Sentences with phrase «of bland characters»

It was full of bland characters with no real explanation or development.

Rest of Cast: Trouble with the Curve has a cast roster full of bland characters, with supporting actors as simplified as those with smaller roles.

Not exact matches

We do not have street wisdom and about building the Emirates, as much as it makes financial sense and glitters so well, I think most of us will take an Highbury laden with trophies and full of life and character over a lifeless and bland Emirates where fans are not even allowed to passionately support their team.

If your preference is single - player or co-op, Dog Days» lack of personality (both in the characters and on the battlefield) results in one of the blandest shooters out there.

Kirkland's worldly wise persona is a lot more interesting than the character that is handed to Daniels, which is bland in spite of her go - rounds with Scott.

When I said that the film hits particularly bland spells, I really did mean it, though I'd be lying if I said that the film ever slips into downright dullness, thanks to an adequate degree of colorful wit within Sherriff's, West's and Maschwitz's screenplay, which, at the very least, delivers on engaging characterization that is made all the more engaging by the portrayals of the characters.

The supporting characters, from Paul's brother Frank (Vincent D'Onofrio, «The Magnificent Seven») to the selection of bland bad guys in the streets — played by Jack Kesy («Baywatch»), Ian Matthews («The Captive»), Beau Knapp («Run All Night»), among others — are unmemorable as a whole.

Lets not beat around the bush anymore though, the plot is weak and in all honesty most of the characters are pretty bland and unexciting.

It's probably the most bland and repetitive DBZ game of this generation, with its only saving grace being the immense roster of characters.

Instead of giving us a lengthy story of a great character (Fetch) Sucker Punch offers an interesting albeit short campaign, packed with a bland and boring arena mode.

All the fun worlds are now gone and replaced with a world map, endless backtracking, bland and one - dimensional characters (basically all Toads), pointless combat (uses up stickers and gives nothing in return), no humorous characters, and not much of a story.

It takes a full three episodes (the full extent of what Netflix gave critics to watch in advance) for characters to develop more than a single bland personality trait each.

The movie's atmosphere of head - scratching complexity is exacerbated by LaBeouf's rather bland turn as Moore, with the one - dimensional nature of the character preventing the viewer from becoming wholeheartedly wrapped up in his ongoing efforts and exploits.

While Higashi proves adept at embodying both extremes, Karata proves a rather insipid centre to the film, not just because of the actress's bland pertness but because of the passivity of the character.

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.

Filing off what little edge there was from the first film's supervillainy, introducing a host of mostly forgettable new characters (Al Pacino was initially down to voice the bad guy, but dropped out at the last minute), and doubling down on the adored - by - kids, annoying - to - adults Minions, the film has occasional moments of wit and invention, but it's mostly a bland retread without the heart of its predecessor.

The cover story, «Grade B — But Choice,» is devoted to an obscure 1934 musical called «Young and Beautiful,» featuring «budding starlets, grade - A character actors, grade - B musical numbers, a pair of vaudevillians, a look behind the scenes of Hollywood, bogus appearances by Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton and a script by Dore Schary» [later famous as a producer of films such as «Crossfire,» «Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House,» «They Live By Night» and «The Red Badge of Courage»].

All of the characters were forgettable and most of the imagery was kinda bland.

Characters must have personalities, interesting dilemmas and / or conflicts that captivate, yet this film rapidly introduces viewers to a multitude of characters in such blanCharacters must have personalities, interesting dilemmas and / or conflicts that captivate, yet this film rapidly introduces viewers to a multitude of characters in such blancharacters in such bland fashion.

The lead performances are okay — Jones has a quietly expressive face, and Treadaway a handsomeness that shades and elevates the motivations of an otherwise hopelessly mopey character — but the movie's entire backdrop, in both its setting and supporting cast of characters, is fruitlessly bland.

Ravanello's undeniably bland performance is offset by both Ryan and Bennett's ingratiating work, as the actresses - particularly the former - prove fairly adept at freeing their respective characters from the constraints of their two - dimensional origins.

He easily nails the physicality of the character but it's a pretty bland performance.

And while there's a nicely tentative quality to the scenes between Bob and Erik (whose wounded ambition is perfect for the handsomely bland Hartnett), the movie hits another level when it's behind the closed boardrooms of editors and publishers, and where characters like Alan Alda's managing editor can be observed manipulating people like a man calmly poking snakes in a box.

Bland in the first installment, James adds a bit of welcome color to his portrayal, but the characters in Insurgent hardly qualify as memorable.

With an irreverent wit, a group of anti-hero characters who hated everyone as much as they loved themselves banding together to save the galaxy, and a bright, extravagant visual palette that popped in a way that directly opposed the bland, grey tones of the rest of the MCU, the first Guardians was lightning in a bottle that would be impossible to capture twice.

