Sentences with phrase «seemed out of a movie»

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, endless stream of fine wines, and recently - released movies, as well as shows I'd neglected to binge watch over the summer, sleep seemed out of the question.

The memory may have faded, but movie studios can still feel the sharp barb left behind by 2014's release of «The Interview,» the James Franco and Seth Rogen - starring slapstick comedy that saw the duo assassinate Kim Jong - un; hundreds of Sony's e-mails were leaked by hackers in the aftermath, causing their own controversies, while even the brief threat of all - out war seemed to hang strangely in the air.

While social - justice drama isn't enough to sell a movie — ««Selma» had many of the same themes, and underperformed,» Pandya points out — «Straight Outta Compton» seemed to spark a discussion.

«This is probably some Russian mind game, down to the bogus accent» of some of the messages sent to media organizations by the Shadow Brokers group, delivered in broken English that seemed right out of a bad spy movie.

It seems like every time Marvel can't possibly increase the scope of a franchise, they figure out a way to make their movies even bigger.

She didn't seem to care about losing her virginity to someone she barely knows (another way these movies typically frame young men), and there's a point when she asks her father (John Cena) why society makes such a big deal out of virginity in the first place.

Who else finds out about every visit they make to the mall for a new pair of jeans, every trip to a restaurant or a movie, and always mentions it the next day, so that it seems they can do nothing without her knowing it?

The moment we found out she was a girl, 3D ultrasound in which we saw her face, her baby showers, putting together the nursery, my continuously growing belly, her moving and kicking all the time, it seemed like I was watching the movie of another woman.

Although the list of things to do can seem limited, there are actually quite a few fun activities to try with babies before they crawl both indoors and out, including things like taking a flight, working on coordination, dressing them up, and even going to the movies — really!

I'm all out of heroics, now there just coincidences that I save the day, no seriously I'm just your person looking for that someone, My qualities are of great standards, honesty, caring, I'm quick of the wit in a majorly dorky way, love quoting movies when the situation seems similar.

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Manifesto's visual inventiveness and Blanchett's multifarious performances make the movie consistently engrossing, even when the relationship between Blanchett's character and the words coming out of her mouth — or, more often in this version, spoken by her in voiceover — seem purely arbitrary.

While it offers plenty of funny moments, most courtesy of Stifler, the movie just seems tired and worn out.

Although the public's appetite for this tacky subgenre seemed to know no limits, I quickly tuned out the endless string of copycat movies and TV shows about Horrible Inhuman Serial Killers, the kind that exist to derive sadistic pleasure from inflicting pain and suffering.

In none of those areas does this film compare favorably to Pixar (and the scattershot storytelling in particular reveals the lack of laborious self - inspection), but that doesn't seem to be too pressing a concern to DreamWorks as they continue to churn out profitable and crowd - pleasing movies that are enjoyed the world over.

The inclusion of several laugh - out - loud funny interludes perpetuates the movie's engaging vibe, and it does, in the movie's early stages, seem as though The Internship is going to top Wedding Crashers, Vaughn and Wilson's first comedic pairing, in terms of entertainment value.

It's also a movie that seems bizarrely out of time - arriving half a decade after the penguin cinema craze led by March of the Penguins and Happy Feet - and season, with the chilly scenarios better suited to a big Christmas release.

It seemed like a good idea to check out the new local dinner theater to see a hot movie like District 9... but as soon as the main character popped off his bloody fingernail to his (and our) great surprise, I regretted having just taken a big bite of pizza.

Schindler leaves it to Stern, and Spielberg leaves it to us; the movie is a rare case of a man doing the opposite of what he seems to be doing, and a director letting the audience figure it out itself.

Some of the (beautifully filmed) shots seem to come right out of Costner's own movie.

There's the easy, lazy trafficking in broad ethnic caricature — Mike Epps as a black drug dealer, Ken Jeong as a prancing, lisping Asian gangster known as Mr. Chow — which is decked out in flimsy air quotes to make it seem as if the movie is making fun of racism.

An actual chase sequence involving Jack trying to avoid an assassin trying to clean up loose ends from earlier seems so out of place midway through the movie amidst all the scenic travelogue visuals and minimalist conversations.

Though there are times when all that mannered style seems out of sync with Mark Perez's loose script, it's mostly a refreshing pleasure to watch a movie that didn't need to be as tailored as it is nonetheless given such crisp definition.

