Sentences with phrase «with hammy»

Straight from the off, you are met with hammy voice acting, a terrible script and basic gameplay.

Wrap this all up with hammy AI radio chatter and news reports, and you've got the makings of a sci - fi B - movie.

The best way to imagine it is if Michael Bay directed a martial arts flick, combined with the hammy dialog and scenarios of a midday soup opera, all written, cut and edited while blind, deaf and, perhaps, paraletic.

The most common accessory is a hamster ball, but that limits your interaction with the hammy while it's outside.

Built around the hoariest of plot devices (a Dubliner stalked by his evil doppelganger), with hammy acting to match, this attempt to highlight the social cost of Ireland's economic revival suffers from the same identity crisis as its tormented hero.

Bryan Cranston and Juliette Binoche are around for a bit to add talent and gravitas to the proceedings, but once they're gone, we're left with a hammy Ken Watanabe (Inception, and usually he's so good...)-- a Godzilla film always seems to need one Japanese guy to look at the camera and say «Gojira!»

Cage tries to give his lines energy with hammy mannerisms, while Jolie (The Bone Collector) has barely a dozen lines and is cast solely for her looks rather than acting ability (and she doesn't look particularly good in this film).

Armed with a screen story and script credited to Ryan J. Condol (Hercules), Carlton Cuse (San Andreas), Ryan Engle (The Commuter), and Adam Sztykiel (Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip), the film is loaded with hammy exposition and handwavy explanations for what is even happening and why characters are doing things at any point in time.

Kos out for 3 weeks with a hammy!

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Beans cooked fresh with inestimable bacon or ham chips (small slivers of hammy goodness) and some onion.

Hammy is gluten intolerant, which means that she gets a bad tummy ache if she eats anything with wheat in it, like bread, cakes and biscuits.

The 3 - 4 Browns are the poster child for inconsistency this year, rotating wins and losses seemingly each week, while star RB Peyton Hillis remains MIA with a bad hammy.

«No, you're right ma'am, the customer is always right, Moons Over My Hammy SHOULD come with a side of nachos.

If we don't manage it properly we will see players running themselves into the ground and picking up hammies, then with the players replacing them looking so far out of tune it's not remotely funny.

Funny how «Snot ball» Costa pulls a hammy with 10 Mins to go, nice cheating there Maureen No Spain for him.

Squat Press — 10 repetitions Designed to be a full - body movement with a major focus on the bum, quads and hammies.

Whether you have a good excuse like a pulled hammy or you've just been too busy with work and friends to slip on your sports bra, it's never easy to get back into the sweaty swing of things after a long break from exercise.

Exercise 4: Squat Press — 10 repetitions Designed to be a full - body movement with a major focus on the bum, quads and hammies.

Who It Benefits: The runner with weak hammies and glutes Why It Works: «[Indoor or outdoor] cycling is a great form of cardio that improves your endurance without putting much stress on your joints,» says Silbar.

if i struggle with super-tight hammies from past injuries is there a way i can modify this so that i do nt arch my back when im going up on either side?

There's the potential for «Superbad» - style comedy when Denis and his pal go on the run with Beth and friends, but the pace is slow and lines fall flat thanks to long pauses and hammy delivery.

As the initial antagonist, a colorfully hammy Jeffrey Dean Morgan relishes in the part and Southern accent of enemy - turned - ally Agent Harvey Russell — «When science shits the bed, I'm the one they call to change the sheets,» he says — and delivers it with cowboy charm and swagger.

A delightful spook story trilogy, with John Carradine and Vincent Price at their horror - hammy best.

A festive faith - based film with two distinct target audiences: Christians and fans of the hilariously hammy.

«Mission: Impossible» might have a plot with innumerable twists and turns but there are plenty of superb action set - pieces and quality hammy - acting to keep you amused.

Yet unlike so many of the director's previous cinematic puzzle games, Redbelt cares far less about tricking its audience than about plumbing its protagonist's psyche in a way both viscerally exciting and intensely analytical, a nifty trick that's aided by a host of uniformly sturdy but tonally divergent supporting actors (dainty Emily Mortimer, chilly Rebecca Pidgeon, hammy Rodrigo Santoro, goofy Tim Allen) who don't, at first glance, seem well - suited to coexist with each other.

The rest of the cast is either wasted or hammy, with ridiculous subplots and contrived ways for white hats and black hats to find each other for routing shootouts and fisticuffs.

It might have been nice to spend more time with Jyn and her make - do crew — especially the mysterious Saw Gerrera, played by a hammy Forest Whitaker channeling both

What should have been a smart and elegant romantic story to sweep you off your feet is frequently undercut by Hudson's hammy attempts to get cute, mixed with Wilson's constant need to look constipated.

