Sentences with phrase «flesh and blood characters»

Instead of icons, we have flesh and blood characters on display, and they inhabit a world that stood only as eye candy in previous installments but feels like a living, breathing city here.

These damsels come across more as ridiculous caricatures than actual flesh and blood characters; nobody could retain any sort of patience around people who talk nonsense the way these girls do.

Yet while these flesh and blood characters engage in their own moments of conflict, their real role is to add a human element to the epic combat between the alien enemies.

But beyond that, there are even more differences to the famous ship, both subtle and fairly large, and it seems the movie will have as much backstory to cover on that front as it does with its flesh and blood characters.

Not exact matches

This, of course, is not to say he is not rightly esteemed truly human, a man of flesh and blood with the peculiar Biblical force of that phrase; indeed it might be claimed that the very stress laid on the limited character of his experience makes us more vividly aware of the reality of his human nature.

Many who found the holy blood and gore of Mel Gibson's Passion quite acceptable will find the all - too - human flesh and blood of Ball's cast of characters unacceptably disturbing in its aching, uncertain, struggling humanity, weeping and giggling at the awkward facts of life and death.

He's the kind of hero John Wayne played in his famous westerns... clear - eyed honesty, strength of character, courageous compassion... only in a real - life, flesh - and - blood man of honor, decency, and integrity... Read more

Where the most successful of the F13s hang their hat, creating a team of characters that are interesting and at least partially fleshed out, The New Blood instead focuses on developing a few smaller threads.

Unfortunately, Davis has roughly the same relationship with George before he hulks out, and the truth is the movie is a whole lot more interested in its CGI characters than its flesh - and - blood ones, not unlike the currently - in - release «Pacific Rim Uprising.»

And it means spending quality time with some of the most human, street - level, flesh - and - blood characters you're likely to encounter anywhere in the television reaAnd it means spending quality time with some of the most human, street - level, flesh - and - blood characters you're likely to encounter anywhere in the television reaand - blood characters you're likely to encounter anywhere in the television realm.

As a result, while you wonder at Zamperini's story, he remains a character rather than a person of flesh and blood whom you ache for, despite the wonderful effort by O'Connell.

The actual flesh - and - blood characters are paper... Continue reading →

Seeing flesh and blood actors bring these characters to life... they're all even more frustratingly complex and unpindownable.

Directed by Little Miss Sunshine's team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, Ruby Sparks isn't the exercise in stevia - dusted whimsy that it sounds like, especially once a flesh - and - blood Ruby suddenly materializes — exactly as Calvin wrote her — with no awareness that she began as a fictional literary character.

Susannah Grant's by - the - numbers screenplay sees the characters as markers on a storyboard rather than flesh - and - blood humans.

Six main Avengers, a handful of S.H.I.E.L.D mainstays and three flesh - and - blood newbies, not to mention a robot army, means it's already a battle for screen time, yet AOU still manages to be cameo - tastic, bringing back a host of favourites from previous stand - alone movies as well as some significant fresh supporting characters (including Andy Serkis as an arms dealer who's afraid of cuttlefish).

Excluding Larson, who is woefully neglected in a role that reduces her to eying Marky - Mark's character rather than becoming a flesh - and - blood character (Larson is far more effective as a texting addict in Joseph Gordon - Levitt's amusing Don Jon), supporting performances feel inspired.

How do you take the characters» eloquence on the page, they wondered, and make it credible in the mouths of flesh - and - blood people?

Unlike the fame - seeking singing trio in Dreamgirls (starring another American Idol participant Jennifer Hudson), these characters share a flesh and blood bond that adds a deeper layer to their work relationship.

First - time screenwriter Geoff LaTulippe gives us characters who are flesh - and - blood, decent, sympathetic people.

He's a promising young talent that likes dealing in real, flesh - and - blood characters and intriguing premises that keep viewers involved from start to finish.

Hal Holbrook, Michael Stuhlbarg, Gloria Reuben, S. Epatha Merkerson and many more turn up for a scene or two, sometimes three, and while there's a Shakespearean history - play component to «Lincoln,» the individual scenes, rich in detail and sly revelations of character, allow the flesh and blood to emerge from the debating.

Having a fling with a younger, hotterartiste type may be a midlife - crisis cliché, but it's one that writer - director Jacobs invests with real flesh, blood and feeling: He takes these relationships as seriously as his characters do.

From Dave Bautista's Sapper Morton to Mackenzie Davis» Mariette and Carla Juri's Dr. Ana Stelline, each character is expertly positioned, not one moment or breathe wasted and the performers help to make these characters flesh and blood, even when they remain fundamentally artificial.

There's a clear difference between the flesh - and - blood figure and the animated character watching him: One is distinctly repulsive — he looks like an immoral lunatic who's losing his mind — but the cartoon Trump is just silly; he's not a bad guy so much as an empathetic buffoon.

While many of the characters in this film are «undead» CGI depictions, some are supposed to be flesh and blood human beings.

All of these characters have back stories that make them compelling flesh and blood people.

By soul, I mean that intangible heart of a written piece, the universe where the characters of the story exist in flesh and blood.

The Fleischers played on that conceit in their silent - era, pre-Boop cartoons, collectively titled «Out of the Inkwell,» through an innovative blend of live action and animation that made it appear that a flesh - and - blood cartoonist (usually played by Max) brought the characters to life by dipping his pen and sketching them on a drawing pad, at which point they would take on wills and identities of their own.

The characters are less flesh - and - blood people than agents of the convoluted setup, and whose depth is limited to their reactions to the plot.

If you're not a Malick fan, you'll likely feel that his stunning vision lacks flesh - and - blood characters worth caring about.

Author James Ellroy reflects on the completed film, saying, «My characters are now Hanson's and Helgeland's characters — and a brilliant ensemble of actors have turned them into flesh and blood.

Driven by the energy and cunning of Coyote, the mythic, shape - shifting trickster, Gods Without Men is full of big ideas, but centered on flesh - and - blood characters who converge at an odd, remote town in the shadow of a rock formation called the Pinnacles.

Sternbergh brilliantly combines narrative sleight - of - hand with an ability to create flesh - and - blood characters who bring humor and a resilient humanity to their torn - asunder world.

Every yearning character in this breakout novel is flesh and blood.

There's a lot we can learn from the flesh and blood LTLs to help make our fictional characters more authentic.

Eliza, who at the time won the vote to be included in Tekken Revolution from a very colorful roster of abandoned character ideas, is more fleshed out here as a fighter and her quirks, like blood sucking and dozing off, are better justified.

We walk and we look through a single perspective, whether that be a flesh - and - blood character or something more ethereal and nonphysical, a consciousness or a temperament.

They have this idea that it doesn't matter if its an AI controlled character or someone flesh and blood controlling it.