Sentences with phrase «emotional beats»

The trailer does feel like it walks you through all of the plot and emotional beats of the story, but I could be mistaken.

If viewers don't feel connected to a character because of a lack of development, it's difficult to have a response to emotional beats in their story arc.

The film hits all of the right emotional beats to make this one heck of a ride.

Castle was never an award - winning, hard - hitting drama, but it hit so many emotional beats and showed characters with true resonance and growth.

It should enhance the subtle emotional beats that drive the story forward and support keeping the audience engaged.

There are a couple of attempts at emotional beats, but even those have crude jokes flying at a mile a minute.

The expected nature of these beats makes the film less surprising, and thus makes the story less engaging — and that leaves less room for its final emotional beats to hit home.

But there are enough amusing bits, lively visuals, cute music cues and nice emotional beats to carry the day.

In planning out each level, we used a series of index cards representing emotional beats.

There are similar emotional beats hit, but Everett, while watchable as the prancing Happy Prince, can not hold a candle to Geoffrey Rush's insidious Sade.

Rom - coms may be formulaic, hitting specific story, character, and emotional beats with utter and complete predictability, but for some (possibly many) moviegoers there's value, maybe even comfort, in that predictability.

Based on the short story Jambala Tree by Monica Arac de Nyeko, the first Kenyan film to play the festival is «just good enough to give its modest intentions a historic purpose, bringing fresh context to an old formula while hitting the expected emotional beats,» according to Eric Kohn of Indiewire.

And though Blue Sky is no Pixar (Coco is still playing in theaters, if you want to see what real animation looks like), director Carlos Saldanha (with the studio since Ice Age) and his team do a credible job presenting the big emotional beats of the narrative.

Perhaps «economic» sounds like too clinical a term to use when talking about character development, but the way Horikoshi is able to simultaneously give two characters great emotional beats without making them feel similar or repetitive is an excellent skill to have when creating a comic such as this.

However, for genre fans, it remains a respectable entry, even though it can be clunky at times, especially in a climax that feels like it is missing a few emotional beats, and an epilogue that seems to be MIA in the process.

With magnificent turns by Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons (the latter especially, who should be considered for Best Supporting Actor once we fast - forward seven months from now), and a well maintained adrenaline rush by focused directing and excellent editing, the only reason Whiplash isn't in the Top 10 is because of it's noticeably poor depiction of women and predictable emotional beats.

So even if the big emotional beats don't quite work and the plot seems to...

The novel itself is rather slim, so it can't have been the hardest thing for screenwriter David Magee to adapt, but I'm happy to report that all of the most important emotional beats from the novel are included here.

The most significant cuts are an alternate prologue showing Dr. Griffiths as a child and, in a rare move, a fully - animated action sequence that takes the place of a more emotional beat in the final film.

There are some really powerful emotional beats littered throughout, and the rich cast of characters (both new and returning) help keep things from getting too boring, but it often feels like Lawrence is just twiddling his thumbs in fear of getting too far ahead, with most of the film spent setting up the next installment.

There are some really powerful emotional beats littered throughout, but it often feels like Lawrence is just twiddling his thumbs in fear of getting too far ahead, with most of the film spent setting up the next installment.

«By relying so heavily on rote memorization, and by testing me only on the things that were easy to test, my teachers came up with a wholly erroneous picture of my capacityâ $» and gave me a fairly serious emotional beating in the process.»

One of the earliest emotional beats in Infinity War involves Gwyneth Paltrow's Pepper Potts trying to persuade Tony Stark (a.k.a. Iron Man, played by Robert Downey Jr.) to take off the mantle of Iron Man and join her in wedded bliss.

There are some sloppy rules and failed emotional beats, but if you're a genre fan watching Truth or Dare for the clever concept and inventive kill scenes, there's some fun to be had with this Blumhouse release.

The other reason certain emotional beats don't work is due to a lack of character development.

