Sentences with phrase «dramatic beats»

Yeah, the manga is great and I love how it uses those teaching moments to make the downtime between the action and dramatic beats really interesting.

An extended sequence early in the film, in which Garvey reveals for Victor the desperation of his existence, provides McDowell and Carradine the kind of dramatic beats only the finest of thespians could pull off; both are mesmerising in the scene.

In these films, the world has usually turned against humanity in some way — a zombie apocalypse, an alien invasion, or simply the indomitability of nature itself — and the relative resourcefulness of characters who were previously reliant on now - absent tools or technologies provide the major dramatic beats as outside forces close in, driving these characters into action.

Unfortunately Washington's direction (this is his third film as a director, after Antwone Fisher and The Great Debaters) tends to signpost the script's dramatic beats too anxiously in a way that can make the film feel emotionally as well as physically airless.

THE D - TRAIN starring Jack Black and James Marsden is a polarizing film that combines comedic tropes and dark dramatic beats.

Though the film has the necessary dramatic beats, it's never overly - serious and feels like a child's imagination brought to life (a true statement, considering the movie's origins).

Those little crumb - snatchers got under my skin»), and at least one credible dramatic beat.

The scenes detailing Hiccup's growing relationship with his lost mother and some darker late - in - the - game moments are welcome, but besides hitting dramatic beats almost as according to a pre-set stopwatch, any growing sense of conflict or tone is habitually punctured thanks to self - conscious bids at keeping the kiddies invested.

From the look of the asylum - set period piece The Institute, directors James Franco and Pamela Romanowsky appear to have taken their visual cues and dramatic beats more from 2012's The Raven than, say, The Innocents or The Blood Beast Terror, as every scene has been directed with seeming anonymity.

But, Mark and Jay encouraged us to improvise so much, even in these very dramatic beats and scenes.

The biggest problem is act three, which builds to a zombie invasion thats not only surprisingly dull but, unlike earlier, struggles to mesh with Austens dramatic beats.

The dramatic beats come and go quickly, with gasps and laughs piling on top of each other at the speed of a spinning skater.

Honeycutt isn't so diplomatic, offering straight out that Ferrell «is not quite up to his first dramatic role» and that the performance is «too one - note... Ferrell isn't able to track the ups - and - downs in the story's dramatic beats.

To lay my biases bare: I'm sick of Marvel's safely middle - of - the - road output, undermining every dramatic beat with a joke, and I've always enjoyed DC comics more than Marvel ones.

The packaging may be rather generic — this is a period drama about social justice, with all the dramatic beats you'd expect — but the writing is wonderfully nuanced.

Not the musical numbers, the dramatic beats.

None of the comedy works, however, which is sad considering the film's dramatic beats are so excellently handled.

Ultimately, the movie needed a stronger overall structure and more defined scenes to allow the dramatic beats to come through the improvised dialogue more clearly (akin to Mike Leigh, another British filmmaker, who shoots fully realized scripts built through improvisation in the rehearsal process).

Actually, to be fair, each dramatic beat is perfectly placed, and each event cleverly ups the stakes.