Sentences with phrase «not unlikable»

Their friends include Gingy (Shannyn Sossamon), who runs a struggling art gallery; Rachel (Lake Bell), the ex-girlfriend for whom Ben pines and a protegee of interior designer Edie (Martha Plimpton); and David, called «Kappo» (Eddie Kaye Thomas), an uncool, but not unlikable, hedge fund manager who can't get past the velvet rope on his own.

In a clunky but not unlikable way, the filmmakers play with ideas about female sexual voracity.

Not exact matches

If the teller of a story comes off as not being genuine, as incompetent, or as just an «unlikable» person, it can have an averse effect on the story itself.

In making his movie, he deliberately took advantage of the lack of this framework, and a different set of communicative expectations, namely, the expectation that his characters were real people, dense but not utterly unlikable.

It hasn't helped that Thibs has proven to be incredibly unlikable all season and the defense is still dogshit.

Baltimore has problems, not the least of which is a thoroughly unlikable, dysfunctional clubhouse.

While Brown may not appear popular in opinion polls, we only need look at opinion polls in France to see that a leader (Sarkozy) can be unlikable but still perceived as strong and effective.

Obiviously Project Soul doesn't want to tackle a modern «Weapon Master» mode, the campaign is shallow as always (and cast with a bunch of unlikable characters).

Rhys Ifans plays another slimy creepy generally unlikable character, Nick Frost plays... errr... the fat bloke... again, and then pad out the rest with various familiar faces which most Brits will recognise in some form or another but everyone else won't.

As if it's not enough that the characters are kind of unlikable in certain areas, this narrative that does little outside of simply meditate upon the questionable leads is pretty thin, and that really undercuts much momentum, to where natural shortcomings play an instrumental role in bringing the final product to mediocrity, and yet, I won't go so far as to say that this film's story concept is completely juiceless, as its portrayal of a nerdy manchild's lifestyle is pretty realistic, if not genuine, and therefore kind of intriguing.

There's so little to say in this film, and if there was a little more heart here, then the final product would have stood as genuinely decent, but as things stand, this effort is not only forgettable, but mean -, if at all spirited, with unlikable characters behind a meandering narrative that mediocrity goes secured.

While it doesn't do anything to make «Abby» (Darby Stanchfield) any less unlikable, it at least makes the rest of the cast's sub-plots more entertaining.

Yes, do note that I said that the underdevelopment makes it «hard [u] er [/ u]» to get invested in the characters, because as if it's not bad enough that the characters are so undercooked and, well, kind of bland, they're unlikable, or at least the lead is, for although Sam Eidman's portrayal of the Scott Weidemeyer character is engaging convincing, the character himself is just too much of a manchild - concerned with the superficial and his own self - esteem over the concerns of others and growing up - for you to feel for him all that much.

The former's is perhaps a little more juvenile and hyperactive in spots, but they display a talent for biting political incorrectness, affected but not wholly unlikable white oafs, and a keen trigger for pops of violence and blood out of left field.

Where I think the film makers made a mistake here is that he is instantly unlikable, showing little emotion at his brothers funeral and not helped by the glazed over half smirk Josh Wiggins employs throughout half of this film.

While a number of the fairy - tale oriented characters are pretty funny, the main three characters that the film chooses to focus on (Shrek, Donkey and Princess Fiona), are an absolute bore, if not completely unlikable.

While others usually paint the kids as bratty and unlikable, Reitman sees them as basically good kids with a great deal of inner talent that doesn't get a chance to come out until the end.

Green Lantern didn't fail because it was funny; it failed because it was painfully unfunny, a sour tale full of unlikable characters.

She plays a slightly unlikable, prickly character who doesn't mince words.

These people don't feel real, and they're so unlikable that the fact that they're merely a writer's construct makes them even more intolerable.

He's not afraid to subvert mainstream tastes, to test the boundaries of movie stars» appeal, to serve up realistically unlikable characters, or to disappoint at the box office again and again.

The film does not hold back even in making its main subject unlikable at times, showing the toll this kind of traumatic injury can take on not just the victim but the people who love him.

