Sentences with phrase «wink at the audience»

Her goofy barroom entry, looped response to all the plots and betrayals and her catapult - like exit plays like one big wink at the audience.

There are no jolts, no flashes of humor, no camp aspect, no winking at the audience — just bloodletting that crosses the line.

Yet it is never less than methodical in its smarts as it winks at the audience, plants a tongue in its cheek, and demands to be taken seriously as well as licentiously.

When a franchise descends to having its own characters wink at the audience with jokes about how it's run out of ideas, and resorts to just (literally) setting things on fire, not once but twice in it's 90ish minute runtime, it's one movie past time to stop.

The movie never winks at the audience, but it also refuses to take itself too seriously.

Chow's popping out gag is used once again, and is just one example of many where the movie isn't just winking at its audience, but continuing to reveal how limited the joke palette is here.

Cast: Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, Woody Harrelson, Tom Waits Program: Midnight Madness Headline: A night at the meta Noel's Take: It's awfully easy for a self - aware, super-violent black comedy to curdle, using its winking at the audience as a lazy justification for clichés and titillation.

A KNIGHT»S TALE (Grade: D): This ambitious historical romance - adventure - comedy has one eye on «Gladiator» and the other on «Shakespeare in Love,» and then tries to wink at the audience with a rock music soundtrack and a stream of cool, hip anachronisms.

They've disported themselves well — no mugging, no star turns, no winks at the audience.

Everything about this week's episode of Homeland, «Better Call Saul,» suggests that the writers couldn't restrain themselves from winking at audiences.

Captain America is largely fun too, but whereas there was a strong, competent component of character development and storytelling in both the aforementioned films, Captain America seems happier to tease half - assed satire and self - aware winks at the audience.

Committed to its own weird world, Anchorman never winks at its audience: It moves with Simpsons - like swiftness, doling out gag after gag, at least a few of which involve jazz flute and the hibernation habits of bears.

It's Peele's way of winking at the audience, acknowledging that he knows we've seen a million horror movies before and we're in good hands as such.

Starting off with a very self - aware speech by their captain, played by Nick Offerman, which winks at the audience, as if to say, «We know comedy sequels are a little ridiculous,» the trailer explains the arbitrary reason for the new title.

That's why a lot of superhero movies feel the need to insultingly wink at the audience and make a joke about someone looking goofy.

If you keep winking at the audience, or at each other, how much does the stuff on screen matter?

Where Dark Souls used to grab me was the atmosphere, but I found Bloodborne much more interesting to play than Dark Souls 3, which is just full of fan - service that is mainly there to wink at the audience, and not to make the game better.

«Infinity War» has just enough self - awareness without becoming too jokey or winking at the audience.

It looks at the genre from modern eyes and constantly winks at the audience to let us know the filmmakers are in on the joke.

This is a film that is not afraid to wink at the audience when it comes to how these operations work.

Following in the footsteps of movies like «Dracula Untold» and «Snow White and the Huntsman,» «Pan» is yet another unnecessary origin story filled with an insufferable amount of foreshadowing and self - aware winking at the audience.

Even relatively straight modern spy films, like Kingsman: The Secret Service and The Man From U.N.C.L.E., knowingly wink at their audiences.

Tonally, Steers hits the mark: rather than constantly winking at the audience, he plays straight and measured, executing the whole thing as if it makes perfect sense.

When Haneke talks about addressing the American viewer, he means it literally, because both versions are dotted with fourth - wall moments in which Paul, the genteel alpha male of the two intruders, winks at the audience.

The duo make movie - movies, and as the film's denouement suggests, they're not above winking at the audience.

What makes the film work is its crackling energy and ability to maintain a straight face through the over-the-top massacre while the filmmakers wink at the audience through clever details.

That said, you never get the sense that any of the cast are winking at the audience, which only adds to the unintentional hilarity.

Now it feels almost like a wink at the audience, and a slightly disdainful one at that.

Giant Bomb's winks at the audience might be intentional, but in this case, what happened two years later was not.

Not exact matches

It's a metaphor,» someone says at one point, in a wink to the audience.

At its heart, this film asks its audience to accept a contradiction, which it sells with a knowing wink and rather successfully.

What made Spielberg such a force in the 1970s was the way he ruthlessly renovated cheap old genres (the chase flick, the creature feature, the alien - invasion thriller) without winking at them or at the audience.

There is no winking, no meta flourish, no nudging the audience to laugh at the heightened, broad story and emotions.

«I'm too cynical to be an artist,» muses a character at around the midpoint of Nocturnal Animals, the second feature by the fashion designer Tom Ford, perhaps winking to the audience of this arch and self - conscious film.

It's tough to say they have chemistry when they're working from some pretty horrendous source material, but at this stage, they understand the characters they're portraying, as if they're giving a bit of a wink to their audience.

It's a smart way to wink at how audiences feel about reboot culture while also getting across that this new film is very much it's own thing.

But while many of us don't need to know who's who and why, the film pitches itself as potentially being most satisfying to an audience who know everything: you or I, cinephile reader of Film Comment, might enjoy this film quite a lot, but imagine how much more we'd enjoy it if we were the ideal viewer it presupposes, who can spot specific winks at iconic moments in Captain America # 332 or Avengers # 123.

The distinction sometimes is that Mr. Handler oops, Mr. Snicket doesn't write like a writer winking conspiratorially at the kids in the audience.

Charismatically so, but he's ultimately there to smile and wink at Lara for the audience.