Sentences with phrase «as as plot devices»

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Nothing is more boring than cardboard characters that just serve as plot devices.

It's difficult to critique this in a spoiler - free way, but to use the example of A New Hope, while the Death Star was a looming, terrifying presence throughout, the big threat to our heroes in this film seems to appear quite late in the day, and seems more important as a plot device to bring key characters together than a genuinely gripping menace.

@Atheist Hunter Any story that uses magic as a central plot device is fictional.

Some entertaining performances came out of it, but ultimately, putting a belt around a part - timer hijacks much more worthwhile angles, important plot development, talent development, and a key plot device that would serve as a facilitator to the aforementioned.

Amnesia is often used as a convenient plot device in films and TV, where people suddenly lose all memory of their names or the past lives.

In the movie, highlighting Euler's Method works as a dramatic plot device.

A disaster film or disaster movie is a film genre that has an impending or ongoing disaster as its subject and primary plot device.

Of course it is not true love in the tiresome modern sense, but romantic love as a plot device.

Every character is a plot device and given as much depth and personality as the robots.

But because of the overly familiar plot devices it does just feel like a two - parter and as such will be completely incomprehensible to the casual viewer.

Rather they using their impotency as a plot device, they insult the viewers intelligence by ignoring it.

The focus is almost exclusively on them once the game starts and their opponents are relegated to walking plot devices, but with a group as dynamic and pissed - off as this, one hardly notices.

The film is about magic, but it's more or less a classic story of star crossed lovers that uses magic as a plot device.

This has the same adolescent fantasy plot devices as Run, Lola, Run, but that film was more of a festival / music video peice of fun.

A greatest - hits collection of plot devices and emotional cues from such films as «Gorillas in the Mist» and «One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,» making it something of a trained chimp, one that apes a lot of good movies while making itself look ridiculous.

Debuting screenwriter David Self has altered a few plot devices as well, but the final product remains more or less faithful to Jackson's storyline.

Grown - up Cosette is bland as can be and nothing more than a pretty little plot device.

The use (and abuse) of a very young child in peril as a plot device is something I approach with caution, but in this case, without giving away too much of the final act, I feel it is largely justified by the story.

Tom Hanks, though, does infuse Robert Langdon with humanity and prevents him from coming across as a walking plot device.

It has to be said the movies refusal to take itself to seriously gives it a boost of revitalisation and fun as it runs through its otherwise tedious narrative, one monotonous plot device at a time.

Cap started out as 90 - pound weakling Steve Rogers before one of those marvelous four - color plot devices turns him into the pinnacle of human perfection.

Rounding out the claustrophobic dynamic is the terrific John Gallagher Jr as decent good ol' boy Emmet, his fully fleshed - out performance elevating what could have been a mere «plot device».

The unnecessarily complicated plot follows Carmen and Juni as they track down the dreaded Transmooker Device, which can shut down all electricity on Earth.

He uses feminism as a plot device, depicting the women as braying harridans and broad caricatures rather than exploring feminism itself.

The choice to have her talking to Denis as a plot device wears quite thin, especially as the film reaches it's contrived ending.

Whereas his later gialli tended to cram in more and more bizarre plot devices to make the narratives as incredible as his imagination, Argento was still finding his feet with this movie and it benefits from not being as excessive, not just in the gore and nudity departments but also in the characters.

Think Like a Man makes the unusual choice to feature its source text as a plot device and essentially a lead character.

As clichéd as it may be, it is also an entertaining enough film if seen as one aimed at children, who may not really be overly familiar with overused plot devices and themeAs clichéd as it may be, it is also an entertaining enough film if seen as one aimed at children, who may not really be overly familiar with overused plot devices and themeas it may be, it is also an entertaining enough film if seen as one aimed at children, who may not really be overly familiar with overused plot devices and themeas one aimed at children, who may not really be overly familiar with overused plot devices and themes.

Jason Clarke who is our main human protagonist, acts as a plot device for much of the film.

