Sentences with phrase «into silliness»

Starring Russell Crowe, director Darren Aronofksy's visually compelling take on the Biblical story drifts frequently into silliness.

Despite some lapses into silliness, it tries to play things straight — leaning more towards black comedy rather than splatstick.

Realizing the premise of Rampage is rather silly, a new trailer for the film leans into that silliness and gives star Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson an opportunity to yell at you from the gym.

Assayas never seems terribly far from lurching into silliness, such as the poor, CGI presentation of the spirits themselves.

There might not be a lot that's unsurprising here, but even the bits that should be cheesy never descend into the silliness they might have... and often do in the movies that get the splashy openings.

And, yes, there are parts where all the sturm und drang tips over into silliness.

But if you relish a mindless soap operatic story that leans into the silliness of the genre, Fifty Shades Freed might do the trick.

«We can't get sucked into the silliness of whether we want a pipeline or a bomb train,» one resident said.

Sure, but the companies seemed to have leaned into the silliness with a decent amount of success.

Not exact matches

Yes, us atheists could be more polite, but believers need to take that big step past childish beliefs and / or practice their silliness in private (as in stop pushing their beliefs into politics and government).

Fighting Halloween, trying to put Christ back into Christmas, get the Easter bunny out of Easter and so on are an exercise in silliness, a diversion from what we should really be doing as followers of Jesus.

This reading, as we have noted, was Italianate, Ultramontane, highly emotional and frequently expressed in passages of purple prose, which, as Wilkinson opines, occasionally topple over into «silliness».

Silliness gets us into trouble.

Yes, I'm aware that a growing post-9 / 11 liberal agenda that some liberals don't even know they've fallen into is to defend the mainstream Muslim faith while demonizing what they make to be Christianity, but this author's piece is just silliness at a new level, yet it does represent liberal sentiment very accurately.

All those continue into a person's life after rejecting their old religion — they are the last ghosts of the silliness of their religious self - deception.

Lol David — I don't intend to be insensitive in laughing, rather, to laugh at the silliness of it, a comedy tutor once said to me that comedy is about alchemising what has been pain into passages of great beauty.

But sometimes those moments of tension turn into instances of plain silliness.

«There was the craziness, or silliness, that was the «Kennel in a Cell», and we'll also discuss the months leading into the show and everything happening in the business.

On his way to give evidence before the home affairs select committee inquiry into last year's riots, Boris tactfully juxtaposed the seriousness of the hearing with the silliness of his headgear.

Brand acknowledges that some form of administrative body might be helpful, before launching into a deflective rant ending in a bout of trademark silliness.

And letting them judge that performance... I'm not going to get into any political silliness.»

Gleeson and Byrne bring a daffy charisma to their characters, leaning hard into the film's pervading silliness without turning Mr. McGregor and Bea into mere cartoons.

Filmmaker Will Gluck delivers a predictably frenetic, frantic opening that doesn't exactly bode well for what's to follow, and yet there's little doubt that Peter Rabbit quickly segues into a surprisingly watchable first act bursting with appealing elements - including a handful of laugh - out - loud bits of silliness and a tremendously likeable turn from Gleeson.

This is, overwhelmingly, a silly horror flick unconcerned with its silliness: Throughout, it spends a lot of screen time digging into exposition and explanation, including having its American characters interrogate the rural Mexican ones, who conveniently speak — and write — in excellent English.

Even before its late detour into action movie silliness (including a ridiculous badass set piece that belongs in a James Bond movie) Sicario feels like a film whose immaculate craft disguises its hollow center.

«Cougar Town» has always had an admirable ability to blend surreal whimsy and inventive silliness into each episode's proceedings, and I have to admit I missed that from time to time.

An intermittently amusing riff on British spy movies, starring Colin Firth as a secret agent who takes a novice under his wing, «Kingsman» collapses into outlandish absurdity in its second half, sloppily careening from silliness to sentimentality.

Where Stardust is silliness elevated to sublimity, Interview is silliness ground into a navel.

