Sentences with phrase «unworthy films»

Plenty of unworthy films do well at the box office and a few even get Oscar s attention (see above).

In ways Sundance became a victim of its own success: unworthy films started getting bought up speculatively at vastly inflated prices by Hollywood studios, and big - name filmmakers began using the Sundance brand to lend credibility to their work.

It is by no means an unworthy film, shedding light as it does on an issue still with us today, but it treats the people on screen more as dramatic constructs than as actual human beings with their own agency.

Not exact matches

Released on the sudden and unexplainable popularity of star Ashton Kutcher, the film is ultimately a realization that Terence Stamp, regardless of the great performances he has given in the past, will never be fully respected by Hollywood and given anything unworthy of his participation.

When bodies are buried in cellars and cats are thrown into lighted ovens, the film reveals itself as unworthy of its subject matter.

Most of the film is a dour, self - serious wallow — though not an unworthy one.

Many of his mainstream film appearances have been in comedy potboilers unworthy of his talents: exceptions include De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (1974) in which Graham was both funny and ferocious as the Rocky Horror - ish «Beef,» and Louis Malle's Pretty Baby (1978), in which he was cast as Highpockets, Susan Sarandon's scuzzy, abusive boyfriend.

The film, set in 1996, follows Tutu, played by Forest Whitaker (wearing a prosthetic nose that becomes less distracting as the strength of his performance becomes clear), as he finds himself confronting a man who seems unwilling to repent for his crimes and unworthy of forgiveness.

Acts two and three prove unworthy of their starry casting and ritzy but half - baked special effects, unnecessarily dragging the film past the 90 - minute mark.

It is also a tribute to the talent of Kirk Douglas, who here takes on the role of a French colonel in the trenches of the First World War with such explosive energy that one realizes how many films (and directors) were unworthy of Kirk's genius as an actor — his first acting role, by the way, was onstage as the servant in Chekhov's The Three Sisters, with Catherine Cornell, Judith Anderson, and my mother as the sisters and Ruth Gordon as the dreadful sister - in - law.

The bad news is that the film is still a silly and cheesy movie that is unworthy of the stars found within.

Most of them are insignificant and unworthy of bringing the film closer to two hours, but a couple of unseen moments draw boundaries to Poe and Detective Fields» relationship.