Sentences with phrase «like skits»

This discrepancy results in a mixed experience for scrupulous viewers because many scenes look more like skits and often fall short of their required dramatic weight.

I would wear this but I like my skits a bit longer, looks great on you!!

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Singh performs skits too, like when she plays exaggerated versions of her Indian - born parents.

Like its Blanchard video, the company's Tom Peters video wraps business lessons in an entertaining shell, in this case a skit about running a lemonade stand.

In what appeared more like a «Saturday Night Live» skit than an act of cybercrime, a group calling itself the Shadow Brokers put up for bid on the Internet what it called a «full state - sponsored toolset» of «cyberweapons.»

Saturday Night Live joined in the hype with a skit on «Silver Echo,» re-imaging how an Echo - like device designed for older adults would behave.

Thats like getting your news from the SNL news skit.

and a member of the GOP?!? maybe she's blind and doesn't know she's black, like in that Dave Chapelle skit.

Unfortunately many churches are following the trend by «juicing» the service with a lot of hype, skits, musical performances, and the like, which will attract the «big audience.»

Phone numbers all sound like they came from a Monty Python skit.

Since I was a kid, a line from the brilliant SNL skit George F. Will's Sports Machine has stuck in my head like a catchy song.

Nothing like taking an iconic SNL skit and trying to incorporate it into the College Football Playoff discussion and it turns out to be Lou Holtz dancing while ringing a cowbell and speaking incoherently.

Like a Monty Python skit, one could always count on the Gunners to implode at the end.

His jokes smoothly ranged from the clever — a skit involving a grammatical critique of the EDL was deftly delivered, somehow both innocently and scathingly — to the well - timed puerile gag: «voting Tory is a bit like masturbating — you should never do it in a polling booth.

And when I went back to the skits somebody had written a comment like — it was probably ruder than this — «You had a good thing going there, you should have stuck with the science videos.»

Comedy skits like the «Lowered Expectations» routine by MAD TV poked fun at the personals industry and the stereotypes of singles who «needed» to use dating services.

The humor is EXACTLY like the previous Stooges shorts / skits, so you should know before buying your ticket if you're going to like the film.

While touching on many points most don't know about Seuss, the docu is far from exhaustive, seeming padded by all the skits, stories and overacting by the likes of Frewer, Patrick Stewart, Christopher Lloyd and Robin Williams.

And I wouldn't mind that concept, if the film at least had a story to go along with it, instead of segments (or skits) of humans acting like selfish, reactionary assholes.

If you're like me and think 1D makes ears bleed, then the obviously - scripted terrible humor movie this claims to be (heh, calling it a movie as if its good... trust me its not) will throw constant amateur footage of concerts at you instead of giving any scenes with the group in and if so, it will just be dumb little skits.

I wasn't a fan of Annie's customer interaction at the jewelry store — too much like an SNL skit — nor the grossness of her clueless British roommates, although the girl's line, «I didn't know that was your diary; I thought it was a very sad, handwritten book,» made me, again, laugh out loud.

But with Mahoney's pedestrian, shot - reverse - shot direction, these scenes play out like situational skits from an instructional video made for ESL students.

Quickly becomes an endurance test: like watching an old Carol Burnett skit that's not working, or a high school play that's trying to be bad.

At its best, the movie feels like an extended skit, but the script feels witless and is far too focused on moving along the convoluted plot.

It's weird how films like Wonder Woman, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Spider - Man: Homecoming were so heavily represented whether via skits or presenting awards, but get slighted for the real awards.

A scene where Fred goes to a «Siblings Anonymous» meeting and he rubs elbows with the likes of Frank Stallone, Roger Clinton and Stephen Baldwin has the makings of a funny skit comedy, but they couldn't really find a funny angle other than the initial idea.

Watching this movie from beginning till end is like watching one of those MTV parody skits that's funny because of how bad it is, but also being self ware.

This behavior only works so long, and after one too many adventures with Wilson, it becomes exhausting, also like a SNL skit that doesn't know where to end.

