Sentences with phrase «melodramatic about»

If you continue to run the engine with very low oil, destruction will occur... and no... I'm not being melodramatic about it.

Mind you, it's also a film I think is great too, but it also uses violence as a dramatic crescendo whereas «Bluebird» is much more honest and less melodramatic about the organic and natural direction where the narrative needs to take these characters.

Not exact matches

Though some people might like to dismiss these sorts of sentiments as wishful thinking, melodramatic affectation or worse, they actually emerge from deeply held beliefs about the power of suffering, the motivational memory of the beloved, and ultimately the hope of a potential reunion.

It sounds melodramatic but I bet you have a sense of what I'm talking about.

This is slightly melodramatic (and clearly Logan has an extremely well developed sense of fish - related smell), but he's not wrong about the fact that fish tends to have a certain... odor.

Nor am I talking about a «moral decay» or anything so melodramatic.

I admit this melodramatic and mysterious aura to bodybuilding is what still gets me excited about it to this day.

Let me just apologize right off the bat for the fact that I'm about to make you victims of the most random, melodramatic post of all time.

All in all, the film is plenty conventional, even in a portrayal of Ancient Rome that is about as thin as a lot of the characterization, and as contrived as the melodramatics which slow down the impact of momentum almost as much as dull and draggy spells, thus making for a script whose shortcomings are challenged well enough by a powerful score, immersively beautiful visual style, solid direction, and strong lead acting for Henry Koster's «The Robe» to stand as an adequately rewarding and very intriguing study on the impact Christ had even on those who brought about his demise.

I didn't particularly mind it myself; it's about as melodramatic, formulaic, and uninteresting as most films of its kind that I've seen, but at the same time, not as bad as, say, half of the lot.

While the film's melodramatic conclusion threatens to undo the goodwill of its first two thirds, it's mostly an intelligent, engaging, and sometimes darkly funny drama about the process — and cost — of 21st century warfare.

Writer - director Richard Linklater's latest and unique cinematic achievement is less about a 12 - year production and more because of his almost seamless blend of the melodramatic and the quotidian.

With both actors performing against type — Jonah Hill in particular is known for melodramatic roles in «The Wolf of Wall Street,» about a financial tycoon, and «Moneyball,» about the use of technology in baseball — «True Story» is a gripping, fascinating film, a psychological thriller without the melodrama we associate with highly commercial works.

All of this is in service of an unfortunately melodramatic tale of a husband who must become a widower in order to discover the truth about his marriage.

As the story progresses, the film also shifts strangely from a riveting exploration of a power couple with a pioneering spirit to a more melodramatic thriller about corruption and murder.

It covers the three preview performances leading to opening night in one, digitally - unbroken take, making room along the way for Method asshole Michael Shiner (Method asshole Edward Norton)-- who steals both the play Birdman is about and the play - within - a-play conceit of the movie by stealing the movie — and tons of narrative melodramatics, including a neurotic leading lady (Naomi Watts), Riggan's burnout daughter (Emma Stone), and his stressed - out lawyer / manager (Zach Galifianakis).

by Walter Chaw There's the seed of an interesting idea in Neil LaBute's Possession — something traceable to A.S. Byatt's melodramatic novel of the same name: the film's one clumsily extended trope that it is about keepsakes and the desire for memento mori and memento amor as it manifests amongst intellectuals.

While that no doubt sounds melodramatic, there is no paucity of writers (talented or otherwise) willing to ramble on about the successes or failings of cinema.

Although about the humble roots of hip hop and b - boyism, the makers of the film have a more grandiose spectacle for its subject matter in mind, featuring some manufactured melodramatic elements, culminating in a farfetched song - and - breakdance concert featuring Melle Mel and the Furious Five (recently broken up with Grandmaster Flash) and future Rolling Stones back - up vocalist Bernard Fowler's gospel chorus entertaining a packed hall of enthused aficionados.

Too melodramatic to be a real thriller, Thierry Klifa's «His Mother's Eyes / Les Yeux de Sa Mère,» (France) about a writer's plan to ingratiate himself into a fractured family, is still intelligent, engrossing and features an easy - on - the - eyes cast, which includes ever - lovely Catherine Deneuve, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Géraldine Pailhas and Jean - Baptiste Lafarge.

The latest film from director Paul Weitz sits comfortably alongside his earlier comic and ultimately melodramatic explorations of 30 - something adult anxieties about parenthood, mid-career crises, and personal growth.

That's another thing about Leigh, that he never appears himself to be making any kind of overt judgments on his characters, or even preparing any kind of melodramatic reveal of their hidden natures) the film brims with uncomfortable little touches.»

An operatic descent into the lives of lost souls in the San Fernando Valley, Magnolia is Anderson's three - hour melodramatic epic about the nature of forgiveness.

