Sentences with phrase «movie bent over»

A Good Woman sermonizes in the manner Wilde satirized; the movie bends over backwards to assure the audience that marriage and monogamy, the butt of jokes throughout, are just and right.

It's actually a pretty straightforward film, albeit one filled with eccentric choices: quirky Tarantino-esque monologues delivered in formal period speech; slow, rambling scenes punctuated with extreme gore; antagonists that could be read as racist caricatures, except the movie bends over backward to assure you they're not; and, to cap it all off, an operatic theme song that lays out the plot, Gilligan's Island - style.

Not exact matches

Scott's Exodus bent over backward to provide a naturalistic explanation for each supernatural event, which was far from the most boring thing about his movie.

The province of sweaty nerds bent over their bedroom computers, the practice has nonetheless inspired all sorts of hi - tech entertainment, from blockbuster movies to this thoughtful, compelling TV drama.

The movie has to bend over backwards to explain why Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) is giving the Pym Particles technology to Scott and asking him to be Ant - Man rather than entrusting his far more capable daughter Hope (Evangeline Lilly).

You might have noticed in recent decades how the movies seem to be bending over backwards to not offend Chinese sensibilities.

Instead, he took a deep breath, threw the light saber over his shoulder and made a Rian Johnson movie — one that knows where to bend some serious rules and where to break them entirely.

Story-wise, the film chose fiction over fact in many facets of her life in order to tighten the script, but this is forgivable as long as you understand that movies sometimes bend the truth to shape what works best for the script.