Sentences with phrase «better character development for»

Though the narrative shares some obvious similarities with the three - act structure of the first movie, «Catching Fire» is superior in just about every way, including stronger, emotionally - charged performances from Lawrence and Hutcherson and better character development for the other tributes, who are more than just numbers and faces this time around.

I loved everything about this but they should have had better character development for the new member and her douche brother.

A lot of fans said it will be impossible to show any good character development for Bilbo if they end the movie after the warg attack.

Not exact matches

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

By studying campers» experiences and camp's impact on the lives of young people, ACA provides parents with the knowledge to make good decisions, to thoughtfully guide their children, and to offer opportunities for powerful lessons in community, character building, skill development, and healthy living.

They don't know how to ensure for excellent physical development, superb mental health, and good moral character.

Speaking on education in the West, the Governor noted that the downward trend in education should be worrisome due to the role of education in development and bringing enlightenment to the human mind, platform for leadership recruitment and the means for character building and good citizenship.

«It was good for my character development,» he said.

a) is of good character as attested to by two Ghanaians who are notaries public, lawyers, senior public officers or other class of persons approved of by the Minister; b) has not been convicted of any criminal offence and been sentenced to imprisonment for a term of twelve months or more; c) is of independent means; d) is in the opinion of the Minister capable of making a substantial contribution to the development of Ghana; and e) has attained the age of eighteen years.

He advised future Olubadans to emulate the good characters and humble way of life of the late Oba Odugade Odulana for the continued development, peace and progress of Ibadanland.

Fast and Furious is his claim to fame, and if he handles the famed space opera in the same way as he handled the neon drifting adolescent movies, we're in for good deal of paper - thin character development.

For someone with my background, the film is effectively paced with a good balance of exposition, character development, and special effects - enhanced action.

It goes without saying, then, that the viewer begins to crave anything even resembling a plot development, and there's little doubt that the strong performances and well - developed characters are simply, to an increasingly palpable degree, unable to compensate for the aimlessness that's been hard - wired into Curval and Hiet's screenplay.

It won't win any beauty pageants or appraisal for artistic ingenuity, and it probably won't be marveled at for its in - depth story and character development; but if you crave that old fashioned, non-stop mayhem of an old school first - person shooter, no one does it better and with more attitude then Serious Sam.

What this film seriously lacks in a coherent and discernable plot and character development, it more than makes up for it with tons of style, great cinematography, and well - placed tension.

as a kid i grew up with transformers for toys, but didn't watch the actual show (aside from beast wars) until last year, so i wouldn't consider myself a fan boy, but when a tv show based around toys from the 80's has better dialog, humor, character development, and plot than a high budget Hollywood film, you know something is wrong with the film industry.

Nerve is exciting, topical and potentially prescient, but it scores no points for character development, and the plot holes are so big that you could, well, drive a speeding motorcycle through them.

As expected, during a road trip of this magnitude, there is ample opportunity for character development, as well as time to offer a little historical context and explain the atrocities that might motivate people to make such a painful journey.

With a feature film reboot of Red Sonja stuck in development hell for the best part of a decade now, it seems that the character may be heading to the small screen, with Bleeding Cool reporting that X-Men: Apocalypse director Bryan Singer is developing an R - rated TV series.

The Marvel X-Men spinoff was stuck in development hell for years, following the character's less - than - well received debut in 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

The focus on epic battles involving arrows, swordplay and midair dogfights as well as scores of characters, allows little time for character or script development.

Very few villains have been given all that much character development in the MCU, but Black Panther took the time for audiences to actually get to know Killmonger, and it's resulted in one of Marvel's best antagonists yet.

Tony Hale (Arrested Development) voices the character for the English language version of Batman Ninja, giving one of the best performances of the crazed clown since Mark Hamill back in the Batman: The Animated Series days.

Pike does the best that she can with the character, but is ultimately written to be a vehicle for Seretse's emotional development.

I had high expectations for this movie, hoping for an improved plot and better character development.

Those looking for more character development will find plenty on the TV incarnation, but what you won't find is the kind of bone - breaking football sequences that make «Friday Night Lights» one of the best in the genre.

The writing is always very good at worst — and brilliant at best — there are new developments for every regular [and major recurring] character; the most mundane events take on unexpected significance, while major events, no matter how seemingly over the top they might be, are so well grounded in the reality of the show's premise that they feel completely natural.

