Sentences with phrase «emotional gut punch»

I suspected that bringing Infinite's Booker and Elizabeth into the world of the original Bioshock would bring the world of Columbia and Rapture together, but I wasn't prepared for how true that would be, and I was even less prepared for the emotional gut punch that came from the consequence of the connections Burial at Sea made between the sky and the sea.

Nothing would prepare me for the emotional gut punch in its second episode.

Sutter goes for the emotional gut punch one time too many in a scene the feels a little too manipulative in trying to make the audience grab for their Kleenex yet again.

But Lee gets hit with another emotional gut punch with the death of his brother Joe (Kyle Chandler).

The movie starts with the actual cameraphone footage of Grant's shooting, so the sense of dread builds throughout the film: as we watch Grant go throughout his day — play with his young daughter, celebrate his mother's birthday, revisit his time in jail, interact with strangers — we know that this day is his last, and so his death comes as a particularly emotional gut punch.

Rotten: Heavy with earnest good intentions but too underpowered and oddly packaged to deliver the emotional gut punch its subject demands, Septembers of Shiraz is a disappointing misfire.

For Halt and Catch Fire, however, the real emotional gut punch comes a few scenes later when Joe is slouched over machine alone as the company he built with what became his best friend begins to close up shop.

This scene is a moment of true love but also an emotional gut punch, packing both a swoon and heartbreak.

Without the emotional gut punch that seemed to come in every frame of Mungiu's masterpiece 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days, this picture truly opens up on multiple viewings, and with its eyes set to the heavens, the film seems Hell bent on questioning their existence entirely.

Heavy with earnest good intentions but too underpowered and oddly packaged to deliver the emotional gut punch its subject demands, Septembers of Shiraz is a disappointing misfire.

Tarantino doesn't go for the big emotional gut punch; he goes for confusion and ambiguity instead.

«Manchester by the Sea» Despite all the emotional gut punches that this movie delivers, it's final moments offer hope, forgiveness, and that well - deserved light at the end of the tunnel for those who've had tragedy and depression consume them.

For those Marvel movie fans still clutching their stomachs after the emotional gut punches of April's Avengers: Infinity War, the rebelliously funny relief of Deadpool 2 couldn't come soon enough, giving us all a chance to forgive Josh Brolin for turning our favorite Spider - Man into the world's most depressing meme.

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OK, OK, lots of it — baby clothes especially — I'm probably hanging on to for nostalgia reasons, as they are tied so tightly to memories that even looking at them is like an emotional punch to the gut.

Arcade Fire are known for making these dense, emotional, sweeping albums that are able to punch you in the gut while giving you hope for the future.

While you are at once charmed by the whimsy and romance, there's still a gut punch of emotional rawness just waiting to be delivered.

Both films show two extremes of storytelling where the execution transcends the amount of time it takes to deliver that emotional gut - punch.

Meaty plotlines, woven into the grand scheme, will deliver emotional gut - punches later.

There are several moments of pure adrenaline and one revelation in the climax that's as emotional as any in the trilogy, if not the most gut - punching.»

After the one - two emotional gut - punch of Before Midnight and Boyhood, everybody wants some of Richard Linklater, but what does Richard Linklater want?

I wanted at least one or two scenes where I felt an emotional punch in the gut but never got it.

Frantz I did not expect Frantz to be the emotional gut - punch that it was.

Yes, in directing the focus on fun rather than threat, there isn't quite the same amount of nail - biting urgency or emotional gut - punches as we got with Into Darkness.

«[Charles & Javier] can both bring the emotional and literal gut - punches in a way no one else can, all set - against the larger than life world of the Marvel U that still sort of looks like the world we live in ourselves,» adds Schaefer.

They're not overtly gratuitous with showers of blood and guts, but there is a unmistakable emotional punch every time you see this mere child's body mangled and ripped apart like paper.

Towards the end of the game things really start to get real, and then there's the ending... Well, we'll just let you play the game and get hit with the emotional punch to the gut that the ending evokes.

While Uncharted 4 sticks to the series» guns by offering the light - hearted action romp fans deserve, The Last of Us still stands out to me as Naughty Dog's greatest story ever told - but I'm more a fan of emotional gut - punches and high - tension drama.