Sentences with phrase «of lovable losers»

Since Marvel's producer extraordinaire described the next version of Spider - Man as a «John Hughes movie,» it may fit nicely with Daley and Goldstein's ability to get some genuine laughs out of lovable losers.

Soderbergh and screenwriter Rebecca Blunt set us up by presenting brothers Jimmy and Clyde Logan (Channing Tatum and Adam Driver) as a couple of lovable losers.

Year: 2006 Lamer Alternate Title: Reefers Can Still Be Deadly Plot: A group of lovable losers buys a bong that comes with an unexpected feature: a voodoo curse that transports those who use it to the «Bong World,» where undead strippers give lethal lap dances.

North Siders have had their fill of lovable losers

When El escapes from government captivity, she spends time with a group of lovable losers — kind of like the twelve disciples, a group composed of those who hated (Matthew the tax collector) or of a low station (i.e., fishermen).

The best of the four is Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's «Mississippi Grind,» starring Ben Mendeloshn and Ryan Reynolds as a pair of lovable loser gamblers going all - in on a gambling trip designed to earn the stake for an infamous poker game.

Not exact matches

Norton the lovable loser, Damon the guy who has to get him out of trouble.

Many sports fans saw this year's rise of Leicester City as the soccer equivalent of the fictional Bad News Bears, although in the movies, the lovable losers didn't win the championship.

There are levels to the Cubs being lovable losers, their attempts to escape from the gulag of low expectations, and there's something about them going oh - for - Wrigley that would have been especially cruel, even by Cubs standards.

Discarding the lovable - loser brand was something of a blow, but they made up for it by becoming a super-team with a championship brand.

Most Lovable Loser: John Faso His conservative Republican views may be out of step with the beliefs of most New Yorkers, but he stood by his principles and never slunk into the slime his party spread in nearly every other race.

Least Lovable Loser: John Spencer He ran ads against Hillary that showed pictures of Osama and then made fun of her looks.

The cast, collectively a successful example of the lovable - loser protagonist, shows deft comic timing, particularly Chandrasekhar, who wrings laughs just by his reaction to the locals» racist remarks.

Bill Skarsgard brought a wonderfully threatening physicality to Pennywise, making it feel as if he could rip the Losers Club kids to shreds at any time, but the film's best moments echo the ones from the book: spending time with a lovable group of misfits and being along for the ride as their bonds strengthen in the face of unimaginable terror.

The proprietor of a strip mall printing shop, Louis (Heder, comfortably in his «lovable loser» schtick) is stuck in a life rut; work, booze, pizza and bolstering his depressed and slovenly friend, Stan (David Krumholtz), who is convinced aliens annulled his engagement when they abducted his fiancée.

Featuring a talking raccoon, a tree that says three words, a wrestler painted blue, and the lovable loser from Parks and Recreation, Guardians of the Galaxy became one of the most unlikely worldwide phenomenon of the last decade.

The charm of Wahlberg's performance is that he plays it totally against all that, creating Lugo as a lovable loser.