Based on the daring 1952 rescue of the oil tanker Pendleton by a Massachusetts - based Coast - Guard crew — or, rather, based on the book about that rescue — The Finest Hours does its best to immerse the audience in the derring - do of its heroes — and succeeds for a while — before merely submerging us in the overflow of its melodramatic waters.

Director Robert Benton's exploration of romance is insultingly simplistic and yet painfully convoluted, full of melodramatic non-revelations about the nature of love and subplots upon subplots that stack up to a bunch of love - and - lost hooey.

Bay plays about half the film for goofball humor and half for melodramatic excess.

Instead of seizing the opportunity to tell a compelling story about how these African - Americans attempt to deal with the stresses of racism at the mercy of authority figures, they're mostly ignored in favor of an unfocused, undisciplined, melodramatic mess.

There are repeated melodramatic «Oscar bait» scenes of McConaughey delivering teary - eyed, stirring (read: booooooring) solo speeches about inequality in the most manipulative manner possible — and our audience ate it up.

On the contrary, Truffaut publicly defended both his on - screen character and the film he was making, «claiming a nostalgia for films that are not afraid to tell a story and that have no qualms about being melodramatic» (1).

The new film feels like a capstone, a summation of everything Diaz loves about and finds so profound in Dostoevsky, a transmutation of the writer's melodramatic genius into grist for his more distanced, more emotionally chilled films.

by Walter Chaw A deep cut for Star Wars fanatics, Gareth Edwards's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story also happens to be the single most topical fiction of 2016, talking as it does — in bold, melodramatic strokes befitting a space opera — about the importance of rebellion in the face of fascism.

In playing Joan Clarke, Knightley does her usual melodramatic, aggressive British act and she has Harvey Weinstein's heavy promotion in her favor, but I hesitate about relying on her rank in the race too heavily.

At face value, Twilight waters down the vampire genre to tell a story about a deeply melodramatic love triangle.

Director Jonathan Levine's 50/50 is one of those rare movies that pulls off a feat of narrative tightrope walking, in this case a comedy - drama about a young man with cancer that manages to be thought - provoking and insightful without being melodramatic, and funny and irreverent rather than woefully inappropriate or safe.

No one was more surprised than I to discover that a guy like me — a 40 - year - old Canadian dad — was able to become so enthralled with a game about melodramatic, adult - loathing Japanese teens that I would willingly and eagerly invest more than 100 hours in their story.

Even though the thriller elements are laid to rest about halfway through «Room,» there's still a tremendously engaging emotional journey ahead, where Abrahamson smartly avoids every trap for conventional melodramatics that the basic story elements would seem to lay out for him.

If this plot device isn't bad enough, the arguments that erupt between Ben and Dylan about this and other incidents are overtly melodramatic and nearly unwatchable.

While I have major reservations about a few important script elements, this is a pleasant and occasionally riveting melodramatic treat.

With 45 Years, he's made a mosaic of utterly mundane living that's overlaid with a mystery of nostalgic proportions; from a distance the movie's central proposition, that retiree Geoff Mercer (Tom Courtenay) should be the recipient of notice from the Swiss government about the freshly uncovered remains of his old girlfriend, who perished after falling into a glacial crevasse decades prior, appears ridiculous, perhaps even melodramatic.

The mystery is interesting, so is the law, but the movie gets a little overblown and melodramatic at parts (especially the subplot about Dershowitz fighting to keep two poor guys from getting executed.

Pinkett Smith especially appears to be playing to the cheap seats, flailing her arms about and shrieking; Cool J also has a tendency to lapse into melodramatics.

Kaya Scodelario plays a melodramatic teenager obsessed with her mother's death in The Truth About Emanuel, the second film from director Francesca Gregorini.

And when I start to talk about how district policies and technical changes are undermining Colorado's school accountability system, people think I'm mostly being melodramatic.

From a hidden letter, 17 - year - old Lucy Scarborough learns «all sorts of melodramatic, ridiculous, but true things» about the circumstances surrounding her rape on prom night, her subsequent pregnancy, and why therapy and her signature pragmatism won't be much help against an ancient fairy's curse.

One reviewer, who didn't appreciate Water for Elephants, wrote the story off as melodramatic - to which one has to respond, how could a book about the circus not be melodramatic when melodrama virtually defines the circus!

Lacking the melodramatic sizzle of its predecessor, this sophomore effort is a colorful but middling multilayered novel about family history, love, and redemption.»

The rhetoric about the Amazon - Hatchette dispute is basically melodramatic PR.

Italy's film giallo — garish, bloody, and melodramatic — says as much about the country as its understated neo-realistic or high - brow surrealist works.

Say what you will about the melodramatic voice acting, but SOTN's hauntingly beautiful score is still one of the most enchanting highlights of video game audio to date.

«But only love of money a d power», ladies and gentlemen the Oscar goes too... the melodramatic kid about video games.