Sentences with phrase «in audience reaction»

It would be a crime to spoil what happens, but it should result in an audience reaction that's truly one of kind.

After looking at the numbers for the 2016 summer movie season, Rob Dean found some surprising trends in audience reaction and box office performance.

While that makes for a wide divide in audience reaction (something less reflected in critics» views), it is still easy to take Anderson objectively as a serious maker of wry films.

Sometimes you have to factor in audience reaction because there actually is some science behind laughter being contagious.

Nate Parker's film is a stunning case study in audience reactions to issues not exactly on the screen itself.

Not exact matches

But for him, nothing compares to seeing the audience's reaction to his performances, and thus he often performs in front of huge crowds in his hometown of San Diego.

Speaking to an Institute for Private Investors audience in New York last week, Rodriguez said that every year beyond 2013 without structural reform would «increase the size and scope of the necessary fiscal response» amid likely negative capital market reaction of the kind we're now seeing in Europe.

Vendors in this category predominately measure (1) activities of employees in social media, such as the number of posts on social media, and (2) audience reactions to employee activities, such as re-tweets of employee posts, or white paper downloads stimulated by employee posts.

As far as I could tell, the audience reaction leaned strongly in favor of Miss California's old - fashioned sentiment.

They monologue to Barry and each other about how great acting comes from using your own unique experiences to authentically communicate, so those in the audience might have a genuine reaction to your performance.

Of course, the enthusiastic reaction in favor of a candidate of color who is also a conservative doesn't fit the press narrative and the audience reaction would never be played on the news.

While there has been occasional criticism of the limitations of the surveys in measuring public reaction to programs, the surveys» reliability and validity in measuring audience sizes is generally accepted.

There was a palpable reaction in the audience and during the opportunity for Q&A, lines quickly developed behind the microphones.

A Cuomo official on Wednesday in an email detailed the length of each applause line paired with the issue that garnered the audience reaction, including 24 seconds when Cuomo praised first responders, seven seconds when he gave a shout out to Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, 10 seconds when he vowed to defend the Roe v. Wade decision, 11 seconds when he vowed to fight homelessness and more than a full minute of combined applause for Akeem Browder when he was recognized.

The argument for doing this is that any assessment of audience reaction should take the audience as it is — in this case, accepting that UKIP supporters were much more likely to watch or listen to the debate than supporters of other parties.

While it was clear from the audience reaction that most in attendance Thursday agreed that changes to state law is the best immediate course of action toward controlling the deer population, it wasn't unanimous.

Tenney's take on the GOP attempts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act elicited the strongest reaction though from Democrats in the audience.

In summing up the reaction of his office to the recommendations of the report (see sidebar), Pascal told the audience that ORI «is trying to engage on all six recommendations,» and that it is a «process.»

As for the lack of association between age and mean rated favorability of the target audiences» response, this finding indicates that, whatever participants may have believed to be true concerning the stigma they would experience were they to share their involvement in online dating with others, those others» reactions did not vary with the age of the participant.

There's plenty of audience reaction, and I rather enjoyed this presentation, perhaps better than I would have if the scenes were shown in completed animation form.

Although slight in plot, the film is interesting because the three principal Keystone actors appear without comic makeup and because the audience can observe the mirthful reactions of the real dancers in the hall to the comic fight between Chaplin and Sterling.

I enjoyed it quite a bit more than Minority Report and Children of Men, and while I doubt it will usher in a new age of sci - fi movies (the audience reaction at my showing was fairly tepid), at the very least it's a minor milestone for the genre.

Our reaction to a decollated head, or a woman in car being blown up to smithereens, is more visceral, and far outweighs an abstract murder that took place beyond the fade - out, when it comes to impacting the audience, who needs to sympathize with Clyde's loss during his self - righteous killing spree.

This documentary takes a look at the phenomenon of crossdressing in film - an idea that consistently evokes strong reactions from audiences, and makes for bankable entertainment.

As an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himself.

Another standout sequence in Public Enemies is more effective for comedy than suspense, and involves Dillinger's reaction in a movie theater to an on - screen announcement warning the audience to be on the lookout for him, America's «Public Enemy # 1.»

Those films are similarly engineered to produce a powerful reaction in audiences — but that reaction is a nuanced and stubbornly difficult one.

