Sentences with phrase «feature than an action»

The gameplay looked more like a stop - motion feature than an action - packed FPS.

Not exact matches

Distribution patterns typically appear while the market appears relatively strong - it is a feature of internal market action rather than something that's readily obvious by looking at the indices themselves.

Moviegoers over the past 10 years more often than not went to see an action adventure film featuring comic book heroes, giant robots, or someone driving a fast car.

In 2001, music categorized as ccm accounted for more than $ 1 billion in sales — up 12 percent in a year when the recording industry as a whole took a downturn, Newsweek ran a cover story on «Jesus Rock» and HBO's The Sopranos featured a humorous subplot about the mob family trying to get in on the action.

nobody wanted lemar to join us more than me, but if he doesn't want to come, which he's shown by his action, then im not about to allow the unrest around why he never came to feature or discourage my expectations and approval of lacazette.

Major conference rivalries draw significantly more action than matchups between two mid-majors and sportsbooks are more likely to shade their lines in games featuring at least one high - profile program — especially when they're able to anticipate lopsided public betting.

The demonstrators who brought you the pro-millionaire's protest that blocked the Capitol's State Street entrance and ended with more than a dozen arrests planned another «action» today — this time a little public disturbance / theater featuring a mock NJ.

It features a dual - action trigger than helps control the air and the material at the same time.

Among other things, entanglement — a quantum feature Albert Einstein skeptically referred to as «spooky action at a distance» — seems to suggest that entangled particles can affect each other instantly, faster than the speed of light.

These actions produced models that account for the influence of smaller features than can be resolved in a global climate model and yielded composite climate scenarios suitable for analysis of specific local climate impacts.

-- Ted Kyle, RPh, MBA, Founder and Principal ConscienHealth, Chair of the Obesity Action Coalition Perfect for foodies, bakers, carb counters, parents, chefs, and clinicians, this delightfully readable book features more than 180 alphabetical entries on natural and artificial sweeteners, including the usual suspects (table sugar, honey), the controversial (aspartame, high - fructose corn syrup), the hyped (coconut sugar, monk fruit sweetener), and the unfamiliar (Chinese rock sugar, isomaltulose).

The action scenes highlight Rodriguez's trademark ability to choreograph firefights and explosions, but they're doled out with uncharacteristic stinginess between long stretches of exposition that clear up much less than they should, as the film builds toward a climax featuring some strangely underpopulated riot action.

Featuring a screenplay by no less than five writers, Flushed Away has clearly been geared to appeal primarily to small children - as evidenced by the film's emphasis on action - oriented set pieces and distinctly broad bits of comedy (there's even a fart joke thrown in for good measure).

As directed by Rupert Goold — a British theater veteran making his feature debut — it's deliberately paced, with much more talk than action, which seems appropriate for the material but might frustrate fans of its stars.

Although Pacific Rim features just average acting, the ensemble cast and backstories work against the larger - than - life action.

Features enough in the way of charismatic performances and larger than life action filmmaking to make for an entertaining watch of the popcorn munching variety.

The following year, Garofalo appeared in no less than five films, with a supporting part in the ensemble piece 200 Cigarettes, a starring role as an unconventional action heroine called the Bowler in Mystery Men (which also featured Stiller), and prominent turns in Kevin Smith's eagerly awaited Dogma, Hampton Fancher's psychological thriller The Minus Man, and the satirical comedy Can't Stop Dancing, in which she acted alongside fellow comedienne Margaret Cho.In 2001, Garofolo took on the role of Catherine Connolly in The Laramie Project, HBO's docudrama chronicling the aftermath of the death of Matthew Shepard, and filmmaker David Wain's comedy Wet Hot American Summer.

It features some daring tonal shifts that make the brutality of the action feel more honest than a lot of Tarantino's movies.

Willis O'Brien did the stop - action animation for this 1933 feature, which is richer in character than most of the human cast.

If the recent crop of low - budget, intimate war films featuring a handful of actors in limited locations tells us anything, it's that studios are desperate to ensure that they get a better return on investment than a full - blown, star - studded action spectacle.

The DVD scores points for its fairly strong widescreen transfer and three bonus features, which if not fantastic, are at least something, i.e. more than most of the studio's live action canon can boast.

But it's unfair to judge on a book on its cover (or title) and after seeing Matthew Vaughn's film adaptation which releases this weekend, I can honestly say that Kick - Ass is much better than I first expected and Vaughn's big - screen version of the graphic novel features sharp writing, brilliant performances, and of course, indulgent action sequences and story - telling.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

So rather than build on its rich past of non-linear mercenary work, Back in Action just decides to do it all again, with a slew of simplified features designed to make the game appeal more to today's Call of Duty - level of gamer.

The film is Anderson's best live - action feature — his best feature, period — since Rushmore, in part because, like that film, it takes as its primary subject matter odd, precocious children, rather than the damaged and dissatisfied adults they will one day become.

