Sentences with phrase «slowed the film down»

The script, however, is very weak and there are some needless twists along the way which slow the film down but add very little to the enjoyment of it.

This slows the film down, but in a way that works towards the film's effect..

Pacing issues slow the film down so that nothing ever seems to happen, even when it does.

The new version mostly adds more of the same, slowing the film down even further and forcing us to wait that much longer for real purpose of the exercise: Zoë Bell's hammer - to - the - pedal ride on the hood of a speeding Dodge Challenger.

It does, however, have extended dialogue - heavy scenes which don't just slow the film down, but stop it dead in its tracks.

We actually shot a scene that where that's explained but I've been told it slows the film down in a significant way, and they didn't want to slow it down.

Only a minor subplot concerning the Sheik's countrymen and their worries that he is becoming too «westernized» slows the film down.

However, even those who can digest the existentialism in the film will find that the sudden philosophical tirades slow the film down.

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After all, when Strange spoke with the Ancient One before her death in his solo film, she slowed time down to micro-seconds to hold a fairly lengthy conversation with him.

As we can speed up or slow down the film, likewise we can conceive of the series of instants as running on faster or slower into the future — nothing in the nature of the series excludes this possibility.

«Leonardo was consumed by the dynamics of flight,» he says, speculating that Leonardo's drawings suggest he possessed «preternatural vision» that allowed him to see birds «as we would in slowing down a fast film to a flicker.»

The script of the film stays the same but the director — the histone mark — can choose to eliminate, slow down or speed up certain scenes or dialogues, altering the film for better — cancer cell death — or worse — cancer cell survival.»

From the filming and editing to figuring out how to speed up / slow down clips and add background music... it was all an exciting learning process.

Our solution to this problem was to film without music and then add the music back to the video scoring the music to the movement and exercise as best as can be done until the rep speed drastically slows down because of fatigue.You will notice how the music ebbs and flows with the intensity of the exercise and even the breaks between exercises have their own special music that is much calmer in nature.

The opening scene, in which the two friends share a Christmas Eve donut because they're too broke to afford one for each of them, unsentimentally suggests the high - wire act that making a living on the streets can be without the film ever slowing down its electronica - soundtracked strut.

As you may have suspected from an additional 30 minutes of footage, the pace of the film is slowed down considerably.

The film does slow down a bit in the final act to give the big finale room to breathe, but that's hardly a bad thing.

And when the film slows down to take an emotional beat, those are perfectly handled too, with one scene in particular that should have the entire audience wiping away a tear.

This beautifully filmed Western is basically a slow moving two hour chase, down a snowy mountain ridge into the desert plains.

All in all, the film is plenty conventional, even in a portrayal of Ancient Rome that is about as thin as a lot of the characterization, and as contrived as the melodramatics which slow down the impact of momentum almost as much as dull and draggy spells, thus making for a script whose shortcomings are challenged well enough by a powerful score, immersively beautiful visual style, solid direction, and strong lead acting for Henry Koster's «The Robe» to stand as an adequately rewarding and very intriguing study on the impact Christ had even on those who brought about his demise.

The methodical film bogs down in too much extraneous detail in the first hour, rendering the slow and arduous nature of its journey a little too authentic for moviegoers eager for the caravan to pick up the pace.

A sensual and surprisingly fascinating documentary film that slows you right down to its own meditative tempo.

From there, he launched a steady film career that slowed down considerably in the late»50s, after he began appearing on television but did not end until 1994, when Brinegar made his final screen appearance, as a stagecoach driver, in the 1994 film version of Maverick.

These consistently unsubtle and occasionally slightly cloying sentimental atmospherics reflect an overambition, until laziness is reflected in atmospheric dry spells, which dull down momentum in a film that is slow enough without a certain chilling quietness that blandly meditates upon storytelling a little too much.

There are quite a few moments when the film slows down in order to service characters that have yet to be developed, but those moments don't last long at all.

The film is further harmed by all the interviews and investigation which really slow the pace down.

His film career continued steadily through the mid -»70s, then slowed down to about a film every two or three years.

Could be because I had super low expectations but as a sci - fi action film and a retread it moves really well, doesn't slow down, and keeps the action escalating.

There's nothing wrong with directors slowing down a film in order to develop characters or give focus to a particular scene.

Luca Guadagnino directs the film with a sense of languor, as though the heat or the beauty of the surroundings were persuading him to slow down and take it all in.

While notorious comedians (such as Byrne's Bridesmaids co-star Kristen Wiig, for example) are making exhaustive strides into the realm of drama, Byrne has slowly emerged as a subtly hilarious film presence, and she shows no signs of slowing down.

The whole city seems to exist in anticipation of a storm, just before the rain comes down: there's an ominous, thunderous feel; the air hangs heavy; the threat of violence permeates.Much will and already has been made of the violence, of which there is lots, the impact exacerbated by the agonisingly slow, painfully tense character of the film; it makes you wait and it makes you suffer.

Themes are telegraphed for a return later in the film and, at times, exposition slows things down.

This is a well - paced film that doesn't slow down, and flows smoothly like a kind of tone poem.

Sadly however, this is where the film (unfortunately) peaks and winds down from this point until it becomes incredibly slow and tedious.

The mood shifts in Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004) as the Bride resumes her mission of vengeance and the film slows her down as she nears her goal: Bill (David Carradine), the old lover who tried to murder her and now raises her child.

Brickman does a handful of a snazzy moves — some with editing, some with the narration, some with lighting and slowing down the film (nothing ostentatious, but certainly a little different from the rest of his approach)-- and the score tempers it.

Only a short period where the film becomes «Jerry McGuire» slows the story down.

Buscemi (Trees Lounge, Animal Factory) returns to the directors chair for another quirky, lackadaisical comedy - drama in Lonesome Jim, a slow - starting but ultimately rewarding film about the fact that, when all seems down and hopeless, sometimes you can find meaning and happiness in the things you usually take for granted.

Having already appeared in three films this year, character actor Allison Janney isn't showing signs of slowing down.

They don't slow down the film to let her catch up.

Set months following a devastating World War III, the film posits a world in which most of the Northern Hemisphere has been contaminated with radiation poisoning and people are moving down to Australia in order to escape the slow - moving but ever encroaching radiation dust.

Takashi Miike's extremities have alienated many (including, sometimes, myself), but when he finally tones it down with films like Hara - Kiri and the first half of this slow burn, people want nothing but action.

Gwyneth Paltrow has been starring in notable Hollywood films since the early 90's and it doesn't look like she's slowing down any time soon.

In less than a week, the seventh film in the «Fast & Furious» franchise has passed $ 500 million at the global box office, and doesn't look likely to slow down until the end of the...

It's a tough film to watch, both because of its subject matter — a seventeen - year - old girl is tasked with rearing her younger brother and sister while trying to hunt down her drug - dealing father in order to keep her family intact — and because it's just a slow film.

The last year that Woody Allen did not release a single film was 1981 and even at 82 the auteur shows no signs of slowing down.

Slow, strong and steady is how this film progresses, and everything — from the character development to the editing, right down to the gorgeous camerawork from Wally Pfister, the man behind the bulk of Christopher Nolan's films — just works incredibly well together.

He's not shy about shooting anyone in their way, even a troublesome girlfriend, and he's so tough that the film has to throw everything at him (starting with one of the great urban car crash stunts of its time) in the third act just to slow him down.

Whenever the film does slow down, the characterisation carries on feeling forced and hampers the pace.