Sentences with phrase «turgid film»

The addition of David Fincher's most boring and turgid film comes as no surprise to me at this point.

Not exact matches

I hate turgid Russian authors - however much I should admire them - and Russian plays and films even more.

Though we are largely spared Leonard Nimoy's stentorian presence as a performer, we must endure his miscalculations as a director: the dialogue scenes are often hilariously turgid; the action scenes — when Nimoy can be bothered to descend from his podium and film them — are zanily maladroit.

It's a sad fact that these days, the turgid 90s re-make of this wonderful film has probably (somehow) managed to outshine the original.

Without the atmospherically batrachian fun of 2006's Silent Hill, this turgid and wholly unrevelatory semisequel is August Derleth to the previous film's H.P. Lovecraft.

This film really was supernaturally turgid — probably, the decision to split the fourth Twilight book into two movies was a bit of a mistake, since it means treacly pacing, and an endless fascination with Bella's emaciation and monster pregnancy.

Though the script is turgid, predictable and quite irresponsible, the film succeeds where it needs to, where Felicity Jones rises above all the dross with a shining leading performance which put her on the showbiz map.

His stiff delivery does the film no favours and the turgid dialogue doesn't help matters.

The film's nominal story involves a terminally ill mother, a corpse found floating in the ocean, and a tentative teen romance; as usual, though, Kawase is mostly interested in having these characters speak her ideas aloud, handing them endless turgid dialogue about nature, death, and the link between the two.

From last year alone, Michelle Williams in «Incendiary» and Patricia Clarkson in «Elegy» were both the sole redeeming features of otherwise turgid, misconceived films.

At this point, the fact that Clarkson distinguishes herself is almost a given, but Cannavale is a real find — he inflates the film whenever it threatens to get stuck in turgid somberness.

Gal Gadot debuted as Amazon princess warrior Wonder Woman in the turgid Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and brightened the film immediately.

Taken as a turgid daydream (the only way to take a film this wilfully preposterous), Red Dawn's combination of frustrated sex, patriotic murder, young male bonding, and ditching school makes perfect sense: It's only in this world, after all, that hiding behind your pickup when an enemy tank is bearing down on you is a damned fine idea and assured of success.

Dorothy Woodend: There is a good film buried in the midst of director Dees Rees's Mudbound, but it is covered over with turgid dramaturgy, overlapping narratives, and a determination to seemingly include every possible horror and affliction that might attend rural life in 1940s Mississippi.

Perhaps it seems like over-thinking to quibble with the ideological talking points of a movie that mostly dawdles from one skit or cameo to another, interspersed with the occasional song - and - dance number, and which contains one of the best comic set pieces of the Coens» career: a director and his recently re-cast lead trying to work through a single awful line of dialogue («Would that it were so simple») while filming a turgid melodrama.

Plagued by a plodding, turgid, and outdated script, the film never comes to life.

Like the moonlit water, the film is beautiful but turgid and at times untamed in the hands of first - time feature film director Rowan Joffe.

Then there's the story - FF has always come replete with an over-complicated story full of turgid twists and turns, and FFXV does make some efforts to make its coming of age plot feel a lot of accessible, far too much of the important info you need is contained in the middling companion film Kingsglaive.