Still, the cast Ryan and Cole have assembled have a watchable, scratchy chemistry and the final 15 minutes see the pace ratcheted up several notches.
It's better than having a scratchy notebook with writing that only I can read – a tablet's legible for everyone.
His study was dubbed the Richard Tauber Suite, and he and I would sit there, post-prandially, to indulge our worship of the great tenor's early scratchy recordings.
I looked at the illustrations and laughed, then I tried to read the captions underneath these delightful scratchy drawings.
Featuring blasts of brass, scratchy guitars and percolating synth noise, it's drenched in the band's typical sense of paranoia but somehow sounds more relaxed.
He appreciates what that film did for him (not least that it got him out of ever having to do an audition again), but he is a bit scratchy about people assuming that his acting career began that year.
As elegy for them, a scratchy recording suddenly blossomed into perfect mimicry of the woodlark's song.
A hot, scratchy summer awaits.Dig deeper: Europe's political fault-line is shifting from left versus right (May 2014) Britons have revealed what a European bunch they really are (May 2014) Insurgent parties are on the rise in Europe (January 2014)(Picture credit: AFP).
Mr Bush also sees how deeper economic ties could soothe a scratchy alliance: the FTA would be America's biggest since NAFTA, the North American Free-Trade Agreement, in 1994.
Bilateral relations under the previous Polish government were notoriously scratchy, but Mr Tusk and Ms Merkel vowed to improve matters.European Union leaders headed to Lisbon to sign a new reform treaty, which incorporates most of the defunct EU constitution, rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005.
Mr Draghi's relationship with Jens Weidmann, head of the Bundesbank, is notoriously scratchy.
