Sentences with phrase «viewers a feel for»

Watching Legion, the viewer feels for Haller, wondering how horrifying it must be to be imprisoned and force - fed a barrage of anti-psychotic drugs each day.

A journalist at CBS News, reporting a school of blue whales putting on a show off Southern California, felt the need to give inland readers and viewers a feel for just how large a blue whale is.

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Based on the feedback, they chose the highest rated film, which left viewers feeling really good, and used it as a stand - in for an extraordinary experience.

Simply meeting the narrative's need for a character is not enough: viewers and readers need to feel an emotional bond with the character to keep watching or reading.

Some of the good theological quotes did make it into the closing scene but no sooner had the credits started to roll than viewers were assaulted by «There's A Place For Us» by Carrie Underwood about «faith» and «love» and the line «we can be the kings and queens of anything if we believe» to make sure viewers walked out feeling good about themselves.

Like most Pixar movies, it's irresistibly fun, funny and touching — but it's also one of the most insightful movies of the year, challenging viewers not to vilify any of their feelings, but rather emphasizing the importance of allowing room for the full range of emotions.

Aware of series creator Matthew Weiner's fetish for prop - selection, and aware of the star status of costume designer Janie Bryant, viewers feel challenged to nail down why the creative geniuses have put onscreen the things they put onscreen.

«I've always felt that preparing a meal is an experience that should be enjoyed with those that you love, and now I'm excited to share that with Food Network viewers, using my favorite recipes I've made throughout the years for my friends and family,» said Bertinelli.

The protracted battle between CART and Champ Car cost both series sponsors, spectators and television viewers in the following years, but a sellout this year at Indy has the feeling of a renaissance for IndyCar racing.

It's a pretty cool and more unusual way of showing off racing gameplay, making it feel so much more immersive for us viewers!

While I still feel that «Food Revolution» fell short when it came to showing viewers the hard realities of school food reform, the show was invaluable for its vivid depiction of serious problems in our society, problems which we hear about so often in the media that it's easy to tune them out.

For whatever reason, he's unable to mask his distrust of journalists, and for people watching at home that hostility can feel like its directed at the viewer themselvFor whatever reason, he's unable to mask his distrust of journalists, and for people watching at home that hostility can feel like its directed at the viewer themselvfor people watching at home that hostility can feel like its directed at the viewer themselves.

It serves as a nice «warmup» and gives the viewer the feeling that the presentation is more individually customized for them.

You never ever showed off your beautiful home in a way that made it seem like you were bragging about everything you and Brian were fortunate enough to get, you never push the products you're loving on your viewers and you never make us feel any less for not having the things you have.

Focusing on the female perspective, the showcase gives an up close and private look that permits viewers to truly get a feel for the real daily lives and personalities of... Read More»

The viewer is never sure, but for some reason ambiguity in «Trees Lounge» doesn't feel like vagueness but restraint.

Without a discernible plot or goal in mind, some viewers may feel like this is a film about nobodies who do nothing for the duration.

Viewers may relate to the feeling of being trapped during this strained and tedious throwback, which the writer - director Mickey Keating has framed as a hat tip to the 1970s work of Sam Peckinpah and Peter Watkins, but which lands well south of John Waters in its try - anything - for - a-reaction pretensions.

It's fairly tedious stuff that's compounded by a lack of narrative momentum and an almost aggressively deliberate pace, with, in terms of the latter, the movie's slowness ultimately preventing the viewer from working up any interest in (or enthusiasm for) the protagonist's feel - good antics.

Snowfall will feel like too much work for some viewers.

The film has about five sets and they never feel like they connect together, but this is less an attempt at disorienting the viewer than simply cutting corners; the grisly, overdone lighting, meanwhile, makes you want to hide behind your fingers for all the wrong reasons.

I LOVE the crazy sibling idea and the writers are actually making the viewers feel bad for «SPOILER» Charles.

Yet all of Marvel's phase three films and their tentative questioning of the underlying political ethos of the franchise feel like buildup for Black Panther, which in its second act comes very close to completely tearing down the Marvel Cinematic Universe en totale — and making viewers long for such a thing to happen.

If German expressionism is your thing — and the sensation of emotional battering feels real here for the characters and viewers alike — the eight - episode series will be searingly satisfying.

Avengers: Infinity War leaves viewers up in the air, feeling exhilarated and cheated at the same time, aching for a closure that never comes... at least not yet.

