Sentences with phrase «kind of soap opera»

The film feels like neither a polemic, a reality show pilot nor some kind of soap opera doctor drama.

Not exact matches

Investors who have poured over $ 10 billion into Uber over the last eight years have stomached scandals and soap operas of every kind, including the noisy ouster of its CEO Travis Kalanick.

We get such an intimate glimpse into their personal lives that the film loses momentum and becomes a kind of soap - opera - through - flashback.

It proceeds to full thriller mode, and an engaging kind it is in its over-familiar way, no small thanks to saving infusions of soap opera.

Slipping from fantasy to soap opera without any authorial control, pic's best hope is to be recognized as some kind of cult movie of badness.

Combine this with the show's frequently lovely visuals, and Vikings remains the kind of burly soap opera that appeals to an ever - wider audience.

Still, reconsidering the earlier movies presents a kind of paradox: The Fast and the Furious works better as the first installment of a long - running, gasoline - soaked soap opera, but judging it as such at the time would have been premature, not to mention overly generous.

It has the kind of romance one would expect in a soap opera, and with a fair amount of suspense one would expect in a thriller.

That said, the finale does have a twist of another kind — a big reveal so asinine, and played with such gloopy sentiment (and overlaid with an out - of - place Kelly Clarkson song), that it makes oft - mocked daytime soap operas seem subtle by comparison.

Or maybe you recognize him as the hardest working man in show business, popping up in all kinds of roles in all kinds of shows from micro-budgeted indie films to the soap opera «General Hospital» to his recent portrayal of twins in HBO's «The Deuce» series.

I confess to being a sucker for the kind of melodrama that writer - director Alan Hrsuka serves up in Reunion: a soap opera disguised as a serious chamber drama in the...

Those who are eager to slam Paramount's new «Baywatch» movie are probably the same kind of haters who let the original SoCal - set television soap opera die an abysmal - ratings death upon its initial release in the fall of 1989, when NBC hastily canceled...

Post-mortems of a different kind were perhaps on David Rayson's mind when he painted Patio in 1998 — a decade in which the paved backyard became synonymous in the UK with the concealment of suburban homicide thanks both to a series of murders committed by Fred and Rose West in Gloucester, and to a sensational plotline in the soap opera Brookside.

Typically, this kind of motion - smoothing software tends to make movies look artificial (called «soap opera effect»), but TCL hopes the sliding scale will offer something helpful to everyone.

Kind of like when you see an episode of a soap opera, stop watching it for 6 months, then watch it again, and everyone's wearing the same outfits and that guy is still in a coma.