Sentences with phrase «screen is dull»

The E Ink screen is dull - gray, but characters are dark, well formed and legible.

I can't help but wonder how much the digital screen is dulling our visual perceptiveness, our ability to distinguish between the virtual and tactile.

Not exact matches

• 15 - inch display is a TN panel; colors are duller than those of an IPS screen like the one on the Dell Chromebook 13

The screen uses a technology called POLED, which stands for «plastic organic light emitting diodes,» and some users have been complaining about its dull color reproduction and alleged blue tint.

Roseanne Barr (a passionate Trump supporter on screen and in reality) hasn't been dulled in the least in the decades away from prime time.

Ok, so some days, do you ever just stare aimlessly at your computer screen and the only thing you can think about typing is «All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy?»

Wonderful songs and interesting clips but Micheal Feinstein as host is dull and drags the documentary down whenever he is on screen.

It's so easy for so many aspects of Footloose to descend into cartooniness, but it only really happens when Chuck is on screen, and his scenes feel like dull diversions from the real story.

It's a dull and lifeless mess with almost zero entertainment value save for the stop motion animation, which still looks amazing on the big screen.

Alvin and the Chipmunks are actually overshadowed for a while by the new chipettes, which kind of dulls the film at points, but when they are on screen it's still a cute kids film.

But you'd never know how thrilling this mission truly was from its latest big - screen incarnation, the weirdly sluggish and dull «7 Days in Entebbe.»

Brian De Palma demonstrates the drawbacks of a film - school education by overexploiting every cornball trick of style in the book: slow motion, split screen long takes, and soft focus abound, all to no real point... He's an overachiever — which might not make for good movies, but at least he's seldom dull.

Reynolds is good enough to hang with Mirren on - screen, but without his sharpest tools, he winds up coming off as woefully dull.

Matthew's book offers promises of authenticity, but what comes through in Justin Laythe's script and the casting choices — there are no recognizably Russian actors on screen and bad accents abound — is just a hollow caricature of Russia, wrapped up in a plot that's both overly convoluted and dull.

In fact, all the actors feel like nothing more than accouterments for Cruz: Mark Feuerstein, as the dull but well - intentioned TV producer who falls hard for Isabella, is so ineffectual he barely registers on the screen next to her.

As appealing as Sanchez is to watch on screen, her character is dull and flat, even if she is not.

Even the jokes only come from a handful of characters, and when they're off screen, we're still stuck with dull old Duncan.

Gretchen as co-lead gets more screen time and the more prominent arc, but Lindsay, who could in other hands be simply the duller, married - best - friend foil is perhaps even the weirder of the two, especially due to the split - personality element that her marriage and new social status has fostered.

The cast is so diverse and play off each other so well that there is never a dull moment on screen.

Slate still manages to make Donna somewhat likeable thanks to her charming screen presence, but all that good work is undone with the casting of Jake Lacy, who is so incredibly dull that he might as well have been played by a cardboard box.

Having now seen the film, I can safely say that whitewashing is the least of this film's problems — Gods of Egypt is a dull, meandering, plastic mess of pre-2002 CGI and performances as flat as the green screens behind them.

But then, it's hard to see what either of them sees in Bella, surely one of the most self - interested, shallow, and just plain dull young women ever seen on screen.

The screenplay is really just an excuse for visuals, but without a purpose behind those the visuals, they quickly become as dull as a laser show, or a computer screen saver.

It almost feels like a TV programme: on the small screen, the slow - burning plot and exposition would have been comfortable, but for a movie, it is painfully dull.

Epic battles that are hard to invest in coupled with dull exposition, action set pieces that have already been seen in other films and characters that are difficult to get behind all add up to one of the more dreary screen events in recent years.

He's as nice as a screen hero can be without seeming dull.

Reese Witherspoon was the queen of the small screen this year with «Big Little Lies,» but her cinematic outing in the directorial debut of Hallie Meyers - Shyer (whose only apparent qualification for the gig was being the offspring of two filmmakers) left her stranded in a cutesy and deadly dull tale of a newly separated mom falling for a brash young would - be director.