This time out, the stakes feel even higher, and Deadpool 2 really is a roller coast of emotions, from all - out elaborate carnage, to genuine laugh - out - load moments, to fist - pumping moments of sheer awesomeness (the assembling and deploying of X-Force is a beauty to behold), to legitimately emotional beats (no, you're tearing up!).

Because despite various emotional beats often (but not always) hitting their mark, it's impossible to avoid the (knowing?)

In reality, Chen's heartbreaking pastoral tragedy (which is now nearly impossible to find in a format that preserves its original beauty), uses its crisp emotional beats to boldly advance the feminist stirrings of China's 5th Generation filmmakers.

And giving Murphy and Stiller one last emotional beat together — whether it was a warm buddy - buddy moment or an uneasy truce — would also have allowed Ratner to explore some of the race and class issues his movie only begins to touch on.

The first Russo Brothers entry in the MCU is a slick outing, packed to the gills with ambitious action sequences and surprisingly tender emotional beats.

«Shockingly effective, not just in creating a sense of constant, palpable tension, but also in the way it pulls off authentic, effective emotional beats.»

After a series opener in which Sherlock traded its mystery status for soap, the second episode of series four, «The Lying Detective», doubles down on the new soap operatic direction of the show and delivers even more antics and heavy - handed emotional beats.

Ava DuVernay's note for J.J. Abrams on The Force Awakens added an vital emotional beat.

Not fearless enough to nose the camera in the dramatic mire, like a soldier to the cause in a personal guerrilla war, Diego Luna «s film beckons a paint - by - numbers summary of the man's greatest achievements, the spark notes of a six - plus year period that glosses all with thin coats, rarely taking the opportunity to remain in the moment and settle in with the hard - won emotional beats of the characters.

There are quips, there are training sessions with the Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) and Karl Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor), two stoic reality - benders from Kathmandu, and there are emotional beats where an underwritten romantic interest — in this case, Strange's fellow surgeon Christine Palmer (Rachel McAdams)-- tells the hero he needs to be his true self.

Whilst Diederik Ebbinge's dramedy hits some strong emotional beats, its adherence to overly broad thematic arcs lessens its impact.

- and yet the only emotional beats returning screenwriter Chris Morgan permits come courtesy of Toretto's wife Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), whose blossoming friendship with seventh film addition Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel) is fortunately given room to grow.

Tone is well balanced too as the picture's three chapters navigate zany comedy with dark emotional beats and back again mostly without strain.

It's a fundamentally dishonest emotional beat, especially since the departed has met her end in a grisly comic set - piece that's surely a knowing wink to a «South Park» episode that featured poor Butters haunted by the memory of a tap - dance recital gone wrong.

Dispensing with the freedom a cable series affords (where viewers are often already expecting to invest for a few episodes), Roadies» premiere is filled with clunky exposition, and plays out like a mini-movie whose emotional beats are told, but not earned.

As a side - effect, so many potential emotional beats are lost among the desire to provide plot momentum, or head to the adventures of the next set of characters, and those who don't show up at all are simply name checked in order to appease social media ire.

It hits all the right emotional beats exactly on cue, almost to the point of tedium.

Their interaction makes the film endurable, and each actor even manages to hit a good emotional beat once in a while.

Again, maybe not what was expected but Marquez makes sure to deliver some visually stunning work to move Bendis» script and deliver the necessary emotional beats from beginning to end.

One mission has you gunning down convoys of trucks on a mountain pass, including some medical vehicles which prompts a pilot to say that they hadn't signed up for things like that, a potentially emotional beat that gets swept back under the rug as soon as its said, before you then get to tackle a Japanese ace pilot at low levels through the ravine.

Interacting with Ignis, Prompto and Gladio over the course of several dozen hours — whether it be camping out in the wilderness or driving through the countryside in the Regalia — has a way of endearing each character to the player so that when the game's key emotional beats start to fall in Final Fantasy XV's second half, they manage to hit home in spite of everything.

He was so emotional beaten down thinking it was him and that he wasn't marketable.

It's as if you've shared every footstep and emotional beat with each character.