Sentences with phrase «funny high concept»

I'm all for improvisation, but the cast of The House seems to have been given a fairly funny high concept — in order to pay for their daughter's college tuition, a couple teams up with a neighbor to run an illegal casino out of his suburban home — and told to run with it, sans any sort of script at all.

seems to have been given a fairly funny high concept — in order to pay for their daughter's college tuition, a couple teams up with a neighbor to run an illegal casino out of his suburban home — and told to run with it, sans any sort of script at all.

Not exact matches

Kill List (2011) was a dingy one - last - job crime picture that evolved into something wholly unexpected and creepy; Sightseers (2012) is the funniest movie ever made about a murder spree; High - Rise (2015) totally got J.G. Ballard's hermetic banality (even if that concept was never enough to sustain a whole novel in the first place).

The results didn't light the world on fire like the zombie horror spoof, but 30 Minutes Or Less is a genuinely funny high - concept slacker comedy that never lets up, yet never feels rushed.

It's funny how the zeitgeist works, in that it is hardly unusual for two films with very similar high concepts to hit the screens at close to the same time.

The poster for Liam Neeson's latest high - concept thriller is clearly patterning itself on the poster for Liam Neeson's last high - concept thriller, Taken, that it's almost funny.

Somewhere in the film's development stage, it should have been apparent that a high - concept comedy that rides a hook, that friends and neighbors could all be conspiring to kill Spencer at any moment for millions of dollars, that itself isn't funny would have a difficult time generating amusement without clever writing to bolster it.

The director was always funny, even with a prisoner - of - war drama like «Stalag 17,» but he'd rarely tackled a comedy so outrageous and high - concept as «Some Like It Hot.»