Sentences with phrase «into melodramatic»

The feature - length work transforms the genre of the Western into a melodramatic story populated by allegorical characters.

Both Peter and Annie seem older than 12, and some of their experiences take a sharp turn into the melodramatic.

While Lewis's unconventional marriage could have been translated into a melodramatic biopic, Maudie's downplays the «true story» tagline to focus on their blossoming relationship with true warmth and humanity.

Even with its occasional lapses into melodramatic fakery, its cool, machine - tooled mixture of jargon, gadgetry, offhanded machismo and war - is - hell imagery feels far more authentic than in most Hollywood war movies.

Throughout the film, there are moments that could have made this into a melodramatic thriller, much like some of Almodóvar's earlier films Matador and The Law of Desire.

Sounding quite thriller-esque indeed, the film actually leans carefully into melodramatic romance without ever falling head - over-heals for sentimentalism thanks to it's measured performances and meticulous direction.

This is the legendary Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow brought down to Earth and made into a melodramatic romance.

Soapy, sappy, silly and sluggish, La Mujer de Mi Hermano (My Brother's Wife) is one of those issue movies that wants to cram every hot topic it can think of into a melodramatic situation.

The most important has to do with the structure of the play, which turns the story of the Passion into a melodramatic clash between on the one hand the good Christ and his followers (including by implication the entire Christian Church), and on the other the evil Sanhedrin and its followers.

Pinkett Smith especially appears to be playing to the cheap seats, flailing her arms about and shrieking; Cool J also has a tendency to lapse into melodramatics.

Not exact matches

The truth is that Tolstoy, as an epic writer, is majestically brilliant at his craft, while Dostoevsky, as a dramatic writer, has his many moments of genius (Mitya and Grushenka's night together just before Mitya's arrest, for instance), but all too often falls into the worst conventions of nineteenth century melodramatic theatre.

Despite that rather melodramatic beginning, marathon running developed into a comparatively low - risk event, or at least it was until England's Chris Stewart, the third - place finisher in both the 1976 and»77 New York Marathons, turned the ancient Greek legend on its head and began running relief supplies across sniper - infested battle lines and into the broken heart of Croatia and Bosnia - Herzegovinia.

However, this youthful temperament can also translate into quick tempers and the occasional melodramatic mood swing — factors that have helped this sun sign earn its fiery reputation.

The second half of the film devolves into something that resembles tedious, melodramatic daytime TV.

In conclusion, there are melodramatic spells, as well as some focal unevenness, spawned from hurrying past certain plot aspects that really aren't all that needed in the first place, being not much more than supplements to the rather repetitious bloating that makes this overambitious effort too overblown for its own good, though not to the point of completely dismissing its engagement value, as there is enough sharpness to the production designs, cinematography and score work to provide striking style, as well as enough story value, brought to life by inspired writing, direction and acting, - particularly by leading lady Halle Berry - to make «Alex Haley's Queen» a rewarding near - epic study on the struggles faced by the mulattoes who struggled to fit into a post-slavery society that was rich with racial tension and plenty of other life challenges.

But the film takes a nosedive into overbaked melodramatics when it dusts off the history books and veers in all directions to tell its crooked tale (blurring fact and fiction) of the iron - clad will of the strong monarch (voicing that the good fight was for God and country) and how she defeated the Spanish Armada and brought a long and fruitful time of peace and prosperity to her country.

What could have been melodramatic if told in a different way, takes on a lyrical, even sweet journey into the mysteries of the heart.

While some humorous amusement is to be had from these lighter threads, they degenerate into the manipulative, melodramatic hokum of those sappy «very special episodes» of sitcoms or, in the case of David, disease - themed afterschool specials.

Although the noted writer / director continues his trend of capturing excellent performances from his leading ladies (having worked with Jane Birkin in La Fille prodigue, her daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg in Amoureuse, Juliette Binoche in La Vie de famille and Isabelle Huppert in La vengeance d'une femme), The Three Way Wedding fails to turn its significant female presence into anything more than an expressive yet insubstantial feature, instead existing in the space between amusing and neurotic, and passionate and melodramatic.

The man who co-founded the naturalism - loving Dogme 95 manifesto with Lars von Trier is at his best when putting ordinary people into low - key situations that slowly become melodramatic.

What connects these stories is Kristen Stewart, a former assistant of Bobby's uncle, who walks into the New York club one day like a ghost from the past, a scene as melodramatic as it sounds.

Too melodramatic to be a real thriller, Thierry Klifa's «His Mother's Eyes / Les Yeux de Sa Mère,» (France) about a writer's plan to ingratiate himself into a fractured family, is still intelligent, engrossing and features an easy - on - the - eyes cast, which includes ever - lovely Catherine Deneuve, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Géraldine Pailhas and Jean - Baptiste Lafarge.

That's as much as can be disclosed from the nasty, well - knotted script by James Greer and Jonathan Bernstein (upping their game slightly from the Jackie Chan vehicle «The Spy Next Door»), before proceedings tumble into a writhing snake pit of melodramatic reversals and vintage B - movie jolts — some chilly, some silly, but all held together with defiant, dug - in credibility by Foy.

An operatic descent into the lives of lost souls in the San Fernando Valley, Magnolia is Anderson's three - hour melodramatic epic about the nature of forgiveness.

«Turns the heartbreak and bloodshed of Indian partition in 1947 into a lush costume drama full of political intrigue and melodramatic romance in this not - entirely successful mix of Bollywood and Merchant - Ivory conventions» — KT

Even when the script allows Lawrence to tap into her intense melodramatic acting genes, which it does only rarely, Russell allots Lawrence the time to cook the emotion and lets it stew in her eyes before she erupts with stirring power.

