Sentences with phrase «pithy dialogue»

His pithy dialogue is laced with lots of memorable lines like, «May the light at the end of the tunnel is just you coming out of another vagina.»

It was clear from the pithy dialogue and the panorama of slightly exaggerated farcical supporting characters that Gordon had been weaned on the likes of Coward, Shaw, and Wilde, and the sophisticated Hollywood comedies of the Thirties and Forties.

Thanks to Roger Deakins» gleaming camerawork, T - Bone Burnett's eclectic soundtrack selection and the Coens» typically pithy dialogue, it looks and sounds wonderful.

It's sometimes an intellectual endeavor, as the inclusion of nerdy yups like Campbell Scott (Singles) and Liev Schreiber (Party Girl) would lead you to believe, so there's plenty of spirited conversation and pithy dialogue throughout.

Subject Matter: A well - crafted story and pithy dialogue is backed by solid third - person shooter action, stunning Himalayan backdrops and a smattering of puzzles to solve and things to climb.

Rather than relying on pithy dialogue and ad - libbing it's a lot more physical.

With strong performances, plenty of chemistry between the leads and pithy dialogue, the movie is fun until things get serious — which is to say, until things get unbelievable.

Rodriguez does leave a certain creative stamp on the movie; I suspect he took a whack at the script, which bears evidence of his trademark pithy dialogue.

Not exact matches

We relegate ourselves to pithy «anonymous» statements instead of actually taking the time to carry on serious and informed dialogue between those who do and do not ascribe to a religious tradition.

Simon Kinberg's script is awash in banal, expository dialogue — the characters having to keep explaining the plot to each other — but people don't go to X-Men movies for naturalistic exchanges: a few pithy one - liners will suffice, and Jackman puts the ones he does get across with the gruff brio of an old pro.

Baumbach is one of cinema's sharpest writers of naturalistic dialogue, capable of ringing out layers of meaning from casual exchanges, and here he's at his pithy best: Bernard's offhand categorization of his student's short story to his teenage son as «very feminist but very interesting» belies depths of misogyny and elitism, while his graceless romantic counsel to Walt leads the teen to ditch his perfectly reasonable girlfriend, Sophie (Halley Feiffer), with the same projectiles of secondhand rhetoric that he unveiled to initially charm her.

The script of this dialogue - rich film sounds forced, with every second line intended as pithy high - brow banter, and many of the set - piece scenes are symmetrically framed to evoke the formalism of 19th century portraiture styles.

En route to a surprising resolution, director Simien pulls a couple of rabbits out of his hat while lacing his dialogue with pithy lines («Learn to modulate your blackness up or down depending on the crowd and what you want from them.»)