Order your list by fun factor — what lights you up and makes you happy should go first, and then things that
feel obligatory or fill you with grumpiness or dread go on the bottom of the list.
In this sequel, the director inadvertently continues that inside joke by making something that
feels obligatory and cobbled together like a late franchise entry.
Esti's moaning ecstasy
feels obligatory.
It feels obligatory of the genre and kind of ended the whole thing on a sour note.
Not exact matches
The obvious gifts — chocolates and roses —
feel so
obligatory they're almost thoughtless.
Would we
feel better dropping these «
obligatory» points to the bottom 10?
Solid performances in those matches
feel almost
obligatory after the team crashed out of the Champions League and Copa del Rey earlier this season.
... It was just so ridiculous is was hilarious... this is going to be one of those stories that his girlfriends will hear... and now whenever he is tired at bathtime he leans back in the tub and says «ahhhhh that
feels nice»... and looks at me for the
obligatory laugh... little goofball.
I've never once
felt that
obligatory, «Ugh, I have to go to this baby shower but I don't want to» that I often
feel with other social events.
Going to gynaecologist in the fifth week of pregnancy is not
obligatory in case if nothing bothers you and you
feel great.
An
obligatory setup for a sequel slows down the final moments, but until then, Tomb Raider
feels like a perfectly paced trio of espresso shots, with a shot of adrenaline to the heart as a chaser.
Hitting all the
obligatory beats — big fights, explosions, gross - out gags, Stan Lee cameo — and introducing a host of new characters, Thor: Ragnarok at times
feels like it's trying to pack an awful lot in to its 130 - min runtime.
There are still plenty of highlights in the film's second half (the film does the mandatory drug - trip sequence particularly well, including a cameo from Keanu Reeves himself), the whole thing
feels a bit rushed and
obligatory.
So if something
feels lacking and
obligatory about Airport» 77 - in which a botched hijacking lands a Boeing 747 in the ocean, the passengers struggling to get back to land safely - that's only because the film presents a crew of movie stars eager to cash their checks and get out as quick as possible.
During the girls»
obligatory reunion, Amanda makes a casual confession: She
feels nothing about anything, and never really has — no anger, no sadness, no joy, certainly nothing like remorse over that nasty business with the family steed.
In between moments of conflict and moments of character (which barely ever happen), the filmmakers will insert an
obligatory sex scene that literally only serves the purpose of having a sex scene because it thinks it's being «sexy,» when in actuality it
feels more uncomfortable and awkward when you watch it.
Wildly entertaining as they are, the incidental bursts of sibling bonding (Starship, laughing gas)
feel somewhat
obligatory considering the leads» reputations as broad comics, though «shoehorned» is a word that never comes to mind.
Then, in an
obligatory feel - good finale to all the carnage, the earthquakes, tidal waves and mass destruction simply... stop... and the survivors sail peacefully into the sunset towards a habitable destination.
The follow - up has a
feeling of being
obligatory.
In the end [and here's an
obligatory spoiler alert for anyone who's worried about having the first episode spoiled], Trump «wins» the State of the Union by making a few crazy promises (melting all the #TimesUp pins and taking every U.S. citizen on a Hawaiian vacation), but you only
feel the victory when Trump invites Melania to his firetruck podium (a gift from his sons) and makes nice.
The first of two Switch games it
feels almost
obligatory to include here, Super Mario Odyssey has been talked about a lot already - but that's only because it really is that good.
Instead, as directed by Francis Lawrence from a script by Justin Haythe, «Red Sparrow» defaults to stodgy when its story isn't dishing out the book's explicit sex and violence (including attempted rape), with lines and scenes that
feel flat and
obligatory alternating with ones that have no trouble holding our attention.
The subversive use of humor
feels like a distinguishing touch on its own — who else would have put the
obligatory interspecies hang - out scene in a high - stakes casino straight out of a 1930s screwball comedy?
Part of what makes I Love You, Man interesting is that it's so almost a canned studio comedy (the
obligatory gross - out gags, the cheesy orchestral cues) and yet manages to
feel fresh and funny in almost every scene.
The
obligatory villain, Doom, really
feels like a missed opportunity.
In the film, which has little dialogue, the director uses sound to convey the disorienting
feeling of Peter Greene's schizophrenia... and here's the
obligatory clip.
Yes, seeing as Peyton tries to hammer home the fact that this disaster is really a microcosm for the central characters» crumbling family unit, there is a sense that the whole «death of the other daughter» history could have been added to more, making it
feel more like an
obligatory excuse for the hero to have both a dark past and a sensitive side.
New secretaries of state often
feel that new announcements are
obligatory.
Conversations about race can
feel personally irrelevant, and therefore
obligatory and rote.
The jackboots are
obligatory, so you'll
feel at home with yours.
It offers nothing new whatsoever and
feels more like an
obligatory release with no real sense of purpose behind it.
I could predict when a set - piece was coming, and even predict what it was going to be because I've done it so many times before and Ghosts
feels like it was made with a checklist:
obligatory «tense» stealth section, check; mad car chase where you have to shoot at stuff, check; being knocked out for a few seconds about once every minute, check.
Still, the rewards for persevering are experience and Gold, which feed into the
obligatory levelling up system that most shooters
feel the need to have these days.
The player is expected to connect several dots per level, to knock down some completely
obligatory -
feeling puzzles (Resident Evil is fine literature in comparison) and unlock some doors to advance.
This comment made my damn day, taking a comment about video game and putting a real world perspective on it without a hint of sarcasm or irony (or the
obligatory / s that needs to be put on any comment that MIGHT be taken wrong) is pretty hilarious, And the overall
feel of the comment that the princess is the Mario Games is a total authoritarian pretty much running an oligarchy.
Gameplay segments should never
feel like
obligatory hoop - jumps that connect non-interactive plot points.
There's no real connection between the short cutscenes you're watching and the dull - as - dishwater gameplay, and everything
feels a lot more
obligatory than inspired.
That Bioware chose to make the Inquisitor an amputee
felt to me like something
obligatory rather than something genuinely necessary, as if it was a decision made separate from the scenes that followed where he claimed that he had a world to save.
As opposed to each stage
feeling disjointed and tied together by a common theme, each hidden stage in Mario Odyssey is a unified, bite - sized experience that acts as a reward for the player's curiosity and explorative ambition — differentiating them from the traditionally
obligatory existence.
And well, I
feel that during this special
Obligatory Ice Level Day, we need to respect the legacy Sonic left behind.
A little more variety and thought put into these extra events would have gone a long way into justifying their inclusion and bolstering the package, but you get the
feeling that they were hastily included to fill in the blurb on the back of the box that highlights the
obligatory Vita - exclusive features.
This just started
feeling like an
obligatory series tie - in game after a while.
200 %: I attend many of openings of exhibitions and the list of people that the gallery thanks,
feels a bit like an Oscar acceptance speech, too long and sometimes a bit
obligatory.
Please
feel free to schedule a no -
obligatory phone chat to see if I could help: http://www.vcita.com/v/daba43a1
Seems
obligatory at times, like you
feel you have to do it and therefore the screener has to read it.
Obligatory factors (possibly a family and friend referred you to them and now they
feel obligated to use you);
Yes I have and that's exactly the concept I want to talk about, NOT the
obligatory strip that everyone
feels the needs to install in their kitchen or bath.