Sentences with phrase «characters move the story along»

The characters move the story along and with the director and the actor the costume designer helps to set the film's emotional tone in a visual way.

- Publishers Weekly «The amusing byplay between the main characters moves the story along.

Not exact matches

Like the 1997 Austro - German production, I was unquestionably distanced from the actions out of a human need to dissociate with the stories and characters who move along in Haneke's violent, pseudo-sexually abhorrent world.

Overall, though LaBute's dialogue is very good and the actors are fantastic, there isn't a substantive story or a guiding theme to move the film along; it remains a character study, stagnant, like many of the lives it depicts.

Why isn't the story moved along and we find out more about these characters as the movie plays out?

But to move the stories of the new characters along I for sure think Captain America has to die.

On the one hand, the new scenarios and characters can keep the story moving along without things getting too bogged down.

We don't really get any sprinkle of indication he exists in the first act, which makes him a placed character to move along the story.

Peele's vision for a thriller doesn't involve characters making terrible decisions to move the story along.

Eastwood's Noelle character is portrayed as villainous just as much as she is portrayed as virtuous, and indeed as the movie moves along she is seen more and more as the villain in her own story.

Thankfully, the movie doesn't rely too heavily on the strength of its characters to move the story along, but when your lead is as bad as Peck is here, it's hard to ignore.

He has to drag out some of the predictable character conflicts to keep things moving along, but in the end the story with which he's working is simply not that compelling.

Coming into any sequel blindly can make that experience tough to sit through without getting too confused or losing interest; fortunately because this is a feel - good movie and the ensemble cast has strong chemistry — it wouldn't surprise me one bit if half the time Terrence Howard isn't even in character while cameras are rolling — the story actually moves along at a comfortable pace, enough to make certain loose ends easy to ignore (again, if you're coming in without seeing the original).

The campaign is spaced across five missions where you fight our old friends the Hive, meet characters previously teased in obscure lore files, and which moves the overall Destiny story along... if only by an inch.

Marvel movies have always concentrated on moving the big picture along with the stories of each character and all of that will come full circle in Avengers Infinity War.

Language, narration techniques, settings, dialogue, and characters should help move the story along.

Use dialogue — not as a break from narrative — but to show more of your characters, move the story along and more.

While the story grows confusing at times, the only discordant notes are a couple of narratives that focus on fringe characters who appear to exist only to move the story along.

Well researched, smooth writing, both likeable and despicable characters move this story right along.

Specifically, when a teenage boy narrator (like Ariel in The Alex Crow or Austin in Grasshopper Jungle) views a female character as one - dimensional, uninteresting or seemingly existing only to move his own story along, it's the character talking, not Smith himself.

Hill has the ability to move a story along quickly, considering the length, with involving secondary characters and poetic prose.

The author spent much time and exhaustive effort to put together a true story that at times moves along like fiction, and presented characters that had me totally engaged.

To call DeWitt the lead character would be a disservice to Elizabeth (a teenage girl who has been trapped in a tower in Columbia for most of her life), as she is one of the major forces that keeps the story moving along, and it's as much her story as it is DeWitt's.

All of the series» previous Shinobi girls return with a host of upgraded moves to master, and new playable characters offer more challenges to conquer, along with a story that's equal parts sexy and shocking, serious and scandalous, busty and bouncy.

The story moves along at a wonderful pace, with characters you grow to care about.

I found myself caring for the characters in the game and the story moves along at a nice pace.

Characters are important to help move the game's story along.

with Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, adding a handful of great new characters, «Shadow» versions of the cast, extending the story mode, and a variety of new features and modes along with the expected balance changes and move updates.

Each new character will bring with them a full move set, an arcade ladder story with ending along with two fatalities each.

Character animation appears more fluid than the original Alpha and characters continue to occasionally pause before a fight to briefly chat in order to move the story along.

Tipping the phone left or right moves the story along, while leaving it flat can create long pauses; tapping the phone directs the characters to look towards or away from one another; stroking or shaking the phone makes the currently pictured character angrier or calmer.

The player character moves along from one point to another, sometimes joined by a man's voice that narrates a discombobulated overall story.

All the previous shinobi girls return with a host of upgraded moves to master, and new playable characters offer more challenges to conquer, along with a story that's equal parts sexy and shocking, serious and scandalous, busty and bouncy.

The story mode is done well with the characters Julie and Peter who discover the cube and move the story along between the 50 playable levels.

The campaign is spaced across five missions where you fight our old friends the Hive, meet characters previously teased in obscure lore files, and which moves the overall Destiny story along... if only by an inch.

She'll play a housekeeper or a maid quite frequently, or a waitress or a nurse, and kind of have to build a life around this very limited fringe character that exists to move the story along.