Sentences with phrase «like voiceover narration»

Fans of the writer / director will probably eat it up, but any movie that seemingly relies so heavily on a lazy storytelling device like voiceover narration is setting itself up for failure.

Not exact matches

Between the heavy voiceover narration, the multiple literary lectures (Scott Speedman turns up as the teacher who provides the allusions), and the stilted scenes of Bolger and her friends hanging out, the film plays like TV - movie gothic, plodding along to the expected revelations and bloodlettings.

The movie is bookended with cheesy music and bland voiceover narration that feels like it's out of a TV movie.

Like «Wonder Years», «Scrubs» employs a voiceover track, by J.D., though this is naturally done sans nostalgia since both the show and narration are set in the present.

The tone of Frear's voiceover narration sounds at first like a fizzy champagne toast to fin de siecle decadence, but the story's tone gradually grows serious, even darker, as it follows the pathway where eroticism crosses into emotion.

Still, at least this sloppy brass orgy has a pulse, as opposed to Horner's «mournful theme,» i.e., the one that accompanies the retarded voiceover narration of journalist Jack Burden (Jude Law), which sounds a lot like the piano exit music from the old «Incredible Hulk» TV show.

Davidson says, by way of charming voiceover narration, that she didn't want to be a whiny bitch like the rest of her generation, but she replaces that option with becoming an ungrateful, surly, mortally - broken (by her mother's suicide — fair enough) girl - woman intent on taking camels with her on a trek across some of the most unforgiving terrain on the planet.

By the time Barry, in his gleeful voiceover narration, says, «The money was coming in faster than I could launder it,» I felt like I'd seen this all before, and better.

It is definitely lacking the human drama of other dog films that are more fondly remembered (like Old Yeller) and obviously comes without the narration of The Adventures of Milo & Otis and voiceovers of Disney's 1990s Homeward Bound

No sooner does Harry's voiceover narration begin than lines like «I'll be your narrator this evening» immediately undercut it.

That said, while in no way begrudging John Huston's prologue narration and John Hurt's standout rendering of the Horned King, I respect an old school Disney movie that uses professional voiceover actors and not the boldface names of the moment to bring its characters to life, notably the great John Byner as Gurgi, a Gollum - like troublemaker.

The film is narrated by Ruthie, and the overstating - the - obvious voiceover narration sounds like it is geared towards a YA audience: «Bullies exist in every small town.

Finally, someone let him direct his own script, and the result was Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, a riotous riff on the hard - boiled works of Raymond Chandler (chapter titles are all from Philip Marlowe novels: Lady in the Lake, The Simple Art of Murder, The Little Sister, etc), that nimbly satirizes the movie business, detective - movie plotting (there are always two cases that implausibly tie up together), the action hero as idiot and the conventions of the film noir voiceover («Oh shit, back up, back up, I forgot to mention — Jesus, this is terrible narration, it's like my dad telling a joke and saying, oh, I should have told you the cowboy's horse is blue...»).

The incredibly lazy device of voiceover narration assures girls in the audience Cassie is just like them, so the film's extended metaphor about surviving adolescence will resonate more quickly.

It is shot and produced like a documentary, using a cinema - vérité style featuring hand - held camera, quick shots and voiceover narration, says CREA in a news release.