Sentences with phrase «low brow films»

He's above teeth grittingly low brow films like this.

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What makes the film's preoccupation with low - brow crudities so distressing are its infinitely more clever and inspired moments.

[img] http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif [/ img] Back when Eddie Murphy wasn't bombarding us with stupid, low brow and unfunny kids films he made Coming to America and to this day it remains one of his most cherished, warmest and funniest films.

Co-starring Survivor contestant turned thespian Colleen Haskell, Schneider's tale of a car accident victim imbued with superhuman powers after being pieced back together with animal organs kept the low - brow rolling while marking his territory among the ranks of the more successful transitions from SNL player to big screen star.Later, in the 2000s, Schneider frequently alternated between starring in his own films (The Hot Chick, Duece Bigalow: European Gigolo), and supporting his old pal Sandler (The Longest Yard, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry), with few on either side truly managing to ignite the box office or his career momentum.

The film bravely opens with an event for which Brown is arguably better known (certainly in lower brow circles) than for his entire discography combined, that being the drug - addled police - chase he embarked on in the days following his son's death in 1988.

The two directors whose films I saw most often were WANG Tianlin / WONG Tin - Lam (father of modern - era, popular, low - brow, commercial film director WONG Jing) and YI Wen.

I'm not a big fan of the Vacation films, but at least underneath all of the low - brow activity, there was an underlying sense of family that is largely lacking here.

I remember that the Farrelly - penned Outside Providence could have been a good film if not for the unnecessarily low - brow bad taste humor, and now it appears that Shallow Hal has suffered the same fate.

Reynolds does fine in a less defined role, only notable because he does none of his usual low - brow ad - libs that tend to mar some of his other roles in serious films.

The film falls nowhere in between the high or low - brow spectrum of comedy.

I wouldn't throw the film off the deep end just yet, since the low brow storytelling being described here helped «The Blind Side» along last year.

While it may give you what you expect, this cuts both ways, as it gives you the same idiotic plot elements, wafer - thin characterizations, and low - brow angst that made the first film so painfully trite to begin with.

After the release of the first trailer, several outlets criticized the film for not staying true to the source material, feeling it was too low - brow and modern.

Waters freely manipulates images of less - than sacred, low - brow references — Elizabeth Taylor's hairstyles, Justin Bieber's preening poses, his own self - portraits, and pictures of individuals brought into the limelight through his films — to entice viewers to connect to his astute and provocative observations about society.

She freely mines the public domain for high and low brow images, respectively making videos that have consisted of YouTube footage of material shot live on mobile phone cameras during the aftermath of the Egyptian revolution, excerpts from bootleg copies of popular Egyptian films from the 1950s to the present and a remake of a single iconic image lifted from an experimental French film dubbed with a futuristic account of a different place.

Through his work Grant opens a dialogue on geopolitical issues with colorful landscapes, structures and technology drawn from ideas of various utopian and dystopian fictions, drawing influences from the constructivist / supremacist movement, Persian miniaturists, op, pop, advertising, comics, science fiction films, and contemporary low - brow.