Sentences with phrase «elaborate set pieces»

We are planning to have more elaborate set pieces and crazy bosses and goons.

Uncharted 2 received universal acclaim for its elaborate set pieces, character design, storytelling, graphics, technical innovation, and gameplay mechanics.

Like many point - and - click adventures, the game centers around a number of elaborate set pieces wherein you must acquire items to solve environmental puzzles and move the story forward.

The same way Wes Anderson serves up elaborate set pieces — not to mention elaborate sets — Solondz revels in rusty minivans and moth - eaten couches.

It's also hard to not see the missed opportunities on screen sacrificed for elaborate set pieces.

It's a tremendously funny film, due more to its sustained deadpan tone than the deployment of elaborate set pieces or scene - stealing side players.

Haneke employs long takes for maximal dramatic consequence, not unlike action filmmakers use elaborate set pieces to stage impressive visual effects.

The few quiet, dialogue - driven scenes are far outweighed by the more elaborate set pieces, though speech never needs to fight to be heard.

Yes, elaborate set pieces are expected but the magic lies in the small moments of character discovery — through humor or insight or creativity — that the audience learns to invest in the protagonist's plight.

Okja is similar to «Snowpiercer» in this regard, where inherently elaborate set pieces are made more so, always in gratifying ways.

And the whole is often more rewarding in its throwaway moments than in any of the more elaborate set pieces.

Plenty of chase sequences and elaborate set pieces fill this brisk and breezy film, but the story itself feels a little thin.

The two narrative threads collide with Taylor's most elaborate set piece, as Thor fights simultaneously between universes, a battle that is undone by Thor's own indestructibility.

Not exact matches

The chase sequence involving an elaborate single take stands out as one of Spielberg's greatest action set pieces.

To this end we set up a ten - member «Commission of Strategy,» which did a notable piece of work in elaborating a complete plan for revising the church's structure and forms of expression in the light of the changes in society.

Ostensibly the same again, then, LocoRoco 2 nevertheless pulls its charm tight and burrows deeper into the mechanics, level layouts and set - pieces, presenting more elaborate rewards in visuals and gameplay, and doing a better job of sharing them with you so that you don't always feel as though you're searching for cuddly needles in a Teletubbies haystack.

It all culminates in an elaborate and brilliant visual set piece involving a cell phone and a mime named Marcel.

What we get is a collection of moderately violent action set - pieces untroubled by humour or broader coherence... Forster, who directed the Bond film Quantum of Solace, has done his best to piece together a story from these incompatible parts, but the final product has an elaborate uselessness about it, like a broken teapot glued back together with the missing pieces replaced by parts of a vacuum cleaner.

For «Mission: Impossible,» director Brian De Palma (an odd choice, considering all the gory films in his mostly R - rated filmography, most famously «The Untouchables») also has three elaborate action set - pieces — a suspenseful caper set at a posh party, an intense break - in at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., and a ridiculous but nonetheless thrilling chase on top of a bullet train that is speeding from London to Paris.

And while no one is really clamoring for any more of Peter Jackson's Tolkien - fueled «world building,» few doubt Jackson's skill with elaborate set - pieces and action sequences.

When there is no elaborate CGI action set piece on screen to wow the audience that is when the cracks really begin to show.

Similarly, his endings have necessarily become more and more arbitrary, climaxing a series of elaborate set - pieces rather than resolving plot and character.

It was all just an elaborate set up for an epiphany, and a very convenient one at that considering each of the places he went where he encountered zombies offered him the same piece of evidence that he was able to notice among the chaos.

Because the production values are first - rate, with mammoth set pieces, rampant destruction and elaborate stunt action.

The visuals are a little snappier and perhaps more refined (as one would expect), and some of the set pieces and dramatic aerial shots are a little more elaborate and punchier, and that's about it.

The rival agents keep up their macho competitiveness and Vikander's Gaby rolls her eyes at their juvenile antics, but in between we get elaborate set - pieces: foot chases and car races and physical stunts with real humans and physical objects rather than the manipulated pixels of CGI.

The first is the giallo, films indicated by their impossibly convoluted mystery plots and elaborate set - piece murders; the second, of which Suspiria is one, is the «supernatural,» distinguished by their surreality and lack of a traditional narrative.

Au contraire, Danny can be a ruthless lawbreaker when the occasion calls for it — as in an early set - piece where she and a bunch of her friends pull off an elaborate shoplifting scam at Paris» Galeries Lafayette department store.

The film is flashy in all the right ways, its dreamy and dazzling costumes punctuated with spirited and elaborate staging and set pieces.

With the hallmarks of the Italian horror sub-genre joyously honoured (the bizarre mystery plot, the elaborate murder set - piece, the lurid set design and cinematography), Delplanque's feature debut is impossibly beautiful to behold and executed with admirable amounts of artistic gore and disturbing eroticism.

Alexander Payne movies aren't often known for their elaborate visual set pieces.

The film was well done with elaborate sets, songs, set - pieces, and fine acting overall.

The game carries you along at break - neck speed, with the most elaborate of set - pieces, gripping narrative, and shootouts with constant hordes of Serbian mercenaries.

Characters like Emmet can use instruction manuals to build elaborate set - pieces in a simple match mini-game, can use a jackhammer to clear cracked obstacles, break walls, or clean up floors, and can use a wrench to fix broken objects.

Instead, we're left with an Uncharted game that takes everything the series does so well and amplifies it - bigger levels, more elaborate set - pieces and more - while subverting many of the tropes the series has come to rely on over the last decade.

While control over the lead character's movement on a 2D plane is down to the player, motion through 3D space is automatic, providing a tour of a range of elaborate, meticulously presented set pieces.

In his elaborate, surreal set pieces, banal objects and consumer goods serve as both actors and props.

Known for videos depicting women engaging in elaborate systems of production that often harvest their own body, Mika shows us the set of her latest piece (and Biennial installation), «Cheese» and tells us the backstory of making the video.