Sentences with phrase «grotesque character»

Sonic Suggests is a wonderfully weird Sonic (Sanic) fan game with some hilariously grotesque character models, which sees Modern Sanic transported back to classic Sanic's dimension.

This crude low - budget exploiter is one of the most grotesque character assassinations ever put on film.

Although they are only its executive producers, the imprimatur of the Coen brothers is all over «Bad Santa», with its grotesque characters, hilarious dialogue and barely competent heists — but nothing made by the Coens has ever been as jaw - droppingly irreverent as this.

Harry Crews» novels might sometimes be hard to read because they're filled with violence, blood sport and grotesque characters, but they shout out, «Pick me up and read me,» for they drive us to confront our often grotesque sense of self, the lies we tell ourselves to protect ourselves from harsh truths and the destruction of our society and the world around us under the banner of illusory values.

The animations that turn ordinary objects into imaginative, scary, grotesque characters is the best I've seen.

In his art, we see haunting, incomplete, and sometimes grotesque characters fighting against and merging into backgrounds comprising a personal lexicon of forms.

Widely associated with a re-emergence of the figurative in contemporary painting, Lisa Yuskavage has developed her own genre of portraiture in which lavish, erotic, angelic and at times grotesque characters are cast within fantastical landscapes or domestic spaces.

Depicting the grotesque characters that are often a critique of capitalism, the artist creates metaphors of society through various mediums and resourceful materials.

The cast of grotesque characters are all played by the artist, with the screenplay voiced by actors.

Not exact matches

They are grotesque, distorted figures from the American south» snake - oil salesmen, cripples, prophets, murderers... They are characters we can not avoid looking at.

With the ferocity of an Old Testament prophet, Powers indicts our blindness and selfishness, a grotesque narrowing of vision; one of his principal characters learns early on that «human wisdom counts less than the shimmer of birches in a breeze.»

There had been a shift in focus to romance, valor and happy endings as opposed to the often grotesque scenarios and flawed characters that populated the original stories.

When you have a combination of self regarding players, who play only for themselves and patently care nothing at all about the club that pays their grotesque wages, along with a totally weak and «avoid conflict with powerful characters at all cost» manager, the lack of will to do what needs doing is frightening.

All of the characters are grotesque caricatures.

Characters lean too heavily toward the Southern grotesque, and the direction the plot is heading is more predictable than it should be.

Maybe some players would not like the character design (gothic and grotesque), but it is perfect to revitalize the brand (following the post-modern artistic wave).

The drawings are grotesque without redeeming style or charm (characters have big beady eyes, beaklike noses and spiky hair), and the animation is crude even by TV's low - grade standards.

You feel for the first time that Scorsese is trying to distance himself from his characters — that he finds them grotesque.

That tension is completely lost here thanks to the grotesque over-dramatisation forced onto the events and characters.

Instead of containing a realized plot, the film is more of a character study on the people of a grotesque suburban community.

It Needs: A more rounded, less saintly heroine; less grotesque caricaturing of its middle class characters (a regular feature in Leighs films); and a little less tea - drinking (it is hard on the bladder by the second hour).

Of all the perverse gags — of which there are plenty, including but not limited to demon penises, vomit, bodily fluids (There's a long argument about one that only a group of men stuck together for a period of time could have), all manners of grotesque death, cannibalism, etc. — in the film, this sudden departure of so many characters is perhaps the most shocking.

So here's the thing: If «Gold» is almost entirely fictional, why did Matthew McConaughey feel the need to do elaborate character work and, in the process, make a grotesque spectacle of himself?

Although rendered with predictable polish by the digital artists at Lucasfilm Animation Singapore and Industrial Light & Magic, the picture seems to unfold not in a coherently realized fantasy world, but rather at some sort of grotesque interspecies convention where Lucas and his collaborators have taken every conceivable character type that came to mind — goblins, imps, talking mushrooms, etc. — and plopped them down in front of the same meticulously detailed forest backdrop.

A dark comedy of characters whose plausibility and verisimilitude only makes them seem grotesque when set against the romantic comedy's rigid generic types, Minnie and Moskowitz certainly has the staples of the director's honest filmmaking.

There are some beautiful shots in addition to the grotesque detail of the surgeries, and in particular, one extended tracking shot in the second episode of the characters all arriving at the hospital for work.

A more saucy version of Bridesmaids has well - rounded women characters — but why are the men so grotesque?

For all its posturing about keeping an open mind and remaining non-judgmental, «I, Tonya» strikes me as condescending to its characters; they're treated flippantly as a string of grotesques who remain unexamined in any particular detail other than a fairly rote and fairly standard dark - comic lens.

And for all the mania of The Lego Movie's incorporation of other franchises (its Batman jokes beautifully puncture the faux - mature severity that has been erected around the character), most of its funniest moments involve the grotesque concoctions of Emmet's (Chris Pratt) stunted imagination.

Characters morph into grotesque monsters.

