Sentences with phrase «such flat characters»

Considering all the actors were given such flat characters to portray on screen, they did a pretty good job.

Not exact matches

With the course of time such «deformations» lose their newness, and often even their original metaphorical character, and become flat, commonplace words.»

The stop - motion animation - a favorite tool of Burton's - is given loving attention, and the character design is full of terrific touches, such as the hulking flat - topped schoolmate who looks a bit like a certain man - made monster.

By following five Atlanta - based couples, the film wants fervently to incorporate all its character's diverse fluff into one sitting, but such hopes are subverted to an emptily - flat experiment that pairs audiences with familiar faces acting out a weak script, while the experimenters stand back and pray that the audience doesn't notice just in fact how hollow it all really is.

Not only are the characters flat, paper constructs, but the levels and buildings are largely made of cardboard (as is Mario's health bar), while environmental effects such as water and sand throw off small circles of construction paper when they splash against something.

Worse, the character is so poorly written that he comes across as flat - out dumb in scene after scene (such as searching for a hidden camera in his silverware drawer).

Awkward performances, under developed characters, flat dialogue and bad dubbing are very common in his film as well as the films of his Italian horror contemporaries such as Mario Bava and Lucio Fulci.

Of course, like practically all comedies centering on a boorish and unlikable individual, this wraps up with a few insincere moments of character maturity and empathy, but here such bits are no harder to take than the desperate gags flailing and falling flat at a rapid clip.

Past animation and live action combos, such as Mary Poppins and Bedknobs and Broomsticks, offered lovely mixtures of cartoon characters and real people, but looked a bit clunky and flat as well.

I added new characters, guest characters such as Markiplier, Wade, Muyskerm (Bob), Game Grumps, and all of them who I mentioned loce the project, they said nothing about PM, so I feel really flattered and confident.

The characters fall flat and you get the sense that Jolie could have used a bit more experience before tackling such heavy material.

It's such a treat to see this talented actress step away from her usual dramatic characters and flat out nail a comedic role in which she seems to nearly flutter across the screen while sporting a voice that would typically only be heard in Saturday morning cartoons.

To be fair, movies like this are a difficult balancing act, and even more so with such a large cast of characters, but despite Levy's best efforts, «This Is Where I Leave You» falls disappointingly flat.

As such, the character's first appearance in 2011's «Captain America: The First Avenger,» is probably best described as a modest success, both critically (an enjoyably retro first half giving way to a flatter, more formless second), and commercially — at $ 370 million, it's the second lowest - grossing of the Marvel pictures so far.

Wilson's big and bulky play (reportedly trimmed considerably by Tony Kushner, who gets a co-producer credit) owes much to the family dysfunction classics of Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, but it also has notes of heightened allegory that fall flat, such as the recurring character of Gabriel (Mykelti Williamson), Troy's brain - damaged brother who keeps barging into the action to utter deranged prophecies.

She is flat - chested, under - developed physically (such as the hips), is significantly shorter than the other characters and wears her hair in pigtails.

And as such, we start to see Sonic degrade into a flat, lifeless husk of a character, who spits out slogans and generally has only one personality mode, the radical attitude dude, the sad recycled image of vague»90s cultural concept.

Corner sofas can fit into the most compact living spaces, making them perfect for small homes and character properties such as flats, Victorian terraces or a country cottage.