Sentences with phrase «made ego trip»

But it's finally the casting of 500 - pound gorilla Roberts that kills this thing, throwing its centre of gravity so off - balance that August: Osage County feels not much different from a tailor - made ego trip like Something to Talk About, even before that contentious epilogue.

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richardli went live in May 2016, and whether it's an ego trip or a brilliant branding strategy, it makes Li the first person to mark a territory of the internet in such a way.

A second criticism must be made: as a result of naïveté and other factors in their own psychologies, the three authors» therapies become ego trips for them as therapists.

Perhaps you don't actually want to make a proper comment; but merely gain an ego trip reputation for «wit», as you clearly think it to be.

Whilst I am not one to read the papers and belive evrythibg I see and hear we all know that rather than buy an established player AW will buy a cheap alternative and then attempt to convert them into a world beater in the positions we need to strengthen most, that way he will be able to dine out and feed his «I made Thierry Henry» Ego trip for another ten years much like he is trying to do with Chambers

While the Sun - Jupiter face - off can make us all feel like superheroes, it can also send us on serious ego trips.

Robert Downey Jr.'s Blake Allen is enough of a raging dynamo to find the dark humor and desperate romanticism at the heart of Mr. Toback's ego trip of a premise, and to make Blake sympathetic too.

Genre conventions show up right on schedule (conflicting egos, creative differences, make - or - break gigs), while the decade's icons drop by for signposting guest appearances, but wistful or not, the film's magical musical tour isn't purely a nostalgia trip.

It's a self - indulgent, voyeuristic look into the lives of Hollywood couples, but in the end the only realization to be made is that our favorite talents are far more interesting when playing fictitious roles or crafting artifice than in their petulant ego - tripping.

Tellingly, Signs also features bookend title cards touting it as «An M. Night Shyamalan Film» in thirty - foot letters — it's a total ego trip (note Shyamalan's extended «cameo» and exactly how crucial it is to the film: the man makes himself the most important character in the piece), and no matter how beautiful it looks, how expertly its sound is mixed, how funny it can be, and how effective a few tense scenes are, the picture is a first - class disappointment.

And I think that is a conscious stylistic choice, not a directorial ego trip by Paul Thomas Anderson who tends to make big movies with big themes, most of which I have liked a lot (There Will Be Blood, Magnolia).

A spiritual and esthetic ideal in its origins, the sublime took on a sense of nation building in nineteenth - century America, of self - making in the time of Jackson Pollock, of ego - tripping for Matthew Barney, and now a kind of ego - undoing in the hands of an upmarket gallery and an inward - looking photographer.

He felt that much of the art getting made today is devoid of presence — that it's self - serving, ego - tripping, and fails to contribute to contemporary culture.