Sentences with phrase «watched as the scripted»

Not exact matches

For two hours we had watched McGowan bring the story to vivid life with no sound of music, nary a prop and only the scripture itself as a script.

As we watch them we don't simply analyse their words - we also want to get a feel for the people behind the scripts, to understand if they are able to put it all into action.

Though there are times when all that mannered style seems out of sync with Mark Perez's loose script, it's mostly a refreshing pleasure to watch a movie that didn't need to be as tailored as it is nonetheless given such crisp definition.

Apart from Padilha, 7 Days in Entebbe has promising credentials: a strong cast headed by Daniel Brühl and Rosamund Pike as the German radicals who prove out of their depth running the hijack mission with two Palestinians, and a script by Black Watch playwright Gregory Burke, who also scored a notable Berlin hit in 2014 as writer of the super-tense Northern Ireland drama» 71.

Melanie Griffith and Sharon Stone have a scene apiece as, respectively, an acting teacher and casting agent; Alison Brie (Dave Franco's real - life wife) plays Greg's girlfriend Amber; and Seth Rogen and Paul Scheer admirably restrain themselves as script supervisor Sandy and DP Raphael, acting as audience surrogates as they incredulously watch Tommy's on - set decisions.

Watching Phil Collins transform as a human being by living the same day is a great thing to watch and is also a credit to the great script for this one.

What it doesn't have more of is inspiration, as director Shawn Levy (The Pink Panther, Cheaper by the Dozen), working from a script from Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant (Balls of Fury, Herbie Fully Loaded), is content to just throw everything but the museum's bathroom sink at the screen and watch the live - action performers merely run away from them all.

The script written by Howard Franklin, who has done some decent work before (THE PUBLIC EYE, QUICK CHANGE, SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME, and THE NAME OF THE ROSE), might as well have been written on toilet paper, because that's about the only way it would have proven useful.

(Mark Andrus wrote the script as if he'd been binge - watching the Hallmark Channel, and Rob Reiner directs without flair or imagination, but is amusing in a small role as a piano accompanist with a bad toupee.)

Debut director Yann Demange has quite a bit to juggle with there but the script by Gregory Burke (who wrote the acclaimed play Black Watch) is as tight as a Lambeg drum and we have the outstanding presence of O'Connell to hold everything together.

The Finest Hours «issues really boil down to the fact that it moves forward in such a sleepy fashion that the stakes seem to evaporate into nothing as we watch the actors navigate the uninventive script (by Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson) without any vigor or enthusiasm.

Charlie Kaufman has written some of the most original movies of the last decade, but «Adaptation» is probably his best thanks to an incredible (and surprisingly reserved) performance from Nicolas Cage, who plays a fictionalized version of the screenwriter as he struggles to finish the script for the very film that the audience is watching.

Blair Witch follows the same path as the original script which in of itself is boring and pointless watching a new group of people end up exactly where the previous characters did.

The script, overflowing with so much outrageous silliness that I watched the trailer twice, makes us root for the unlikely pair as well as for the movie that brought them together.

Poorly acted, barely scripted, and about as embarrassing for the cast that worked on it as it is to the viewers watching, Over the Top merely exists today as fodder for 80s nostalgia and little else.

Ayer brought an intimate, visceral intensity to previous movies like «End of Watch» and «Fury,» as well as his scripts for «Training Day» and the original «The Fast and the Furious.»

Michael Caine: The script was brought to me by -LCB- producer -RCB- David Heyman, who makes the Harry Potter films and he already had John as the director, and he said, «If you wan na do the film, there's two movies you can see by John Crowley -LCB- 2003's Intermission and 2008's Boy A -RCB-, and I watched both of them, and I was extremely impressed with both of them, they were entirely different.

«Script to Screen» lets you read the original script while you watch the movie; the video runs in a small screen on the left as the text displays on the right half of the sScript to Screen» lets you read the original script while you watch the movie; the video runs in a small screen on the left as the text displays on the right half of the sscript while you watch the movie; the video runs in a small screen on the left as the text displays on the right half of the screen.

As a piece of cinematic commentary, however, this is by far the more cohesive work — «these things live or die by the script» observes a local Irish reprobate / police informant while watching a subpar porno that's all action and no plot.

«It's rare that you find a script with so much affection for its characters...» As promised, following our Ed Helms interview, here's the second half of our chat with the team behind Fox Searchlight's Cedar Rapids (watch the trailer), hitting limited theaters this weekend.

But it seems, from a read of the script and hearing things here and there, that James Franco's performance as Milk's lover, Scott Smith, is going to be the one to watch as he enjoys much more screen time than Brolin and obviously has more of a supporting connection to the main character throughout.

The script and Mara also do a respectable job showcasing the negative effects of war on a returning soldier (though not nearly as gripping as watching Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle in «American Sniper»).

But it's not as gross as watching actors as talented as these try to make something out of a script that contrives human interaction in such a way that Love Actually becomes quasi-fantastical in its attempts to sell the events as something born out of love — you know, the kind of stuff that gets people by in the real world, not the sweet syrupy stuff in movies.

It's hard to watch this because we as an audience know that the actors involved are capable of so much more than this trite script.

Lily James, who may or may not have the making of a film star, is well cast as the recessive, restless and endlessly curious Juliet, and it's always a pleasure to watch Tom Courtenay in action: he has a way of bringing more to a part than is written down in the script.

Dumb and Dumber has been watched so many times that most of us could probably recite almost the entire script verbatim as the movie plays.

The only thing worse than watching Tatum bumble his way through yet another leading role is the dreadful script by Montiel, which lazily strings together a series of incredibly pointless events and moments of manufactured conflict that are so easily avoidable it can be viewed as nothing less than an insult to the audience's integrity.

As you watch this clip, listen to the script.

It takes just as much talent to create a visually amazing, fun to watch action movie as it does to write a sparkling script or flowing dialogue, and Dredd doesn't get the credit it deserves.

Indeed, there's a massive gulf between a script's audience stars, which the rules describe as indicating the type of potential audience being targeted, and the actual people who watch the movie.

«Each super show episode [the interactive game and the scripted episode] will be released as a package designed so that you can consume the interactive portion or watch the scripted show portion in any order you'd like,» he said.

Charlie Godet Thomas will be showing his film Watching for Love Cars at Breese Little, London as part of «SCRIPT», an evening of artists» films curated by John Bloomfield.

Watch as Chief Hydro continues to follow the script he was given.

The challenge then becomes being able to accurately separate the actor who has a goal in mind (the sale) from the genuine knowledge - dispenser whose primary goal is to educate a prospect / client and thence help with whatever the prospect / client decides he / she wants to do based upon acquiring said pertinent knowledge The way to do this is to interrupt a suspected spiel spinner a number of times with questions that have nothing to do with the spiel, and then watch to see if he / she sluffs the questions off and quickly picks up right where he / she left off... as if not wanting to lose one's place whilst reading a mental script.