Sentences with phrase «flashbacks over»

GTA 5 had checkpoints to mitigate the pain, but gamers all over still have PTSD flashbacks over «Demolition Man» and «Supply Lines» from Vice City and San Andreas, and those are for good reason.

The movie takes place in modern day yet flashbacks over the last 500 years comprise an important element of the plot.

The group who played the quiz game actually experienced more flashbacks over the week than the group who did nothing.

Told mostly in flashback over a period of four frenetic days, «Michael Clayton» has an unnecessarily complicated structure and a surfeit of back stories.

Compounding the problem are the slow push - ins and pull - outs and willy - nilly insertions of scenes from the film that sometimes complement the pullquotes but at other times (as in an early insert of the «surprise» flashback over Perkins's difficult admission that her ex-husband's stepfather used to hide in closets to scare him) minimizes Thom's abuse and exposes the relative silliness of the film at the same time.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, the turmoil at Politico may be giving some media watchers déjà vu, or at least flashbacks to another Allbritton - backed venture that went through substantial upheaval: In 2010, a number of senior journalists including former Washington Post digital chief Jim Brady started an ambitious hyperlocal effort called TBD, only to have the entire effort implode in less than two years after what appeared to be a power struggle with Allbritton over the future direction of the site.

I suddenly had flashbacks to my dad telling me that if I was too sick to go to school during the week, then I was too sick to play in whatever game I had going on over the weekend.

- Flashback to Town's win over Watford in 2015 - Watch Joel Lynch's incredible overhead kick - Highlights of the match available below on #HTTV

She will experience nightmares or flashbacks, often reliving the trauma over and over.

I am really swooning over that flashback look, too!

I didn't take any outfit pictures over the weekend so here is a flashback to my San Francisco vacay.

Told via flashbacks, the film features an aged Mr. Chipping looking back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who've touched his life over the years.

Superfluous voice - overs and flashbacks are very annoying, Thomas» character is poorly conceived, and Cameron Diaz, though game, is badly miscast.

«We can rule over them all the right way,» N'Jobu says during a flashback.

Beyond Lena, whose grief over the fate of her husband and guilt about how she may have helped to put him in that position are explored through flashbacks, there's nothing exceptional about the characterizations here, except that they are all, as one character puts it, «damaged goods.»

At this point, the flashbacks end and the present takes over.

It is our inescapable awareness of the calculation behind this effort to win her — and us — over that robs the film of the poignancy it longs to evoke with its flashbacks to Travers» childhood.

These basic components are tossed in and out of focus over the course of the launches, with Boyle slyly throwing in the occasional additional flashbacks in time to further flesh out Steve's relationships — especially with Wozniak and Scully.

Kendrick's on - the - rebound Martha, introduced in a childhood flashback making T - Rex gestures that prove her sole defining trait, meets - cute Rockwell's Francis over a super-slo-mo spill in the condom aisle.

In flashbacks, we see this bitch - on - wheels run over her various victims, and though Midler looks the part — floral - print stretch pants, a face that could stop a Mack truck — the script prevents her from shifting into overdrive.

Also, although the film, through flashbacks and narration does a fair job of compressing over 100 years of time into about 2 hours of film time, it would have been interesting to tell Adaline's story more in a limited - TV series in which each decade of her life experiences could have been shown in more detail.

Through a series of flashbacks, the film follows the tale of the violin over the centuries, from its initial creation through all of its many owners over the centuries.

We see the woman he's left behind in flashback, as he fawns over her and she wriggles around suggestively on their bed.

There's the «good foot dance» incident in 1988, the trip to play for the soldiers in the Vietnam war, the baby mamas, the disputes with band members over money (this happens multiple times), and the childhood flashbacks to pivotal, crushing moments in James» life.

I'm talking about features like the flashbacks that show the same scenes over and over again throughout the movie.

The film seems to be told through flashbacks, with Henson retelling her story of how she first met him and all the abuse she has quietly received over the years, before turning vicious and vengeful.

Julia Roberts plays the narcissistic Gwen's sister and assistant, a former victim of overeating (as shown in some highly unconvincing flashbacks) who has dieted so that she's now perfectly eligible to play the usual part of Julia Roberts and help Eddie get over his loss.

And, if as you've maintained, the dead father, who was German, may have been chased down by townsfolk still upset over the war and by his accent, make sure he doesn't speak with an English accent in flashbacks.

This «speed of thought» editing is often used to startling effect: for example, the quick flashbacks that punctuate Grozo's encounter with the prostitute in Goto where he fantasises over Glossia.

