Sentences with phrase «kind of a joke on»

The movie is such a massive decline that it must be some kind of joke on the part of any combination of director Paul Weitz (perhaps a subversive plan to kill a franchise he was not a fan of with his first (and let us hope only) entry), writers John Hamburg and Larry Stuckey (the former, maybe, enjoying steady work with the series after the success of the first movie; the latter possibly assuming he could coast on the coattails of his partner), and / or the cast (if we go with the hypothetical assault on the audience's sense of dignity, no doubt laughing themselves silly at the sight of the paycheck).

But the astronomical flashback isn't without a measure of wit as well; the sheer scope of it is a kind of joke on the impossibility of storytelling.

They are kind of a joke on those classical works but they looked so great next to them.»

Not exact matches

«It sounds like kind of a joke because it looks like he wants to use our positive momentum and gain publicity on his side and that is kind of lame.»

«He was rolling on the floor laughing at his own jokes, and I thought, That is my kind of guy — I do the same thing,» Buffett says.

When she finds herself spiraling downward into the bitterness of an angry exchange, she takes the initiative of saying a kind word, telling a joke on herself, offering a compromise or making a gesture of reconciliation.

There will be a day you are lying on your death bed and this kind of joke won't seem real funny when you are scared beyond belief about what will soon happen.

If Mr. Trump isn't seeking our counsel now — 1) to be repentant 2) on how to portray that repentance, then the idea of a faith council (which has deteriorated into influence brokering anyway) is really kind of a joke right?

Kind of like taking a flag and shoving it down every other counties throat because in a nations own diluted mind they think they are the best, when on the world stage they are looked at like a joke.

This joke is better insofar as it identifies something more peculiar to the Presbyterian ethos: it relies on a more specific kind of shared knowledge.

My friends joke that he's now dependent on me for food, and it's kind of true.

What is a joke to me is that everyone here is now on the Khabib bandwagon acting like he is some kind of unbeatable fighter.

thanks for the sensible comment fatboy yep i know i do get that they do nt really mean it, but i just cant come to terms with that, i do nt really expect civilised culture in a sport but generally from the people in the world, yep you are right about the real world, maybe thats the reason it annoys me extremely, i mean look our world is rotten to the core, the human mindset is terrible when it faces danger or problems for himself, and maybe thats the reason i just want football to stay as just as an entertainment industry but when i see that people even here let the words flow in any kind of way just because the are frustrated, i really cant come to terms with it, i really love black humor and some akbs react angrily when some fans tell some wheelchair jokes or for example on the post from admin where one could write jokes about wenger, some were really awesome, but when people cant control their emotion after a game and abuse other people it just irritates me as hell cause i really think that thats one of the big problems in the world..

I swear AFC is fast becoming a joke... if we are not carrying players who plays less than 10 matches in a season due to all kinds of injuries then we are forever waiting for some other players to fulfill their potentials or we are holding on to players well past prime or we are playing players based on favoritism even when we have better options on the bench....

Whether its Snapchatting during a press conference or posting a bad joke on Twitter, there'll definitely be some kind of social media controversy involving a F1 driver in 2017 — and it'll be hyped up loads in the press and turned into a big thing.

My younger one is a bit of an enigma, but maybe was partially due to being a bit of an introvert so loves the imaginary world of books, and maybe partially due to neglect parenting — we weren't reading to her nearly as much as her sisters, so she had to figure it out on her own (joking — kind of — we obviously don't neglect her, reading just took a backseat, but hey it all worked out in the wash so am not sweating it).

Kind of like the movie Brazil crossed with Tom Bergeron's jokes on «America's Funniest Home Videos.»

But all the same, lines like «is this some kind of joke» put the exchange on another level.

Funnily enough, when they first aired on TV I also thought they must be some kind of joke too.

I've heard the joke that allergy moms are better investigators than the FBI; calling manufacturers, retailers, other parents, schools, playgroups, and all kinds of places to gain intel on what goes into products, and educating others about allergies.

^ Well, that's the message the Western medical literature has been repeating for about 70 years, and looking at Loren Cordain fat belly, I think the «you'll be screwed for including any animal products» - pitch is spot on... okay jokes aside, the point was that there's no chance in a million year that blog is something what would be referred as «health blog», this is more like some kind of a Lierre Keith - style, anti-vegan blog which tries to be scientific.

Denise and Leslie are my friends for Chaotically Creative and you can always count on them to cheer you up with a smile, a joke, a kind word, and best of all, a very bright and cheery holiday home tour!

I actually joked on Twitter that I thought that Jennifer Garner was wearing Kate's dress, and kind of wish Kate had chose that dress, elegant and much more fitting with her style.

fun to be with kind of a jokester, at times but its ok I to have my friends play jokes on me too.

