Sentences with phrase «harder than some comedy»

Not exact matches

The beloved Goldie Hawn comedy «Overboard» is finally getting a big - screen remake after 30 years — but finding a concept that floats has been harder than anyone imagined.

Bachelorette is mean - spirited, and its humor derives from pain, which makes it unique and harder - edged than most comedies of this kind.

From the 1970s thru the 1990s, there was no hipper, no more outrageous comedy in print than The National Lampoon, the groundbreaking humor magazine that pushed the limits of taste and acceptability — and then pushed them even harder.

It would be hard to find a greater counter-point to the mood of the current election than this idealistic romantic comedy.

Since her first feature, Girlfight, Karyn Kusama has hardly been the most prolific of directors — a problem not unique to her, as women have a harder time landing directing gigs in Hollywood than do men — but she has not been entirely absent, either, helming the Charlize Theron vehicle Æon Flux and Megan Fox indie horror comedy Jennifer's Body.

When it comes to inspiration and influence, you'd be hard pressed to find someone mentioned by today's famous comedy talents more than Del Close.

Of the few truths depicted in the bland, R - rated family comedy «This is Where I Leave You» — other than «emotions are hard» and «man, emotions are hard!»

Rarely has the depressing laziness of the modern Hollywood comedy been more glaringly evident than in this vague mashup of Horrible Bosses and The Hangover — a movie so pointless that it's hard even to describe what it's supposed to be about.

Of course, like practically all comedies centering on a boorish and unlikable individual, this wraps up with a few insincere moments of character maturity and empathy, but here such bits are no harder to take than the desperate gags flailing and falling flat at a rapid clip.

For comedy fans who don't hang out in the troll - ier parts of the web, it can be hard to believe there are still gatekeepers and audiences who think women are inherently less funny than men.

It's not hard to see the appeal of a movie like this — again, the premise is a slam - dunk as far as high - concept comedies go — but the execution is, at best, lacking, and at worst, baffling (why, for example, does this movie have more false endings than

Director Jake Kasdan (Orange County, Zero Effect) continues the kitchen - sink - dark - comedy trend he established in his previous effort, Walk Hard, though in both cases, things only seem more funny on paper than they actually are when acted out.

The World's End is a bit harder to pigeonhole than the first two films, really; it's clearly a science fiction body - snatcher film, and it has the basic conceit of a «reliving the past» buddy comedy, but all the elements meld together into something fairly original instead of the previous film's overt pastiches.

It's hard to imagine a better one - two punch on TV at the moment than HBO's Sunday night comedy hour of «Veep» and «Silicon Valley.»

Besides movies about comedy and / or Gillian Jacobs, it's hard to say what makes a «Tribeca» film, at least on the fiction side; the festival has much less of an identity than, say, Sundance or NYFF.

Cuba Gooding Jr. has gotten a bad rap for choosing some very silly comedies to be in of late, so it's easy to dismiss his performance here as one not to take too seriously, or just an attempt to try for a second Academy Award, but it's hard to imagine someone doing better than he does in the role.

Continuing to show a late - career hunger for genre experimentation, Martin Scorsese follows his highly - decorated 3D fantasy Hugo with The Wolf of Wall Street, a brash, rise - and - fall stock - market satire that seems to boast more comedy than the filmmaker's typical hard - hitting drama.

I think this was the hardest I laughed at a horror comedy since Zombieland, and while I won't say Hell Baby is on the same level that Zombieland is, I will 100 % admit that it was a whole hell of a lot funnier and more creative than any spoof movie to come out in the past 15 or so years.

With that said, however, it's also hard to deny the inherent accuracy of such a statement, given that it's a series that takes place behind the scenes of a television program, except rather than sports or comedy, the predominant thrust of the program is politics.

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In most areas of life, comedy is harder to pull off than drama.

Our tendency to avoid thinking too hard about jokes is understandable — after all, there seems to be nothing less funny than analyzing comedy.