Sentences with phrase «of odd scenes»

The first half is great, but PTA let's all the story threads go in the second half and it unwinds into a couple of odd scenes without so much of a conclusion as just an end.

One of the odder scenes, among many, at today's Columbus Day parade on Fifth Avenue: the dozen or so Jeanine Pirro campaign workers wearing «Vote for Pirro» T - shirts in the exact style of Napoleon Dynamite's «Vote for Pedro» T - shirts.

Not exact matches

As Tribune began its company - wide buyouts / layoffs this week, with the public glare on L.A. («Behind the scenes of the L.A. Times» buyout drive «-RRB- but with expense - reducing cuts introduced across the 11 - daily company, the odd investor bought into what has become a bedraggled stock.

If one must conceive of the universe as an artifact (and how odd that materialist Darwinians and Intelligent Designers both hold that life is a mechanical artifact), then the idea of a Clockmaker God who winds it all up and then departs the scene has a certain plausibility, I suppose.

There is something odd going on behind the scenes at Arsenal Football Club and we fans will probably only find out the final outcome when the announcement is finally made about Arsene Wenger and whether or not the Frenchman will be signing a new contract and carrying on as manager of the Gunners.

An odd coalition that includes public employee unions and the state Conservative Party have used phone banks, bumper stickers and even a TV ad depicting a state constitutional convention as a bar scene reminiscent of the famous one in «Star Wars.»

Women here say they feel outnumbered, overworked and underwhelmed by the tech industry's egos and eccentricities: A koan of the local dating scene: «The odds are good, but the goods are odd.»

Stephenson stages scenes with the static sensibility of a sketch comedy director, letting each performer roll with their respective odd duck performances.

For all the odd lines which are funny or bizarre, these scenes feel like four episodes of Whose Line Is It Anyway?

It succumbs to evasiveness and sentimentality at the end, but this does not extinguish the memory of the many funny, touching, and captivatingly odd scenes that have come before.

She played the woman who gets to play scenes opposite all three of the leading men in the Oscar - winning No Country for Old Men, and followed that up in the odd romantic black comedy Choke.

If I had any pull in Hollywood, Goldblum would be given a dump truck full of Oscars for his work in this movie, acting so self - consciously odd and undeniably hilarious that any scene he's not in is irritating to watch.

The pic looks sensational, especially in the night scenes, not only in its lush survey of Tim and Lee's swank temporary pad, but also in the digging scenes, in which Richardson populates the wide frame with searing lamp light from odd angles.

The rest consists of barely connected scenes, saturated with Kapur's trademark deluge of color, predictable lighting, and endlessly repeated long shots lensed through opaque glass or the odd knothole.

(That wedding night, by the way, is one of cinema's odder sex scenes, with the two of them hissing at each other like cats.)

Bottom line apart from extra fight bits and various other odd small scenes the main crux of the director's cut are a few flashback sequences where Riddick sees a spirit - like entity of one of his people.

One of the most impressive things of Bahrani and Bahareh Azimi «s script is that it sets up scenes which could have followed into much more dramatic outcomes but the writers chose to take the road less traveled and in an odd way, by taking the less dramatic approach, the film removes itself that much further from the majority of indie films that concern themselves with cramming the most amount of drama into the least amount of time.

It's disorienting and odd and, of course, visually very satisfying, and 90 minutes of deleted scenes and new interviews should cast more light on it.

In one of the film's odder scenes, she tells Max, rhapsodically, how Charlie almost beat the number - one boxing contender («He was beautiful,» she says).

The odd scene set inside the embassy does nothing to ratchet up tension and only reminds us how monocular this view of the crisis is.

If the spirit of Busby Berkeley lives on in «Reefer Madness,» so does the Grand - Guignol style of George Romero, in the blood - spattered scenes of mayhem, the staggering zombies, the beheadings, the odd impaling and occasional taste of cannibalism.

When Gibson goes out into his field in the middle of the night after hearing odd noises, that scene is incredibly tense because you just know he's going to see something odd out there.

The action parts of the movie were as good as previous parts of the series, and a step up from Mockingjay part 1, but I did feel as though there were lots of filler scenes where the characters moped around a bit and lamented over who Katniss would pick from their odd little love triangle.

Extras include a six - minute behind - the - scenes featurette whose highlight is star Wilson suiting up for a pre-production supersonic flight; seven deleted or extended scenes — among them odd alternate opening and closing title sequences — with optional commentary from director Moore and editor Paul Martin Smith — these trims carry a viewer discretion warning, for they would've threatened the film's PG - 13 rating; a fantastic, largely CGI pre-visualization (with, again, optional Moore / Smith commentary) of the virtuoso ejection set piece that at times gives Final Fantasy a run for its money; the teaser trailer for Spielberg's upcoming Minority Report; and two engrossing full - length commentaries, one by Moore and Smith, the other producer John Davis and executive producer Wyck Godfrey.

The camera behaves traditionally for most of the film, and will then randomly pan across the scene at an odd angle, just to be different.

In spite of its obvious flaws — and there are plenty of them — this odd mixture of dramatic chase scenes, more about goofy medical advice and family comedy actually...

