It's pretty obvious, then, that a 15 - minute look at the car would be exactly 900 seconds of glorious luxury, engineering, and
gratuitous shots of leather and carbon fiber.
There are far too many
gratuitous shots of a blizzard raging in the Wyoming landscape as a stagecoach heads for Red Rock, where bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) plans to collect a reward for turning over fugitive murderer Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh).
The body count is kept high by some stock characters such as a skeevy boss, uptight office workers, and sexy ladies in tight blouses and short skirts destined to be ripped away for
some gratuitous shots of boobs and butts.
We are thankfully saved from
gratuitous shots of musical virtuosity in this film where most filmmakers would have indulged in them.
The film has repeated
gratuitous shots of landscapes in the Swiss alps and thank God for that because is pure eye candy.
No gratuitous shots of your abs, please.
Totals: One golden backhand; one Stark stabbed repeatedly in the gut (we've seen that one before); one religious commune pillaged; one
gratuitous shot of a hanged corpse.
** NOTE: While gratuitous sex in movies often draws much attention, it should be noted that
a gratuitous shot of Alice Eve in her skivvies seems to be the main reason her character exists.
The 50 - mile clue gave viewers
a gratuitous shot of a map of Oklahoma.
>> And my favourite
gratuitous shot of the week is this selfie by Josh Duhamel, who captioned it: «Was an honor hosting the amfAR Inspiration Gala NY last night at the Plaza Hotel which raised a lot of money in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
Not exact matches
A quick warning, this post contains a
gratuitous amount
of pictures that I
shot recently in LA at the California Gift Show and the Reef.
Co-founder
of TrueView, Matt Verity, said: «I think the majority
of online daters want penis
shots and
gratuitous body flashing
shots to be a thing
of the past.
Despite a plethora
of Bay's usual flourishes (casual sexism, ridiculous premises,
gratuitous slow - motion
shots of guys climbing out
of choppers), The Island actually succeeds as a midsummer diversion.
You know you're also going to see lots
of Marlon's mugging face,
gratuitous butt
shots, and every, and I do mean every, bodily fluid get its own chance to appear sometime between the opening and closing credits.
Seizing on the flimsiest
of excuses for
gratuitous full - frontal nude
shots, Apatow again remains faithful to his shallow, stated mission to feature male genitalia prominently in every movie he makes.
Moving away from the horror elements
of The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day is an all - out war
of car chases, fight scenes,
shoot outs, nuclear explosions and a phenomenal, if
gratuitous set piece where the Terminator blows up numerous police cars with a machine gun for no other reason than the script required an action beat.
There are also a few
shots, not so much
gratuitous as emblematic,
of some severe wounds that ooze lividly.
Erskin's style
of direction is to cram as many feel - good R&B songs and
gratuitous leg
shots of Williams and Knowles (Beyonce's sis), while Cedric and Bow Wow mug for laughs that rarely come.
JF: I had learned a lot on The Deuce about how to portray the
shooting of gratuitous sex scenes.
Nestled within that is a perfect demonstration
of perspective and editing, as Renoir cuts between our heroine on a swing and unseen reaction
shots of men around her to capture her burgeoning sexuality and her innocence without any need for
gratuitous shots or explicit voiceover.
There are far worse things — at least in terms
of structure, tone, and unwise behavior from characters who have proven themselves much smarter the rest
of the time — in that finale, though, to keep us somewhat distanced from the unnecessary horror unfolding (A
shot of someone being scalped only for the purpose
of producing false tension is flagrantly
gratuitous).
However, the film is not
gratuitous in its depiction
of the gore even if it is graphic, and I respected the fact that it held back the
shots of carnage during many scenes when it could have been expected.
And although there are a few
gratuitous boob
shots (including a convention - breaking one from Whitlow) and some sincerely awful special effects that are, again, forgiven for being the product
of borrowed invention, there's nothing at the centre
of the exercise except an invitation to wallow in our youthful lack
of critical facility.
You might even be able to see some gameplay footage between
gratuitous and unnecessary
shots of scantily clad catfights.
Nail a killing
shot and the camera will lovingly follow the bullet in slow - motion before switching to glorious X-ray, letting you to watch as the gleaming piece
of metal drives through muscle, shatters bone and ruptures internal organs in an orgy
of gratuitous violence which stands alongside Mortal Kombat's brutal X-ray moves as the most pleasingly savage display
of bodily destruction to ever appear in a videogame.
Like the Assassin's Creed series, which places its bet on sprawl rather than texture, too often Rise
of the Tomb Raider devolves into a
gratuitous treasure hunt, where every piece
of treasure is marked with a beam
of light
shooting up into the sky.
What it doesn't need to do is slip to the wrong slide once in a while during a presentation, or «accidentally» drop in a
gratuitous cleavage
shot when demoing a game on one
of its new tablets.