Sentences with phrase «predictable story from»

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Coal's fall from grace is a well - known story and has had a predictable impact on the one - and - only coal ETF (a telling fact on its own); from its peak in April of 2011 to the inevitable trough in January of 2016.

And hardly a story passes without an equally predictable quote from Notre Dame's McBrien, asserting that the bishops and the Vatican are lamentably out of touch with reality.

This is less predictable than it may seem, since the prayers aren't from a celebrity evangelical preacher, but from a morbid, quirky Catholic who spent her short life with pet peacocks and wooden - leg - stealing Bible salesman stories.

That's because most of the story dances around a «plot twist» or discovery or whatever it is that is hardly exciting, and all too predictable (Lime is alive, duh) and our main lead is a doofus, and not exactly the charming type, just a helpless goon going around from one point to another.

It may be predictable, but Bleed For This still grabs with its astonishing against - all - odds true story, and its belter of a central performance from Miles Teller.

Perhaps the weakness of Coco will lie in its predictable storyline, as it becomes clear from early in the Land of the Dead sequence where things will be going for the rest of the plot, if you know how these stories always go.

What emerges from this pretentious if diverting mishmash is a story that is equally predictable and contrived, but nonetheless offers some worthwhile insights into the notion of the male gaze and the subjugation of women.

Proof positive of just how mediocre 70s mediocrity could be — any quasicompetent Hollywood hack of the 40s could have gone to town with this story, but under Yates's direction it merely lurches along, from one predictable danger to another.

The arrival of Chris Pine's character adds some much - needed conflict to the proceedings, although it takes the story into more predictable territory, while the religious undertones (from the Eden - like valley, to Caleb's snake - like instigator) are laid on a bit thick.

From that starting point, though, the story consistently resists the predictable choice.

The movie is far from perfect though as the story's overall plot is fairly predictable, some of the jokes are too childish and it has a fairly short running time of less than 90 minutes.

Although there's never any great sense that Rita and Ruthie have really escaped their grim fate for good — when the crash comes, it's almost an inevitability for them — the story is never dull, and far from predictable.

If one can ignore the over the top performance from Emma Thompson, the predictable and formulaic story, and annoying Christian characters present throughout, then this is a decent time at the movies.

While I wouldn't say that May in the Summer is a film that is ground - breaking by any means, it is definitely a quiet little indie flick with good acting, a decent although predictable story, and some beautiful direction from the film's star, writer, and director Cherien Dabis.

The story's far from deep, even by the Dragon Quest series's humble standards, but there are plenty of interesting events along the way, such as a lazy king who seems a bit too eager to get out of his line of work, or the amusingly predictable outcome of the settler town.

Add to that a cavalcade of clichés from the local color that reads like a Chamber of Commerce video (jazz bands, an overdose of zydeco flavoring in the score by Ry Cooder wannabe Steve Mazzaro, Bobo's swamp house that's apparently just down the bayou from Jason Statham's in «The Mechanic») to the utterly predictable story beats, and you've got a thoroughly generic movie that can only sporadically provide even gut - level thrills.

This especially disappointing from director Zach Braff («Garden State») and screenwriter Theodore Melfi, who seem to think that their only choice here is to make a thinly imagined, tiresomely formulaic, numbingly predictable story.

The story, by Luc Besson («The Professional»), bites off more than it can chew, and it requires «Taken» levels of disbelief to excuse carnage that our government would surely have to answer for on a public stage, but the acting performances elevate the material from «predictable» to «predictable but fun.»

But while «The Man from U.N.C.L.E.» delivers a lively blend of comedy and clever action sequences, it suffers from a mundane story that's almost too predictable.

Interesting, a little predictable, definitely from a male perspective, overall I enjoyed the characters and story.

a genre I graduated from years ago.I credit her with being one of the better writers in this category and Mrs. Hockaday proves that her skills as a story teller have not diminished.Having said that I also feel that the discriminatory practices of the mid to late 19th century in America dictate the motivations of each character in a relatively predictable way... so while the entertainment value is indisputable the «mystery» is no more than the reality of life at the time... nothing memorable or instructive here for me... simply a reminder that the mores of the past rarely survive the scrutiny of the present without some readjustment.

One reader, describing himself as a «rabid fan» of Baldacci's novels, posted this: «This is the weakest writing that I have ever read from Baldacci... This first efort at a kindle short story is predictable, implausible, and never links the character motivation that drives the ending.»

As mentioned previously the visuals are certainly impressive, and for anyone hoping to walk around some of the finest worlds and moons of the one of the best sci - fi universes, Star Wars Battlefront II is a great recreation, but from the very first mission to the very last, mission pacing is excessively slow, the set pieces — whilst stunning — are predictable and the story is nothing more than the typical revenge plot we've seen so many times before.

Cons: Story mode sucks, and the plot was even more predictable than the first Some content from the first is gone The music is way worse than the first, the first game's soundtrack was amazing, this one is terrible, it doesn't even have one song from the first.

Housing a predictable story and lacking in additional content aside from the main story, makes Tales of Hearts R less memorable than it could have been.

The plot in itself is definitely sure to keep casual fans and even non-comic book readers spellbound, but for hardcore DC fans the borrowing of elements from Kingdom Come and JLA: Earth 2 makes for a predictable story.

The story in Grey Goo has all the pieces for an intriguing narrative, but remains very predictable from beginning to end.

The only thing keeping it from a perfect score is the games simplistic and, at times, predictable story.

From here the story becomes a light - hearted and fun, if very predictable journey.

There are a few twists I didn't see coming, but a predictable ending kept the story from being great.

In what is getting to be the most predictable housing story of the year, home prices ascended once again, this time in a 6.7 percent year - over-year increase during October, according to new data from CoreLogic.