Sentences with phrase «bleak story»

Additionally, I grabbed Telltale Games» Game of Thrones, an unexpected gem of a rich but bleak story and brilliantly engrossing interactivity, a significant step forward after the success of their The Walking Dead series.

It relied on a repetitive time - limit mechanic many players detested; it told an uncharacteristically bleak story set in a decidedly non-uplifting place called, appropriately, Termina; and Nintendo released it only 17 months after Ocarina, an unusually short interval between major console Zelda games.

It's a bleak story that goes from bad to worse, and that makes it tough to watch.

A somber, bleak story of a father's undying love for his son in the face of hopelessness, «The Road» even comes equipped with images of a pistol pressed against a little boy's forehead and a father washing a man's brains out of his son's hair.

It's a bleak story, partly a retelling of the Book of Job, that unfolds at a measured pace that may try the patience of some viewers.

Most intriguing is how the writers and director have transformed what's essentially a rather dark, bleak story into...

Despite a tough and rather bleak story, this Central American drama is bolstered by strikingly beautiful cinematography and involving characters.

Dark Places tells the exceptionally bleak story of Libby Day (Charlize Theron), the survivor of the brutal massacre of her family decades earlier, for which her brother Ben (Corey Stoll) was convicted, largely based on her testimony.

They are both beautiful works of literature, but how much stomach will the Academy have for another bleak story, particularly one set in a post-apocalyptic world?

No glamorized games here, just a bleak look at a bleak story of a woman trying to crawl her way up from a life of limited options.

For such a bleak story, that's quite an achievement.

In such a bleak story, the redemptive ending seems rushed and unconvincing, but director Oliver Schmitz has sent us a timely dispatch from a forgotten corner of the world that is honest above all.

Strict security, bright sunshine, bleak stories, black humor, and the ongoing debate about streaming cinema are some of the threads woven through the first half of the 70th edition of Cannes.

Not exact matches

But the story is not quite so simple or bleak if you look at the historical trend: The ratio of older American men working today is still slightly lower than it was during the mid-to-late 1960s.

Some of his favorite stories looked at facial bias, the philosophy of Peter Thiel, Chinese ghost cities, self - driving car ethics, the average family on earth, Wikipedia hoax - hunters, income inequality, bleak futurism, cooking with MSG, global communication patterns, Somali pirates, the crucifixion of Tony Stark, and the worst hotel in New York.

On June 30, star investor Chris Sacca wrote on Medium that he took some personal responsibility for «the unrelenting, day - to - day culture of dismissiveness that creates a continually bleak environment for women and other underrepresented groups» in Silicon Valley (shortly before allegations of his own sexual misconduct emerged in the same piece that broke the story about McClure).

So far in 2018, it's been the opposite story — from an unfriendly new Pennsylvania map to Speaker Paul Ryan's retirement and bleak special election results.

But then Cheever reveals the bleak truth (which the television rendering of the story sentimentally avoids): Lawton is awakened from his spiritual stupor only to lapse immediately back into it.

There would seem to be a connection between the grimness of the story and the rather bleak British landscape in which it is set — where the Catholic population and vocations have declined so dramatically.

There are also stories in culture that paint a bleak picture of humanity, and which clearly illustrate the need for God and his grace; the modern equivalent perhaps of that Athenian altar.

Part of the reason the future looked so bleak was because I couldn't look to many others who were living into compelling stories as celibate men and women, and the future story the church imagined for me hinged on marriage.

Proof is Ancelotti still believe he can be Alonso 2.O kind of... but he would be a great catch for us... Flamini is a good squad player but if we want to go higher and fulfill our supposed ambition we need to take the next step... he will definitely go at the end, Arteta is another story as he is our captain otherwise future looks bleak for both our players... more so if Coquelin continues to improve!!

Pretend this is just the start of their story, and when they win three straight titles behind Rougneds Odor, well, just remember how bleak it seemed for them once.

But former prisoners will talk on condition of anonymity and the stories they have to tell speak volumes about the bleak reality of Grayling's «right - wing solutions» to reoffending.

