Sentences with phrase «scenes were a riot»

The story's emotions hardly hit you they way the were planned, and the scripted horror scenes were a riot.

Not exact matches

Unsurprisingly, the scene isn't exactly supposed to be a laugh riot, and Logan, whose sense of humor is his biggest strength (aside from his actual physical strength), is struggling.

• «The road from Stonewall, June 1969, to Stonewall, June 2011, was a trajectory of greater social acceptance of difference and nonconformity,» writes National Review's deputy managing editor on the magazine's website, describing the scene the night New York approved homosexual «marriage» at the famous gay bar where the riot that started the homosexual rights movement began.

There is no need to elaborate here the various features of the human scene, such as war, race - riots, family friction, crime, drugs and all the rest, which make it eminently clear that the world of men as a whole stands in need of renewal.

Twenty - four hours after a 1 - 0 win at Lyon on May 12 gave PSG their first title since 1994, supporters clashed with riot police at Paris» Place du Trocadéro (scene of Zlatan Ibrahimović's glitzy unveiling the previous summer) and plans for a triumphant trophy presentation at the Hôtel de Ville were shelved.

Roush, a young executive with a Chicago sales promotion firm, and his wife are typical of the new entrants to the once - grand but more recently depressed neighborhood that abuts Humboldt Park, scene of the 1960s West Side riots.

The action scenes highlight Rodriguez's trademark ability to choreograph firefights and explosions, but they're doled out with uncharacteristic stinginess between long stretches of exposition that clear up much less than they should, as the film builds toward a climax featuring some strangely underpopulated riot action.

There is something to Scott Foundas's contention that the movie reaches beyond the obvious 9/11 references to become a comprehensive catalog of modern terrors: a river of corpses evokes Rwanda, mob scenes recall the urban riots of the tumultuous last century, the march of zombified survivors an echo of the Holocaust.

Evans admitted the hardest scene to shoot as a director was an epic prison riot in the mud, as it would splash on the camera lens and ruin good takes.

Scenes of pollution, floods and riots are shown.

There's a whole riot of a film to be made out of the two - and - a-half minute scene in which a prostitute (Bebe Neuwirth) coaches Davis's demure housewife how to give a proper blowjob.

The film still has all the little Soderbergh touches — there's a scene involving a prison riot that gets caught up in the differences between the TV version and the book version of Game of Thrones in which you can almost sense Soderbergh nudging the camera — but what's perhaps most impressive about it is how effortless it all seems.

It is a laugh riot in a number of scenes, surprisingly heartwarming in others and is a great example of an actor successfully bridging the gap between acting and directing.

With brilliant support from a scene - stealing Ken Cheong reprising his role as Mr Chow — now very much in his element — and a few exotic touches added to the mix (a flashback scene to the night before with the cast reimagined as kids is inspired) The Hangover Part II is a riot.

WILL (originally ordered straight - to - series at Pivot in 2013) Picked up to series; 10 episodes STUDIO: TEAM: Craig Pearce (w, ep), Vince Gerardis (ep), Howard Braunstein (ep), Louise Rosager (ep), Shekhar Kapur (d) LOGLINE: The wild story of young William Shakespeare's arrival onto the punk rock theater scene that was 16th century London — the seductive, violent world where his raw talent faced rioting audiences, religious fanatics and raucous side - shows.

Wong's violent interludes are most often brief riots of slurred or slow - motion action alternating unexpectedly with freeze - frames; these sequences, delivered so rapidly one can often barely perceive what's happening, are obviously abstract versions of the action scenes in conventional martial - arts films (The Eagle Shooting Heroes included).

In many ways the film is, and should be, almost anti-dramatic — the occasional riot or threat scene aside, most of the action takes place in meeting rooms, living rooms or small TV studios as Bernal pitches his ideas to the willfully uncomprehending «suits.»

Some of the randomness sticks: Paul Rudd's terminally blitzed surfing instructor is a riot, and it's difficult to avoid a spit - take during a scene from Peter's Dracula rock opera.

Moreover, the show's set direction and period details are impressively flawless, whether depicting the»70s - era blues rock scene and riots over school busing, or in the small things, down to the pull tabs ripped off beer cans and the Scripps - Howard lighthouse logo on the front page of the Memphis Press - Scimitar.

The set - up and background to the riots is well handled and the opening scenes of animation were original, unexpected and provoking.

Typifying the film's dramatic inflation is Daniels» choice to shoot the riot scenes in slow - motion and making the flames of the Ku Klux Klan look like hellfire.

There's a scene in Bastille Day that will stand as a towering monument to the precise moment in time it was made, as one riot inciter urges another to «unleash the hashtag» without any inkling of irony.

Even from a production standpoint, Game Night stands out with great lighting and scene composition, with a «hot potato / capture - the - flag» - like sequence that is not only a riot but shot impressively.

Even in scenes where you would expect to find mobs of people rioting, there are only ever two or three.

It could be anything — the place where you had your first kiss, the diner where a famous movie scene was shot, where so - and - so struck gold, a riot happened, a bomb fell.

Everything about Curaçao is a riot of color, from Willemstad's historic buildings and iconic floating market to the island's vibrant art scene and lively carnival schedule.

The other they said was that there were already at least 60 riot squad Police in full dress on the scene.

The idea that Riot is an excessively controlling entity was not just a continuous theme throughout all the responses across those in the scene, it also came across clearly in the way Merrill responded.

All the arguments around Riot and how they choose to run their competitive scene boils down to this question: Is LCS merely a marketing tool to promote the game to casual players and get them to spend money on it or is it a real bid to create a long lasting competitive scenIs LCS merely a marketing tool to promote the game to casual players and get them to spend money on it or is it a real bid to create a long lasting competitive scenis it a real bid to create a long lasting competitive scene?

Riot needs to stop playing ruler of the Rift and rather be a participant in an incredible and inspiring competitive scene.

If Riot sees it purely as a marketing tool and not a serious competitive scene, there's nothing necessarily wrong with that — They just can't have it both ways.

Only the golden haze from Bierstadt's Lake Tahoe, for instance, or the greens, yellows and reds of sirens, fires and traffic lights in the nighttime riot scenes are still visible through Ms. Mehretu's dense accumulation of strokes.

In Killer of Sheep, Charles Burnett's 1977 film set in LA after the Watts riots, there is a scene you may recall: a group of friends sit in a car outside a liquor store; on the hood rests a can of beer, and the man in the passenger seat reaches through the empty windshield to sip from it.

Albee is a veteran of the 1990s «riot grrl» scene, a loose affiliation of women artists, writers, and musicians who merged punk rock's rebellious DIY ethos with a commitment to feminism.

The piece Kiss, Panic from 1984 consists of a grid of twelve appropriated photos that juxtapose two mouths kissing with a still depicting the scene of a riot; these two central images are surrounded by photographs of various small firearms.

The result of all the maneuvering and manipulating behind the scenes was people rioting over the increase in food costs while Cargill and Monsanto posted record breaking profits in 2008 as the rest of the world's economy crashed and burned.

Section 1 (6) of RCA 2016 adopts the definition of «riot» in s 1 of the Public Order Act 1986, namely: «Where 12 or more persons who are present together use or threaten unlawful violence for a common purpose and the conduct of them (taken together) is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his personal safety, each of the persons using unlawful violence for the common purpose is guilty of riot.»