Sentences with phrase «to chew the scenery»

There's a soft and sweet quality to her tone when she needs it without completely chewing the scenery like a standard spy villain.

But the great cast chews the scenery while it can.

They're forced to chew scenery because there is nothing else to feast on.

As for the supporting cast, Burn Gorman relishes in chewing the scenery as a bearded detective.

She plays Catherine as totally psychologically untethered and drifting further away from normalcy, but she doesn't chew the scenery in doing so, grounding Catherine's breakdown in realism.

Law chews the scenery with relish as the title character, who spends 12 years in jail after refusing to rat out his boss (Demian Bechir, apparently playing a Russian) and wants to reconnect with his estranged daughter («Game of Thrones» actress Emilia Clarke) once he's made a side trip to beat up the guy who married his ex-wife while he was away.

Streep doesn't chew scenery in this movie, she devours it, and if she didn't win recently for The Iron Lady I could see her being a competitor to Blanchett here.

Then, there are the times it doesn't go so well — like Spike Lee's completely unnecessary remake of Park Chan - wook's South Korean revenge masterpiece Oldboy (although watching Josh Brolin chew the scenery for 104 minutes is not without its charm).

Plus, Olivier doesn't just chew the scenery, he swallows it whole.

Yeah, this movie is predictable as hell, but, it makes more sense than Speed and nobody has a better time chewing scenery as a villan than Tommy Lee Jones.

Donning a wig sometimes and sometimes not, Streep has been accused of chewing the scenery.

The biggest flaw is the overacting of William Hurt who chews scenery like its so much popcorn.

He's happy to let Waltz and DiCaprio chew the scenery, comfortable with playing the stoic straight man (albeit with a few amusing quips here and there).

She was wasted in Hollywood blockbuster guff such as Godzilla (2014) and Ghost In The Shell (2017), upstaged by Kristin Stewart in Clouds Of Sils Maria (2014), and chewed the scenery rather too enthusiastically in Bruno Dumont's grotesque black comedy Slack Bay (2016).

When Star Trek's Bruce Greenwood said he enjoyed chewing the scenery in last year's Cyborg Soldier, he wasn't kidding.

Amid much badly accented dialogue that does nothing to clear up the plot's convolutions, Kinnaman proves the film's weakest link, chewing scenery so voraciously as the tale's nominal villain that he ultimately undermines any faint semblance of seriousness.

Out of the supporting characters, Michael Shannon chews scenery from the moment he's introduce as the simply pure evil and tunnel - vision focused Colonel.

Angarano comes to the fore here, channeling Strother Martin from Cool Hand Luke (complete with Boss Godfrey's signature aviator sunglasses) and gleefully chewing the scenery in an effective performance that toes the line with camp but never topples over into parody.

Simmons manages to delightfully devour each scene without chewing the scenery.

Rise of the Lycans is built entirely around these two actors chewing scenery, with Nighy acting the bejesus out of his aqua blue contact lenses, while Sheen assumes a sweaty Kip Winger swagger, puffing out his chest and feeling every line of torment like a pro.

Mark Wahlberg is practically compelled to deliver an understated lead performance in The Fighter, given that there's little room to extravagantly emote while in the presence of Christian Bale and Melissa Leo chewing scenery like starving artists.

Though she's been guilty of occasionally chewing the scenery in the past, the beauty in Lawrence's performance here is its subtlety.

Cagney chews some scenery and has a few great moments too.

The supporting cast are a memorable mix of Marvel characters who chew the scenery effortlessly and fit perfectly into the madcap world of Deadpool; Domino (Zazie Beetz), Cable (Josh Brolin) and Russell (Julian Dennison), particularly, but smaller players like Negasonic (Brianna Hildebrand) and Kiyoko (Shioli Kutsuna) will also stick in your memory.

Andy Serkis reliably chews scenery as Klaue, while both Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett add considerable gravitas as a Wakandan spiritual guru and T'Challa's mother, respectively.

But while Hathaway avoided food in preparing for this film, she compensated for her dietary restriction by chewing the scenery with uncontrolled gusto.

Never chewing the scenery, he played Levi, Amy's struggling, drug - addicted ex-husband, earning some of his best notices in the process.

Matthew McConaughey chews the scenery effectively, and the most successful gag here has to do with the fact that monster trucks always seem to be on television.

Description: Danny Trejo violently kills people with a machete while other actors violently chew scenery.

Midler not only chews the scenery in her few appearances, she swallows it, digests it, then has a really satisfying dump and wipes up after.

Many of Stone's earlier movies, as overheated as they sometimes were, did provide an opportunity for energetic hams like James Woods, Tommy Lee Jones and Woody Harrelson to chew the scenery entertainingly.

Walters chews the scenery, but that's her character: She is an actress, someone for whom everything is dramatic.

De Niro chews scenery in a way that he never does in other roles.

Survival is paramount, though existing in the studio's lush, postcard-esque universe won't be easy, given those pesky mechanized monstrosities chewing the scenery.

If you want to see Shakespeare's dialogue delivered as if it were an episode of Buffy with excessively chewed scenery and awful cinematography, this film is for you.

More than simply chewing the scenery, it appears he is gnawing on the film stock, owning the film and every meaningful aspect of it.

If they're not wasted entirely (Marcia Gay Harden and Jackie Earle Haley, as a priest, are given almost nothing to do), they're either chewing the scenery (as is the case with Giamatti and Thornton) or out of their depth.

Roger Spottiswoode Oh mate it's brilliant this one «cos it's got Jonathan Pryce chewing the scenery in wonderful style and Michelle Yeoh rocks up as my favourite Bond girl and Gotz Otto as the villain's «heavy» is really good and Vincent Schiavelli has an hilarious and brutal cameo and David Arnold's music is awesome and the real world analogies are more relevant today than ever and it's just brilliant in fact it's my favourite Bond so there.

«Gracie,» a flick about a teenaged soccer player, looks interestly enough, but «D.O.A.: Dead or Alive» looks like «Charlie's Angels» meets «Mortal Kombat,» and sounds completely awful... and, with the exception of Jaime Pressley looking hot and Eric Roberts chewing scenery, it probably will be.

The cast is what helps to make it work, from Meryl Streep chewing the scenery like it's going out of fashion as the unhinged, cancer - stricken, pill - popping head of the family and the aforementioned Roberts (both of whom have received an Oscar nomination for their respective performances) to the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Cooper and Margo Martindale who all feel very much perfectly cast when casting is so important for a film like this.

Sutherland as Snow enjoyed chewing the scenery around him and looks like he is having such fun.

With Hayek chewing the sceneries, the character is a fantastic highlight of the movie.

Stripper - with - a-heart-of-gold Scarlet (Patricia Arquette), the unbilled transsexual's grieving wife, appears on the scene to weep and almost get naked, and William Devane chews scenery as a wizened judge with an agenda longer than a possum's tail.

Michael Angarano happily chews the scenery as a student who takes to playing a guard like a shark to blood.

Dorff and Taylor chew the scenery, while Jones has literally nothing to do.

Mendohlsen has a cracking time chewing the scenery however which is perhaps as it should be for the villain of the piece (I loved his sarcastic drawl) and Donnie Yen as blind, feeling - the - force - at - all - times legend Chirrut Îmwe is brilliant with his relationship alongside Baze Malbus one of the few that really rang true throughout the film.