Sentences with phrase «romantic angle»

It's too bad about Jeremy Piven, who's wasted in the thankless role of the uptight dean and, wonderful as she is, even Ellen Pompeo can't change the fact that her little romantic angle with Wilson feels like party - pooping.

For instance, the set up has the flow of molasses and the obligatory romantic angle was handled with the sensitivity of a two hundred pound gorilla ripping the legs off an encroaching hyena.

There's a pretty ragged romantic angle there.»

Naturally, sparks do fly between Rhyme and Amelia, and while I usually frown upon the gratuitous romantic angle so often shoehorned into films, I did not mind it here.

It's got a romantic angle, too: The movie is, at its heart, a love story between physicists and the elusive truths they pursue.

The romantic angle is what drives the narrative of the film, but this is first and foremost a character piece that is clearly built around its tremendous leading lady.

To focus more on the romantic angles would have detracted from this goal as well, and I thought Becky's understated involvement with Yale hottie was a testament to how romance came second to her career and put her at risk of following in Ford's footsteps.

Chalk it up to the changes made, most significantly, the aging of Winifred (from 10 to 17) to more readily explore a romantic angle in the story.

Goyer also seemed to jump the gun with the Clark / Lois relationship as well as the movie works fine without the romantic angle.

Crudup's performance does a respectable enough job as the oh - so - soulful righteous rebel dude (on a side note, even better is Michael Gambon as Julien's father, with whom he has a strained relationship), but that description of the character points up the problems with the romantic angle; it's forced as it is clichéd, and while the attractive stars make a handsome pair, they most certainly don't make a smoldering one.

The romantic angle might have worked better if Reid didn't look so ready to roll.

And then there's the romantic angle, with Darren and Sandy — who's about to join a convent — doing some cutesy courtship.

Bettany gives Vision an actual character in his human form, with a nervous charm, and romantic angle that really makes me wish we got more of him in that form.

It's less a traditional coming of age film, or rather it's less interesting as that (though the romantic angle with the older Claire Danes character was surprisingly affecting)-- Me and Orson Welles succeeds in taking us behind the scenes of theatre and of a set time period in American artistic history.

romantic angle is entirely superfluous, the pair's rapport — established seven years ago when they were prominently featured unknowns in Demolition Man — lends spark to their sparring, however dubiously motivated it may be.

Don't go into this expecting a joke every two seconds, as this film also tries to work a romantic angle.

Cougar comedies abound these days, and the possibilities of this romantic angle could indeed make for an interesting movie (it was Prime's hook), but The Rebound is like the character of Aram himself, wanting to make the step into the real adult themes than it has the maturity level to tackle.

The comedy falls flat, the action is unexciting, and what's worse, the romantic angle is hopeless given that the hero is dead and his wife is still alive; it's too heavy an idea for such a «light» movie.

Glamour gal Bridget Moynahan ably plays against type as Ryan's physician girlfriend (and future wife) Cathy Muller, but the romantic angle is by far the film's least convincing and involving element.

After dispatching his nemesis, the finale sees Steve's plane crashing in the snowy tundra — it is an anti-climax which pays short shrift to the romantic angle with Peggy in favor of making sure Rogers ends up in the 21st century in order to join forces with the rest of the Avengers next year.