Sentences with phrase «sentimental coda»

While Saving Private Ryan excels at portraying the randomness of survival on a battlefield, and is easily cinema's greatest and most realistic achievement in depicting the uncompromising horror of war, it's not without its flaws, chief of which is a horribly sentimental coda in which an ageing Ryan — who is bequeathed a responsibility which would rest heavily on anybody's shoulders — visits the military cemetery in which some of his former comrades are buried.

Suffice to say, Home Alone 2 falls into the same sad camp as Elf, celebrating the material benefits of the holiday season and then tacking on a sentimental coda as a half - hearted apology.

Not exact matches

Wilson himself, in a coda that may strike the reader as either poignant or sentimental, points to a third position that neither the liberal Protestants nor the Catholic modernists will find acceptable.

Instead of being content with its position as the funniest movie I can remember seeing, Superbad has to go and turn in a loony coda, taking all kinds of shortcuts with character development, just so it can have its sentimental, significant ending.