Sentences with phrase «flat characters»

It has flat characters with clear, simple motivations.

However, neither of them is an activist and their actions remain passive and often leave them as flat characters.

Considering all the actors were given such flat characters to portray on screen, they did a pretty good job.

We don't get flat characters but rather glimpses of people we could imagine being in the world with us.

These are flat characters in terms of personality, so it's important to do something to lift them up from non-dimensional to interesting, and Square - Enix didn't perform that duty here.

Reminiscent in some slight ways of Russell Brown's The Blue Tooth Virgin, another inside - Hollywood tale that wasn't afraid to showcase under - the - radar ambition in ways that didn't always flatter its characters, The Scenesters unfolds against the backdrop of a (n appropriate) hipster soundtrack that includes the Airborne Toxic Event, the Cribs, Wallpaper, Le Switch and more.

However, Hollow Man's artificiality and flat characters make it a disappointing survival horror movie.

«It would be very boring to play flat characters and easy characters.

They made the flat jokes passable, the few good jokes into laugh - out - loud moments, and relatively flat characters interesting.

Emma Stone and Parker Posey try to give depth to reasonably flat characters (especially Posey's professor), but it's Phoenix's manic renewed vitality that contains the soul of the film.

The DVD's pleasing animated main menu moves around a three - dimensional universe of flat character stills while score plays.

Conroy, for his part, suffers from a particularly flat character design.

Mondo himself is a fairly flat character, displaying a fairly calm attitude and just likable enough to keep the story rolling along but nothing more.

But you don't get to, the story dissolves into flat characters, awful soliloquies, and the game's fundamental premises is lost in a sea of clunky combat and poor platform puzzling.

@As for the Question of what turns you off from a game I would say bland flat characters that I can't relate to or have any interest in.

Paul Rudd, Michael Shannon, Kate Arrington, and Ed Asner make impressive attempts at shaping Craig Wright's flat characters in this overly metaphorical production.

There is also a character named Ava who is as flat a character as you can get, I did nt even notice her until about 30 minutes in.

Reminiscent in some slight ways of Russell Brown's The Blue Tooth Virgin, another inside - Hollywood tale that wasn't afraid to showcase under - the - radar ambition in ways that didn't always flatter its characters, The Scenesters unfolds against the backdrop of an appropriately hipster - friendly soundtrack that includes the Airborne Toxic Event, the Cribs, Wallpaper, Le Switch and more.

... flat characters, flat animation, a bland rock soundtrack... Titan A.E. might as well be Titanic A.E. (as in, the ship that sunk, not the movie that scored.)

Fletch, For many of the same reasons concerning the flat characters I feel that X3 is worse than Wolverine.

Mixed in with flat characters and tense action is an incredible 3D visual component - which is where Cameron's involvement in the project is most apparent.

We applaud the attempt to create a substantial RPG for kids, but sadly the flat characters and limited battle options make this rather patronising.

It had flat characters, bad pacing, and an emptiness to it.

stanwyck's babyface utilizes men more out of a revengeful hatred toward their exploitations... generally red - headed woman is a flat character for comic relief without the grim complexity of stanwyck's babyface.

The end result is an action game with appealing and simple gameplay but with flat characters and no connective tissue.

There isn't a rote performance or flat character in the whole movie — even supporting players like Peter's decathlon teammates feel like real teenagers at a real high school, struggling with their own teenager issues.

The flat characters are either stupid or relentlessly mean - spirited, which compromises any satirical insight.

Panton and Flint are flat characters, and their love for each other is not believable (well, aside from the fact that Panton is stupid).

Soderbergh, credited as cinematographer Peter Andrews, frames meticulous shots that flatter characters.

On little pieces of papers, write up one for the protagonist, one for the antagonist, six for the round characters, 10 for the flat characters, and 7 for narrators.

Are they posting as the protagonist, antagonist, round, or flat character?

On a weekly basis, students must contribute one of all possible story roles: narrator, protagonist, antagonist, round, or flat character.

Each time a new topic was introduced, Ellen used the mini-lesson time to help students understand the key concept (e.g., what a point of view was, what a round / flat character was and how they were developed).

The beta reader discovered that the story started in the wrong place and had numerous scenes with flat characters and no point, the author didn't know a semicolon from a comma, etc., etc..

Grindle's characters, past and present, are also brilliant creations - detailed and full of life, without a flat character to be found anywhere in the novel.

I look for unrealistic dialogue, flat characters, point of view errors, «telling» instead of showing, info dumping, lack of character development, plot holes, etc..

Bad editing, flat characters, excess gooiness, dull writing, all discouraged me from buying those carefully curated, thoughtfully winnowed volumes.

Flat characters and simple love stories with no challenges or excitement simply can't compete with today's literature.

The biggest complaints from readers about crime fiction are unresolved plot points and flat characters.

Backstory makes a flat character an unforgettable one.

Instead of making the protagonist a flat character that is essentially a substitute for the thoughts of the player themselves, Kyle has genuine personality to him.

A droning AI that tries to find new ways of saying, «go there and destroy X,» flat characters and stunted writing all make sure that you're never engaged or invested in the narrative.

Story: 6.5 A decent and largely predictable fantasy adventure with some good dialogue, but flat characters.

Because of this you could be forgiven for assuming at first that Geralt is a flat character with an equally flat voice actor, but it quickly becomes apparent that Geralt isn't an emotionless bastard, rather he's battle - hardened and world - weary.

Though the game has flat characters and some hamfisted microtransactions, Survive is a fun spin - off title, even if you aren't a Metal Gear fan.

Exacerbating these issues were the flat characters.

Boring plot, unimaginative gameplay, flat characters, and slow pacing all come together to ruin this game.

Not to say that a game with flat characters and poor mechanics would do better if it had impressive visuals, but not having even that to build upon makes other shortages appear more pronounced.

Popular stories mediocre in every aspect and flat characters that you forget about a day after finishing the campaign — just like in Battlefield 4.