Performances by Day - Lewis and Jim Broadbent as back alley politico Boss Tweed (the cavalcade
of ridiculous character and gang names («Slaughterhousers,» anyone?)
Like «Grand Theft Auto,» you're in control of a protagonist from the third - person perspective, and you navigate a massive open - world with missions, side missions, and all sorts
of ridiculous characters.
Like «Grand Theft Auto,» you're in control of a protagonist from the third - person perspective, and you navigate a massive open - world with missions, side missions, and all sorts
of ridiculous characters.
Not exact matches
Without the majesty
of the
character from the comics, many
of Storm's more powerful lines
of dialogue just appeared
ridiculous and over the top on screen.
«Breath
of the Wild» is riddled with
ridiculous characters who are more than happy to share conversation.
As such, the game is full
of ridiculous situations for the
characters.
BUT: The music is both overwrought and banal, the actors try so hard but finally seem
ridiculous (their
characters are the most stickish
of stick figures), and no person is transformed THAT MUCH in this world (see Flannery O'Connor).
The premise
of portraying
characters having teeth whiter than the Osmonds seems
ridiculous to me, but I'm not an expert.
In some sense, indeed, Kierkegaard's life could be written as a kind
of dark comedy; despite his premature death, and a great number
of sadnesses that afflicted him along the way, there was something enchantingly absurd about his
character, a certain benign perversity that often prompted him to make himself willfully
ridiculous, and a peculiarly touching element
of the ludicrous that clung to him all the way to his early grave.
The book's narrator (the Clooney
character in the movie) gives a rather urbane and quite sustained semi-Porcherist commentary on the sad and
ridiculous excesses
of our techno - virtual displaced society.
I know that sounds
ridiculous today, but not all that long ago, my father was forced to learn to write right - handed so that his
character wouldn't display the taint
of left - handness.
The audience laughed as he began to fall apart before our eyes ¯ and quickly sobered as we realized that his pride is no more
ridiculous or ugly than the self - delusion and the longing
of many
of the play's other
characters.
How terribly sad... we have fallen so far that we find ourselves in the
ridiculous position
of propping up the oft - injured and rarely inspirational Jack Wiltshire... what's next, extending Walcott, Welbeck and Ramsey... can't you see that these players have nothing to do with winning and all to do with providing recognizable names to the plastic fans who frequent our overgrown library
of a stadium... it's high time we rid this club
of one
of the worlds most incompetent and unsuccessful owners (look it up) and our fragile and spineless manager (much like our club) who can't bring in the best talent because he knows he can't live up to expectations that come with players
of that ilk... think about it, he couldn't even handle Sanchez, who was largely a periphery
character in Barcelona
«Fans should root for Cal if they want to embrace the truly
ridiculous character of college football.
thats
ridiculous... first
of all i am happy if somebody enjoys their work that much, and fans just shouldn't care about the private behaviors
of players as long it doesn't directly influence their time on the pitch or things that are just plain wrong and show a bad
character like terry / giggs (women) for example, criticise those things..
In today's high court appeal judgement, Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, Mr Justice Owen and Mr Justice Griffith Williams said: «If the person or persons who receive or read it, brush it aside as a silly joke, or a joke in bad taste, or empty bombastic or
ridiculous banter, then it would be a contradiction in terms to describe it as a message
of a menacing
character.»
Lord Mandelson
of Foy in the County
of Herefordshire and Hartlepool in the County
of Durham has allowed himself to be dressed up as a
ridiculous Dickensian
character to publicise the serialisation
of his memoirs in the Times.
The comedy succeeds because the objectively
ridiculous, overdrawn emotions
of the
characters must seem real and immediate to them.
But the dumbed
character and inventory systems, coupled to the
ridiculous always - on connection and the breathtaking arrogance
of the «you'll play how we tell you to play» attitude makes playing this title a damned shame instead
of a hell
of a good time.
Screenwriters Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard take the quintessential horror film ensemble
of characters, and
ridiculous scenarios and then inject a dose logical rationale, keeping it thoroughly entertaining.
It has the kind
of cynical and darkly politically incorrect humor that is among my favorite (it made me laugh out loud the whole time) and an excellent script (which I wish I had written) that makes fun
of how
ridiculous the
characters are as they expose the worst in themselves.
Most
of the
characters were quite believable and there weren't too many plot holes that made the whole thing
ridiculous.
Those specs don't really fit the
characters, but at least puzzling over writer - director Mike Cahill «s costuming choices distracted me from the
ridiculous love story underpinning the first half
of the movie.
Kenny Riches also intended for the guru
character to be this
ridiculous stereotype, although the man (named Fred) is presented in a strange way, always in shadow and spouting lame homilies straight out
of the most clichéd self - help books.
