Sentences with phrase «hapless characters»

I mean, nothing says «It's a party» like giant slingshots with hapless characters falling into increasingly painful situations, right?

On paper, both Disaster Artist and Tonya seem likely to spark the debate that flares every time the Coen brothers or Alexander Payne make a movie, over whether darkly comic filmmakers are condescending to or exploiting their sometimes - hapless characters.

The over-reliance on fetishy sleaze, and the weird ways this movie tries to make its hapless characters seem empowered, aren't the real problem.

The robbers turned out to be somewhat bumbling, which is how they came to be played by Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Wiig, and Owen Wilson in a studio comedy directed by Jared Hess — his first movie to be released in six years, time he presumably spent researching the most comically garish fashions and hairstyles for his hapless characters.

Rockwell excels in portraying both of these hapless characters as they struggle in an Orwellian future where a corporation has the means and the desire to manipulate mind, memory and genome.

instead wenger sells our best players and brings in a bunch of hapless characters from the french leagues and refuses to strengthen in the places where there were obvious deficits..

(Though it should be noted that at times the story is funny and satirical, with hapless characters who seem more suited for a Shakespearean comedy than the Bible.

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Many of the characters, particularly those of the Persian court, are so hapless and exaggerated, you can't help but laugh.

i am beginning to think that we will need a manager in before the end of the season... the summer will be disrupted by world cup so having someone interact with team and understand its weaknesses before season closes seems essential to me... of course that would imply that the greedy owner and hapless board are already thinking about alternatives and i worry that this is not the case but once we are out of the europa there will be no excuses even for these feckless characters let alone the last remaining wenger junkies on this site..

As a plus Pathfinder's sporadic action sequences are spectacularly violent - limbs and heads fly and blood spurts arc gracefully through the air in slow motion as the mighty Vikings bring their axes and swords down upon hapless natives, but when the characters aren't scuffling you'll begin to wonder what happened to the plot, or what's going on inside the characters» heads.

There are so many characters — including the hotel's hapless assistant manager (Adam Arkin)-- that the audience never gets time to cozy up to any of them.

It's no accident that the film's most hapless and humorous character, not its most strident, is the one who ends up moving the needle.

Delicately negotiating Albert's gangly shyness without descending into hapless - fop cliché, Friend quietly keeps the love story afloat by downplaying the character's heroism in favor of his boyishness, aided visually by the wispiest of mustaches.

I've been playing a bit of Escape Plan on the Vita; it's a charming puzzle game that places you in a series of incredibly dangerous rooms and tasks you with helping the two hapless, goofy main characters survive.

Against the backdrop of Hamlet, two hapless minor characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, take centre stage.

In taking this approach, Anderson offered Adam Sandler an opportunity to put forth his most convincing argument as a serious actor, constructing a character that added retroactive depth to his previous performances playing dime - a-dozen hopeless, hapless romantics.

Into this foray fall numerous side characters including the scientist's lover (Jeremy Northam), a hapless cop (Charles S. Dutton), a blind kid (Alexander Goodwin) who communicates with the bugs by tapping spoons against his leg, and the blind kid's pop / protector (Giancarlo Giannini).

It borrows the Moby Dick conceit of a mad hunter forcing a hapless crew to take a personal vision quest against an aquatic foe and post-modernizes it with a passel of genre in - references, an unusually dry script, and a supporting cast of accomplished character actors.

What's worse, the film's story made the title character into a hapless victim of circumstance, someone barely, if at all, in control of his destiny, despite his facility for homicide.

War Dogs is insufficient with these two characters (or maybe it's these two actors), who are neither hapless and schmucky enough to sustain laughs nor venal enough to get us rooting against them.

Its money shot is the Katie Morgan character spraying a quart of liquid shit on a hapless cameraman during anal sex (reminding that even when Smith wasn't entirely feckless, like in Dogma, he still had a shit monster)-- a joke set up with her declaring that she's constipated and prestiged when the cameraman complains that the «bitch» has «frosted him like a cake» or some such thing.

There's a strained attempt at a sweet romance with go - to quirk - provider Zooey Deschanel, and some nice moments courtesy of Rhys Darby, playing a variation on his hapless Flight Of The Conchords character.

The second look at the upcoming film The Master is a great showcase of the very, very L. Ron Hubbard - ish character — Philip Seymour Hoffman looks to be astounding — as he works his charisma on the hapless (but awesome) Joaquin Phoenix in a tour - de-force bit of overlapping audio.

