Sentences with phrase «emotional beats with»

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.

Director Adam Hootnick (Unsettled) does his subject no favors by underscoring all of the emotional beats with overbearing music.

In that sense, A Simple Plan is as traditional a morality play as a thriller can get, but Raimi has never been a director unwilling to splash about in the shallows; instead, the inevitability of the plot is his point — even the simplest of decisions carry whole worlds of consequence — and Raimi injects each emotional beat with unspeakable tragedy.

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

Not exact matches

So if you drew a horizontal line and call that fair value like Ben Graham said, and then you draw a wavy line around that horizontal line and call that stock prices, the market is pitching us opportunities all the time between stocks that are way below fair value and way above fair value, the reason investors don't beat the market has nothing to do with the market is not throwing us pitches in that it's not still emotional, they are behavioral problem, there's agency problems, there is a lot of other issues going on but it's not because we're not getting really great pictures all the time.

Although it might be true that stocks almost always beat bonds over long periods of time, striking the right asset allocation balance may allow investors to better manage the emotional response associated with heightened equity market volatility that often leads to poor investment outcomes.

Players for No. 5 LSU drew on the emotional strength they developed in dealing with the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita to recover from a poor first half and beat the fourth - ranked Crimson Tide.

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Social - Emotional Skills In music class, my Bunch works together with their peers to lift and lower a gigantic parachute, takes turns jumping on the trampoline to experience the feeling of a steady beat, and practices rhythm and tempo while seated with their entire class around a giant drum.

I'll say more NO to: doing things which I don't want to but usually say yes to so I wouldn't disappoint others, feeling down or beat myself up over every little thing which didn't go right or as planned, being a perfectionist every single moment of every single day, going places or meeting people just because of FOMO, eating foods that physically don't make me feel good, no matter how big the cravings might be, buying new stuff unless I really, really need them or can't stop thinking about them, emotional vampires who suck the life out of me and never bring anything good or positive along with them...

We cry from good songs, beautiful prayers, absurd stories and jokes... we're just an emotional bunch, OK??? For spending time with the fam, I'm not about the full «beat» (is that what the kids say nowadays??)

And when the film slows down to take an emotional beat, those are perfectly handled too, with one scene in particular that should have the entire audience wiping away a tear.

Under Shawn Levy's direction, the story never misses a beat, with fully - committed performances by Jackman, Evangeline Lilly (as the woman who's always believed in him), and fresh - faced young Goyo, who bears a strong resemblance to Ricky Schroder and has the same ability to win you over at emotional moments, even if you're trying to resist.

«13 Minutes» is a superbly acted and strikingly evocative work, with careful attention to period detail and its many emotional beats.

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 resulting temporal choppiness from not being clear from the start not only continuously takes us out of the story to try to catch up with it when we're finally given enough information for it to make sense, but it also reveals just how manipulative the device is in order to try to load up all of the emotional beats for whatever version of a climax the story can muster up.

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

The visual pyrotechnics are nicely balanced with a focus on the emotional beats of the story and the film works largely because its three young principals have finally learnt how to act.

As much as the film is immaculate in its production values, the most care and consideration on the screen is the patience with which Haynes stages the film's emotional beats.

The Program (2015): A by - the - book story about Lance Armstrong's doping scandal that suffers from the problem that plagues many biopics: namely, it operates with the understanding that we already know the real story (or most of it), so it doesn't work that hard to make the characters seem real or to make the emotional beats land with any sense.

The latter is always an especially welcome theme in a children's movie, and Herbie: Fully Loaded, with its emotional - roller - coaster story beats, will work like gangbusters with kids.

Bernard Herrmann, a longtime collaborator with Alfred Hitchcock, composed fabulous music that reflects the emotional heart of the entire story — the sultry jazz reluctantly giving way to a doomed, militaristic beat, reminiscent of the brilliant score from Stanley Kubrick's «The Killing» 1956.

This is a show of modest character beats and human moments sprinkled with plenty of humor and the occasional emotional peak.

The emotional beats hit home more strongly, too, with Sean Connery impressing both comedically and tragically (he won a deserved Best Supporting Oscar for the film), and the various losses on the squad feeling much more meaningful than the similar losses do in Gangster Squad.

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.

It eliminates anything feeling forced or contrived, with all the emotional beats hitting just the right notes.

The result is a humanizing journey through pain, pleasure and everything in between, rife with nostalgic moments, utter hilarity and earnest emotional beats that'll turn any but the most stone - hearted to weepy lumps.

Some entries in the largely undistinguished dysfunctional - family - holiday - film subgenre — The Family Stone (also with Keaton) and Jodie Foster's Home for the Holidays, to name two — are watchable despite their forced zaniness and predictable emotional beats; the spectacle of attractive stars packed into the frame to act out universal problems (meddling parents, sibling rivalries, unfulfilled romantic and professional lives) has its charms and comforts.

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.

In particular, violence is meted out with little to no repercussion — Cooverman is beaten repeatedly, falls from a roof, is hit by a car and keeps a-going — creating a cartoonish atmosphere that obstructs any genuine emotional momentum the filmmakers might want.

If This Is Us were a series specifically focused on Kate, her emotional needs and desire to have other people notice her for who she is could flower; as it stands, those story beats are mostly hit by having her hang out with Toby.

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.

It took a while for me to accept Daniel Brühl with a beard, but he too does an admirable job in an even more structured role, his character often providing little more than emotional beats or expositional narration.

- 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.

At times, Howard seems preoccupied with presenting the deterioration of materials and human life to the point where it lingers too long and fails to consistently locate an emotional beat.

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.

Surely to be underrated work, Diane Lane and Elle Fanning provide the story with the few emotional beats that work.

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.

Anytime something dramatic starts to happen, which happens with almost every character, it nearly always pays off with a joke or action beat instead of emotional impact.

«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.»

«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 capacity — and gave me a fairly serious emotional beating in the process.»

We buy it we got to pay for it... Some how some way but nonetheless its our Grinch to play with... The biggest month for Bankruptcy and Insolvency problems is February... The emotional drain on the system to «give the kids what they want», Beat the Jones» Have the best Christmas ever!

and the emotional beats (conversations with Sarah) just really didn't do it for me.

The game's creative director, Ken Wong, says, «Most chapters of Florence started with wanting to capture a particular feeling or an emotional beat in a relationship.»

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.

Whether it be the up tempo beats in the Akuda Bar, the high - tension rhythm during combat, or melancholic melodies at one of the games many emotional downswings, the BGM always meshes with the gameplay ideally.

Certainly it's not Final Fantasy IV, which begins with the moral and emotional dilemma of a man forced to choose between the commands of his king and what he believes to be right, but it remains a step up from «go get Erdrick's armour and beat up the Dragon Lord.»

To its immense credit, The Last Guardian keeps things understated on the musical side, allowing the world and the interaction between the boy and Trico to carry the emotional weight rather than beating you over the head with «now feel this way» chords.

With a tutorial that introduced the gameplay mechanics just as well as it kicks off the story's main mystery, and an emotional and generation - defining 30 - hour campaign, Horizon Zero Dawn never missed a beat.