Sentences with phrase «central conceit of»

These games differ because they aren't grand adventures, but rather compact, intricately designed puzzle boxes where narrative and the central conceit of the plot pushes the game to be worth more than the sum of its parts.

The central conceit of this classic buddy team - up is that Shine offers much more than a way to dispense with enemies.

If I had to sell the central conceit of Horizon Zero Dawn to someone in two words, it would be «robot dinosaurs.»

The central conceit of the picture, that these disparate misfits should band together to stop something called a «World War,» is given a glancing look in deference to the strait - jacket constraint of the superspy / evil genius formula, all of it lent an air of the ironic when much of the purely hypothetical audience for this movie not only knows that there have been two World Wars since 1899, but something like a hundred James Bond movies.

However, I will say that I love the film's central conceit of The Pianist's Adrien Brody playing a faux - SS officer chasing down Amon Goeth from Schindler's List.

The narrative may have its clunky moments, but the central conceit of the Ted Chiang short story from which it's adapted carries the movie through, as does Amy Adams» lead performance, which surprisingly reminded me of Sigourney Weaver.

Crucial to any understanding of the central conceit of the film is a clear sense of geography and time.

Loosely based on Shakespeare's «Twelfth Night,» this comedy geared to the tweener set cleverly weaves in many of the Bard's characters and keeps the play's central conceit of a girl attempting to pass as a boy.

This is the central conceit of tonight's episode, «The Return,» in which almost every protagonist challenges the convenient narratives being fed to them and comes to accept a new and radical point of view.

So what you do is keep the central conceit of Sucker Punch — that the deeper you go into the layers of dreams or fantasy, the sluttier everything appears — and marry that with Inception's main premise, about a group of hot young «dream thieves» who go into people's subconscious to steal secrets or occasionally plant an idea.

As for the central conceit of the «Transformers» mythology: I can work up only so much enthusiasm for the idea of Transformers having dictated the course of human history from the Dark Ages onward.

The central conceit of The Death of Stalin is that what is funny is not always just funny.

The central conceit of the project, which gives it some intellectual heft and occasionally also makes it very funny, is the apparent dissonance between the characters and their worlds on the one hand and the extracts about art either voiced as dialogue or heard in voiceover, also by Blanchett (about five sources are used per school or type of art).

As was also the case 12 months ago, the team's abrupt coming together did not arrive through an abandonment of their manager's principles, as some fans had come to hope for after losing faith in the central conceit of Van Gaal's approach that prioritised the system over individuals and its «boring», possession - led style of play.

Not exact matches

While «Ant - Man» doesn't take very long getting Paul Rudd in the incredible suit, there's a very real lack of momentum that undermines the talents of the cast and the fun of the central conceit.

A would - be magical romantic comedy whose execution doesn't live up to the cleverness of its central conceit.

One of the central premises of a Dwayne Johnson action movie tends to be the conceit that his characters are physically capable but emotionally limited.

The film's central conceit is that the prisoners stand at the barred windows, flirting and sometimes conducting full - blown relationships with the inhabitants of the Najayo women's prison across the way.

Even if it is at the cost of its central conflict, BvS does work as a promo for films yet to come: there's no one who won't want to get to know Gadot's kick - ass Wonder Woman better after the credits roll, while Eisenberg's conceited Lexcorp heir is riddled with daddy issues, and feels ripe for further exploration.

The title itself is extremely straightforward but points directly at the beautiful simplicity of the film's central conceit: if singing makes you feel like a million bucks, then sing goddam it.

The Shape of Water is that, certainly, a monstrous and modest example of Man - Child wish fulfillment but moreso is it something truly greater, the dazzling level of love of craft poured into each shot displaying a filmmaker working at his absolute peak, toiling from a place of pure, unchecked passion without much thought to the fact that his central conceit is wildly off - color and potentially repulsive to some, no matter how rose - colored the glasses you're looking at it through.

It's a clever conceit on the part of director Josh Trank and screenwriter Max Landis that allows us to actually see the film's central protagonist; it also lets us see him watching himself.

The result is one of the most fearsomely original chillers of recent times, its central conceit a subtle, supple metaphor for all kinds of teenage angst, sexual trauma or any of the shadows that latch onto us when we're young, and never quite pass.

Whether or not it's accurate to portray Travers as a woman on the verge of nervous breakdown because the movie version of her books might change a minor character and inflame her daddy issues (Personally, I doubt it), the conceit, like the central fight over ideas, works as drama.

The second of three cinematic King adaptations from Frank Darabont, The Green Mile is by far the weakest of the director's efforts, too often falling into bathos, treacly sentimentality and overlong extrapolation of its central conceit.

There's nothing wrong with a little suspicious check on the downside of technology every now and again, but the way the movie dismisses its central technological conceit wholesale means that we're essentially watching characters go through the motions until events lead to a point where there's no room for any idea aside from the destruction of what mankind has wrought upon itself.

Years pass, and the movie loses even more of its grasp on the central conceit.

While there is much to admire in the film's dedication to its central conceit, many viewers quickly grew tired of this gimmick.

It is a conceit of the screenplay that we meet Carraway in a sanitarium in 1929, a few months after the stock market crash and seven years after the book's central story.

I get the central conceit, separating the public personae of Bob Dylan into distinct pseudonymous characters — Christian Bale as the folksinger Dylan, Marcus Carl Franklin as the pre-fame ramblin» Dylan, Heath Ledger as the international media star Dylan, etc. — and through them exploring the myth of Dylan by converting it into mythology.

There's little doubt that Jimmy and Judy's central visual conceit - the entire film has been shot entirely from the perspective of the two central characters - proves effective at holding the viewer at arm's length at the outset, with Furlong's almost aggressively obnoxious work as Jimmy initially exacerbating the movie's low - rent sensibilities.

But in reality, it's her book and her stories, and the central conceit is just some literary flim - flammery to convince readers — and now audiences — of an authenticity that isn't remotely in evidence.

Ironically, Ziskin reveals more of Raimi's process than Raimi does (illustrating, for instance, his dual - editor conceit, wherein he hires two people to cut the picture individually and then picks and chooses the best parts of each end product to arrive at a finished film), while Dunst — well, we've never spoken ill of her at FILM FREAK CENTRAL; let's keep it that way.

It does a good job of displaying the game's central conceit: hunting and gathering ingredients in a 2D - action space before...

More often than not these asides tend to chop the central conceit up into annoying bits and pieces of doggie chow.

Hard sci - fi fans will also be thrilled by the film's central conceit even though most of the science is bogus.

Despite all of these odd qualifiers, it's pretty simple to see why One - Punch Man is here - its system of references are pure shonen, from the Toriyama look of its initial villain to its central comedic conceit of a hero that's so over-powered, so far along in the invisible serial of power accumulation of life, that absolutely nothing is a challenge anymore.

Out of Ammo's central gameplay conceit is one of those things you feel like you thought of long ago, and yet few if any games have actually delivered on it.

I had hoped Runt of the Litter [$ 3.99] would put a new spin on the theme, with its central conceit being that you need to raise and train a war gryphon.

I really enjoy Xillia, but I also have massive problems with some of its central conceits.

The act of doubling is among the work's central conceits; contending not only with issues of material and visual replication, but also with the duplicative nature of film itself.

This is in fact part of the central conceit behind climatology: it isn't dealing with the day to day weather so much as the average behavior of the system, but it can do this only because fluctuations and unknown factors often cancel one - another out.

But it seems to me (and here's where I'll be accused of undue optimism) that virtually every millenarian belief system / movement has died for wont of evidence supporting their central conceit.