Aubrey Plaza heads up a cast of skilled comic actors in a sex farce that has amusing moments scattered throughout but risks feeling like an extended SNL skit

Neither is this shallowly conceived and flat comedy / sci - fi satire that feels like an SNL skit run amuck.

The hems of the skit - like improv begin to show.

But while «I Am Chris Farley» is an enjoyable tribute that will make you want to spend the next few hours watching old «SNL» skits and film clips on YouTube, the documentary feels like it's just barely scratching the surface at times, especially in regards to Farley's struggle with substance abuse.

Portions of the film are laugh - out - loud funny, but in between, it's all merely a set - up for the next skit - like segment built on the same premise.

«War & Peace On Lifetime» sounds like a Saturday Night Live skit.

But I would like to know, if you have any plans to do some new 2,000 Year - Old Man skits?

Like one big, long, «Saturday Night Live» skit, the movie about a television interviewer Dave Skylark (James Franco) and his producer - friend Aaron Rappaport (Seth Rogen; he also directed) who score an interview with North Korean leader Kim Jong - un (Randall Park) is sophomoric at best.

Anything more than 95 minutes is asking for quite a bit, and given that the movie only begrudgingly has a plot at all, what we have is a collection of skit - like scenes of two characters doing idiotic things, which does tend to grow tedious after a bit since every joke has the same punch line — these guys are unfathomably dumb.

Like a Monty Python skit that's far too worried about ensuring the audience gets the joke, Mitchell's take on Gaiman's story goes out of its way to be odd, but in the most cynical and manufactured of fashion.

Overlong and overdone, Running With Scissors strives to be a Wes Anderson-esque satire, but often feels like a string of skits held together by a compelling premise.

The movie ends up feeling like a series of short skits grouped together by theme until the last half - hour finally gives a purpose to everything we've seen.

As often is the case with projects involving «Saturday Night Live» performers, this does seem like a one - joke premise when you first hear of it, and to some extent it is the stuff of skit comedy stretched to feature length, but writers Jeff and Craig Cox, with rewrite assistance from John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky, manage to find enough angles in these eccentric characters and funny premise to not lose steam throughout.

The production feels like a high - budget skit comedy, dressing up the actors and telling them to riff on one central Biblical theme or scenario and hope they stumble upon enough footage worth keeping.

You may remember that we first learned of this movie from the Sony Hack, where these plans read like a hacky movie pitch featured in an SNL skit.

Toby Jones (The Painted Veil, Mrs. Henderson Presents) as Karl Rove and Jeffrey Wright (The Invasion, Casino Royale) as Colin Powell also look much smaller than their real - life counterparts, and more mannered, seeming like they would be more at home in an «SNL» skit than in a serious film about these public figures.

Nicole had a ticket to the awards, but like many other attendees, she spent a good portion of the night lingering at the bar — where Laurie Metcalf hung out after losing the supporting - actress statuette to Allison Janney, and where everyone was extremely confused when, as part of Kimmel's skit, Gal Gadot and Guillermo del Toro came rushing into the lobby together.

It's like a Saturday Night Live skit a little bit.

My personal take on Nacho Libre is that it seems like a funny skit comedy that somehow managed to get a full - length feature release.

They could even have put out a piffy video like the old game sharing skit Sony levelled at them.

Perhaps it seems like over-thinking to quibble with the ideological talking points of a movie that mostly dawdles from one skit or cameo to another, interspersed with the occasional song - and - dance number, and which contains one of the best comic set pieces of the Coens» career: a director and his recently re-cast lead trying to work through a single awful line of dialogue («Would that it were so simple») while filming a turgid melodrama.

This film has so many moving parts, spending little to no time perfecting any of them (or adequate - ing any of them, really), that it feels more like a series of skits left on the cutting room floor with no connective tissue to keep the momentum up or drive interest in any of its characters, the outtakes of a better and more accomplished film.