Sentences with phrase «who play against type»

Perry is only one of a handful of familiar faces who play against type in the dark thriller.

Ricki and the Flash is a strange little movie, especially for Streep who plays against type once again in the title role.

Not exact matches

Looks a very good manager in the making and a man who has been around played against aswell as with every type of talent there is.

Even if the rest of the team plays well he doesn't appear to be the type of player who can boss a midfield against the top teams.

Winger - cum - striker Walcott is something of a luxury lightweight, the type of player who regularly does well playing against West Ham rather than for them.

After all, Bateman's not exactly playing against type, here: Beneath his competitive core, Max is a calm - headed Everyman who deals with erupting chaos by deflating it with bemused asides and the very mildest exasperation.

Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams strike comic gold — or at least silver plate — as a hyper - competitive game - crazy couple whose suburban couples gaming party goes way off the rails when an equally competitive globe - trotting / high rolling brother to the husband (Kyle Chandler, cast against type) comes home, initiates a murder / kidnapping mystery game that is in turn hijacked by real hoodlums who play for keeps.

In a surprisingly successful case of casting against type, Jason Segel dons a tennis bandana to play the late novelist David Foster Wallace, who allowed Rolling Stone writer David Lipsky (played here by Jesse Eisenberg) to accompany him on the final leg of his Infinite Jest book tour.

And then there is Sean Harris, he who plays the craziest, deadliest type of villains, from the Harry Brown and A Lonely Place To Die to Mission Impossible 5, playing strongly against type as the noble MacDuff who loses his family to MacBeth's ever increasing paranoia (shades of Lord Stannis / Sir Davos thread in the most recent chapter in Westeros.)

And I'm always a sucker for Sam Rockwell, who plays wildly against type in this one as a detestable human being whom the film asks us to sympathize with as it unfolds.

Brooks is particularly memorable, playing against type so confidently it might shock many who know him mostly for his more recent roles in fairly average comedies like The In - Laws.

In a role reversal, Tina Fey is broader and cast against - type as a foul - mouthed party - goer who needs to learn to be more maternal rather than the bookish straight gal and Poehler is playing more of a goody two - shoes who needs to put herself out there.

Ronald Colman, in his penultimate performance for Goldwyn, plays against type as a boring barrister who falls into an affair with a young shopgirl.

Still, both Schwarzenegger and Abigail Breslin, who plays the 16 - year - old title character, should be commended for going way against type, particularly Ahnold.

Jones gamely plays against type as Kim, a teen server in a fast - food joint who lives with her unemployed father (Bill Bailey) and takes a job as a hostess — or chalet girl — at an upscale Austrian skiing resort to pay the bills.

The casting of Colin Firth as our debonair spy fits right in with that up - ending attitude: playing against type, he's visibly having a ball as Harry Hart, a man who lectures a pub full of geezers on the importance of manners, before beating them up with an umbrella.

Cooper at the time was convincing as this tough - guy jock who really had no interest in his girlfriend, Claire Cleary (Rachel McAdams), other than to make her his trophy wife, but the character is so much funnier now when one pauses to consider how against - type he was playing.

In particular though, it is Pheonix who is playing very much against type, and yet he is so naturally engaging here that you'd never, ever know that he did any other type of role.

Maggie Smith goes completely against type to play a working - class woman who spouts the sort of racist comments that would cost a highly rated American comedian his career.

Actors playing against type included, once again, Charlize Theron, who won for «Monster» in 2004 by playing a serial killer who looked nothing at all like the glamorous actress, and was nominated again this year as a hard - working Minnesota miner in «North Country.»

«Frank or Francis» pivots around a vain filmmaker (Steve Carell) who represents half the title (he writes, directs and plays every part in his opus, «You»), a bitter, but sharp online film commenter (Jack Black), as well as a failed comedian with a resume of unflattering fat - baiting time - wasters, including «Fat Dad» (playing against type, it's Nicolas Cage).

Again playing against type in Stanley Kubrick's antiwar movie, Douglas brims with decency as a French colonel in World War I who fights against an unfair court martial of his men.

«Reach Me» is an indie comedy whose primary virtue is its cast, well - known actors who took small roles on a lark — a chance to play against «type.»

Wilson plays slightly against type, as the unconfident husband who is completely behind the times, sporting tucked - in Bruce Springsteen t - shirts and quoting John Mellencamp songs.

Hathaway and Sudeikis do a fine job of playing against type; she's a damaged woman with a drinking problem and he's a seemingly nice guy who harbors a dark and nasty side.

Portman plays Emma, an emotionally - closeted, type - A personality who spends most of the movie pushing back against Kutcher's warm and big - hearted Adam.

We know he's a villain from his first onscreen appearance because he's played by William Fichtner who's at his best when he's cast against type which, alas, is not the case here.

Robbie and Janney are joined by playing - against - type Sebastian Stan as Tonya's useless husband Gillooly, and Paul Walter Hauser as Jeff's even more inept best friend Shawn Eckhardt, as well as a perma - tanned Bobby Cannavale who pops up as a reporter to provide context and outsider conjecture on the Harding case.

Nancy Kwan, an international star at the time, does a good job of playing against type as a marine biologist who was Taylor's girlfriend.

In this Deep South fairy tale, McConaughey is paired for the first time with fellow rom - com darlin» Reese Witherspoon, who similarly relishes playing against type.

Efron here is also playing against type in beginning the film as a straight - laced corporate lawyer who is far more conservative and respectable than his horny grandfather.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

I've actually played the first few hours of the original on Steam, where I was amused by the refreshing antics of protagonist Fang, a deliberately against - type anime protagonist who really can't be bothered saving the world.