Sentences with phrase «feels episodic»

Director Nicholas Stoller's film too often feels episodic — it's shaggy and meandering when it should be escalating in tone and tension.

What first feels episodic in the structure of «The Florida Project» becomes something more of a statement about the repetition of ordinary lives.

The cast are comically good though especially Alden Ehrenreich and Ralph Fiennes but the narrative feels episodic and disjointed.

That's why it feels episodic; «What will Wilson do this week».

Keep The Lights On feels episodic in nature as it leaps forward every 2 - 3 years, with Thure Lindhardt's performance serving as the film's anchor.

It often feels episodic in nature and doesn't flow together particularly well.

The constant flitting from London to America to Russia to Paris and back again make the story feel episodic and the events unrelated.

After the introductions have all happened and the plot now has to go through the business of unfolding we are suddenly on, essentially, a grand caper, that starts to feel episodic and a little empty, especially when Zero and Gustav are away from the fabulous interiors of the stately homes and hotels that are clearly Gustav's natural element.

The work doesn't feel episodic even if the author admits the book doesn't relay a complete story: «There are only these instants that rise up, taking me by surprise.

I developed this «crackpot» math thing which has to do with converting the aspect ratio of the format for a better understanding about the specific area as a felt space — mostly because I wanted to get out of the composition business which always felt to me like stage direction, and which seemed to make the painting's feel episodic.

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Not particularly surprisingly, the film feels very episodic and bears the marks of test audience - tinkering.

Sadly not much replay value and it feels like an actual numbered game, as if it's in the middle of a series or part of some «episodic» DLC series.

But while The Fugitive made a decent fist of using the encounters to accumulate tension, this feels extremely episodic.

As the story becomes more episodic, and Charley ends up further and further from home, so the film feels distant from its earlier, more nourishing scenes.

While there are moments of humour, the film doesn't take the characters forward from where we left them in Shrek 2, feeling more like the next instalment of an episodic TV series than a genuinely worthwhile sequel.

The series felt short on the fact that events seemed too episodic, incredibly unrealistic.

But Foster is unable to give the episodic, fragmented film a coherent feel; her prosaic, sometimes irritating picture proceeds scene by scene, with the requisite climaxes and anticlimaxes along the bumpy road.

However, even though Sapienza is an improved episode over the first one, we still can't shake the feeling that the newest iteration of Hitman would benefit much more if it was offered in one complete package instead of following the episodic approach.

But as a story ostensibly escalating toward the titular cataclysm — Norse mythology's take on doomsday — «Ragnarok» feels too episodic, a scattered trifle passed off as epic.

Any one of the stories might merit its own film, and yet, this feels like one of those recaps played in the first minute of an episodic TV series, except that it goes on for over an hour.

In fact, Wilson feels downright episodic, strung together in a way that pulls the viewer from one setting and circumstances to another.

I hadn't anticipated that this game would be episodic, because the originally advertised title on Steam was «Albino Lullaby,» so that decision feels kind of like a cheap ploy.

Many critics felt that, due to lack of genuine conviction, Spielberg failed to give Walker's folk tale a narrative drive or emotional push, resulting in an overly fractured saga, devoid of the pop - folk religiosity that served as the glue that held the episodic book together.

To be clear, I wasn't expecting a complete game from D4 — the episodic model guarantees a certain amount of waiting around on the part of the consumer — but this doesn't even feel like a complete episode.

John McNamara's screenplay, based on Bruce Cook's book Dalton Trumbo, is episodic, which is a given considering the passage of time, yet it still feels of a whole, even though it's very selective about which episodes it chooses to relate and which characters are featured.

An unusual, constantly surprising post-WWII odyssey, this film may feel a bit thin and episodic, but it tells an evocative story with darkly moving emotion.

