Sentences with phrase «too manipulative»

Too manipulative and selfish.

Sutter goes for the emotional gut punch one time too many in a scene the feels a little too manipulative in trying to make the audience grab for their Kleenex yet again.

Some critics considered it too manipulative, especially in its emotional final act, but I think it's one of Loach's best films, largely because of how well he directs his performers here, especially his leading man, Dave Johns.

It also should suffer far less scrutiny than a theatrical release would demand, as what would be too manipulative and predictable to justify spending money for on the big screen seems like a well - acted and somewhat touching romance when looking at it on the small screen, provided you're into that sort of thing.

She praised the drama as a «five - hankie sobfest, a ruthlessly effective tearjerker even by cancer drama standards,» despite a few scenes she found too manipulative.

Linklater doesn't help the opinion some will have that this is a bit too manipulative with a score that hits the tinkly piano chords whenever emotion comes into the narrative, but I'd be lying if I didn't admit to being moved on more than one occasion.

Maybe well - intentioned but unpleasant and too manipulative.

Personally, I find the direction by Rob Reiner (The Princess Bride, Stand by Me) too manipulative and the storyline full of too many contrivances to buy into fully.

In fact, the movie is perhaps a little too manipulative; from that ever present «You Must Be Sad Now» soundtrack, to Bryce Dallas Howard's character Hilly, someone so boo - hiss worthy you'd swear that she stepped out from a Harry Potter novel with a snake tattooed on her arm.

Searching for Bobby Fischer is a crowd - pleasing sports film written and directed by Steven Zaillian (A Civil Action, All the King's Men) that gets high marks from critics and audiences alike, but which I personally found to be too manipulative and contrived to swallow down in a satisfactory way.

This far - fetched movie munches on the mythology of heroism but is too manipulative and shallow to be taken seriously.

Ultimately, journalists and audiences must come to some kind of agreement on what is acceptable in the new world of immersive and VR journalism, and determine what kinds of film - making behavior are too manipulative.

Not exact matches

In recent weeks, the director of the Cyberpsychology Research Network, Dr Mary Aiken, warned that the age of 13 for digital consent selected by the Irish Government is too low and leaves youngsters open to malicious and manipulative psychological targeting.

I think a «ficticious avatar» would sound too much like either a troll or a manipulative fiction and would have a negative rather than a positive effect.

His wife worked at the church too, and the two of them (in hindsight) were the most dysfunctional, manipulative couple I've EVER encountered in my short 30 years.

The would - be priest runs a gauntlet that, the accumulating evidence indicates, all too often screens out healthy heterosexual men who are religiously orthodox, traditional in their piety, and resistant to manipulative therapeutic techniques that only thinly disguise an ideology of dissent.

Maybe he's been working at the Vatican too long, and their high handed, manipulative behaviors have rubbed off on him, and he's afraid of what they would hold him responsible for, in raising this matter in public.

But since there are also the «manipulated» seeing this cartoon, I'm not so sure — as its message is far too... manipulative (irony!)

Plus, many spouses do other manipulative behaviors — withholding sex, for instance, or giving the silent treatment — that they know are causing the other person pain; is that abuse, too?

Yes, they probably have multiplication tables, addition facts cards and math manipulatives at school, but when your children are learning math facts, they need to practice at home too.

Furthermore, many healthcare providers, educators and pregnancy options counselors will not feel confident or comfortable discussing adoption with their clients, or referring to adoption agencies, until they too can be assured that adoption practices will not be manipulative or harmful to the women and families they work with.

Some signs of imbalance are lying, arrogance, talking too much, being manipulative, fear and timidity.

There is far too big a risk of a manipulative and selfish sugar baby walking all over you if you are perceived to be a bit of a «softy».

Every scene in School Pride feels like the seventh or 10th take and too contrived, even by the low standards of reality TV... I will say that School Pride seems less manipulative and showy than its forebears.

While decrying the church's manipulative tactics and ends / means brutality, this film resorts far too often to the same methods in making its points.

Oh sure, his father's a manipulative bastard and, as a child, David witnessed his mother's suicide but it's a little too much of a leap to say these explain a penchant for interstate crossdressing and homicide.

Relying upon the language of the field is often too difficult an affectation to escape, as is falling prey to the manipulative mechanics; indeed, depictions of all things illusion - oriented are frequently guilty of styling their content and construction with an ample use of both.

