Sentences with phrase «than surprising audiences»

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The impression surprised the audience, but nobody seemed more shocked than Phelps, who was in attendance along with other Olympians like Simone Biles and Aly Raisman.

The Premier League is becoming more and more like La Liga where interest beyond a limited number of glamour clubs is minimal, and when games are more about attrition than entertainment then it is not surprising that appeal does not extend to a wider audience.

Even as a welcome offering to audiences from a broad variety of ethnic and economic backgrounds, Overboard ultimately feels like one of the dinners that Kate assigns Leo to cook for his newfound family — a good effort with a few new surprises to spice up a familiar dish, but nothing special enough to truly transform it into more than a routine meal.

It may be surprising for you to learn that in a country with more than one billion people, the fastest growing film industry in the world, and a 10 billion rmb (1.5 billion usd) box office gross in 2010 alone, there is hardly any professional film criticism accessible to its public.When I say hardly any, I mean that there is an absence of professional film critics who work for major, national publications and media outlets, and thus a lack of regular film reviews of new Chinese movies, at least for the mass audiences.

Ant - Man, on the other hand, was more than just a comedy movie, it was a heist film that managed to surprise audiences with its unique action scenes (thanks to the shrinking capabilities of the film's main hero and villain).

It appears the feel - good holiday film was more attractive to audiences than a dark thriller on the weekend after a tough presidential election and Donald Trump's surprise victory.

Hence he can surprise his brother - in - law (Steve Coogan) and his lithe and toothsome ballerina of a documentary subject, each in the buff, and it is not stretch on the audience's part for Ned to see only a filmmaker at work, and neither is it a stretch to see only admiration for craft rather than smirking needling when he tells someone about it.

But even as a welcome offering to audiences from a broad variety of ethnic and economic backgrounds, «Overboard» ultimately feels like one of the dinners that Kate assigns Leo to cook for his newfound family — a good effort with a few new surprises to spice up a familiar dish, but nothing special enough to truly transform it into more than a routine meal.

Audiences, coming with the expectation of Exorcist - style head - spinning special effects, will be surprised to find something much more like a courtroom drama than a scare - «em - silly outing.

To explain just how well conceived some of the choices are would be to spoil a few of the movie's many surprises and treats, but decisions such as the oft - discussed Billy Dee Williams Two - Face tip the hat to Batman aficionados of an older - than - strictly - target - audience persuasion.

There are plenty more tricks, and the audience experiences them one by one, but at no point do Roy and Lucas display more than a hint of surprise at the supernatural goings - on around them.

But the humor is so dry, so subtle, that I wouldn't be surprised if more than half the audience misses it completely.

At the end of the Hall H presentation, the entire Hall H audience of more than 6,000 fans were all invited to continue the celebration and join cast and filmmakers at a surprise Star Wars Fan Concert.

You may not be surprised to learn that the millennials who made up our target audience enjoyed playing the game more than sitting through the eLearning course.

When the question of student loans comes up, surprise your audience with word that, in most cases, federal student loans provide better interest rates and more repayment options than anything private lenders offer.

When Dead Space 2 was announced less than two years later, it was no surprise that EA wanted to push the series into a more action - focused direction to appeal to a wider audience.

I'd be surprised if Star Wars Battlefront 2 adopted the same model — just because it's already going to have a larger captive audience than Titanfall 2 did — but it's certainly looking that way

For more than 50 years Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) has surprised, humored, and disoriented audiences with his unconventional use of media and scale to depict ordinary objects.