Unsurprisingly, «Fantastic Beasts» amplifies both the strengths and weaknesses of Rowling's storytelling approach, which unfolds in the episodic style of vintage serials — a cliff - hanger - oriented tactic that works well in novels, where readers might otherwise be tempted to put the book down after each chapter, but feels less elegant on screen, since viewers invariably commit to taking in the entire story in one sitting.

The film has very much the feeling of a Kammerspiel, with a small ensemble cast and a somewhat episodic structure.

The editing for this particular film felt more episodic in nature than anything previous.

As Kirk says early on, things feel a bit episodic, but that's «Trek,» and in this case the vibe of «Beyond» is calibrated to evoke the spirit of the original TV series.

In the end the back - and - forth family drama results in a number of disparate scenes that never cohere, feeling more like episodic television than some grand Shakespearian delve into familial angst and retribution.

At no point does there feel like there's a greater meaning to the episodic journey.

Frances Ha is episodic, such that it feels like it could've ended in at least a half a dozen different places before the actual end - titles arrive.

It helps that the framing device cleverly makes the episodic nature of the film feel not only natural, but essential in telling the story.

Best known for taking episodic TV and giving it a cinematic feel, MacLaren most recently executive produced and directed the pilot of the critically acclaimed series «The Deuce,» starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Franco.

Each story feels too self - contained, too episodic, for the franchise to amount to more than the sum of its parts.

It's only as the movie progresses into its palpably uneventful midsection that one's interest begins to wane, as McDonald, working from a script by McCabe - Lokos and Kelly Harms, has infused the proceedings with an increasingly episodic feel that slowly - but - surely wreaks havoc on the film's tenuous momentum.

Director Sidney Lumet has infused Serpico with an episodic feel that paves the way for a decidedly hit - and - miss atmosphere, with the movie's far - too - long running time of 130 minutes ultimately highlighting the meandering nature of Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler's screenplay.

Cinematically speaking, the sequel feels like a looser collection of episodic scenes (with the exception of one nicely - done fantasy sequence), putting much more reliance on the established charm of the lead trio and their interactions.

Scored by another tongue - bath of a score by James Horner (bring a squeegee and a change of clothes, you'll feel like you've taken a swim in a spittoon), Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius is every bit as episodic, derivative, patronizing, and bloated as Horner's compositions — the man, by himself, defining a genre of picture perhaps fatally damaged by his very intrusion.

Episodic and off - the - cuff, the 82 - minute film initially feels like a lark, a renowned filmmaker spending a little time with everyday folks.

Joe begins her episodic narrative through the chapters of her life (literally, with titles that reflect something that pops into her head upon introducing the next part), from her childhood — when she and her best friend writhe on the bathroom floor until they felt something «down there,» with her mother (Connie Nielsen) knowing whatever Joe is doing is «wrong» and her father (Christian Slater) wishing his wife would stop judging their daughter — through young adulthood (Stacy Martin plays the younger version of Joe).

Scenes feel patched together, overly episodic and do not allow for a complete convincing story.

The film's episodic structure (split into three parts), and emphasis on character over narrative make Zero Motivation feel like an extended pilot for a TV sitcom about soldiers dealing with their humdrum day - to - day lives.

As the story becomes more episodic and Charley ends up farther and farther from home, the film feels distant from its earlier, more nourishing moments.

Therefore, it doesn't feel overly episodic and comes off as a cohesive whole moreso than Alice (that's not a knock at Alice; I view it as just a different type of movie).

Some agents give feedback along the lines of «the story felt too episodic.»

I understand that a game being episodic can be beneficial for some people and for the developer, however my reason for not liking it isn't a logical one, It's a personal preference driven by an emotional response AKA - how I feel when I play it, that's all.

There's a great story attached to a mixture of point and click and QTE gameplay, but with the added options of either your Kinect or controller, and it all plays out in an episodic format that makes it feel like a cheesy but very Japanese Boston cop show.

As a new idea for the Resident Evil series though, I think the episodic feel could be a hit.