Sentences with phrase «real lack of imagination»

My final gripe (Bryce Dallas Howard's miraculous skill when running in heels aside, an observation made by four of my female friends) is a real lack of imagination realised in the movie's few genetically engineered beasties.

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I already know that it is actually just your imagination and delusional world - view that makes you say these things, but I enjoy pointing out the holes in your words, showing you the lack of connection between what you say and the real world.

«I just want to make you happy,» he moans, his platitude demonstrating the lack of imagination that is his real crime in Evelyn's eyes.

One way to look at this conscientiously mature, strategically magic - realist movie is as its creators» most ambitious joint effort to date, yet it's actually this same, superficial «daring» that points up their work's underlying lack of real imagination.

Despite the lack of a laugh track and the use of real locations rather than sets, the series still has an old - fashioned sitcom mentality to it, with a number of obvious jokes you see coming that don't show much imagination or wit.

In a more ambitious (and decidedly less commercial) effort like The Hours and Times, the lack of sex can be defended as a central part of the film's seriousness and modesty, justified both by history (the real - life relationship between Brian Epstein and John Lennon) and by the film's status as an «open» narrative leaving a great deal to the viewer's imagination.

As it turns out, Fox has neither the acting chops nor the movie star charisma to elevate the disorganized tornado of horror movie clichés and leaden one - liners whirling around her, and with no real base to support the film, Jennifer's Body quickly careens into an incoherent exercise in high production values glossing over an utter lack of imagination.

What's more, it takes some stretch of the imagination to excuse it as satire, considering the distinct lack of any real political statement underpinning the whole thing.

Lack of imagination seems the real hazard of so much of this drive to manage our activities.