Sentences with phrase «mess of a film with»

Unfortunately, the creative minds involved went down the wrong path giving us a poorly written mess of a film with a lot of wasted talent involved.

The film, which premiered at Sundance earlier in the year, has been universally panned and for good reason too, it's a mess of a film with no direction and nothing to say.

Not exact matches

Pogba was filmed in training messing about with a shot from way behind the goalline that, of course, he stylishly curls into the net.

Ultimately, good intentions aside, the only point that You Don't Mess With the Zohan really proves is Newton's Law of Gravity; cowriter Judd Apatow has been THE dominant voice in American film comedy for the last three years (and I'm even counting the underrated Drillbit Taylor), but this movie proves that even HE had to come down some time!

Since it's a comedy, and we see a lot of funny moments during this nearly 2 - hour long movie thanks to Sandler's commitment to his character, were i a film critic i would certainly grade «You Don't Mess with the Zohan» somewhere between 60 and 64

The entire film is an exhausting tango of uncomfortable circumstances that escalate into an utterly ludicrous finale which is itself a mess of multiple endings studded with predictable reunions and pathetic reconciliations (it's one of the very worst series of conclusions ever filmed).

The first trailer for the film has arrived and it's more of the same, but for Universal, shit ain't broke so they're not going to mess with the formula too much.

Amidst the debate surrounding the lack of diversity in film, Lionsgate releases «Dirty Grandpa», a racist, misogynistic, homophobic mess, complete with a...

The film, which features the extraordinary cast of Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Ben Stiller, Elizabeth Marvel, and Adam Sandler (exercising welcomed restraint, i.e., more «Punch Drunk Love» than «You Don't Mess with the Zohan») is a poignant, funny reflection on the stories that get told (over and over and over again) and how they sculpt who we are.

She prefers to look at things from a comfortable distance, where she won't risk messing up any of the film's ordered gravitas with idiosyncrasy, or insight, or anything that might give her film a little texture.

However, even though there are a decent number of heavy - hitting action set - pieces, Killer Elite is a narrative mess that convolutes a pretty straight - forward plot with loads of bizarre character relationships and added «drama» in an attempt to elevate the film beyond a throwaway action experience.

Cannes - winning Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan) isn't messing around with the title of his latest film.

The distinctly fractured narrative - coupled with an exceedingly deliberate pace - does ensure that one's initial impression of the film is that of an art - house mess, yet there reaches a point at which Egoyan's muddled modus operandi comes into focus and one is subsequently drawn into the proceedings.

Director Sean Mathias fails to instill the film with the intensity and integrity of the play, and instead of being an important study of a very sensitive subject, it turns into a chaotic mess.

Solondz takes another hilariously pitch - black exploration of human behaviour with a film populated by excellent actors playing seriously messed - up characters.

But the end result is, at best, a rushed mess that sees the poetic ambitions of Snyder's previous DC films replaced with the banal grinding of plot gears and obligatory character exposition.

The composer messed with the pitch and tone of what she wrote, «perverting material,» as she calls it, to create a finished product that's just as responsible for the film's nervy, agitated, unshakable tone as Glazer and DP Daniel Landin «s haunted imagery.

But with the financial message sent at the box office, it appears that we will be forced to watch at least another mess of a film before they hopefully give up on them.

We did a tonne of tests, with cameras and lenses — because we were using old lenses — and did all this work with the post-production colourist who was messing with the footage in New York and trying to establish what we wanted the film to look like.

Reynolds» Halloween pic with a group of X-Kids also came with a winking plea to Fox to stop messing with the films» timelines.

Composer Justin Hurwitz and lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul contribute a pleasing score, with the kind of earnest verse («Here's to the ones who dream / Foolish as they may seem / Here's to the hearts that ache / Here's to the mess we make») on which Demy films thrived.

These two pros supply the film with witty banter as they investigate the crime spree and wait for their two suspects to mess up, in the process encountering the world's most frightening diner waitress and discussing the nature of televangelists.

Goya's Ghosts (2006) Mixing elements of historic fact with fiction, the easiest explanation for Bardem's wig - like mess in this Milos Forman film is that it's a period piece set in the late 18th - century.

With unprecedented access to hundreds of hours of Marlon Brando's personal audio recordings and film footage, for director Stevan Riley to cull this mess into a coherent whole would seem like a nearly impossible task.

Russell seems to enjoy mess, and even the films of his that I have enjoyed less — like I Heart Huckabees and Three Kings — have nevertheless impressed me with that same sense of chaos - about - to - explode that I liked so much in Flirting with Disaster.

The 39 year old has made his name in dramatic films with roles in movies like End of Watch, Shooter and Fury, so he was worried he would mess up as the sidekick of Ant - Man's alter ego, Scott Lang, played by Paul Rudd.

As a matter of fact, with his silly haircut (yes, I know it was fitting for the time period) and his lack of a consistent English accent, he adds to the shitty mess that is Ironclad, a film that purports to tell the untold story of King John and his mad dash to reclaim power after the signing of the Magna Carta.