Unfortunately for Oliver Stone, there is no magical screenwriter in the sky that can pen the perfect audience reaction to his latest film.

First, in his Q&A column (http://www.suntimes.com/output/answ-man/01eber.html) he explained that he was not referring to «geek» in the social sense of the word, but in the sense of the carnival geek doing shocking acts to get a reaction from the audience.

McQueen keeps his distance; his matter - of - fact depiction forces the audience to supply, and simmer in, its own emotional reaction.

Fans of Jason Statham will no doubt have some fun with Killer Elite and there's one show - stopping moment in the first Statham / Owen brawl that will certainly get a reaction from audiences, but for anyone looking for either an over-the-top action flick or a smart - witted political thriller, the film fails to live up to the sum of its respective parts.

I listened to and enjoyed the former, for its fitting distribution of audience reaction while Cosby's monologues are crisp and clear in front.

This character archetype is becoming more and more offensive as time goes by — one wonders what the audience reaction would be if a woman were portrayed in this manner.

Snubbed: Lily Tomlin («Grandma») Reaction: People may have snickered in the audience when Lawrence was nominated for «Joy,» but these were the five I predicted (and that was more over the fact she really doesn't want it and they keep nominating her more than anything else).

Despite the audience reaction, there were some concerns about «Mudbound's» commercial prospects in theaters, because of its unflinching violence.

We even sat in on several NRG Focus Groups, increasingly excited by the audience reaction.

While it's entirely possible that «Demon» will appeal more to U.S. audiences after its June 24 release than it did to critics who saw the film at Cannes, at the festival, Refn said his intention was to make a «primal» movie that featured heightened reality in a way that could provoke drastically different reactions from viewers.

After watching a film like Pulse, I feel a bit insulted that movie executives think so little about the intelligence of the American movie - going public that the vast majority of the attempts at popular entertainment are completely stripped of anything remotely resembling a thought - provoking element, eschewing those in favor of noise, special effects and music stimuli to try to induce a subconscious reaction in the audience.

Few movies in 1983 inspired as much heated debate or produced a more visceral reaction in audiences than this two - hour, made - for - TV movie.

Here's audience reactions from a screening of the terrifying new horror film «Paranormal Activity 2» by director Tod Williams (Wings Over the Rockies, The Door in the Floor) and starring Katie Featherston (Paranormal Activity, Walking Distance).

Even though every one in the audience knows exactly what is going to happen, it generates the biggest reaction for about the next ninety minutes.

The audience reaction was so strong that you couldn't hear any of the dialogue in the following scene over the hollering.

Some of these launched at prestige fall film festivals («Downsizing,» «Molly's Game,» «Hostiles,» «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool»); others are bonafide awards contenders (Steven Spielberg's «The Post» and Paul Thomas Anderson's «Phantom Thread»); and some, like Hugh Jackman vanity musical «The Greatest Showman,» will soon skid into either bad reviews or audience reaction, or both.

In doing so, he's conveying everything the audience needs to know through another person's empathetic reaction, rather than through the more distressing sight of Bauman's wounded body.

He often cuts away to close - up reaction shots, for example, when a more casual camera placement would have allowed the audience to notice whatever or whoever we needed to in our own time.

There's much to admire in Whiplash, and if audience reaction is used as measurement of a film's success you'd think Whiplash was the greatest film out of Cannes, not just the Director's Fortnight where the year's Sundance hit usually lands.

One of the more palpable reactions I've ever encountered from an audience during an advanced media screening was in July 2014 for Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy.

Audiences who followed the case and saw Armstrong's reactions and response to the allegations, might feel the documentary is simply treading over worn ground; a sentiment our own Oliver Lyttelton took note of in his review of the movie's premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

Academy - award winning director William Friedkin discusses his early career — including making documentaries for David L. Wolper, working for Alfred Hitchcock and what he learned from studying his films, and directing his first movie Good Times (1967), starring Sonny and Cher; how his career path led to making The Exorcist, his initial reaction to reading the source material, the story's theme of Good versus Evil, and the role his own faith played in his approach to making the movie; the techniques he used to generate suspense and fear in the audience, his use of subliminal imagery, and his reasons for recently restoring deleted footage to the film.

It is not a stretch to imagine the reaction of audiences in 1985; the film has retained that rare magic twenty - five years on.