It tells the true - story of a flawed (but hugely likable) extended family living in the Mount Hope area in the 1980s and 90s, and their struggles to get by in what was a pretty bleak neighborhood at that time.

After the bleak and dreary cold Winter we've all been through (yes, even here in Houston), Mary decided it was time to pull a «colour story» for March (a sentiment we agreed with wholeheartedly), and so here we are, working a rainbow into our outfits.

The movie is bracing, bleak and funny, assuming you can appreciate the comedy in a story full of lowlifes, lushes and losers.

And even then, it's not that we're intended to laugh so much as we're meant to see the deployment of bleak humor by the narrators of their own stories as a way to distance oneself from things too terrible to consider full on.

The story, while a bit convoluted, is moving and beautiful, the gameplay is great and allows freedom of choice in how to tackle battles, the characters are great and the world itself is wonderfully bleak and dark.

Hostiles is set in a bleak, bigoted world but tells the tale of a man somehow shaking all of his prejudices loose; it's an epic that hints at subtler ambiguities but forgets to actually include them in the story.

This is a fantastically spun tale which starts out as a bleak expose about death for cash, which forms into a story of friendship, but delves back down into revenge, reemerges for justice and redemption, and then turns into a cat and mouse thriller for a while until unraveling into a blood - thirsty mess of explosions and bullets before finding its ending.

As bleak as this story is, it's offset by war sequences so large in scale and beautifully animated that you can not help but look upon them in awe.

This fourth installment is a complete reboot, returning to the web - slinger's creation story, and Garfield, more than any other factor, contributes to the sense of a bleaker vision along the lines of «The Dark Knight.»

And certainly, as far as stories about a dystopian future go, it can't get much bleaker than director Ridley Scott's imagining of Los Angeles in the (then) far future of 2019.

The story starts bleak with a gruesome murder and never really cheers up.

Hertzfeldt's vision of a bleak, beautiful future is a brilliant marriage of form and content, with art that blends crude stick figures with complex backgrounds, all to tell the story of one happy - go - lucky toddler and her emotionally damaged, time - traveling clone.

Fergus's cold, bleak treatment is in perfect keeping with the chilling nature of the story, perfectly accentuated by the frost - covered environs that surround him.

Callahan's story is pretty great — and his cartoons can be bleak as f*ck but they're funny — and it's a good counterpoint to the usual disability narrative that we see, which is that a spinal cord injury is the end of all things.

And that last glimpse of Rose provides a bleak but resonant parallel with the story Chris tells about his mother.

The story may be bleak at times, but it's ultimately powerful and absorbing, and Rees presents the racism of the era as both routine and heartbreaking.

Somewhere within the bleak gray tones of «Dark Crimes» is an interesting story, but its overwhelmed by a familiar characters and plot lines with clunky dialogue, unfortunately.

Some may find the seemingly tacked - on ending counterintuitive to the more effectively bleak elements of the rest of the story.

But Danish screenwriter Aakeson immediately writes himself into a corner: the story and characters have nowhere to go beyond bleak acceptance...

British actor Fletcher makes a terrific directing debut with this sharply told story of a family struggling to survive in a bleak environment.

As someone who appreciates the art form as it is more commonly employed, I didn't find much to love about this bleak, bloody film, whose story and characterizations felt lacking on the whole.

The film certainly pushes a fairly bleak outlook on life, like most westerns, and is definitely not the kind of story you'd go along to see for «fun».

Loveless A story about a broken marriage and a missing child becomes a withering snapshot of Russian social malaise in this bleak and beautifully shot drama from the gifted Andrey Zvyagintsev («Leviathan»).

His bleak and minimal story opens with a bloodied girl clinging to the side of a smooth, curved surface that drops into a -LSB-...]

As the climax begins to envelop the story and deaths begin to mount, it doesn't become more scary, thrilling, pulse - pounding, or even maddening; it just gets colder, bleaker, and more elusive to our emotional grasp.

Although the subject matter is bleak, as no one in their right mind would find a story about missing, abandoned, or murdered children to be entertaining, the tale reels you in and commands your interest from beginning to end, even through a fractured mid-section, extra endings, and an epilogue that can be read as either disappointed or hopeful, depending on how much you choose to read into it.