Sentences with phrase «dramatic story beat»

The one poor turn is a dramatic story beat near the end, which feels out of place in a game that's otherwise so self - aware and goofy.

Not exact matches

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.

When the dance is finally beat, Robert Baker... or Alabama, there's something endearing enough about the pretty points in cinematography and score work, touching occasions in entertainingly well - paced direction, interesting spots in a colorful story, and across - the - board decent performances - especially the one by Evan Rachel Wood - for the final product to border on decent, ultimately falling under the overwhelming weight of the glaring tonal and narrative incoherencies, flat humor, dramatic contrivances, problematic themes, even more problematic leads, ridiculous story and onslaught of clichés which render Andrew Fleming's «Barefoot» an occasionally charming, but mostly mediocrely misguided romantic dramedy.

The game's opening and ending pack dramatic, cinematic and pleasingly surprising story beats, and touch on some seriously dark and horrific stuff.

Outstanding Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special • «A Day Late and a Dollar Short» (Lifetime Networks) • «American Horror Story: Freak Show» (FX) • «Drumline: A New Beat» (VH1) • «The Gabby Douglas Story» (Lifetime Networks) • «The Trip to Bountiful» (Lifetime Networks)

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.

The film will be a «character based comedy with dramatic and political overtones» and tells the story of the famous 1973 tennis match dubbed the Battle of the Sexes, where a 29 year - old King played and beat former male champ Bobby Riggs after the latter spent many years stating how the female game was inferior the the males.

If you see it, notice the transparent effort made to render dramatic and full of import the minor pulse beats of... not even a story, but a thin sliver of a story.

I don't expect much in the way of story from my beat»em ups, but playing a game the dramatic moments of which seem authored by a group of awkward, sex - obsessed high schoolers just doesn't work for me.

, play through a dramatic story with a diverse cast of characters to meet, golf challenges to beat, upgrades to earn and equipment to collect.

The dramatic moments in Fates are largely engrossing, even if many of the story beats are eye - roll - inducing, forcing you to confront tough moral decisions and tactical choices throughout the adventure.