Sentences with phrase «strange as a viewer»

But a little strange as a viewer, definitely.

Not exact matches

It's clear immediately that Foley has his work cut out for him in terms of capturing the viewer's interest, as Perfect Stranger suffers from a disastrously unconvincing opening half hour that's reflected in everything from the forced - sounding dialogue to the over-the-top performances to the laughable portrayal of Rowena's online chat sessions.

This is the kind of experience that might tell you more about yourself as both a viewer and a person than you're comfortable knowing; it's also the most alluringly strange movie of the year so far.

But there's absolutely nothing here so strange that it impedes the viewer's enjoyment; Shyamalan does a superb job of establishing this world and its inhabitants, as well as the rules that clearly govern their actions (eg nobody is terribly surprised by Story's presence, which does make sense within the context of the film).

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I'm going to venture that Bug is going to have a small, loyal audience, as it is a strange film, with a sense of gruesome atmosphere that will most likely turn off mainstream viewers, particularly those who fall for the studio's marketing of it as a straight horror flick.

American Hustle isn't quite as strange as the former, but it certainly isn't afraid to let its characters loose on the unsuspecting viewer.

The first film directed by screenwriter Alex Garland (28 Days Later, Never Let Me Go, Dredd), Ex Machina is not nearly as profound as it seems to think it is, but is still (mostly) very watchable and filled with enough strange and unexpected twists to keep the viewer guessing to the end.

Writer / director Damien Power asks viewers to follow three groups as they converge at an out - of - the - way camping site: newly - engaged couple Ian (Ian Meadows) and Sam (Harriet Dyer); poor white trash duo German (Aaron Pedersen) and Chook (Aaron Glenane); and happy parents Margaret (Maya Strange) and Rob (Julian Garner) and their two children, teenager Em (Tiarnie Coupland) and infant Ollie (Liam Parkes).

Doctor Strange's first cinematic debut, however, gives viewers a quickly paced origin story that feels as familiar as most contemporary superhero stories, where the viewer tags along to see how a man adapts to become something extraordinary, but in every other aspect the film provides relentless spectacle and levity.

Fans of HBO's «The Wire» are no stranger to Williams, who dazzled viewers for five seasons as stick - up -LSB-...]

It appears that Marvel is eager to use Doctor Strange as a shotgun blast of magic, introducing viewers to this whole new aspect of the Marvel Cinematic Universe all in one go.

It may have been easy for viewers to dismiss as strange or sordid because Power plays an anti-hero and Goulding refuses to shy away from showing alcoholism and addiction.

Hemsworth, whom movie viewers have recently seen as the heroic, but ill - fated George Kirk in the new Star Trek movie, is a ruggedly handsome 26 year old actor who is no stranger to action roles in movies.

However, as a first time viewer of these games, I must say Infinite looked quite strange, and Chris Redfield, from the Resident Evil series, seemed to stick out like a sore thumb.

The 1960 canvas Strange Land, included in the Houston show, would be unrecognizable to most viewers as a work by Bearden.

By uniting the gesturality of de Kooning's paintings with the subject matter of those books, Prince presents the viewer with a strange, ambivalent new image that both emphasizes and punctures the sexual stereotypes of the raunchy nurse, as well as that of the macho Abstract Expressionist painter.

With CATALIN, «a Wagnerian hybrid environment of sculpture, film, music, fragrance, theater, performance, and grand spectacle» at Jones Center; and Pet Sounds, sculptures at Laguna Gloria that «begin as railings and morph into luscious, playful blobs that engage the viewer with murmurs, vibrations, and strange sounds when touched,» Long explores the human condition «and the fragility of our physical and psychological worlds.»

It's a strange, curiously ominous exploded history, one that can be reassembled and dissembled as the viewer sees fit.

HiFructose.com describes the work of John Casey»88 BFA Painting as, «a strange, often - humorous assault on the viewer.

I hope the familiar (monument) will become strange as a park goer sees the world around, above, and behind her reflected directly before her — allowing or imploring this viewer to acknowledge the present moment and the inherent memory and future it holds.

He writes that the exhibition «presents the artist and his work partly in the context of his time and place and partly as artefacts present - day viewers respond to literally, without much explanation, as images that will strike them as strange or alien, either because of a cultural disconnect or because of the uniqueness of Dürer's imagination.»

The Chapel's size and, more significantly, its overtly religious themes expand Tague's usual critique, positioning viewers as literal «money - worshipers» as they interact with the strange structure.

As crowds gathered around the installation, the effect on viewers of the gaze of his subjects — families and strangers with uncertain futures peering out across time and geography — was both poignant and chilling.

Blurring the lines between the perverse and the everyday, Frank's paintings engage the viewer as a complicit voyeur into their strange reality.

The smiling Chinese figure in Piggyback (Chinese Down) belongs to a repertoire of characters that Muñoz created including the dwarf, ballerina and ventriloquist dummy, all of whom appear to us as both familiar and strange: «There is something about their appearance that makes them different, and this difference in effect excludes the spectator from the room they are occupying... The spectator becomes very much like the object to be looked at, and perhaps the viewer has become the one who is on view».