Sentences with phrase «of awkward dialogue»

But then she opens her mouth, and her stiff line readings of awkward dialogue make it impossible to become emotionally engaged by her character's journey.

I can see this not being as funny to everyone, but I thought his moments of awkward dialogue delivered with a hint of unaware malice were some of the funniest moments of the film.

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The potty training dialogue is yet another notch on the awkward belt of parenthood, but you don't care because your child went # 2 in the toilet, and that's a big freaking deal that everyone needs to know about.

With this list of conversation starters, not only will they help you break the ice by opening up a dialogue between you & your date, but they will also kill any of those awkward silences!

Both bits of dialogue felt awkward in the original cut to begin with (Who uses the word «detritus» in daily conversation?)

Gorgeous cinematography, wonderful synthy score, heaps of style, macabre imagery, awkward dialogue, and surreal storytelling you might find pretentious.

But this description thankfully contrasts with the character we meet on screen — Will Ferrell's performance is warm and persuasive, the dialogue suitably awkward but indicative of real humanity and intelligence in the character.

The film can be hella goofy; there are several moments where the dialogue is a little questionable, and there are a few instances of awkward self - awareness - but it can all be put aside considering the entertainment value.

When the characters do talk to each other, the tempo of the dialogue is halting and uneven, an uncomfortable mix of exposition and awkward pauses.

The dialogue is riddled with awkward puns and out of place popular cultural references.

Although, a lot of the dialogue is awkward and feels out of place.

Russell is a great lead, but he is supported by frequently awkward performances that struggle with the blunt tool of the script and sometimes awful dialogue.

The music occasionally, almost out of luck, sets the right mood, but most of the time just makes for awkward dialogue scenes and a composition clash of sound and visuals.

During the first two seasons of the program, the show was rightly faulted for its preachy tone and the awkward dialogue that undermined many of the show's core relationships.

What follows is a seemingly endless string of expository dialogue exchanges and flashbacks (including the first instance of a slap across the face eventually leading to a deeper understanding between two characters — after Jared forces himself on Melanie during their first meeting — and an awkward scene that attempts to romanticize Jared's insistence that he wouldn't make Melanie feel entitled to have sex with him even if they were the last man and woman on Earth).

Some dialogue scenes between Spider - Man and the Green Goblin are awkward because of the costuming.

Some of the dialogue between the kids felt awkward and forced.

It's poorly plotted and poorly written, with dialogue so awkward and impossible that talented actors would have trouble making it sound cogent, much less the band of community theatre cast - offs assembled here.

Awkward performances, under developed characters, flat dialogue and bad dubbing are very common in his film as well as the films of his Italian horror contemporaries such as Mario Bava and Lucio Fulci.

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.

The superficiality of Refn's work would be an easier and tastier pill to swallow if he simply owned his stylistic excesses and didn't try to counter them with clunky dialogue exchanges clogged by heavy hunks of awkward exposition.

The tone of it is too peculiar and attempts to lighten it through dialogue are doomed and awkward.

The picture is compacted and truncated in such a way that the passage of time is hazy, the relationships between the major players is tenuous and built on stereotype, and the dialogue is the sort of stuff that plays like the awkward rip - off of The Man Who Would Be King that it is.

There was an interesting tale to be told, but it was buried in an avalanche of absurdity, corny dialogue, and awkward humor coming mostly from the highly unlikable child characters.

Isaac, in a wonderful extended cameo, makes a meal out of the character's deceptive decorum and deliciously wry dialogue; for a few minutes, you can almost pretend you're watching some lost Coens caper, not this awkward approximation of one.

His Jack carries the role of expressing aloud what both men feel, Ennis being too proud or stubborn to admit to his emotions, and although this leaves him with some occasionally awkward dialogue, Gyllenhaal always manages to avoid seeming trite.

With dialogue as stilted and awkward as his direction and performance, Modine scores the humbling hat trick of failing in the most public way possible in his chosen profession and then on a pair of skylarking diversions that suggest that Modine should probably not quit his day job, even though he has been muddling around on his day job.

