Sentences with phrase «recognizable actors like»

Not exact matches

He's surrounded by stereotypical, yet colorful characters played by recognizable character actors like Paul Rodriguez, Louis Anderson, Jamie Gertz, and pre-Matrix Laurence Fishburne as Voodoo, a messenger who doesn't care about what he delivers, even if it is for the local drug runner, known as The Gypsy.

It is a little jarring when more recognizable older actors like Dennis Farina and Ted Danson appear, but both actors turn in dialed - down, natural performances; as with Hanks, we are reminded that men of all ages and backgrounds were called upon to fight in WWII.

While I will accept a puppet if worse comes to worse, what I really want is a recognizable actor, male or female, made up to look like a Pikachu detective.

Meanwhile, Tarantino, despite his much larger budgets, has remained Tarantino, partly because his narrative and formal style and influences were recognizable after only two movies, and partly because he has obsessively returned to themes (most notably, revenge) and, like many auteurs, featured reoccurring actors (Jackson, Thurman, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth, Harvey Keitel, Michael Parks, Christoph Waltz, Zoë Bell, Julie Dreyfus, et.al).

Gaffigan plays Milgram's confederate in the experiments, an actor who pretends to receive increasingly dangerous electric shocks administered by research subjects — played by recognizable faces like Anthony Edwards and John Leguizamo — who've been tricked into thinking they're participating in a study of short - term memory.

Beginning his career as one of Takashi Miike's go - tos in films like The Way to Fight and The Man in White, hitting his stride in Ryuhei Kitamura's Azumi and Godzilla: Final Wars, and even turning up as one of the Crazy 88 in Kill Bill, actor Kazuki Kitamura is one of Japan's most recognizable faces.

And there are appearances of varying length by actors with recognizable names like Elisabeth Shue, Ving Rhames, Christopher Lloyd, and the aforementioned Dreyfuss, who has openly chuckled about the size of his paycheck.

There are lots of lewd (and sometimes improbable) descriptions of sex, and the men on the other end of the line turn out to be weird and played by recognizable actors (Also not helping the gender stereotype is that one of these cameos constitutes the only genuinely funny scene in the movie: Seth Rogen trying to complete his business before he has to fly a plane and talking like a pilot checking off his instruments the entire time).

Christopher Plummer, groomed like Getty, made hardly recognizable as the 88 - year - old actor takes on the role of Getty's 84 years, is so miserable, narcissistic, selfish, anti-people, and lacking in anything that might convince an audience member that it's great to be a billionaire, that we in the audience probably can't wait until something really really bad happens to him.

Although Murphy is clearly the most recognizable face, he is supported strongly by a good cast of character actors who seem much more tailor made for their respective roles, and even veterans like Stamp (My Boss's Daughter) and Tilly (Monsters Inc.) are fun to watch in roles that they don't get a chance to play often.

Instead, we're given recognizable actors (Laura Linney, Stanley Tucci) in small roles where they pop up from time to time and spout something apocryphal for the benefit of the audience, like a British newspaper editor (David Thewlis) bellowing: «He's the head of a huge global media empire who's accountable to no one.

I also like the idea of using an already existing (and recognizable) character, it's a bit like employing a famous actor.