The film has the odd interesting loose - end, uses music unpredictably and it is properly grotesque in places, such as the first scene in which we see the Brufort family chewing on the various limbs and body parts of their victims.

Though deceptive advertising is nothing new in movies, the DVD cover art of Coming & Going takes the practice far, keeping the wheelchair out of the picture (save for the title logo's odd twist on the familiar handicap symbol), portraying the leads as young and hip in their jeans and tall boots respectively, and, most egregiously, placing a chihuahua poodle hybrid that features in a single 1 - minute scene front, center, and large.

The final scenes of this film are as disastrous as they are odd, and could only be more damaging to the film overall if the first two hours had been better.

The odd hybrid of small town soap opera and brutal crime thriller builds slowly — maybe a little too slowly for some — but director Richard Fleischer does an impressive job of weaving the stories and character around each other visually, with characters criss - crossing through scenes and Fleischer panning his camera to across the vast canvas to pick out threads of others stories.

Dayton and Faris handle their burgeoning relationship, including a sex scene, free of exploitation or voyeurism, instead focusing on their growing emotional intimacy, an intimacy Jack — the odd man out who's treated with sensitivity and empathy — watches from a distance, acknowledging their relationship initially as «just a phase,» before painfully accepting that Billie's ultimate happiness means an end to their marriage.

She's a positive force, but also an agent of chaos, to the point where Baumbach is just as likely to pick up odd lines, dance moves, and bits of observation from her as he is to stage conventional dramatic scenes.

She also is a control freak who can't simply let go and enjoy herself, as shown in a scene when she stomps out of an unsatisfactory massage session, or seeks brief relief through drink, drug use and an odd sexual interlude.

But in the movie this leads to an odd dichotomy between the drily cerebral and the powerfully sexual: on the one hand, decorous scenes of intellectual jousting between the two esteemed gentlemen, and on the other, primal shots of Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Spielrein (Keira Knightley) getting it on, which culminate in a bound Spielrein shouting with pleasure as Jung spanks her with a leather belt.

The action sequences use CGI effects to great success, but they also have an odd reverse effect on the scenes deprived of computer enhancement.

Much of the film focuses on Sinan's visit to his hometown of Çan and the nearby countryside, along with the odd scene in his university town of Çanakkale.

It's an issue not ameliorated by the appearance of house - painter Hubert (Janet McTeer), who, in one of the more terrifying scenes of nudity in the history of cinema, reveals that he is also a she, and married, I guess, to the oddest - looking one from The Commitments (Bronagh Gallagher).

Thus what might seem like a surefire thing, a love scene between two of the most charismatic and attractive actors in movies today, turns into something odd, distant and vaguely embarrassing.

The scenes of bloody, excessive violence are odd and troubling — the former because they are in such stark contrast to the movie's mostly playful demeanor and the latter because Vaughn seems to take such giddy pleasure in them.

Pino Donaggio's (Raising Cain, Carrie) cheeky score, a scene - chewing blend of Bernard Hermann and music from a 90s made - for - tv - thriller, only further emphasizes this odd, often very funny dynamic.

John Krasinski is given an unenviable role as the quiet foil for Gilcrest's advances on his former flame but, for how odd and out - of - nowhere some of his scenes are, they worked for me.

The story focuses on the teenage Bliss Cavendar (Ellen Page), an odd girl out in the pageant scene of her one - stoplight town of Bodine, TX.

Think of it as a mix between «Starsky and Hutch» and «The Odd Couple», except it's raunchier and features some exciting car - chase scenes, staged with skill by Shepard himself, who also wrote and directed the film.

The action scenes are wonderfully ridiculous, performed as an odd combination of street - brawling and wrestling that's as fast - paced as you could possibly imagine; these five ordinary blokes being surprisingly competent fighters is the kind of incongruity that The World's End revels in.

The scenes of Chuck on assignment are perhaps the movie's best, which is odd considering that those are the ones that probably never happened.

«Updating a Classic» (19 minutes) is a making - of featurette with lots of behind - the - scenes footage, although given the press that they've received in recent years, it's odd to see Lohan's parents on the set.

I have only touched on the greatness that is Berberian Sound Studio; the performances are haunting and stilted with enigmatic and odd characters that could happily exist in the Lynch universe, as well as some truly unique ones, in particular the unseen sinister gloved hand that manically controls the projection of each scene.

The commentary with writer / director Malcolm D. Lee may not be very entertaining, but fans of the film will definitely enjoy the 40 - odd minutes of deleted scenes and outtakes.

Amazingly, both are the original sites that Wiseau hastily created in promotion of the room — that much is clear by the incredibly basic and bombastic design of the sites, as well as the odd flaming picture titled «Shame On You» linking to a horrendously edited video of behind - the - scenes footage of the Room.

There are two featurettes — a half - hour «making - of» documentary that's pretty interesting, and an «All Access» segment on the filming of showdown at the end of the movie — but, beyond that, all you've got is the theatrical trailer and a whopping two deleted scenes... which is odd, given that the overseas version of the DVD includes four deleted scenes.