Sentences with phrase «more operatic»

I don't know what they are, I mean I think the mainline X-Men movies have their own tone, which is a more operatic tone.

Yet instead of keeping this a tightly wound yarn of imprisonment and escape, Verbinski — working from a script by Justin Haythe («The Lone Ranger,» «Revolutionary Road»)-- opts for something bigger, grander and more operatic, sending the film wildly off the rails over the course of its far - too - long 146 - minute running time.

Villeneuve has never been more obvious about exploring his favorite subject, and at that time he had never been more operatic about it either.

I'll say that, to me, this looks way darker and more operatic than the last trailer we saw from the film.

As for the masses, clergy and musicians from Mozart's time to the present have expressed reservations about their more operatic traits — the religious admiration of Barth and Hans Küng notwithstanding.

Not exact matches

It may thus be that Castro's battle fatigues, Reagan's World War II bomber jacket and cowboy boots, and the operatic uniforms favored by Latin American dictators tell us more about each man's political views than any number of speeches.

The Welsh believing that they would win more FA cups; an improved rendition of «Abide with me» at the cup final; operatic singing of the National Anthem at Wembley finals; and increased respect at Wembley with England supporters not booing foreign anthems and England players, especially John Terry, actually singing rather than miming «God Save the Queen».

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

Great in parts, but flat and clumsy in others, Bellamy's bid to become more serious appears to have stunted what he does best, which is operatic excess fuelled by volcanic emotion.

There is undoubtedly an artistic connection as well as personal, but where von Trier tends toward the operatic even in his most ghastly passage — such as in most of Antichrist — Refn is more indebted to the hallmarks of genre.

by Walter Chaw Maybe it was the anticipation, maybe it's because it's too much like the first film, Pitch Black, but David Twohy's Riddick is merely fine for what it is, lacking the kind of loopy, operatic invention of the franchise's middle course and contenting itself with being a bug hunt in the James Cameron sense of the word instead of exploring more of this universe.

Even when reaching for the operatic, he keeps the focus on small human foibles: a cellphone going off at a funeral; a car parked who knows where; a teenager (Lucas Hedges, in what should be a star - making breakout turn) whose mourning process is no more preoccupying than his desperate attempts to get some alone time with his girlfriend.

With an operatic sweep, the composer has fashioned music which manages to conjure the same type of powerfully anguished beauty as the great Georges Delerue did in his scores for more serious films.

Famous for her operatic soprano, Lind is saddled here with «Never Enough,» an emo power ballad that never suggests opera or anything more than the reject pile left by contestants on The Voice.

That's because while Clark's successful, seductive, and I guess unpremeditated iteration of the giallo formula (whodunit structure, operatic set - pieces, abundance of shots from the killer's P.O.V.) as established by Mario Bava and his peers sparked a genre unto itself in America, the more pioneering copycats, lacking Clark's flair for interpersonal dynamics, so grotesquely oversimplified Black Christmas as to discard its most distinguishing feature: its empathy.

After a series opener in which Sherlock traded its mystery status for soap, the second episode of series four, «The Lying Detective», doubles down on the new soap operatic direction of the show and delivers even more antics and heavy - handed emotional beats.

Brilliantly executed, Wong's peculiarly decentered violent sequences are actually more evocative of the battle scene in Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight than they are of Leone's operatic showdowns, especially in the way they concentrate on ephemeral, oblique details rather than heroic spectacle.

Armed with nothing more than an acoustic guitar and an operatic voice to breathe life into his consciousness - raising hymns, the inveterate rabble rouser challenged authority at every opportunity.

What follows in both Gibson's film and Fulci's is a period fantasy leaking blood and viscera, scored with drama and shot in operatic slow - motion: tales of martyrs and heroes, of battles against the unclean (more suggested in Gibson's film as a steely - eyed, newly - risen saviour gets ready to rock), and, in their different / same ways, reduced to the barest elements of conflict - action - resolution, repeat.

That title currently belongs to O. (Sorimachi, Yamato), a Japanese hit man who is Tok's exact opposite in terms of style, achieving success with calm and calculation vs. Tok's more flashy, operatic maneuvers.

A revolution then happens, and it is handled with the same facetiousness of a love story in which characters fall in love through first sight — more fitting to musicals than the operatic reality achieved in the first act.

The paranormal is the least disturbing of the elements here, played with a gleefully operatic excess, and more than a whiff of the disturbing exoticism of Grand Guignol at work in the passions unleashed.

The SLS AMG coupe is too flashy, its cabin is too cramped, and its engine note is more barking than operatic; unlike DeMatio and Floraday, I prefer the SLS roadster.

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Sadie Coles is showing sculpture by Matthew Barney — he of the immense operatic films such as the Cremaster Cycle and, more recently, River of Fundament, which was seen at English National Opera earlier this year.

Julian Rosefeldt: MANIFESTO Feature film starring Cate Blanchett Opens at the NuArt May 26th and keep an eye out for more dates in June Review by Shana Nys Dambrot Visual artist Julian Rosefeldt is an acclaimed and ambitious fine art photographer and video artist with a distinctly Romantic, operatic sensibility even at his most...