When a story line threatens to become powerful, such as the ones involving Taslima or Claire, Kramer invariably cuts away to more mundane melodramatics, especially those involving a Korean teenager (Justin Chon) pressured into joining a gang.

The new film feels like a capstone, a summation of everything Diaz loves about and finds so profound in Dostoevsky, a transmutation of the writer's melodramatic genius into grist for his more distanced, more emotionally chilled films.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the melodramatic swirl of the climax, in which, over the course of just a few minutes, LaBoeuf saves Mattie from strangulation by Chaney; LaBoeuf saves Cogburn from being shot by Lucky Ned (a very good Barry Pepper); and Mattie saves LaBoeuf and herself from pummeling by Chaney — only to fall immediately into a pit of snakes and need rescuing again by Cogburn.

As a result, while the portrayal is campy and, at times, melodramatic, most audience members will likely be rooting for Poe as the film stumbles into the closing act.

The ongoing emphasis on charming musical numbers and oddball (yet funny) subplots effectively keeps things interesting, and yet it's worth noting that Trolls does begin to peter out once it passes the one - hour mark - with the movie eventually (and inevitably) progressing into a spinning - its - wheels third act that's rife with time - wasting elements (including an eye - rollingly ineffective melodramatic stretch).

And for those who do know the movie, there are no shortage of before - the - fact nods to ingredients that would later filter into the project: as when Wiseau and Sestero play an awkward game of football (as they later would in The Room), or a couple of melodramatic moments staged on the roof of Wiseau's apartment building (a venue he would inexplicably approximate via lousy greenscreen on a soundstage for the film).

Hearing the dialogue out loud (or witnessing some of the awkward melodramatic moments shoehorned into the material), it may be hard for even the most ardent fans of the book to deny the lack of quality in the writing.

The subplot involving a prostitute (Brittany Snow's Balery) who conspires to rob a john with a stranger (Josh Janowicz's Jaron) is an obvious highlight, with the melodramatic bent that's been hard - wired into some of the film's other stories certainly dulling their effectiveness.

Our advice: give this bad mix of vampire lore and melodramatic prattle («How could I bring her into this world, a world of demons and danger») a wide berth and check out the greatest of great locomotive chases, Buster Keaton's silent masterpiece «The General.»

Once the gears of Potter's melodramatic plot start into motion, though, it becomes little more than an over-the-top soap opera, in which current affairs and past sexual trysts are revealed, relationships falls apart, a terminal diagnosis comes to light, and the gun goes through a series of motions to wind up in the hands that held it at the movie's start.

With 45 Years, he's made a mosaic of utterly mundane living that's overlaid with a mystery of nostalgic proportions; from a distance the movie's central proposition, that retiree Geoff Mercer (Tom Courtenay) should be the recipient of notice from the Swiss government about the freshly uncovered remains of his old girlfriend, who perished after falling into a glacial crevasse decades prior, appears ridiculous, perhaps even melodramatic.

At times it seems as if they attempted to humanize him, which leads the film into bouts of melodramatic mush, but it is essential to move the story along and creates the swells needed for the many crescendos of action and conflict throughout.

Though Michael Fassbender contributes a potential Oscar - winning performance (one critic opines that the Academy should not even bother voting: just mail him the Oscar), the fragmentation is disturbing and would grate on segments of the audience who like their bio-pics complete without being broken up into simply melodramatic moments.

But the problem is that the first two films in the first franchise (I can't get into Last Stand) aren't as big and bombastic and melodramatic as the more recent ones.

Lover for a Day seems at times almost a parody of Garrel's work, a throwback to a time when a filmmaker's artistry or hubris often excused, for many viewers, melodramatic characterizations of women, who in this kind of thing all too often threaten suicide or erratically burst into tears.

«Warrior» lays it on thick — and that's without going into the numerous other melodramatic flourishes added throughout the plot.

Caryl Phillips reimagines Emily Bronte's melodramatic «Wuthering Heights», weaving the past and the present into a modern story of exile and difference.

Combining the traditional blandly heartwarming gags of newspaper cartoons with geekiness and fanservice (the typical formula is four cute girls and one ditzy adult woman doing adorable things), it's a very different genre from melodramatic shojo and shonen manga; but it's also easier for casual readers to get into (since it lacks the long storylines of Drag - On Ball etc.) and, with its four - panel structure, it's perfect to view on computer screens and smartphones.

Tamsoft worked the gameplay into a smooth flow of whirling sword arcs, undead bloodsplashes, and melodramatic comic - panel cutscenes where the catchphrase «time to revenge» fits perfectly.

With only this noisy but sometimes enjoyably melodramatic narrative and a stream of samey battles to occupy players until it finally opens up after around 20 hours, Final Fantasy XIII is undeniably a nightmare for most people to get into.

It's what should have been on television, but was forced out into the open market to fend for itself, and it has mutated into this hybrid B - movie / soap operatic form where the films are often 3 - 4 hours long, hyperbolic, melodramatic but made for TV.

Whether abstracting footage culled from 1980s blockbusters like Rambo into a vibrant slurry of sight and sound, or slowing down the introductory credit sequence of the 1970s sitcom Three's Company to a cryptic melancholic pace, as well as reworking the melodramatic prize package revealing moments from the game show, The Price is Right, Murata employs a variety of animation processes to highlight the decay of media narratives.

Trapped at home (again) with a sick Sprog — the melodramatic cough has developed into a genuine mild illness — I enlisted her in the culling process.