Sentences with phrase «opera plotting»

There's an abundance of soap opera plotting: the father / son dynamic; pulpy criminal underworld twists; a therapist trying to teach communication to a group of prisoners; political backstabbing in the prison employment hierarchy.

Benford turns out to be something of a wet noodle and the subplot involving a future rift between him and his wife (Sonya Walger) smacks of soap opera plotting at its worst.

The O.C. was really only strong for its first season (well, it was at its strongest) but its self - awareness and core group of friends and family made it far more meaningful than its sunny beaches and soap opera plot lines would have you believe.

I want to know what the dome and egg are, but I can't stand another week of C rated soap opera plot.

The story of a stripper (played by Elizabeth Berkley, the straight - laced Jessie from Saved By The Bell) trying to make it in the ruthless world of erotic dancing, it's full of soap - opera plot, ludicrous dialogue and some of the campest acting you'll ever see.

Smart dialogue intersperses a by - committee soap opera plot in a movie made better than the sum of its shaky narrative by three terrific actors.

Not exact matches

We're a little thin on plot details right now but, well, soap operas aren't known for their coherent plot details anyway so let's not trouble ourselves too much over that.

The show is essentially a primetime soap opera — plots revolve around affairs, politics, religion, murder and all of the other makings of a trashy, scandalous hour of TV.

Yes, the «oops, wrong baby» plot predates daytime television, as a joke about Mark Twain acidly reminds us, but «Switched» uses the soap opera version: a bombshell from the blue, unmotivated and unsuspected.

The documentary style approach avoids soap opera style melodrama, unnecessary sub plots and sentimentality to show a truthful and unbiased picture of what happened that day and it's all the more powerful for it.

But the story is a wee bit modernized, plagued by a number of themes that were cribbed from weekday afternoon soap operas rather than the heady and trying plots of Austen.

The movie's goal is to be a distraction from life but not to engross, to escape other thoughts and feelings but not to introduce any new ones, something to kill time with as you watch the plastic characters go through the motions of the soulless soap opera like plot.

The CGI is horrible, this movie felt like a soap opera rather than a movie and the plot was just god

The CGI is horrible, this movie felt like a soap opera rather than a movie and the plot was just god awful.

Not much of a plot, not much conflict resolution, and not much in message, Laurel Canyon is a soap opera with a twist, a turn, and then the credits roll.

Each film has been salted with elements of a larger plot, which is finally tied together in this epic space opera.

Plot involves a ghost who haunts an opera house and helps a budding singer before jealousy gets the better of him.

B - roll of such things as helicopters exploding and a stealth bomber in flight are hastily written into the plot (if you're having trouble seeing how a peckerwood snake - opera justifies a stealth bomber attack, you're not going to find any answers in Venomous), and the acting aside from ever - solid Williams ranges from embarrassing to «it's in my beautiful eyes.»

The plots behind these films are a never - ending space opera that becomes more repetitive with each installment.

The triumvirate ultimately saves the day because this is a cartoon — and because Pete's plot to take over the kingdom is the most asinine thing a screenwriter ever concocted: It entails standing up at the opera and shouting «I'm king of all France!»

Battle in Outer Space (1959) is a visually splendid and narratively pedestrian space opera, short on character and plot but full of great miniatures and dramatic effects in a film packed with spectacle.

I tried to pay close attention, but the plot is a mess of loose threads, acronyms and soap opera ridiculousness, with adequate voice acting at best, and very poor dialogue at worst.

Language: English Genre: Drama / Musical MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Joel Schumacher Actors: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson Plot: At the most popular opera house in Paris, a masked man haunts the aspiring star.

One can't help but imagine what a different filmmaker might have made of this lurid, plot - hole - riddled soap opera with a body count (including a perfect over-the-top image of bourgeois degeneracy: murder by wine corkscrew) or the character of Rachel, a bad drunk whose list of past humiliations includes an incident in which she stumbled into the Watsons» house in an apparent attempt to kidnap their infant daughter.

Once the gears of Potter's melodramatic plot start into motion, though, it becomes little more than an over-the-top soap opera, in which current affairs and past sexual trysts are revealed, relationships falls apart, a terminal diagnosis comes to light, and the gun goes through a series of motions to wind up in the hands that held it at the movie's start.

It's nearly impossible to write about the plot of this space opera without consulting the Wiki plot entry since it's quite literally all over the place, but here goes.

It's tough to know if the plot is attempting to have fun with Fire Emblem's past soap operas, or if the entire story was thrown together to make the musou gameplay work.

However, the plot felt like a predictable soap opera, with characters I did not find believable.

Sometimes it seems like a drawing room soap opera, all genteel furnishings and horse - drawn carriages; other times like a detailed and engrossing murder plot.

The legal soap opera between Bethesda and Interplay over Fallout: Online has taken its latest plot twist.

It's a dumb, convoluted plot that leads to one of the best scenes in video game history, an interactive opera:

The crew devises an insane plot to have Celes dress up like Maria, perform in the opera, and intentionally get kidnapped by Setzer, so they can all get on board his airship and convince him to let them borrow it.

It's tough to know if the plot is attempting to have fun with Fire Emblem's past soap operas, or if the entire story was thrown together to make the musou gameplay work.

It would dispel the notion that Final Fantasy games are drama - filled soap operas for overexcited teenagers, but capable of using the established lore of a long - running series to create series plots, characters and games.

The remake featured musicians who substituted the characters, taking on their vocal melodies, and included animated lyrics onscreen to convey the plot of the traditional opera.

Trying to communicate the plot of Matthew Barney's recent, nearly six - hour opera, River of Fundament, makes me feel like the SNL character Stefon... «The movie...

The satirical plot of his videos are inspired by soap operas, telenovelas and Hollywood melodramas.

While divorce is sometimes inevitable, your divorce does not need to mirror the plot of a bad soap opera.

From fresh - faced rookie to grizzled veteran, organized real estate offers more plot twists in the course of a career than your average soap opera.