Sentences with phrase «play flat characters»

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And when something's as richly imagined as the world of «Game of Thrones,» the show can fall flat when it plays fast and loose with character motivations.

Laughable too: characters who seem less substantial than the ghosts who threaten them, and a performance by Greene that plays like an homage to Wild Things - era Denise Richards, all arched backs, blank stares, creepy smiles, and flat line readings.

New characters - Justin Timberlake voicing a young man called Arthur, and Eric Idle playing a wizard called Merlin - are disappointingly flat.

In Salt and Fire, a bad movie but an intriguing vacation slideshow, Michael Shannon and Veronica Ferres play «characters» (unconvincing, undimensional) and speak «dialogue» (expository, flat).

But the game is flat out relentless and will make most regular 2k fans feel like they re playing Dark Souls at first and will leave every game feeling like a glorified bum with all of the characters praising you like a blind kid after hes allowed to score a touchdown.

Taking place almost entirely in a single flat, with only a handful of characters, it feels like a play that exists only in dreams.

Talia Shire puts her flat performance in Rocky to shame, Abe Vigoda easily makes the viewer forget that his claim to fame is in playing a character named Fish, Richard S. Castellano makes arguably the greatest accomplice ever, and Sterling Hayden even makes his work in Stanley Kubrick films seem simple.

The characters are flat, and the actors playing them seem as befuddled as the viewer about the ambiguous shades of good and evil from one scene to the next.

And another good thing, if I'm going to play Lucille, Guillermo's the one to do that with because he's going to make sure that it's not just this flat archetype of a character.

I enjoyed The Fighter to some degree, and appreciated the fine performances that Russell was able to get from his actors — especially Christian Bale — but the narrative arc of the film felt a little flat, perhaps because the central character, played by Mark Wahlberg, was so passive.

His family (played by Abbie Cornish and Some Mop - Topped Kid) is the biggest weak spot; as characters, they're pretty flat, but it's interesting to see their effects on Murphy post-Robo.

She does her best with Nina, playing the ingenue with an effervescent grace, but can't really deliver the powerful performance she's capable of with a character who is so overwhelmingly flat.

The DVD's pleasing animated main menu moves around a three - dimensional universe of flat character stills while score plays.

Character actor Walton Goggins has a great face and excels in supporting turns but is completely flat here playing the main villain.

Phoenix is flat - out bad, playing your typical one - dimensional nasty villain with beady eyes and over-the-top line readings (modeling himself after the Billy Zane character in Titanic, no doubt).

Wilson's big and bulky play (reportedly trimmed considerably by Tony Kushner, who gets a co-producer credit) owes much to the family dysfunction classics of Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, but it also has notes of heightened allegory that fall flat, such as the recurring character of Gabriel (Mykelti Williamson), Troy's brain - damaged brother who keeps barging into the action to utter deranged prophecies.

Wonder Woman «s focus on luminous positivity in the face of the great darkness of World War One, as well as the ease in which its central team play off each other stands out even more when its lead character stars in something as flat - footed as this.

Sakurai: Yeah, if it was just a flat playing surface, it would be one thing, and you could determine pretty quickly which was the stronger character.

As far as the overall balance, if you were to take that and then put it in a flat playing field and have characters fight, you get a situation where suddenly, it's no different than any other fighting game.

But the game is flat out relentless and will make most regular 2k fans feel like they re playing Dark Souls at first and will leave every game feeling like a glorified bum with all of the characters praising you like a blind kid after hes allowed to score a touchdown.

A decade later she designed a puppet production of the play at Marionetteatern, Stockholm, where the characters morphed into disturbing life sized puppets carrying wooden flat cut - out «body - masks», reminiscent of Dadaist costume.