M.V.P.: Among a wondrous cast, including J. Smith Cameron as Lisa's mother, John Gallagher Jr. as her hapless prospective beau, Kieran Culkin as a manipulative, callous rival, Rosemarie De Witt as the prickly, paranoid wife of Mark Ruffalo's character, Stephen Adly Guirgis as a long - suffering cop, Michael Ealy as a smart - as - a-whip attorney and Lonergan himself as Lisa's hen - pecked absentee father, it's the great Allison Janney (also the best thing in «The Help «-RRB- who lingers in a one - scene cameo as the victim of the bus accident which sets the plot in motion.

It's not a comedy by any definition — in fact, it's a terrific thriller with as much personality as tension — but Lester weaves some terrific character humor through the picture, notably Roy Kinnear as the hapless Social Director, trying his best to keep spirits through the ordeal.

While The Devil's Rejects does contain a number of genuinely creepy moments - particularly the sequence in which a hapless maid stumbles upon the mess left by the Firefly family - Zombie bogs things down with a plethora of broadly - played, overly wacky supporting characters.

This isn't a humiliation comedy, or at least not one in which we're invited to laugh at the characters as they're being humiliated merely because they're hapless saps who don't deserve abuse yet who are nevertheless subjected to it for our ostensible amusement.

Against the backdrop of «Hamlet,» two hapless minor characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, take center stage.

He's drawn to the frazzled, the hapless, the mistake - prone, and if Green Room, like Blue Ruin before it, can't ultimately resist the visceral thrill of vigilante justice, at least it isn't afraid to make its characters look scared and weak and powerless and recognizably human.

But as the film progresses, Vigalondo reveals the wild card up his sleeve: this is less a monster movie and more a character study about the so - called «nice guy» in town (Jason Sudeikis) becoming unable and confronting the failure of his hapless dreams and choosing to wreak havoc instead.

But despite the title and the general sense of a ubiquitous presence that his character has in the movie, Schwarzenegger is rarely onscreen in the film, which is instead focused on the hapless efforts of a team that has been assembled for the sole purpose of murdering Gunther in the name of occupational glory.

Homeless and hapless, the character soon evolved into one of the more startling and indelible in indie cinema, a bravado performance that justifiably gained lots of notice.

Homeless and hapless, the character soon evolved into one of the more startling and indelible in indie cinema, a bravado performance that justifiably gained...

Huston assembles a small cast of characters encompassing a trio of female students — two of them sexually active, one not — and four boys, including a pair of fraternity brothers, a hapless pledge, and a spectacled, studious nerd with a morbid streak.

Less than a decade since its release, the unreconstructed boys - iness of the film already feels a bit dated (our heroes start with a discussion of hardcore porn and go downhill from there), but it helps that the characters are truly sweet, hapless and well - meaning.

This is how I found my character Fred, the Hapless Werewolf.

In a gameplay demo reportedly moving seamlessly from cut - scenes to gameplay, an unspecified Snake character moved around a base during a rainy night picking off those eternally hapless guards.

Slide this adorably demented character around hundreds of isometric puzzle levels to squash, flay, and decapitate hapless victims in this darkly comic homage to 80's horror movies.

As a hapless clone Morty, you'll use dual PS Moves to explore every nook and cranny of Rick's scifi garage, interact with characters, and perform menial chores under the disdainful glare of your dear ol' grandpa.

As we learned with Pirate Warriors 2, Eiichiro Oda's outlandish characters and the irrepressible personality of the series are a perfect fit for the glorious chaos of the Dynasty Warriors template, allowing us to pulverise hundreds of hapless goons with the same barmy attacks and superhuman abilities we love in the anime.

Those cute little enemy characters would chain saw through my hapless party as I fumbled around, trying to come up with a coherent strategy.

Players who complete the mission will be rewarded with in - game Keroro masks that cause characters to speak like the hapless amphibian alien invader hero of Sgt. Frog / Keroro Gunso.

Roz Chast is known for her cast of recurring characters — generally hapless but relatively cheerful «everyfolk.»

This extraordinary exhibition features some 30 years of videos, installation environments, and other performance - related materials detailing the adventures of «Mike,» a sweet but hapless Everyman character created by...

Kerbel was nominated for her operatic work Doug which narrates a series of hapless accidents that befall a fictional character using audio recordings, performance and printed matter.

She has created nine songs to tell the story of a hapless fictional character called Doug - each song relating to a different accident or catastrophe in his life.

The characters depicted by Josh were but hapless pawns in the international game of intrigue that started about four decades ago.

Intellectual Asset Management magazine (available on newsstands all over Alexandria, Va.) has posted a video of an exclusive interview with Patent and Trademark Office Director David Kappos (pictured, left, looking like a cross between comedic actor Rob Corddry and that character actor who always plays the hapless corporate or governmental lackey, whose name escapes me right now).

In a well - known episode of the «Seinfeld» television series, the hapless fictional character settles on an explanation for his unhappiness: «Every instinct I have in every aspect of life... it's all been wrong.»