Sentences with word «vapid»

My least favorite films are: Abdellatif Kechiche's Mektoub, My Love, a disgustingly misogynistic portrayal of vapid people having fun on a beach holiday (and nothing more for three fucking hours); Gatta Cenerentola, a disgustingly misogynistic animated Italian film that I hated so much; and Warwick Thornton's Sweet Country, which is just boring and bland and doesn't amount to much, despite good intentions.

Unfortunately, try as I might to be fair, it ended up being an atrocious film anyway, with terrible acting by the two uncharismatic leads, hyperbolized Hollywood stereotypes (especially of gay men in general), and a storyline that is about as vapid as it is inconsequential.

I was lukewarm on ID4 (it earned a fairly charitable on my scale — which elicited a rather snottily sarcastic e-mail from Devlin himself), which had top - flight effects, a charismatic lead (the incomparable Will Smith), but a sloppy script populated by poorly drawn characters with vapid individual storylines.

At the other end of the spectrum, our students may come from environments steeped in vapid materialism and overconsumption.

It is instead more concerned with Gervais» character trying to woo Jennifer Garner's vapid character who is intent on marrying a good - looking sleaze ball (Rob Lowe - who else?).

This cartoonishly violent exercise in cinematic hero worship comes at the audience with chambers loaded and fires off rounds too rapidly to worry about how vapid it all is.

A shallow portrait of vapid people can only go so far, and The Canyons indeed wears out its welcome by the time Deen commits the obligatory act of violence, yet the film is neither a monumental disaster nor an unheralded masterpiece.

The M part, as I see it, is just that small players have almost exactly the same tools the big players have, so (in many cases) you can get at your small market for fancy suits at least as effectively as, say, Disney gets at its giant market for vapid entertainment.

However, that depiction, while not always perfect (the dialogue sounds exactly like how an adult would think teenagers talk), the film is still beautiful and fascinating enough to work, thanks to Coppola's ability to give a palpable sense of atmosphere and beauty to even the most vapid of contexts.

There is the real situation that the «green (house) minority» has diminishing Public interest due its incessant platforming of non-SCIENCE and the attachment of equally vapid demands for «Wind Power» to replace Gas and Coal (which in REALITY is only creating the growing need and thus INTEREST in Uranium Fuelled power generation for wide spread use) and other platforming from «alternate lobby interests».

The odd thing is that in this age of increased, not to say febrile, communication, too many folks act as though only one vapid phrase can capture their thoughts directed at others.

If you are a blogging lawyer, and you want to be read by other bloggers, know that being read by other bloggers includes being taken to task publicly when you write something dumb or silly or ill - considered or even just vapid.

To the Editor: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's vapid personality and flip - flops on gay marriage, gun control and amnesty for illegals have forced her approval rating as low as 46 percent.

Called upon to break into vapid song at any given moment while juggling a pair of attentive suitors (Utkarsh Ambudkar and Saahil Sehgal) Larson gamely gives it her all, as does the rest of the cast, including Broadway veteran Tyne Daly as Sutherland's partner in crime.

But he also finds himself experiencing unexpected, unfinished feelings for childhood friend and former flame Jenny (Garner in a thankless straight - woman role) who seems too smart and accomplished to let someone vapid like Connor still tug at her.

That pride is pretty vapid.

The unions, not using any objective methodology, rely purely on vapid talking points which they can not back up.

The end result is a film you respect and a film with some incredibly strong moments, but a rather vapid experience overall.

Monzon upends the formalism and segregation innate to the fine art world, and fabricates a composite genealogy of painting - a pithy resolution to an otherwise vapid debate.

It's a respectable performance especially when compared to her last few years of vapid roles, but certainly not transformative; the premature predictions of the «Reese - surgence» have already been overstated.

A bunch of vapid college kids are going to spend a weekend in a cabin, where they'll probably get hacked up... big freaking deal, right?

Where the film fails is on the script level, which settles for contrived comedy, a no - surprise storyline, and jokes about vapid New York socialites that are as tired as the sexual innuendo that permeates the bulk of the humor.

Hopes to attach some larger social significance to the event, but that unfortunately falls largely flat and suffers from a derivative and sometimes vapid script.

If it had, the tasteless and vapid product known as Texas - style chili would never have gotten off the ground.»

Easily the most vapid film Spielberg has ever done.

Please, repeating the same vapid crap every sunday or Friday or whenever, does not make it real.

IMHO, conservatism is widely perceived as an intellectually vapid excuse for the destruction of the social and ethical conventions which made this country great.

Of creating something frivolous to pass the time or to help take my mind off of bigger problems but outfit posts and things that once stuck my fancy just seem vapid.

It's easy to take for granted how prescient Sidney Lumet's Network actually was for its 1976 release: the onslaught of vapid reality shows was still a few decades away, evangelical television and Fox News had yet to surface, and though the country was shaken up by corrupt politics, at least people still recognized the important of the fifth estate due to events like Watergate.

She's determined to lose that pesky virginity to one of two suitors; Lucas Hedges» confused posh boy Danny, or Timothée Chalamet's vapid cool guy Kyle.

The catastrophes that we are confronted by, are instead the products of today's vapid political imaginations.

The public is bombarded daily with «science» (usually medical or nutritional) that is utter rubbish, and this is compounded by scares of varying hobgoblins (lipid theory, mad cow disease, bird flu, etc.) Vapid journalists exacerbate the problem by breathlessly reporting on impending doom (AGW will bring malaria northward.

You won't find saloons with poker tables or some other vapid mini-game.

Reid seems a little too vapid and disconnected, and the fact that director Walt Becker (Buying the Cow) insists that her character is a serious journalist just makes her effort all the more ridiculous.

It is a listless, largely vapid tale, even though it has been revised over a dozen years by writer - director Barry Levinson.

Julianne Moore gives her all as a dying New Jersey detective battling to leave her pension to her partner, played by Ellen Page, but it's not enough to save Peter Sollett's fact - based drama from feeling vapid

Monzon upends the formalism and segregation innate to the fine art world, and fabricates a composite genealogy of painting — a pithy resolution to an otherwise vapid debate.

I won't be surprised to see vapid ads for smart glasses touting «access to your notifications at a glance — literally!»

In so doing, they made schadenfreude — the cheapest of cheap thrills, facilitated largely through vapid characterizations — the slasher movie's stock in trade.

The US head of the WWF, when invited to choose a film to «help guide the way we think about the future,» selected the intellectually vapid Avatar.

In doing so, he inadvertantly demonstrated quite how vapid Labour's vision...