Sentences with phrase «melodramatic story»

The feature - length work transforms the genre of the Western into a melodramatic story populated by allegorical characters.

It's blatantly a yuri game, meant to focus on the sexuality and romance between its exclusively all - female cast members; its melodramatic story is literally full of wide - eyed, busty beauties and all the other usual cliches and tropes that are associated with the genre — gratitous camera angles, swimming pool scenes, unlockable skimpy swimsuit costumes, crazy combos and flashy animations, etc..

There's not even quirky or amusing writing to enjoy in between battles; it's a melodramatic story with unjustified clichés.

Most of Other M's criticism focused on its overdrawn, melodramatic story and poor depiction of Samus's character and personality.

Working on a rushed development schedule and attempting to develop for two very different platforms simultaneously, Sonic Team developed an unfinished, poorly designed game loaded down with glitches and an inane, melodramatic story.

Director and co-writer Shana Feste kept the names the same in adapting this melodramatic story of forbidden teenage love, but she took out all the crazy.

With heavy overtones of Hitchcockian mystery and intrigue, this stylish thriller is the enjoyably melodramatic story of a rather odd 9 - year - old boy and the adults caught in a twisted vortex around him.

Critic Consensus: Held aloft by a transfixing performance from Javier Bardem as a terminally ill man who chooses to die, The Sea Inside transcends its melodramatic story with tenderness and grace.

Critics Consensus: Held aloft by a transfixing performance from Javier Bardem as a terminally ill man who chooses to die, The Sea Inside transcends its melodramatic story with tenderness and grace.

This is one of the best examples of actionful and suspenseful melodramatic story telling in cinematic form.

Jonathan Monk's Room 11 series conveys melodramatic stories of Americana via a smart combination of Polaroid photography and mirrored wall text.

Fabulist The myth that is Hollywood is built of dreams, melodramatic stories of fame and fortune.

Not exact matches

This year, the BCIC - New Ventures Competition pulled no punches producing an expertly - made, if mildly melodramatic, video highlighting personal success stories in Vancouver — just in case you were on the fence.

The heroine remembers the time before when she and her friends had dismissed news stories of violence done to women (as readers might dismiss literary dystopias) as «too melodramatic»: «We were the people who were not in the papers.

The most important has to do with the structure of the play, which turns the story of the Passion into a melodramatic clash between on the one hand the good Christ and his followers (including by implication the entire Christian Church), and on the other the evil Sanhedrin and its followers.

If he hadn't leaked the story in a very melodramatic way there wouldn't have been a run on the bank.

Critics Consensus: It's sentimental, and some viewers may feel manipulated by the melodramatic final act, but The Man in the Moon offers a finely drawn coming - of - age story with an excellent cast — including Reese Witherspoon in her film debut.

Critic Consensus: It's sentimental, and some viewers may feel manipulated by the melodramatic final act, but The Man in the Moon offers a finely drawn coming - of - age story with an excellent cast — including Reese Witherspoon in her film debut.

What I liked is the fact that there was a lot of potential, with this type of story, to resort to melodramatics and they hold back from it, for the most part.

The film is a hokily melodramatic rise - fall - redemption story with a mostly unearned patina of greater significance.

In conclusion, there are melodramatic spells, as well as some focal unevenness, spawned from hurrying past certain plot aspects that really aren't all that needed in the first place, being not much more than supplements to the rather repetitious bloating that makes this overambitious effort too overblown for its own good, though not to the point of completely dismissing its engagement value, as there is enough sharpness to the production designs, cinematography and score work to provide striking style, as well as enough story value, brought to life by inspired writing, direction and acting, - particularly by leading lady Halle Berry - to make «Alex Haley's Queen» a rewarding near - epic study on the struggles faced by the mulattoes who struggled to fit into a post-slavery society that was rich with racial tension and plenty of other life challenges.

Instead they come across as yet another melodramatic contrivance in a story that's already staggering under the weight of far too many.

