Sentences with phrase «few supporting characters»

Pitt's Gerry is virtually at the center of a one - man show; few supporting characters beyond Enos, Fana Mokoena «s UN higher - up and Daniella Kertesz «s Israeli soldier get more than a couple of scenes, and it's rare that the picture cuts away from Pitt at all.

The trailer shows a few support characters in action along with Naruto battling Orochimaru, Kisame, Deidara, Tobi, and Pain in boss battles.

Not exact matches

Why would we do anything to further undermine one of the few pre-modern institutions that still survives on life support, and that is central to forming men and women of good character?

I suggest your read the entire NT and get acquainted with the character of Christ, rather than the few verses you think support yet another us v. them paradigm erected in the name of Christ.

However, in the past few decades many Christian thinkers, recognizing the difficulty of supporting claims about cosmic realities, have emphasized the symbolic character of all such language.

Esther is not a flawless character (few biblical characters are), but to question her basic morality like this without any support from the text or from traditional interpretations of it seems from my perspective to reveal a troubling agenda.

The undoubted charisma of the characters helps to support a strong and well - written script, and the process that accompanies the resolution of cases in consistency with very few holes in logical steps.

These guys have good writers and the TellTale engine supports doing that; writing directly to gamers a zombie movie in so many parts is successful and this is one of the few games I'm on my second time through and limited it may be replay wise I just love the different ways to get my characters killed and chose to slay.

Now, unable to break out in anything outside the series - and thus, one of the few peripheral actors still affordable in a merely supporting role - and on top of that, the character has been written into a horribly useless nice guy corner - he virtually has nothing to say.

Few filmmakers can pack a screenplay with more fascinating supporting characters than the Coens, and John Goodman's had the great fortune of playing many of them.

And a side supporting character named Peter (Alexander), who has strabismus (his eyes aren't aligned), is written solely to draw out a few yuks, though it would seem a stretch that his mother (Janney, Juno), who is constantly ridiculing his condition, would still be making fun of it, especially as it is a condition he was born with — you'd think she'd have run out of insults years before.

Furthermore, the battle itself is a mess, with my two supporting characters running around getting in the way, UI text and other junk littering the screen, weird Kinect prompts in the upper right, and awful quicktime events throwing things into disarray every few seconds.

With so many characters — not just headline heroes, but also their supporting casts — to be found room for, it's no surprise that this is an extra-long instalment of the franchise, and a few lines have to be thrown in to account for absences.

It's Me, Margaret» by Judy Blume, Roald Dahl's «Fantastic Mr Fox,» and Maurice Sendak's «In the Night Kitchen»; Gary Trudeau's popular comic strip Doonesbury debuts in US papers; Andy Warhol debuted several new pieces including «Silver Car Crash» which sold a few years ago for a new Warhol record of «$ 105.4 million; In comic books, «Silver Surfer» lost his monthly book while «Green Lantern» starts having to share his with «Green Arrow» plus the iconic supporting characters J Jonah Jameson and Agent Nick Fury, and the villain The Vulture made their debuts in The Amazing Spider - Man; Astro Boy became the first manga to go to animated series in Japan.

Winstead has had a bit of an odd trajectory in her career, going from thin supporting parts in big dumb studio movies to a huge indie breakout with her magnificent performance in Smashed a few years ago that she unfortunately didn't really capitalize on afterwards, but here she gets the best of both worlds by developing a kickass character we can root for in a thrilling genre piece that also has some depth to her.

Adrien Brody was infamously cut down from a lead to a supporting actor in «The Thin Red Line,» but Jack had his moment along with a few other herbivores at the 2013 D23 panel discussion on «The Good Dinosaur» and his character builders can be consoled that he made it to action figure status.

Nolan captures this dispiriting reality partly by relying on a supporting character named Commander Bolton (Kenneth Branagh), one of the highest - ranking officials on the beach and one of the few who knew the reality of the political situation.

Among supporting players, Alfre Woodward has one great scene as a gossipy, highly intelligent, exalted lady among slaves, and she makes you wish the movie had a few more character sketches like hers among the lashings.

Corman gets a good cast of venerable characters, among them Frank Silvera, Joseph Campanella, Richard Bakalyan, Harold J. Stone, Joe Turkel, John Agar, Reed Hadley, Alex Rocco, and Leo Gordon, and adds in a few of his favorites, including Bruce Dern in a sympathetic role as an earnest mechanic just trying to support his family and unbilled appearances by Dick Miller and Jack Nicholson.

A second heist attempt is thrown in and then tapers off, while the revolving door of supporting characters (including Molly Shannon, Jessica St. Clair, and Aubrey Plaza to name a few) provide light laughs, but make little to no impact.

There are also a few iffy performances from some of the supporting characters that distract, but the leads — Reynolds, Kendrick, and Arterton — are solid.

Dane Cook — slated for Reed Rothchild but filling in on a few minor characters as many of the supporting cast did — started off doing a dead - on Luis Guzman impersonation as Maurice, which was a bit worrisome, but soon the cast fell into a groove and started to make the material mostly their own.

Like other Potter films, Part 1 has no problem letting even important supporting characters» involvement be limited to just a few shots and lines.

Like the first two films, the newest one features a few solid supporting characters that viewers get to know before some of them are killed.

Moving beyond the core Justice League ensemble, the film is packed with a wide array of notable supporting characters, including some who only get a few scenes.

