Sentences with phrase «flat characters in»

These are flat characters in terms of personality, so it's important to do something to lift them up from non-dimensional to interesting, and Square - Enix didn't perform that duty here.

Paul Rudd, Michael Shannon, Kate Arrington, and Ed Asner make impressive attempts at shaping Craig Wright's flat characters in this overly metaphorical production.

There isn't a rote performance or flat character in the whole movie — even supporting players like Peter's decathlon teammates feel like real teenagers at a real high school, struggling with their own teenager issues.

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He's also exploring allowing more than 140 - character tweets — Twitter's signature and some fans say best aspect, in a Facebook - like morph that could fall flat.

In so many data points above, decelerating growth to flat at best growth is the character we see.

And good characters are defined by being accessible: The audience must be able to see through their eyes and live in their shoes, or the story falls flat.

His «wisdom» consisted, we suspect, in his profligate and ultimately self - flattering sponsorship of native and imported «wisdom» artists — articulate writers and reciters of a kind of prephilosophical moral philosophy current in the Near Eastern world of the tenth century and preserved, in essential character at least, in Proverbs, in many of the Psalms, and, in a different vein, in the Prologue and Epilogue of job (Job 1 - 2; 42:7 - 17).

BTW — If the universe is flat and M - Theory correct, there would be a planet, an infinite number in fact, inhabited by Sesame Street characters.

the team lacks the hunger in the pitch.we so flat and we lack bite and in modern football u cant win any game without that bite may i take a word from wengers vocabulary «character».

«Phil didn't do something to earthquake - proof the house that he promised he had, and spends most of the episode trying to cover up,» says Burrell, who loves the bumbling but well - intentioned character, which was written with him in mind — something he finds «not particularly flattering, but hilarious.

Learn about all the different kinds of characters, like round, flat, stock, or antagonist, that writers and readers encounter in fiction.

... flat characters, flat animation, a bland rock soundtrack... Titan A.E. might as well be Titanic A.E. (as in, the ship that sunk, not the movie that scored.)

Likewise the characters in the game are flat and robotic.

It's rendered in a simpler style than previous Ghibli / Miyazaki outings, with a handcrafted coloured - pencil look, while in the foreground the characters are given a rather flat palette.

There is also a character named Ava who is as flat a character as you can get, I did nt even notice her until about 30 minutes in.

Still, in the end, despite the best efforts of the onscreen and offscreen talent, the final product falls flat in way too many places, even as a character study, in spite of Turtorro's inspired performance.

Voiced by Chiara Mastroianni in French — Satrapi herself lives in Paris now — she's the most fully drawn female character in movies this year, only black and white and flat all over.

In Salt and Fire, a bad movie but an intriguing vacation slideshow, Michael Shannon and Veronica Ferres play «characters» (unconvincing, undimensional) and speak «dialogue» (expository, flat).

This is a movie full of characters you would walk away from at a cocktail party, engaging in the flattest brand of smart banter imaginable.

This tale set in Apartheid South Africa aptly demonstrates the contours of political divisiveness, but unfortunately, the characters are flat.

Other than that acquisitive movie - mad mindset, it is a pandering, self - flattering mess, featuring unearned catharsis, lazy clichés and characters presented in broad, sometimes - offensive stereotypes.

It's funny, particularly when the three characters are allowed to simply bounce off one another in nearly structureless scenes, but it's never terribly flattering to watch, especially when we're pretty sure that they're talking about us.

By following five Atlanta - based couples, the film wants fervently to incorporate all its character's diverse fluff into one sitting, but such hopes are subverted to an emptily - flat experiment that pairs audiences with familiar faces acting out a weak script, while the experimenters stand back and pray that the audience doesn't notice just in fact how hollow it all really is.

This well - meaning film winds up seeming more than a little obtuse in its flat avoidance of geopolitical detail, not helped by disproportionately faint sketching of its non-western characters...

Taking place almost entirely in a single flat, with only a handful of characters, it feels like a play that exists only in dreams.

Things fall flat, though, when Taylor emerges as the central character, interacting with Hill House's malignant history in an increasingly silly series of frightless escapades that have her chasing about the house's serpentine corridors after wispy kiddie ghosts and bloody footprints.

The last half hour would have had me weeping for joy if I could have brought myself to care even the slightest bit for the main character but Gordon - Levitt (who was superb in the cyclist movie Premium Rush) was so completely cartoonish and flat it almost turned a 3D movie back into 2D.

Platt (Working Girl) is an odd choice, given his character doesn't figure in to the story very strongly, and he doesn't lend much box office appeal, but I like his inclusion; it's good to see that at least one person had trepidations about the flat - lining experience after seeing how it affects the others.