The gravity - defying harness maneuvers popularized in the U.S. with «The Matrix» — ... look really cool, but seem out of place in a realistic gang - style action movie.

The movie never glamorizes drug use but at the same time never really seems to go out of its way to not make it entertaining.

A lot of these movies seem cool, The Wolverine and Iron Man 3 are two I can't wait to find out more about.

Critics seemed to have cooled on bizarrely praising the movies completely out of left field at this point as well, as Sharknado 3 hits the series» first negative rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

I've gotten to he age where movies like Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, that I used to hate, seem MUCH more interesting than much of the stuff being put out today - Eyes Wide Shut included.

The movie just seems like one more Hollywood cop - out, and a waste of our original emotional investment.

Unfortunately, the peaceful pacing turns out to be a bit of a drag by the halfway mark, making the movie seem longer than it actually is, and Garcia's natural lighting isn't always the most flattering.

«Monte Carlo» is a harmless, innocuous tween fantasy that seems constructed out of bits and pieces of movies that we must surely have seen before, but can't quite place because there's nothing much to remember.

I was trying to think about how The CW could make a racy - but - weepy soap opera out of either of these movies, and then the answer seemed obvious — you have to combine them.

October seems like the better month for a horror / sci - fi movie to come out and puting Alien: Covenent in the summer could add competition and take away the best month for any form of scary movie.

I'm not sure if he was attempting to channel some of the tamer movies of the era, but it seems strange that they are all so obsessed with «making out» with boys.

The movie starts with a kind of music - video visual dribble, set to the pounding strains of Devo's «Girl U Want,» a song whose chanting refrain («She's just a girl — the girl you want») seems to promise the kind of machocentric SF soft - core porn dished out by Barbarella 27 years ago.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller have dropped out of the Han Solo movie, delivering what seems like it could be a huge blow to the Star Wars spinoff.

It's the kind of movie that starts out strong (in this case with a terrific scene where Mendelsohn and Reynolds meet at a poker table) and seems capable of toppling over into a pile of disappointment at any moment; its characters are similarly perched.

Out of the twin Snow White movies, Snow White and the Huntsman and Mirror Mirror, SWATH seems poised for winning between the two shows, so something similar could happen between two White House movies about the exact same plot.

Shakespeare's (arguably) final play is already such a poetic imaginarium that making a movie out of it seems redundant.

Utterly preposterous as this premise goes — not to mention how Brian seems hopeless and instantly way out of his depth the second he comes within inches of Arielle — this fanciful movie goes on hoping you'll bury your incredulity for this narrative, much like the main character, who has his head in the obliviously romantic clouds.

It's the sort of set - up that would seem to lend itself naturally to a briskly - paced, unapologetically violent B movie, and while there are certainly a number of enthralling sequences peppered throughout, Outlander's oppressively bloated sensibilities play an instrumental role in diminishing its overall impact (ie the film should've topped out at 80 minutes, max).

This was a movie that seemed to have come out of Apatow's clinic of typic movies.

The film's running time doesn't fly by, exactly, but it rarely seems to stall out, which is impressive when you consider how many of the movie's big scenes consist of people talking, sometimes emoting, in close - up.

At times, the movie seems to be headed for a neat, either - or resolution — threatening to become either a highbrow version of «Ghost» or a supremely elegant episode of «Scooby - Doo» — but its interests turn out to be more psychological than supernatural.

A loose assemblage of movie villains straight out of central casting (including the baby - faced one who might have a change of heart and the total maniac who seems in it just to kill people, played by a scene - stealing Richard Cabral), there's no honor among thieves, and there's even less logic.

Mainly for fans, the movie is especially novel for those of us in N.A. who it seems, although loving the music, never really experienced the years long media malestrom the public were subject to back in the U.K. Non fans would of course get less out of it.

One throughline of 2002's movies seems to be men in over their heads, and Time Out's ghostly star Aurélien Recoing (a ringer for stateside comedian Larry Miller) is their poster boy.

There seem to be quite a fair amount of faith based movies out in theaters right now.

At least part of the credit belongs to screenwriter Diablo Cody, who seems to have set out to write a greatest - hits Jonathan Demme movie — complete with full - length live musical numbers, kitsch décor, and a wedding — while taking another go at the basic premise of her script for Young Adult: the story of a nobody returning to nowhere.

While the director of Hunt For The Wilderpeople seems like an odd choice for Akira, eyebrows were raised when he took on the latest Thor movie, and that appears to be turning out just fine.