The screenplay, credited to Geneva Robertson - Dworet and Alastair Siddons, devises a series of puzzles for Lara to solve, though as the action intensifies, it's difficult to follow her reasoning, and the puzzles remain rather puzzling, if they were ever intended as anything more than plot devices.

The extortion subplot involving Ansel's manager and Lance Reddick's shadowy menace (playing a mysterious figure in the way only he can) may be a necessary evil to motivate Ansel toward taking on the family as clients, but in practice it is such a half - baked flimsy concept that it never evolves beyond plot device status, feeling more like manipulation than motivation.

Nebula isn't even part of the story until half - way through, and then is treated more as a plot device than an actual character.

As the national mood turned cynical in the seventies, a younger generation of directors began to borrow devices, plots, and stylistic maneuvers from noir's classic period — commonly defined as running from 1941 (The Maltese Falcon) to 1958 (Touch of Evil, Vertigo)-- while often twisting these devices to new effecAs the national mood turned cynical in the seventies, a younger generation of directors began to borrow devices, plots, and stylistic maneuvers from noir's classic period — commonly defined as running from 1941 (The Maltese Falcon) to 1958 (Touch of Evil, Vertigo)-- while often twisting these devices to new effecas running from 1941 (The Maltese Falcon) to 1958 (Touch of Evil, Vertigo)-- while often twisting these devices to new effect.

Everyone else exists primarily as a plot device or a comedic element for Nick to play off of rather than a fully realized person; that's all they can be, since he moves around too much for us to really get to know anyone except he and Sheeni.

Indeed, when the antagonist proudly announces himself as a messenger of God, there's obviously something more to the character than a mere plot device.

Browning's rich performance keeps Naomi from coming off like a plot device; longtime Beastie Boy Horovitz is a wonderful surprise as the antsy Nick, whose fatherly affect transforms into something more pestering in a way that seems organic (and pathetic), rather than one - dimensionally monstrous.

In its second half, the film weakenes as it resorts to formulaic devices and plots its protagonist against the civilized world.

As the film progresses, it's very clear that the home invasion aspect of the film is the least of its plot devices and that is what makes this flick all the more fun to revisit and show new viewers.

The other, and more troubling aspect to the film is Mr. Johnson's use of women as plot devices or Male Support Systems.

Utilizing anachronistic gumshoe dialogue in the style of Dashiell Hammett, director Rian Johnson assembled a seemingly clever detective story that uses a «brick» of heroin as the MacGuffin, and a dead girl as a plot device.

Ricky is not just stupid; he and his family are bar none the shallowest, most one - dimensional people you've ever seen onscreen, and even when they address this issue later on, it reveals itself as a plot device that only exposes more flaws in the storytelling.

It's not too much of a stretch to use that guilt as a plot device or conflict point to further define a relationship between the two, right?

The character may be more plot device than person but Mirren's quietly simmering intensity doesn't allow her to be quite as dispensable as the script would like her to be.

Actually, it is the manic pacing of the comedy that bothered me, breathlessly frenetic to a fault, as if Russell couldn't stop for even a moment or his whole house of cards would fall apart into nothingness, which I argue would be appropriate for a movie that uses nihilism as a plot device.

Actually she serves for Bertolucci more as a plot device than as a person.

It steers dangerously close to disengaging the audience (and occasionally doesn't work as a plotting device), but that patience is what makes the Daughter distinct.

Built around the hoariest of plot devices (a Dubliner stalked by his evil doppelganger), with hammy acting to match, this attempt to highlight the social cost of Ireland's economic revival suffers from the same identity crisis as its tormented hero.

As you progress through the original (and surprisingly engaging) Harry Potter tale you'll reach branching moments that let you make mostly meaningless decisions that influence your character and your one - dimensional plot device sidekick, Rowan.

It's the rare movie of his that kind of gets bogged down later in the film as it tries to explain all plot devices that are set up at the beginning.

The plot device of using illicit drugs — in this case, MDMA, a.k.a. Ecstasy, a.k.a. the «hug drug» — as a transformative elixir of sorts has become somewhat of a hoary old chestnut in recent cinema.