Sentences with phrase «characters vying»

This is the best title for the system at this point in time, either for one player or multiple players, though it will take some getting used to when you have two or more characters vying for limited platforming space.

With so many mutant characters vying for screen time in the ensemble (s), we knew many major characters from Marvel Comics wouldn't get much to do, especially with star Hugh Jackman describing the project as three movies in one.

One of the problems with the film, which held true in the 1980s, when the G.I. Joe franchise entertained kids through TV cartoon shows and comic books, is that there are too many characters vying for too little screen time.

SING features more than 65 songs as it follows the musical aspirations of a diverse group of characters all vying for the top spot in the world's biggest singing competition.

Arguably there are too many characters vying for story time, but several players make an impression.

But the novelty of this has certainly worn off a bit and in the interests of both retaining fan favorites and introducing new personalities, this third film feels a little crammed with characters all vying for the same kind of calculated jokes.

The dogma that has been more or less parroted by the entire cast of characters vying for the Republican nomination is that government's function is minimal and finite: to provide security of property.

The action and jokes get launched at you thick and fast as 6 main characters all vie for our amusement.

Anime - style characters vie for magical control of the realm in an engrossing tale.

Not exact matches

At a time of unprecedented transition in the Christian Movement, when (as George Orwell once put it) «the little orthodoxies of the right and the left vie with one another for possession of our souls,» it is necessary to assert both the modesty and the complex, nuanced character of Christian faith and theology against the false certainties of true belief, ideology and religious simplism.

In 100 characters: Researchers uncover vying forces originating from climate warming to cause a shift in the jet stream

Closing a deal to purchase Central Park's Tavern on the Green from Angela Lansbury's character, Mrs. Van Gundy, vies for the attention he gives to the penguins he promises to let Billy keep as a birthday present.

The vast central cast vie for screen time leaving fringe characters feeling completely indistinct and redundant.

An exercise in gratuitousness that's fitful by design, Paul Schrader's Dog Eat Dog avoids any relationship between character psychology and visual style; they jab against each other, angrily vying for attention, as a nihilistic commentary on crime movies and genre stories.

You don't have to be a big Sirk fan to get wrapped up in both the sumptuous colour scheme, in which Haynes» characters» clothes vie with a glowing Connecticut autumn, or the taboos of the time which so cruelly trap its likeable characters.

Bella Donna Boudreaux is reportedly the role that those on the shortlist are vying for, a character who first appeared in X-Men Vol.2 # 8 -LSB-...]

Godard makes it a mix of character study, social commentary and street tragedy broken into twelve distinct tableaux (the full French title is Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux), many of them composed of carefully arranged long takes by Raoul Coutard.

Get a closer look at the good and evil mutants vying for world supremacy in 10 character posters for X-Men: Apocalypse, in theaters this May.

With not a single named character, Hill's noir is populated with monikers and soubriquets all reminiscent of Prohibition - era gangsters, a world ruled by people all vying for the same cocktail of money and power.

Much like the character he was vying to play he had to prove that he could physically and mentally alter himself into that of a professional boxer.

In true ensemble style, the first 15 minutes introduces a host of characters (and an unbelievable cast), including annoying jock Cully (Chris Pratt), who sees the reunion as a chance to redeem himself, Reeves (Oscar Isaac), the rock star who is there for one person in particular, Olivia (Aubrey Plaza), who is newly married to Garrity (Brian Geraghty), whose past was a mystery to her and to complete the gang, and the childish duo of Marty (Justin Long) and AJ (Max Minghella), who both vie for the attention of popular party girl Sam (Ari Graynor).

With so many personalities vying for screen time, everyone hams up their thinly defined characters to play funnier than they really are.

The novel explodes into an epic as an extraordinary cast of characters from both history and imagination begin to emerge, all vying to get their hands on the ever - elusive Villa.

Everything from choosing your character's race and physical appearance, determining whether to focus on magic, melee or stealth combat (or a combination of the three), aligning yourself with vying factions and progressing through the main story is left entirely open.

Taking place almost a millennium before the events of Skyrim, the main narrative of ESO consists of your character setting out to end the vile machinations of the Daedric Prince Molag Bal as well as to seize control of the imperial throne, which has been vied over by three different factions since the land's former leader vacated it.

Accommodating up to four local players or a dozen combatants over Xbox Live, this deviation permits the game's enormous roster of friendly and enemy characters to vie for supremacy.

It can not be denied that the characters are what draw you into experience The Walking Dead to begin with, but after that they will never let you go and will always vie for your attention and heartfelt emotion in an impressively well written and appropriately balanced mix of emotions and characters that aptly play off each other.

Honest Hearts introduces two new factions, known as the New Canaaite Missionary and a character known as the Burning Man... both of which vie for control over the park.

While most are simple and fun — like Supremacy, which throws all of the games features into the mix as player's vie for control points, and Heroes vs. Villains, in which random player's become the aforementioned hero characters and try to eliminate the other team's heroes — but a number of the game modes are just run - of - the - mill shooter cliches.