Sentences with phrase «never catches fire»

Microsoft is too often a company that creates a product that never catches fire.

The movie is directed by Anthony Minghella (Truly, Madly, Deeply) and looks beautiful, in a calculated kind of way that never catches fire.

This study of a difficult woman, without a truly electrifying actress in the role, never catches fire.

The film hits all the beats but never catches fire.

Dory has a spark that never catches fire, leaving the bulk of its personality up to Driver and her interesting take on the often strange moods of this coming - of - age musical drama.

Sadly, Circa never caught fire.

If you are claiming the ACA is a scandal because it forces everyone to have insurance even though some may not take full advantage of it then paying for the fire department is a scandal because my house has never caught fire.

Generating some laughs through its eccentric characters played by Keith, Landau and Pleasence, the amiable western spoof never caught fire and stumbled along in a clumsy way until it became almost unbearable.

John From Cincinnati, the series that so gripped David Milch during the making of Deadwood that HBO dumped the western for the new surf noir drama, never caught fire with audiences or critics, at least not like HBO buzz shows like The Sopranos, Six Feet Under or Deadwood.

Developed by the remnants of Sonic Team after Yuji Naka went to the United States to produce Sonic 2, released on a peripheral that never caught fire, and left out of almost every Sonic the Hedgehog collection or rerelease in the years (decades!)

A sequel to Jade Cocoon was released in 2001 for the Playstation 2, and though it improved on many aspects of the original game, the series never caught fire like some of its contemporaries.

In this case an expert was testifying in a product liability case that the defendant's products had never caught fire before (as the plaintiff's had).

Not exact matches

Most community groups never get beyond small local actions and, even when a spark catches fire, as in the case of the Occupy movement, it often seems to fizzle out almost as fast.

I have evidence for my invisible fire - breathing dragon that never catches anything on fire, but you don't.

I never did get around to trying these when they were catching like fire around the blogging world a few years ago.

While never caught delivering his moonshine, Johnson was eventually arrested while firing up the family still.

i hope you like my evedence for the NFL rigging the playoffs, i got fired from my job because the security camera caught me doing this research instead of working but at least i know goodell will never find out that i exposed this.

I suppose we were better after the break, especially for the first 10 minutes and in flashes after that, but it never really caught fire although the clearance of the line to deny Jack Wilshere a goal was pretty special.

Walcott was a guy who never really caught sustained fire at the Emirates, due to injuries and a somewhat misplaced desire to be a center forward.

The governor noted that the victims of fire accidents in the past were never compensated by the owners of filling stations that caught fire.

The movement for marijuana legalization has never quite caught fire in New York.

We have a joke in our family about my husband never parking over a pile of leaves in case the hot car makes them catch fire.

But she's not catching up with work, she's firing off an email to her date for the evening, a man she's never met but whose emails make her smile, as they arrange where and when to meet for a drink.

I know that Catching Fire is two - and - a-half hours long, but it never feels like it.

The visual style of the film impresses, it's just that the jokes never quite catch fire like they should — they are more funny in the mind than in the gut.

There are some clever digs at famous shows - «Cirque so lame» is mentioned, and there's a running gag involving a Bengal tiger that keeps mauling a Vegas showman, who always appears swathed in bandages - but the comedy never totally catches fire and it feels rather formulaic.

Aside from the occasional inspired hairstyle and music cue, Halt and Catch Fire's sense of period detail has never seemed adequately obsessive.

Mamet's screenwriting is legendary («The Postman Always Rings Twice,» «The Untouchables,» «Wag The Dog,» not to mention his stage plays), but his half - dozen directing gigs have never quite caught fire.

If the strongest element is the character development and acting, the weakest is the explanation of terms and methods to control fires that might not be common knowledge Nolan sets up a few scenario's that feel like stereotypes; an unwanted recovering addict joining the crew and the constant warning that their home town could catch fire one day, which never play out like expected.

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The romantic subplot, involving Richard and Ledoyen's Françoise, never really catches fire.

It isn't that Best Picture hasn't always been mostly dominated by male narratives — it's that the strong female - driven movies started to fail to catch fire at the box - office around the mid-90s and once that happened, there has never been much of an economic incentive to get those films made.

Catching Fire created constant intensity and progressed at a brisk pace never allowing for moments of absolute boredom.

Therefore, it is doubly depressing that «Cymbeline» never quite catches fire, either as a film or as a conceptual experiment.

Whether De Mornay's Celia Lane is caught melting down at rinkside, flaring her nostrils at the mere scent of a nearby firearm, or actually attaining the Big O while blasting away at a firing range, she's never less than magnetically nutty.

Home Video Notes: The Hunger Games: 4 - Film Complete Collection Release Date: 22 March 2016 The Hunger Game releases in a 4 - Film Complete Collection (6 Disc set) with the following specials features: - 12 Never - Before - Seen Deleted Scenes from The Hunger Games - 6 Deleted Scenes from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — Including 1 Never Before Seen - 9 Deleted Scenes from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 - 2 All - New Featurettes: «Picturing Panem» and «Capitol Cuisine» - 70 Additional Featurettes - Audio Commentaries, Music Videos and More

Theron never has been better, and she is matched by Davis (Halt and Catch Fire), a real find.

For while the vanity - free Zellweger is genuinely terrific, and the film certainly delivers a handful of laugh - out - loud moments, it never quite catches comic fire.

Home Video Notes: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Release Date: 7 March 2014 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire releases to home video (Blu - ray / DVD / Ultraviolet) with the following extras: - Audio Commentary with Director Francis Lawrence and Producer Nina Jacobson - Deleted Scenes - Sneak Peek of Divergent - Exclusive HD Content - Nine - part feature - length documentary: Surviving the Game: Making Catching Fire Home Video Notes: The Hunger Games: 4 - Film Complete Collection Release Date: 22 March 2016 The Hunger Game releases in a 4 - Film Complete Collection (6 Disc set) with the following specials features: - 12 Never - Before - Seen Deleted Scenes from The Hunger Games - 6 Deleted Scenes from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — Including 1 Never Before Seen - 9 Deleted Scenes from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 - 2 All - New Featurettes: «Picturing Panem» and «Capitol Cuisine» - 70 Additional Featurettes - Audio Commentaries, Music Videos and More

The RAV4 just disappears into the background as it reliably takes you from point A to point B like the excellent commuter it's meant to be, never breaking down, giving you grief, catching on fire, causing a commotion at Cars and Coffee, or drawing the attention of law enforcement.

[Note: If you've never heard of these people, you can catch up in our coverage of The Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay.]

They never thought their apartment will catch fire, all their property will be lost, and they will now become homeless.

And though she hopes they will never be caught in a house fire, she was glad to learn Thursday that Sanford firefighters are now equipped with pet oxygen masks - to give dogs and cats a better chance of surviving a blaze.

How many of us have felt our blood pressure rise as we get caught up in a file and keep thinking «I can't believe I'm spending all this time on this issue, I should be preparing for the Smith depositions, I am never going to be ready, I ought to be doing that, not this, the other side is going to see that I'm unprepared, the client is going to fire me, this is just awful!»

They never thought their apartment will catch fire, all their property will be lost, and they will now become homeless.

Samsung's never - ending woes with fire continue, as a Samsung Experience Store in the AMK Hub mall caught fire in Singapore on March 28 — a day before the unveiling of the Galaxy S8.