Sentences with phrase «austens dramatic beats»

In these films, the world has usually turned against humanity in some way — a zombie apocalypse, an alien invasion, or simply the indomitability of nature itself — and the relative resourcefulness of characters who were previously reliant on now - absent tools or technologies provide the major dramatic beats as outside forces close in, driving these characters into action.

Honeycutt isn't so diplomatic, offering straight out that Ferrell «is not quite up to his first dramatic role» and that the performance is «too one - note... Ferrell isn't able to track the ups - and - downs in the story's dramatic beats.

Unfortunately Washington's direction (this is his third film as a director, after Antwone Fisher and The Great Debaters) tends to signpost the script's dramatic beats too anxiously in a way that can make the film feel emotionally as well as physically airless.

To lay my biases bare: I'm sick of Marvel's safely middle - of - the - road output, undermining every dramatic beat with a joke, and I've always enjoyed DC comics more than Marvel ones.

The packaging may be rather generic — this is a period drama about social justice, with all the dramatic beats you'd expect — but the writing is wonderfully nuanced.

Not the musical numbers, the dramatic beats.

Some of the dramatic beats are facile, and Garner is a weakness both in the writing and in the acting, but there's plenty of balance in the rest of the cast, and Tomlin is just pure enjoyment throughout, in a role that lets her do the puckish sourness she does best.

The scenes detailing Hiccup's growing relationship with his lost mother and some darker late - in - the - game moments are welcome, but besides hitting dramatic beats almost as according to a pre-set stopwatch, any growing sense of conflict or tone is habitually punctured thanks to self - conscious bids at keeping the kiddies invested.

None of the comedy works, however, which is sad considering the film's dramatic beats are so excellently handled.

Ultimately, the movie needed a stronger overall structure and more defined scenes to allow the dramatic beats to come through the improvised dialogue more clearly (akin to Mike Leigh, another British filmmaker, who shoots fully realized scripts built through improvisation in the rehearsal process).

The biggest problem is act three, which builds to a zombie invasion thats not only surprisingly dull but, unlike earlier, struggles to mesh with Austens dramatic beats.

Yeah, the manga is great and I love how it uses those teaching moments to make the downtime between the action and dramatic beats really interesting.

Not exact matches

Jackson's character in particular was overbearingly eccentric, beating viewers over the head with his abrasively loud and dramatic performance that tried way too hard to be cool.

All this goofiness can hamstring a movie's emotional beats, and there are a few Ragnarok moments that don't have quite the dramatic pull they should (one early scene between Thor, Loki and their father, played by Anthony Hopkins, particularly suffers).

They beat the Giants in a one - game playoff, and they beat the Cubs in the NLDS, with Pujols hitting a dramatic home run.

After a stop - start first two - thirds of the season, Juventus have finally rounded into form at a crucial time, retaking first place in Serie A and coming back in wildly dramatic fashion to beat a Tottenham Hotspur side in the round of 16 that many believed had what it took to make a deep run in the Champions League this year.

The 2015 - 16 college basketball season ended in the most dramatic fashion possible, with Kris Jenkins knocking down a buzzer - beating three - pointer in the national championship, as the Villanova Wildcats defeated the North Carolina Tar Heels.

The Wildcats beat Wichita in one of the most dramatic games of the tournament, and then they beat four more teams en route to the national title game.

we will once again have a average team, will have a dramatic run in the middle of the season, then get beaten by average teams and at the end glorifying ourselves for making it in top four.

Ohio State had to beat Alabama and its league's mystique to death in the most dramatic way possible, and that's what it did.

Beat Chelsea this Sunday, and win their game in hand — and we could be in for a dramatic end to the season.

The only tournament moment as dramatic as this winning shot to beat the Vols...

How they have loved to poke fun and laugh at Arsenal in recent years as we failed to win any major piece of silverware from the 2005 FA cup win over Manchester United on penalties until that dramatic fightback from 2 - 0 down to beat Hull City at Wembley last May.

When Arsenal beat Liverpool in the 1971 FA cup final thanks to a dramatic late winner from Charlie George it was our fourth victory in the world's oldest football competition but it was also the first time the Gunners had managed a league and cup double.

The quarterfinals look set to ones involving only PL teams, unless Rochdale upset Spurs in their replay at Wembley, Wednesday beat Swansea, and Wigan pull off a dramatic result against in form Man City on Monday night.

Debutant Eric Dier scored a dramatic injury - time winner to get Mauricio Pochettino's era at Tottenham off to a winning start as they beat London rivals West Ham 1 - 0.