The period of the creation of the atomic bomb seems like one ripe for dramatic storytelling, but a bit too much of this show comes off as overly scripted, more manipulative than character - driven.

Artificial intelligence is too powerful, or at least, can be manipulative in a way that we're unprepared to handle.

Maybe some of its oppositions are too neat (the dusty solo practitioner and the vastly manipulative white - collar firm, the quest for a last chance and the gorgeous woman who's clearly trouble (Charlotte Rampling, so, duh)-RRB-, but it doesn't let us forget Galvin's client, a woman left braindead and comatose by an anaesthetist's error in a Catholic Archdiocesan hospital.

Manipulative with far too many themes and undercooked storylines.

But, though you can accuse it of being lurid and maybe too soon, you can't fault the movie for being manipulative or sensationalistic.

In fact, the film depicts him as an incompetent, manipulative monster who is all too willing to fraudulently accept the credit for writing some of the greatest plays ever written.

But unlike P.S. I Love You, which overdid the manipulative schmaltz with sugary excess, Definitely, Maybe doesn't provide too many eye - rolling moments and never gets too touchy - feely or vomit - inducing.

Imaginary Heroes is a vastly uneven comic drama that tries too hard to be a pithy, erudite story about the hard knocks of life, but ends up being a mostly artificial and overly manipulative mess.

Characters all have backstories from the real world, 2 (a dapper Ian McKellen with an insincere smile) is a cheery despot as manipulative puppetmaster who is never replaced with a new Number 2, and the Village more like Dark City than a forced retirement home for spies to valuable too let loose.

Daniel Brühl («Inglourious Basterds»), as always, is great in the role but still little more than a plot device - as though the screenwriters thought it would be too dark for the good guys to fracture without a push from a manipulative outsider.

But Hereafter sticks out like a sore thumb in his modern directorial repertoire — a too often overly sentimental, emotionally manipulative three - way story about death and what might come after.

It may not be easy viewing and it can be emotionally manipulative — the knife - twisting in the final act really proved a bridge too far for me — but Oceans is a film with tons of heart.

There's Tony (Nicholas Hoult, who used to be that cute kid from About a Boy), the cool guy, handsome and smart but a manipulative jerk; Michelle (April Pearson), his girlfriend, also smart but very shallow and too willing to dismiss Tony's caddishness; Sid (Mike Bailey), the «loser,» who's sweet but insecure, and is also in love with Michelle; Cassie (Hannah Murray), an anorexic ignored by her parents, who appear to prefer her infant brother; Jal (Larissa Wilson), a serious student and even more serious classical musician; Chris (Joe Dempsie), who also has major parental issues (I won't spoil them!)

The educators who established early childhood as a legitimate time for guided learning all emphasized the importance of manipulative experiences — of seeing, touching, and handling new things and of experiencing new sensations — for infants and young children and the dangers of introducing them to the world of symbols too early in life.

As students understanding of number increases, so too should their ability to begin using concrete manipulatives instead of real doughnuts to work through this situation.

You too can become a deceptive, manipulative, and morally reprehensible $ multimillionaire by following this animal - torturing and cyber-bullying business - model invented by Becky Robinson!)

So much for that cat - lickers \» oft - spewed and manipulative «vacuum effect» deception and lie too, eh?

I rehomed the Rott / Golden with a loving family who didn't mind her manipulative adult puppy behavior, and rehomed the little terrier too - he was a tough case and an impulse on my part, that little Ewok face staring at me from the shelter stall.

For example, things like examining in your inventory overmuch the knife with which Angela wanted to commit suicide, or staying too physically near the manipulative, sexy doppelganger of your dead wife — such behavior assumes a certain morbidity or weakness of character that reflects on you in the end.

And a manipulative one too — I have some time for Tom Clancy (not that I like his writing much)-- at least he seems to be a sincere human being, who wears his opinions on his sleeve, but there's something sneaky about Crichton.

Telling obese people «just one little bite of cake» won't hurt their diet is a sure way to prevent them from hitting their targets too, but it's cruelly deceitful and manipulative.

One outcome of this difficult situation is much too much freedom for the successfully manipulative adolescent as well as bitter conflict between the adolescent and the opposing parent.

But I have also been subjected to far too many slick, fast talking manipulative types who think that I don't know as much about cars as they do, and as the result, they try to BS their way to a quick sale.