Sentences with phrase «personality than this film»

It was as one - dimensional as arcade games got at the time, and still it had more personality than this film.

Not exact matches

Of course, the company is inseparable from founder Larry Flynt, the larger - than - life personality that was notably brought to the big screen in the 1996 drama The People vs. Larry Flynt, a film that grossed $ 20m and was nominated for two Academy Awards.

Many films, such as The Three Faces of Eve (1957) and Me, Myself, and Irene (2000), similarly portray individuals as possessing more than one personality.

It's quite tough to imagine the sequences as they would have appeared in the film because the viewer's eyes are drawn to the personality pitching more than what they're pitching.

The original's commitment to tension and tone worked far better than the slackly - edited split personality of this film - a comparison almost directly invited by slavish repetition of many of the first film's story beats.

Still, it remains perhaps the only film in which Allen has been able to successfully imagine a personality other than his own.

Though it's mildly raunchy in the Apatow style (he co-produced), The Five - Year Engagement, like most of the films Segel's co-written, also allows its female characters to be recognizable human beings with senses of humor and personality traits other than niceness.

Though Kendrick is always fun to watch thanks to her charming personality and comic timing, it's difficult to see what attracted her to the film other than the chance to reunite with Blitz, who directed her in 2007's «Rocket Science.»

Unfortunately, she's probably the only member of he cast that manages to give more than what's expected, with Jamie Foxx looking uncomfortable having to restrain his warm and engaging personality, and the mish - mash supporting cast of Rose Byrne (Neighbors), Cameron Diaz, and Bobby Cannavale (Chef) all giving the film requisite energy, but none of them are particularly appealing in their roles.

An extended cut of the film's previously - released trailer (see above) offers a better look at Hazel's daily life, via a talk with her parents - one that's rather different than the conversations most teens have with their mom and dad - as well as an extra moment or two between she and the young Augustus Waters (Elgort): a teen amputee and bone cancer survivor, whose thirst for life and upbeat personality make it all but impossible for Hazel to be immune to his charms (or so the trailer informs us, anyway).

The promises and pitfalls of the digital age is the perfect subject for Herzog, a rare filmmaker who's a bigger personality than most of the people he makes films about — and considering the sorts of eccentrics, dreamers and madmen Herzog makes films about, that's saying a lot.

He's never been busier, premiering three new features this year alone, but more of his personality comes through in the interviews he does to promote them than in the films themselves.

But, had they infused some dimension and personality, the film would be more than a collection of talking heads and hollow narratives.

The look and feel of the film are sterile, with another thriller that seems to lack personality and the human element, merely pushing forward the incessant need to play the audience, rather than to tell a story.

Even the films I like from this year I do nt have clear memories of (I saw Women in Love when I was way too young for it in the 1980s), don't truly love (big Altman fan but MASH, is more of a «like»), or I love them more for their historical value or genre personality than for actual quality (Boys in the Band, Aristocrats, Bloody Mama, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever).

«Low - key for a film about famous figures with larger than life personalities, but quite moving thanks to its use of restraint» — Andrew Parker, The Gate

I'll watch anything this auteur puts out, and I'm not sorry I watched this film — even Baumbach's misfires have oodles more verve than the personality - free product Hollywood often puts out.

9:35 am — Sundance — A Girl Cut in Two One of the last films from great French director Claude Chabrol before his death, with Ludivine Sagnier as an up - and - coming TV personality faced with choosing between two men — with Chabrol at the helm, you know there's more than that to it, and his touch for black comedy thrillers should make this one an enjoyable watch.

The film is relies more on momentum and personality than narrative but that's just fine for this misfit crime spree road comedy.

Still, it was refreshing to see a film and an actor explore more facets of Jesse James» personality than merely rehashing the Robin Hood (or victim of the Civil War) myth.

Marvel head honcho and guru producer Kevin Feige figured out long ago that these crossover event movies thrive when stuffed with as many supers and their corresponding larger - than - life personalities as possible and with each new film he and his crew have attempted to broaden the canvas and find room for even more characters.

Like Goldie, Reese can carry these kinds of films with nothing more than her smile and cheery personality, and while the role seems to have been written for someone more of the blonde bombshell variety, we like Reese as Elle so much, anyone else would have been a big letdown.

Rather than try to find a way to make the movie fit neatly in with the rest of the MCU or flesh out what previous Thor films attempted, Marvel has decided to mainline the personality of director Taika Waititi for Thor: Ragnarok.

It's got more personality in its worst five minutes than most Marvel comic book films have in their entire running time.

But the film's structural shortcomings will matter less to most viewers than the personality of the central character, Michal.

The utter delight of King's Paddington films is the pure charm that exudes from Paddington's personality, and how he is more persuasively human than the human beings themselves.

Much of the film's humor comes from K - S2O, who has a vastly different personality than C3 - P0 or R2 - D2.

Most characters feel more like impressions, or shades even, than actual characters and this is in large part due to the fact that the Coen Brothers dedicate a significant portion of their film to hat - tipping to the performers, personalities and pictures of periods past.

The film, however, is only ostensibly about this likeable but milquetoast couple; their relationship unwavering throughout, Tom and Gerri rather serve as a sounding - board for the more conflicted personalities of their family and friends, from their devoted 30 year - old son Joe (Oliver Maltman), whose singledom concerns him more than he lets on, to Ken (Peter Wight), a rudderless, borderline - alcoholic college pal of Tom's.

The other characters try to give him some depth in the form of brief dialogue exchanges, but you really have to meet the film more than halfway to see any sort of personality on his part.

Paul might have the appearance of one - note slapstick marathon, but Pegg and Frost shake up the film with their personalized sense of humor, lending the film more of a fanboy personality than a consistently vibrating funny bone.

Jane Campion's laugh comes as a rather lovely surprise: full, throaty and often directed at herself, it betrays a personality more robust, mischievous even, than one might surmise from her fragile, often solemn films.

This isn't an easy film, not in any way: its pace is contemplative and deliberate; it's more about puzzling out personality than it is a police procedural; and perhaps most uncomfortably for some viewers, all the major players are female.

Curiously, Goyer's first time directing a film (which he also adapted from a book by Landon J. Napoleon) goes in the exact opposite direction, ditching action pieces and barebones plotting for a more character driven piece, relying on personalities than on explosions.

Birdmen sets the engrossing story of the Wrights» war with Curtiss against the thrilling backdrop of the early years of manned flight, and is rich with period detail and larger - than - life personalities: Thomas Scott Baldwin, or «Cap» t Tom» as he styled himself, who invented the parachute and almost convinced the world that balloons were the future of aviation; John Moisant, the dapper daredevil who took to the skies after three failed attempts to overthrow the government of El Salvador, then quickly emerged as a celebrity flyer; and Harriet Quimby, the statuesque silent - film beauty who became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.

Shot over more than a decade from 1993 until 2007, the film will acquaint audiences with Bourgeois» captivating personality, providing insight into the artist's thought processes as well as her practice in the studio.

While the film details Bess's life and personality, it is equally valuable for zeroing in at regular intervals on dozens of outstanding examples of his works that are over all stronger than many on view at Christie's.