Sentences with phrase «less melodramatic»

It feels somewhat odd in today's day and age to be all excited about a game that looks, sounds and plays like a title released close to the end of the previous century — see the 1980's and 1990's for a less melodramatic description.

Alice the 101st is thus far considerably less melodramatic but that's not a bad thing; there's some interesting different plot elements coming together and a fun amount of humour in this one as well.

Apparently one of the best kept secrets of 2008 was the fact that Sam Mendes was working on another movie to immediately follow Revolutionary Road — something a little less melodramatic and Oscar bait - y.

Less melodramatic than 1991's similarly themed Little Man Tate, it's got the understated charm of Webb's (500) Days of Summer, but little of its originality.

Mind you, it's also a film I think is great too, but it also uses violence as a dramatic crescendo whereas «Bluebird» is much more honest and less melodramatic about the organic and natural direction where the narrative needs to take these characters.

But I found that the film was much better than those pictures, being less melodramatic and handling its story transitions in a smoother fashion.

This and less melodramatic examples of interspecies interaction are intended to illuminate the fact of our common community with animals and our duty to respect their rights and needs in exactly the way we would those of semi-dependent human community members.

Not exact matches

Neither the refined nor the melodramatic way to play these characters is wrong, or any less entertaining, it's just they belong in different plays.

Writer - director Richard Linklater's latest and unique cinematic achievement is less about a 12 - year production and more because of his almost seamless blend of the melodramatic and the quotidian.

But this is less of a concise drama than Farhadi's best and there are melodramatic moments (Bardem in the rain!

A less effective version of the same fact - based story, even with the same actors doing the same excellent work — it's Jake Gyllenhaal's finest, truest two hours on film — might creak and groan with «inspirational weepie» biopic machinery, over-engineered Big Moments and an arm - twisting, melodramatic approach to its subject.

If the series never quite transcended its melodramatic young adult roots or heavy - handed socio - political commentary, this third sequel nevertheless moves along with grim, propulsive confidence, once again leaning on Jennifer Lawrence «s steel - jawed performance as a young woman who becomes the unlikely leader of a rebellion over which she has less and less control.»

Lesley Barber's score is overly melodramatic, domineering over scenes that would benefit more from less obvious accompaniment or none at all.