Sentences with phrase «film pales in comparison»

But by never focussing the story in a meaningful way, the film pales in comparison to its nearest predecessor,...

Sure, some of the jokes falter and the film pales in comparison to some of the early Farrelly productions, but this was a movie made about diehard Red Sox fans who had watched their team lose time and time again.

Melvin and Howard (1980) returns Demme to the small - town Americana of Citizen's Band, though the film pales in comparison.

In fact, it's best to watch Last Flag Flying without having seen The Last Detail as the film pales in comparison in every single way.

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Interestingly crafted, the opening sequences were so great that it doomed the rest of the film to pale in comparison.

Sure... it's not great, and sure... it pales in comparison to far better sub-mariner films like Das Boot, Crimson Tide and The Hunt for Red October.

Critics Consensus: Chaplin boasts a terrific performance from Robert Downey, Jr. in the title role, but it isn't enough to overcome a formulaic biopic that pales in comparison to its subject's classic films.

Critic Consensus: Chaplin boasts a terrific performance from Robert Downey, Jr. in the title role, but it isn't enough to overcome a formulaic biopic that pales in comparison to its subject's classic films.

Any other issues pale in comparison to what the film gets right.

Unfortunately, it seems that this R4 version might have been mastered from an older video transfer - in fact, this looks very much like the original home video transfer of the film done back in the early 1990s, which at the time was state - of - the - art but pales in comparison to what's possible today.

Of course my commendable efforts to try and watch as many of the films as possible pales in comparison to Nathaniel Rogers» current...

Yes, there are first rate special effects to be experienced throughout this final film, but they've paled in comparison to their own feats, and there's still a nagging sense of watching endlessly manipulated imagery that tends to make attention wane.

While it pales in comparison to the raunchy wit of the original, «The Hangover Part III» boasts enough laughs to remember why we liked the first film so much.

It was the very first film of Venice, and the festival seemed to open on such a high that the worry was that everything else over the next ten days would end up paling in comparison.

Allen is one of the craftsmen of it's kind and although this pales in comparison to his earlier stuff, his idiosyncratic style has been missing from films for far too long and its a pleasure to revisit his neurotic world.

I've repeatedly found Carell's film career paling in comparison to his great television creation, as he's gravitated to dumb, broad comedies like Get Smart and Date Night or sappy dramedies like Dan in Real Life and Crazy, Stupid, Love..

San Andreas isn't a bad film; it simply pales in comparison to some of its predecessors.

However, their distraction pales in comparison to the beefed up role for another fictitious character, Bard's (Evans, Dracula: The Untold Story) servant Alfrid (Gage, Hamlet), who is meant to be the film's comic relief, but ends up being so broad and overbearing, you'll long to find him beheaded and skewered on the end of an Orc's spear after just the first of a dozen intolerable scenes in which he appears.

His best film is his first, Dawn of the Dead, but even that pales in comparison to the zombie film that came two years before it: 28 Days Later.

The climax brings to mind Marisa Tomei's classic testimony in My Cousin Vinny but quite pales in comparison since Legally Blonde's take is rather abrupt, not to mention the film's central trial plot leaves a lot to be desired.

The main problem lies with the fact that it pales in comparison to its main influence; it is nowhere near as atmospheric as Ridley Scott's landmark film a...

Unfortunately, that killer soundtrack is let down by the actual movie itself, which pales in comparison and winds up being a clunker on a few levels — especially if you're one of the women in the film.

Likewise the film pales a bit in comparison to that and other recent period pieces.

Some of the sketches are pretty amusing, and making fun of Aquaman never gets old, but this definitely pales in comparison to the «Star Wars» specials, probably because those films are riper for parody.

While it may pale somewhat in comparison to another independent film with a title that is monosyllabic nickname for coffee, Mud, Joe still ultimately emerges as a fine, lesser companion piece than a just a simple variation of the same thing.

Izzard's performance was one of the highlights of Prince Caspian, and whilst this time I didn't realise the switch had taken place until the credits, I did feel the performance paled in comparison to the previous film.

This spaghetti western, while paling in comparison to the classic Sergio Leone «Dollars» trilogy, still was a very influential film in its genre, spawning as many as fifty unofficial sequels.

PYEWACKET While on its own Pyewacket is a solid supernatural horror film, the film greatly pales in comparison with Adam MacDonald's very tense debut Backcountry.

However, no matter how successful the film has been it pales in comparison to the success of the stage musical adaptation — which is the highest - grossing stage musical ever, with worldwide grosses of over $ 6 billion.

Besides The Post, the film also pales in comparison to All the President's Men, which has a similar vibe of breaking - news camaraderie, or Spotlight, which likewise challenged authority with an audacious team of reporters.

It's by no means a great film and it paled in comparison to «Spotlight» but I stand by the performances in the movie, especially Robert Redford's take on Dan Rather.

But the feature - film version of the long - running animated TV series only superficially resembles its source material, and it pales in comparison to the first two Lego movies.

by Walter Chaw Mouldering in a can for over a year (the film would smell pretty stale regardless past 1980), Impostor is the umpteenth adaptation of a Philip K. Dick story (whether directly or indirectly), a fable of identity that pales in comparison to an acknowledged classic like Blade Runner, an ambitious blockbuster like Total Recall, and an under - seen sleeper like Screamers.

But the feature - film version of the long - running animated TV series only superficially resembles its source material, and it pales in comparison to the first two -LSB-...]

Clarence Carter's «Strokin»» is fitting end punctuation for the film, and be warned that while I will never view canned pumpkin the same again, that pales in comparison to what Gena Gershon must now think of when someone offers her a piece of fried chicken.

The main problem lies with the fact that it pales in comparison to its main influence; it is nowhere near as atmospheric as Ridley Scott's landmark film and a kind of floaty, translucent flatworm with wings is nowhere near as threatening as H. R. Giger's creation.

The story inevitably recalls Abbas Kiarostami's «A Taste of Cherry,» and this sketchier work can only pale in comparison, but a tightly disciplined climax, free of the expected moralising, suggests that, following the equally promising «Chop Shop» and «Man Push Cart,» Bahrani has a great film in him yet.

Peter Weller sits this one out (conflicts with another film are cited as the reason) as the helmet and robo - suit are handed over to newcomer Robert John Burke (Hide and Seek, Thinner), who does bear a resemblance, enough to buy him in the role of Murphy, though his average voice pales by comparison to that of Weller's stern and rich delivery.

While masterfully shot, the film doesn't have a clear enough vision to stick with you much after it's done, which limits its replay value and makes it pale in comparison to more focused IMAX documentaries.

But when you compare unit sales of even the biggest games to a recent hit film like Avatar, games still pale in comparison.

The cost of making most Hollywood films pales into comparison to what these major games studios are spending in developing video games.