Much of the time, Sparkle is bland and routine, supplying unremarkable music, story, and characters.

Faxon and Rash put a painfully bland character at the center of their movie, and then try to convince us that anyone would help the uninteresting protagonist.

Bell, who I've never been a fan of, isn't quite as grating as usual as her wooden «acting» is tapped to play the film's blandest character.

Yen, a superb screen fighter with an often bland presence, creates the finest screen character of his career as the dedicated but modest master who becomes a teacher to the ordinary citizens facing the oppressive rule of the occupying Japanese army and the predatory attacks of Chinese bandits.

The lead in Roland Emmerich disaster pic «The Day After Tomorrow» gave him an early taste of bland, big - budget (smash hit) spectacle, though he also auditioned to play the title character in «Batman Begins,» and was briefly lined up to take over the role of Peter Parker in «Spider - Man 2» when health issues / contract negotiations looked to rule out Tobey Maguire — now there's an interesting what - if scenario.

Chris Evans fits the bill really well, although the character of Captain America is a little too bland to really do much with.

Crazy Heart was acknowledged for its performances and music despite being a solid character study with real directorial sensitivity, and while Out of the Furnace proved to be somewhat bland and predictable, it still contained glimmers of a filmmaker with a distinct vision.

People usually bemoan the lack of a strong human element in big blockbusters like this, but while «Godzilla» aims to remedy that by placing the focus more on them than the giant monsters doing battle, the characters are so bland and thinly written (with the exception of Bryan Cranston's scientist, who has a smaller role than is hinted at in the trailers) that it only makes things worse.

While I still hate the look of the battle system and I hate that Toads are the only friendly characters, the locations of the game look very unique for a Mario game, and the Hammer meter (They confirmed battles actually have a purpose, as they eventually upgrade your Paint Hammer's capacity, and painting cards while watching your paint reserves does bring more strategy then spamming your most powerful attacks in the Mario & Luigi games and older Paper Mario games) brings some diversity to the bland battle system.

I understand the limitations of the ropey CGI, but the character is frustratingly bland, dumped with a painful Russian accent and dialogue written by someone trapped in an 80s kids movie.

But that isn't quite enough to transcend the bland characters and pedestrian melodrama of their situation.

Second, Pym is an emotionally disturbed person in the comics, and one of the most interesting characters, while Lang is very bland, and although he has lost a lot, he is anything but disturbed.

In an apparent effort to make the character broadly relatable, Red Dead Redemption «s John Marston came out kind of bland, similar to Grand Theft Auto IV «s Niko Bellic before him.

All the same it's hard not to wish the film didn't feel compelled to turn its characters of colour into bland ciphers.

Not containing the wit to be smart, thrilling sci - fi nor the chutzpah to embrace a fun, B - movie shlock vibe, it unfortunately feels like an uninspired TV pilot that any other network would've permanently locked in a vault... At first, it has the feeling of being dropped into a season finale with characters we should know more about, then after the bland exposition, muddled motivations, and nonsensical developments, one realizes they'd never want to watch what came before anyways.

Having escaped the maze in «The Maze Runner,» now Thomas (O'Brien), Teresa (Kaya Scodelario, still bland despite having few lines for such a major character) and a bunch of forgettable dudes are housed in a place where the older people in charge (the leader is played by the 67th person you call after Gary Oldman says he's not available) say they're safe and constantly call them «you kids.»

But he lapses into unnecessarily long discussions of what the characters are thinking and what drives them to do what they are doing on screen, which gets bland after a while because by the time you've gotten to the commentary, of course you've already seen the film and don't need to be told what's happening.

Few of the film's characters are given the time to breathe any life into what becomes a rather bland drama.

The characters are fairly stereotypical and bland, so at no point did I become attached to any of them, or really care about their survival.

Cregger's bland yet personable turn as the central character is certainly in sharp contrast to Moore's aggressively zany performance, with the actor's incessantly over-the-top work hitting the viewer like nails on a chalkboard and ensuring that the film becomes more and more of a chore to sit through as it progresses.

Just because you have more forgettable characters and more of a bland plot doesn't automatically make it any better; it just means you have more of it.

it was a pale and bland piece of suburban commentary / character study next to every other film it reminds me of.

It's ultimately clear that Blumhouse's Truth or Dare doesn't possess enough material to wholeheartedly justify a feature - length running time, and there's little doubt, too, that the film fares especially poorly in its aggressively bland and uninvolving opening stretch - with the less - than - captivating vibe compounded by an almost astonishing assortment of one - dimensional, interchangeable characters.

Conviction is the kind of more - bland - than - truly - bad Oscar bait that, to its credit, displays genuine affection for its characters.

It comes on at first like the blandest of TV hospital dramas, although the strange camera angles, spooky music and affected speech of the characters — all Lanthimos hallmarks — signal that something strange is afoot.