Sentences with phrase «snappy script»

While later entries in both series and certain spinoffs (cough Super Paper Mario cough) became ever wordier and more tedious with their dialogue, Superstar Saga remains relatively tightly plotted and has a pretty snappy script.

Fast and Furious vet Justin Lin takes over for Abrams in the director's chair and, working with a snappy script co-written by Simon Pegg («Scotty»), has the film feeling like a fun Trek TV episode beamed up to the multiplex.

A snappy script, terrific jazzy soundtrack, and engaging direction keeps the film always moving while never losing the humorous tone.

Indeed, the Dublin native is simply sublime in the classic odd couple crime caper alongside the similarly underrated Cheadle, with the chalk and cheese characterisations perfectly complimenting John Michael's snappy script.

Every threat of sentimentality and melodrama is averted by a seriously strong cast working from a snappy script.

Despite a relatively snappy script that largely avoids jingoism and flat dialogue, A Glimpse of Hell suffers from plot devices that are too clearly such.

Russell's smart, snappy script is delivered by a top - notch cast, including two thoroughly likeable and well - matched leads.

It benefits from a smart, snappy script and a well - rounded cast, and gives its director the chance to employ virtually every camera trick known to man.

It benefits from a smart, snappy script and a well - rounded cast, and gives its director the chance to employ virtually every camera -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have never been better as childhood best friends who have grown far apart, and the script provides Wright with his most snappy dialogue and clever structure yet.

And the script is packed with snappy oneliners that keep us laughing.

There's an intriguing premise to this snappy action thriller, but it's never properly developed by the inane script and bland direction.

The cast is game, in other words; it's the script - by - committee that lets them down, and the instinct to pander with snappy editing, a hip soundtrack, and a «Behind the Music» dramatic arc.

Updating a script written by Robert Lowell (a man who has been deceased since 1977), Haley updates the action to modern day Cleveland, but this mob affiliated kidnap caper feels exactly like direct - to - video fodder from the mid to late 90's modeling snappy, impressionistic dialogue around loopy bits of violence and pronounced plot twists, a common template following the success of Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994).

That's a good description of the final film — one in which you can see glimmers of the Shane Black script underneath (hardboiled characters, snappy dialogue, bursts of shocking violence, a Christmas setting) but surrounded by a lot of unnecessary bullshit to the point where you can almost feel the egos of the movie superheating the frame and melting away what was once originally there.

Snappy, sexy, and able to get her head around the script's Diablo Cody - isms, it suggested that a star was born, and Thirlby swiftly followed it up with another strong performance in»90s coming - of - age tale «The Wackness.»

Like all Sorkin scripts, it's a fast and furious drama loaded with snappy dialogue, and the majority of that dialogue is delivered by Jessica Chastain.

Originally titled Hot Spot - a name the picture would be known as outside of America - Dwight Taylor's script balances its yellow - paged pulp perversions with a rather snappy sense of humor, never fully committing to the grim, upsetting storytelling tendencies that would overtake the era's most prominent pictures.

But whether she's working closely with her editors or she's leaving them little choice in how to cut her films because of how lean her scripts and footage are, this kind of short, snappy, collage - like approach to storytelling has become Gerwig's «style» — which undercuts the argument that there's nothing distinctive about the way her movies look and feel.

There is and never will be a question in my mind as to which script should have won last year — but Argo's script was certainly the kind of script lots of people like — snappy dialogue, memorable and quotable lines, etc..

Derek Landy talks about his transition from writing film scripts to writing his first book, Skulduggery Pleasant, about a snappy dressing, razor - tongued ace detective, who happens to be a skeleton.