Sentences with phrase «also flawed characters»

Sure, they were superheroes, but they were also flawed characters.

Not exact matches

A movie like The Exorcist — as controversial as it is — also shows that, contrary to the mad scientist characters who try to seize power from God, God in fact manages to work His will through very flawed, human servants.

He notably did not endorse the man who defeated him in the GOP primary, Carl Paladino, and also took his erstwhile Democratic target, Andrew Cuomo, to task, calling both candidates «flawed individuals, flawed in terms of public character, flawed in terms of ideas and principles that will restore growth and pride to our great state.»

But business interests aside — and he insists he had written off the idea of getting his money back long ago — Casale also said he has «bigger concerns» about Wendy Long's character that makes him believe she's too flawed to run again.

A slew of emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit highlight definite character flaws among some climate scientists — including an embarrassing attempt to delete emails that discussed the most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — while also exposing what looks like a failure of scientists to acknowledge a halt to global warming in the past decade.

She also may think she's a good judge of character, but sometimes human error is flawed.

Just like the original, it has its good share of flaws; but also just like the original, there are moments and characters so human that you can't help but connect with them on a deeply personal level.

He adds the film's few laughs, but his character also exposes a major flaw in the script which clouds an otherwise wacky but believable story.

Sheridan set out to make a «buddy road film which was also a heist thriller, with elements of the inevitable showdown of a western with some of the real consequences of the flawed characters of a real drama,» he said.

The characterisations are also spot on, with Healy and March both being flawed characters that you want to side with even though some of their actions and motives may be questionable.

It also corrects the major flaw of Iron Man (2008), which forgot about characters during its final battle, concentrating on the clashing and clanging of two digital blips.

It also reminds us of classic road - trip movies, such as 1991's «Thelma and Louise» (directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri), and is reminiscent of the days when American movies featured authentic, fleshed - out characters with human flaws and quirky peccadilloes.

Arguably, Zooey Deschanel's character Summer in (500) Days of Summer has been deemed a MPDG, although the movie can also be viewed as scrutinizing the archetype, since it shows the romantic failures of idealizing a woman, rather than accepting a woman for her very human complexities and flaws.

I rather expected Stone, the maker of «JFK» and «Natural Born Killers,» to adopt a scorched - earth policy toward Nixon, but instead he blames not only Nixon's own character flaws but also the Imperial Presidency itself, the system that, once set in motion, behaves with a mindlessness of its own.

But there's also a lengthy deleted scene from the very end of the film, which keeps the story going long after the theatrical cut ends, and reveals even more flaws in Felt's character.

A film that both rejects and embraces legacy; a film that takes characters we've grown to love and exposes their flaws, while also revealing that they're more than their flaws.

Of course, most of the accolades will more rightfully go to the main actors, Edward Norton and Naomi Watts (who also receive producer credits), for their brilliant portrayals of two complex, flawed characters who must progress and mature quite substantially, but naturally, in the course of this two hour film.

The movie's only flaw is also a virtue: It's jammed with characters, stories, warmth and laughs, until at times Curtis seems to be working from a checklist of obligatory movie love situations and doesn't want to leave anything out.

It isn't simply that her voice comes out clear and her characters feel tailor made for her; there's a sweetness in both films that was absent from Baumbach's previous efforts — a desire not just to present flawed people who were often unlikable but show that these deeply flawed, often unlikable people can also be lovable.

He is a very flawed character but also a character one can root to succeed.

Which brings us to one of the chief flaws of Ghosts of Girlfriends Past — all the women, except Garner's character, are malleable women willing not only to jump into bed with Connor, they're also stupid enough to fall in love with him.

The fact that so many of «The Party» «s characters are also powerful, strong (albeit significantly flawed) women really makes it something to celebrate.

Ryan Gosling continues to prove why he's one of this generation's finest actors with perhaps his most grown - up role to date, while veterans like Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti and Marisa Tomei also get in on the fun playing characters whose only real flaw is that they're not in the movie enough.

«Surprisingly, Jackson is also one of the few convincing characters in this plot - propelled tale, a flaw readers may be willing to ignore — until they slam into a contrived denouement well below Walters's usual standard.»

I abandon books if the main characters are a total pain in the arse, usually because they are also Mary Sues but the problem with Mary Sues is that no other characters are allowed to see them as anything but perfect or with slight flaws that many people find endearing anyway, example: «She was beautiful, but her teeth were a little crooked so she covered her mouth when she laughed.

How To Be Safe is a damning, yet also beautifully written book and Anna is a character to root for despite — and because of — her many flaws.

WHY YOU MIGHT LIKE IT: McDevitt's science fiction is not only peopled with realistic and flawed characters, it's also accessible and plausible.

It's also a poor character flaw that some suffer from by criticizing another person's performance without having the integrity of making his own performance public information.

The first Lords of Shadow has truly stunning visual design, and the recent Lords of Shadow 2, despite its many flaws, also managed to conjure up some outstanding vistas and character designs.

The issue also includes a roundup of governmental game development incentives, Front Line Award finalists, a piece on the art of creating believably flawed characters, and our regular monthly columns on design, art, music, programming, and humor.

A slew of emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit highlight definite character flaws among some climate scientists — including an embarrassing attempt to delete emails that discussed the most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — while also exposing what looks like a failure of scientists to acknowledge a halt to global warming in the past decade.

Part of the pain of envy stems from the unfavourable comparisons we draw between ourselves and our successful peers, but envy is also painful because feeling envy is seen as a character flaw.

The flaw appears to occur when someone sends an Indian language character to affected iPhones, according to The Verge, which also reported on the bug.