«The Grudge» suffers from a lack of character development and several minor gaffes in its own internal logic, as well as the kind of often nonsensical horror - movie plot calculation that leaves shamelessly obvious openings for endless sequels.

The script occasionally feels a bit too witty or ironic for its own good, once again showing the movie's audience - pleasing tendencies, and the soundtrack underscoring most of the film, comprised of multiple pop songs, just emphasizes the simplistic development of character and theme.

While the casting of Crispin Glover as a disassociated loner who discovers he has the power to talk to rats is sort of inspired, «X Files» expat writer Glen Morgan's Willard suffers (and yes, I feel silly for saying this) from a lack of character development, a forced psychoanalytic structure, and a sort of inbred Comic Book Guy fondness for self - reference (i.e., the majority of the bit characters have animal names — a sort of thing used best in Landis's An American Werewolf in London and Dante's The Howling: Mrs. Leach, Mr. Garter, Janice Mantis, George Boxer, and so on) that grates.

During their brief stopover in San Francisco, we talked everything from Community getting renewed for a fifth, improbable season, to winning the aforementioned Academy Award, to the differences between adapting source material from another medium and writing an original screenplay, to character development, and casting The Way, Way Back with some of the better (if not the best) comedic actors of their (and our) generation.

This same story and idea could have been structured in a different way with better character development and more heart to have the audience feel a bit more sympathy for David or the children.

Clocking in at just a smidgeon over two hours, it doesn't feel long at all, with good use of character development, not only for the human characters, but also for the dogs, who all have varying personalities that make them easy to distinguish once you get to know them.

With three people coming up with the idea for the story (including co-star Queen Latifah (Barbershop 2), and three other screenwriters actually penning the script, you'd think multiple plot developments and well - rounded characters would be guaranteed.

James Rhodes / War Machine (Don Cheadle) has a smaller, but meaningful role to play in the proceedings here by comparison, while Clint Barton / Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and Scott Lang / Ant - Man (Paul Rudd) are the established MCU players who get the least onscreen development - but Civil War makes up for that by giving these characters some of the best action scenes in the movie.

This Dawn of the Dead jettisons character development in favor of quick brush strokes, so it helps that the characters are well acted by Polley (as a gold - hearted nurse), Ving Rhames (as a hardass security guard), Mekhi Pfifer (as a street - thug - slash - soon - to - be-daddy, whose wife nurses a zombie bite and a swelled pregnant belly that's a gruesome set piece waiting to happen), and especially Jake Weber (in the Brendan Gleeson role from 28 Days Later, a de-facto dad for the band of survivors).

I suppose that the film's financial lessons are occasionally enlightening and interesting, but they seem better - suited for a documentary by Stone about the 2009 bailout, or would have been better - served in a movie that more effectively merged all of these tectonic shifts with character development that the filmmakers cared equally about.

Even though this is not one of the best Star Trek films in terms of plot or storyline; it is one of the best for humour and character development, and I will certainly be coming back to see what happens to them in the next instalment.

The writing also continues to be top - notch — from the sparkling dialogue, to the excellent character development, to the smartly plotted narrative that keeps you coming back for more — while the show's absurdist tone works even better in a period setting like the late 1970s.

We learn little, and without much in the way of character development beyond them gearing up for the battle scenes, we have little rooting interest other than the basic good guys vs. bad guys scenarios that make many Westerns too pat to entertain today's audiences.

The group of guys are written quite generic at best and are not given anything juicy for the actors to play with regarding character development.

The main story line is very basic and, although there are some good moments for certain characters (Gugu Mbatha - Raw completely owns the scene where she breaks down), it doesn't allow for a whole lot of real character development.

There wasn't a good and equal balance between CGI and character development (especial in light that this movie really should build a foundation for a prospective trilogy).

With miscast actors and relatively little in the way of character development, the only thing left to commend Mission to Mars for are some impressive special effects and some interesting ideas that, if handled well, should have been mind - blowing.

That's not to say they are on the level of character development in The Last of Us or similar titles, but for a game that focuses solely around blowing things up, you couldn't have asked for better villains.

Former «Arrested Development» patriarch won a Best Actor Golden Globe for his work as transgender character Mort Pfefferman on the Amazon series

The characters don't get too much time to development, but the impressively assembled cast of some of the best, most reliable actors working today is more than able to compensate for it.

Ancel says the development team will use the extra time to add characters, bosses, «even new levels... which is good for the game.»

Michael Cera, best known for his loveable geek characters in «Arrested Development» and «Kick Ass,» is also a songwriter.