Character in the old - fashioned sense is distributed much more liberally to character actors in character parts: a prison guard who performs Bach (Tim Blake Nelson), a sadistic mad - scientist surgeon with an archetypally grotesque assistant (Peter Stormare and Caroline Lagerfelt), and the biggest scenery chewer of all, a greenhouse scientist named Dr. Iris Hineman (Lois Smith — the same actress, I was astonished to recall, who played a whorehouse madam's callow young assistant in East of Eden 48 years ago), who's accorded one scene in order to give us some vital exCharacter in the old - fashioned sense is distributed much more liberally to character actors in character parts: a prison guard who performs Bach (Tim Blake Nelson), a sadistic mad - scientist surgeon with an archetypally grotesque assistant (Peter Stormare and Caroline Lagerfelt), and the biggest scenery chewer of all, a greenhouse scientist named Dr. Iris Hineman (Lois Smith — the same actress, I was astonished to recall, who played a whorehouse madam's callow young assistant in East of Eden 48 years ago), who's accorded one scene in order to give us some vital excharacter actors in character parts: a prison guard who performs Bach (Tim Blake Nelson), a sadistic mad - scientist surgeon with an archetypally grotesque assistant (Peter Stormare and Caroline Lagerfelt), and the biggest scenery chewer of all, a greenhouse scientist named Dr. Iris Hineman (Lois Smith — the same actress, I was astonished to recall, who played a whorehouse madam's callow young assistant in East of Eden 48 years ago), who's accorded one scene in order to give us some vital excharacter parts: a prison guard who performs Bach (Tim Blake Nelson), a sadistic mad - scientist surgeon with an archetypally grotesque assistant (Peter Stormare and Caroline Lagerfelt), and the biggest scenery chewer of all, a greenhouse scientist named Dr. Iris Hineman (Lois Smith — the same actress, I was astonished to recall, who played a whorehouse madam's callow young assistant in East of Eden 48 years ago), who's accorded one scene in order to give us some vital exposition.

Levinson's characters had ambition and lived in a city that was scruffy rather than Waters - grotesque.

The jokes are without any humor value, the script is a shamefully lazy patchwork of derivative ideas, and the character model of Garfield continues to look grotesque, while voiced in a terrible, grating fashion from one of my favorite comedic actors, Bill «Not interested in Ghostbusters 3, but Garfield 2 is OK» Murray.

Each character feels like their own complete, unadulterated package, and all 14 of them fall under the same surprisingly delightful visual design of what I like to call «cutesy - grotesque».

The Telegraph's critic Robbie Collin wrote at length in a thread on Twitter about how the character functioned within the grotesque mode, arguing that «the fact the empathy and disgust come hand in hand [in that mode] is * the most important part *.

It's Got: An impressive Ryan Reynolds doing his best Jack Torrance impression minus the grotesque gurning (no mean feat); the great Philip Baker Hall having his inestimable talents somewhat wasted in the rôle of local priest and would - be exorcist Father Calloway; Lisa (Rachel Nichols) the babysitter from hell - although not literally, unlike several other of the films characters; and a brisk economy that more ponderous, minute - heavy horror films of recent times would do well to emulate.

On the other extreme, there will be those who are repulsed by the imagery and dark themes, not really entertained by the very unrealistic characters (especially the man - eating Kevin and the grotesque Yellow Bastard), or the intentionally stilted noir dialogue.

The story takes Mortdecai and his faithful, womanizing manservant Jock (Paul Bettany, who also retains an ounce of dignity in spite of his character) through a series of weirdos, played by actors with different silly accents and other grotesque facial tics, from London to Moscow to Los Angeles.

by Jefferson Robbins Not fair to call it a gay «Girls», in part because it dodges the character grotesques of that show in favour of... a less provocative mix of personality types, shall we say.

The director's talent for devising grotesque zombie encounters remains sharp and often witty, but his cast is short on charisma, and veteran Canadian character actor Kenneth Welsh, playing one of the islanders now in exile, is so aggressively colorful you'll want to throw water on him.

There's energy in the thing, no question, even if it's stolen, a few scenes and shots breathlessly romantic and breathtakingly kinetic, but Once Upon a Time in Mexico is a picture mostly in love with the grotesque and itself — a work of immense hubris, and a series of barely related vignettes with loosely continuous characters.

Their love of horror is clear to see throughout their careers, in the grotesque townspeople of Royston Vasey and the former patients of Ravenhill Hospital, through to many of the characters that reside inside the various No. 9's.

The interplay between the characters hadn't really occurred to me, and there's something funny about the Deadpool movies paving the way for much better and serious, but equally grotesque, superhero movies.

That last scene is the most insulting, and not necessarily because it's so disgusting, but because Green uses such a grotesque act to drum up sympathy for his absolutely repugnant character (you see, the baby only started breathing after Gord twirled him around... oh, never mind).

A gag might be attempted at some point after the fact but is lost in the carnage (The remaining finger is a prime example), although the movie's other best scene results in the grotesque death of a character who immediately beforehand announces his role as fodder by way of a dry line reading.

Every single character is a grotesque person, either indifferent to the plight of others, or cruelly smiling in the face of their pain.

Grotesque monsters chase people, and the beasts devour a character.

It's a mix of intense, eccentric characters and the «merry revelry in the grotesque,» as Whitehouse delves into the life story of the huge man to exhume his reasons for choosing a horizontal life.

The freeform character development and top notch enemy design, both in terms of their grotesque appearance and tricky mechanics, are worthy of high praise, but it is the sense of accomplishment - found in surviving against the odds - that makes Dark Souls worth hammering away at, diving face first into constant failure.

Upon its release in 2003, the first Manhunt became a poster child for video game excess for its overtly grotesque story line and its depiction of some of the worst imaginable ways to stealthily slay human characters.