Sentences with phrase «about establishing character»

It's not a smart movie, see, and because it doesn't care about establishing character or following a cogent lead, there's nothing at stake.

We know a lot about the established characters by now.

Not exact matches

I can't offer a bias - free opinion on Klein's fate, but anyone who actually cares about sexual harassment should be concerned with establishing a fair policy and process for investigation that doesn't rely on character attacks.

What's worse, the movie often stumbles into outdated tropes about transgender people, and struggles to establish a narrative thread that connects a relatable character arc with the broader topic of trans culture exploration.

No additional information has been given about Harrelson's possible character in the film, and we don't know if he'll be playing a previously established character or a brand new one.

With this established, the movie proceeds to introduce us properly to the characters, and to explore further the world they live in, what with all its rules about being silent, and how best to avoid the creatures that are lying in wait.

These are meant to be revealing — «character beats,» in screenwriting - instructor speak — but just like the revelations of the weirdos Garlin interviews, they feel arbitrary, relaying nothing about Garlin's character except that he is a dad who likes baseball, two traits that the film already established by virtue of its existence.

«Certainly the Metroid franchise is one that, when you talk about really bringing the world to life, we feel that Metroid and the characters established are really important for Nintendo.

It's an entertaining two and a half hours of superhero fun with a decent plot that gives all its character's development time, and properly establishes motives and actions on either side of an argument about regulating superheroes.

The excellent work in establishing characters and the group's relationship early on is nearly all but thrown out the window or forgotten about for large portions of the film to make way for prolonged, self indulgent action sequences that we have all seen many times before and that are all too common in a Frost, Pegg, Wright collaboration.

No, I'm talking about the Marvel franchise, which has spent years at this point establishing each one of its major Avengers characters in their own films and lightly playing with crossovers during them.

Five minutes is about all it takes for Swiss Army Man to establish its premise, its characters, its single setting.

And while it initially seems like John Debney's generic musical score is going to be the only source of mood establishment, something funny happens: setup established, the characters begin to move about like butterflies emerging from cocoons, displaying tenfold more emotional nuance than one might rightfully, albeit cynically, expect from such a film.

Working from a screenplay credited to William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy, Kormákur (2 Guns, Contraband) sets Everest up in the typical disaster - movie mode, establishing the characters in simplistic terms so that we learn, at most, maybe two things about any one person.

I'm very interested in costume drama, and if one commandeers it, the film needs to establish itself as different from costume drama on television and in cinema, which is all about the interior [of characters].

Perhaps if The Bad Batch were less concerned about constantly establishing its mood and atmosphere through sound and visuals and more (or equally) focused on engaging audiences with its characters and plot, it would have been a much more entertaining film.

It's a good thing Can Evrenol's Baskin is smart about it, using its Tarantino-esque aesthetic of guys talking in an ominous restaurant as a chance to establish character detail and backstory, giving the viewer a feeling of familiarity and camaraderie before these blue - collar policemen descend into a literal hell that would do Clive Barker proud.

What I really liked about that scene was how it establishes why your character is where he is at this point.

Although the title character made his big - screen bow in Captain America: Civil War, Coogler and co-writer Joe Robert Cole manage to establish a whole new cast in record time while making you care about them too.

To make another comparison to Pirates of the Caribbean, Deathly Hallows Part 1 is the antithesis to At World's End, the off - key third film that tried to pay attention to every character previously established and also new ones introduced, pulling the viewer in countless different directions while giving them little reason to care about any of them.

Despite it's many tries, the film fails to establish any kind of family chemistry and thus fails to make the audience care about it's characters.

McNairy is slowly but surely establishing himself as one of contemporary film's most watchable character actors (he'll soon be seen in Steve McQueen «s buzzed - about «12 Years a Slave»), and the surprise scene - stealer here is Pais, one of those journeyman That - Guy actors whose face you know and name you probably don't.

Anyway, Michelle Yeoh plays a cop (named Michelle of course, one of my favorite little things about Hong Kong cinema is how often character names are simply the actors» names: it helps establish stars and no one has to waste precious screenwriting minutes coming up with fake names for the characters) who with the help of an air marshal (Michael Wong) and a retiring Japanese cop (Hiroyuki Sanada, who has been in a lot of things, including Lost, Sunshine, Speed Racer and the latest Wolverine movie) foil an airplane hijacking.

