Sentences with phrase «given more screen time»

Gyllenhaal is given more screen time than Katie Holmes had in Batman Begins, but the subplot dealing with her emotional conflict never quite takes flight.

Isaac is given more screen time to be terminally dashing and well - meaning - to - a-fault, while Hamill's return to the saga is treated with the just the right amount of reverence.

Johnson, on the other hand, is given more screen time now that Hobbs is playing nice with Dom and Co., while Sung Kang remains the standout of the supporting players.

As Depp is the main box office draw, whose international fame far exceeds that of Lone Ranger portrayer Armie Hammer, the two characters have undergone a major shift in terms of their importance and screen time, with Depp not only headlining the flick, but Tonto is given more screen time and more importance to the story than ever before.

should not be overlooked for her sensual, antagonistic performance as the film's Eve stand - in, though I wish she'd been given more screen time.

Supporting performances by Danny McBride and Craig Robinson are also noteworthy, while the inspired casting of Gary Cole and Rosie Perez (as a dirty cop on Ted's payroll) only makes you wish they were given more screen time.

It made me wish they were all given more screen time.

I'm not giving anything away by stating that I wish Jean Smart was given more screen time.

David Harbour as Hopper is given more screen time in season 2 and I grew to love his character even more this season.

For a movie about giant transforming robots they sure could have given them some more screen time.

I'm curious to learn your opinion on the whole post-production editing controversy, where Tony Kaye accused Edward Norton of hijacking the film and recutting it to give himself more screen time?

Shouldn't we be paying more attention to these realities than giving any more screen time to the AGW fools — other than to bring about their defeat.

Not exact matches

Here again, sitting in front of your screen (or browsing your mobile phone during the commute to work), gives you more time to calculate that number and find the better deal.

Critics have remarked that Ginsberg's exit would have been more compelling if the character had been given more screen - time this season, instead of being called in sporadically to deliver the odd scatological joke.

If you have a french press with a very fine mesh screen, you can give your beans a finer grind and steep for less time for a more espresso - like flavor and effect.

Parents often complain that their kids watch too much TV and spend too much time in front of screens, all the while giving them more and more access to these devices.

The easiest methods for promoting more restful sleep for everyone include not having too many fluids before bed, keeping the room temperature at or below 68F, not sleeping with too much clothing or blankets on, giving a before - bed massage, and no screen time within two hours of bedtime.

«Screenings are a vital and necessary tool for early detection, giving people a warning about possible problems and more time to address them,» said Poloncarz.

French government officials delayed the approval of an American screening test for detecting HIV in blood to give a domestic company more time to develop a similar product, according to reports by the French daily, Liberation.

Their upcoming The Truth About Tech campaign will produce anti-tech-addiction ads, give consumers tips on how to use tech more mindfully, and push for more data on the health effects of too much screen time.

I'm in the same predicament as you, but I'm trying to do the «no screens an hour before bed» now, so that gives me more time for reading.

Give his mother more than one frakking minute of screen time.

That would be impossible given that there are over 40 of them, and that the film is structured almost exactly like a»90s sketch - comedy show in which characters rarely share more than several minutes of screen time.

Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara deliver award - worthy turns as the two women involved in the taboo romance, and although the movie gives each character equal screen time, Mara's Therese is the more interesting of the duo.

The shift gives London Has Fallen more time to complete its VFX, and also reflects its strong performance in research screenings.

Well, Shane Black — who played Hawkins opposite Schwarzenegger in the 1987 original — responded to a fan on Twitter that, basically, Arnold wanted more screen time than his character was originally given.

This movie just gave me nightmares, the special effects the sounds, the creatures design were pretty well done, the acting was just good to decent at times, they could do better, the other thing is that they did» t gave a lot of screen time to the creature, it would been really good to see more about it.

Not surprisingly, Lawrence steals the show throughout, along with a few of her female co-stars like Julianne Moore as the power hungry, skunk - haired President Coin, and Jena Malone who — despite (disappointingly) having little screen time — gives one of the more memorable performances in her continued portrayal of the wonderfully sardonic Johanna, the victor from District 7.

Everyone knows that a movie immediately becomes 75 percent more interesting when Angela Bassett's a member of the cast — and the more screen time she's given, the better.

