Sentences with phrase «throwaway moments»

Most of these are throwaway moments, adding little more than a discarded line, but a conversation between Ned and Eleanor generates some interest.

Like a lot of the seemingly throwaway moments in Lady Bird, this scene is more essential — and craftier — than it initially appears.

Throwaway moments made me so happy (like Katana and her Soultaker sword) but this flick as a whole had me smiling the whole time.

And the whole is often more rewarding in its throwaway moments than in any of the more elaborate set pieces.

There are some decent moments, but they usually result from one - liners or throwaway moments, which did make me laugh out loud but failed to carry the film.

Even small, throwaway moments, like the suggestion in the epilogue that Henry has turned into a «noble» witch - hunter, carries with it the nincompoop - sting that Father Solomon's surviving Negro manservant and yellow - man are now gamely following another white guy because that's just what they fucking do.

, presented in HD, are throwaway moments, adorable in that way that you recognize when other people think something is adorable but is actually twee and irritating.

In Harry and Tonto, Mazursky gets rid of the «actual movie» and gives us nothing but throwaway moments.

The big takeaway for me after reading The Alchemist (now several times) is how there really are no throwaway moments in life.

Or perhaps you aren't exactly sure why that small throwaway moment or post-credits teaser is the key to everything that's happening in this clear - the - benches superhero battle royale.

This is not merely a film that goes backstage, but also one that goes into accounting ledgers, hiring practices, costume design, personnel problems, casting decisions, sex lives and the endless detail work of rehearsal: Hours of work are needed to manufacture and perfect even a silly throwaway moment, so that it is thrown away with style and wit, instead of merely being misplaced.

There are only two of them, at that: a Bellamy motivational speech and a throwaway moment.

Not exact matches

I'm certainly guilty of playing into our throwaway culture, and I look for moments when I can become more sensitized.

«It's about more of those classic timeless pieces than those quick throwaway pieces you can only wear for a moment.»

The film's uncomplicated plotting allows plenty of space for goofy little throwaway gags — like a running joke about the young McGregor's feeble attempts at birdwatching — that other films might have cut to make way for various subplots or emotional character moments.

This superb debut feature by Korean - American director So Yong Kim seems to be constructed entirely of the ineffable and intangible, those fleeting moments that most movies treat as throwaways.

The shot with the cat (you'll know it when you see it) is arguably the movie's finest moment, and it's a throwaway shot.

While moments, particularly the resolution to that seemingly throwaway subplot about the dead friend, can be moving despite their dissonance (a Farrelly hallmark), they're always cursory to the central duo, who are unrepentant in their squandering of years on foolish pranks, openly hostile towards reflections of their age (e.g., Fraida), and insulated from harsh reality by not only their wilful ignorance, but a perpetual fog of nostalgia as well.

«Arrested Development» Award for Best Throwaway Lines: • «Keep it in the oven...» — Jason Bateman, «Juno» •»... Terrorism...» — Michael Cera, «Superbad» (actually, Cera has so many astonishingly brilliant under - his - breath moments in «Superbad» and «Juno» it's uncanny)

It's a smartly - executed picture more than an overly smart one, but what Identity is at its black heart is solid and satisfying — its best moment a throwaway one as you come to realize that this motel and what it represents has as its greatest boast a flashing neon promise of «Free TV.»

Yet it's another moment, a seeming throwaway, that lingers in memory.

Or another moment in which an obviously over-dubbed throwaway line is added to describe a villain with: «He looks Afghani!»

It is a breathtaking moment of immersion and innovation that in many other films would be a throwaway series of expository shots.

She's got more than just pretty looks going for her but starring in throwaways like this and January's «That Awkward Moment» is not helping her cause to gain a foothold in the states.

Funny thing is, I actually prefer the scenes that don't deal with the contrived and mostly unfunny plot, so I'm willing to allow some indulgences, as they provide the only amusing moments of this otherwise throwaway film.

This is the biggest Marvel Studios film to date — the story plays out on a global scale and the main cast reaches double digits — but many of its best moments are small, throwaway beats: Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), who is cramped in the back of a small car, asking a surly Falcon (Anthony Mackie) to move his seat up; a starstruck Ant - Man (Paul Rudd) so giddy about meeting Captain America (Chris Evans) he practically asks for a selfie; Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) teaching the synthetic Vision (Paul Bettany) how to properly use paprika in a recipe; Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) casually flirting with Aunt May (Marisa Tomei), to the alarm of her nephew Peter Parker (Tom Holland).

Some convoluted plotting that ties Ren to our heroes does not convince, leading to a development that should be a series - defining moment but which instead plays as a throwaway contrivance.

That it isn't really as funny as his previous outings is not really in doubt, but with a handful of classic moments, it isn't a throwaway film by any means.

RoboCop succeeds on many levels, but the one I'm most impressed with is in making us actually feel something for the cyborg at the heart of the film, with moments of surprising emotion at the core of what could have been a throwaway Terminator knock - off.

The only moments that feel like a Tobe Hooper joint are tiny throwaways that lack the polish Spielberg's visual savant - ism demands, such as an artless shot of a killer clown doll, or a sequence where a guy rips his face off beneath an inexplicable sodium light over a likewise - inexplicable industrial wash basin.

A word of thanks to Dean — for loving KC every moment of her life, and for providing premium medical care for a «throwaway dog» that no one else wanted.

Moments shown in this scene made me feel that these androids are more real than the people around them, and yet they were treated as throwaway objects in a world that passes life around.

Wright uses paint, drawing, gilding and stained glass to shape delicate, suggestive, site - specific installations that simultaneously revel in tradition — recreating the lost arts of fresco and Renaissance perspective — and express the throwaway modern moment.

Linguistically, the modes feel worlds apart: a «selfie» connotes a throwaway instant capturing of a moment, likely with a view to show that off to a likely personal pool of people on social media — a good hair day, perhaps; a wine - lensed snapshot in a particularly glamorous restaurant toilet.

Shub Look at BBD - he snookers a newbie into naming a blog after one of his throwaway phrases about «physics» and the moment you ask him a tough question about the physics he tells you «then there's paleoclimate».

Look at BBD - he snookers a newbie into naming a blog after one of his throwaway phrases about «physics» and the moment you ask him a tough question about the physics he tells you «then there's paleoclimate».