Sentences with phrase «most melodramatic»

Stone struggles a little with the play's most melodramatic elements, but generally finds sharp modern - day equivalents for its tale of two families riven by class struggle and buried secrets.

He is both intense and vulnerable, and some of the most melodramatic scenes have poignancy to them because of his performance.

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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.

That Avatar «s melodramatic attacks on corporate interests and its defense of simple, natural living come packaged as one of the most expensive, and probably the most technically advanced, corporate films in history would seem to indicate that only quality bigger than the movie's stupidity is its head - in - the - clouds hypocrisy.

a bit melodramatic there... this is the area of the pitch where we have the most backup.

Let me just apologize right off the bat for the fact that I'm about to make you victims of the most random, melodramatic post of all time.

I agree that Raiden and Rose weren't exactly the most interesting bunch to listen to, but in the end of the game this terrible weakness becomes a shocking strength: Rose's inane, melodramatic banter has all been a petty construction - or has it?

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.

I didn't particularly mind it myself; it's about as melodramatic, formulaic, and uninteresting as most films of its kind that I've seen, but at the same time, not as bad as, say, half of the lot.

Most of it is pretty silly, and during the first half of the move I found myself debating who the worse actor was, Reynolds, who is melodramatic to the extreme, or Donahue, who is mostly wooden.

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.

There are repeated melodramatic «Oscar bait» scenes of McConaughey delivering teary - eyed, stirring (read: booooooring) solo speeches about inequality in the most manipulative manner possible — and our audience ate it up.

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.

As a result, while the portrayal is campy and, at times, melodramatic, most audience members will likely be rooting for Poe as the film stumbles into the closing act.

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.

Instead of focusing on the most extreme, melodramatic events in Christian and Caroline's everyday lives, the helmer smartly chose to instead subtly focus on the couple's increased resentment towards the other's actions and personality.

In truth, all five are first rate, so I chose the one I enjoyed the most, a romantic drama directed and performed at a melodramatic pitch.

Hearing the dialogue out loud (or witnessing some of the awkward melodramatic moments shoehorned into the material), it may be hard for even the most ardent fans of the book to deny the lack of quality in the writing.

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.

«Ali & Nino» isn't a perfect romance, and it's most certainly a bit on the melodramatic side.

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.

Perhaps the most difficult thing to endure throughout the long video was the melodramatic «I'm the victim here» mentality peppered with profanity and accusations.

Say what you will about the melodramatic voice acting, but SOTN's hauntingly beautiful score is still one of the most enchanting highlights of video game audio to date.

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

No matter which way you think of him, Street Fighter's Ryu has one of the most memorable themes of any fighter, from the adrenaline - pumping bassline to the synth melody that's always sounded strangely wistful to me — perfect for Ryu's melodramatic, neverending search for new battles.

Oh, and the «Dawn will come» scene was perhaps the most overwrought, melodramatic, eye rolling scene put in to a game since (pick a scene) Metal Gear Solid 4.

With only this noisy but sometimes enjoyably melodramatic narrative and a stream of samey battles to occupy players until it finally opens up after around 20 hours, Final Fantasy XIII is undeniably a nightmare for most people to get into.

Wescoat's more recent series draws upon the same melodramatic theme of «big innocent sad eyes», again drawing from another artist, made most famous by Tim Burton's film titled «Big Eyes» — a beautiful film released 2014, about an artist's struggle for recognition.

Thus, when he came to write his «Letters on Landscape Painting», Durand deftly sidelined Cole's mature but melodramatic style, and advocated instead a straightforward method of plein - air sketching shorn of most philosophical content.