Sentences with phrase «making this a soap opera»

That would make it a soap opera worth watching.

The background leading to the Eastleigh by - election may make a soap opera in itself - and the constituency is no stranger to drama as the 1980s programme Howards» Way was filmed there.

«You have this fascination about making this a soap opera,» he said.

Which is basically what Murphy does, make soap operas with a little genre flare.

Hepburn, who also wrote the screenplay, shows a fondness for neo-realism, with a wealth of handheld shots, often uncomfortable closeups, elements of kitchen sink melodrama ---- great secondary performances from the likes of Nicholas Campbell and Mary Galloway make any soap opera elements utterly convincing ---- and sequences where the bucolic backgrounds and wintry landscapes seem to obsess and overwhelm the characters.

Not exact matches

It was 1933, after all, when Procter & Gamble began producing sensationalized radio dramas as a way to deliver its advertising to homemakers, and it later made the leap to television (the company went on to produce blockbuster soap operas like Another World, As The World Turns, and Guiding Light).

He called «The Walking Dead» a «soap opera» and said big - budget films like «World War Z» made modest zombie films impossible.

It is amazing what lengths we will go to so as to make sure we do not miss our favourite soap opera, or what sacrifices we will make to be able to have our annual holiday.

By now, you've surely heard that all your hopes and dreams are coming true and Christian entertainment titan Pure Flix is making a Christian soap opera.

The show is essentially a primetime soap opera — plots revolve around affairs, politics, religion, murder and all of the other makings of a trashy, scandalous hour of TV.

The O.C. was really only strong for its first season (well, it was at its strongest) but its self - awareness and core group of friends and family made it far more meaningful than its sunny beaches and soap opera plot lines would have you believe.

I have noted before that the culture shifted because soap operas and sitcoms seized the political initiative and made the case for change via emotive narratives and shameless pulling at heartstrings.

No need to make a big soap opera out of the whole ordeal.

Perhaps a healthy Ox, Sanchez and the arrival of Silva make it unnecessary for Arsenal to overpay or become embroiled in Theos possible contract soap opera.

If someone asks you how you can stand staying home all day, make a joke about eating snacks and watching soap operas.

They serve as a welcome reminder of the big questions that we who care about politics must make it our mission to answer and put the internal soap opera into perspective.

We call it making up our own «novela», which means soap opera in Spanish.

So for starters I got back from work and poured myself a glass of wine, made a HUGE pop corn bowl and topped off with lots of parmesan cheese and garlic tabasco while watching a «bad for the kids» Brazilian soap opera and off to blog a little... feeling good baby!

The cast, made up mostly of soap opera / TV actors do a decent enough job and theres even a brief appearance from Robert Englund, stealing the show as a jailed werewolf (think he's a werewolf anyway!)

Affair with a Stranger is unabashed soap opera, made plausible by the sensitive performance of Jean Simmons.

Back in the U.S., Hagman began to make progress in his career, tallying up several TV guest - star appearances (including, presciently, a smiling villain on an episode of Sea Hunt), a regular role as lawyer Ed Gibson on the daytime soap opera The Edge of Night, and a beautifully played supporting role as a Russian / English interpreter in the nuclear nailbiter Fail Safe.

With lyrics that sound like teen soap - opera scripts and music so mellow it makes Dido sound like an espresso junkie, songs like «White Houses» and «She Floats» are tailor - made to soothe the soul.

[VIDEO ESSAY] Behind its soap opera appearance, Almodovar makes pointed political statements that bruise.

Warmed - over «Glengarry Glen Ross» mixed with afternoon soap opera... watching the mawkish movie might make you gag on its mixture of bluster and treacle.

Since 1995, when Law made the transition from British soap opera to Broadway via Sean Mathias» Indiscretions (in which he co-starred with Kathleen Turner), his work has increasingly garnered favorable notice from critics and moviegoers alike.Born in London on December 29, 1972, Law started acting as a teenager.

After calling it a day with the high - gloss soap opera The Battle of the Villa Fioretta (1965), Delmar Daves made one last cinematic contribution as one of the on - camera participants in the 1972 documentary 75 Years of Cinema Museum.

I was trying to think about how The CW could make a racy - but - weepy soap opera out of either of these movies, and then the answer seemed obvious — you have to combine them.

