Sentences with phrase «misfire from»

Nintendo had just ended the production run of the Wii U console, which had only sold 13.56 million units since its 2012 launch — an embarassing misfire from the 128 - year - old company.

Panned by critics, mystery thriller The Snowman is a curious misfire from some great actors and filmmakers.

This is not normal and you most likely have an engine misfire from a bad plug or ignition coil.

It sounds like a terrible misfire from the new director, almost as though he is making the mistakes of the teen movie genre that the first smartly avoided.

«Fantastic Beasts» isn't exactly a bad movie — it retains a lot of the series» charm and shows great promise for future installments — but it's a rare misfire from a franchise that seemed incapable of doing wrong.

This could have been a very timely thriller about cyber-terrorism, but instead, it's just another style - over-substance misfire from Mann.

The film was a misfire from the start, its ideas about a virtual movie star created on boozy producer Pacino's home PC dated before the film was even released.

A rare misfire from director Mark Cousins, as he turns his camera to the streets of the Swedish capital.

Critic Consensus: Wan and lugubrious, The Captive represents another atmospheric, beautifully filmed misfire from director Atom Egoyan.

Suicide and apartment troubles turn a perky couple into serial killers in this black comedy misfire from the 18th Annual Tribeca Film Festival.

But Bakish hasn't been able to boost Viacom's share price due to prolonged ratings struggles at key cable networks and box office misfires from Paramount Pictures.

Memphis struggled against the LSU zone, primarily because they misfired from outside the arc.

The Oklahoma City Thunder needed some misfires from a red - hot Dirk Nowitzki to hold on to a critical win over the reigning NBA champions.

Lamely scripted by Nicholas Thomas and director Luke Greenfield («The Animal»), this tedious wannabe action comedy misfires from the get - go, as gag - after - gag falls flat.

From sequels and adaptations to remakes, TheWrap looks at massive movie misfires from the past year

Lacking a manual transmission at launch is only one of the misfires from Lexus» first foray into challenging the BMW 3 series and Audi A4, said Todd Turner, analyst with Car Concepts in Thousand Oaks, Calif..

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Finger's crossed I don't have to ditch my bike in the middle of the street and hide behind a car from a bucket of misfiring sparkler - missiles this year (you only live once right?

He isn't young, 27, he may have had a good season but that was whilst plying his trade for a Eredivisie side that finished 20 points from top spot, and he is not as good as the likes of Albert Riera or indeed a misfiring Ryan Babel.

Chelsea started the season well and quickly built up a 10 point gap over a misfiring Arsenal side, but as tiredness and attacking injuries set in towards the end, Jose Mourinho used his park - the - bus tactics to gain points from Man United and also Arsenal.

Liverpool could be set to receive a tempting bid from Napoli for misfiring striker Mario Balotelli in the January transfer window.

Despite seeming to get the best out of Christian Benteke, who had misfired for the majority of the season under former manager Paul Lambert, Sherwood has been unable to lift his side away from the dreaded bottom three in the league, as they look to avoid relegation to the Championship.

My observation was that the service to Lacazette from Arsenal's misfiring midfield was non existent.

The Portuguese only scored from a penalty in the Champions League final, and a misfiring Messi was unable to score the goals that Mascherano's work deserved for Argentina.

It just seems to go from bad to worse for misfiring forward Roberto Soldado, who smashed the ball against the post tonight, as he attempted to turn it back into the net.

Impressing week after week has attracted interest from Spanish giants Real Madrid, also claimed by the Express, as they l0ok to replace their misfiring veteran goalkeeper Iker Casillas.

Not really... As soon as Walcott and Ramsey appear on team sheet u should know there is trouble ahead... Add an overweight welbeck an under confident xhaka a misfiring bellerin and a right back well past sell by date and bulk of outfield is lower table stuff... So no surprise only surprise is still lack of anger from paying fans....

Ozil playing as a winger for Germany One of the reasons Germany didn't struggle with a misfiring Ozil was because they had the likes of Mueller, Schurrle and Gotze, who could play on the wings and, apart from that, had an eye for goal.

Liverpool were initially linked as the favourites to snap him up, but they will now face competition from their Premier League rivals for his signature as they seek to bring in an upgrade on the misfiring Mario Balotelli.

