Sentences with phrase «over substance film»

This isn't a style over substance film by any means.

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A slick, slippery film, Tonya doesn't go for much real substance, as it opts for such a flashy presentation that it shoots for glitz over everything else.

Sanctum is the perfect example of a film that's style over substance, it looks great, but the plot is paper thin, and relies on recycled ideas from previous films in order to create an engaging film.

The film's condensation of the years that took Wiseau to get over his heartbreak regarding the unexpected laughter that resulted in screening his «drama», and finally embrace the comedic aspects of the film, takes a bit away from important character development that could have given the third act a bit more substance.

Yet an actor in a Cameron Crowe film must be prepared to do things that fly in the face of conventional narrative: his characters are forever addressing the camera and declaiming their innermost thoughts in voice - over, the cumulative effect of which is an anything - can - happen atmosphere and characters of substance etched in lightning - quick vignettes.

Total Film sees style over substance, with the overall effect «pulling the attention away from where it should be,» and Variety, while liking the film a bit more overall, concedes that it «feels unmistakably chilly.»

Backed by Vice and Megan Ellison, The Bad Batch sees Amirpour given a big box of crayons with which to scrawl all over the proverbial walls, resulting in a film that's long on style, and short on substance.

Blade: Trinity is still hampered by the same elements that made the first two films substandard fare, namely, the heavy emphasis on doing everything the cool way, in a heavily over-the-top display of style over substance.

With the major exception of Pan's Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro has always excelled at style over substance, producing gorgeously imagined films with tiresome scripts, clichéd stories and cardboard cut - out villains.

Sucker Punch is a typical Zack Snyder film in that style is heavily favoured over substance.

And yet, Richie managed to make a film that could be a key example of style over substance and is a case study in why that's such a problem when you ask audiences to invest time and money into a feature film.

You could argue that this film is all lurid style over substance, but there's actually a lot going on behind the stunningly gorgeous imagery.

Another style over substance Hong Kong action film that has some pretty exciting fight scenes, but also some very flimsy and annoyingly romanticized back story to fill in between them.

Director Guy Ritchie has made a name for himself by employing a major over-dosage of style over substance in films such as Snatch and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels; something that oozes out of every scene in The Man From U.N.C.L.E

But again, let's consider the bones of the strategy over the substance of the film.

Ridley Scott's visual flair has led to a number of handsome - looking films (and a great deal of success), but his tendency to go for style over substance often leads to a slightly unsatisfactory feel to his films.

What You Need to Know: Director Alex Gibney («Taxi to the Dark Side») originally set out to direct a documentary about Armstrong's comeback in 2009, but for various reasons abandoned the film to tell this story of Armstrong's battle over cheating allegations and eventual admittance to using performance - enhancing substances.

This style over substance critique is nothing new in the film world, nor is it restricted to this particular genre, as Chen hints at in the last sentence above.

Marvel has done a really good job over the last few years of creating a rich cinematic tapestry that's almost interactive in the way that it feeds off the excitement of its fans, and «The Avengers» is the culmination of all that careful planning — a superhero film with style and substance.

For all of his obvious skills and uncommon talent as a visual storyteller, Kosinski's first two films were short on character depth and emotional engagement, but whether a function of Kosinski's innate preferences for spectacle over substance or simply script - related issues, Kosinski's feature - film output made him an odd, left - of - field choice to direct a film about American firefighters and the Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013 that resulted in the greatest loss of firefighters since 9 - 11 more than a decade earlier.

It's rather a case of style over substance and doesn't always work, but it's still a solid and refreshingly unique film.

A magnum opus that ultimately still falls prey to the director's penchant for sentiment over substance, the film is nevertheless a refined piece of filmmaking that revealed deeper artistic fissures in the man.

And this may not have been intentional, but the way it's constructed — style over substance — reflects the very idea of the film itself, because much like its characters, The Neon Demon is hypnotized only by the beauty on the outside.

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The narrative thinness exacerbates the emptiness of the film's stylish flourishes, turning this debut into another «style over substance» cliche.

But because so much of the film is shot this way, it becomes dangerously close to feeling like it's all style over substance, which is a totally valid argument.

Style definitely wins over substance in Panic Room, and it's difficult to imagine the film being as enjoyable an entertainment if that were not the case.

Movie - tie - in games like Over the Hedge usually lean heavily on the source material for substance, which makes the use of homegrown CG story sequences, rather than short clips from the actual film, a bit of a head - scratcher.

Rather than putting style over substance, its style was the substance, director Matthew Vaughn pulling out every trick in the book to poke fun at the stuffy clichés of Bond - era spy films while leaning hard into its R rating to sometimes grotesque results.

Every Refn film can be described as style over substance.

Without question, Bay's films are victories of style over substance, but that's not always a bad thing, especially when the style is as fun as The Rock.

Moreover, the extreme conditions the actor famously endured over the course of the film — long stretches in snow and icy water, the consumption of some visibly repulsive substances — somewhat obviate the need for performance: One doesn't exactly need to act freezing and miserable when one is, in fact, freezing and miserable.

strange very talky thriller... very good acting by all... a film of style over substance I think... good soundtrack and an excellent slow - motion action sequence when someone gets shot in a car but has a very ABRUBT ending that confuses!

This adaptation of the Jason Matthews novel is stacked with a killer ensemble of supporting players — including Jeremy Irons, Charlotte Rampling and Matthias Schoenaerts — who add style and substance to a film that ought to tide us over until we get a proper Black Widow standalone movie.

Like any coming - of - age teen soap opera, much of the film's appeal is in its vaunting of style over substance — coining whole ways of speaking, dressing and posturing for an impressionable generation brought up on Hollywood tropes — but Heathers embraces its style as an essential keystone to filmmaking, recognizing that even the most bloated melodrama can be sold through a well - manicured image.

On the one hand, I was grateful that the film was so nice to look at because I would have been bored senseless otherwise, and yet this is a prime example of style over substance.

This is not an easy film to watch, and there's a part of me that wants to write the entire damn thing off as an exercise in style over substance.

Though it would be easy to criticize the film for favoring style over substance, there's a lot more going on behind the sumptuous visuals, including some excellent performances by its lead actors.