Sentences with phrase «of a soap opera»

And the BIG revelation at the end is pretty obvious, making you question why you had to endure two hours of this soap opera just to be presented with this conclusion.

All you get is a burst of inspiration followed by extended scenes of soap opera antics and jokes that get recycled time and again throughout the course of the movie.

One of the defining characteristics of a soap opera is a story that's too delicious to be true.

The result is everything a disaster movie should be, a combination of soap opera and the spectacle of destruction.

So does the time spent on the fantasy world of the soap opera, which opens the film.

It's violent and loud, with vocal performances worthy of a soap opera.

Between Bell's suing, the Goose Island buyout and now this, it's making craft beer into some kind of soap opera starring big brewers and lawyers.

Fire Emblem Fates» story is a bit of a soap opera.

I blame this entirely on fanboyism which is a real problem that is making gaming more of a soap opera than a favorite pastime.

Such words strike a deep chord in this age of cheap sentimentality and ethics shaped by the story lines of soap operas and sitcoms.

The circumstances surrounding the interview, conducted in Vietnamese, were as much of a soap opera as his public ruminations about whether to take down the app.

I can minimise the amount of soap opera by not being in the shadow cabinet.»

The plot to this point could be the stuff of soap opera, but there's always something askew in an Alan Rudolph film, unexpected notes and touches that maintain a certain ironic distance while permitting painful flashes of human nature to burst through.

Material enough for a season of soap opera is handled in several minutes and never seems forced or arbitrary.

Benford turns out to be something of a wet noodle and the subplot involving a future rift between him and his wife (Sonya Walger) smacks of soap opera plotting at its worst.

It reveals the austere, half - snooty / half - tongue - in - cheek manifesto as a surprisingly effective platform for a reinvention of the woman's picture — a resurrection of the estrogen melodramas circa Mildred Pierce, the legitimizing of the soap opera genre fallen on disrepute since the invention of soaring violins and Julia Roberts.

The films don't demonstrate much acting chops (and that's the case for every actor on board, they're basically a spoof of soap operas, however, maybe a little too close to home), but clearly, she's at least got the look and physique that has convinced the «Wonder Woman» show producers.

Nostalgia is the chief ingredient of this soap opera, which is as inert, slow, and quiet as any comedy in recent memory.

Hedlund has the generic attractiveness of a soap opera actor but gives an engaging, nuanced performance that touches on Moriarty's selfishness, demons, intelligence and most importantly his enigmatic charisma.

For decades, the dominant model of marketing has been brands «talking to» consumers, as they did in the golden age of soap operas.

Much of this type of research has been done on the impact and the global popularity of the soap opera «Dallas» (Liebes and Katz 1990).

These details have the flavor of a soap opera, but through them Miller probes the nature of love (a topic that Lottie, a free - lance author, is researching).

For voters, the reshuffle — which has dominated political coverage since before it was announced — is part of soap opera politics.

It conjures up the image of a soap opera scientist, someone who gazes alternately into massive telescopes and bubbling Erlenmeyer flasks while wearing a white lab coat with a plastic nametag that reads, «Dr. Steele McBrass, Scientist.»

At the same time, don't be giving out so much personal and private information that the reader feels as if they have sat through a marathon 24 hours of soap opera reruns.

The cast, made up mostly of soap opera / TV actors do a decent enough job and theres even a brief appearance from Robert Englund, stealing the show as a jailed werewolf (think he's a werewolf anyway!)

A story that ought to possess the mad grandeur of an opera acquires the tedious regularity of soap opera.

Think of a soap opera, or that eerie picture - smoothing feature you disabled as soon as you bought your HDTV.

It proceeds to full thriller mode, and an engaging kind it is in its over-familiar way, no small thanks to saving infusions of soap opera.

However, that doesn't keep Hollywood moments from creeping in now and then, with lots of soap opera antics and fisticuffs that would seem injected in order to make the tale of these boys more cohesive in terms of story development, resulting in a forced climax and epilogue that probably comes more out of fantasyland than out of the recollections of a documentarian.

Director Elie Chouraqui, who co-wrote the script, catches the chaotic horror of war, but why bother if you're going to subjugate truth to the tear - jerking demands of soap opera?

After a while this starts to feel like dithering, or the machinations of soap opera.

Alex Kurtzman's «People Like Us» seems to have been devised for audiences who want to experience an entire year's worth of soap opera complications in a single sitting.

The film feels like neither a polemic, a reality show pilot nor some kind of soap opera doctor drama.

Cooper channels the spirit of every soap opera villain in a cringe worthy fashion.

«I've heard people say it's as if an alien watched a bunch of soap operas and tried to figure out what the human race was about,» said Rousselet, who was smitten.

Their most recent production was Burton's Dark Shadows (2012), an unsuccessful attempt to recapture the potent mixture of soap opera and horror tale that had been a daytime television hit in the late Sixties.At the time of Richard's death, he and his wife were preparing with HBO a television series titled The Decalogue, 10 one - act plays set in modern day Los Angeles, each based on one of the Ten Commandments.

They took the angle of America as a melting pot, with gags and heart associated with the Scottish butler, the Norwegian yacht crew, the Mexican - American construction gang and the characters back in Mexico, who use the extreme story emotions of a soap opera to motivate their actions... it's all very funny.

At the centre of the soap opera sits Melanie Stryder (Saoirse Ronan, Hanna), one of the last remaining humans on an Earth now ruled by Invasion of the Body Snatcher - type aliens.

In Australia, there is a proud tradition of the soap opera.

Usually, Howard's films have all the pep and narrative complexity of a soap opera, but here he seems to have gotten tired of his usual brand of storytelling and is trying something now.

This is a guide for students to comprehend the key elements of soap operas.

The play is perfect for students studying the nature of soap operas, or for young actors who want to give an alternative performance at the end of term!

Heading Out to Wonderful feels like less of a soap opera than Goolrick's debut, but it's much more emotional.

Felt like I was reading a parody of a soap opera.