Sentences with phrase «in snappy dialogue»

You can hear the Whedon influence in the snappy dialogue.

Add in some snappy dialogue, and you've got a fine recipe for a kind of genre classic.

The film's greatest pleasure is in the snappy dialogue Gilroy crafts for the capable duo of Roberts and Owen...

Not exact matches

In a CIA where the dialogue consists of snappy rejoinders and pungent obscenities, Mendez breezily shoots down his superiors» suggestions for rescuing the six.

The action sequences, which are few and far between, do lack the exhilaration that was to be found in the first two Spider - Man films (which contain the similar light tone to the Iron Man films) but the star power and snappy dialogue keeps the film briskly moving along.

Shot quickly and cheaply in high - definition video and almost entirely on one set, the movie has almost zero visual energy, but it teems with snappy dialogue and the same carnival anarchy Lumet brought to «Dog Day Afternoon» and «Network.»

Frances Ha used its quick cuts like punchlines; Mistress America does plenty of that (it's quick, coming in under 90 minutes) but also stages a bravura, extended farce sequence in the Connecticut suburbs that turns its snappy dialogue into a symphony of wit and movement.

But the dialogue is often snappy, and there are far worse ways in which one could spend 85 minutes.

As usual in the genre of the Tarrantino, Django is based upon the excellent characterisation of quirky characters and their snappy, ultra-cool dialogue — and the massive film geek doesn't disappoint.

Maybe, but if you put handguns, machine guns and grenade launchers in theirs hands and give them some snappy dialogue to work with, you're basically home free.

They both have similar elements: snappy dialogue, observational humor, set in Los Angeles, non-linear narrative and even a few Tarantino alums including Robert Forster, Jeff Fahey and Sydney Tammia Poitier.

The central mystery - someone in a devil costume terrorizes a sorority populated by pretty, mean girls - plays second fiddle to snappy dialogue and satirization of modern college kids.

That's a good description of the final film — one in which you can see glimmers of the Shane Black script underneath (hardboiled characters, snappy dialogue, bursts of shocking violence, a Christmas setting) but surrounded by a lot of unnecessary bullshit to the point where you can almost feel the egos of the movie superheating the frame and melting away what was once originally there.

In this most recent outing, Baumbach delves back into the struggles of forty - something narcissists that he recently explored in his previous Ben Stiller vehicle, Greenberg, and though While We're Young may lack the disciplined structure and scathingly funny bitterness of that picture, it's still packed to the brim with snappy dialogue, inspired comic set pieces and wonderful performanceIn this most recent outing, Baumbach delves back into the struggles of forty - something narcissists that he recently explored in his previous Ben Stiller vehicle, Greenberg, and though While We're Young may lack the disciplined structure and scathingly funny bitterness of that picture, it's still packed to the brim with snappy dialogue, inspired comic set pieces and wonderful performancein his previous Ben Stiller vehicle, Greenberg, and though While We're Young may lack the disciplined structure and scathingly funny bitterness of that picture, it's still packed to the brim with snappy dialogue, inspired comic set pieces and wonderful performances.

One thing is for sure though, when entering into his violent world of cool amoral criminals, snappy dialogue and cult music selection, you're in no doubt when you're on Tarantino's territory.

It's funny how a good movie trailer can reel you in, in this case a snappy package that promises snappy dialogue and performances in a teen comedy with a brain.

It helps that it's packed with snappy characters and witty dialogue, and that the cast makes the gratuitously vulgar humour come to life in surprising ways.

Filmmakers Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul get everyone into this mess in the usual ways, with snappy dialogue, goofy antics and rather a lot of humiliating embarrassment for poor Dan.

Though stylishly directed (obviously) and teeming with snappy dialogue, Foreign Correspondent remains a strangely uninvolving thriller - something that's due in no small part to the egregiously deliberate pace and undeniably overlong running time.

There is and never will be a question in my mind as to which script should have won last year — but Argo's script was certainly the kind of script lots of people like — snappy dialogue, memorable and quotable lines, etc..

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From it's rollicking soundtrack, to the rich, snappy dialogue, with great characters in hilarious situations and kinetic fast paced direction.

Fae it's rollickin» soundtrack, tae the rich, snappy dialogue, wae great characters in hilarious situations and kinetic fast paced direction.

I'll go ahead and add that I love Schappell's snappy (and often painful - in - a-good-way) dialogue... especially when a character is thinking one thing and saying another.

This is a very hard question to answer, in that there really IS no «right» answer — you write as many drafts needed until the book's events feels cohesive, the dialogue seems realistic and snappy, and the world - building makes sense.

Set in a gothic - noir universe that resembes 19th century Europe and filled with monsters, magic and strange technology, the game promises an engrossing storyline filled with wry humour and snappy dialogue as Van Helsing makes his way to Borgovia where he is to join forces with where former supernatural foes have enlisted his help to defeat a new evil.

It has snappy dialogue, a setting in which pretty much anything can happen, an eccentric boss, a moderately successful main character in their 40s starting to realize their own pitiful existence, and a potential for sincerity among all the complete weird.

While later entries in both series and certain spinoffs (cough Super Paper Mario cough) became ever wordier and more tedious with their dialogue, Superstar Saga remains relatively tightly plotted and has a pretty snappy script.

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But Alpha Protocol has a whole bunch of genuinely good elements too, like its snappy dialogue and its emphasis on player choice, so I don't think it fully fits in the so - bad - it's - good category.

The dialogue is cliched and bland, with the occasional snappy comeback or raunchy line thrown in.

The dialogue is snappy, if way too glib, and the gunplay ranges from acceptable to quite good, but the game's initial setup is so preposterous that you find yourself wishing it were all staged on another planet or, at the very least, in some invented Middle Eastern city.

The American and European release was edited a bit for the more risque content present in the Japanese version, but otherwise, it's the same fun and often extremely difficult game, with snappy dialogue and a lengthy, varied quest.