Sentences with phrase «own ludicrousness»

BoJack is perhaps a little more clever than it is uproariously funny, but it is often very clever, and, moreover, well - tuned to the ludicrousness of the sort of low - level fame that surrounds BoJack.

However the comment above is so beyond the pale I have to state my adament not only disagreement with it but also ludicrousness of it.

(«If one would prefer not to make use of a doubter, one might choose a similar figure, an ironist, for example, whose sharp sight has discovered fundamentally the ludicrousness of existence, who by a secret understanding with the forces of life ascertains what the patient wishes.

The Boy Next Door — a fifth - rate sleazefest in which an English teacher played by Jennifer Lopez gets «involved» with one of her students — was too dumb to generate much attention when it released last week (its Rotten Tomatoes rating sits at a dismal 14 percent) but it does feature one moment of such straight - faced outlandishness, such eye - popping ludicrousness, that it must be considered worthy of whatever the opposite of an Oscar is.

Mayan ludicrousness is exactly the same as any religious view!

Clearly unsettled by the emergence of competition in the shape of fellow bidders BBHO, Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting released a statement on Tuesday, claiming (among other assertions of equal ludicrousness) that their bid was by far the superior one because it was more Australian.

Bearded and barefoot students today find it possible to think about the draft, drugs, Marcel Proust and Fran Tarkenton simultaneously and without any sense of ludicrousness.

I blogged at the weekend about the ludicrousness of the situation whereby people are left without an MP for months on end.

There is more tolerance for this kind of ludicrousness and less outrage.

It's a film best valued as an extended surprise, with hilarity greatly enhanced by an atmosphere of the unanticipated, beautified by a soundtrack of goofy, ironic tunes to underscore any and all ludicrousness (though Phillips deserves a bravery medal for a forbidding Danzig opening title track).

Their fourth film is the labored Jim Carrey ditty «Me, Myself & Irene» and rather than sail into the infinite horizons of ludicrousness as «Dumb and Dumber,» «Kingpin» and, to a more heavenly extent, «There's Something About Mary» did,

And if you can set aside the blithe treatment of sex work or the borderline - offensive caricaturing of the Hasidic community — a scene of Allen being called before a council of rabbis veers into questionable territory — there's a delicacy to the dynamic between Turturro and Paradis that's endearing despite the pairing's ludicrousness.

The film distracts us from its ludicrousness and improbabilities because the jokes frequently land and the cast are always likeable.

Like John Turturro before him, Tucci seems to have realise that you don't fight the ludicrousness of a movie like this — you hold a mirror up to it.

A withering Variety review blasted «the overall ludicrousness of a film whose primary goal, apparently, is to convince us that the freakish Wiseau is actually a normal, everyday sort of guy.»

It isn't just ludicrousness imported straight from the comic books: it's actual drama.

It's also an insightful kind of stress dream, so close to home for Smith that, even with all its utter ludicrousness, it feels almost confessional.

Sportello may be an easy mark, but inside his ludicrousness there's a reminder of the old joke about never playing poker with a guy named Doc.

Roland Emmerich's hymn to ludicrousness is a camp fiasco.

When Kepesh finds himself — in his 60s — as afraid of commitment and emotional honesty as a teenager, he is just as aware of the irony and ludicrousness of the situation as the audience, a fact that makes for a fascinating and believable character.

Shyamalan's laughably wooden — and just plain laughable — fantasy epic is a melange of bad acting, terrible effects and a tone - deaf script that never even has the guts to play its ludicrousness for ironic purposes, so goodness knows how Newton Howard must have responded when seeing the rushes for the first time.

A sequence with H.I. robbing a convenience store is a masterclass of visual comedy, being intricately structured and perfectly timed, with the ludicrousness of the situation swiftly increasing as incident is piled upon incident.

The ludicrousness of the story is easy to forgive considering the Jackie Chan - like level of complexity in the choreography.

Their oppressive ludicrousness is exposed with sharp concision: when Alma cooks him buttered asparagus, it ignites one of the greatest foodbased tantrums since Jack Nicholson's menu meltdown in Five Easy Pieces.

It certainly appears as if the film is well aware of its own ludicrousness.

The comedy takes full advantage of the ludicrousness of this premise.

Given Monsanto (for one) and the ludicrousness of software companies suing the heck out of each other because one uses a touch button that happens to look a little similar (for two), I'm not so sure about that.

The outrage to me is that A) They will never address the ludicrousness of the PS Vita memory card....

Fawful is a small package of ludicrousness that is as entertaining as he is evil.

It's ridiculously fun to play — just about the only thing that binds Samurai Punk's games together — even if there are definitely some Americans who won't see the ludicrousness of eating donuts via gun barrels.

We also revisit the topic of the rise and fall and maybe - rise - again of Square Enix, why the latest Monster Hunter game may be the best one yet and the sheer ludicrousness of Starwhal.

The deep ludicrousness of lyric is Abstract Expressionism's subject, to which it returns like a tongue to a loosening tooth.»

Hmmm... you accuse me of obfuscation, ludicrousness, and fudging.

Inman's response was, predictably, to publicly mock Carreon and FunnyJunk in a blog post detailing the ludicrousness of Carreon's accusations and.

I have a few decidedly grumpy things to say about the phone here but seeing it in person — and basically understanding the ludicrousness of the idea — have made me a believer.