She is the only female in the cast that is given more than a minute's screen time and for the most part, it isn't really brought up.

You almost wish that more time was spent exploring all 23 of the alters (only about 6 are given any screen time), but what Shyamalan and McAvoy have given us is fascinating to watch.

It feels like each character is given equal screen time, it's unfortunate we didn't get more of Jones and Free.

The stronger hardware makes a vast array of improvements possible: more complex AI, more NPCs on - screen at any given time, dynamic effects in more contexts, greater mission and side - activity variety, foliage density, the magnitude of level - of - detail phases, draw distance and much more.

Best of all is Mads Mikkelsen, the plot giving him far more screen time than most of Marvel's disposable villains.

If a «Director's Cut» DVD were to ever emerge with a half hour more that would explain just what's behind the Jumper phenomenon, the Paladin counter group, and with more time given to co-stars who would normally have gotten much more screen time (Diane Lane (Hollywoodland, Must Love Dogs), Kristin Stewarrt (The Messengers, Zathura), and AnnaSophia Robb (The Reaping, Bridge to Terabithia) have performances that probably ended up largely on the cutting room floor), then perhaps I might give the flick a second chance.

Which is about all that we ever get from him as much of his screen time is given over to young Harry Osborne so that he can convincingly morph into the dreaded Green Goblin (thanks to a fatal genetic illness we learn about literally the first second he is introduced to us) and proving the modern adage that more than one super villain is too much for one of the films to juggle.

Earlier this year, a few reshoots took place on the «Deadpool» sequel - additional filming that gave Josh Brolin's Cable and Zazie Beetz's Domino characters more screen time after strong reactions during test screenings to their characters.

Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson), as a lead character, has never been all that interesting, and some of his more colorful friends (Mater — Larry the Cable Guy) are given very little screen time.

As indicated by the tearful remonstrance of the ex-wife character represented by Cate Blanchett, emotional attachments are doomed to become less concrete or clearly defined, the highs fewer and far between (take the screen time give to Poots vs. the late appearance of Lucas), calling for more extreme measures (Natalie Portman's adulterous character), but always prone to fail since the pursuit of happiness is merely a debauched, self - serving fantasy.

Rotten: A movie undone by its formulaic plot conventions, and its need to give its star more screen time than his characters merits.

And Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman are all great and get goodly amounts of screen time, which is nice to round out the picture, and give these fine players (well the latter three) something more to do than the first go around.

With Steve Kloves (Wonder Boys, The Fabulous Baker Boys) returning as the screenwriter after skipping the last film, the more serious tone is interspersed with the lighter moments of teen romance, though these soap opera antics may seem tedious to those who don't care much about the dalliances of the Hogwarts students, particularly in how much screen time is given to it in place of the larger storyline that could have used a greater sense of build up.

Exclusive to the Blu - ray are a horrendously slow and unfunny alternate opening sequence and closing sequence, a 12 - minute behind the scenes featurette that essentially has the cast talk about how funny and great each other is and a short bit that gives a little more screen time to Beth's eccentric suitors.

A much more gripping aquatic thriller, Below, snuck onto screens with little fanfare a couple of weeks ago, and it deserved far better than the under - the - radar dump release Miramax / Dimension gave it — but then the WWII setting and lack of a name star in its cast, not to mention the atmospherics - over-cheap-jolts approach adopted by David Twohy, go a long way toward explaining why this one spent considerable time on the «Max shelf.

Given the labor - and time - intensive nature of stop - motion animation (a good day at the studio might generate all of three seconds of screen time), Early Man is all the more impressive.

While the first film focused largely on Wade Wilson, the sequel looks to give more screen - time to some strong female characters like Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Domino.

More importantly, she manages, with minimal screen time, to give the film an emotional center that it might otherwise lack.

It's a shame too, given that Morena Baccarin is one of the more charismatic forces in the entire movie in extremely limited screen time (she barely beats out Buck).

Given more screen space, he has a whale of a time yelling improvised insults, while Hill squirms with the best of them.

No lead actor in 2010 was given more notes to play in a more curtailed stretch of screen time than de Lencquesaing, whose daughter Alice I already singled out for praise in the first of these columns.