Sentences with phrase «rather than these cameos»

So tell me, where are you now as far as your anticipation, your excitement, for the whole thing, and to go fully into character rather than these cameos that you've done?

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There are also a few cameos from Nick's friends — Ray Winstone (who starred in the video for «Jubilee Street»), Kylie Minogue and Blixa Bargeld (longtime guitarist for the Bad Seeds) explaining why he left the group in 2003 after 20 years with the band — who appear as hallucinations in the passenger seat of his car, rather than through a standard interview segment.

The celebrity cameos from Duck Dynasty members Willie and Korie Robertson and the Newsboys are low key object lessons in defusing conflict rather than escalating it.

Thankfully, the trailer also suggests that Amalric actually has a role to play rather than simply an extended cameo.

Interesting, too, is the inescapable idea that the only genuinely convincing relationships in the film are homosexual, and that the picture could be read with profit as an escalating evolution of father relationships from low to positively Christian (mad steward Denethor and son Faramir, Frodo and Gollum, Gandalf and the hobbits, Aragorn and mankind)-- but part and parcel with the oft - fascinating subtext and beautiful images is a parade of useless cameos (please, enough Cate Blanchett), de rigueur expository flashbacks, and the squandering of opportunities to locate the genuine interest in unlikely epic heroes (women and, essentially, children), rather than just pay lip service to them.

Slightly jarring is the amount of almost cameo like appearances by the likes of Owen Wilson, Bill Murray et al, who while charming and non-invasive don't have time to sell you on the role they play rather than the fact that they're there.

The cameos come thick and fast (Vogue ice queen Anna Wintour has a speaking part; actress - singer Ariana Grande appears in an orgy scene) and they mostly add to the film's story rather than making it feel like a string of SNL sketches.

Similarly, in an especially clever touch, Akhtar trots out the old Bollywood cliché of a surprise superstar cameo in a way that actually serves, rather than distracts from, the plot.

Also, these trailers still haven't included any reference to Spider - Man yet (which might be for the best, since his rumored plot - line sounds like something I'd rather not watch for longer than the length of a typical cameo).

Nicole Kidman appears in a rather striking reminder of her talent in a supporting cameo that unfortunately was probably unnecessary and only serves to pad the film rather than enhance it.

The girth of celebrity cameos comes off as hedged in rather than organic and functions as little more than «movie stars of today playing fictitious movie stars of the past».

There's even a footballer cameo — although it's David Beckham rather than Vinnie Jones this time.

Luckily these cameos add to the formula rather than distract.

While subtlety wasn't expected, the never ending mugging at the camera, poorly scripted references to varied cultural phenomenon of that time (photography, burking, mob protection), and stream of celebrity cameos (Bill Bailey, Ronnie Corbett) gives the impression that Landis was more concerned in operating the cinematic equivalent of a «shock and awe» campaign, rather than making a solid piece of genre entertainment.

The film also features a plethora of cameo appearances by celebrities Neil deGrasse Tyson, Anderson Cooper, Brooke Baldwin, Soledad O'Brien, Nancy Grace and Dana Bash who merely distract from rather than advance the plot.

The highs and lows of their campaign are interspersed by commiseratory teas at Simpsons on The Strand over «indifferent fruit cake» rather than celebratory champagne and with a cameo performance by Lady Hale, playing Crystal MacMillan, activist and one of the founders of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.