Example collocations logo

Serious in sentence

5860 examples of Serious in a sentence

I saw this film two days ago and, although I think it's not a complete waste of time (it might have been of money though, for the producers), it's obvious it has serious problems.
In short this is neither as innocently silly or as intelligently serious as it seems to intend.
If someone took weeks to convince me I was about to die and then said "No, sorry , just fooling you" I would raise some serious hell.
There is a bizarre mixture of political/war rallies, Dr. King, serious political interviews, flopping breasts, and pubic hair.
Well, mainly by being serious about a job so hilariously startling that nobody in their right mind could take seriously.
You know that feeling of hilarity you get when you watch a film that's trying so hard to be a serious, thought provoking piece of cinema and fails miserably?
If you're a serious L.D.P. fan then I recommend that you watch them both.
I could never quite work out if it was an attempt at a humourous film that failed miserably, or an attempt at a serious film that failed miserably.
In fact it looks like they intended to make a serious film, but upon completion realized they had missed the mark so far that it couldn't possibly be taken seriously.
This movie was made for people who found Gremlins too serious and Critters to hardcore.
Christopher Lee (who has since said that he was duped in to appearing in this by his producers who told him loads of great actors were involved) is Father Pergado and gets to do his usual serious and scary routine.
You actually hear serious dialogue that goes, "I love you more."
A very ordinary made-for-tv product, "Tyson" attempts to be a serious biopic while stretching the moments of angst for effect, fast forwarding through the esoterics of the corrupt sport of boxing, and muddling the sensationalistic stuff which is the only thing which makes Tyson even remotely interesting.
Films that are serious and more educational can have an effect, but it appears this one didn't have any effect whatsoever on the class - whenever the teacher left, conversations quickly started - and I didn't hear the words "Shakespeare" or "Tempest" being used at all.
Too dark to be a dark comedy and to light to be a serious drama, Vodka Lemon will leave many views disoriented and ultimately disgruntled.
The film itself doesn't make the situation serious enough, whilst the acting is quite second rate.
When asked what happen he says blandly "attacked by demons, nothing serious.",
The once brilliant actor is adequate,but if you watch closely you will see that he is not serious at all.
If you went to go save your best friend and someone decides out of the goodness of his heart to help you then you are in a serious debt to that man.
So far the comical side of this serious situation has proved more entertaining while still giving the same message.
It's getting worse, the series is on a serious down fall.
Crispin Glover is very serious about his film.
I understand that Hollywood has to exaggerate a bit for drama, but it does hurt the quality of a movie when a serious subject is made into a caricature.
In seeing "Cabin Fever", alas, many will see how unoriginal, serious, pretentious, boring and even not scary some supposedly "scary" films are now, even a few years later.
Secondly, this film is unimaginatively serious.
At one stage I gave serious consideration to walking out of the cinema, I stayed in the forlorn hope that the film might improve.
This is an example of another movie put into production before serious script problems were solved.
Not being familiar with US television stations, when I flicked onto this on my in-laws' cable, first I thought it was just a low-budget sci-fi film, then after a couple of minutes I started thinking it might be a clever satire on the worst excesses of Christian fundamentalist, and then it dawned on me - good grief, these people are serious!
I can't say this is the worst movie ever made, but personally I think of it that way because when it was originally released in theaters, (1) the initial buzz was positive enough that my girlfriend insisted we go see it, and we actually STOOD IN LINE to get tickets, and (2) it's still the only "serious" film I recall where the audience started snickering at a certain point and basically laughed at the movie the rest of the way through.
If that guy who thinks artists ought to be interested in this slop is really serious, no wonder most people think artists are insane.
BackNext