Sentences with phrase «stitched together»

And there we have Captain America: The Winter Soldier, a perfectly creditable comic - book adventure that likewise feels naggingly rote, stitched together from a mess of old plot parts.

From editing to actor chemistry, the film feels like a series of shorts and singular ideas stitched together to become one large, drafty quilt of sci - fi.

It's also an overly familiar cartoon schema of a romantic comedy, stitched together from the most monstrous parts of Meet the Parents, Shallow Hal, and American Pie (one punchline, clearly overdubbed late in the editing stage, shamelessly plagiarizes a memorable ad - lib from hit comedy The 40 Year - Old Virgin).

This dichromatic scheme created by production designer Damian LaFranche and cinematographer Tom Richmond is fascinating and more than a little unsettling: the white - clad scientists and orderlies blend in with background, with only their heads clearly visible, and the somewhat grotesque makeup of multicolored, poorly stitched together Lazarus (created by effects whiz Tom Savini, who also has a bit part) just stands out even more against the plain backdrop.

The close - ups of buttons being sewn and fabrics being stitched together puts you in the mindset of Reynolds (or one of the seamstresses).

At times the movie feels like two Very Special Episodes of «Law & Order: SVU» stitched together, but on balance it's a smart, well - cast piece of grown - up entertainment.

It's a cinematic chimera of pieces hacked apart and stitched together, its inspirations and influences write large across every moment.

In between the verbal humour, the visual spectacle is equally impressive: Infinity Stones, hovering arrows and space blockades are all stitched together with verve by director James Gunn, whose enthusiastic world - building is infectious.

Stop motion is an often thankless, work - intensive style, but its unique, stitched together and endearingly flawed style always makes it stand out in the crowd, especially with this generation's reliance on sterile computer generated fare that has managed to homogenize the feel of family animated entertainment.

Even the latest promotional glimpses make the film look like one long two - hour trailer with thousands of fleeting, romantic, ephemeral moments stitched together.

It's all stitched together with grim shots of Leatherface assembling the first of his iconic masks.

Seamless special effects can't hide a story line as stitched together as Frankenstein's monster.

Set over the course of three soirees — a birthday celebration, a Halloween costume party and a New Year's fete — «Highball» is essentially a collection of thin conversations and quips stitched together into a fractured, often bitter history of these various friendships.

Meanwhile, Sobieski and Zahn are stitched together for one of a trio of commentaries that accompany the film proper; Zahn quickly earns our ire by providing sound effects for the automobiles on - screen.

And far from being definitive, the creative minds behind Leatherface have merely stitched together pieces of the mythology we already know into a story that has less to do with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and more to do with the Wrong Turn series and its increasingly odd sequels.

The film feels stitched together from previous Bond film moments — the snowy chase, the high - flying beat down, the gravity - defying car chase, the personality - deprived henchman (Dave Bautista plays consummately forgettable henchman Hinx (Get it?!

Each decade has produced images and imaginings that, when stitched together, add up to our ambivalent relationship with nuclear power.

Number three may eventually give you a headache, and the film occasionally feels like a pileup of gonzo shorts stitched together, but it's engagingly loony while it (and the viewer) lasts.

Pass through the main gates and you'll enter Toukiden 2's hunting grounds, a sizeable network of biomes cleverly stitched together.

Making Igor his righthand man, Victor's playing - God project starts badly when he brings to life a psychotic rampaging monkey - monster stitched together from pieces filched from zoos.

Different types of armor stitched together from the remains of different types of monsters will defend you against different elements like thunder, water, ice, fire, and dragon, and different types of weapons are more effective against different monsters whose weaknesses you'll discover as you fight them and search for clues about them.

Those are good to great sources, but Annabelle deserved a story of her own, not one stitched together from the carcasses of others.

While a rarity for an eventual Best Picture winner it wasn't seen as that surprising because the film was essentially a number of long one - shot takes stitched together.

Drag Krzysztof Kieslowski's profound vision of a universe stitched together with coincidence and love out into the real world, and it starts to smell like New Age hokum.