However, that doesn't keep Hollywood moments from creeping in now and then, with lots of soap opera antics and fisticuffs that would seem injected in order to make the tale of these boys more cohesive in terms of story development, resulting in a forced climax and epilogue that probably comes more out of fantasyland than out of the recollections of a documentarian.

Particularly over the first night, the back story becomes tedious and the storytelling devices used to make it seem engaging only turn it into a soap opera.

The final twists pack a nice jolt, but I couldn't take them seriously: They remind me of nothing so much as a silly narrative stunt from «Days of Our Lives» circa 2003 — which makes sense, considering the MCU has become Hollywood's most endlessly renewable big - screen soap opera.

Yet there is also a story between the songs; one is the soap opera love interest angle of the captain, Maria and another well - to - do woman in the area, and the other being the more serious plotline of the Nazi takeover of Austria and the changes they make in Austria.

The fact that we have so much drama going on in one film does at times make it feel like a soap opera act.

That said, the finale does have a twist of another kind — a big reveal so asinine, and played with such gloopy sentiment (and overlaid with an out - of - place Kelly Clarkson song), that it makes oft - mocked daytime soap operas seem subtle by comparison.

It makes sense that this is where she first got her start, showing up for a few episodes of the longest - running soap opera «Guiding Light.»

It's that the soap opera - like screenplay from Simon Boyes and Adam Mason which doesn't make sense.

The story of a stripper (played by Elizabeth Berkley, the straight - laced Jessie from Saved By The Bell) trying to make it in the ruthless world of erotic dancing, it's full of soap - opera plot, ludicrous dialogue and some of the campest acting you'll ever see.

And the BIG revelation at the end is pretty obvious, making you question why you had to endure two hours of this soap opera just to be presented with this conclusion.

Making them brothers makes the early scenes feel more like a Holy Land soap opera more than a reinvented sword and sandals epic.

Fed up with being unemployed, Michael employs some desperate measures whereby he dons a wig, make - up and dress in order to try to land a meaty role on a popular soap opera meant for a woman.

One can't help but imagine what a different filmmaker might have made of this lurid, plot - hole - riddled soap opera with a body count (including a perfect over-the-top image of bourgeois degeneracy: murder by wine corkscrew) or the character of Rachel, a bad drunk whose list of past humiliations includes an incident in which she stumbled into the Watsons» house in an apparent attempt to kidnap their infant daughter.

Alan Ball has taken this southern gothic melodrama of vampires in the bayou far from the source material (the novels of Charlaine Harris) and fans have loved his juicy take on the supernatural soap opera so much they have made this show HBO's top original series and bestselling TV on Disc title.

A soap opera - ish secret from her past threatens their future happiness, but the attractive and talented stars and their smoldering chemistry make the melodrama and sometimes predictable turns more than plausible.

The soap operas Hudson made with the director Douglas Sirk, whose windswept allegories of alienation (even the interiors looked windswept) influenced the lumpy - rain - cloud fatalism of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, exploited Hudson's sympathetic potential, their very titles soliciting tears: Written on the Wind, The Tarnished Angels, Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows.

Diving into petty boyfriend jealousies and one riotous sex scene required by the demon, Truth or Dare ultimately plays like soap - opera trash, making you wonder if these onscreen possessions weren't scripted by bored kids grown tired of their own party games.

It's a soap opera stuffed into a music video, and one's grasp on what makes these characters tick is hardly firmer than we had been coming into it.

Taking lush domestic struggles with soap opera potential and making them into stunning films was Sirk's specialty, and this is one of his best, chock full of alcoholic husbands, love triangles, nymphomaniacs, and class prejudice, but with a heart and sense of tragedy that turns «melodrama» into a compliment.

Smart dialogue intersperses a by - committee soap opera plot in a movie made better than the sum of its shaky narrative by three terrific actors.

It's tough to know if the plot is attempting to have fun with Fire Emblem's past soap operas, or if the entire story was thrown together to make the musou gameplay work.

The haze rising off the bonnet makes the view ahead look like the beginning of a dream sequence in an»80s soap opera.

Vertical publishes some of the most interesting manga available in English, but they have not had a digital program — until now: They recently announced that they will make three series available as e-books: The astronaut - school story Twin Spica, the science fiction story 7 Billion Needles (based on Hal Clement's novel Needle), and the soap opera about competing wine connoisseurs, Drops of God.