Sentences with phrase «character moments like»

Though I did somewhat miss having the action broken up by small chunks of character moments like in Metroid Fusion, the gameplay takes center stage here, and in a Metroid game, that's all you really need.

The original film honed in on strong character moments like when Hawkins tells Billy a dirty joke, or when Mac kills a scorpion on his arm.

Not exact matches

Indeed, Levy's testimonial is a bit like that famous moment in The Graduate when a family friend of Dustin Hoffman's character earnestly says: «I want to say one word to you, just one word: plastics.»

She is delicate (like a barracuda) in her maneuvers around the third main character in Leaf's drama, a graduate student who is writing her dissertation about the moment in 1973 when Margolies lost an election for the presidency of a national feminist association to a rival supported by Feinberg.

I feel like this Doctor shows the underside of the previous Doctor's character / personality that we used to only see in glimpses or unguarded moments as his actual self.

So I guess you would be fine with a student at a high school graduation getting up to the podium and saying «I would like to take this moment to reflect on how strength of will and character helped all of us to graduate today, and please join with me for a moment of reflection at how amazingly the human race has evolved, to this point of passing on our collective knowledge to each new class, and to hope that we add to it, for if we do not, the future may be very dim.

There's a scene in the film where Krasinski's character and Emily Blunt's character (who are husband and wife in the film as well as real life), share a romantic moment together as they both wear one earbud, and listen to a song — JUST LIKE JIM AND PAM DID.

Gattuso is known for being a bit of a character and it is quotes like this that make him one of the most entertaining managers in the game at the moment.

I'm not sure how many points they are behind but they still have great quality, great characters, great leaders [like] John Terry, Gary Cahill and players who won't settle for what is going on at the moment so I expect them to come back strong.

I thought about all the very many moments I've had just like this, with a somewhat changing cast of characters as the kids grow and things change - in the sixteen years of being a Mama now.

«We knew from the moment we met Todd there was no other character quite like him and whether or not you agree with his parenting style, he has certainly struck a chord with our viewers as their new guilty pleasure,» said Heather Olander, USA's senior veep of alternative programming.

Featuring characters like Lightning McQueen, Mater, Finn McMissile, and many more, these stickers are the perfect way to relive your favorite moments from the movie... right on your walls!

I am somewhat shy at first moment, I really like the rp, cosplay, I'm a very honest person, I identify with the character Alibaba magi.

When it's able to create amazing moments of tension and terror, like the fantastic season opener, and at the same time being able to flesh out some characters in the process, that's when it works the best.

Characters that gave the earlier films their spark - the eager - to - please Donkey, one of Eddie Murphy's finest vocal moments, the debonair Puss in Boots, a great Antonio Banderas achievement - are wheeled on and off for what seem like guest spots.

As long as Phillips doesn't slow down, The Hangover grooves along like a racecar, but occasionally the story requires a plot transition or a quiet, character - driven moment, and in those moments the movie's ferocious momentum threatens to leak away.

Most of the characters shown in the moments to follow — as an orb - like shield slowly forms around the castle — have either played a key role in one entry in the series or have been in the background through many of them.

Yet these little pit stops feel more like time killers than effective character moments: it's obvious that Dodge and Penny will eventually develop feelings for one another, but our two leads just don't have enough chemistry to pull off the illusion.

There's little doubt, too, that the film's hands - off vibe is perpetuated by Abdalla's sleepy, far - from - charismatic turn as the one - note central character, and it's clear that The Narrow Frame of Midnight's few moments of electricity are thanks entirely to Choutri's captivating, Vincent Cassel - like performance.

Johansson, so astounding in Match Point and Girl with a Pearl Earring, is better off than Hunt, but she also has a few moments where it feels like she's acting instead of letting her character's emotions come naturally.

It's nothing like a safely commercial film: like Ex Machina, it asks viewers to be patient with its mysteries, and with the relatively subtle emotional responses of a group of characters who are all clearly repressing their fear and frustration, right up until the moments where they explode.

Yes, the events leading up to the heist definitely have their moments, but the amount of banter and comedy between the characters throughout the heist works so well, that I feel like I'm rewatching that sequences play out in my head, long after I witnessed it in theatres.

The type of character I have long been waiting to see onscreen, he's both familiar and novel, and his presence gives way to moments heretofore unthinkable in mainstream cinema, like the museum scene, which would make Martinican poet Aimé Césaire proud, as it seems like the direct illustration of a paragraph from «Discourse on Colonialism.»

