Sentences with phrase «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.

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.

Performances by Day - Lewis and Jim Broadbent as back alley politico Boss Tweed (the cavalcade of ridiculous character and gang names («Slaughterhousers,» anyone?)

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 perforOf course, most of the fun with new Hyrule Warriors characters is seeing the ridiculous new moves they can perforof 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.