Sentences with word «histrionic»

Sure, they are linear, they are wildly histrionic, but they're also built around iconic moments; the nuclear blast in MW1, the controversial No Russian, the death of Ghost — all of them compelling and memorable.

What has been 2012's most histrionic controversy may be coming to close on June 26th (July 4th for internal PS3 owners).

It's a game that understands that the most heavy, complex, emotionally resonant scenes (and it has some of the series best) are for naught if they exist in an implausibly histrionic, one - note world, so good Lord, does it make its journey one hell of a warm, human adventure.

The histrionic, rugged landscapes feature stunning volcanic craters, deep caves, large lava fields and a variety of thermal waters and hot springs, making the peninsula a destination in its own right.

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Her latest novel, Second Honeymoon (an ironic title), opens with the somewhat histrionic Edie surveying the empty room of her son, the last of her children to leave home, taking his mother's identity with him.

Besides, a bratty teenager can't be any worse than a histrionic chef... right?

In a plenary session of the September 2003 AEP forum at Lincoln Center in New York, Kurt Wootton of Brown University offered a representative vignette in histrionic detail.

Then by having Trump give a histrionic speech in Phoenix in which he mostly reiterated his hardline stance.

Oh my goodness, but this stilted, utterly implausible film manages the astonishing feat of being both histrionic and monotonous at the same time, trolling us with the most absurd clichés, yet doing so with the kind of quiet solemnity meant to convey a unique wretchedness to it all.

Adding greatly to the film's universal accessibility is the likable pair of leads and an able supporting cast — yes, even notorious over-hacktress Spelling, who is perfectly cast as the histrionic and pretentious off - off - off - Broadway hacktress Katherine.

10:00 am / 9:00 am — TCM — Twentieth Century In one of the films that defines «screwball comedy» (along with The Awful Truth and Bringing Up Baby), John Barrymore plays a histrionic theatre producer trying to convince his star Carole Lombard to come back to him — both professionally and personally.

Conceived at Max's Kansas City and inspired by the Hotel Chelsea (where it was mostly shot), Andy Warhol's three - and - a-half-hour underground opus was also an unlikely commercial hit, a split - screen endurance test of nonnarrative vignettes featuring the Pop artist's menagerie of eccentric New York personalities — the cultural progenitors of histrionic reality TV.

Histrionic bunny - boiling revenge overshadows what is an unusually well - located NYC psychothriller — from Michael Douglas's Upper West Side domestic stronghold to Glenn Close's Meatpacking District loft, a fitting spot for an illicit fling with a hot dish of crazy.

There's some nice imagery, a shirtless McLaglan mowing down a line of Arabs with a machine gun seems right out of Rambo III, and some good supporting performances (including a histrionic Boris Karloff).

While this histrionic type of film may have been common in the past, Sally Potter tackles the concept with several modern and refreshing adjustments, as it is at the same time stylistically theatrical yet utterly naturalistic.

The film moves elliptically, as though set to some mysterious bio-rhythm, from one romantic / emotional attachment to another: from the boorish married lover (Xavier Beauvois); to the subtly histrionic actor (Nicolas Duvauchelle), also married; to the dreamboat hairdresser (Paul Blain); to the gentle man (Alex Descas) not quite ready for commitment to... a mysterious fortune - teller.

While that is maybe a touch heavy - handed, the performances never go to any histrionic places and when they do get together, the film feels as if it breathes out again.

Burstyn's solid (yet often histrionic) turn as the title character is ultimately rendered moot by the pervasively uninteresting atmosphere, and it is, in the end, impossible to discern just what drew Scorsese to the hackneyed material in the first place.

LA VIE EN ROSE contained one of the most ham - fisted and histrionic performances I've ever seen.

A lot of movie stars seem to enjoy the give - me - back - my - kid subgenre — the opportunity to go to histrionic and extreme lengths in the name of saving onscreen kin.

This is Kazan's first screenplay credit, but we have no reservations on the quality of her work: her Off - Broadway play «We Live Here» unfortunately drew comparisons to the often histrionic and extravagant «Rachel Getting Married» for sharing a similar plot, but the former was actually a much stronger and subtler work without all of the miserablist Oscar - beggar mayhem.

