Sentences with phrase «familiar plotlines»

All these familiar plotlines resurfaced Friday in the cryptocurrency world in response to a $ 60 million theft.

A wonderfully nasty turn from Liotta, along with a novel treatment of familiar plotlines, elevates Kaplan's effort into the «must see» category.

A likeable cast, many of whom are former Oscar winners, enliven a not - as - clever - as - they - think - it - is script by screenwriting brothers Jon and Erich Hoeber (Whiteout, Battleship), but not quite enough to overcome the overly familiar plotline to make the film anything more than a pleasant but unremarkable time - waster.

Weitz retreats from his blockbuster films to a familiar plotline, a heartwarming father and son story.

The predictable love story has a tendency to telegraph its punches, since its familiar plotline sticks to what's already public knowledge.

Not exact matches

There are other plotlines involving a romance between Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany), Gamora and her relationship to Thanos, cameos by some familiar characters, and a welcome trip back to Wakanda, the home of Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman).

At least the picture does follow a rudimentary plotline, although it's real reason for being is to satirize familiar scenes from such movies as Save the Last Dance, Fame, Step Up, Stomp the Yard, Roll Bounce, Dreamgirls, Black Snake Moan, Hairspray, Singing in the Rain, High School Musical, ATL, Twilight, Flashdance, The Little Shop of Horrors, Edward Scissorhands and Final Destination.

Despite all the intrigue, these plotlines fail to keep the promise of reimagining this familiar story.

The Raid 2 is a recent example of the incredible stunt choreography that can make a mediocre plotline that much more amazing to sit through, and it's a shame that The Protector 2 falls back into such familiar «new school» action territory.

Writing about predicaments we're curious about (fatal accidents, murder, drug smuggling, infidelity, sabotage, unwanted pregnancies), Kennedy anchors her high - stakes plotlines in the most familiar emotions, making generous, unmanipulative stories that pull the reader in for thrills and revelations.

The plotline will be familiar to longtime fans of the Metroid series, but the challenges are new, the power - ups are plentiful, and the graphics and sound are supercharged.

While the story reuses a number of familiar ShinTen beats, there's also a bit of virtue in the plotline.