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.

A less effective version of the same fact - based story, even with the same actors doing the same excellent work — it's Jake Gyllenhaal's finest, truest two hours on film — might creak and groan with «inspirational weepie» biopic machinery, over-engineered Big Moments and an arm - twisting, melodramatic approach to its subject.

The story builds melodramatic momentum, but is interrupted by episodes of suffering that smack more of sensationalism than candor.

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.

That said, the story can sometimes be too clichéd and melodramatic, which is a damn shame because Wainwright can most certainly do better than that.

But I found that the film was much better than those pictures, being less melodramatic and handling its story transitions in a smoother fashion.

But without scripts by talented writers like Philip Kaufman (The Outlaw Josey Wales) and David Webb Peoples (Unforgiven) or stories that are brutally or sentimentally melodramatic — or both, as in Million Dollar Baby — his weakness as well as his primitivism stand cruelly exposed.

The screenplay Bryan Sipe actually skips over the scene of Gabby revealing her affair to Ryan, which might at least have provided a bit of melodramatic heft to the story.

Naturally the effects look outstanding, but story wise it still looks as trite, cliched, melodramatic, heavy - handed, anachronistic, and preachy as it came across in the script treatment.

Though sometimes melodramatic and formulaic, nonetheless this is a rousing, powerful story of courage and humanity - and Theron is excellent as a strong - willed coal miner in a hostile workplace.

Director William Dieterle's 1941 film adaptation of Stephen Vincent Benét's short story, «The Devil and Daniel Webster `'» is a melodramatic fever dream, a hallucinatory tour de force in which marvelous, evocative effects and extraordinary p...

What connects these stories is Kristen Stewart, a former assistant of Bobby's uncle, who walks into the New York club one day like a ghost from the past, a scene as melodramatic as it sounds.

When that event is the systematic killing of over a million people because of their ethnicity, one especially has to question the rationale of including such a contrived and melodramatic plot as one of the story's central points.

The story definitely lends itself to being a tad melodramatic, and the director doesn't really temper those moments with anything understated, starting with when Joey has to plow a field full of rocks so he can save Albert and his family's farm.

The film's story doesn't exploit the terror of the Blitz, although that means some of the film's later melodramatic turns have to be devised out of unrelated tragedy.

If the general outline of the story sounds melodramatic, it is and proudly, unapologetically so.

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.

When a story line threatens to become powerful, such as the ones involving Taslima or Claire, Kramer invariably cuts away to more mundane melodramatics, especially those involving a Korean teenager (Justin Chon) pressured into joining a gang.

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).

De Rochemont's background informed the film: it was based on a true story and largely shot on location, and the espionage drama, which was defined as much by the workaday procedure of the American agents as by the melodramatic storyline and the exotic danger of covert spies and double agents, was framed by authoritative narration.

It's hard to tell a story of the struggles of alcoholism without coming off like a melodramatic after school special, but thankfully director James Ponsoldt has come around with Smashed.

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.

If you don't mind the melodramatic tone, both Bening and Bell reportedly turn in stellar performances, and the film tells the story of their romance in flashback, allowing plenty of time for the actors» chemistry to build and create a satisfying and plausible relationship.

John Krasinski peruses ideas and occasionally melodramatic happenings to have the story come to a certain ending, and with the exception of one point of the story, it's all fairly predictable.

Ucitelka (The Teacher, Jan Hrebejk, 2016) Marvellously melodramatic, with a superbly manipulative protagonist, it becomes more than just a story from Czechoslovakia's Communist era.

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

BIRDS WITHOUT NAMES The telling of its story does a fine job keeping the viewer engaged and just disoriented enough to both appreciate its surprises and forgive an elongated, unnecessarily melodramatic end.

But this «based on a true story» feature, like their Allen Ginsberg bio-drama «Howl,» is neither satisfying as drama nor irrefutable as history, thanks to the melodramatic Andy Belin («Trust») script.