A mess of early CGI, noisy silliness and bizarre science fiction musings, both films leave narrative logic and effective atmosphere at the door, with their camp pleasures very much a matter of diminishing returns across their mercifully brief runtimes.

, was a bit of a jumbled mess but goddamn if I wasn't obsessed with his previous film The Skin I Live In.

A mess of a film this one.Plot lines confused and blurred.It seems to have been made up as they filmed.All the American cliques are there.Ugly brutal men in a one horse town, yet the place is full of emotionally wounded gorgeous women.The men are macho and the women inconsequential.The acting is rather uneven, veering from impressive, going down to Benny Hill.This is Cages best role thus far, but his normal low standards means his acting is still below par.The plots descends into a quagmire of nuttiness and by the end is daft romantic nonsense.A tighter script was needed, the director needed to be replaced to stop the film's plot wandering off in all directions and finally someone with greater gravitas was needed to take on Nicholas Cage's part...

SR: Benedict, in your film Mordo says he's a little disappointed about the dangers of messing with time.

An older title brought back into circulation is All Day's expanded DVD release of Ganja and Hess (1983), which features an overly appreciative commentary with the director, co-star, cinematographer, and the film's composer, Sam Waymon, bubbling about a seminal work by independent black filmmakers that's either a lost masterpiece, or an indulgent, narrative mess to some.

This film will not become a highlight of Ben Affleck's directorial or acting career — with its plot and absence of significant character development, Live By Night is a disjointed mess.

That it messes with structure and medium is nothing new, but as with the casting of Downey Jr. and Monaghan as grammar - school classmates (even as it's commenting on Hollywood's treatment of women, it's guilty of it), as it's fucking with the way we look at film and understand narratives, it's indulging in the topsy - turvy, smart - alecky vogue of Guy Ritchie / Christopher Nolan chic.

Tessa Thompson's tormented Asgardian was one of the best things about Thor: Ragnarok and it felt like she was going to be a recurring character in the MCU by the end of that film, so where was she when Thanos was messing with Thor and Loki?

The Cloverfield Paradox is an unholy mess... The characters here never feel like they could exist in a world outside of this space station, all of them barking in tech - speak at each other, rarely acting in what could be classified as recognizably human behavior... As the film bumbles from one confusingly mounted scene to the next, disappointment turns to boredom... The Cloverfield franchise is rumored to grow even more later this year with a second world war - set thriller potentially unspooling in October.

As it stands, the film isn't a complete mess, but with its slow pace and lack of cohesion, it does leave a lot to be desired.

The balance of comedy and drama is handled with ease, and allows the film to breathe and not grow into a depressing mess.

After cleaning up with various critics groups and other film - honoring bodies, and going 1 - 2 at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards, commercial juggernauts Wall ▪ E and The Dark Knight both got relegated to somewhat unfortunately expected, consolation - type booby prizes: a Best Animated Feature nod for the former, and a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Heath Ledger for the latter, among a mess of other, lesser nods.

In this Reverse Shot Talkie, director Matías Piñeiro browses the aisles of a Greenwich Village bookstore with host Eric Hynes to talk about adaptation as an art of taking liberties, the beauty of mess, and his ongoing relationship with William Shakespeare, whose plays have inspired many of his films, including his latest, The Princess of France.

It's Tarantino's eighth movie and his worst by a widescreen, a boring, self - indulgent mess that squanders a big chunk of the goodwill he's built up with cinephiles by shooting on film and supporting independent theaters.

These fit into the film naturally and don't feel forced or like curveballs just for the sake of messing with us.

«You Do Not Mess with Jack Reacher: Combat & Weapons» (10:27) turns our attention to the film's brand of semi-old-fashioned action, with behind - the - scenes looks at fight choreography and stunt filming.

The film messes with slasher tradition by killing one college girl (Jessica Rothe) over and over again, with each one of her deaths resetting the time loop.

Divided into seven chapters carefully arranged to mess with the audience's perspective, PETRA is one of those films which know that they have gasp - worthy twists up their sleeve and play it extra cool.

With two films, a whole mess of special features and a ridiculous low price of $ 14.99, this is a no - brainer if you don't already own the film on Blu - ray.

Rather than answer the requirements of the genre, she messes with it, and the result is a film that lurches to life every few minutes but is mostly dull.

The director, once so in tune with what this franchise should be in the great first film and its first sequel, completely misses the mark in this cluttered, noisy mess of a movie.

The trailer for the fifth film in the «kids cheat death» series is out and it shows what happens when you mess with death and then put yourself in the path of lasers and hot tar, or settle down for a nice acupuncture session.

Even with history being what it is, Edison finally accepting defeat, the film all of a sudden, switches narratives and says «but look what Thomas Edison created after that»... This script is an infuriating mess, not because I care if this movie is good or bad, but because there was so much potential in this story.