The script that Dave Franco's Greg reads at the diner is full of lines that are well - known to fans of The Room and are 100 percent real, even
such implausible ones as, «Leave your stupid comments in your pocket.»
Decent performances can't save a mystery that has to thread a very fine needle of contrivances, one of which is that we're supposed to buy the notion that
such an implausible series of circumstances would continue over the course of many years.
Much of the reason why
such an implausible story holds semblance of credibility is due to the fine ensemble of actors and Twohy's very able direction.
Some viewers may actually enjoy the creepy images and haunting vibe enough to forgive
such an implausible suspenser, but I'm wagering these viewers firmly reside in the «I'll watch anything that looks intense on the video store shelves, no matter how cheap it must be, and hey, I really like that Elisabeth Shue, she was so great in Adventures in Babysitting, and oh, I won't pay attention to just what's going on because I just love being creeped out, because I don't like to stop and think for even a minute, and it has a cute doggie in it, I think his name was Barfer, and, and, and, ooh I could just go on forever, he's so adorable» camp.
This one endearingly eccentric, familiar detail — nothing brings down the house quite like the peek - a-boo intrusion of a boom mike — helps make palatable
such an implausible showdown and its comically dated mise - en - scène.
Not exact matches
There's a lot of great action here,
such as a train chase that is as memorable as it is
implausible.
Obviously this set of scenarios — in which GDP grows on average at rates between 3 % and 6 % for ten years while credit efficiency is improved so dramatically that in 5 - 6 years China begins to deleverage and by the end of the period these growth rates can be maintained with no growth in credit — is theoretically possible, but just as obviously it is highly
implausible, and I can not think of any country in history that has achieved
such a turnaround in its financial sector without having first experienced a brutal financial crisis.
Noting that this would be a pretty awful inflation - adjusted return from a historical standpoint, Ezrati simply dismisses it as
implausible: «
Such an expectation is far from reasonable, not the least because today's fundamentals are far superior.»
But to expect perfect creatures to emerge unscathed from
such wrenching decisions is simply
implausible.
Plausibility, of course, is in the ear of the hearer, and no doubt many people do find
such hypotheses
implausible.
One who does not believe in God, for example, may find the existence of free, nonhuman, immaterial persons
such as Satan quite
implausible; one who already believes in the existence of at least one
such free, nonhuman, immaterial person — i.e., God — may find it much less
implausible.
Neither the White House nor the Congress seems interested in, or capable of, articulating
such a doctrine, and it is not likely to come from a forum of formers who are reading from scripts that in the present political culture are, if intelligible at all, thoroughly
implausible.
By the 1970s, however,
such workings of grace had become
implausible.
Such self - congratulation makes for smug,
implausible, bad TV.
I'm aware that young earth creationists,
such as Ken Ham, try to make the story less
implausible by stating that the story refers to «kinds» or «baramins».
It does seem
implausible that something so big (a six - or seven - plus - pound watermelon) could squeeze through
such a little space, but that's exactly what happens most of the time.
«Even small proportionate losses in trade (or lost growth in trade) with the EU would require quite dramatic — and probably
implausible — increases in trade with
such countries.»
The report documents why (one of) the explanation offered by Russia (a bomb strike on a sarin stocking site) is
implausible: the nerve agent would then have been burnt and buried and not released in
such huge quantities in the air.
And the size of John Healey's lead is frankly
implausible without
such an intervention.
«It is therefore, impossible and
implausible, for any monies under
such presidential directives to be diverted during the process, at least from the standpoint of the Minister.
But
such destruction of information also conflicts with the law of energy conservation, making this possibility
implausible.
But people will less often think sentences containing an extra word,
such as «The tax law benefitted from the businessman,» are incorrect,
implausible as they may seem.
Other explanations,
such as a more virulent strain or changes in land use, agriculture, or animal health systems, seemed
implausible, they said, and the disease had struck primarily in those areas that had heated up the most.
«It's
implausible that
such a redistribution of heat in the Arctic system wouldn't change weather patterns somehow, somewhere,» Vavrus said.
The film is definitely over-plotted, and there are several creeping Hollywoodisms,
such as the introduction of an
implausible romantic subplot.
As
implausible as
such naiveté would have been in the late 1980s, when these fictionalized lovebirds are said to have met, Nick barely blinks when he discovers what the rest of the country - if not the world - already knows.
There is no denying that this film has other great, if
implausible, moments,
such as the «computer room» sequence cited in all of the trailers with Cruise playing a high - tech Pinocchio, but that's all this film has — great moments strung together with very little substance.
Sure, this is a fairly
implausible story and begs the asking of
such questions as «Isn't there an easier way to kill a mobster than holding an overnight siege?»
However, the Blizzard team eventually realized
such an MMO was
implausible.
The numbers are sampled so it's not uncommon to see
implausible results
such as several search engines at exactly 211 visits.
Before Steam Machines,
such rumors were few and far in between and gained little to no traction, as
such an upgrade was practically
implausible for how it would disrupt the console cycle.
For the early Earth, Goldblatt and Zahnle have done a good job showing that you need a number of
implausible changes to clouds (
such as 100 % tropical cloud cover, thicker, and higher / colder clouds to make this solution a plausible one).
I don't think there is enough data to say
such conclusions are justified or to dismiss as «remarkably
implausible» but the temperatures in the Arctic during that time were remarkably similar to this current period and the subject of several peer reviewed papers.
But if we happened to find strong evidence that, say 1K years ago temperatures were as high or higher than the ones predicted for the coming decades (not
implausible as yet) we would have at least 2 major problems with the AGW theory: 1) According to the forcings commonly considered (for example in Crowley's data set) there would be no explanation for
such a phenomenon.
What we know about human nature and human reasoning makes
such a selective identification of origin
implausible, IMO.
«There is no
such thing as truly clean coal,» Luderer says in a statement, making it «increasingly
implausible» it can play a role in a climate - friendly future, even with CCS.
This means characterizing and reporting the extreme tails of distributions, even in the many cases where the literature describes
such outcomes only as «not
implausible»; but it must be recognized that this puts an extra burden on IPCC authors.
My main point was entirely separate i.e. that without additional information it was inherently
implausible (i.e. not entirely credible) that 3 years of La Nina in the 70's would energise two decades of strong El Ninos without supplementary assistance and I proposed that
such assistance might arise from temperature discontinuities in the horizontal flow of the thermohaline circulation.
I find
such arguments (coming from either side) to be quite
implausible.
My own personal bias is that conspiracy ideation, and offering hyperbolic rhetoric is not disproporationate on one side of the climate wars compared to the other, and further, that what we know about human psychology and cognition would make
such an outcome
implausible.
Without
such a sense, dire scenarios seem
implausible and easy to dismiss.
However, simple analysis as above shows it is highly
implausible that
such mistakes will impact the result.
Falling for clean coal, carbon offsets, and similar
implausible approaches only sabotages real efforts at making
such a transition.
Before Steam Machines,
such rumors were few and far in between and gained little to no traction, as
such an upgrade was practically
implausible for how it would disrupt the console cycle.