Sentences with phrase «characters more screen time»

Earlier this year, a few reshoots took place on the «Deadpool» sequel - additional filming that gave Josh Brolin's Cable and Zazie Beetz's Domino characters more screen time after strong reactions during test screenings to their characters.

Not exact matches

Critics have remarked that Ginsberg's exit would have been more compelling if the character had been given more screen - time this season, instead of being called in sporadically to deliver the odd scatological joke.

Other characters such as Allenine (brilliantly portrayed by Toby Jones) deserved far more screen time.

That would be impossible given that there are over 40 of them, and that the film is structured almost exactly like a»90s sketch - comedy show in which characters rarely share more than several minutes of screen time.

Character development is admittedly spotty, with some individuals getting little more than token screen time, but there is enough here for us to care about the core group of mutants.

None of them offer anything more than basic personality sketches; if Jack can't emerge as a full - fledged character with all that screen time, the others have no shot either.

She played a similar character the same year on the small screen, taking a memorable turn as ex-pep queen turned good - time girl Connie Bradshaw in PBS» Tales of the City (she would later reprise the role for More Tales of the City in 1998).

While some more sci - fi heavy characters lose screen time, the overall tone, atmosphere and themes help in propelling this season forward.

She eventually went on to Buffy's spin - off show, Angel, where her character got more of a back - story and more screen time.

David Harbour as Hopper is given more screen time in season 2 and I grew to love his character even more this season.

Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara deliver award - worthy turns as the two women involved in the taboo romance, and although the movie gives each character equal screen time, Mara's Therese is the more interesting of the duo.

Well, Shane Black — who played Hawkins opposite Schwarzenegger in the 1987 original — responded to a fan on Twitter that, basically, Arnold wanted more screen time than his character was originally given.

Do I wish some of the other female characters had had more screen time?

The turn - based approach Fire Emblem is famous for is gone in Fire Emblem Warriors, and in its place you'll find hordes of enemies to cut your way through (in real time, naturally), screen - filling special moves and a surprisingly deep character development system which not only allows for levelling - up, but permits you to augment each protagonist's abilities on a more granular level, such as selecting and improving their weaponry.

Thus you get stuff like the Wreckers, who even the other characters in the film describe as «assholes» who get more screen time than most of the other Autobots in the film despite not appearing until well into the second half.

With more limited screen time than they're used to and even more limited elbow room, the actors and characters (in what at least some knew would be their swan songs in these costumes) snap off one - liners and sharp remarks with an extra edge of sarcastic disdain.

So because Jennifer Lawrence is the breakout Hollywood star, Mystique, a secondary character, chews up more and more screen time and suddenly is the leader of the X-Men?

Good review dude, I'm growing more and more concerned about the way the characters fare in this film (and not in terms of life vs death, I read Krakeur's «Into Thin Air» awhile ago so I have a good idea of who makes it and who doesn't) and how much screen time Krakeur himself will have.

Following that whenever there are more than two characters on screen at one time, the game bogs down quite a bit as well.

I've had to sit through more than a few 30 - 60 second character select screens during multiplayer, and I could clearly picture the dumbfounded look on my opponent's face as they tried to pick and choose a winning team, not knowing that when going up against a player of my caliber, closing your eyes and just hitting the button six times works just fine.

It feels like each character is given equal screen time, it's unfortunate we didn't get more of Jones and Free.

It is a symptom of Marvel's oppressive world - building that so much of the film's run time is devoted to new characters like the twins, or Vision (Paul Bettany, actually having a face on screen for the first time in the franchise), or Ulysses Klaw (Andy Serkis, a villain for a movie that will not see the light of day for three more years), squeezing the interstitial moments down to little more than an afterthought.

The game allows more than 20 characters on screen at any one time, which is very nice, but this unfortunately results in a shorter draw distance and fogging effect outside a set radius.

Timothy Spall lights up the screen every time he appears and were Alastair Galbraith's Glaswegian landlord fleshed out more, he'd be a far more interesting character.

Newer characters are allowed more screen time in the new trailer especially his comic cohorts: Collossus (Andre Tricoteux), Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand) and Angel Dust (Gina Carano).

As Depp is the main box office draw, whose international fame far exceeds that of Lone Ranger portrayer Armie Hammer, the two characters have undergone a major shift in terms of their importance and screen time, with Depp not only headlining the flick, but Tonto is given more screen time and more importance to the story than ever before.

None of them materialize as substantial characters, but they still get more screen time than most of the musical acts, save for the Dead Boys, the badly behaved (even by punk standards) outfit that Kristal ill - advisedly decides to manage.

In this she seems well ahead of some of the older, more rooted characters like Sam, who spends much of her screen time comparing herself to others and bemoaning her dissatisfaction with her job and singlehood.

