Sentences with phrase «film stopped me dead in my tracks»

In a world where my attention span seems to shrink daily, the film stopped me dead in my tracks.

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The power and impact of the film fall flat, as though there's a force field between the screen and the theater seats that stops any emotion dead in its tracks before it can reach the crowd.

At least in his English language films he is so devoid of personality and charisma that he stops the picture dead in it's tracks whenever he is on screen.

Yet this often comes at the expense of the film's propulsion, not least when a late cameo from Laurence Fishburne stops it dead in its tracks.

It does, however, have extended dialogue - heavy scenes which don't just slow the film down, but stop it dead in its tracks.

A smash cut to grinding violins over the title of the film stops the scene dead in its tracks.

But Blood Wars «screenplay (by Kyle Ward, who co-conceived the story with Cory Goodman) is clunky and uneconomical; for a film that runs 90 minutes, it frequently stops dead in its tracks so characters can narrate the action, or highlight their shallow thoughts and emotions to the point of absurdity.

While the songs add to the old fashioned atmosphere, the fact that they weren't written expressly for the film means that they don't always advance the story; a lot of times it stops it dead in its tracks, especially the elaborate, over-the-top production numbers, which simultaneously celebrate and skewer the genre's surreal conventions.