Sentences with phrase «see pure comedy»
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Regarding the pay increase: I've sat through hundreds of hours of Council hearings but nothing I've ever seen rivaled yesterday's hearing for pure comedy.
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«21 and Over» would have been better served going for pure comedy the whole time — like «Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy» successfully pulled off — and a script rewrite that took chances beyond «The Hangover» formula we've already seen twice now.
From Mark Wahlberg's controlled verbal outbursts to Martin Sheen's earnestness to Alec Baldwin's schizoid vulgarities to Leonardo Di Caprio's compassionate toughness to Ray Winstone's quasi immobile fierceness to Jack Nicholson's beautifully pure excess, The Departed is indeed an performance - driven, fast - paced comedy of expertly timed thrills (or comedic thriller, depending on your point of view) peppered with several instances of acrobatic verbal witticisms, and topped with enough generic clichés and predictable screw - turns to make it palatable for all audiences (yes, even those who paid money to see Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Costner's The Guardian).
Van Dormael's film was pure torture from first to last, about as mirthless a comedy as I ever hope to see.
The film's core is all heart, but surrounding the dramatic moments is a pure sense of humor that generated more genuine laughter than any comedy I've seen in recent years.