Sentences with phrase «dramatic beats as»

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.

Not exact matches

The 2015 - 16 college basketball season ended in the most dramatic fashion possible, with Kris Jenkins knocking down a buzzer - beating three - pointer in the national championship, as the Villanova Wildcats defeated the North Carolina Tar Heels.

The only tournament moment as dramatic as this winning shot to beat the Vols...

How they have loved to poke fun and laugh at Arsenal in recent years as we failed to win any major piece of silverware from the 2005 FA cup win over Manchester United on penalties until that dramatic fightback from 2 - 0 down to beat Hull City at Wembley last May.

Debutant Eric Dier scored a dramatic injury - time winner to get Mauricio Pochettino's era at Tottenham off to a winning start as they beat London rivals West Ham 1 - 0.

While these incidents may not be as «dramatic as being beaten», he contends that «it's another form of violence that's more subliminal».

And it's written as a feel - good story with an inspirational take - home message: People who work off the beaten track, in both the geographic and biological sense, often make dramatic contributions to the «remarkable ecosystem underlying scientific discovery,» he notes.

The idea is that, should the mood strike, a performer may add a beat mid-bar as though choked - up with emotion, their dramatic license with the material thus extended liberally and their performance, we are told, made immeasurably better and more real.

The dramatic scenes are hilariously ridiculous (often unintentionally so); many of the performances feel stilted and off - beat; and the combination of 3D visual design and an attempt to use more on - location settings (as opposed to sound stage or green screen) results in moments that feel unusually amateurish for The Wachowskis.

That approach includes focusing the spotlight on Evans» character (who leads a rebellion aboard a futuristic train that houses much of humanity in the film's wintery dystopian setting), in order to better utilize his star power as a selling point - in addition to emphasizing the movie's action beats, as accompanied by the expected dramatic musical cues in the post-Inception age of trailers.

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.

Webb struggles to find the film's tone as its comedic beats seem to hit most of the time but not without an awkward blend of dramatic flare.

After Resident Evil 7, another dramatic reinterpretation of the RE formula, it seems as though its heart is still beating.

While there isn't anything particularly original about the core plot, the dramatic and comedic beats, as well as the character depth, make for a well - executed and mature film that manages to be enjoyable and thoughtful.

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.

In Before Dawn I thought the generic horror / action beats let down the more impressive dramatic sequences, whereas in Bait I felt it worked better as a thriller than anything else.

The film finds dramatic visuals, an invaluable and often challenging part of any documentary, for its conclusion, as the profiled families attend public lotteries where they hope to beat the long odds of getting into a high - performing charter school whose applicants may outnumber its vacancies by more than ten times.

On July 14, an estimated 20,000 people, mostly students, too to the streets of Santiago to protest the neoliberal attacks on public education and higher education, only to be met with water cannons and tear gas, as well as police beatings which were caught on dramatic videos.

Yesterday, a localizer for the publisher XSEED took a dramatic stance on what he saw as potential censorship, asking his company to remove his name from the credits of the upcoming JRPG Akiba's Beat after the developers removed a controversial phrase involving the KKK from the game.