With Krieps on board, it also somehow feels like the Hitchcock movie Audrey Hepburn didn't get to make but clearly channeled through the unique mind of Anderson, a film - savvy writer - director responsible for such fever dreams as Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Inherent Vice, and of course There Will Be Blood, his previous adventure with Day - Lewis that also felt like a movie stitched together out of something not easily explained on first viewing.

Timothy Burke, the video director at the sports website Deadspin, stitched together the promotional campaign script read out by the many anchors, as what Vox says has been internally called an «anchor delivered journalistic responsibility message».

It's stitched together with a hatchet edit job, glossed over with slow motion and Top 40 hits.

Stitched together from old singles and repainted with dreary bonus material, these late - career milestones act as musical Cliffs Notes for the unambitious,...

The comedy is narrative - driven, rather than loosely stitched together à la Dogma or Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and the laughs come thick and fast.

This leads her to discover a house in the town of New English called the Abattoir, featuring «stitched together» unending rooms of death.

The Final Frontier is a decent film, one that leaves a lot to be desired for Trek fans, and here I felt that the film's script was just stitched together too quickly in order to create a follow up to The Voyage Home.

The pacing is good, but the film also comes with many obvious markers of rough editing and recuts, which makes the middle section feel muddled and disjointed; it's hard to see certain scenes as sequential and purposed, rather than stitched together from parts of what was seemingly a deeper (and longer) character study.

Gone are the ludicrous but gorgeously choreographed set pieces Fuqua is known for, replaced by generically brown villains, incompetently choreographed action, and jarringly stock footage stitched together with badly mismatched sound stage shots.

While the moment to moment gameplay is exciting, it stills feels like a stitched together chimera of ideas that never really combine into anything unique.

A Wiki's worth of pop - culture references stitched together by the most derivative of plots, Ernest Cline's 2011 pulp sci - fi novel, Ready Player One, had many readers but substantially fewer devotees.

... But the cuckoo is stitched together by the heft of Fonda and Tomlin's performances and the intimacy of the writing when the show manages to take a step back and give the characters a beat for self - analysis.

Under the guise of cinéma vérité, Moselle has stitched together a dreamy reverie that, if not a put - on, fetishizes a dangerously dysfunctional situation.

[the house's] structure reflects that of the film - a creaky accumulation of tropes from all manner of haunted house movies, stitched together into an impressive if ungainly edifice.

That's probably not the reaction director Julian Rosefeldt hopes will be stirred by this rigorous series of monologues, stitched together from more than 50 artistic and political manifestos and performed by Blanchett as 13 characters.

A bunch of impressive set pieces stitched together rather than a good story convincingly told, this gargantuan production should ride Brad Pitt «s name, teeming action scenes and widespread interest in all things zombie to strong box office returns, particularly internationally.

Lastly, Barnum advertised that the mermaid was a beautiful woman, which was not true; the Mermaid was made using either papier - mâché, the tail of a fish and a torso of a baby orangutan, stitched together with the head of a monkey.

Seam allowance: The area between the edge and the stitching line on two pieces of material being stitched together.

Where the current generation thinks nothing of buying a $ 5 t - shirt, irrespective of the wage of the person who made it, the conditions of the factory it was stitched together in, or the fact that it will likely fall apart after one wear.

The ends can be stitched together to create a hip, continuous design or left loose for a traditional - style wrap.

Two furnishings were stitched together, tops sealed with a special pine finish, a galvanized pail inset in the chest top and a custom frame installed to a house a wine cooler.

Amy from Friends Stitched Together nailed that in this Pocket Apron tutorial today.

According to the product description on the Marc Jacobs site: «The shot is from 5 seconds of clips from the original film that have been digitally stitched together by artist Bob Richards.

The saree is easy to wear as it is a pre-stitched saree consisting of a lower skirt portion and stitched pleats and the pallu or shoulder drape may be pre-pleated and stitched together to keep pleats neat before they are draped over the shoulder.

Her mother's cousin hand stitched them all together!

I did find a «crazy quilt» skirt that was made up of remnants of silk from old gowns all stitched together in a falling log pattern.