But our hero and his two robot sidekicks turn a lemon into a much funnier lemon by showering This Island Earth with wisecracks, ridicule and general silliness.

After 2009's inane comedy Nativity, no one was clamouring for a sequel, but at least this one tips the scales into sublime silliness.

It's too long, descends into a riot of silliness towards the end and sometimes takes the easy road of making people laugh by just getting everyone to shout a lot but it's still one of the funniest films of 2013.

There are even moments where the movie recognizes that it's on the verge of spinning off into some New Age silliness and perverse introspection, like when resident fallen bohemian William (Billy Crudup) tries to explain to co-boarder Abbie (Greta Gerwig) that we're all made of stardust... and she laughs at him.

Tatum offers a likeable — and often barely clad — protagonist; Foxx plays for seriousness even as silliness prevails; supports Gyllenhaal, Woods, and Richard Jenkins (Jack Reacher) invest enthusiasm into countless scenes of arguing.

delivery of its lines to a parade of scrupulously groomed facial hair and tattoos, machismo comes oozing out of every pore of Street Kings, a corrupt cop drama that expends so much energy trying to convince audiences that it's hardcore that it rather quickly devolves into serial silliness.

Where this charming and gorgeously animated flick — which kids of all ages, including the grownup ones, will love — goes from there is into a realm that encompasses both enrapturing silliness and pretty profound wisdom, for a kiddie flick.

Even though this comedy has a tendency to dip into cartoonish silliness, it's anchored by a razor - sharp performance by Wiig as a woman forced to confront everything she hates about herself.

The production even creates its own recurring tropes to terrorize characters and amuse audiences, but there's also an infusion of dry wit throughout that feels reminiscent of Sam Raimi's original Evil Dead while avoiding the silliness the Evil Dead sequel slipped into.

A cream - pie massacre crosses a line into full - on silliness, and in this ever - so - slightly alternate universe, dick jokes are deadly serious business.

But it also jumps antennae - first into the absurd silliness of its original source.

Luckily, none of that silliness really affects the performance of James Gandolfini (Julia Louis - Dreyfus is another story), whose Albert is a proud but wounded divorced father who finds himself smitten by this woman he bumps into at a party.

For the first time since Zohan, which rooted its silliness in a real understanding of New York life, a Happy Madison production has moments that might be called sharply observed, especially in dealing with its marginal characters: the childhood best friend who can't stop mentioning that she's already seen the bride in her dress; the old biddy who takes time to steal centerpieces during an evacuation; the skeptical grandmother who can be lured back into the fold with a threat of having to eat «white - people potato salad» if she doesn't attend Kirby's planned rehearsal dinner.

All the silliness and melodrama that have come to define Final Fantasy found its primal form here, too: As protagonist Cecil embarks on a sulky quest to discover his true self, his allies drop into and out of his party, often leaving the story by way of a noble self - sacrifice.

They chat about the dangers and silliness of Zach Braff's Kickstarter campaign before moving into this week's movie reviews for Pain & Gain, The Big Wedding and The Company You Keep.

Also like Shyamalan's works, the less you buy into it, the more you will find yourself amused by the silliness of it all, and the fact that the makers of the film expect us to take their cooked - up concepts and bad story devices seriously.

The positioning of this dryly competent woman as the film's protagonist, compared to the roguish silliness of Kurt Russell's R.J. MacReady, acts as yet another sign that we're verging into full - on horror territory.

Let's utilize the technology we have to give the kids a healthy dose of pop culture and silliness all mixed into one.

The Countach and the Diablo, they were properly silly cars, yet even they pale into magnolia sensibleness compared with Lamborghini's defining moment of silliness, the LM002.

When people start delving into the nether - recesses of the story, they take the fun out of it for themselves and everyone else instead of just enjoying the silliness of the story.

Puppyish behaviour, including «silliness» and «excitability» can persist well into the second year, and many dogs are not fully mentally mature before they are two.

Beneath the big numbers and silliness lies the capability to take games from their context, and change them into something more accepting.