As stripped down as a Marvel movie will ever be, Iron Man established Tony Stark as a character within moments — egotistical, aloof and then deconstructed what we knew about him in the next 20.

And honestly, I think giving established white characters like Spider - man to POC's, isn't really the way to go about it.

The screenplay makes sure everyone's motives about the MacGuffin are clearly and repeatedly stated, lest anything like actual characters form in the absence of constant exposition (Even Aguilar's romance with a fellow Assassin, played by Ariane Labed, is only established about midway through the story in the past).

You'll need to have a good bit of patience yourself in this nearly three - hour feature (the 70 mm roadshow presentation, now playing, features an overture showcasing legendary composer Ennio Morricone's terrific score and a roughly 15 - minute intermission), particularly since the first half or so is all about building tension, establishing characters and setting all the pieces in motion.

Little else is known about the role, including whether the character will be someone from previously established Star Wars lore, or an entirely new creation.

Director Steve Beck is less interested in telling a coherent story (though, to be fair, it's not as if screenwriters Neal Marshall Stevens of Richard D'Ovidio have come up with one), establishing characters worth caring about, coaxing believable performances, or coming up with a decent scare than coming up with a reel of cool visuals.

Brooks's barbed wit and confident direction drive Lost in America, an iconic example of his restless comedies about insecure characters searching for satisfaction in the modern world that established his unique comic voice and transformed the art of observational humor.

After Spider - Man: Homecoming, Black Panther will be only the second movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise that is a debut solo film about a previously established character in the continuity.

Russ is correct to point out that about 37 % of the perseverance component of grit is heritable, but that does not establish that educational policy and practice are unable to alter the non-heritable factors that form grit and other character skills.

They will learn through values based education programs how to establish respectful and productive interpersonal relationships through daily interactions and about the qualities of leadership and character that result in being responsible decision - makers and problem - solvers.

The unprecedented vehicle concept takes the acknowledged strengths of established vehicle categories, such as sporty Saloon, Estate, MPV and SUV, and fuses them to create a new car with a character all of its own, a car that is all about the three Ds: Design, Dynamism and Dimensions.

September C. Fawkes shows how to convey established character relationships quickly, Nils Odlund introduces character agency for beginners, Jami Gold explains why head hopping is considered lazy writing, K.M. Weiland explores several POV problems, and Fae Rowan talks about world building using POV.

The book opens with a lovely set piece about the expatriate mindset and the different reasons people try to start a new life somewhere else that immediately establishes the tone of the story and gives insight into the characters.

The main character might be a second fiddle actor, but he is an established actor alright, I remember him in the starring role for «Big Wolf on Campus», a fairly charming canadian TV show about a teenage werewolf back in the early 00s.

With the help of a fellow student who was interested in becoming a Sister of the religion established in Trails of the Sky, we returned him home safely, and as a result I learned more about every character involved in this detour that wasn't sign - posted at all.

So, within about two minutes, two of the main characters establish an awkward relationship that had me rolling my eyes and saying, «Will you two just get a room?»

Allow me to explain myself before you stamp this game worst game ever, I am not talking about the Gearbox released game, which in itself was fan favourites but enough about that, but I am talking about the Duke Nukem 3D, the game that established Duke Nukem as the bad - ass, over-the-top character he is known as, that is basically what this game feels like.

I worked for about four months as a Senior VFX Artist and Technical Artist at ArtCraft Entertainment on Crowfall to help establish their VFX pipeline / workflow and then a number of character and environment shaders and post effects.

This may mean that the game takes a bit of time establishing Clementine as a character that might not be necessary for players who already know her, but I think having her as the playable character makes the experience of learning about her different enough that series veterans won't mind.

And the Monstreal Protocol itself may turn out to have done some good, but nowhere does Monbiot, in spite of his concerns about undemocratic institutions run by the super-wealthy, worry about the character of the politics that is being established above democratic governments in the name of the environment, orchestrated by multi-millionaires.

The stage of establishing the applicability of the MEIP is merely about an economic character of a given state investment / measure.

It is well established that past behavior predicts future performance, so employers need the insights a good background check can provide about an applicant's character.

With a relatively blank slate established, the cooking / dining / living space was ready for some personality, so Yanic set about casting his characters, starting with the hero: «That custom blue sectional is the piece,» he says, adding that he had fabric samples sent from as far away as Europe and South America to find that «delicious» velvet.