There are occasional technical glitches (sporadically duff edit points, awkward framing in a few of the key dialogue scenes) but you get the impression that Favreau doesn't care about proficiency as much as he does vibrancy.

From the poor special effects to the awkward expositional dialogue to the lame villain, the Fantastic Four is an abysmal reimagining of these characters.

We'd never seen him before, and he didn't announce himself in the kind of awkward expository dialogue we get in Hollywood films.

- Booklist «As in her previous novels, Mapson seems most at ease describing the relationship between human and animal... Her facility with dialogue, however, is less impressive, but most readers will be too involved in the sweep of loss and recovery to stumble for long over awkward talk.»

Some books lean too much on «telling» the reader - with awkward pages of dialogue where one character expounds on a topic to another to the point that it's clear that it's really for the reader's benefit, or a character will be preternaturally «modern» in their thinking in an effort to relate to the contemporary reader.

Readers will often look past substantive issues and finish the book, but they won't pick up another book by that author, and they will leave negative comments, such as, «Some parts were confusing» (a problem with consistency), «The writing was choppy» (a problem with flow within and between paragraphs), «It wasn't well written» (a problem with awkward sentences and possibly other various issues), «I wasn't sure who was saying what» or «The dialogue wasn't that great,» and «It didn't really hold my attention» or «The story was boring» (a problem with telling instead of showing).

What should have just been another awful melodrama is elevated to the status of sublime cinematic abortion by the flagrant continuity errors, dropped plot points, shoddy sets, dated fashion, cheesy music, awkward dialogue and terrible acting, the chief offender being Wiseau himself.

There's necromancers, dark forces and strange magic in abundance, thereby setting the stage for a fantasy plot that manages to hit most of the genre trope branches along the way, yet hidden within the clichés is actually some rather engaging twists and turns, albeit twists and turns hampered by poor dialogue which results in stilted conversations and bouts of awkward exposition.

However, putting the style of speech aside my criticism of the dialogue between characters stands; conversations simply feel stiff and awkward most of the time, something which will hopefully be sorted out as the series continues.

With essential characters in key situations spewing out rather droll and awkward dialogue paired with surprising lack of emotion in some characters — without spoiling anything — it really takes away from the experience.

Gone are the awkward laughter scenes of Final Fantasy X and the Macarena references, replaced with the highly stylised Ivalice - ian dialogue and fluid, believable voice acting.

The big problem the game faces is stiff, awkward dialogue that rarely captures the more flowing, graceful speech of the original text, and thus renders almost all the people you meet during cases as forgettable.

On top of that exposition for the book's main narrative is also wedged into the pages as well, and the end result is prose and dialogue that often feels awkward and stilted.

Whether it's a localisation issue or just the game's style, cutscenes also feel overly long and dialogue not natural enough in flow — awkward pauses, silences and irritatingly slow scene transitions (all of which are not skippable) bring down what otherwise are, for the most part, interesting developments in the main storyline of protecting NLA.

It rejects the melancholic and introspective tone of Hotline Miami to U-turn it into an unashamed and relentless rejoice of blood and gore, adorned with snarky and inappropriate one - liners, and blatantly nonsensical and awkward dialogue and plot.

For every endearing moment between characters, there were more than a few moments of way - too - awkward or overly descriptive dialogue lacking in any sort of personality.

However, the implementation of it in the game felt awkward; there were many times I had to sit and stare at the dialogue for a long time before I could understand what was actually being said.

Indigo Prophecy had a lot of interesting ideas for merging narrative with interactivity, but most definitely suffered from archetypal characters, an over-the-top storyline, and, often, awkward dialogue.

Minnette Vari «s uncanny brush and ink drawings of the goddess / crone Baubo sit in awkward dialogue with Kendell Geers» La Sainte Vierge.

While the game is visually stunning despite the fact that it runs at a solid 30 frames per second, especially when running on the PlayStation 4 Pro, character facial expressions often look awkward and the game's dialogue falls out of sync with character lip movements.