The combination should really make for histrionic schmaltz, but Bouchareb works the same gentle, character - oriented groove as last year's «The Visitor.»

Hughes is by turns pervert, freakshow, sweetheart, and victim — not a complex figure embodying all traits but one histrionic note struck to next.

Suffice it to say, the pair failed to convince me that any one edit was made for the better, though the elisions exonerate Haythe by proving that his original script wasn't the constant race to the next histrionic set - piece the movie is.

His magnificent film is both a work of technical brilliance and artful intelligence that challenges our knowledge of both cinematic conventions and the histrionic lives of Russia's yesteryear.

The characters are all very richly defined and the conflict between them never feels histrionic.

Because Tamara Jenkins contrives lame, shopworn scenarios to force two estranged siblings to give a little heart and soul, I imagine the story's snooty lit - circle aura is accountable for the film's histrionic plaudits.

The film tries to establish the contrast between its bodice - ripper (Gemma Arterton's cleavage upstages her somewhat histrionic performance) segments and stylized urban melancholy.

2:00 pm — TCM — Twentieth Century In one of the films that defines «screwball comedy» (along with The Awful Truth and Bringing Up Baby), John Barrymore plays a histrionic theatre producer trying to convince his star Carole Lombard to come back to him — both professionally and personally.

Heard makes for a strong, edgy heroine, but her female co-stars» performances are either histrionic (Gummer) or embarrasssing (Leigh).

It's a long way from George P. Cosmatos's 1993 film Tombstone, with its histrionic action movie cliches and overbearing score and pace.

Christian Bale played Irving Rosenfeld, a sweaty conman with a ludicrous comb - over who's grafting hard to keep his histrionic wife Rosalyn (the excellent Jennifer Lawrence) and highly strung mistress Sydney (Amy Adams) happy when he falls foul of an FBI agent called Richie Di Maso (Bradley Cooper).

Judy Davis gives a typically dynamite performance as Allen's ex-wife, and the film even boasts what is likely the best insult in any Woody Allen film, as his protagonist calls his histrionic, suicidal ex a «meshugganah cunt.»

This, in addition to some other histrionic complaints, led a small group of «fans» to do ridiculous things like craft drug - induced petitions to have the film...

That the act prompts Chandler to claim that he will «murder» Frank if he doesn't stop recording exemplifies writer - director Andrew Jay Cohen and co-writer Brendan O'Brien's sense of what's funny about conflicts between divided interests: that they routinely end in histrionic shouting matches and threats of violence.

While it's still the same old Underworld fantasy playground of gloomy cinematography and histrionic acting, much has changed behind the scenes for the latest installment.

-- in an unforgiving black wig as Sophia's histrionic actress mother Magda; while Julian Sands played her loathsome writer father Philip.

The Belko Experiment opts for a cartoonish, histrionic treatment rather than a nuanced exploration of specific characters, a design flaw in the writing that ultimately proves fatal to the infrastructure as a whole.

Resnais's love of the variety hall and the stage perhaps explains Muriel's histrionic theatricality.

In the earlier film, much of the rhetoric was overwrought, the telling of the (truly important) tale of slavery and its consequences leaden by histrionic filmmaking and interminable scenes of shouting and prosthelytizing.

His histrionic acolytes seem to think so, and just when the poor girl thinks things can't get any worse, they do.

We tend to want to remember our greatest actors for their «big» moments — ones ripened with dramatic stakes and acted out with a heightened, sometimes histrionic, intensity.

It's a bit histrionic and pretentious and in the end I didn't really care about the characters.

Even so, the plot, acting and filmmaking get increasingly histrionic, which provides plenty of entertainment value.

There's an eerie quality to the acting, which ranges from compelling (Sheppard) to histrionic (Lowry), but the latter doesn't detract from the drama, in fact, it actually adds to the overall feeling of uneasiness.

Saldana's Gamora is the exception, doing much of the histrionic heavy lifting.

In «Cement» (1999), he played the corrupt, drugged - out partner to Chris Penn's histrionic bullying cop.

Directors such as Lucio Fulci, Mario Bava and Dario Argento enjoyed a reign of terror with their handsome barbarism benefitting from fantastically histrionic sounds and scores.