Sentences with phrase «humdrum story»

Rushed into production at Columbia Pictures to capitalize on the success of Jaws, another seafaring adventure based on a Peter Benchley novel, The Deep has a humdrum story, generally uncommitted performances, and a phoney Moray eel (nicknamed «Percy» on set) that gives the much - maligned mechanical shark «Bruce» from Jaws a run for its money in the department of unconvincing animal attacks.

Most applicants engross the interviewer with irrelevant, humdrum stories that lack clout and are only quantitative in meaning or content.

Not exact matches

It's fine to be humdrum, telling the same stories, going over the same ground.

The narrative of either expansion doesn't even come close to offering a satisfying conclusion to the original story and the multiplayer options are humdrum to say the least.

Cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi's muted palette respectfully reflects the seriousness of the story, the chilly, humdrum environs and the frosty reception that greets the paper's investigation; while Howard Shore's unobtrusive score creates a sense of a story gathering momentum and keeps things nail - biting when they're up against the clock.

I just wish that Stallone would look for something deeper to work on and not simply settle for stories as mindless and humdrum as this.

It features an origin story of the titular hero and then quickly cuts into a plot about stopping a megalomaniac from taking over the world for nefarious but unclear reasons (Although it might be good enough reason for someone to climb a mountain, «Because it's there» is about as dramatically humdrum a motivation for world conquest as they come).

Images become the very poetry the humdrum and confusing, if functional and cohesive, story seeks, especially in juxtapositions of Hong Kong's neon and concrete jungles and the transitional title credits, so fragile that they crumble from the faintest touch.

The hard - R sequel provides room for growth that the context of a humdrum origin story could not bear and even the compulsory CGI slugfests feels more grounded in a legitimate sense of stakes and thereby infinitely more watchable.

Set on the Moon in 80 years» time, where Little America is a domed Blade Runner - ish enclave of all that is depressing in the big America of today, it finds Murphy in a humdrum stand - up - for - your - property story.

In the humdrum of dozens of resumes littered with phrases like «Partnered with manager to improve team efficiency,» that could put them to sleep, a resume that uses great action verbs and tells a vivid story of who you are as an employee will make them perk right up and reach for their phone.