While Willis continues to phone in his performance with the same on - screen persona he's been giving us for the last decade or two, the other main actors get their chances to shine, especially an always fun Helen Mirren (Monsters University, Hitchcock) and John Malkovich, who know well enough to play to the audience that they know that the movie they're in is meant to be nothing but a hammy lark.

Also disappointing is the lack of a legitimate threat, with Blue more bothersome than evil, performed aggressively by a miscast Issac, who chooses to play the ghoul with broad, hammy indication instead of finding an effective sting of ruthless intimidation.

But it's more than just an exploitation homage with retro - 80s synths and hammy acting.

Ledger is all unpredictable brooding menace and psychosis with none of the cartoonish maniacal laughter and other clichéd hammy mannerisms of Nicholson's Joker.

I'll admit that in the wake of the enormous cultural impact Hannibal Lecter has had in the last 17 years, Hopkins» performance borders on hammy territory every so often, especially the sucking - in noise after the line about eating the census - taker's liver with some fava beans.

The German forces are represented by Kapitan Kahn (Thomas Kretschmann, Europe's hammiest leading man; see Dario Argento's Dracula 3D), who keeps the pretty blonde peasant Masha (Yanina Studilina) hidden away to rape at his whim while also falling in love with her, and Khenze (Heiner Lauterbach), the bald tyrant of a head officer, who spits out some of the film's unintentionally funniest lines («These damn lice can't even let a man die without making him itch.»)

Nelligan is delightfully hammy as the scheming wife, coming away with the film's best line, and Fenn gives a generally boring character some life and personality.

Presented more as a costume drama than a film with any modern relevance, Milk «s power to move is largely dependent on the viewer's ability to watch Sean Penn make hammy faces at the camera.

Before long, Catrin's script has attracted the attention of the War Department (run by Jeremy Irons, who regales the writers with a wonderfully hammy rendition of the St. Crispin's Day speech); her movie might help nudge the United States into the war, which means they get to shoot it in color — and they have to find a role for the hopelessly untalented, but toothily photogenic, Yank war hero Carl Lundbeck (Jake Lacy).

I caught up with Geoffrey Rush, one of my favorite actors, promoting his new film, The Eye of the Storm, where he plays a hammy Australian performer who decamped years before to London's West End to escape his harridan mother, played by Charlotte Rampling.

With tired gags, not - too - clever slapstick, and assumed identities that never really pan out to inspired laughs, Greif tries to achieve the semblance of comedy through farcical pacing and progressively hammy acting.

The dialogue is hammy and the unintentional cheese factor made it impossible for me to connect with the story.

Although the three lead actors are all working under serious impediments — Travolta has been equipped with a singularly ridiculous soul patch and a Boston accent that runs the gamut from non-existent to «SNL» sketch broadness, oftentimes in the same scene, Plummer has a role that all but insists on being played in the hammiest manner imaginable and Sheridan (whose previous films have included such better projects as «The Tree of Life,» «Mud» and «Joe») is playing a contrivance instead of a character — they are not without a certain innate charm, and indeed, the best scenes here are the ones in which they are simply allowed to interact and bounce off of each other in a relaxed manner before having to return to the mechanics of the increasingly forced plot.

The very much alive masked Myers continues slicing up vics, as the pompous profiteering shrink who treated Myers, the hammy Dr. Loomis (Malcolm McDowell), swears he's dead and the celebrity author comes out with another bestselling trashy book on the maniac that reveals that Laurie, living under an assumed name, is Myer's damaged - goods younger sister.

Playing Petit's mentor, Sir Ben Kingsley shows up with an accent so hammy and wandering I still have no idea where his character originated from.

The disc also offers an all - new animated short called Hammy's Boomerang Adventure (with an optional commentary by director Will Finn) and a Verm - Tech Institute Infomercial (with Dwayne LaFontant).

Though it does occasionally feel as if the supporting cast are reading from different scripts, War on Everyone also boasts an enjoyably hammy turn from Theo James as a British baddie with an insatiable bloodlust, while the ever - reliable Tessa Thompson helps redress the hormone imbalance as Terry's latest squeeze.

Murder on the Orient Express (***) Kenneth Branagh's appropriately hammy adaptation of the classic 1930s Agatha Christie mystery about a murder aboard a snowbound train in Yugoslavia under the nose of master detective Hercule Poirot (Branagh), who finds himself inundated with likely suspects — the all - star cast includes Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Willem Dafoe, Michelle Pfeiffer, Josh Gad, and Daisy Ridley.

With a solid supporting ensemble that features a delightfully unhinged Jamie Foxx and Spacey on his more understated side of hammy, the film is nevertheless a great launching pad for Ansel Elgort as a multitalented leading man.

While a comedy with ample kooky characterizations, satirical situations, and lots of other - worldly effects would seem right up Burton's alley, all he can manage are a few scattered laughs, some hammy performances, and lots of oddball narrative dead ends.

They accomplish this by throwing themselves into their roles with a shoulder shrug and a sense of hammy abandon.