Sentences with phrase «too obvious attempt»

Not exact matches

Trying to overcook the broth by attempting too many cute passes when the obvious and killer pass was on.

Ninety - nine percent of the attempts at comedy fail for being too broad, clunky, obvious, or just plain stupid.

Those scenes, though, are too obvious and blatant in their attempts to earn our sympathies — especially because Diana spends most of her time trashing other people's lives.

Being teenage boys, they're far too intrigued by the boobs on display to fret over the obvious occult ritual taking place, but when Anna is subsequently murdered, they decide to attempt some amateur late - night sleuthing, with predictably unpleasant results.

The next, it's a too - obvious attempt to pull at heartstrings with the most maudlin kind of melodrama.

Some attempt was made to interconnect the multiple story lines and I do appreciate the struggle to show intimacy in the mess of Los Angeles... just too many obvious skits and stereotypes to make this anything more than a half - hearted effort by all involved.

In its attempt to satirise both American popular culture and politics, and certain well - known political figures, American Dreamz is both too obvious and too late, and instead comes off merely as insipid and dull.

The movie spends too much time building the unbelievable romance in an obvious attempt to show us Dillinger's softer side.

Studio head Jack Warner, however, was none too happy with Koch's obvious modern allusions to the war in Europe and his anti-Fascist sentiments (we were still a «neutral» country) and attempted to soften his tone.

The problem the Master System faced was that it tried too hard to be the NES; its controller was nearly identical and its mascot, Alex Kidd, was a blatantly obvious attempt to recreate the same success Nintendo had achieved with Mario.