There is nothing too complex or overdone about it, which is kind
of what I was hoping for, but there are no real stakes aside from seeing if our main
characters make it out alive, which in the end does not really matter, because they all pull
of ridiculous stunts, making for a very far - fetched film.
Pretty much every episode has absolutely
ridiculous things happening first, the way Hood becomes Sheriff; then the ability
of the dragqueen
character to do whatever he wants with his laptop, including opening blast doors in a museum; Hood's asinine interpretation
of laws, like punching criminals in front
of other cops and letting prisoners go; Hood deciding to and succeeding in beating up a biker gang by himself, etc..
Annoying new
characters,
ridiculous plot scenarios and some startlingly bad acting are quickly turning this show in to one
of the worst
of
Annoying new
characters,
ridiculous plot scenarios and some startlingly bad acting are quickly turning this show in to one
of the worst
of the year.
The
characters are cardboard and unbelievable, and the drama feels forced so much so that the actions and thought processes
of the
characters are simply
ridiculous, unbelievable, and very difficult to watch.
The
characters just sort
of flounder around in a meaningless story saying
ridiculous things, like «Gee, I sure wish I was Arc.»
At its worst, Rosewood plays like the kind
of ridiculous, over-the-top drama with which a sitcom
character becomes obsessed.
McCarthy's over-the-top
character could have been a total mess but Wiig and Feig do such a great job
of tethering everything they do to the ground that it never becomes TOO
ridiculous.
During its run, the Buck Rogers inspired Farscape regularly veered between the sublime and the
ridiculous, offering a blend
of adventure, comedy and colourful
characters that was consistently entertaining.
Also, George's neuroticism occasionally gets annoying, a fault
of the script giving him
ridiculous lines that — once again — aren't consistent with the rest
of the
character.
A great mix
of fantasy, humor and drama, with a light tone but not in a
ridiculous way and with well built
characters you can identify with.
Of course, most of the fun with new Hyrule Warriors characters is seeing the ridiculous new moves they can perfor
Of course, most
of the fun with new Hyrule Warriors characters is seeing the ridiculous new moves they can perfor
of the fun with new Hyrule Warriors
characters is seeing the
ridiculous new moves they can perform.
Convenient blackouts hit at every turning point and the bodies pile up as our intrepid, wise - cracking reporters turn detective to investigate the hidden passages and clutching hands and missing wills while the script contorts itself in absurd contrivances and
ridiculous dialogue and the cast offers a grab - bag
of character types and acting excess.
The rest
of the cast
of character actors has some appeal, but many
of them get their laughs for playing
characters that are just so
ridiculous, you have to laugh.
Jonah Hill's
character in The Wolf
of Wall Street — the
ridiculous Donnie Azoff — is a man whose bad taste never outguns his monumental salary...
Packing a
ridiculous amount
of characters (over 200, to be exact) into its core game, it offers several chances to play with heroes from your favorite series and find some new faces you absolutely adore as well.
It might not be too
ridiculous to suggest that analogous to some
of his
characters, Antonioni was searching for something, a method
of communication, which he finally «found» with L'Avventura.
Tatum's
character is basically a
ridiculous, indestructible action hero who manages to narrowly escape hundreds
of bullets, but it's easy to push the believability issues aside because Tatum is just so damn charming.
As with other Bruckheimer endeavors, a bunch
of lame - ass 20 - something male actors fill up the supporting cast in an effort for the female audience members to argue over who's the cutest to keep their minds occupied from the
ridiculous plot and poor
character development.
And any time spent thinking about how
ridiculous what they're actually talking about is, is still more entertaining than some
of the antics the supporting
characters get up to, be it John Malkovich trying to kung fu a robot or a former Special Forces soldier complaining stress or all the running he was having to do, or dear God anything having to do with Sam's parents who offer nothing to the film but reminders why they shouldn't be in it.
We won't get into Ken Jeong who we're already so sick
of this summer that you almost feel like cheering when his
ridiculous homophobic
character is killed.
Disney understands fantasy and European fairy tales - their mechanics, their pacing, their
character dynamics and so forth, and it has built its style on this balance
of light and dark, regal and
ridiculous.
Another fun aspect
of the game is the Saints Row inspired clothing and outfits (e.g. the
ridiculous nature
of them) that you can assign to your
character which is quite whacky, especially in a zombie game.
On one hand, she was kind
of a comic
character, a
ridiculous person, and then on the other hand, it was a serious movie.
In the past, she's portrayed
characters with no trouble accepting a variety
of ridiculous notions, ranging from metal - skinned murder skeletons and men with spider powers, to the racial superiority
of whites and M. Night Shyamalan's role as a writer
of radical, world - changing power.
They are completely in their roles, completely invested in the seriousness and truth
of their
characters» thoughts and emotions, but they are aware, as if watching from the tiniest
of distances, that they are playing
ridiculous people.