Sentences with phrase «earned emotional resonance»

Yes, I think the games haven't earned the emotional resonance.

The script, from James C. Strouse, has some good lines and solid jokes, but otherwise fails to generate interest, undone by some too cute by half plot developments in the third act that cut off any earned emotional resonance at the knees.

This «in case you missed our movie» moment caps the movie's strained but hollow attempts to earn emotional resonance, and the mishmash finale, featuring a coda of characters we know nothing about followed by an epilogue followed by yet another coda, frustrates as a further reminder of how little we care about what has happened.

Not exact matches

Encounters remains the perfect prototype for the true Spielberg formula: primal fear, emotional resonance, and a sense of earned awe.

For emotional resonance, there was Van (Zazie Beetz), ostensibly Earn's best friend and on - again / off - again girlfriend, but also the mother of his baby daughter and someone always telling him he needed to wake up and be responsible.