The movie doesn't just feature quirky characters, which could have been found in any film of the time, but flat - out weird characters whose actions don't serve the narrative — they are simply weird for weird's sake.

It's a workable premise that's employed to consistently underwhelming and flat - out incompetent effect by writer / director Howard Michael Gould, as the filmmaker proves utterly unable to offer up a single compelling (or even remotely authentic) figure - which instantly ensures that one has virtually nothing invested in the various characters» ongoing exploits.

Talia Shire puts her flat performance in Rocky to shame, Abe Vigoda easily makes the viewer forget that his claim to fame is in playing a character named Fish, Richard S. Castellano makes arguably the greatest accomplice ever, and Sterling Hayden even makes his work in Stanley Kubrick films seem simple.

It is, of course, not surprising to note that the sentimental elements that crop up towards the end fall completely flat, as the viewer has absolutely nothing invested in these characters or their happiness - with the end result a nigh worthless piece of work that manages to waste a fairly impressive cast (ie it takes some effort to drain Allen of his natural charisma).

She also has much more agency as a character than the heroines of those films, something seized upon by Hawkins, who's flat - out brilliant in the role; her innately expressive features almost rendering the subtitling of her signed conversations irrelevant.

Most the other Actors / Actresses in the film fall flat and just don't ever feel like key characters.

These are not all the characters contained in the film, but the point is that none of them are at all flattering.

A deliciously heightened, caviar - black comedy that sets up its brittle, bourgeois characters like bowling pins and gleefully knocks them down in 71 minutes flat.

She could use a more flattering wardrobe, too, as could Molly Ringwald in The Breakfast Club, who wiped clean with a little foundation the identity of Ally Sheedy's character at the close of that film, and Can't Buy Me Love's Amanda Peterson, who wouldn't associate with Patrick Dempsey until he put mousse in his hair.

«The Lazarus Effect» is not the usual mindless thriller, but it's as flat as an open soda from last week, with dull characters and virtually every scene taking place in a single location.

Worse, the character is so poorly written that he comes across as flat - out dumb in scene after scene (such as searching for a hidden camera in his silverware drawer).

While its graphics, story and characters can feel a little flat, the gameplay has always been the focus in Sniper Elite and is so perfectly tuned to here make the rest seem inconsequential.

While As Above, So Below begins with an at least mildly intriguing set - up of plot, once this team heads into the catacombs it quickly becomes yet another rote display of forced jump scares, awkward character interaction and painfully flat acting that forces us to try to believe this is heading in any direction other than where we all know it's going to go.

Actions by characters late in the film also don't jibe with their established behavior and the ending falls flat.

Rebecca Ferguson - so fantastic in the most recent «Mission Impossible» - is utterly wasted as new wife Anna, a character who seemed to have been designed to wring sympathy from the audience, something I couldn't bestow given that she cheated and lied her way into her seemingly perfect life and don't even get me started on Haley Bennett's Megan, a woman whose tragic past was overshadowed entirely by her fingernails - down - the - blackboard performance as a one dimensional woman who had nothing but overt sexuality and a flat whining energy to offer.

Perhaps one hothead in the mix would have been realistic, but I counted at least a half dozen different characters who just flat out punch someone in the face when they find something displeasing.

It's all a bit too quick and too clean; bratty prima donna to appreciative beau ideal in 30 seconds flat — but Rothe anchors it all aptly, parceling in both the cruel and compassionate angles of the character nicely.

«Johnny Handsome» comes out of the film noir atmosphere of the 1940s, out of movies with dark streets and bitter laughter, with characters who live in cold - water flats and treat saloons as their living rooms.

Awkward performances, under developed characters, flat dialogue and bad dubbing are very common in his film as well as the films of his Italian horror contemporaries such as Mario Bava and Lucio Fulci.

But if you were suddenly without thought, you'd still find in Cowboys & Aliens a collection of disconnected explosions and flat production design, with characters who declare things to each other in inhuman exchanges very much like the ones in Relativity Media's last fucking disaster that's worse than you already think it will be, Season of the Witch.

Most of the other mutant characters are used as flat puzzle pieces, which when applied in the correct way will solve a problem.

Count The Last Kiss as a film that treats its women characters as the entire Greek pantheon of hysterical goddesses, from a flat - crazy mother (Blythe Danner in a series of ironed housecoats) pining after an old flame to our collegiate temptress (who, for no earthly reason, is mightily attracted to thirtysomething milquetoast Michael), to finally our damsel in distress Jenna, three months pregnant (her hormones blamed more than once for her behaviour — and she agrees!)