Although there are some moments that seem like filler, this movie contains constant humor that's actually much more clever than you'd think, likable characters both protagonists and antagonists, and animation that's faithful to its predecessor.

Although there are some moments that seem like filler, this movie contains constant humor that's actually much more clever than you'd think, likable characters

Like its namesake, the film only achieves greatness for a few brief moments, and the best things about it (e.g. Janney's character) are seldom allowed to expand beyond the stereotypes that make them so easy to understand, but Gillespie's biopic sticks the landing because it never forgets one of its very first lines: Tonya Harding is America, and she always has been.

The film's uncomplicated plotting allows plenty of space for goofy little throwaway gags — like a running joke about the young McGregor's feeble attempts at birdwatching — that other films might have cut to make way for various subplots or emotional character moments.

There's a great moment during an awkward game of charades where Goodman's character can't conceive of calling a woman by the term «woman,» instead relying upon patronizing terms like «girl» or «princess.»

While there are moments of humour, the film doesn't take the characters forward from where we left them in Shrek 2, feeling more like the next instalment of an episodic TV series than a genuinely worthwhile sequel.

Season 1 of Kimmy Schmidt does indeed have its laugh out loud moments, however at times Kimmy herself becomes too much like a late - season 30 Rock character.

Just like the original, it has its good share of flaws; but also just like the original, there are moments and characters so human that you can't help but connect with them on a deeply personal level.

Early in the film when John Malkovich's character makes a crack about a visual and visceral betrayal, it does sound like a deliberately self - aware moment.

Like in the earlier films where the space for personal monologue and storytelling is expanded for even very minor characters, Elvira's brutally honest tape - recorded interview in the final moments combines with the image for one of Fassbinder's most moving and penetrating moments in one of his best films.

I really hope this movie works like music biopics where an offhanded comment from a supporting character leads to a Eureka moment.

It's the combination of character development, action and pure emotion that drives the film, where even secondary characters have motivations; a wonderful moment a lesser film would have cut for time finds the shapeshifting Mystique (Rebecca Romijn) propositioning Wolverine, at first disguising herself as Wolvie's crush, Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), then purring, «No one has left scars like you.»

The movie is weakened by what is easily the worst villain of the Marvel Cinematic Universe thus far, and some of the supporting characters are criminally underused (like Sif and the Warriors Three), but there are some really great moments throughout.

However, those insightful moments are few and far between, squeezing out silly shenanigans and gross - out moments to qualify as a comedy, and enough shots of Jackman-esque Australian actor O'Loughllin shirtless to make such a drab and underwritten character seem like he has some appeal romantically.

He flings paint on the frame like it's going out of style and this time he does it not just with whimsy but with whimsy in character as we follow a plane of eccentric characters going through a weird shared moment as they all are currently on drugs and probably about to die as the plane can not land and is running low on gas.

Not only can this lead to some visually entertaining moments (some of the armor looks insane), but it also makes the character customization choices feel more like an actual part of the experience.

Streep's early scenes play like a bit of warm - up for both the character and the star, the nasty shtick beginning to take hold in loud, scurrilous moments that build until we reach the big dinner scene, a sort of decrepit centerpiece for the whole picture during which Violet insults every damn person at the table and especially aims to tear each of her daughters apart.

All but one offer brief extension to existing material, giving us a few more moments of sparsely - seen minor characters like Sebastian's Moroccan friend and Charles» wife.

We get glimpses of characters in small privileged moments, like driving their cars or eating a meal.

But the more Molly's Game tries to decide what its story is about rather than just telling it, the more the film feels like it's trying to «solve» Molly rather than portray her, to the point where its two big emotional moments involve Molly being sat down and informed about her own daddy issues by one male character, and getting passionately defended by another, her lawyer (Idris Elba), while she stays silent.

Fascinating at certain moments, especially when Lewis is exploring his character's grief and bitterness, it still feels like a work in progress.

American Pie 2 is recommended only for those who liked the first film for the moments of crass humor and could care less about the characters or their romantic interests.

Naturally the directors have to pick and chose characters to focus on, but I felt like almost everyone got a good line or moment to shine.

There were several times during this film I thought, you know if this was just a mini series and this whole character's storyline had been mapped out over an hour, this final moment would have me going like the end of an episode of Lost.

And I appreciated the deliberate pace of the story, as I like it when the character reveals occur at the right moment and time, as opposed to all at once in an explosion of exposition.

But I like these quiet, character - driven moments.»

Along the way, we're privy to countless funny and touching moments with the characters who populate their world, from a closeted taxi driver to an aging Cherokee who doesn't like his name to an outraged Armenian mother - in - law.