He reportedly auditioned for a small part, and though the show's producers did not deem him right for the characterization, they felt so impressed by Eigenberg's presence that they created the character of Steve Brady especially for him, as an extension of his own personality; the plan, again, was to create a sincere, committed, down - to - earth male paramour to offset Miranda's (Cynthia Nixon) cynicism.Though initially intended as a temporary part, the popularity of the character among viewers (and Eigenberg's onscreen chemistry with Nixon) led to Eigenberg's permanent inclusion on the show, as well as subsuquent movies.Circa 2002, Eigenberg expanded into film roles by playing the business partner of Richard Gere in Mark Pellington's underrated supernatural thriller The Mothman Prophecies.

I feel overall, the film should be rated a bit higher (3/4 stars), because it is a superb horror film and even if it was an experiment to show how simply the viewer can be manipulated through horror if done right - it deserves recognition for breaking that ground as well as for its technical mastery.

At first you might be inclined to feel annoyed at her, but understanding that she is autistic will hopefully shed some light as to why she acts the way she does for all viewers.

The film is too standard for its own good, and there are viewers who will definitely feel uncomfortable with its depiction of gun violence given current events in the country.

Everything in The Light Between Oceans is deeply felt and dramatically precise, in a way that seems destined to become profoundly personal for each and every viewer.

Still, it aims low for a film that seeks to make superstars out of its performers, and doesn't succeed even in its limited aspirations, such that perhaps From Justin to Kelly actually benefits from its perpetual critical derision, as only the very lowest of expectations can have viewers feeling pleasantly surprised by the miniscule returns in entertainment the film provides.

A Separation offers its viewers an experience that is both challenging and heartbreaking and, as with all truly great cinema, you come away from this film feeling just that little bit changed for having seen it.

On the other hand, the film is basically on the killer's side throughout — for any similarly - victimized teenager, the grisly deaths of the assembled bullies and predators must be a devoutly - wished consummation — and shows viewers how it feels for outsiders to face the straight world on an everyday basis.

That will irritate viewers who feel they have nothing to show for the 80 minutes they invested.

The Way Way Back may occasionally waver in terms of credibility and originality, but that doesn't stop it from being a modest crowd - pleasing film for those viewers just looking for some quality laughs and bittersweet, heart - felt moments of people who find their own path, however awkwardly, that resonate.

It's rather inconsistent and somewhat incoherent first half are made up for by a tight second act the leaves the viewer feeling satisfied.

These battle scenes feel more akin to modern action cinema and while they may be the main event to historians and war buffs, they're also more routine and less entertaining for the average viewer.

Final Thoughts: For viewers that own one of the many prior releases of Gladiator on DVD and feel the desire to re-watch this popcorn flick from time to time, this release is enough of an improvement to warrant the upgrade.

It's actually a pretty slow moving drama for most of the runtime and then within the last 10 minutes, the plot goes crazy and leaves the viewer with a weird feeling.

, for this viewer, felt long and punishing; artful yet self - sabotaging, eventually crumbling.

As a viewer, you're probably going to feel a little like an animal just for sitting through the whole movie.

However, without learning much about the supporting characters and knowing they aren't going to make it, it's hard to feel much for them outside of the basic connection between viewer and talented performer.

I hope the experience was cathartic for Frank, because to the viewer it feels...

While Zack and Miri definitely gives viewers not averse to perpetual sexual references and scatological humor its share of solid belly laughs, there is a feeling of Kevin Smith finally beginning to appear a little long in the tooth in terms of his ability to connect with the modern day audience for R - rated romantic comedies.

This decision gave the film a grander feel for the viewer so it didn't seem like a low budget horror film.

Ramsay doesn't offer the viewer much for free, and at times the film feels as if it's been cut too close to the bone, leaving you to unpick what you can from the brief clues that flash past intermittently.

The film is good to excellent in every way except morally, and there it's questionable more often than it should be, not because it's an evil film, or because the filmmaker or actors are bad people, but because the interplay of means and ends has been under - thought or misjudged, to the point where the film becomes a catalog of obscenities: a horror thrill - ride drawn from life, a thing for viewers to test themselves against while feeling just awful about Agu and his country, whatever its name is.

They may also be the only ones who fully understand them; ordinary viewers may be excused for feeling baffled some of the time.

The dancers and actors alike get into it with such energy that you can't help wanting to dance along, and the viewer gets a great feeling for how life - affirming the music and dance was in a time of political oppression.

Exhausting for the viewer, but just imagine how it must have felt for the characters.