary.

On the other hand, its bouts of lurid violence and voyeuristic sex feel as if they've been dragged in from somewhere trashier, like the Taken films or something with Sylvester Stallone in it.Jennifer plays Dominika Egorova, formerly a star dancer at Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet who is forced to quit after a bone - crunching onstage collision.

Whenever the film does slow down, the characterisation carries on feeling forced and hampers the pace.

With quippy dialogue and an classic movie directorial style, Sally Potter's The Party feels like a brilliant short film forced to drag itself along for an extra twenty minutes.

Some of the attempts at topicality felt forced — see: Salma Hayek trying to get the audience to yell «Time's Up» in unison and presenter Geena Davis joking that all the Best Actor in a Motion Picture nominees should give half their salaries to the women in their films — but it was satisfying to imagine the men in the audience feeling uncomfortable for a night.

The exercise feels forced in a way that Risky Business doesn't, the earlier film's ease owing mostly to Brickman but also to another of Tangerine Dream's definitive Eighties scores and, perhaps, the bestial liquid chemistry between Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay — a chemistry that's never quite replicated by a very fine Emile Hirsch and the very fine Elisha Cuthbert.

Rather than feeling like organic conversations these moments are too forced as if the film's (and real life) outcome wasn't tragic enough.

But that's not where the innovation stops, there's a fun and vibrant atmosphere to the whole film, one that doesn't feel tacky or forced.

The stars of «The Force Awakens» share details about their stunt training and their feelings about working on the film in two new featurettes.

He doesn't quite successfully draw the lines between the two men, leaving a film that feels a bit shapeless at times, but it's still a startling look into a world where the traditional forces of crimefighting have become useless.

The commonplace meanderings of the film's center fare better than the forced climax that makes up Tarzan II's final act, but the whole of it feels rather inconsequential.

This dark Western has the feel of a Gothic horror movie, featuring Charles Middleton (best known as Ming the Merciless in the Flash Gordon films of the»30s) as a sadistic land baron who holds a young woman prisoner in order to force her to marry him.