Sentences with phrase «into dullness»

The big commercial galleries have surprised me with either their restraint or their daring, neither of which have dissolved into dullness or stupidity.

The digital animation ranges from competent to clunky, the jokes too often feel tossed - off and random, and the movie too often descends into dullness, only to be yanked back from the abyss by the goat.

We have intellectualized the faith into the dullness of «Four Spiritual Laws» or subjectivized it into transitory emotional highs (or lows) which keep everything polite, comfortable, marketable and harmless.

Not exact matches

Mt predictions for today's game are that City will spank Chelsea after the Chavs try unsuccessfully to park the elephant and drag the game into a level of dullness never seen before....

Unfortunately, once Jesse and Petra jump into the mines to start their adventure, the story takes a bit of a downward turn, becoming a little bit cumbersome to complete due to the dullness of Jack's character.

When I said that the film hits particularly bland spells, I really did mean it, though I'd be lying if I said that the film ever slips into downright dullness, thanks to an adequate degree of colorful wit within Sherriff's, West's and Maschwitz's screenplay, which, at the very least, delivers on engaging characterization that is made all the more engaging by the portrayals of the characters.

Unfortunately, Lek's hyperactivity isn't nearly enough to tip A Stranger In Paradise into the realm of unintentional comedy, so the film goes through its twisty - turny paces with a dullness that Boccia's whooshing pans and chase sequences can't alleviate.

Other technical decisions are curious and hampering as well, particularly Loggia's reading from Bartali's memoir, which lacks much connection to the subject, and Joel Goodman's score, which sounds as if it recognizes the dullness of the material and tries to force a little aural drama into each scene.

Damon does well in the film's first half, and he has some nice comic moments in which his intrepid dullness comes into conflict with the unhinged world in which he lives, but it never adds up.

As storytelling, the film falls into that numbing one - thing - after - another rhythm that dooms many biopics to by - the - numbers dullness.