He was on the losing side in the dramatic 2005 final in Istanbul when AC Milan blew a 3 - 0 lead to draw 3 - 3 with Liverpool and then lost in the penalty shootout, but got his revenge two years later when Milan beat Liverpool in Athens.

The Reds famously beat them in their own backyard to win the competition after a dramatic penalty shootout in 1984.

United crashed out of the Champions League in dramatic fashion this week after they were beaten by Wolfsburg, and Van Gaal has endured heavy criticism from both the media and supporters for his side's playing style this campaign.

Nottingham Forest pulled off the most dramatic shock of the FA Cup 3rd round by beating the holders!

However in the final few stages of the game, Ibrahimovic struck in dramatic fashion, his looping header from Antonio Valencia's cross beating Mignolet in the 84th minute after a despairing clearance from Lovren, the move kept alive when substitute Marouane Fellaini had headed Rooney's cross against the post.

However in the final few stages of the game, Ibrahimovic struck in dramatic fashion, his looping header from Antonio Valencia's cross beating Mignolet in the 84

Middlesbrough were beat in some style away before Sadio Mane's dramatic last minute winner at Goodison Park gave Liverpool fans the perfect Christmas present.

While these incidents may not be as «dramatic as being beaten», he contends that «it's another form of violence that's more subliminal».

Further increasing the formaldehyde concentration to 1 milligram per cubic meter led to a dramatic increase — up to 136.4 per cent — in cilia beating frequency relative to the baseline value.

Observers around the world saw Jupiter whacked by impacts on three occasions, including the dramatic multiple beating it took in 1994 by the comet Shoemaker - Levy 9.

And it's written as a feel - good story with an inspirational take - home message: People who work off the beaten track, in both the geographic and biological sense, often make dramatic contributions to the «remarkable ecosystem underlying scientific discovery,» he notes.

I melted some chocolate and added in the little heart beats for dramatic effect.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (March 5, 2016)-- The legendary Zydrunas Savickas of Lithuania won the Arnold Strongman Classic for the eighth time when he came from behind in the final event to beat Brian Shaw of Lupton, Colo., by one point and win the 2016 Arnold Strongman Classic in dramatic fashion.

Unfortunately the grounds were beaten hard with a dramatic wind storm, and with the dry heat, it kicked up so much dust I'm still cleaning my nose out, and I breathed through my AG Jeans scarf most of the time.

«Nothing beats a nude lip: It's subtly sexy, and pairs perfectly with dramatic eye makeup — my signature look!»

When the dance is finally beat, Robert Baker... or Alabama, there's something endearing enough about the pretty points in cinematography and score work, touching occasions in entertainingly well - paced direction, interesting spots in a colorful story, and across - the - board decent performances - especially the one by Evan Rachel Wood - for the final product to border on decent, ultimately falling under the overwhelming weight of the glaring tonal and narrative incoherencies, flat humor, dramatic contrivances, problematic themes, even more problematic leads, ridiculous story and onslaught of clichés which render Andrew Fleming's «Barefoot» an occasionally charming, but mostly mediocrely misguided romantic dramedy.

The dramatic two - part episode even included a «beyond the grave» meeting between Caffey and his deceased dead - beat dad.

Sweet - minded and shimmering in its comedic beats and even more irresistible in its dive into the dramatic elements, «20th Century Women» is one the year's most pleasant surprises.

The idea is that, should the mood strike, a performer may add a beat mid-bar as though choked - up with emotion, their dramatic license with the material thus extended liberally and their performance, we are told, made immeasurably better and more real.

The game's opening and ending pack dramatic, cinematic and pleasingly surprising story beats, and touch on some seriously dark and horrific stuff.

The dramatic scenes are hilariously ridiculous (often unintentionally so); many of the performances feel stilted and off - beat; and the combination of 3D visual design and an attempt to use more on - location settings (as opposed to sound stage or green screen) results in moments that feel unusually amateurish for The Wachowskis.

Outstanding Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special • «A Day Late and a Dollar Short» (Lifetime Networks) • «American Horror Story: Freak Show» (FX) • «Drumline: A New Beat» (VH1) • «The Gabby Douglas Story» (Lifetime Networks) • «The Trip to Bountiful» (Lifetime Networks)

That approach includes focusing the spotlight on Evans» character (who leads a rebellion aboard a futuristic train that houses much of humanity in the film's wintery dystopian setting), in order to better utilize his star power as a selling point - in addition to emphasizing the movie's action beats, as accompanied by the expected dramatic musical cues in the post-Inception age of trailers.

There are predictable beats, but the film throws a few curveballs and avoids several cliché moments, settling for a more genuine dramatic effect.