Sentences with phrase «worth rooting for»

This is a tender story peopled with memorable secondary characters and two culture - crossed lovers worth rooting for.

It's the age of the anti-hero at the movies, and Charlize Theron finally brings us an action anti-heroine worth rooting for in «Mad Max: Fury Road,» driving onto DVD and Blu - ray this week.

Mark may lack social graces but he's definitely a lean, strong body worth rooting for.

Damon is credible as Max, providing an anti-hero that is worth rooting for.

He makes Auggie lovable and someone worth rooting for.

There's no one worth rooting for (the «good guy» is a total dick, his best friend is an idiot and the villain is positively nuts), and the acting is about as poor as you'd expect.

Barry Seal, it turns out, isn't a hero worth rooting for — but neither are the «good guys» handing him the keys to the plane.

But all in all Winter's Bone is a moving, challenging film — one well worth rooting for down the awards season's home stretch.

In a genre not known for embracing women of substance, the rollicking new «Wonder Woman» gives us a superhero worth rooting for.

Fresh: While there are several mile - wide plot holes and one key under - developed main character, the film emerges as a tight, intriguing old - fashioned drama that gives audiences a hero worth rooting for.

It conceives a brilliant monster, crafts a smart scenario, and then offers up a character worth rooting for in Sarah, the best creation of her kind since Ripley: resourceful but vulnerable, a feminine badass.

Still, in the original Jurassic Park — directed by Steven Spielberg in 1993, adapted from the original novel by Michael Crichton — our on - screen surrogates were worth rooting for.

Although its no surprise the mysteries of the universe are not unraveled here, The Shaggy D.A. does offer some silly fun, a positive family example, the opportunity for good to triumph over evil, and an underdog worth rooting for.

Goggins has a gift making an unlikeable character someone worth rooting for, and in The Hateful Eight, he runs away with the entire thing.

In those films, there were no characters worth rooting for or caring about.

It isn't easy to follow all the exposition the movie throws at us, but before long it becomes clear who's worth rooting for.

Astonishingly, Run Fatboy Run recovers favour in its later stages, successfully building momentum and creating a surprisingly moving final act in which Dennis succeeds in becoming a character worth rooting for.

The message to «be nice» is something worth rooting for.

It's a great relief to confirm that Black Panther is genuinely worth rooting for, a clear standout on Marvel's roster — and certainly on track for box - office success.

Director Bruce A. Evans initially infuses Mr. Brooks with a slow - paced, character - driven sensibility that proves to be irresistible, as Costner effortlessly steps into the shoes of one of the most complex characters of his career and somehow manages to turn a sociopath into a figure worth rooting for.

This is better than anything the Transformers franchise has offered, not only because it has one or two performers worth rooting for, but also because its battle sequences are easy to follow.

Two things are missing in this debut directing effort from writer Steve Conrad - a sufficient number of jokes and anybody worth rooting for.

Jarecki's inability to transform the two central characters into figures worth rooting for and caring about proves disastrous, and there's consequently never a point at which the viewer is able to work up even an ounce of interest in their ongoing exploits.

Paul Giamatti's face is riddled with hopelessness in this picture, and it's his charisma buried deep underneath all the hurt that ultimately makes him a character that's still worth rooting for.

He allows Roth to be pathetic but still worth rooting for, and he adds the right amount of hilarity and emotionality to the part; he is also believable as an «expert on cults.»

While there are several mile - wide plot holes and one key under - developed main character, the film emerges as a tight, intriguing old - fashioned drama that gives audiences a hero worth rooting for.

... those with the patience for a quieter story about making it to the altar should find Michal relatable and worth rooting for.

Filmmaker Laurent has infused Breathe with a gritty, slice - of - life feel that's heightened by a series of natural performances, with the various actors effectively transforming their characters into believable, three - dimensional figures worth rooting for - with the movie's watchable atmosphere perpetuated by Laurent's admittedly impressive sense of style (eg there's a captivating montage of the aforementioned protagonists» bond developing).

I guess that's something worth rooting for.

PLEASE give me something interesting and worth rooting for!

But of all of the noble efforts being displayed at these games, this is one worth rooting for.

There's really no one worth rooting for

Not exact matches

If you spend a lot of time hankering for a world with less B.S., these questions will certainly help you root out and banish baloney, but it's worth doing some soul - searching.

When his 15,000 plants mature next spring, fresh wasabi roots — worth around $ 120 per kilogram — will be loaded daily onto trucks bound for restaurants and grocery stores across southern B.C.

Our understanding and use of power is rooted in our basic need for self - worth.

Oddly enough, one person rooting for the receiver, albeit from the privacy of his own north Dallas apartment, was Dennis Pedini, the former Irvin supplicant who last May sold videotapes to a Fort Worth television station that purportedly showed Irvin possessing cocaine.

There are only one or two of them that might roll their eyes, and that's worth it when you consider the kids at the top of the upper deck, or watching at home, hoping to see the player they've rooted for all season, appearing on the national stage because he did so well entertaining them.

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I will be rooting for YOU to win this giveaway - each prize pack is worth $ 26.

Based on the play by Oscar Wilde, A Good Woman is chock full of clever dialogue and witty characters - unfortunately, there's not a single character here worth caring about or rooting for.

The cast is good — Rhys Ifans and Romola Garai are usually worth the price of admission, and as the faithful Captain Dobbin and the gentle, if rather stupid Amelia, they are the characters to root for.

After the deans and Harvard President Drew Faust each tossed a shovel's worth of dirt on the tree's roots, the Dalai Lama circled the tree, covering it properly with many scoops of soil before dousing it with bottled water that had been left at the podium for the speakers.

- the meek shall inherit the earth - be grateful for what you have - easy come, easy go - the world owes me a living - all that glitters is not gold - money is the root of all evil - the early bird gets the worm - a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush and much more!

For that reason, it is worth understanding the foundation's roots.

Nevertheless it's worth attempting to identify the root motivations for engagement to become more intentional about creating sticky experiences.

For older students (Grades 4 +), survey the corpus of roots worth teaching and choose one or two that you feel has significance to what you may be teaching in other subject areas or may be related to a particular event or day.

The updated Navi» is definitely worth the wait, but for those needing a body - on - frame luxury SUV that slightly out - ranks the Cadillac Escalade in terms of its American roots, the 2017 Lincoln is the one to get.

Graff creates layered, vulnerable characters who are worth getting to know and rooting for.

But for me the effort required now to root the NT just isn't worth it.

While much less visited, the seagrass beds and mangrove roots of Zones B and C are well worth the visit if only for the novelty of what you might see.