Sentences with phrase «played dead straight»

It's a poignant moment played dead straight without a hint of Gump - like shit - eating wise - «tard film wisdom — just a big, dumb lug asking that his parents be happy about what makes him happy, not what they believe will make him happy.

Even though it's played dead straight, it's an old - style monster romp that couldn't be any more camp...

The former is particularly memorable for featuring comic actors Leslie Nielsen and Ted Danson in dramatic roles played dead straight.

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I killed and burried Big Foot a year ago, and three days later he rose from the dead, came to my house and we played Monopoly for a week straight.

If Koscielny were at Barcelona and Costa did that nonsense to him, he'd had seen a straight red because a Barcelona player, under such circumstance will never stand and would play dead, and his teammates will surround the ref and pressure him into doing something.

Still willing to continue in his passion, Miguel sneaks into the mausoleum of none other than his idol, de la Cruz, and snags his famous guitar, only to find that playing the instrument immediately channels him straight into the Land of the Dead, where he meets the deceased ancestors his family always honors for the Day of the Dead, including Mama Imelda (Ubach, To the Bone), from whom he will need a family member's blessing before sunrise in order to return to the realm of the living.

Capcom created a very unique beast with the first Dead Rising — it's a crazy horror story full of mystery, twists and turns and played very straight.

It's unclear how Stiller keeps a straight face, because it's a dead - on critique of the way he plays the stumbling character — and so many of his tentative, beleaguered heroes, guys who forge through life in a defensive crouch, anticipating insult.

While it plays everything dead straight, it also has a lot of fun with the...

Surprisingly, shock - director Raimi (EVIL DEAD, DARKMAN) does an adequate job in his first straight drama, and thankfully eschews his flamboyant flourishes to let the drama play out naturally.

There are many laughs to be had - mainly thanks to the cast playing the characters dead straight - but the German comedy also pulls some emotional punches that make the almost three - hour movie something very special.

Imagine my disappointment when I discovered the original Evil Dead played it straight.

Thankfully, though, Williamson does not play everything completely straight; some arch bits of dialogue provide some good laughs, and Helen's beauty pageant scenes are hilarious in their dead - on cheesiness.

That's typical of the film's fetishisations — elsewhere there are lots of baby - doll nighties, black leather bras and steel studs — but at least Sin City 2 has the courage to play its perversions dead straight, unlike Rodriguez's recent Machete films, which smirked their way into oblivion.

Fans that feel that zombies are a step too far into the realms of fantasy for the Yakuza universe will be glad to know that Yakuza: Dead Souls» narrative, whilst played straight, isn't treat as canon.

When I played Red Dead Redemption I skipped all the extra stuff and finished the story straight out.

He began to write to me, dispensing with formality — no Dear Harland or anything, he began straight in: «Not being a qualified pathologist, I'd say the man lying by the side of the road had been dead for two hours, and the mountain to the right, the mountains of Rue were capped with snow, and not being a qualified pathologist, I remember Lily who played the piano so attractively,» he would go on with this almost «cut up» William Burroughs narrative, repetitive as well, because he would forget obviously.