Sentences with phrase «emotional stakes»

Given the enormous financial and emotional stakes of a home purchase, it's critical that you have total confidence in your real estate agent.

Big - budget genre pieces appear to be raising emotional stakes across the board, even in the sort of films where you might not expect such resonance to be.

There's some inherent drama to buying a house: big sums of money, high emotional stakes, tense negotiations, simply tragic interior decor.

It's all good stuff, with intense emotional stakes along with the time travel and the sci - fi.

To do this, certain emotional stakes are always needed.

Given the enormous financial and emotional stakes of a home purchase, it's critical that you have total confidence in your real estate agent.

But it weaves together a compelling series of flashbacks that have real emotional stakes in the present.

Instead, Deadpool 2 wraps its story around the bones of a romance, grounding the movie's irreverence in real emotional stakes.

Whitney Drake • 2 hours ago It's really sad that they think the only way the guys buying this are going to buy that there's some sort of emotional stakes for Batman is if they're sleeping together.

The «Deadpool 2» team wanted to ramp up the film's emotional stakes as high as possible right off the bat.

Both plotlines keep readers entertained with ever - heightening emotional stakes.

Despite a few slightly repetitive story elements, DOCTOR STRANGE still doesn't feel totally stale — thanks mostly to the way the filmmakers keep emotional stakes at the forefront of the killer action sequences.

«Completely ridiculous, in the most sublime sense of the word... But it's not all gags, as [Cannon] wrings tremendous tension, action, and intrigue out of his many - stranded plot, and the dozen - strong constellation of major characters each have deep emotional stakes on the line.»

There is a half - baked uprising against WCKD that is only tangentially related to the main characters and serves little purpose other than to paint an explosive background to what's meant to be the true emotional stakes of the movie: Thomas saving his friends.

I know about three - act structures, hero's journeys, misdirects, callbacks, and creating emotional stakes.

For many, this complicated web of emotional stakes only exists on Facebook, because Facebook is the only social platform on the web where who we are now, in adulthood, converges with the past life we had as a teen or a college student.

It revolutionized werewolf effects (though American Werewolf in London was a tad more revolutionary), while offering up a fun and scary story with some genuine emotional stakes.

Impressive visuals and great production design are unfortunately overshadowed by a convoluted plot that struggles to depict its story - a narrative that starts strong but deteriorates as it attempts to balance too many emotional stakes for its own good while including one (or two) too many scenes that unintentionally call attention to itself.

With apologies to Alfonso Cuarón's film, which I enjoyed, the buzzier effort may be an enveloping visual tour - de-force, but the one (wo) man - against - the - universe endurance saga in space lacks in character development and genuinely convincing emotional stakes.

In 2009's Moon, director Duncan Jones found clever ways to refresh sci - fi tropes and instill emotional stakes into a distancing story of isolation.

Furthermore, co-directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland (whose The Last of Robin Hood was also released in 2014), probably have a huge emotional stake in a movie like this, given that Mr. Glatzer suffers from ALS.

DREAMGIRLS has the requisite high energy, but more, it nails the even higher emotional stakes working in the tricky idiom of an artificial framework.

All three are at their most movie star charismatic here, with their formidable dramatic chops lending real gravitas and palpable emotional stakes as they continue their struggles and conflicts with each other and within in order to act for the greater benefit of their kind.

Helpfully, the script does this for him: Depopulated New York City streets and the near - abstract grasslands of fictional Wakanda are perfect settings for battles with zero collateral damage — and zero human emotional stakes.

For most superhero movies, the love story is usually nothing more than a subplot or something to add emotional stakes, but in Wonder Woman, it's key to the growth of both characters.

For the star and his frequent director Peter Berg, their latest true - life tale had very different emotional stakes.

In the same year, 300 beat X-Men and Superman at their own game, proving that if you can't get emotional stakes right, you at least needed amazing looking action.

Stripped of the boring motivation, the awkwardly handled emotional stakes and the obviously curated - by - committee gags Deadpool 2, is a fun movie that's at its strongest when it really allows the ensemble cast to shine.

But when the financial and emotional stakes associated with standardized tests are disproportionately high, this laudable goal gets distorted.

Exploring character and story as well as themes, Russell gives even the animals that serve as household appliances emotional stakes and perspectives and flashes back to Fred Flintstone's time in the military, fighting in a senseless, government - devised war.

The newest trailer for Xenoblade Chronicles 2 provides a glimpse of the game's emotional stakes before its December 1 release.

«Not only were there stakes, as far as the real world and what it means to do something that different in a community or a society that's not easily accepted — but could I also create real emotional stakes?

It's really sad that they think the only way the guys buying this are going to buy that there's some sort of emotional stakes for Batman is if they're sleeping together.

RECKLESS PASSED ON STUDIO: ABC Studios TEAM: Chris Black (w, ep), Martin Campbell (d, ep) LOGLINE: Thriller centers on a resourceful problem solver who, when his wife is unjustly imprisoned during a political uprising overseas, resorts to entering a world of political intrigue, dangerous alliances and high emotional stakes in order to get her out.

The film opens with an extended pre-credits scene structured similarly to the first movie, just with bigger, deeper emotional stakes.

Like most recent Romanian films, If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle is intensely bleak and with high emotional stakes.

Since a founder's identity is often tightly interwoven with the companies they start, the emotional stakes are high.

Once you get past the plugs for the training classes, however, these books — read together — will help you analyze the buyer's economic and emotional stakes and capitalize on that knowledge.

She specializes in training organizations on the «why» behind language that works, and brings with her a passion for uncovering the right thing to say when the emotional stakes are high.

The workers union has more than an emotional stake in ensuring that kids take lunch.

All of the emotional stakes get replaced by bad CGI shots of beautiful people morphing into beautiful dog - people.

Critic Consensus: I Do... Until I Don't misses opportunities for fresh observations, settling instead for a middle of the road romantic comedy lacking memorable characters or real emotional stakes.

Its emotional stakes are inflated so overzealously that they scarcely register as stakes at all.

Lastly, the emotional stakes, as all signs prior to release have implied that not everyone is going to make it out of this movie alive.

However suspensefully the score groans and cries, the emotional stakes dwindle with each overemphatic narrative curve.

While Hunt For The Wilderpeople is very funny, what makes it stick is the way Waititi allows the relationship between Hec and Ricky to develop slowly, and how nimbly he sets the emotional stakes for both of the characters.

Critics Consensus: I Do... Until I Don't misses opportunities for fresh observations, settling instead for a middle of the road romantic comedy lacking memorable characters or real emotional stakes.

We never have any emotional stake in her as a character (which leaves the audience bored and detached).

Even the first creatures Rose encounters — small, childlike things shrieking like infants — have an obvious connection to her immediate, personal fears, which raises the emotional stakes considerably.