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

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.

Now after an even longer musical history of handling action films and trailer soundtracks form «Full Contact» to «Dishonored 2,» composer John R. Graham impressively carries on the saga's epic musical tradition with «Kingsglaive,» matching its astonishing mo - cap visuals with a score that captures both the characters» emotional stakes as well as the furiously drumming symphonic fury of its hellzapoppin mash - up of steampunk, sword and sorcery and giant monsters.

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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.

High - stakes issues tend actually to get more portentous, over time, as we sink greater and greater emotional and intellectual investments into....

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These high - stakes games can be an emotional roller coaster for some people as they ride the highs and lows with their favorite team.

The emotional tone of the event indicates what's at stake: the fear that as more Americans learn the ugly truth about how their food is produced, other companies like BPI might have to defend their indefensible business practices.

Corbijn isn't making a stereotypical Hollywood thriller, with the stakes spelled out in neon and the loud fight scenes spaced every few minutes, but he doesn't seem to realize there is such a thing as being too vague, and in his efforts to make some kind of art - house / thriller hybrid, he goes too far the other direction and creates a nicely rendered film with no emotional hook.

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.

He may be sicker than Hank Moody or Larry David, but he's also a far richer figure, and in his own strange way, just as universal, thanks to the transcendent performance of Michael C. Hall, who deepens every sick joke and raises the stakes on every emotional twist.

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

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.

Watching Maeve scheme and sacrifice to figure out what is going on in her home has been addicting to watch, cementing Newton's place as the emotional hinge to this high - stakes show.

Anderson deals with the resemblances head - on — the routine involving the kidnapped tycoon's wife is like a hyper - alert variant on the Lebowski method — but, as in that initial languid, multifaceted exchange between Doc and Shasta, Inherent Vice's emotional stakes are far higher and the snark quotient lower.

Rather than dealing with the emotional gravity of the devastating loss that serves as its catalyst, it bends over backwards to create nonexistent tension around the apparently high stakes world of high school volleyball.

The emotional stakes are as true as they get.

«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?

Between the outstanding performances from Teller and Simmons, a winning script, and an inbred set of emotional stakes, Whiplash drums up a jaw dropping finale that'll have the musically indifferent just as cheerfully mystified as lifelong aficionados.

Perhaps it's West's decision to play the verbal duels straight and the pistol duels as jokes, robbing the former of any juicy, literate patter, and the latter of real emotional stakes or tension.

The daddy - issues motivation is one element that Vikander's Tomb Raider shares with Jolie's; the latter cast its star's real father, Jon Voight, as the missing Lord Croft — a stunty shortcut to emotional stakes.

It's the genuine article, an engrossing tentpole with serious themes, complex moral conflicts and emotional stakes, and one that doesn't feel as if it was written by committee or structured around big and familiar action set pieces.

They are the structural equivalent of the death of Passing Businessman No. 3, existing purely as imagery to up the stakes and give the franchise some emotional weight, certain not to carry any consequences whatsoever with them — but Passing Businessman No. 3 has been replaced by Spider - Man and Black Panther and Captain America's boyfriend.

Similarly, 21 Jump Street works because the friendship between its protagonists feels real, and as a result there are real emotional stakes to go along with the satire.

If film as intellectual history sounds arduous, a single scene of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy arguing out ideas while playing pool will convince you otherwise: Margarethe von Trotta's gripping dramatization succeeds not only in bringing complex ideas to life without dumbing them down, but in teasing out their emotional stakes.

Godzilla gets a lot right, hiring excellent actors even in bit parts to sell every inch of the story, focusing on characters, the emotional stakes of the leads and even embracing the atomic - age fears and allegories that the Toho Studio films utilized while putting a modern - spin on them — the casualties and cost of life within such disasters (there is a 9 / 11-esque disaster - porn tinge to the film, but it's certainly not as thoughtless as it is in «Man Of Steel»).

And to spite any snarking worry that director Sam Mendes would treat this movie simply like one of his dramas, Skyfall is still an action film that continues to roar as it ventures inward, its high stakes provided by an emotional story of Shakespearean proportions.

What it gets right on paper is immediately apparent: Casting hot - ticket stars against type as crestfallen romantics struggling to cope with mental illness provides two attractive but ostensibly vacuous mainstream celebrities (Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence) the enviable opportunity to prove their worth with conspicuously «revelatory» performances; meanwhile, the fundamental seriousness of their characters» respective arcs, with Cooper hoping to control the outbursts caused by his bipolar disorder and Lawrence attempting to overcome her grief over her husband's recent death, raise the emotional stakes considerably, elevating largely light material from rote comedy to overtly «adult» drama.

That rawness ratchets the emotional stakes even higher as the movie tap dances its way out of downtown L.A. and into the realm of the surreal, a fantasy where the lovers float away from their cares, Fred and Ginger style, at least for a few hours, before tumbling back down to the earth.

What's really at stake for people on all sides are emotional questions such as «whose schools are these?»

Over a decade of research shows that an over emphasis on high - stakes standardized tests narrows curriculum, creates social and emotional stress for students and families, drives committed teachers out of the profession, and turns schools into test - prep factories with principals forced to comply as overseers — especially in low - scoring schools.

A contemporary thriller with characters whose emotional journey is just as page - turningly gratifying as the most high - stakes manhunt.

«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.»

Only worth your time if you're mainly looking for an online shooter, as the single player campaign is short and lacking any serious punch in the action and dramatics stakes, aside from the emotional opening.

In a more emotional story than we've seen him in before, more seems at stake this time around for our protagonist, as old family ties are unearthed, and current ones are a threat.

Rape and sexual assault are also frequently used as a sort of narrative currency to try and raise the emotional stakes and heighten the dramatic tension for gamers.

Full burn serves as a meditation on masculine duty and the emotional stakes of transcending fear.

As the product of small business owners and one ourselves, we recognize that closely held business owners have both their financial, emotional, and familial well - being tied to their business, and when disputes arise, there is often more at stake than the bottom line.

A couples therapist isn't a decision maker, but we are skilled at helping partners understand the stakes of a decision, see who one another are as decision makers, what baggage and assumption each partner brings, and create space to hear what's emotional.

I've previously posted about studies that have found that the laser - like focus on raising student test scores often identifies teachers who are good at doing that, but those VAM - like measures tend to short - change educators who are good at developing Social Emotional or «non-cognitive skills» (see More Evidence Showing The Dangers Of Using High - Stakes Testing For Teacher Evaluation; Another Study Shows Limitations Of Standardized Tests For Teacher Evaluations; Study Finds Teachers Whose Students Achieve High Test Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly Update).