Sentences with word «ponderousness»

All the hollow ponderousness of The Revenant without the technical exuberance.

And it is so swollen with self - conscious import, so weighted down with tragic frontier ponderousness, that it just sits there, refusing to clear the runway despite the best efforts of everyone involved except Cooper, who seems convinced he's telling us something but fails to convince us what that might be.

Waititi, a New Zealand actor and filmmaker known for such small, irreverent, indie charmers as «What We Do in the Shadows,» brings the right balance of meaty action and sauciness to «Ragnarok,» which, although big, avoids the bloated, cartoon - noir ponderousness that has, until «Wonder Woman,» plagued movies from the film arm of Marvel's rival, DC Comics.

In the film, you can see Malick's ponderous love for the American Midwest, J.J. Abrams» love for slick production design and lens - flare, and producer Christopher Nolan's gritty ponderousness and love of shakycam.

Waugh simply forgoes the transcendent grandeur (and occasional ponderousness) of either of those two directors.

With Teutonic ponderousness, Haneke claims the movie is a statement about violence, specifically the voyeurism and complicity of audiences in movies and media.

There's no getting around the bulk and ponderousness of a full - size SUV, and the Expedition is no exception.

Consider a customary «date» --- it's brimming with weight, ponderousness, assessment and it out and out sucks.

There are glimpses in these performances of real men and not just ciphers — for all its ponderousness, Solaris has some sharply observed moments in which Clooney as Chris Kelvin mourns his lost wife and succumbs to the madness of her potential return — but he has yet to find the material and director to make these types of movies anything more than mostly indulgent excursions.

This classically shot, gripping sequence, free from the usual hand - held jumpiness, gives us an immediate sense of both the ponderousness of the big plane and the vulnerability of the crew inside.

Cinematographer Martin Ruhe («Control») shoots the movie in somber, brown - on - brown tableaux, which only underlines the ponderousness of John Romano's screenplay.

It filters out any trace of ponderousness, lets throttle and steering define the rhythm, and relieves late braking from that here - comes - the - mass aftermath.

The 2.7 - liter turbo - four, which was designed purely for truck applications, couples to GM's 8L90 eight - speed automatic and has none of the ponderousness of the 2018 Chevy Silverado LT Crew Cab with the base 4.3 - liter V - 6 and six - speed auto that General Motors provided for comparison purposes.

It is like a game between the ponderousness of death (Lood means lead in Dutch) and the lightness and transient of being (Stof means dust).

Her section titles — «Pavilion of Artists and Books,» the «Pavilion of Time and Infinity» — only underscore the ponderousness of the glorified craft show.

From our perspective, it is now apparent that his assemblages anticipate the baroque excess of Julian Schnabel, but without a trace of the latter's ponderousness and high self - regard.