Sentences with word «laughably»

Rick's evil nature is made so obvious from the get - go, and in laughably overwrought ways, such as a scene where Danny makes Rick's blood boil... by not playing catch properly.

The visuals are equally bad, with laughably primitive textures, barren map designs, and yet still somehow lots of object pop - in.

RECOMMENDATION: Lost City Raiders is as laughably bad as you would expect any movie bearing the dreaded «original movie made for the Sci - Fi Channel» (now SyFy) label to be.

The officials have a chilling habit of defusing all complaint, whether face - to - face or on the phone, by insisting that they themselves are not making a ruling — it is all the responsibility of the «decision - maker», as if it is one single person: «decision - maker» is an almost laughably ungainly officialese, which also has something distinctly Orwellian about it.

Blomkamp also doesn't get much help from his big Hollywood stars; Matt Damon is fine in the lead role, but a lesser known actor probably would have been more effective, while Jodie Foster delivers a laughably bad performance as Elysium's Secretary of Defense.

A swordfight between Robin and the Sheriff late in the film is too laughably executed to take seriously.

Though they have a haunting, otherworldly presence and are somewhat agreeable on their own, the songs are not unlike the ones of literal music videos, their lyrics very on the nose and laughably functioning like a kind of musical narration.

The voice acting ranges from passable to downright bad, and the facial animation can be laughably awkward at times.

Caroline Dhavernas probably gives the best performance of everyone, but even she is given a laughably unpredictable character.

The visual effects are surprisingly shoddy for a film with such a big budget and the writing is laughably bad, defying logic at every turn.

When La Rue's laughably named Slim Grissom gets his hands on her, Miss Blandish becomes a willing accomplice and a torrid affair ensues despite her father and the police desperately attempting to find her.

Seriously bizarre and laughably awful, this low - budget horror movie throws in just about every shopworn idea under the sun, excepting anything that might be considered scary, alluring, or entertaining.

It so obvious and somewhat satisfying to see how laughably ridiculous they all are.

This was no longer the Highlander I remember, and even though it did try to give an origin to the first film, it was so laughably bad that I completely rejected Highlander II: The Quickening as an attachment to the first, mostly because it totally ignored the first film and contradicted it in ways that couldn't be reconciled.

Those who have argued that the film's title gives away the ending are laughably missing the point by miles.

It's deliciously dark stuff, with brutal mobsters contrasted by laughably stiff suits, neither of whom have any clue what their everyman victim is capable of.

Laughably predictable, far too tempered to generate any tearjerking stakes worth caring about.

Crowe seems laughably old to play the young Nash - the man was 19 in 1947, and Crowe is now double that age!

Just by looking at the laughably poor artwork you can tell that this was a rushed out to drum up some extra press coverage for Dead Space 2.

It's clear virtually from the get - go that director Sidney Lumet, working from a screenplay by Robert J. Avrech, isn't looking to take a subtle approach to the material, as A Stranger Among Us is rife with laughably heavy - handed instances of plot and character development - with the entirety of Emily's character arc handled especially poorly and negatively coloring the remainder of the proceedings.

Cage goes nuts with unrealistic technique and provides a laughably awful performance.

Snakes on a Plane may be a mediocre, lowbrow fright film, but Silent Hill is something much worse — a laughably pretentious one.

Paul Walter Hauser is a scene - stealing comedic force as Shawn Eckhardt, the burly, sad - sack, delusional «bodyguard» to Tonya who fancied himself as some sort of internationally connected black ops expert, even though he lived with his parents and his stories were laughably easy to fact - check and debunk.

There's almost nothing contained in Killing Gunther that wholeheartedly works (eg the special effects here are laughably bad), and it's clear, too, that the picture's padded - out midsection, which is rife with subplots that just don't work, contributes heavily to the egregiously uninvolving midsection.

Friedkin allows the dialogue to get sluggish and sometimes laughably deadpan.

Saturday turned into the make or break day for the incredibly violent, laughably stupid «Rampage,» which looks as if it will hit that magical $ 34 million mark it was projected to achieve pre-release.

From its laughably lyrical opening to its bow - tying resolution, Lajos Koltai's Evening invites comparisons to Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movies.

It does have something of a reputation as a cult film, but that would appear to be primarily because of its intense violent moments that include Ichi slicing a couple of throats, slicing someone completely in half (with laughably - bad CGI), and several instances of Kakihara torturing others.

I especially felt like I wasted hours upon hours playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance thanks to the amount of times that I had to replay large chunks of the game due to the one - two punch of its laughably buggy nature and its unforgiving save system.

Branagh is laughably bad, sometimes so bewilderingly bad one wonders how he thought he was making a reasonable film.

Instead, Alone in the Dark is a somber patchwork of scenes and ideas borrowed from better movies (Alien, Predator), rendered in such laughably lifeless fashion that one can't help but wonder if it's intentional.

Mr. Turner Mike Leigh's biopic about the English landscape painter J.M.W. Turner further proves why critics love the director — at least for Edelstein, who writes: «The artist biopic is the most laughably overexplanatory of subgenres, but Leigh would rather glide over details than be caught spoon - feeding.

It is laughably terrible.

With Mike Mills «screenplay so full of insight, I vote they show kids this film in school and throw out those laughably outdated sex ed videos.

, is hobbled by a laughably bad script and a uniformly uncharismatic cast.

The dialogue felt like it was scribed by a child and some of villains (Sharlto Copley and Samuel L Jackson) were so laughably un-menacing it felt like they had just walked off the screen of a Hanna and Barbara Cartoon.

If it's not the sharpest presentation I've ever seen, thank heavens it's free of the edge enhancement that probably would've plagued the image had Disney released this earlier in the format's life (and no doubt rendered the visual effects laughably transparent rather than cozily - dated).

Some critics have dismissed Marge's outlook as laughably naïve in her inability to understand the existence of evil.

I will admit that some of the use of lighting and camera movements in the second half do provide for some scary moments, but there are an equal amount of scenes that are predictable and laughably bad; one particular scene involving a character winking is particularly (and hilariously) terrible.

A tug of war between great drama and schmaltzy pap, Lenny Abrahamson's adaptation of Emma Donoghue's novel Room comes perilously close to collapsing into a laughably maudlin film at times.

Twee sequences where Jack narrates things from his perspective make the film suddenly turn into «The Littlest Hostage,» and the final sequence is laughably bad, with a scene that feels like watching a PTSD version of Goodnight Moon.

IN THE CUT is not just a bad film, it is a laughably bad film.

Even the film's one attempt to make him look like a tough - when he expertly skeet shoots from the hip - is laughably absurd.

Clifton Collins Jr., an undeniably talented character actor, turns in one of the year's worst performances as a laughably over-eager Jaeger technician.

Shyamalan's laughably wooden — and just plain laughable — fantasy epic is a melange of bad acting, terrible effects and a tone - deaf script that never even has the guts to play its ludicrousness for ironic purposes, so goodness knows how Newton Howard must have responded when seeing the rushes for the first time.

More frustratingly confusing is Avary's script, which follows Rose (a stilted Radha Mitchell) and adopted child Sharon (Jodelle Ferland) to Silent Hill, a ghost town decimated years earlier by a fire, that the little girl likes to scream about during laughably perilous bouts of sleepwalking near a waterfall's cliffs.

It's all laughably pretentious.

Stunt doubles are laughably bad and subtitles are improperly punctuated.

It isn't quite the nadir of the picture, but it's close, only topped in preposterousness by some laughably misplaced fight scenes.

Syfy struck gold with this laughably bad franchise about tornadoes filled with killer sharks that rain down all over Ian Ziering and Tara Reid