The action does falter a bit toward the end when McTiernan reveals he's making a popcorn movie after all, as he opts for a few clichés and moments of crowd - pleasing formula antics, letting the supporting characters have a role in clobbering a bad guy or two.

Biel has made a career out of playing strong, female characters and has been in a few action movies, but perhaps her recognition would have overpowered what is essentially a small supporting role.

, Finding Dory's various supporting players are asked to say a few words about the title character.

After a number of bit, character and supporting portrayals that have certainly given him a stage for talent exhibition, this could be his moment... and so far, precious few are looking his way.

A few years back, making Avengers Assemble work looked daunting: bring together four franchise leads and two supporting characters, plus bad guy, and...

Murphy though fills his quirky world of misfits and monsters with a few hilarious supporting characters, including a Taylor Swift wannabe and a candle vlogger.

Among the supporting characters dwelling in the shadows is Willem Dafoe as the worldly banker who asks few questions about the money passing through his hands.

A small portion of the proceeds will also support the Lehigh Valley Leadership and Ethics Conferences that Kids of Character has organized the last few years.

There are a few weak performances to be found in the supporting cast, but the main characters are all very well voiced.

And his cast of supporting characters have a depth that few games main characters can hope to match.

- for Sonic's 25th anniversary last year, Iizuka received a task to deliver some sort of product - the target was «dormant fans» who used to play the SEGA Genesis, but haven't really played any games since - Iizuka met Christian Whitehead, which lead to the creation of Sonic Mania - there was talk of another port, but Iizuka thought fans would desire something new from the old games - this is the first time Iizuka partnered with a team of devs spread across various countries - Iizuka said this team had a greater passion to create - this was in comparison to companies that set decisions on a pre-determined schedule (in meetings, etc)- the team had so many features they still wanted to add after the beta version was complete - since there were only a few spots with text that needed to be localized, they could bring the game to more places quicker - the game has Japanese, English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish support - the Studiopolis stage is included due to receiving the most requests from the Sonic Mania development team - Iizuka actually considered reducing the amount of stages at one point in order to meet the development schedule - Sonic Mania doesn't really have much in the way of cut content like scrapped stages - since Sonic Mania was only distributed digitally, the team was able to continue working very close leading up to launch - this let them put in practically all ideas, and there are currently no plans for DLC - Iizuka recommended Flying Battery Zone for inclusion becaues he likes the music - he also likes when the player goes inside and outside the ship - Iizuka likes Mirage Saloon because the stage structure will be different depending on the player character chosen - Puyo Puyo gameplay was added because there was a Puyo Puyo game released in the west for the SEGA Genesis - this game was originally called «Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine», and the team thought it would make a fun boss battle - Iizuka didn't have plans to feature Blue Sphere in the special stages - the Blue Sphere special stages were brought over to Mania as a test, but ended up staying for the final game - the team felt the need to continuously connect stages from various eras, which is doe with the Phantom Ruby story - for Sonic Mania, it was decided that the technological limit would be set at SEGA CD, - this is higher than the Genesis but lower than Saturn - in creating a SEGA CD - grade special stage, they would intentionally make SEGA CD - grade polygons

While other characters talk to you with words of support mid-battle, allies are never present in - game to fight beside — Orihime, for instance, has a few lines and is mentioned in the mission prologues, but is otherwise absent from the game.

Trophy issues aside, Dynasty Warriors 7: Xtreme Legends does a great job at expanding the original title with a couple of extra modes, multiplayer support, new characters, new weapons and a few other things.

Not only that, but when playing as one of the central hedgehog characters, you'll end up switching over to other members of the supporting cast for no apparent reason and will be forced to play as them for a few minutes.

Whilst the powers allowed players to have some fun, ultimately, we were disappointed by just how brief the experience was, how very few meaningful side quests actually existed and how poorly the story was handled, in particular the good vs evil mechanic and the development of other supporting characters.

There are also fewer support - only characters and repeat characters.

Now a few of those characters have been given a special sidekick designation, meaning that they will tag along with you in Toy Box games and provide you with some support such as fighting by your side or providing you with some healing when you're in a pinch.

The current sequel on PC already has fully voiced characters, controller support, and a few patches worth of enhancements.

Jon Jafari, more commonly known as JonTron, was first invited to voice a character in Yooka - Laylee a few years ago, as a thank - you for showing support for the Kickstarter campaign that funded the game.

Luckily, halfway through Act 2 the action and intensity of Aiden's mission ramps up, and a few new supporting characters get added to the mix to bring a bit of life and clearer focus to the story and Aiden's end game.

Unfortunately, the supporting cast isn't very interesting and I've already forgotten about most of them with a few exceptions such as returning character Julie Kidman and the main villains who each have their own unique motivations.

Somewhere you can hang out between missions, chill with your various NPCs and support characters, play minigames, maybe witness a few optional scenes or unlock some hidden dialogue, etc..

I say this because of the past few days I keep stumbling across hacks of the various Sonic games that have been changed to remove the iconic hedgehog as a playable character and replace him with the franchise's supporting characters.

The final roster of Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 has been out for a few days now and it features 80 playable and 7 support characters.

While the name has changed a few times over the years, Hart Legal has been in business since 1992 when it first opened its office in Victoria, British Columbia on upper Fort Street with two lawyers and one support staff member on the second floor of an old character home that had been converted into office space.