The ending is not great and the characters are totally unlikable too.

They don't do anything here that we haven't seen multiple times before, but for such an unlikable coupling they are well suited to the material.

They might be unlikable folks, but the movie's problem lies in the fact that we don't know them.

Beth is perhaps the most unlikable and despicable character I've ever seen in a film, not helped by her contradictory ways.

The cons the guys play aren't particularly believable, and the characters at first come off very unlikable in general.

Yeah Maggie's character is so unlikable, thought she might ease up by the end but I guess not haha.

It isn't simply that her voice comes out clear and her characters feel tailor made for her; there's a sweetness in both films that was absent from Baumbach's previous efforts — a desire not just to present flawed people who were often unlikable but show that these deeply flawed, often unlikable people can also be lovable.

The simple fact is writer / directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa don't give us much in the way of a point of sympathy with Russell, except his ability to cheat generically unlikable systems (prisons and the opulence of the world of corporate executives) and say he's entirely motivated by a need to love and be loved in return.

It's not until Jeff and Anne make a pact to change their public personas in an effort to be «cool» and more attractive to the opposite sex that the film takes kind of a nasty — well at least unlikable — turn.

Franco plays Wiseau as an unlikable dolt who shouldn't be liked or applauded for his efforts.

All in all, I hated Vacation but not because the film was really poorly written, was painfully unfunny, and featured all unlikable characters, but rather because the film never even tried to grasp the concept that made the original films so great.

My inherent mistrust of the decade that gave us disco fever and pet rocks aside, it's not like there haven't been late 70s / early 80s films with unlikable characters and minimalist storylines that I've enjoyed — Animal House and Caddyshack spring to mind.

The movie wants to have tension, but it paints itself into a corner — Lance is unlikable, so we don't care what happens to him and the stranger is a blank slate, so we don't care about his motives.

But being unmemorable doesn't mean it's unlikable.

It's a terrific performance that shows just how solid Pitt can be and also demonstrates that he's not afraid to act in a potentially unlikable manner.

Every single character is unlikable and the film paints a more realistic view of the intelligence community and its inhabitants — not an Aston Martin or snappy one - liner in sight.

In this instance, «The Florida Project» is so full of unlikable characters (including children) that the raw nature of the story can't transcend its false leap into a likable experience.

As the other love interest, Baker gets to play Guy as a smooth, charming guy, not the smarmy, totally unlikable womanizer he's used to playing or could have been written as.

The pair's first collaboration, 2012's «Frances Ha,» was a painfully obtuse look at self - entitled millennials living in New York City, and although «Mistress America» isn't as bad, it covers a lot of the same ground while forcing yet another group of mostly unlikable characters down the audience's throat.

Not everyone gets a happy ending and some of the characters make very unlikable choices, it'll have to walk a fine line.

O'Brien still isn't a very engaging screen presence, though he's far from unlikable.

As unlikable as he can be, you don't want bad things to happen to Keith, so his impulses toward retaliating against the thug who grandstands against him are dismaying.

With two incredibly unlikable lead characters (the worse being Darry, thanks to Long's feature - length impersonation of Freddie Prinze Jr.'s mouth - agape stare), one is left to hope for at least some decent scares, but outside of the opening sequence, there aren't any.

The main character of Ari (Alex Dimitriades) is about as unlikable as one can get: lazy and selfish, he spends his days and nights indulging in drugs and reckless, anonymous sex when not arguing with his strict (and completely oblivious) Greek parents and anyone else who dare cross him.

Alas, the magic of the original is just not there, as it mostly regurgitates the first entry while stripping away all of the funny characters only to be replaced by ones who are thoroughly unlikable.

But we do have this very small audience in mind when we get to a crossroads and think cinema storytelling narrative language says if this plus this equals an unlikable character, then you just don't do that.

Dunham has created one of the most unlikable protagonists on TV (between her coke - fueled meltdown and the Patrick Wilson episode, she hits an all - time low), and Williams» laughably insecure Marnie isn't too far behind.

Some genres can get away with flat, unrelatable, or unlikable characters, but others can't.