Ospina was one of just four changes from the Swansea game with the recovered Coquelin, Gibbs and Oxlade - chamberlain brought in to rest the newboy Granit Xhaka, misfiring Nacho Monreal, and the overworked Alex Iwobi.

Misfiring striker Haris Seferovic was a surprising starter for Switzerland, who only threatened from set - pieces in the first half.

As with any team in crisis, the message boards were littered with criticism from Trotter's fans on a range of topics regarding: the manager's lack of a game plan; misfiring strike - force; porous defence; backwards and sideways passing in midfield; and player's being played out of position.

It's not been thoroughly convincing from them and they misfired again last weekend in a 0 - 0 draw at Athletic Bilbao.

Akatsuki has been looping around the sun since 2010, after an engine misfire prevented the spacecraft from slowing down enough to be captured by Venus» gravity.

When the researchers pretreated the heart cells with a derivative of the sedative drug benzodiazepine before subjecting them to conditions that mimic a heart attack, the cells» mitochondria managed to regain normal function quickly, in effect restoring a steady supply of energy that prevented the cells from misfiring.

These are the accumulated reflections from a lifetime spent observing the extraordinary ways the human brain can misfire and misbehave: a man who believes his own leg does not belong to him, an autistic woman with a gift for understanding animals, and the man who mistook his wife for a hat — the case that inspired one of Sacks's most famous books.

During catheter ablation, which typically takes four to five hours, cardiologists thread a catheter, or long thin tube, up through a blood vessel from the groin to the heart and use it as a conduit to send radiofrequency energy to cauterize the misfiring cells.

By correcting hormone misfires, your body will stop shooting from your (ever increasing) hip, and instead, fire on target for a healthy metabolism.

Magnesium helps to stabilize cell membranes in nerve cells, preventing them from misfiring.

These neurotransmitters need to transmit these signals to and from neurons, but when the neuron bundles are damaged, the neurotransmitters can't communicate, and there is a kind of misfire.

Shocking and wrenching scenes abound — a Jewish worker is dropped to his knees as the Nazi commandant tries to shoot him in the head with a gun that repeatedly misfires, Jews are forced to strip and run around a compound in order to prove themselves healthy enough to live as workers, a soldier plays a piano in an apartment building as his comrades roam from room to room, randomly firing on men, women and children...

The trailers had a few chuckles, but I truly expected this film to be a bunch of misfires, along with a cliched premise that would be predictable from beginning to end.

After all, art is subjective, and even if a director has entirely missed the mark from every technical aspect imaginable, that doesn't mean that the resulting misfire can't be amusing in its own right.

But there were also numerous duds, including animated family film Free Birds, drama Out of the Furnace, and thriller misfire Paranoia, which all finished in the red (some in more ways than one, judging from those scores).

Even with the presence of a rare outright misfire (Third Person, from Crash director Paul Haggis), SPC managed to boost its already - high average Metascore by a few points last year, thanks to widely praised films like Mr. Turner (the year's # 2 drama, behind Boyhood), Leviathan (2014's best - reviewed foreign - language film), and Sundance hit Whiplash.

Wonderstruck feels like a serious misfire, mired in the sort of sentiment we might expect from Disney or a Nicholas Sparks adaptation rather than one of art - house cinema's favourite sons.

The Cloverfield Paradox is a monster - sized misfire that feels disconnected from the franchise it's crashing.

When the game is through, highlights in the script, acting and charm behind slightly intriguing subject matter are enough to bring the final product to the brink of decency, but this effort is far from that threshold, as underdeveloped, unlikable characters, aimlessly unfocused dragging and a cold directorial atmosphere behind a paper - thin story concept leave «Zero Charisma» to slip into mediocrity as a forgettable, under - inspired misfire.

Although the Stallone picture is fun in a «so bad it's good» way, it was a total misfire, flopping at the box office and earning disdain from Dredd's comic book creators.

Yet another misfire came from wasting Kumail Nanjiani (Silicon Valley) in a bit role as a school security officer.

Other fine actors populate the movie, from Ashley Judd and Kate Winslet to Ray Stevenson and Miles Teller, but there's no escaping the central misfire.