Sentences with phrase «in lesser movies»

In lesser movies, the reveal will leave a few clues unchecked, or worse, it will betray everything that took place before, such as in the recent Flightplan.

There's never that scene we are accustomed to seeing in lesser movies, where there's a sad score in the background when we are shown tearjerking material.

In a lesser movie, Plemons» ingeniously off - putting performance would handily steal the show, but in «Game Night,» it's just one of many great turns; Bateman's patented slow - burn plays well off McAdams» upbeat charm (when holding bad guys at gunpoint, she forces them into Child's Pose), while Magnussen's inspired idiocy perpetually finds new depths.

Rather than plead for mercy from the universe, she simply plows forward during what would be three personal - world - crumbling events in a lesser movie: her husband cheats and leaves her, her mother dies, and she is fired (or at least forced to move off her method) from the job she loves.

Also, there are situations that come up that, in a lesser movie, would lead to very unrealistic blow - ups between people, but here, they end with a reasonable conversation — nice touch.

He even attempts to seduce Harry's wife, and in a lesser movie, she may have gone for it, simply to create conflict.

In a lesser movie, Otto is a total screw - up and his failings are pronounced.

Not exact matches

In recent years, the statuette has gone home with lesser - seen movies, often from off the mainstream radar — offbeat or «prestige» titles that captured the imagination of Academy voters if not the American public — to the near - total exclusion of big budget Hollywood blockbusters.

In perhaps the most notorious example of Oscar's underdog favoritism, in 2010, The Hurt Locker — released on just 535 screens and tallying less than $ 19 million at the box office — beat Avatar which had grossed $ 760 million and was well on its way to becoming the most successful movie ever madIn perhaps the most notorious example of Oscar's underdog favoritism, in 2010, The Hurt Locker — released on just 535 screens and tallying less than $ 19 million at the box office — beat Avatar which had grossed $ 760 million and was well on its way to becoming the most successful movie ever madin 2010, The Hurt Locker — released on just 535 screens and tallying less than $ 19 million at the box office — beat Avatar which had grossed $ 760 million and was well on its way to becoming the most successful movie ever made.

If you still can't lose the bad taste of the sequel, check out the original, in which the jokes feel less stale and Will Ferrell is still the best part of the movie.

Whether they're in major global cities like Hong Kong and Tokyo, or stand out in less prominent locations, the world's most beautiful airports have stunning architectural features and amenities like golf courses and movie theaters.

Universal had heard all the stories of Hopper's erratic behavior over the years, first as an up - and - coming actor who had small parts in the James Dean movies «Rebel Without a Cause» and «Giant» (he admired Dean immensely), then as a bit player on a slew of TV shows, where he got little respect and gave even less back.

Netflix has also been trying to rely less and less on the cheap back - catalogue content from TV networks and movie studios, and more on its own in - house content, including TV shows like House of Cards and Orange Is The New Black.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this year's top - grossing film so far, came out in early - April and the scattering of big movies around the calendar is one reason why all 2014 films have only grossed about 5.4 % less than all films had last year at this point.

Case in point: a family that used to spend hundreds per month going out to the movies can now binge - watch all four seasons of House of Cards on Netflix in 30 days for less than the cost of a large popcorn.

But she also has a lesser - known connection with the House of Mouse: she starred in a Disney Channel movie called «Genius.»

At the time, Smith was only addressing the underrepresentation of women, who comprised less than a third of all speaking characters in the 100 top - grossing movies in the previous year.

«If Time Warner doesn't have the distribution might behind it that AT&T offers,» Downes said,» (the studio will) be able to do less original programming, fewer deals with the sports leagues, and the movie studio, which is already under tremendous pressure, is going to be more conservative» in terms of doing deals.

McDormand, Rockwell, and Woody Harrelson are so good in Three Billboards that I think a lot of voters have totally forgotten the less successful aspects of the movie: How every white character is immensely colorful but every black one is a cipher, that whole thing about Woody Harrelson's big dick (stop!

That's according to Streep (and more or less backed up by history), who aired some of this laundry while presenting an award to Emma Thompson, who just starred in Saving Mr. Banks, a movie about Disney himself.

There is consolation in the fact that the Times is bought by less than one out of twenty people in the New York area, and the audience for television networks and movies has been declining for years.

In Mystery Men, a movie from a few years back, William H. Macy, Ben Stiller and Hank Azaria starred as a trio of lesser superheroes with fairly unimpressive superpowers.

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

I love watching animated movies in theaters full of children where I feel less insecure about laughing super-loud and gasping at scary scenes.

But when the movie credits roll, we will either find ourselves in bed alone or with our less - than - perfect spouse sans the advantages of professional lighting, flattering camera angles or an original star - studded soundtrack playing in the background.

In truth, there are times when the film feels less like an addition to the franchise than it does a remake of the original movie.