Their love lives are probably discussed entirely too much for Disney's comfort, but the pair gets down to brass tacks more often than not; for what it's worth, this is the first time I can recall hearing of a film getting longer as a result of the test - screening process — a lot of Bartha's performance was rescued from the cutting - room floor after preview audiences responded favourably to his character.

Zazie Beetz plays Deadpool's new ally Domino while Josh Brolin plays the time traveling, cybernetically enhanced mutant assassin known as Cable, and fans at test screenings liked the new characters so much that reshoots added even more of them to the film.

As happy as we are that the entire central cast is coming back to reprise their ridiculous roles — that is, Jason Bateman as Michael Bluth, Portia de Rossi as Lindsay, Will Arnett as Gob, Michael Cera as George - Michael, Tony Hale as Buster, David Cross as Tobias Funke, Jeffrey Tambor as George and Oscar, Alia Shawkat as Maeby, Jessica Walter as Lucille, and Ron Howard as himself — there are a few cameo characters that deserve some more screen time as well, like Charlize Theron as Rita Leeds, Henry Winkler as Barry Zuckerkorn, Bob Einstein as Larry Middleman, and Ben Stiller as Tony Wonder.

Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson), as a lead character, has never been all that interesting, and some of his more colorful friends (Mater — Larry the Cable Guy) are given very little screen time.

As indicated by the tearful remonstrance of the ex-wife character represented by Cate Blanchett, emotional attachments are doomed to become less concrete or clearly defined, the highs fewer and far between (take the screen time give to Poots vs. the late appearance of Lucas), calling for more extreme measures (Natalie Portman's adulterous character), but always prone to fail since the pursuit of happiness is merely a debauched, self - serving fantasy.

The more than can be said about the entire cast the better but it's also worth crediting the supporting players, with each character, no matter how minuscule their screen time, making an indelible impression on the film at large.

Rotten: A movie undone by its formulaic plot conventions, and its need to give its star more screen time than his characters merits.

Executive producer Steven Spielberg worked tirelessly to negotiate the use of more than 140 beloved cartoon characters in the film, making this the first time that Warner Bros. and Disney characters shared the screen and the last time Mel Blanc voiced Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck before his death in 1989.

They're joined by random fodder characters and Bill Nighy's Hephaestus, a fun character who needed more screen time.

Christian Bale as lead Russell Baze is a solid presence in the film and Bale always delivers in some way or another but Russell is a strange character though that we never truly feel an affection towards him the way in which we need to and his relationship with the severely underutilised Zoe Saldana as Lena who like the great but short shifted Willem Dafoe as low level crime player John Petty needed some more screen time and their arcs just never play out into a satisfying whole.

While the first film focused largely on Wade Wilson, the sequel looks to give more screen - time to some strong female characters like Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Domino.

Also seeing more screen time is Matt Damon (The Bourne Supremacy, Stuck on You), whose character, Linus, wants to be a leader within the group, although the Ocean boys soon show him how deep he is over his head at every turn.

Either way, many of these events and characters are left out or altered purposely in order to tell the story in a smoother way while also getting Depp more screen time since he's in a couple of scenes that he actually shouldn't be in.

There are so many sub-plots squeezed into a two hours that I almost felt that the film could have benefitted from an extra 30 minutes or so as certain characters needed more screen time and more development.

However, there are certain characters I wished had more screen time, namely those played by Tatum, Ralph Fiennes and Tilda Swinton.

But it seems, from a read of the script and hearing things here and there, that James Franco's performance as Milk's lover, Scott Smith, is going to be the one to watch as he enjoys much more screen time than Brolin and obviously has more of a supporting connection to the main character throughout.

The racial prejudice that Annie and Sarah Jane encounter throughout the film is confronting, and the amount of screen time dedicated to exploring their problems is interesting — and a deliberate attempt by Sirk to draw attention away from the more insignificant problems of his white characters.

I was also happy to see Ice Cube get more screen time in the sequel, and his character ends up being a major factor in two of the funniest moments in the film.

Movie should be Called «Ford, featuring Godzilla» shitty actor had more screen time than the title character.

Supporting characters are marginally better off this film, with Pepper Potts given much more screen time — although how it is used still disappoints — while Rhodes seems more accessible in this film.

The film runs at a very Bollywood - lean 104 minutes, and while this is in many ways a good thing, the film could have used more screen time to properly cap off that concern, which as it stands is more or less tied up by a less than satisfying voiceover, which prevents Sameer from ever truly redeeming himself as any sort of sympathetic character.

The Asgardians really should have squeezed in more screen - time and character development, making me happy that it seems like the sequel will take this direction.