A few flashbacks recall how the patrician Mrs. Kennedy won over a skeptical America and became a style icon.

The discovery at the outset of Anne's corpse - laid out on a bed, decked in flowers - casts a morbid shadow over the movie, and how she got there is shown as a prolonged flashback.

With the exception of a prison - set flashback, the movie unfolds over the course of a single day, as Grant (Chronicle's Michael B. Jordan) runs errands, visits his mother (Octavia Spencer), and hangs with his girlfriend (Melonie Diaz) and 4 - year - old daughter (Ariana Neal).

Taking place over four time periods (each with a corresponding aspect ratio that shrinks as the narrative burrows further into the past, as if the mental recollection itself is deteriorating), Anderson's eighth film follows the life of Zero Moustafa (portrayed by F. Murray Abraham in flashback and Tony Revolori in further flashback) as he joins the ranks of the opulent eponymous hotel as lobby boy under the tutelage of Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes), the popular and outgoing concierge.

The abnormal cast of co-stars with Rudd's burglary crew and their comedic additions helped more so than Cap's Howling Commandos or Thor's Warriors 3, and Michael Pena's voice - over flashbacks gave Ant - Man a signature both buzz - worthy and replicable down the line.

A nickelodeon - hued flashback shows young Eisenheim the commoner courting young Sophie the highborn, telegraphing their reunion over a special locket, eventual tragedy, and even more eventual triumph in broad, self - satisfied strokes.

«I'd just been rewatching «Superman» (1978) and felt right at home with the opening of «Megamind,» narrated by a bright blue alien over flashbacks to his infancy.

Clocking in at over two hours, the flashback framework is sophisticated, yet convoluted.

Flashback scenes in «guns»n' prayers» California show the boys meeting and bonding over a healthy disdain for authority and that love of ammo and warfare that we find baffling in this part of the world.

Shyamalan addresses that over the course of several increasingly sickening flashbacks.

Through flashbacks, we learn about what he's endured on the battlefield as he and the rest of his squad are honored over the Thanksgiving break on the holiday's big football game.

As the mystery deepens, we learn through a series of flashbacks that the Dunnes» marriage was far from perfect, while still being kept in the dark over what happened.

St Aubyn's books about that time are infused with his biting humor, and the creators allow Cumberbatch free rein to explore that range of emotions, and he's absolutely essential casting to not only pull off the role but to let viewers know it's OK to enjoy the often hilarious, drugged - out debauchery, so long as they can stomach the telling of the whole story (told in flashbacks, with Sebastian Maltz as a young Patrick, plus voice overs from grown - up Patrick and a separate, archly British narrator) and to understand his bad behavior is a bandage covering an awful wound.

So we just laugh along with Ryan and Jackson, as they bicker and fight, then bond over flashbacks into their amusingly messy love lives.

Important details are skimmed over, and the flashback mechanism is unabashedly overused in order to justify picking up with Tarzan and Jane a decade after the events in the novel take place.

Carrying over certain stage conventions, Beckwith constructs this primary set as a somber, suffocating space — a sort of conceptual prison, virtually devoid of laughter or music, using dramatic lighting shifts to contrast Leia's present living conditions with flashbacks to her time with Ben.

Lou Ye's film also draws from Hollywood film noir, using a voice - over narration to recount the story in flashback while the narrator is determinedly kept offscreen, the camera taking his place — which is probably derived from Robert Montgomery's gimmicky, noirish Raymond Chandler adaptation Lady in the Lake (1946).

The drama â $ «based on Christopher Isherwoodâ $ ™ s novel â $ «follows George (Colin Firth) over the course of one fateful day, while flashbacks fill us in on his past.

Flashbacks trace Cohan's rise, from a childhood performing in his family's vaudeville act to his early days as a struggling Tin Pan Alley songwriter to his overwhelming success as an actor, writer, director and producer known for patriotic songs like «Yankee Doodle Dandy,» «You're a Grand Old Flag» and «Over There.»

Flashback sequence to open the movie before a reanimated Busta Rhymes takes over as the modern - day hero?

Over the past few months we've seen a number of photos from the set of Avengers 4 which seems to suggest that the film will include flashbacks or time travel, and the latest images to arrive online over at JustJared seemingly confirm that theOver the past few months we've seen a number of photos from the set of Avengers 4 which seems to suggest that the film will include flashbacks or time travel, and the latest images to arrive online over at JustJared seemingly confirm that theover at JustJared seemingly confirm that theory.