It just so happens I recently wrote an article highlighting the funniest dating profiles (most of them intentionally funny) so you can read through that to get an idea of what kinds of jokes go over well on a dating site.

On this kind of evening everything has gone to plan - she laughed at all your jokes — even the bad ones — and you shared a modest, but magical, kiss goodnight.

«It kind of started out to be a joke with my girlfriends... and I've never been on a blind date.»

Even the writers know that their jokes stink, but rather than coming up with a funnier one, they stick with the bad joke and add the trumpet in a self - deprecating, see - we're - in - on - the - joke kind of way.

However, that makes it sound like a one - joke premise, a goof, some kind of light comic riff on Melancholia or 4:44 Last Day on Earth.

Dave this movie is brilliant, you may want to watch it again, just in case you missed out on the clever jokes... The kind of movie to LOL the entire time, also, what «s so wrong about falling in love and rolling over like a dog?

Is Wiseau, who seems to appreciate «The Room» only as a way to make more money, really in on the same joke as the audiences who have adopted him as a kind of aging - hipster mascot?

He's redefining what it means to be a dude through a fresh perspective on sex / sexuality with some seriously funny and new kinds of dick jokes.

The film doesn't take itself too seriously, laying it on thick with the jokes (Michael Pena, especially, steals every scene he's in), and the humor offers a kind of buffer which allows the audience to suspend their disbelief long enough to really accept Marvel's newest hero.

When the film focuses on Gore's personal touch — cracking jokes with an unlikely Republican ally, or showing off photos in his large, empty Tennessee home — it works as a kind of oblique profile in sacrifice.

It's the kind of movie one can't really gauge by the usual standards, just by how funny you find it, and opinions will widely vary depending on the viewer's aptitude to laugh at pot humor and crude bathroom and sex jokes of the most outrageous variety.

He gave a rather rambunctious intro, joking about how he should've won the Palme last year, but later going on to say that introducing this was a kind of closure for him, because when he was 14 he saw this at the Cinema Village in NY and it made him want to be a director.

Its greatest crime isn't that its one joke is tiresome from the thirty - minute mark on, it's that at the end of the day the picture doesn't particularly convince as a romance, tickle as a comedy, or score as a satire of any kind.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Complete with jabs at social - media marketing, this is one of the film's few extended jokes likely to go over the collective heads of very young auds, but it's the kind of absurdly exaggerated everyday detail — complete with the repurposing of familiar gadgetry — on which Aardman's comic brand is built.

Mr. James's portly Eric is a walking fat joke who is not quite roly - poly enough to earn the kind of cheap ridicule the movie heaps on him.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom looks like the kind of improbable movie plot they would joke about on Archer.

There is probably a really good joke to make about the kind of obscure references made on Community that Steve Rogers would never understand, and that's enough to make me giggle.

To know Winfried is quite simple: He is a sad, lonely and genuinely silly man, the kind that performs weird mutations of jokes you would play on your five - year old.

Though Southpaw may not be the kind of movie that Academy voters will deliver accolades to, it's a masterful performance for Gyllenhaal, in a role originally intended for left - handed rapper Eminem (no joke), who breathes a great deal of life to a role that could easily have been deemed underwritten if left to someone who didn't add more to what had been on the written pages of the old - fashioned script.

In fact, there are so many jokes thrown in per minute that it's kind of hard to get them all on a first viewing.

The biological explanations are left to Meredith (Jane Levy), Tripp's biology tutor, who ends up helping and has a crush on Tripp (He's the kind of guy who's not smart enough to go for the cute science nerd, which leads to an uncomfortable joke about her not needing to worry about walking home alone).

Robots abounds with fart, elimination, sex, and a number of other lower jokes that can elicit a laugh or two but that seem more to pander to the easiest kinds of laughs, just as many horror movies rely on jump - scares to make their movies scary.

Simply on the level of tone, the film, a Judd Apatow - like bromance elevated to the realm of near - myth, is an extremely odd, deliberately jarring work — the kind of film where a tossed - off fart joke coexists with a mournful montage of a man, Alvin (Paul Rudd), contemplating the burned - out ruins of an old woman's house.

His earlier films, funny as they are, are hampered by unevenness and overemphasis, and by the kind of selfcongratulatory distrust of the audience that makes Brooks hold his shots too long, zoom in insistently on his sight gags, use the same joke again and again under the misapprehension that that makes it a running gag, or — when in doubt — have an unlikely person say «bullshit» or burst into Cole Porter.

Very cool to see you mention FLCL as an influence on Scott Pilgrim — I definitely got that vibe while watching the flick, and specifically mentioned so when persuading my brother to check it out (he's a huge fan, joking that the world's divided up into two kinds of people: those who «get» FLCL and those who don't).