A short promotional feature proudly advertises that the fourth installment in the Transformers franchise utilizes the new IMAX 3D Digital Camera for many of the action sequences, which comprise more than half of the 165 - minute running time.

If you follow Empire on Twitter, you'll already know that we spent part of the day in Hall H at Comic - Con at the Warner Bros. panel where Peter Jackson unveiled some new Hobbit footage, Zach Galifianakis and Will Ferrell laughed it up with The Campaign, Zach Snyder debuted a first look at Man Of Steel and Guillermo del Toro unveiled Pacific Rim, which features more giant robots fighting giant monsters action than you can shake a giant stick at.

Unquestionably marvellous is the (anachronistic) 5.1 Dolby Digital audio, featuring more gut - churning bass than Dolby owners will be used to as the robots march on New York City, though this showpiece use of the LFE channel occurs so early in the action that it's a mild letdown when no other facet of the mix proves quite as memorable.

Bill Condon's much - anticipated live - action version of the animation is, at $ 160m, a no - expense spared beautiful rather than beastly version that uses the 1991 score with some new songs, retains a sweetness and even features that yellow dress.

The plot to many Jackie Chan or Jet Li flicks aren't much better than this, but I still will recommend them because they do deliver on very well handled action sequences featuring some truly amazing footage of very agile, talented performers at their best.

Though still less than half the film, they definitely are employed with greater frequency than on the last movie, with many establishing second unit shots and significant action moments going with the screen - filling 16:9 now more commonly used for television than feature films.

Acclaimed TV director Yann Demange delivers a notable debut feature, an exhilarating action movie that has more in common with the work of Walter Hill or John Carpenter than it does with other depictions of The Troubles in recent British cinema.

Billed as «the world's first oil painted feature film», which is slightly harder to quantify than the film's PR people might hope, Loving Vincent consists 65,000 frames painted by a team of 125 classically - trained painters on glass, with about two - thirds of those have been copied over live - action reference footage.

Adapted from the novel Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan, a much better title than the bland one Affleck and co-writers Peter Craig and Aaron Stockard chose, The Town is a solid drama about actual adults, featuring some excellently choreographed action sequences and is a big leap forward for Affleck's directing aspirations.

Plus, animated features have a long history of holding more consistent interest weekend - over-weekend than live - action movies.

Underdog, the latest cartoon - turned - live - action - feature, is much more a callback to this era 8 - 10 years past than to the years of 1964 - 1973 when «Underdog»,

First time feature director Bradley Parker still gives it that shaky cam sensation by using a handheld shooting style and covering the action simply by following the actors rather than cutting to standard wide, medium and close - up shots.

Both of the most recent Tsui films that I've seen, the kung fu whodunnit Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame and Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, his second remake of the 1967 King Hu film Dragon Gate Inn, which remains after 45 years one of great masterpieces of action cinema from anywhere in the world, feature extensive use of CGI, though both are significantly more grounded in reality than Zu Warriors.

The Star Trek Beyond teaser does indeed have a decidedly «un-Star Trek - y» feel, selling the movie as more of a Fast & Furious - style sci - fi / action film that features Star Trek characters - rather than a Star Trek movie that includes more action and comedy, a la Abrams» Star Trek and its sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness.

Rogue Warrior is a military shooter from Bethesda Softworks featuring a larger - than - life action hero.

The film is about an orphaned dinosaur who befriends a young human boy, and reportedly features relatively little dialogue as the two communicate through action and expression rather than words.

This bonus is more than feature - length, due to the branching pods and McG pausing the action as desired to add further commentary.

The action is rousing, the tone balances humor and drama well, and the story features deeper ideas than some recent entries in this genre.

Their film features perhaps the first action scene we've ever seen where we cared more about what was happening in a character's relationship than how many kills he was about to rack up — and then, once it was done, felt simultaneously exhilarated by the visceral power of what was happening immediately, and the emotional stakes of what that set piece took him (and us) away from.

The movie features more dialogue than action, but that was expected.

The ability to tell a compelling story in no more than 30 minutes is a rare one and the 2018 Live Action and Animation nominees are a rich and diverse collection of wonderful stories that are equally as powerful as their feature - length cousins.

With less than three weeks to go until the release of Drew Pearce's Hotel Artemis, a new clip has arrived online from the upcoming sci - fi action thriller entitled «Verify Your Membership» which features Jodie Foster as The Nurse alongside Kenneth Choi, Sterling K. Brown, Brian Tyree Henry, and Dave Bautista.

Ys: Memories of Celceta — Vita — An extensive reimagining of (and pseudo-sequel to) Ys IV, one of the only Ys games never before released in the west, this title puts more enemies on screen than ever before and features the largest, most non-linear overworld in Ys history, boasting superlative graphics and a triumphant evolution of the fast - paced gameplay that has made this series a timeless action RPG mainstay.

And it features more mutant characters and bigger action set pieces than any movie prior...

Featuring a brand - new story and a co-op survival mode, this sequel promises to be more exciting and action - packed than its already super amazing (and super violent) predecessor.