Pardon the lack of specifics; it may be the dullest conjugal dispute ever committed to screen.

It's an audacious start to this often - smart movie, which doesn't have a dull frame in it, thanks mainly to the star - making performance of Deutch («Everybody Wants Some»), who dazzles the screen with her mix of humor, sensuality, volatility and vulnerability.

YOSEMITE To bring his short story to the screen, James Franco followed in the unfortunate footsteps of other millionaire celebrities and created an Indiegogo fundraiser; this desultory drama is so dull that many contributors might soon be demanding their money back.

I know that sounds pretty awesome, but with mythology like this, the details matter, and the details here are silly, dishwater dull or, more commonly, both, which might explain the uncommon number of walk - outs at the free word - of - mouth screening (despite the free chocolates handed out at the door).

This high - budget (supposedly $ 135 million) summer - blockbuster escapist film is dull formulaic fare that has a questionable history premise, a star who does not light up the screen with charisma (Matthew McConaughey), a foreign - born female lead (Penélope Cruz) as eye candy who struggles with the English language to a point where it's an unwelcome distraction, and a tiresome and silly plot line to fill in the gaps while the adventurers are involved in their all too familiar set action pieces.

He's got a lot of stories and observations to share, many of them screen - specific, and manages to fill the air most of the time without getting dull, a drain, or full of himself.

It's tantalizing to think of what a well - funded and animated Tolkien project could've been; what wound up on the screen is more bewildering and dull than enchanting.

The 5.1 Dolby TrueHD audio lacks lustre as well — even the jump - scares are curiously sedate, though I suspect the mix was dull to start with as opposed to compromised on its journey to the small screen.

On The Official LCJ Report Card, «Paper Towns» gets a flat C. Never dull, but never exciting, this is the perfect example of a story that clearly worked on paper (and for a specific demographic) but fails to ignite any sparks on screen.

Shout Out Safety believes that Health & Safety training is too important to be boring so this is NOT conventional eLearning, you know the sort of thing: never - ending screens of impenetrable text and dull monotone narration.

You should never rely on a text or bullet - point screen for your course design template — these are dull, difficult to absorb, and show a lack of effort.

Familiar switch gear and the Entune infotainment system are both present, along with analog gauges flanking a rather dull driver information screen.

Plus, it's totally transparent (old school resistive touchscreen layers dim brightness and dull colors) and designed to work with full color LCD screens.

The IR touch screen might be an improvement over the capacitive M96C since it won't dull the contrast and also the 8 ″ screen is higher resolution.

Both have capacitive touchscreens but something about the glass layer on the Aura One makes the screen appear clearer, whereas the H2O looks a bit duller and the background is noticeably darker and grayer by comparison, both with the frontlights on and off.

It's a poor showing for a screen, with fuzzy text and dull images.

The capacitive screen is very responsive, and that's a compliment to their integration of Gorilla Glass from Corning Ware, which could well have protected but also dulled the screen in terms of picture quality and interaction.

An intense red streak along the bottom of the mousepad looked dull, and the green on the button we snapped was much brighter than it looked on - screen.

Most ereaders don't use grey shades because their designers are interminably dull — it's so that they fit in better with the slightly greyish look of the E-ink screen.

According to a company representative, the increased responsiveness is due to Sony's ability to remove a glass overlay that caused the screen to be duller and less sensitive than it now is; the current displays use infrared optical technology to locate where your finger is on the screen.

[8] Like its predecessor, some criticism was made of the screen quality, with Lockford describing it as «dull and uninspiring», and CNET Australia's Nic Healey criticizing it as a «barebone or no - frills» compared to the 2013 Google Nexus 7, despite otherwise finding it worth a look.

The difference in quality between the Genesis Prime and the 1280 x 800 Nexus 7 and the Kindle Fire HD 7 could not be more stark as even the shortcuts on the Ematic tablet's home screen appeared blurry and dull.

Reading apps display books with cover images on a bookshelf and usually the ability to zoom full - screen, though without color, many covers are too dull or obscured to bother looking at.