Sentences with phrase «brief flashbacks»

Brief flashbacks fill in the origins of their romance, setting up a sexual tension between the two that carries through to their elderly counterparts.

She could even be his wife, Monica Warren, who has only been seen in brief flashbacks in comic books.

I had brief flashbacks of temporarily losing my FAVORITE HAT last year and the sadness involved.

Thankfully Tarantino plays events in a straightforward narrative, chronologically - speaking, except for a few brief flashbacks.

We see through brief flashbacks that his father used one too, against Joe and his mother.

Renegade Vulcan Sybok isn't really explained at all unless you count Spock's brief flashback where we are given more big news that he and Spock are half brothers.

Tykwer's occasional quirky visuals and brief flashbacks involving Clay's difficult marriage, challenges with his daughter and father (Tom Skeritt in a shockingly brief supporting role) and difficult career decisions from his past are the minor elements that do stand - out.

Playing Blood Drive without having played through all of the first Corpse Party game and at least chapter 8 of Book of Shadows first is not recommended, but the writers did attempt to accommodate for those players who haven't by giving very brief flashbacks or expository nods to important events from the previous titles.

The first seconds reveal Han's upbringing, though his time at the Academy might be just a prologue, or even told in brief flashbacks, in the movie.

We only got a few brief flashbacks.

Even Natalie Portman's character, as told through brief flashbacks, has a habit of turning her own life inside out.

Garland effectively ratchets up the mystery of a story in which crucial pieces are missing for a reason; we see brief flashbacks that put Portman's marriage into context that doesn't clarify as much as make «Annihilation» increasingly more impenetrable (Oscar Isaac stars as her absent husband).

That idea might possess real emotional kick if Garland actually invested in Lena's relationship (some brief flashbacks can't shoulder that weight alone), or resisted drowning every scene in Tarkovsky torpor.

At one point in Covenant there is a brief flashback that shows what happened to the Engineers, but all it did was make me wish we had gotten a movie about that instead.

Desolation opens with a brief flashback to show what spurred Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) to make the attempt to win back the dwarves capitol (hint, it was Gandalf...).

Memories seep into the story in brief flashbacks, a haunted past leaking into a nasty present.

The experience is given to us in a way that keeps us guessing, and introduces us to all the important players in the X-Men universe while showing us why they were important in the first place in small but integral ways, i.e. the addition of a young William Stryker to provide us with Logan's brief flashback / origin.

Dahlia only has a cameo appearance, as well, followed by a brief flashback for those who missed the first film or haven't watched it in a while.

Hopkins makes his presence known thoroughly despite only appearing in brief flashbacks and visions, Gyllenhaal strikes just the right warm balance between appealing and geeky, and Davis is perfect as the well - meaning but controlling outsider.

After Peter Quill and Rocket took their turns in episodes 1 and 2, Episode 3: More Than a Feeling puts the sisters Gamora and Nebula in the spotlight for a brief flashback mission from when they were both still in Thanos» service.

Meanwhile, the brief flashbacks that show the Gallo character undergoing what might be Islamist indoctrination are almost perverse in their emptiness.

Grant, played with weary optimism by Michael B. Jordan (TV's «The Wire,» «Friday Night Lights»), was no saint: He'd served time in jail on drug - related charges (we see this in a brief flashback), frustrating his loving mother (Octavia Spencer, a beacon of strength here); lost his supermarket job for showing up late too often; and wasn't always faithful to his girlfriend (Melonie Diaz) or sufficiently attentive to their daughter (Ariana Neal).

The latter is the Second Inaugural, shown in a brief flashback following Lincoln's assassination, which occurred little more than a month after the speech was given.

The highlights include Will and Sylvia taking their Robin Hood convictions and Bonnie & Clyde bravado to a private residence, a brief flashback of Will's father, one added chase scene, and more looks at Amanda Seyfried in her underwear.

Bourne shows his hand when London reporter Simon Ross (Paddy Considine) begins writing articles about him and his late girlfriend Marie (Franka Potente — who appears here in photos and brief flashbacks).

The trappings of musical stardom — as seen in brief flashbacks to Marianne's concerts and recording sessions, and heard intermittently on the soundtrack — do more than isolate the characters in a cocoon of luxury.

Aside from brief flashbacks to Captain America: Civil War, the presence of Martin Freeman as Everett K. Ross, and the very last scene before the theater lights go up, director and co-writer (with Joe Robert Cole) Ryan Coogler's screenplay makes almost no mention of characters or circumstances from the larger MCU.

He stands there, enjoying the brief flashback, rubbing the water from his hair with a towel.

The issue opens with a brief flashback to a sad moment for Howard and Maria Stark decades earlier, where Howard attempts to console Maria after the loss of their unborn child.

After a brief flashback to show them being trained up for T.W.O., the game follows the duo as they seek to rescue a Mexican political leader from a drug cartel.

Whereas backstory in many other RPG's is largely an event that occurs off screen or in brief flashbacks, taking place during two periods of Asbel's life really gives you the chance to see him grow as a character from an amusingly mischievous boy into a mature adult.