And if my experience resembles a less - agonizing version of the experience of Bill Murray's Phil Connors character in Groundhog Day, that may be fitting inasmuch as the two movies invite comparison as different treatments of a common theme.

Mead offers a less compassionate portrayal of a freelance, multifaith minister who offers brides and grooms a smorgasbord of options for ceremonies, including the fabled «Apache Indian Prayer» («Now you will feel no rain / For each of you will be shelter to the other»)-- which originates not from Apache tradition but from a movie starring Jimmy Stewart — and a ceremony she concocted in which the bride and groom dab honey on each other's tongues.

Even people with less than a high school education today recognize the priority of the brain over the blood, so much so in fact, that in the movie, Hannibal (about a cannibalistic serial killer), the thought of slicing out tiny parts of a person's brain, cooking them in a pan, and serving the pieces to that person to eat has become in the public's mind a more disturbing image than, say, serving a person a glass of their own blood to drink, which appears relatively tame in comparison.

That gets the point across in 59 seconds less than the one - minute movie «Welcome To The Neighborhood» (You can grab it from the Downloads page of my site.)

In the movie Children of a Lesser God there is a stormy love affair between Sarah, deaf and mute, and James, a teacher at a school for the deaf.

In order to be less contrarian, let me recommend a sentimental movie that Peter earlier mentioned.

The movie comes out in less than two days and my friends and I are having a marathon and making these!

The International Boxing Club, pursuing at last a policy of enlightened self - interest, has opened two small clubs in Chicago, where for 99 cents, less than the price of a movie, the fans have been seeing some live, well - matched action and taking their wives and girl friends to ringside.

I'm firmly ensconced in the middle class and will pay less for a good round of golf than I will to take my family to a football game, and about the same as to take them to a movie anymore.

This is good news for supporters of the movie as the film drew just $ 3.5 million less than «Despicable Me 2» which is a sequel to the widely popular original released in 2010.

Other less famous affiliations with the name would be Anne Rice's (you know, the lady who made it possible for Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt to appear in the same movie..

For me, the choice in this referendum is between two evils and, after watching Brexit: The Movie, the EU seems the lesser.

Less than a week after the Weinstein Co. seemed destined for bankruptcy, a deal emerged for an investment group to buy assets from the troubled firm in order to launch a new movie studio that will be led by women.

That would be fine for any other time of the year, but it is still a lesser hold than the first two Hobbit movies, Tron: Legacy and pretty much every other big pre-Christmas December release in modern times.

ALBANY — Last year, lawmakers brought in money from outside legal work, lottery winnings and even an appearance in a Jennifer Lopez movie, but they appeared to earn less in outside income than in the past, according to legislators» financial disclosure forms.

The average U.S. Internet speed today is 5.3 megabits per second, so Gig.U's Internet would be many times faster than those available today, allowing users to download the equivalent of two high - definition movies in less than one minute and to watch streaming video with no pixelation or other interruptions.

ANOTHER LOOKING GLASS In science fiction movies like Stargate and Contact, wormholes connect distant points in the universe, allowing people to travel from one spot to another in far less time than the hundreds or millions of years required to make the trip at the speed of light, the greatest conventional velocitIn science fiction movies like Stargate and Contact, wormholes connect distant points in the universe, allowing people to travel from one spot to another in far less time than the hundreds or millions of years required to make the trip at the speed of light, the greatest conventional velocitin the universe, allowing people to travel from one spot to another in far less time than the hundreds or millions of years required to make the trip at the speed of light, the greatest conventional velocitin far less time than the hundreds or millions of years required to make the trip at the speed of light, the greatest conventional velocity.

DiMaio, the former Bexar County medical examiner, estimated that the price of a good medical examiner's office is about $ 2.50 per person per year, «which is probably less than what you pay for a Coca - Cola in a movie theater.»

«Mars was the first place we explored that's on our list of biologically interesting worlds — a list that now includes Europa, Enceladus and Titan,» says the 6 - foot - 6 59 - year - old, whose rugged looks might have landed him roles in cowboy movies if he were less obsessed with astrobiology.

In the movies, the fat bodies of the microglia remain more or less stationary, but their thin, armlike extensions are abuzz.

Specific data speeds vary by carrier but most networks enable users to download a file containing a full - length movie — more than one gigabyte in size — in less than 10 minutes.

So the new networks will be able to transfer a high - resolution movie in two seconds and respond to requests in less than a hundredth of the time it takes to blink an eye.

BOLD responses to the movie occurred in visual and auditory brain areas in both groups, yet were less pronounced in the ASD group in left superior parietal and superior temporal cortices (auditory cortex, Figure 1A).

A collapse in the AMOC could also mean there would be less heat reaching western Europe that could cause the region to plunge into severe winters, the kind of scenario similar to that depicted, albeit in extreme fashion, in the movie The Day After Tomorrow.