Sentences with phrase «with dysfunctional characters»

Movies today are littered with dysfunctional characters.

Not exact matches

It's a dysfunctional love story that does not end well — with self - interested characters who slowly make their descent into a finale filled with shattered dreams, broken promises, abandonment, wasted sacrifice and death.

I tend to agree with that (rare enough given most of your posts, lol), but it is all of a type with the dysfunctional nature of NuLabour, the lack of anyone other than political pygmies and deeply unpleasant illiberal control freaks to repalce him, and the flawed character of the man himself.

On the other side of the corrupt, dishonest, dishonorable, disloyal, dysfunctional, derelict and depraved spectrum is Joseph Addabbo, Jr., who is utterly incapable of telling the truth and acting with any measure of character, integrity and principle, because like Ulrich, he too lies, cheats and steals easier than he breathes.

Ed Miliband's increasingly dysfunctional relationship with the unions has many facets: the potential perverting of democracy, the gloomy prospects for Labour's finances, the insights into Miliband's weak character and weaker authority, the list goes on.

The film is loaded with seedy and dysfunctional characters of questionable morals and intelligence, which makes things entertaining in a train - wreck sort of way, but it leaves nobody to root for.

But Upstream Color is way less of a puzzle than Primer was — it's much more about burrowing inside your head with the weird lovely pictures, and making you identify with two characters who are fatally dysfunctional.

A filmmaker of tableau imagery packed with defining detail and quirky humor, he's the Joseph Cornell of American cinema, creating colorful cinematic boxes around stories of dysfunctional families, absent fathers, and characters lost in ambition and obsession and the need for affirmation and parental approval.

These films take a subtle approach, burying their ideas in stories that often mix hallmarks of the horror genre with characters belonging to dysfunctional families that function as metaphors for the global mood.

With a prolific cast at his fingertips, Bateman's film becomes another entry in the dysfunctional family melodrama genre, filled with idiosyncratic, quirky characters and their colorful tWith a prolific cast at his fingertips, Bateman's film becomes another entry in the dysfunctional family melodrama genre, filled with idiosyncratic, quirky characters and their colorful twith idiosyncratic, quirky characters and their colorful tics.

Even better is the return of the guttural sound of The Blaster Beam, Craig Huxley's instrument so familiar to fans of «Star Trek: The Motion Picture» and «Dreamscape,» Given that much of the action is driven by dialogue and character, It says something about Trachtenberg's confidence in McCreary's musical storytelling ability that the whole opening plays only with score with score, setting up a highly dysfunctional nuclear family, locked in by doomsday.

Peter Hedges, who scored with a similar hit about a dysfunctional family who find unity through a tragedy in Pieces of April continues to generate warmth and laughs by creating three - dimensional characters that, like most families, are annoying but loving at the same time.

The first major disaster sequence (which starts, I kid you not, with a character saying, «It feels like something's coming between us,» right before an abyss in the ground separates them) has the dysfunctional family dodging cars, falling interstates, and collapsing buildings, and that's before they get in a plane.

Flora and the other characters in the book wrestle with dysfunctional family dynamics, divorce, displaced anger and blame — Flora's mom wants to kill Ulysses the squirrel!

This year also saw the IF Comp entries The Unofficial Sea - Monkey Simulation (a melancholy reflection on life in a dysfunctional home where the only thing you can affect is your sea monkeys» care and feeding) and Transient Skies (another space exploration game, this one interspersed with bits of character - defining flashback).

Launching June 2 for PS4, Xbox One and PC, Tekken 7 takes the iconic fighting game franchise to new heights with a slew of new characters, tons of online options and a sweeping story mode about the most dysfunctional video game family ever.

Four of the characters are criminal barristers, who on the whole do not come off well, portraying their profession as superior, arrogant workaholics with deeply dysfunctional relationships.