Sentences with phrase «familiar plot points»

Introducing a new cast intrinsically linked to Delta squad, we're led on a journey exploring some of the more familiar plot points of the series.

Here, though, is where Lo's debut diverges from the original tale's familiar plot points.

Slick surfaces aside, this Hamlet, in maintaining the Bard's original language, covers all the familiar plot points and scenes.

Adapted by Jonathan Tropper from his novel, This Is Where I Leave You is a mass of mostly familiar plot points and every character gets a moment to shine, but the idea of sitting shiva — the Jewish seven day mourning cycle — is just different enough to cast those moments in a fresh light.

The Disney era of Star Wars has so far been marked by abundant caution: extremely familiar plot points, well - established sci - fi directors, almost identical trailers.

If you've played the previous flash games, you'll notice some familiar plot points and characters, but not much of that really matters.

Critic Consensus: Despite the promise of an appropriately shocking series finale, True Blood is mostly content to limp along on familiar plot points.

Critics Consensus: Despite the promise of an appropriately shocking series finale, True Blood is mostly content to limp along on familiar plot points.

Their fabricated stories occasionally dissolve into something much more honest; Jack, perhaps the most emotional of the brothers, is a short story writer, with suspiciously familiar plot points and characters he insists are fictitious (from the short, Hotel Chevalier, which accompanies the film at the festival, we know this is not true).

Not exact matches

A thin, barely - visible tightrope hovers over two different yet equally - treacherous perils: on one side, you risk missing the point of the original and creating a follow - up whose character, plot, and theme barely resembles its source; on the other, you simply retread the familiar beats of the previous work, applying a fresh coat of paint to the old structure.

That connection between Isaac and Portman's characters is a crucial plot point in the film, but in practice, it's half - compelling and half - restraining, simply because marital problems are so much more familiar and banal than everything else going on.

(You may have already met Shao Jun and be familiar with this plot point if you've seen Ubisoft's 2011 short film, Assassin's Creed: Embers.)

and all the get - to - the - center - of - the - ship plot mechanics are yawningly familiar, to the point of almost paralyzing disinterest.

Released: February 17 Cast: Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth, Celia Imrie Director: Gore Verbinski (The Ring) Why it's great: Detractors of A Cure for Wellness, a pulpy horror - mystery about a water - based therapy center with diabolical intentions, may point to the overly familiar plot (which feels a whole lot like Shutter Island) or the almost mercilessly overlong middle.

But looking inward, one crucial aspect is missing, what with its Wicked-esque revisionist angle of a «misunderstood» antiheroine, the «this is the true story of the familiar tale» framing narration borrowed from Ever After, and a climactic plot point lifted wholesale from the Mouse's own Frozen: true imagination.

Most egregiously though is how the game's devotion to rehashing the same familiar battles and plot points — newly formed alliances ending in betrayal and fire ships — means it is constantly reshaping the world and erasing your work.

There inevitably does reach a point, however, at which the thin storyline's lack of surprises becomes an insurmountable obstacle, with the overly familiar atmosphere ultimately exacerbated by plot developments of a decidedly questionable nature.

This high - budget (supposedly $ 135 million) summer - blockbuster escapist film is dull formulaic fare that has a questionable history premise, a star who does not light up the screen with charisma (Matthew McConaughey), a foreign - born female lead (Penélope Cruz) as eye candy who struggles with the English language to a point where it's an unwelcome distraction, and a tiresome and silly plot line to fill in the gaps while the adventurers are involved in their all too familiar set action pieces.

What follows is a series of events so familiar that they leapfrog right over cliché and land in the realm of «classic,» a search for a seemingly good girl caught up with some very bad men that wouldn't be out of place in a Philip Marlowe novel, were it not for a plot point involving the dead girl's cellphone.

The trouble starts when T'Chaka, the king of Wakanda, and the current Black Panther, is killed in an attack on the U.N. in Vienna, a plot point familiar from 2016's Captain America: Civil War.

The final plot revelations can not help but direct the reader back to Old Filth points But you don't need to be familiar with both to be moved by Betty's life, by the decisions she makes, and the honorable way she conducts herself, even at the expense of her own happiness.

As readers enjoy Enchanted, they're exposed to dozens of fairy tale - inspired plot points, some of which are instantly recognizable while others are less familiar.

It's a scenario that could have been ripped from the plot of dozens of games released since, and the execution is also very familiar from our 2012 vantage point.

You are taken through all the major plot points, meeting familiar faces and experiencing reimagined block - built lands.

The underlying story in Rise of the Tomb Raider is classic to the point of being familiar, but it's how this plot unfolds that differentiates it from the Tomb Raider games of yore, in a very positive way.

Ok before we kick off the plot line you should probably be aware that some of this will sound familiar and in fact you will probably confuse «Alan Wake» with a medley of games you've played down through the years of anti-social late Friday night gaming and if you can't place it we will do our best to point out the similarities with the other games!

At no point is the film tile Robocop referenced, the song titles and plot points are designed to be familiar to fans of the movie.