Sentences with phrase «more melodramatic»

I found a romance writer whose protagonists are the most handsome men in the world, and also rich and own planes, which you know because she says it three times on every page, whenever she isn't pausing to describe kitchen cabinets and backsplash tile, or inflicting more melodramatic catastrophes than you ever saw on ten years of General Hospital.

More of Ryan Reynolds breaking the fourth wall as Wade Wilson aka Deadpool whose superpower is, as he describes it, «unbridled cancer»; More overt and covert pop culture references; More melodramatic 80s music; More opening credit gags and CGI extravaganzas.

The film is the cinematic equivalent of a teenager, making everything more melodramatic than it needs to be, and impatient with the subtle details of life.

Where these other films blend the dysfunction with humor built from realistic situations, The Only Living Boy in New York takes a more melodramatic tone, hoping to garner sympathy for its character.

The prequel benefits from not having to build on the numerous mistakes of the sequel, inventing a fresh angle on the shadowy tale that allows for more melodramatic posturing, better actors, and room to spill monster blood by the bucketful.

Even attempts at slapstick come off subdued in a film that, without Sarandon, could have failed miserably but which appears to be holding back from more melodramatic actions as though trying too hard to cater to an arty audience.

This movie has (thankfully) no resemblance to those films and his cast and crew obviously help him adjust to a more melodramatic storyline.

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.

Before the Storm maybe doesn't take this to heart enough, with its more melodramatic plot beats actually detracting from the parts I enjoyed — and yet I'm inclined to forgive those sins, because the moments where it does stumble on some seemingly universal truth?

Not exact matches

Yes he's a great player when he's in the mood, but when things don't go his way, he sulks and throws his toys out of the pram, so if he wants to go, off you trot sunshine, I can't be arsed with your melodramatics any more.

-- is more than a little melodramatic.

For something a little more soap opera / melodramatic try BLACKBERRY DAZE at the Robeson, for zany comedy try the Kavinoky's THE FOREIGNER, and for a swirl of graceful aerial charm, try STELLALUNA at Theatre of Youth.

With catchy hooks to contrast their melodramatic aesthetic, these Manchester starlets are reimagining Brit - pop More

We also get more Simon Pegg than in previous entries — which is good because Pegg can handle dramatic and melodramatic moments with the best of them while providing much of the M: I specific humor.

There was potential for this film to be melodramatic and overacted but I think, and this is typical of a lot of Argentinian films I've seen, the films are believably acted and they have a grit to their visual style that is more realistic.

The narrative becomes melodramatic and even more synthetic as Punit tries to inject emotion and a sense of nobility that hasn't been earned.

With dogged determination, the producers continued onward with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), at which point fans finally flocked to the series, rallying behind the film's crisp space battles and the melodramatic tête - à - tête between Shatner and Ricardo Montalban.Shatner had to wrestle with his advancing age and the deaths of several characters in Star Trek II and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), but by Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), the actor got to indulge in his more whimsical side, which has since characterized his career.

It aches for more depth and warmth and humour, but this is spectacular sci - fi — huge, operatic, melodramatic, impressive.

Although the melodramatic tussles between her and Raleigh trigger some of the sillier lines in the movie, you'd rather spend more time with them.

Not only is it a wonder of access — the entire cast are non-actors and all dialogue is in Yiddish — but, even more impressively, it manages to be a generous - spirited examination of how practicality can rub up against tradition and culture while never reaching for low - hanging and melodramatic narrative fruit.

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.

On the contrary, it's so waterlogged with the stuff that every melodramatic plot twist wrings out a few more drops.

It's an unpleasant experience, and a long one, that gets more morose and melodramatic as it goes along.

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.

More notably, this movie doesn't bog itself down with melodramatic moments.

The doggedly serious Disobedience might have been a more engaging movie if it had allowed itself to be governed by its own melodramatic passions.

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

It's only as director and co-writer John Walsh starts to emphasize a more laid - back pace that one's interest begins to falter, and there's ultimately no denying that the movie fizzles out in a serious way towards the end (the inclusion of several melodramatic elements, including the dreaded fake break - up, certainly doesn't help matters).

Through this ironic casting, La Paura not only draws upon the personal biographies of its two lead performers, but also more importantly undercuts the melodramatic narrative by preventing the audience from completely investing in them as real characters.

Kosinski's leisurely pacing, often setting up a hangout environment similar to those in the more laidback work of Hawks and Richard Linklater, gives Only the Brave a raw authenticity that's often overshadowed by melodramatic flourishes or superhuman heroics in other films of its ilk.

Although the noted writer / director continues his trend of capturing excellent performances from his leading ladies (having worked with Jane Birkin in La Fille prodigue, her daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg in Amoureuse, Juliette Binoche in La Vie de famille and Isabelle Huppert in La vengeance d'une femme), The Three Way Wedding fails to turn its significant female presence into anything more than an expressive yet insubstantial feature, instead existing in the space between amusing and neurotic, and passionate and melodramatic.

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.

The fact that we get to know Oscar beforehand makes the climax all the more emotional and tragic in its own melodramatic way.

But even during this more dramatically charged second hour, Lee's touch remains restrained and subtle (save for overtly metaphorical shots of ice cubes and ice cube trays), eschewing melodramatic confrontations, ever - so - subtly building to the moving finale, which is exquisite in its deceptive simplicity: in just one singular action, Lee deftly ties up the film's themes of family and belonging.

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.

Argento's work in the States brings out his more gothic sensibilities (for him, Poe was our founding father) and Jenifer's auteurist stamp is most visibly felt in its frills and flourishes: the Claudio Simonetti score (part Goblin lullaby, part Bernard Hermann melodramatic ambience), the scary cat, and the lonely overhead from a second - floor window.

The fairly packed audience started vocally reacting «Rocky Horror» - style to some of the more overtly melodramatic turns with «oohs,» «ahhs» and even laughter.

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.

represents a huge departure from the brooding, serious, melodramatic tones of more recent offerings like «The Skin I Live In» and «Talk to Her.»

Nowhere is this more evident than in the melodramatic swirl of the climax, in which, over the course of just a few minutes, LaBoeuf saves Mattie from strangulation by Chaney; LaBoeuf saves Cogburn from being shot by Lucky Ned (a very good Barry Pepper); and Mattie saves LaBoeuf and herself from pummeling by Chaney — only to fall immediately into a pit of snakes and need rescuing again by Cogburn.

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.

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.

There's a lot more stuff, both funny and not so much (Curtis frequently confuses sincerely touching and melodramatic).

Even with its occasional lapses into melodramatic fakery, its cool, machine - tooled mixture of jargon, gadgetry, offhanded machismo and war - is - hell imagery feels far more authentic than in most Hollywood war movies.

Labor Day may share some chromosomes (the new girl in town who becomes a third - act proto - girlfriend for young Henry could be another Diablo Cody avatar), but it is a far more sombre affair, with melodramatic tendencies.

The rich characters and sharp dialogue help to overcome some of the more confusing detours and dense melodramatic segments.

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.

Once the gears of Potter's melodramatic plot start into motion, though, it becomes little more than an over-the-top soap opera, in which current affairs and past sexual trysts are revealed, relationships falls apart, a terminal diagnosis comes to light, and the gun goes through a series of motions to wind up in the hands that held it at the movie's start.

It's a lot better than the TV show, of course, more anarchic, funnier, darker and not nearly as melodramatic.

«Room» is a better, more engaging aftermath film than it is an incarceration one (even if the second half can become rather melodramatic) and the movie starts to really take off once Ma and Jake are freed.