Sentences with phrase «ironic story of filming»

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Given the fact that the story of Imitation General is motivated by the «passing of a torch», it's ironic that the film's first network showing in November of 1963 was postponed by the JFK assassination.

The ironic distancing makes it hard to get emotionally caught up in the sad story of Kenney's self - destruction when the film enters «Leaving Las Vegas» territory.

For a film which features the word «irony» so prominently, it's suitably ironic that Reality Bites features a documentary given the commercial television treatment, as the movie as a whole has an underlying compelling story that feels like it has been drained of all uniqueness by the corporate interests handling the film.

The three - eyed aliens of Toy Story are oddly cultish and charming like Ewoks, but the real champions here are the Minions of Despicable Me, soulless entities so successful they got a spin - off film and have another in the works, copious merchandising, memes, and ironic post-modern memes of memes.

Maybe what most marks Beau travail as a film by a woman is the way Denis uses African women to subtly impose an ironic frame around the story; from beginning to end, they figure implicitly and unobtrusively as a kind of mainly mute Greek chorus — whether they're dancing in the disco, speaking in the market, appearing briefly as the girlfriends of some legionnaires (including Galoup), or serving as witnesses to portions of the action.

Minecraft: The Story of Mojang is charming fluff, a sweet tribute to a popular game, and its piecemeal «best of» style makes for a pleasant enough affirmation for fans who want nothing more than a brief glimpse behind the scenes, but for a documentary about a game in which players are compelled to dig ever deeper in search of raw material, it's disappointingly ironic how many blocks of narrative ore the film fails to unearth.

For a film with so much of «The Juice» in it, it's ironic how quickly it loses all its juice once the story gets going.